This year, Yahoo! is helpfully providing statistics to let us know how mainstream our picks are. I'm including them here!
Dok's Office ARI 1.73 @SFO Team Venture ARI 1.73 @SFO Torchen Em. ARI 1.73 @SFO
WhateverAndEverAmen BUF 0.32 SEA
DrewDewce DEN 4.65 @OAK Keeper DEN 4.65 @OAK mellow green DEN 4.65 @OAK Okie Dokies DEN 4.65 @OAK
Canadian Bacon DET 7.25 @ATL Little Giants DET 7.25 @ATL Out By Week 3 DET 7.25 @ATL The Boromir Marks DET 7.25 @ATL Von Maestro's Magical Picks DET 7.25 @ATL
Guru's Gone baby. IND 8.20 CHI Sec19Row53 IND 8.20 CHI
Pretty Fly For A Bald Guy MIA 0.17 NYJ
blues in 08' NOR 1.37 TAM
Brown and Out NWE 21.69 KAN Normal Distribution NWE 21.69 KAN Nuclear Winter NWE 21.69 KAN PickRolled NWE 21.69 KAN Pieman is Here to Beat Dunk NWE 21.69 KAN The Dude Abides NWE 21.69 KAN twizzler NWE 21.69 KAN Wpob NWE 21.69 KAN
CRZ gonna win NYG 3.66 WAS El muy sucko NYG 3.66 WAS wesman1111 NYG 3.66 WAS
Favre Retirement Party NYJ 9.66 @MIA Insert Witty Name Here NYJ 9.66 @MIA speedster NYJ 9.66 @MIA
BIllikens PHI 10.48 STL Never Say Die PHI 10.48 STL No Picks 'Til Friday PHI 10.48 STL N Twn 2 Ply The Dolfins Dumass PHI 10.48 STL Perfection... PHI 10.48 STL Rider Nation PHI 10.48 STL Saying the Sooth PHI 10.48 STL spf=stupid picks failing PHI 10.48 STL
edsoxnation PIT 14.12 HOU Eliminated in the pre-season PIT 14.12 HOU Three And Out PIT 14.12 HOU Wait this isn't the CFL? PIT 14.12 HOU
Cheesehead Cartel SDG 6.43 CAR dunkndollaz SDG 6.43 CAR Odessa Wheat Kings SDG 6.43 CAR Try Not to Pick the...Pats? SDG 6.43 CAR
False Charges SEA 1.25 @BUF
Amazingly, all 48 people made a pick in time!
(Amazingly, we almost hit the 50 participant limit!)
Of course, I have to wonder if the Buffalo and Miami picks are people who mistakenly picked losers. Anybody want to cop to those picks?
Actually, Buffalo is favored by 1 against Seattle. The Seahawks offense looks positively abysmal this year, and Buffalo has put together a decent team.
Originally posted by spfActually, Buffalo is favored by 1 against Seattle. The Seahawks offense looks positively abysmal this year, and Buffalo has put together a decent team.
AND Buffalo is the home team. You're totally right. The guy making the SEATTLE pick should be the one making with the explanations!
1. New England (20.84%) 2. Pittsburgh (14.70%) 3. Philadelphia (11.37%)
LEAST popular picks: 32. Kansas City (0.03%) 31. Houston (0.03%) 30. St. Louis (0.03%)
I think this might be a rolling total since these numbers are different from my earlier post (which means they may not be as helpful in later weeks as I might have thought).
Originally posted by spfActually, Buffalo is favored by 1 against Seattle. The Seahawks offense looks positively abysmal this year, and Buffalo has put together a decent team.
AND Buffalo is the home team. You're totally right. The guy making the SEATTLE pick should be the one making with the explanations!
Seattle's been consistently underrated every year, compared to a Buffalo team that's usually touted as a sleeper, but doesn't wake up until late in the season. The Seahawks don't choke until playoff time, anyway.
Although, in retrospect, I probably should have gone with the Patriots.
Originally posted by CRZ Pretty Fly For A Bald Guy MIA 0.17 NYJ (cut)
Of course, I have to wonder if the Buffalo and Miami picks are people who mistakenly picked losers. Anybody want to cop to those picks?
Yah, I went there. I picked Miami over the Jets; I think that while Farve is a great quarterback, maybe the Dolphins are hungrier. They've had a very rough couple of years, but maybe they're due for a resurgence.
I'm not expecting a defensive game between the two, because neither have a good defensive core.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one with the Arizona pick. I'll never believe that any great NFL QB would have the name of J.T. O'Sullivan. I just don't. Now if Gore run for 3 TDs and somehow plays on Defense too, then I'm in trouble.
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Originally posted by spfActually, Buffalo is favored by 1 against Seattle. The Seahawks offense looks positively abysmal this year, and Buffalo has put together a decent team.
AND Buffalo is the home team. You're totally right. The guy making the SEATTLE pick should be the one making with the explanations!
Seattle's been consistently underrated every year, compared to a Buffalo team that's usually touted as a sleeper, but doesn't wake up until late in the season. The Seahawks don't choke until playoff time, anyway.
Although, in retrospect, I probably should have gone with the Patriots.
(edited by It's False on 5.9.08 2005)
Seattle is banged up, Buffalo is at home. I suck and bomb in the first week annually, so I figure, "Why not go for the gusto?" It was the best I could think of for a week 1 pick.
"As you may have read in Robert Parker's Wine Newsletter, 'Donaghy Estates tastes like the urine of Satan, after a hefty portion of asparagus.'" Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
Originally posted by spfActually, Buffalo is favored by 1 against Seattle. The Seahawks offense looks positively abysmal this year, and Buffalo has put together a decent team.
AND Buffalo is the home team. You're totally right. The guy making the SEATTLE pick should be the one making with the explanations!
Seattle's been consistently underrated every year, compared to a Buffalo team that's usually touted as a sleeper, but doesn't wake up until late in the season. The Seahawks don't choke until playoff time, anyway.
Although, in retrospect, I probably should have gone with the Patriots.
(edited by It's False on 5.9.08 2005)
Seattle is banged up, Buffalo is at home. I suck and bomb in the first week annually, so I figure, "Why not go for the gusto?" It was the best I could think of for a week 1 pick.
Seahawks the last few years have been abysmal in early East Coast starts.
Dok's Office ARI 1.73 @SFO Team Venture ARI 1.73 @SFO Torchen Em. ARI 1.73 @SFO
WhateverAndEverAmen BUF 0.32 SEA
DrewDewce DEN 4.65 @OAK Keeper DEN 4.65 @OAK mellow green DEN 4.65 @OAK Okie Dokies DEN 4.65 @OAK
Canadian Bacon DET 7.25 @ATL Little Giants DET 7.25 @ATL Out By Week 3 DET 7.25 @ATL The Boromir Marks DET 7.25 @ATL Von Maestro's Magical Picks DET 7.25 @ATL
Guru's Gone baby. IND 8.20 CHI Sec19Row53 IND 8.20 CHI
Pretty Fly For A Bald Guy MIA 0.17 NYJ
blues in 08' NOR 1.37 TAM
Brown and Out NWE 21.69 KAN Normal Distribution NWE 21.69 KAN Nuclear Winter NWE 21.69 KAN PickRolled NWE 21.69 KAN Pieman is Here to Beat Dunk NWE 21.69 KAN The Dude Abides NWE 21.69 KAN twizzler NWE 21.69 KAN Wpob NWE 21.69 KAN
CRZ gonna win NYG 3.66 WAS El muy sucko NYG 3.66 WAS wesman1111 NYG 3.66 WAS
Favre Retirement Party NYJ 9.66 @MIA Insert Witty Name Here NYJ 9.66 @MIA speedster NYJ 9.66 @MIA
BIllikens PHI 10.48 STL Never Say Die PHI 10.48 STL No Picks 'Til Friday PHI 10.48 STL N Twn 2 Ply The Dolfins Dumass PHI 10.48 STL Perfection... PHI 10.48 STL Rider Nation PHI 10.48 STL Saying the Sooth PHI 10.48 STL spf=stupid picks failing PHI 10.48 STL
edsoxnation PIT 14.12 HOU Eliminated in the pre-season PIT 14.12 HOU Three And Out PIT 14.12 HOU Wait this isn't the CFL? PIT 14.12 HOU
Cheesehead Cartel SDG 6.43 CAR dunkndollaz SDG 6.43 CAR Odessa Wheat Kings SDG 6.43 CAR Try Not to Pick the...Pats? SDG 6.43 CAR
Thanks all, it's been a great ride. Anything beyond this is gravy. Mmmmm... sweet, delicious gravy...
(edited by whatever on 8.9.08 0541)
"As you may have read in Robert Parker's Wine Newsletter, 'Donaghy Estates tastes like the urine of Satan, after a hefty portion of asparagus.'" Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
In the space of little more than a month, I got married and started a new job, yet making my pick for this seemed more stressful than either of those things.
Originally posted by The GoonIn the space of little more than a month, I got married and started a new job, yet making my pick for this seemed more stressful than either of those things.
See, you've got your priorities straight there!
The Defending World Champion New York Football Giants
I don't know why a point about Brady Quinn's career not being over has devolved into a topic about his current merits, but I never said he's been any good in his career. I'm saying he has a chance to and he's still young. Give him a chance.