An EXCITING week. 3 OVERTIME GAMES. 2 GAMES DECIDED BY ONE POINT. And 1 game by a field goal. As for my week kind of mediocre. Some would consider it good, in that I only missed 3 games. AND I missed the final score by only 1 point. Well maybe this week will behi better. HOW did you do? For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and lost you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MISS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. I had some requests from the people who copy and paste, for their own pool to move the network out of the score column. I aim to please. So I hope this is better GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders, St. L Rams, T.B. Bucanneers All Times All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Erroneously referred to as EDT GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 10/15/15 20::25 1 CBS ATL. FALCONS 21 @ N.O. Saints 31 7 0/7 SUNDAY 10/18/15 13:00 2 FOX WA. Redskins 20 @ N.Y. JETS 34 12 12/5 3 FOX AZ. CARDINALS 13 @ Pit. Steelers 25 6 12/1 4 CBS K.C. Chiefs 10 @ MIN. VIKINGS 16 10 22/9 5 CBS CIN. BENGALS 34 @ Buf. Bills 21 5 27/14 6 FOX Chi. Bears 34 @ DET. LIONS 37. (OT) 4 31/18 7 CBS DEN. BRONCOS 26 @ Cle. Browns 23 ((OT) 9 40/27 8 CBS Hou. Texans 31 @ J’VILLE JAGUARS 20 1 40/26 9 CBS Miami Dolphins 38 @ TN. TITANS 10 2 40/24 SUNDAY 10/18/15 16:05 10 FOX Car. Panthers 27 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 23 11 40/13 SUNDAY 10/18/15 16:25 11 CBS S.D. Chargers 20 @ G.B. PACKERS 14 54/27 12 CBS BAL. RAVENS 20 @ S.F. 49’ers 25 3 54/24 SUNDAY 10/18/15 20:30 13 NBC N.E. PATRIOTS 34 @ Indy Colts 27 13 67/37 MONDAY 10/19/2015 20:30 14 ESPN N.Y. Giants 7 @ PHI. EAGLES 27 8 75/45 Tie Breaker (Monday 2 team total last game) 49 Actual Score 34 Points Off -15 Views: 95
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NFL Confidence Picks, Week5 10/08-11-12/2015
For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and lost you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MISS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. I had some requests from the people who copy and paste, for their own pool to move the network out of the score column. I aim to please. So I hope this is better GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Erroneously referred to as EDT GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 10/08/15 20::25 1 CBS INDY COLTS 27 @ Hou. Texans 20 7 7/7 SUNDAY 10/11/15 13:00 2 FOX Chi. Bears 18 @ K.C. CHIEFS 17 13 7/6 3 FOX Stl. Seahawks 24 @ CIN. BENGALS 27 (OT) 3 10/3 4 FOX Wa. Redskins 19 @ ATL. FALCONS 25 (OT) 11 21/8 5 CBS Car. Jaguars 31 @ T.B. BUCANNEERS 38 2 23/10 6 FOX N.O. Saints 17 @ PHI.. EAGLES 39 8 31/18 7 CBS Cle. Browns 33 @ BAL. RAVENS 30 (OT) 9 31/9 8 CBS St.L Rams 10 @ G.B. PACKERS 24 14 45/23 9 CBS BUF. BILLS 14 @ Tn. Titans 13 1 46/24 SUNDAY 10/11/15 16:05 10 FOX AZ. RAMS 42 @ Det. Lions 17 4 50/28 SUNDAY 10/11/15 16:25 11 CBS N.E. PATRIOTS 30 @ Dal. Cowboys 6 12 62/40 12 CBS DEN. BRONCOS 16 @ Oak. Raiders 10 6 68/46 SUNDAY 10/11/15 20:30 13 NBC S.F. 49’ers 27 @ N.Y. GIANTS 30 10 78/56 MONDAY 09/21/2015 20:30 14 ESPN Pit. Steelers 24 @ S.D. CHARGERS 20 5 78/51 74%/49% Tie Breaker (Monday 2 team total last game) 45 Actual Score 44 Points Off -1 Possible Points 105 Views: 89
NFL Confidence Picks Week 4: 10/01-04-05/2015
REMEMBER: EARLY GAME SUNDAY 9:30 am SUNDAY! We got to see a little better glimpse to the what the season may hold. There were a lot of key injuries, this week. For the most part we will have to see how long these key players are out. We know Big Ben Roethlisberger is expected to be out for 4 to 6 weeks. The question here is does does Michael Vick still have enough left in his tank to keep the the Steelers on the winning track. For Seattle will Marshawn Lynch heal enough to his old effective running self. On another note: We saw the Colts punter, Pat McAffee, turn a bad snap into a credible scurry for first down. It appeared he could have run the ball in for a TD. However; not a role he is used to playing, he perhaps, failed to see that opportunity. (Or maybe he just ran out of gas). But, now is the seed planted for a planned play like this to come about? As for my week’s picks I missed 25% of the games. THAT SUCKS. But now I guess it leaves me room for improvement. Did any of you do any better? Either Point wise, or Percentage wise? For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and lost you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MISS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. BYE WEEK: New England Patriots, and Tennessee Titans. All Times All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Erroneously referred to as EDT GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 10/01/15 20::25 1 CBS BAL. RAVENS 23 @ 20 (OT) 3 3/3 SUNDAY 10/04/15 09:30 2 CBS N.Y. JETS 27 @ Mia. Dolphins 14 2 5/5 SUNDAY 10/04/15 13:00 3 CBS J’vil. Jaguars 13 @ INDY COLTS 16 (OT) 14 19/19 4 FOX N.Y. Giants 24 @ BUF. BILLS 10 9 19/10 5 FOX CAR. PANTHERS 37 @ T.B. Bucanneers 23 5 24/15 6 FOX PHI. EAGLES 20 @ Wa. Redskins 23 1 24/14 7 CBS OAK. RAIDERS 20 @ Chi. Bears 22 4 24/10 8 CBS Hou. Texans 21 @ ATL. FALCONS 48 10 34/20 9 CBS K.C. Chiefs 21 CN. BENGALSs 36 6 40/26 SUNDAY 10/04/15 16:05 10 CBS Cle. Browns 27 @ S.D. CHARGERS 30 12 52/38 SUNDAY 10/04/15 16:25 11 FOX G.B. PACKERS 17 @ S.F. 49’ers 3 13 65/51 12 FOX St.L. Rams 24 @ A.Z. CARDINALS 22 7 65/44 13 FOX Min. Vikings 20 @ DEN. BRONCOS 23 11 76/55 SUNDAY 10/04/15 20:30 14 NBC Dal. Cowboys 20 @ N.O. SAINTS 26 (OT) 8 84/63 MONDAY 10/05/15 20:30 15 ESPN Det. Lions 10 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 13 15 99/78 Tie Breaker (Monday 2 team total) 43 82%/65% Actual Score 23 Points Off -20 Possible Points 120 Views: 99
NFL Confidence Picks Week 3: 9/24-27-28/2015
What pitiful week I had. Just proves why they play the games. I used the numbers, and look at my poor score. Had I went with my gut instinct, I would have had only a slightly better week. Oh well, this is just for fun. (YEAH RIGHT) I hope you all did better. Of course if you are also playing a yearly pool….a week like this can really take a toll. It will take a lot of good weeks to make up for this one. But this last week does emphasize the difference in the two scoring system. With the +/– scoring system I only scored 12 points. Good luck this week. For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and lost you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MISS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Erroneously referred to as EDT GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 09/24/15 20::25 1 CBS Wa.Redskins 21 @ N.Y. GIANTS 32 5 5/5 SUNDAY 09/27/2015 13:00 2 FOX ATL. FALCONS 39 @ Dal. Cowboys 28 1 6/6 3 CBS INDY COLTS 35 @ Tn. Titans 33 9 15/15 4 CBS Oak. Raiders 27 @ CLE. BROWNS 20 8 15/7 5 CBS Cin. Bengals 28 @ BAL. RAVENS 24 10 15/3 6 CBS J’vil. Jaguars 17 @ N.E. PATRIOTS 51 15 30/12 7 FOX N.O. Saints 22 @ CAR. PANTHERS 27 11 41/23 8 FOX Phi. Eagles 24 @ N.Y. JETS 17 3 41/20 9 FOX T.B. Buccaneers 9 @ HOU. TEXANS 19 12 53/32 10 CBS S.D. Chargers 14 @ MIN. VIKINGS 31 4 57/36 11 CBS PIT. STEELERS 12 @ StL. Rams 6 2 59/38 SUNDAY 09/27/2015 16:05 12 FOX S.F 49’ers 7 @ A.Z. CARDINALS 47 13 62/51 SUNDAY 09/27/2015 @ 16:25 13 FOX Buf. Bills 41 @ MIA. DOLPHINS 14 6 56/45 14 FOX Chi. Bears 0 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 26 16 72/61 SUNDAY 09/27/2015 20:30 15 NBC DEN. BRONCOS 24 @ Det. Lions 12 7 79/68 MONDAY 09/28/2015 20:30 16 ESPN K.C. Chiefs 28 @ G.B. PACKERS 38 14 93/82 68%/60% Tie Breaker (Monday 2 team total last game) 49 Actual Score 66 Points Off -17 Possible Points 136 Views: 93
NFL Confidence Picks, Week 2 9/17-20-21/2015
I was pleased with my picks, this week. The first week is usually the hardest. It is the first time we actually see the teams play. Several star players were injured; some will miss multiple games, some were merely out for the remainder of the game. We saw the great Marshawn Lynch. stopped in a crucial play. The Giants coach lose track of opponents downs, and tell his team not to score. An apparent misunderstanding between the kicker, and coach in an OT situation. But all in all a pretty interesting week. With the headset controversy at the Patriots, game…..Well let me say it is getting hard to not to put the team from New England as the N.E. CHEATERS. After all we know, that must be in their NFL contract, a special clause. New England can do whatever they want. No harm will come to them. For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold YOU can adopt the scoring described above. Or, the optional method. A negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and lost you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MISS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. I had some requests from the people who copy and paste, for their own pool to move the network out of the score column. I aim to please. So I hope this is better GOOD LUCK TO ALL. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Erroneously referred to as EDT GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 09/17/15 20::25 1 CBS DEN. BRONCOS 31 @ K.C. Chiefs 24 8 8/8 SUNDAY 09/20/2015 13:00 2 CBS Hou. Texans 17 @ CAR. PANTHERS 24 13 21/21 3 FOX S.F. 49’ers 18 @ PIT. STEELERS 43 14 35/35 4 FOX T.B. Bucanneers 26 @ N.O.SAINTS 19 16 35/19 5 FOX Det. Lions 18 @ MIN. VIKINGS 26 9 44/28 6 FOX AZ. CARDINALS 48 @ Chi. Bears 23 5 49/33 7 CBS N.E. PATRIOTS 40 @ Buf. Bills 32 3 52/36 8 CBS S.D. Chargers 19 @ CIN. BENGALS 24 11 63/47 9 CBS TN. Titans 14 @ CLE. BROWNS 28 1 64/48 10 FOX Atl.Falcons 24 @ N.Y. GIANTS 20 7 64/41 11 FOX ST.L. RAMS 10 @ Wa. Redskins 24 12 64/29 SUNDAY 09/20/2015 16:05 12 CBS Mia. Dolphins 20 @ J’vil. Jaguars 23 6 70/35 13 CBS BAL. RAVENS 33 @ Oak. Raiders 37 2 70/33 SUNDAY 09/20/15 16:25 14 FOX Dal. Cowboys 20 @ PHI. EAGLES 10 10 70/23 SUNDAY 09/20/2015 20:30 15 NBC Stl. Seahawks 17 @ G.B. PACKERS 27 4 74/27 MONDAY 09/21/2015 20:30 16 ESPN N.Y. Jets 20 @ INDY COLTS 7 15 74/12 54%/.08% Tie Breaker (Monday 2 team total last game) 46 Actual Score 27 Points Off -19 Possible Points 136 Views: 110
SUPER BOWL XLIX FEB. 01, 2015
UPDATE: NFL has found 11 of the 12 balls used Sunday against the Colts, were indeed under inflated. I guess the Patriots were afraid of the Colts beating them. Not that they had to as it turned out. What punishment would be appropriate? We know the answer. FORFEIT TO THE COLTS. But they won’t go that far. Any thing less will be merely a slap on the wrist. After all the MARKETING MONIES, and PUBLICITY for advancing to the Super Bowl will way out weigh any other punishment. Suspension of William Stephen “Bill” Belichick. No problem. Given the teams history, they will most likely find a way for him to watch and get plays to the other coaches. Speaking of the other coaches, who have been with Belichick long enough to know how he would call the game any way. Maybe suspending QB Tom Brady, TE Rob Gronkowski, Place Kicker Stephen Gostkowski, Punter Ryan Allen, and of course RB LaGarrette Blount. But suspending players would not really be fair to those players or the rest of the team. What ever punishment handed should have a HUGE impact on the Patriots bottom line. HOW ABOUT Forfeiture of all income springing from their advancement to and including Their SUPER BOWL appearance. (excluding the players pay. Of Course). Plus any sanctions NFL chooses to place on Future Draft Picks, etc.etc. We all know MONEY is what PROFESSIONAL SPORTS IS ALL ABOUT! We have now reached the BIGGEST game of the season….. “SUPER BOWL” !!!!!. Two great teams, Two great Quarter Backs, with a great supporting cast. Yes the QB’s usually take the praise when his team wins. But he is also called upon to bear the burden when his team gets beat. Just like the Pitcher on a Baseball team. BUT, in FOOTBALL. There are many teams. Offense, Defense, Special Teams, Back up Player, Practice Teams, Coaching Team, and lets not forget that all important team……the 12 th man team. Everyone of these teams are just as important as the other. The OFFENSE, plays its game to MOVE the ball down field, and SCORE points. The DEFENSE, plays its game to STOP the movement down the field, and if the opportunity arises, STEAL the ball away. (Just like in Basketball). Then in semi-rare occasions SCORE points. Kind of makes it seem like the DEFENSE does most of the work and gets a passing note of praise, for a win. The SPECIAL TEAMS. Are a combination of OFFENSE and DEFENSE. They are the SPECIALISTS, as the name implies. They can return kickoffs, or receive punts, or play for the onside kick. They include the KICKERS, SETTERS, RETURNERS, and anything else they may be asked to do. The PRACTICE TEAM, is that unknown group, which plays one of the most important roles on the team. They don’t make the big money, the game time players make. (Perhaps $100,000.00 a a year). What many people don’t realize is the Practice Team must mimic every opponent their team may face in a season. After all, how would the Patriots practice against the Seahawks, and vice-versa. If you think that is easy, try being a different team every week. The BACK UP Team. The Subs, the Bench warmers. The men who sit on the sidelines hoping to someday get into a real game. They must be ready at any moment to enter the game and play up to the same standards as the starters. While on the sidelines they must be cheerleaders, spirit lifters, if you will. It can’t be easy waiting to get in a game, (most likely; even if un-concioiusly hoping for something to happen to the starter to afford them their chance), to be that support group. The Coaching Team. Held together by the HEAD COACH. Each coach has his speciality. They are the ones who decides the plays, trains the players, and inspires them to succeed. Of course if you ask any one of them HIS job is the most important coaching position on the team. But the Head coach is the one who acts as referee, and maintains the peace among this group. I’m sure the Offensive Co-ordinator, makes most of the offensive play calls, just as the Defensive Co-Ordinator, makes the decisions on defensive plays. Etc.Etc. on down the line. But the Head Coach is the ultimate decision maker. NOW. We come to that all important 12 th MAN TEAM. They are sometimes called the “Boosters”, because that is what they do. They give the team that extra BOOST. Cheering them on to work harder, Applauding them when they make good plays. Supporting the team by buying the game tickets, concessions, and the various souvenirs, and Team apparel. They make noise to drown out the opposing teams signals, and hush up so their team can be heard and on the same wavelength. On one hand you have the seasoned veteran, TOM BRADY. On the other hand you have that “undersized” QB, RUSSEL WILSON, who is in his THRD year. BUT…. by the way already has one Super Bowl Championship under his belt. HUH? Can that be right. The QB most teams thought was to short to play that position effectively? YEP. That be him. (Not to brag or anything. But if you check my post of Jan. 13, 2012. Colts 1st Round Draft Pick Is…. I had Wilson as a TOP 3 Pick: in my eyes the most capable of the three). Can he be the QB with 2 Super Bowl Championships in a career of 3 years. This should be the BEST Super Bowl in MANY years. But there is always that unknown phantom that can come in and just make the game a blow out. As my Dad, always said. “HOPE FOR THE BEST, AND EXPECT THE WORSE”. As of this writing the odds makers in Las Vegas, have made no move as to odds and who they think will win. Right now it is just… Continue reading SUPER BOWL XLIX FEB. 01, 2015
NFL Conference Play Championships Confidence Picks Jan 18 2015
COMMENTS: Biggest Blown Call.. The reversal of Dez Bryant REVERSAL. I replayed the action numerous times. I had others observe it and we all agreed no doubt he had control. switched hands, stretched to cross line and scored a TD. But apparently scoring a TD is not considered completing a play in the NFL. Then you look at the TD in the College Playoff. Oregon players TD counted. But I can’t understand how he could have had control when he had like one finger touching the end of the ball when crossed the line. Oh well two different games. I know most of you aren’t playing the “pool” any more. What we did when I ran the company pool, was raised the entry fee. AND heavily relied on the Tie Breaker. Enjoy the rest of the season. I don’t care for the “PRO BOWL” so you won’t see any posts on that. But now we are down to the final four. We should be able to see an all out effort by all teams. Hopefully it will be more like the NCAA division 3 (I think it was). VERY,VERY few flags. They let them play. Enjoyed that game immensely. For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 17 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold This year I am making a change in the scoring. YOU can adopt the new scoring or continue to use the old scoring. This year we get a negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: LAST YEAR if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and was wrong you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. this year the same scenario would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Friday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. All Times EST GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SUNDAY 01/18/15 15:05 1 G.B. Packers 22 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 28 (OT 2 2/2 SUNDAY 01/18/15 18:40 2 Indy Colts 7 @ N.E. PATRIOTS 45 1 3/3 Tie Breaker (Sunday 2 team total) 54 Actual Score 52 100%/100% Points Off -2 Possible Points 3 Views: 95
NFL Divisional Playoffs Jan. 10-11,2014. Confidence Picks
We had a fun week this last weekend. We had one very good game. One out of 4, means we had 25% good games, and 75% not so good. I would have to call the Ravens win over the Steelers a surprise. Perhaps not an upset. The Interstate match up of the Bengals, and Colts, came off as I suspected. One would think this would be a big rivalry. From Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, is a mere 112 mile drive. Just a bit over 2 hours apart. But for some reason, that rivalry never seem to materialize.(Just for those who do not know. Lucas Oil Stadium is also 181 miles from Chicago’s Soldiers Field. about a 4 hour drive. I imagine the fans of those two teams would love to see more games between the two….but not very likely. Before the Colts came to town and the Bengals existed “Da Bears” were Indiana’s HOME TEAM). Had Arizona been totally healthy, I little doubt they would have advanced. …..But, that is why I picked Carolina. There was little doubt in anybody’s mind the Cowboys, would triumph over Detroit. Yeah I know some of you will bring up the so-called “CONSPIRACY CALL”. The way I saw the play the on field reversal was the correct call. The only problem was the OFFICIALS failed to talk the call over before announcing it. BUT how about: who was it Dez Bryant? Or some Cowboy went onto the field without a HELMET. That should have been an infraction, but the officials merely told him to go back to the bench. Not only did he not have a helmet, but as far as I was concerned it put a 12th man on the field who was neither entering to play, or leaving after a play. Let me assure you I am not a Cowboys, or Lions fan. Thus that makes me an “IMPARTIAL OBSERVER”. Now we are down to what we call the Elite Eight. Congratulations to all teams who made it this far. For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 17 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold This year I am making a change in the scoring. YOU can adopt the new scoring or continue to use the old scoring. This year we get a negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: LAST YEAR if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and was wrong you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. this year the same scenario would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Friday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. All Times EST GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SATURDAY 01/10/15 16:35 1 Bal. Ravens 31 @ N.E. Patriots 35 3 3/3 SATURDAY 01/10/15 20:15 2 Car. Panthers 17 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 31 4 7/7 SUNDAY 01/11/15 13:05 3 Dal. Cowboys 21 @ G.B. PACKERS 26 1 8/8 SUNDAY 01/11/15 16:40 4 Indy Colts 24 @ DEN. BRONCOS 13 2 6/8 Tie Breaker (Sunday 2 team total) 52 GAME 4 Actual Score 37 Points Off +14 Possible Points 10 60%/80% Views: 131
NFL Playoff Wild Card Confidence Picks Week 1 Jan.3-4,2015
I must say I was somewhat surprised by my own results this week. Just in: Buffalo Bills coach DOUG MARRONE has opted out of his contract. The out clause was activated by he sale of the team. Could a short hop to the N.Y. Jets be in order? Now we are at the CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. “SUPER BOWL”. Last weeks HIGHLIGHTS: Houston’s J.J. Watt, became the only 2 time player to record 20 sacks in a season. To top it off his 20th sack also scored a SAFETY. Tampa Bay Buccaneers “won” the first pick for next years draft. Both Tennessee Titans, and Tampa Bay tied with a 2-14 record. HOWEVER the tie breaker ( whichever team whose opponents had the lowest winning percentage) favored the Bucs. Miami Dolphins Lamar Miller carried the ball from the 3 yd. line for a 97 yard TD. and cap 1000 yard season. Longest run was in 1983 when Cowboy TONY DORSETT, ran 99 yds. Following Dorsett is Green Bay Packers’ RB Ahman Green. Green ran a 98 yd. TD in 2003. In 1939 Packer Andy Urham also ran a 97 yd. TD. As of this writing, we know of 4 coaches who have been relieved of duty. First is the Jets’ Rex Ryan. Ryan has not finished above 500 the last 4 seasons. Will he land at Chicago? Atlanta Coach Mike Smith is looking for another job. Smith went 10-22 the last 2 seasons, and was 1-4 in post season. Chicago Bears’ Coach Marc Trestman, with a 5-11 season is out. So is Bears’ GM Phil Emery. I think this is a much needed move. I think, there should be more releases up the ladder. Jay Cutler took the blame much of the season for the Bears poor performance. However in all the games I watched the ENTIRE TEAM, Seemed somewhat amiss. I saw no real heart in their actions on the field. I’m not saying Cutler is the caliber player he is being paid as…. BUT I would most likely give him another year under new leadership. Then we come to San Francisco 49’ers. Will they be able to replace Jim Harbaugh. Probably not. But, the way I see it. Winning is secondary to 49’ers management. Much like the Indianapolis Colts when Jim Irsay took over. Irsay wanted to tell the coaches who to play what plays to run, etc. etc. It wasn’t until he learned to trust his coaching staff that the Colts started to do any good. I believe San Francisco’s management staff have yet to learn that lesson. AND we all know JIM HARBAUGH is no YES MAN! GOOD LUCK AT MICHIGAN COACH HARBAUGH. One last note. WHAT TEAM FINISHED THE SEASON WITHOUT A TD BY A WR? ….Kansas City Chiefs. Of course. Looking Ahead NFL Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 AFC: 4:35 p.m. (ET) Baltimore at New England (NBC) NFC: 8:15 p.m. (ET) Carolina at Seattle (FOX) Sunday, Jan. 11 NFC: 1:05 p.m. (ET) Dallas at Green Bay (FOX) AFC: 4:40 p.m. (ET) Indianapolis at Denver (CBS) For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 17 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold This year I am making a change in the scoring. YOU can adopt the new scoring or continue to use the old scoring. This year we get a negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: LAST YEAR if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and was wrong you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. this year the same scenario would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Friday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. All Times EST GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SATURDAY 01/03/15 16:35 1 Ariz. Cardinals 16 @ CAR. PANTHERS 27 3 3/3 SATURDAY 01/03/15 20:15 2 Bal. Ravens 30 @ PIT. STEELERS 17 1 2/3 SUNDAY 01/04/15 13:05 3 Cincy Bengals 10 @ INDY COLTS 26 2 4/5 SUNDAY 01/04/15 16:40 4 Det. Lions 20 @ DAL. COWBOYS 24 4 8/9 Tie Breaker (Sunday 2 team total) 48 GAME 4 Actual Score 44 Points Off -4 Possible Points 10 80%/90% Views: 112
NFL Week 17 Confidence Picks Dec. 28, 2014
WHOA! What a week. I always hate this time of the season. You never know if a team will play to win, or to rest players. It appeared this week most teams played for the win. I would suspect that most teams will play to win this week. The closeness of so many teams much weighs heavy on them this week. Although I don’t like it. I think it is right. We could see an 11+ team not reach the play offs; and a possible 8- team in. To me; it does show parity in the conferences, (not necessarily in the leagues). Some of you may think a re-alignment is in order. But, then, maybe two years down the road the weaker teams get stronger and the strong teams get weaker. Then what? Re-align again. No! I believe it will work out in the long run. It is too bad that a team that works hard and has a better record may be left out. 2014 NFL Team Schedule For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 17 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold This year I am making a change in the scoring. YOU can adopt the new scoring or continue to use the old scoring. This year we get a negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE: LAST YEAR if you scored 1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pt on the second game and was wrong you would still have a Positive 1. HOWEVER. this year the same scenario would result with a -14 score. I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to: Just copy and paste for your own Fun Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me. IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED. SORRY. WITH THE HOLIDAYS I AM LATE POSTING MY PICKS. HOPE YOU ALL HAD A MERRY CHRISTmas NOTE: ALL GAMES ARE PLAYED SUNDAY. BYE WEEK: NONE All Times EST GAME VISITOR SCORE HOME SCORE CONFIDENCE RUNNING SCORE SUNDAY 12/28/14 13:00 1 Car. Panthers 34 @ ATL FALCONS 3 3 3/0 2 Cle. Browns 10 @ BAL. RAVENS 20 15 12 /15 3 DAL. COWOYS 44 @ Wash. Redskins 17 7 19 /22 4 INDY COLTS 27 @ Tenn. Titans 10 11 30 /33 5 Det. Lions 20 @ G.B. PACKERS 30 13 43/46 6 J’ville Jaguars 17 @ HOU. TEXANS 23 12 55 /58 7 S.D. Chargers 7 @ K.C. CHIEFS 19 1 56/59 8 N.Y. Jets 37 @ MIA. DOLPHINS 24 9 45/59 9 Chi. Bears 9 @ MINN VIKINGS 13 10 55/69 10 Bu. Bills 17 @ N.E. PATRIOTS 9 6 49/69 11 Phila. Eagles 34 @ N.Y. GIANTS 26 2 47/69 12 Cincy Bengals 17 @ PITT. STEELERS 27 4 51 /73 13 N.O. SAINTS 23 @ T.B. Buccaneers 20 5 56 /78 SUNDAY 12/28/14 16:25 14 Oakland Raiders 14 DEN. BRONCOS 47 16 72/94 15 Ariz. Cardinals 17 @ S.F. 49’ERS 20 8 80/102 16 St. L. Rams 6 @ STL. SEAHAWKS 20 14 94/116 Tie Breaker (Sunday 2 team total) 41 GAME 16 Actual Score 26 Points Off +15 Possible Points 136 69%/85% Views: 105
