2014 BG Football Pickems

[Ksandra]

Eliminator got screwy, and we fell all the way to 15th.

I blame spags for picking something right.

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[Mertron]

IM ON FIRE

[Bregor]

Oakland and Washington ruining Elims all season. Snyder truly has received Al Davis's full power

[Krandor]

The Seahawks dropping games to the Boys and Rams fucked up alot of people too.

[Byrd]

Oakland and Washington ruining Elims all season. Snyder truly has received Al Davis's full power

Yeah. Looks like Week 8's Washington upset of Dallas caused the most chaos -- 12 people had it picked.

An interesting Eliminator tie breaker to me would be "most wins by remaining unpicked teams" or something like that. Not only would you be trying to pick winners, you'd be trying to pick the worst winners.

Because clearly this game isn't hard enough.

[Cail]

Fuck the Bills

If I didnt take the Rams, I would have taken the Bills so I'm not that mad

[Melena]

I took the Bungles the week they tied, so after that, I can't get mad at anything.

[Moss]

With one week left, Mozz Scaggs (Moss?) and Azazael have a two pick lead on Abandon, and everyone else is playing out the string. The tiebreaker for the game is whoever scores the most Week 17, and if that's even, Week 16, then backwards to week one. So Mozz Scaggs will win the tiebreaker against Azazael, since they'll have to have the same score in Week 17 (barring some weird bullshit that involves the lowest score getting dropped, too tired to figure that out). If Abandon manages to catch the other two, he'll win due to best Week 17 score.

Eliminator got screwy, and we fell all the way to 15th. With both Krandor and Valisk missing picks this week, we now have a four way tie for first place. Based on the rules outlined on page 1 of this thread:



That leaves me in the driver's seat if I pick a winner next week, as I didn't miss until week 8. If I miss, Krandor and Valisk will go to the ESPN tiebreaker if they get it right. If all three of us miss, it goes to Azull. If all four of us miss, it will end up with a tiebreaker between myself and whoever of Ryany, Chrius and Moss get Week 17 right, as all those people were undefeated until Week 8.

Yes I am Mozz Scaggs, I've been taking pigskin pick em very seriously. I will be pissed if I lose because I missed a few gimme Thursday picks when I forgot to make the picks before.

[Byrd]

Spaghetti won the College Pick Em, Azazael won NFL Pick Em by one game over Moss, and I defended my Eliminator title via both the BG and standard ESPN tiebreakers.

Well, we ended up 14th on the Eliminator group board. Pretty good. I'm impressed with the #1 group, which averaged 14.85 correct picks over 126 members. By comparison, we averaged 12.65 points with 23 members. Only three of our members beat their average. Ten of their 126 members had a perfect season. Man, it would suck to have a perfect season and still finish 10th.

Winners Added for this Year:

2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW
2009 College Pick Em: Ryany
2009 Eliminator: Stiker
2009 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2009 Bowl Pick Em: Alderon527
2010 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Driver
2010 March Madness: Biddinger
2010 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Decy
2010 World Cup Pick Em: Plow
2010 College Pick Em: Bregor
2010 Eliminator: Akiyama
2010 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2010 Bowl Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Bigrougabagel
2011 March Madness: Titanss
2011 College Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Eliminator: Intrinsic
2011 Pigskin Pick Em: Naafeih
2011 Bowl Mania: Vade
2012 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Valisk
2012 March Madness: WOMP, ElvFenrir
2012 College Pick Em: Julian
2012 Eliminator: Soa
2012 Pigskin Pick Em: Melena
2012 Primetime Playoff: Cail
2012 Bowl Mania: Izembo
2013 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Spaghetti
2013 March Madness: Aaron Borland (user name: ???)
2013 College Pick Em: Ryany
2013 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2013 Eliminator: Byrd
2013 Bowl Mania: Recuperi (?)
2014 March Madness: Nicholai
2014 World Cup PickEm: Tyrath
2014 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Tyrath
2014 College Pick Em: Spaghetti
2014 Pigskin Pick Em: Azazael
2014 Eliminator: Byrd

[Moss]

fuck you Azazael

[Abandon]

goddamnit, 2 points yet again

[Ksandra]

I am pleased with my scores considering this is my first time. XD

[Adajer]

Never played Fantasy Foootball.

1.) With this Gridiron playoff challenge, do we get to make new picks every week?
2.) What does the D mean? Team you expect to win that week? or win it all?

I made picks but changed them because most of them arent playing this week so I wouldnt get points, but i don't want to be stuck with them for entire playoffs.

[Abandon]

D = defense

[Byrd]

1.) With this Gridiron playoff challenge, do we get to make new picks every week?

You get to make new picks after the wild card round, and the divisional round, but not after the conference championship games. So you can swap around after this week and next, but when you pick for the championship games, you're going to want to take into account that half of the available players will only accrue points for one week, and the other half of the players will get two weeks. Generally, the strategy there is to pick the players on teams that you think are likely to go to the Super Bowl (i.e. two weeks of Russell Wilson is probably better than one week of Aaron Rodgers, but one week of Aaron Rodgers is probably better than one week of Russell Wilson).

2.) What does the D mean? Team you expect to win that week? or win it all?

The D is the team defense. The defense scores points based on different criteria than the offense -- generally speaking: turnovers, sacks, defensive TD's, safeties, points allowed. This particular setup actually does award 5 points for a team win, although that's not a typical fantasy setup.

Full Scoring Chart:

Spoiler: show

Offense (QB, RB, WR, TE, K)

6 pts per rushing, receiving or return touchdown
4 pts per passing touchdown
3 pts per field goal made
2 pts per passing, rushing or receiving 2 pt conversion
1 pt per 10 yards rushing or receiving
1 pt per 25 yards passing
1 pt per extra point made
Defense/Special Teams (D)

10 pts for 0 points allowed
7 pts for 2-6 points allowed
4 pts for 7-13 points allowed
1 pt for 14-17 points allowed
0 pts for 18-21 points allowed (note: team defense is responsible for all points allowed)
-1 pts for 22-27 points allowed
-4 pts for 28-34 points allowed
-7 pts for 35-45 points allowed
-10 pts for 46+ points allowed
5 pts per team win
3 pts per defensive or special teams TD
2 pts per interception
2 pts per fumble recovery
2 pts per blocked punt, point after touchdown or field goal (note: a deflected kick of any kind does not receive points)
2 pts per safety
1 pt per sack

I made picks but changed them because most of them arent playing this week so I wouldnt get points, but i don't want to be stuck with them for entire playoffs.

This is the correct strategy. Don't pick players that aren't playing this week. You can pick new ones next week. Although, if they are already on your team this week, any salary adjustments upwards won't be charged to your cap. But that's been a pretty minor concern in past years, unless adjustments are much greater this year than they have been in the past.

Hope that helps.

[Melena]

goddamnit, 2 points yet again

You and Matty Ice have something in common.

[AzazaelFenrir]

fuck you Azazael

why thank you sir

I do agree about Thursday games, I missed a few because fuck Thursday games.

[Moss]

why thank you sir

I do agree about Thursday games, I missed a few because fuck Thursday games.

Nah good job tho, the SD-KC and PHI-NYG games swung it

[Chrius]

Eliminator got screwy, and we fell all the way to 15th. With both Krandor and Valisk missing picks this week, we now have a four way tie for first place. Based on the rules outlined on page 1 of this thread:

That leaves me in the driver's seat if I pick a winner next week, as I didn't miss until week 8. If I miss, Krandor and Valisk will go to the ESPN tiebreaker if they get it right. If all three of us miss, it goes to Azull. If all four of us miss, it will end up with a tiebreaker between myself and whoever of Ryany, Chrius and Moss get Week 17 right, as all those people were undefeated until Week 8.

This is what I had in mind when picking jags over houston. Looked like up to 2 of you were going to pick em and needed some real fire from the other players 1 above me

[Abandon]

why thank you sir

I do agree about Thursday games, I missed a few because fuck Thursday games.

next year, i will fuckin get you, lmao