2021 NFL Pick'em

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 6)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           D.o.C                     65          65-29
2           Tall Cool One          64          64-30
3           Dragon Attack         63          63-31
4           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      61          61-33
5           AAgent66               60          60-34
6           Professor                60          60-34
7           hefdaddy42            60          60-34
8           Admiral Barto          59         59-35
9           Dave                      58          58-36
10         Stadler's Folly         57          57-37
11         Mister One              55          55-39

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 7)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           Dragon Attack         72          72-35
2           D.o.C                     72          72-35
3           AAgent66               71          71-36
4           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      71          71-36
5           Tall Cool One          71          71-36
6           hefdaddy42            70          70-37
7           Professor                69          69-38
8           Dave                      68          68-39
9           Admiral Barto          68         68-39
10         Stadler's Folly         66          66-41
11         Mister One              55          55-52

[Stadler]

I wish I picked that KC/Tennessee game; enough people picked it so that it wasn't a Hail Mary guess, but I didn't bite.   

[ProfessorPeart]

I find it funny that I continue to fall down the standings, yet creep closer to 1st. Only 3 out, and Dave caught up with me. He is playing the long game. 

[DragonAttack]

In my five years of doing this, it is the latest that I have been in first place.  Hell, I don't even know if I've been in this position at Week 3.   

Then again, I'm only four games away from being in 10th place.  I'll enjoy this while I can.

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 8)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           Tall Cool One          81          81-41
2           hefdaddy42            80          80-42
3           AAgent66               80          80-42
4           Dragon Attack         80          80-42
5           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      79          79-43
6           Admiral Barto          78         78-44
7           D.o.C                     77          77-45
8           Dave                      76          76-46
9           Professor                76          76-46
10         Stadler's Folly         74          74-48
11         Mister One              55          55-67

[hefdaddy42]

I'm doing fairly well.

Suspicious.

[Cool Chris]

Wow 5 points separate 1st and 9th place. I recall there usually being more separation by this point in the season.

[Stadler]

Wow 5 points separate 1st and 9th place. I recall there usually being more separation by this point in the season.

What a shitty place to draw the line....   

Don't count me out yet. I can promise you I won't finish in last place (even "last place among those still trying").

[DragonAttack]

As a group, I believe this was one of the five worst performances we've had in the five years I've been participating.   As the scores came in, I knew I was going to have a bad week.  But so did most of us.  Just glad this doesn't involve point spreads (and that I don't bet).

[Cool Chris]

Wow 5 points separate 1st and 9th place. I recall there usually being more separation by this point in the season.

What a shitty place to draw the line....   

  Well, it is the point where there is more than a one point separation between participants.

[Stadler]

Wow 5 points separate 1st and 9th place. I recall there usually being more separation by this point in the season.

What a shitty place to draw the line....   

  Well, it is the point where there is more than a one point separation between participants.

HAHA, I know; I'm just busting your stones (and wallowing in my own little pity party!).   

[Destiny Of Chaos]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

[Dave_Manchester]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

I made 2 last minute (LITERALLY last minute) switches on the sage advice of those numbskulls at the Winners and Whiners website: I changed KC to GB and the Cardinals to the 49ers. Both are currently getting their asses neatly gift-wrapped and handed to them. I never learn. Every damn time I go against my instincts and trust their allegedly 'informed' judgement I end up losing.

[El Barto]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

Yeah, tell me about it.

I think it's payback for Dallas last week. I honestly had no idea Dak wasn't playing, just like I suspect everybody else who took Dallas was, and the Cowboys bailed us out. I wonder if the people who stuck with the Cards were similarly out of the loop.

[El Barto]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

I made 2 last minute (LITERALLY last minute) switches on the sage advice of those numbskulls at the Winners and Whiners website: I changed KC to GB and the Cardinals to the 49ers. Both are currently getting their asses neatly gift-wrapped and handed to them. I never learn. Every damn time I go against my instincts and trust their allegedly 'informed' judgement I end up losing.

I value their insight, but have zero qualms about going against them. I won't think twice about ignoring their predictions. I think it says a lot that they don't tell you what their own records are on the year. (Not to mention the sloppiness of their writing and lack of any editing whatsoever.)

[ProfessorPeart]

Yep. I flipped my Hou/Mia and Ari/SF picks after hearing about them this morning. Both cost me points.

My journey to the bottom continues on after my excellent start.

[Stadler]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

I made 2 last minute (LITERALLY last minute) switches on the sage advice of those numbskulls at the Winners and Whiners website: I changed KC to GB and the Cardinals to the 49ers. Both are currently getting their asses neatly gift-wrapped and handed to them. I never learn. Every damn time I go against my instincts and trust their allegedly 'informed' judgement I end up losing.

This; I STEADFASTLY do not switch picks.  The one or two times a scratch or change would help me is far outweighed by the number of times it turns out badly. 

[T-ski]

I never over think it.

I login Wednesday night, make my picks in less than two minutes, and unless I hear about something such as Rodgers missing a game, I never flip a pick.

[Cool Chris]

All of us lost 4 games this past week, and were 3 picks away from losing 6. And we all nearly lost that Pitt/Chi game.

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 9)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           Tall Cool One          90          90-46
2           AAgent66               88          88-48
3           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      87          87-49
4           hefdaddy42            87          87-49
5           Dragon Attack         87          87-49
6           Admiral Barto          85         85-51
7           Professor                83          83-53
8           D.o.C                     83          83-53
9           Dave                      82          82-54
10         Stadler's Folly         81          81-55

[hefdaddy42]

I never over think it.

Same

[Cool Chris]

I spend at most 5 minutes entering my picks before Wednesday - so I don't forget the Thursday game. Then Saturday I do a sanity check and see if my picks still makes sense, and to account for last minute injuries, etc... Sometimes I scan the "experts" picks just to see if I am way off base anywhere. 

[DragonAttack]

^
99% this.  I think I've made two changes from my initial picks all year, and regret perhaps two non changes, so my record is basically what it should be.  The week I went 13-2 could easily have been 8-7, and last week's 7-7 could easily have been 10-4. 

Wish I could tally up the weekly performances by simply copying/pasting onto a spreadsheet, but the formatting doesn't hold.  I did a brief 'in my head' for Week 1, and our combined record was 87-89.  Week 8 was a surprisingly good overall 83-67, this past week 70-70.  For the season, we're all on par with the 'experts' at The Baltimore Sun

[ProfessorPeart]

Well, it's nice to see my prediction of Dave catching up with me coming to fruition. At least I was right about something. Been bitten by some bad games.

I have been making my picks toward the end of the Monday night game. Then I usually scan them again on Sunday morning. I have been burned by changes I wanted to make, but didn't, and by changes that made sense based on injury reports and such, only to get burned. Not sure how well that balanced me out, but it still sucks.

[Destiny Of Chaos]

So glad I flipped my pick from Arizona to San Francisco after Murray and Hopkins were ruled out.

I took Arizona earlier in the week. When Murray and Hopkins were ruled out today, I was like not today Satan....I learned from last week.

 

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 10)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           Tall Cool One          97          97-52
2           Dragon Attack         94          94-55
3           AAgent66               94          94-55
4           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      92          92-57
5           Admiral Barto          91         91-58
6           D.o.C                     90          90-59
7           hefdaddy42            90          90-59
8           Professor                89          89-60
9           Stadler's Folly         88          88-61
10         Dave                      87          87-62

[hefdaddy42]

Damn

[DragonAttack]

Four participants topped the group with a whopping 7-7 record.

We were a combined 59-81 last week.  It's safe to say it was our worst week in the last five years.

[Dublagent66]

Yeah, this was my first week with a losing record.  I was pretty confident about my picks too.  Welcome to the NFL. 

[Stadler]

I'm gaining, but at this rate, I should break the top five some time in October of 2022. 

[Dublagent66]

Standings (Wk 11)

Rank    Pick Set Name   Total Pts     W-L
1           Tall Cool One          105         105-59
2           AAgent66               104         104-60
3           T-ski’s Pick-ski’s      103         103-61
4           Dragon Attack         102         102-62
5           D.o.C                      99           99-65
6           Dave                       98           98-66
7           Admiral Barto          98           98-66
8           Stadler's Folly          97           97-67
9           Professor                 97           97-67
10         hefdaddy42              97           97-67

[hefdaddy42]

WTF

[DragonAttack]

As a Baltimore fan, and having suffered through the debacle at Miami, I did a first:  switched my pick less than an hour before kickoff for the first time in five years due to Lamar's illness (dumb sh*t...your immune system has been lowered due to Covid 2x, wear a mask around strangers like you did in Louisville).  That said, thanks to Wink doing Cover Zero with only one experienced DB and almost getting burned two plays before, Andy Dalton throws yet another 4th down dagger into the heart of Raven land.

But....I'm going to be proven correct on my pick.  But....daBears being daBears, and Nagy screwing the pooch a couple of times with his other 4th down calls, Huntley leads Charm City to the winning score. 

Man, overall, we be bad picking winners lately, eh?

[Cool Chris]

I left town Thursday for 4 days and didn't do my normal Saturday Sanity Check. Though looking at them now, I am not sure what I would have changed. I even forgot who I picked for some of the games.