2021 TAT NFL Challenge || Intro and Week 1

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2021 TAT NFL Challenge || Intro and Week 1

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Hello and welcome to the 2021 TAT NFL Challenge! We'll be doing a confidence pool once again this year.

In case you need a refresher, or if you want to join, it's not too difficult. Suppose there are n games in a given week. You rank your confidence in a pick from 1 (least confident) to n (most confident).

If you don't wish to read any further, you don't need to; the rest of the introduction is mainly for transparency purposes.

As was the case last year, you can rank a game before Sunday whatever you want, but if you so happen to miss a pick for one or more of those games, they will be given the lowest possible weights. In addition, you may not change the weight of a game after it has started. For example, suppose there 16 games total on a given week, 1 on Thursday, 2 on Saturday, and 13 on Sunday. You forgot to pick the Thursday and Saturday games. Then those three combined would default to being worth a total of 6 points, and you could weight the remaining games from 4-16 points. Here's an example of how you might post your picks:

Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 5
Indianapolis 2
Tennessee 6
San Francisco 11
New England 3
New Orleans 9
Jacksonville 14
Baltimore 16
Kansas City 10
Seattle 4
Arizona 7
Carolina 8
Chicago 12
NY Jets 13
LA Rams 15

This will extend into the playoffs as well, though scoring may change from last year. Maximum scores for playoff games will not increase, but they may decrease.

One more note: there is a somewhat high probability that some games will be suspended/cancelled this year. Don't worry about it for this contest: the maximum weight for a given game will be the number of games played in a given week, not the number of games scheduled. So if you weighted a game 16 and that game was played, but two others were not, the game you gave a 16 would be pushed down to 14, and all the other games' weights would be decreased as well to fill the 14 remaining weight spots.

Now on to the games! Picks for Dallas at Tampa Bay due at 8:20 PM ET on Thursday, September 9th. All others due at 1 PM ET on Sunday, September 12th.

Dallas at Tampa Bay
Jacksonville at Houston
LA Chargers at Washington
Seattle at Indianapolis
NY Jets at Carolina
Minnesota at Cincinnati
Arizona at Tennessee
San Francisco at Detroit
Pittsburgh at Buffalo
Philadelphia at Atlanta
Cleveland at Kansas City
Green Bay vs. New Orleans in Jacksonville
Denver at NY Giants
Miami at New England
Chicago at LA Rams
Baltimore at Las Vegas
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Re: 2021 TAT NFL Challenge || Intro and Week 1

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Tampa Bay 16
Jacksonville 1
LA Chargers 6
Seattle 7
Carolina 2
Minnesota 8
Tennessee 12
San Francisco 5
Buffalo 15
Atlanta 9
Kansas City 14
Green Bay 10
NY Giants 4
New England 3
LA Rams 13
Baltimore 11
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Tampa Bay [10]
Jacksonville [3]
LA Chargers [5]
Seattle [12]
Carolina [9]
Cincinnati [4]
Tennessee [6]
San Francisco [15]
Buffalo [11]
Atlanta [7]
Kansas City [13]
Green Bay [16]
Denver [1]
New England [2]
LA Rams [14]
Baltimore [8]
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Tampa Bay 16
Jacksonville 8
LA Chargers 7
Seattle 10
NY Jets 1
Minnesota 2
Tennessee 12
San Francisco 11
Buffalo 15
Philadelphia 3
Kansas City 14
Green Bay 4
NY Giants 5
Miami 6
LA Rams 13
Baltimore 9
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Tampa Bay 16
Houston 2
LA Chargers 11
Seattle 12
Carolina 1
Minnesota 3
Tennessee 7
San Francisco 6
Buffalo 10
Atlanta 9
Kansas City 15
Green Bay 14
NY Giants 4
New England 5
LA Rams 13
Baltimore 8


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Okay - Thursday can be ranked higher. I thought it was only a 1...but actually I think I was just lazy and did that. So let's go!

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Tampa Bay 16
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Tampa Bay 16
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Tampa Bay 16
Houston 2
LA Chargers 11
Seattle 9
Carolina 5
Minnesota 1
Tennessee 13
San Francisco 10
Buffalo 6
Atlanta 4
Kansas City 15
Green Bay 12
NY Giants 3
Miami 7
LA Rams 14
Las Vegas 8
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Tampa Bay 16
Houston 1
Washington 2
Seattle 13
Carolina 3
Minnesota 10
Arizona 5
San Francisco 14
Pittsburgh 4
Atlanta 9
Kansas City 11
Green Bay 12
NY Giants 7
Miami 8
LA Rams 15
Las Vegas 6
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That was close to a lot of opening night zeroes.
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Tampa Bay - 16
Houston - 1
Washington - 2
Seattle - 7
Carolina - 11
Minnesota - 6
Tennessee - 8
San Francisco - 14
Buffalo - 13
Atlanta - 7
Kansas City - 12
Green Bay - 9
Denver - 3
Miami - 5
LA Rams - 15
Baltimore -10
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Tampa Bay 16
Jacksonville 3
LA Chargers 4
Seattle 5
Carolina 6
Minnesota 7
Tennessee 11
San Francisco 10
Buffalo 12
Atlanta 8
Kansas City 14
Green Bay 13
NY Giants 2
Miami 1
LA Rams 15
Baltimore 9
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Tampa Bay 9

Houston 16
Washington 1
Seattle 11
Carolina 3
Minnesota 13
Tennessee 5
San Francisco 7
Buffalo 4
Atlanta 6
Kansas City 12
Green Bay 14
Denver 8
New England 2
LA Rams 10
Baltimore 15
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