by ptmcmahon Man I hate week one

In my family pick against spread league I was 5-11... last by 4 wins there!

by ponchi101 The Cincy loss was dreadful. We all had it pretty high (I had it as my 16 pick).

by ptmcmahon In my survivor pool it was the most common pick. Luckily I had Buffalo there, but even that was dicey for a bit.

by ponchi101 Dear all.
I will be returning to work on Tuesday, meaning I will be busy. Because I will be traveling a lot, I will start the WEEK 3 and WEEK 4 picks topics (the schedule is easily available) today. You can of course start filling in those picks as you wish.
I may be a bit late in posting results this week and next.
And, because I am doing this so early, the lists will not have the current record for the teams. I will update if possible.
Txs.

by ptmcmahon Yeah, you can probably just cut week 2 totally! It can't get worse can it? (Unless someone misses a week.)

In my family pick against the spread league I'm now 10-22.

by ptmcmahon My survivor pool ($2200 prize this year) is already down to 7 of 90 entrants.

by New England Nitemare

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 2:59 pm My survivor pool ($2200 prize this year) is already down to 7 of 90 entrants.

My survivor pool started with 240 entries, now down to 14. I have one entry left, started with 6. Out of the 14 left, one person has three picks, and no one else has more than one. I've been doing this pool since 2010, and I can't ever remember this pool being cut down like this in three weeks.....CRAZY!!!

by ponchi101 Four weeks.
My four 16 points games I have missed. I mean, how bad can I be at this game?

by ptmcmahon No one is really doing especially good this year It's been a harder than usual season to pick, not that it's ever super easy!

by Fastbackss I intentionally picked against the Lions today. I figured they would win coming off a bye - but I didn't want to feel bad like I jinxed them.

Doesn't get better than this - a win and Cowboys getting thumped. I will take my loss of 5 points with a huge grin

by ponchi101 Cowboys getting thumped at home. That was fun.
I think Prescott is a fine QB. He can play. But when will NFL owners, all of them billionaires, understand that paying these salaries is absurd? Prescott is good, but not $250 MM good.
As neither is Watson or Lawrence. They have to structure salaries based on performance. Otherwise, regression to the mean will always bite you.

by Fastbackss It's the elimination of the middle class - same as we are seeing in the other sports in the US.

This one is exacerbated by the salary cap structure which is why QB on rookie deal is so valuable. Not everyone is Brady or Mahomes and can carry team regardless of how few receiving assets.

by ptmcmahon It depends really on if that money could have spent elsewhere really. They don't mind dropping the $250 million.

In Dallas's case apparently it prevented them from chasing after Derrick Henry. Now that is when spending so much on one player will come back to bite you hard.

by ponchi101 Was Kobe Bryant a better player than Tim Duncan? Yes. He was.
But they both have five rings because Tim negotiated his contracts to make sure he could keep Manu and Tony, while Kobe never negotiated to keep Pau or anybody else.
Agree with you.

by Omegadoom Do you get any bonus points, like in the Predictions contest, if you get a perfect score for a week?

by ponchi101

Omegadoom wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2024 12:47 am Do you get any bonus points, like in the Predictions contest, if you get a perfect score for a week?

Anybody except you!!!
You are very close to that.

by Fastbackss When I was a kid (sad to admit this) I was introduced to "pick slips" which were essentially parlay slips for football.

The person who did told me that each week besides his "regular" parlays - he would do a small one where he picked every game. The odds were astronomical - and actually paid out an amount if you got all but one correct.

Omega's effort made me think back wistfully to those days of asking to make sure my $2 or 5 got submitted to the bookie lol

by New England Nitemare Congrats Omega!!! Very impressive to go a perfect 14-0!!!

by Omegadoom

New England Nitemare wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:43 am Congrats Omega!!! Very impressive to go a perfect 14-0!!!

Thanks Nitemare. Probably be lucky to win 6 games this week

by ponchi101 What will that mean for the rest of us!!!!

by ptmcmahon Can't tell if the "one point" and "separation" is sarcastic or not

by ponchi101 I give credit to everybody here

by ptmcmahon

by ponchi101 Gang. I am setting up the posts for week 10 and 11, because I am about to disembark and that takes some time for me to get home.
You can post as you wish.

by ptmcmahon We all got that one wrong...most of us for a lot of points too! Still, always fun to watch snow games.

by ponchi101 I thought the Browns were really bad. And Pit was very good.
And bet the house on that. Should know better.

by ptmcmahon A couple of years ago something similar happened and seems like we got almost every Thursday night game wrong. Might be time to pick the underdogs on Thursday again to try to look smart!

by ponchi101 Dear all.
I will be going offshore in the next 24-48 hours. Expect some delays in posting of records, as I may be cut off from internet for a while.

by patrick Omegadoom is beginning to be a football novice already having supreme tennis powers

by ptmcmahon Sheeze, we tie an all time record and are still not in the top 5?

by ponchi101 I should have said a few weeks ago. That is when he set it.
And indeed, we are not even top 5.

by ptmcmahon I do have to point out a funny comparison... my family has an against the spread game, and I am dead last by a ton there. No one believes me I was 15-1 here last week

Son is winning spread by 7-8 games and spends minutes making his picks (he does watch some games now.) It's infuriating!

by ponchi101 I give this thing considerable thinking and see where I am.
Omegadoom always posts last, which perhaps indicates a last minute rush to fill in his picks. And see where he is

by ptmcmahon Omega does that in all contests, not just NFL

I one time waited until last minute for a tennis fantasy contest on purpose just to beat him to be the last posting a team. I got a medal from it so it worked!

by ponchi101 Dear all.
Omegadoom noticed that I posted that the Saturday and Sunday games' picks were expected before the start of the SUNDAY GAMES.
I meant before the start of the SATURDAY games.
Apologies for my mistake.
Thanks to Omegadoom

by ponchi101 Dear all.
There will be a change this year for the playoffs.
For the last few years, if your pick lost, you got those points deducted. I felt that it was too much, because, for example, the SB would mean a swing of 180 points: those picking up the winner would get 90 points, but those forced to pick the upset would get -90.
So, this year you will get 50% OFF the wrong picks. Not 100% off.
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I am scheduled to return to shore on Monday 6th. I will likely be without internet that day (I am not sure what connection the service vessel has) so I may be late posting the picks for the play offs.

by Fastbackss I admittedly thought at least one of us would run the table this week. How naive

by ptmcmahon We're not doing too bad. Either me or Tog is going to get everything right but our 5 point game (Chargers) and if Rams win Ponchi only missed 10 point game (Chargers too.)

by ponchi101 I am super busy, will try to post results later today.
The picks topic for the Divisional games will be up in a short while.

by ponchi101 I am slightly busy today and tomorrow. Will update scores ASAP.

by wolfy333 Congrats Omegadoom!

by Omegadoom Was nice seeing someone else (other than the Chiefs) win the Super Bowl! I picked and rooted for the Philadelphia Eagles, so it was great seeing them win their 2nd Lombardi trophy.

I'm happy to have finally won my 2nd NFL Challenge trophy.

Many thanks to Ponchi, for taking time out of his busy schedule, to run this contest. Greatly appreciated!

by Fastbackss Congrats omega and thanks ponchi

(And I laughed throughout the game - I thought Philly would win but picked KC in a futile effort to leave the basement which jinxed them)

by ptmcmahon

Omegadoom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:02 am I'm happy to have finally won my 2nd NFL Challenge trophy.

Finally? Isn't this only the fifth year we've done it.

by ponchi101

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:06 am

Omegadoom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:02 am I'm happy to have finally won my 2nd NFL Challenge trophy.

Finally? Isn't this only the fifth year we've done it.

No. The contest has been running from well before TAT2.0 started. It was a solid entry in TAT1.0
(And yes, remember that Omega has different standards than us. ONLY 2 trophies is chump change to him )

by New England Nitemare Congrats Omega!!!!

A shoutout to ponchi for running this contest this season!!

by Omegadoom

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:06 am

Omegadoom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:02 am I'm happy to have finally won my 2nd NFL Challenge trophy.

Finally? Isn't this only the fifth year we've done it.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:50 pm

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:06 am

Omegadoom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:02 am I'm happy to have finally won my 2nd NFL Challenge trophy.

Finally? Isn't this only the fifth year we've done it.

No. The contest has been running from well before TAT2.0 started. It was a solid entry in TAT1.0
(And yes, remember that Omega has different standards than us. ONLY 2 trophies is chump change to him )

Ponchi is correct. I won my first Challenge on the original TAT, not sure the year! We used to be able to see exactly when we won a medal/trophy and a Grand Total of medals we had on TAT 1.0, back when Miles and Dry were the top two with the most medals.

PS ..... Ptmcmahon, you used to be my (and Waylandboy's) favorite Canadian on TAT! Now you're always trying to give me the business, lol. A simple congrats would have sufficed

by ptmcmahon Haha oops! I'll work on earning that back then