NFL'17 Sudden Death League

stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
It's about time!

You know the drill: pick a team you expect to win; you may only pick that team once; predict the scoring differential for tiebreaker purposes only; if multiple participants are the last ones standing, the cumulative variance from actual scores will break any ties.

An added twist from last year: you can only pick against a team three times, thus avoiding all you sadistic basterds rolling on my NY Jets every week!:eek:

Whose in? Respond with a poast!

Week 1:

KC at NE (Thursday 9/7)

Sunday 9/10

NY Jets at Buffalo

Jacksonville at Houston

Pittsburgh at Cleveland

Arizona at Detroit

Tampa Bay at Miami

Atlanta at Chicago

Oakland at Tennessee

Baltimore at Cincinnati

Philadelphia at Washington

Indianapolis at LA Rams

Carolina at San Francisco

Seattle at Green Bay

NY Giants at Dallas (SNF)

Monday 9/11 (Always Remember!)

New Orleans at Minnesota

LA Chargers at Denver
 
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Rafaisdabest

Hall of Fame
I'm going to have another go at this lol

I will give you my pick for now, not the scoring yet though, gotta think about that for a bit

I'm going to go Panthers to defeat SF
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Rafaisdabest said:
I'm going to have another go at this lol

I will give you my pick for now, not the scoring yet though, gotta think about that for a bit

I'm going to go Panthers to defeat SF
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Using up your favorite team the first week?:eek:

It's actually not a bad pick except for East Coast teams on the West Coast. Week #1 is the best week to buck that trend though.

C'mon you regulars and any newbies! It was fun last season!!!

@Steve0904 @oztennisfan @T1000 @Topspin Shot @Feña14 @Big_Dangerous (asst. commissioner???) @hollywood9826 @AustinTx24 @gino @Mongolmike @jamesblakefan#1 @Mongolmike @osutennis24 @Power Player
 
Feña14

Feña14

G.O.A.T.
stringertom said:
Using up your favorite team the first week?:eek:

It's actually not a bad pick except for East Coast teams on the West Coast. Week #1 is the best week to buck that trend though.

C'mon you regulars and any newbies! It was fun last season!!!

@Steve0904 @oztennisfan @T1000 @Topspin Shot @Feña14 @Big_Dangerous (asst. commissioner???) @hollywood9826 @AustinTx24 @gino @Mongolmike @jamesblakefan#1 @Mongolmike @osutennis24 @Power Player
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I'm in! No idea who i'll go with first. If Friday is anything to go by, half the league will be injured by opening weekend :p
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Feña14 said:
I'm in! No idea who i'll go with first. If Friday is anything to go by, half the league will be injured by opening weekend :p
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Have been on heavy work schedule; must have missed the news. Will catch up.

First game is 11 days away so you got time.
 
Feña14

Feña14

G.O.A.T.
stringertom said:
Have been on heavy work schedule; must have missed the news. Will catch up.

First game is 11 days away so you got time.
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Edelman and Ware were the big ones. So an impact on the opening night game.

We also need 1 more player for the TW Fantasy Football league, with the draft set to take place tonight at 8. If anyone wants in on that, the thread is around here on the first page.
 
R

Rafaisdabest

Hall of Fame
stringertom said:
Using up your favorite team the first week?:eek:

It's actually not a bad pick except for East Coast teams on the West Coast. Week #1 is the best week to buck that trend though.
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Well the other week in the AFL I tipped against my team for the first time ever and they ended up winning,
I lost the tip and got every other one right, so I've learnt my lesson,
so I feel the need to go Panthers first up, although from memory I did tipping with oz last year and I haven't been as loyal to the Panthers as I am the Cats! Also my other reason is we are playing SF which is my dads team so would be even better if I got that one right :p
 
Steve0904

Steve0904

Talk Tennis Guru
oztennisfan

oztennisfan

Professional
Rafaisdabest said:
Well the other week in the AFL I tipped against my team for the first time ever and they ended up winning,
I lost the tip and got every other one right, so I've learnt my lesson,
so I feel the need to go Panthers first up, although from memory I did tipping with oz last year and I haven't been as loyal to the Panthers as I am the Cats! Also my other reason is we are playing SF which is my dads team so would be even better if I got that one right :p
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You beat me last year, you beat me in our afl tips two years in a row... I think I'm in all sorts again this nfl season...
 
T1000

T1000

Legend
cant go with my usual tnf pick, pats and chiefs are on it again pretty soon.

Gonna take the Falcons over da bears by 13 since Atlanta doesn't play again dec
 
gino

gino

Legend
stringertom said:
It's about time!

You know the drill: pick a team you expect to win; you may only pick that team once; predict the scoring differential for tiebreaker purposes only; if multiple participants are the last ones standing, the cumulative variance from actual scores will break any ties.

An added twist from last year: you can only pick against a team three times, thus avoiding all you sadistic basterds rolling on my NY Jets every week!:eek:

Whose in? Respond with a poast!

Week 1:

KC at NE (Thursday 9/7)

Sunday 9/10

NY Jets at Buffalo

Jacksonville at Houston

Pittsburgh at Cleveland

Arizona at Detroit

Tampa Bay at Miami

Atlanta at Chicago

Oakland at Tennessee

Baltimore at Cincinnati

Philadelphia at Washington

Indianapolis at LA Rams

Carolina at San Francisco

Seattle at Green Bay

NY Giants at Dallas (SNF)

Monday 9/11 (Always Remember!)

New Orleans at Minnesota

LA Chargers at Denver
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Oakland by 14 thanks for the tag @stringertom
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
To all considering Tampa at Miami: the game has been rescheduled for Week 11 due to Irma La Deuce.

This was a pick em game anyway but I have to post this change for formalities.
 
Steve0904

Steve0904

Talk Tennis Guru
Damn Patriots. I don't even like them and the one time I pick them they lose. Was banking on their reliability as a consistently good team to get me through Week 1. In hindsight, I probably should've picked Pittsburgh, sticking with Cleveland's reliability of being a terrible team.
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Steve0904 said:
Damn Patriots. I don't even like them and the one time I pick them they lose. Was banking on their reliability as a consistently good team to get me through Week 1. In hindsight, I probably should've picked Pittsburgh, sticking with Cleveland's reliability of being a terrible team.
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Andy Reid with time to install a game plan is a very dangerous opponent.
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Steve0904 said:
Yeah, he's got a great record after a bye week doesn't he?
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He hasn't been overwhelming in season openers (11-8 now) but he's a remarkable 8-3 on the road and most of the overall losses were early in his tenure at Philly and in close games (4 losses by 10 points combined). At one point he was 1-6 in season openers.
 
Feña14

Feña14

G.O.A.T.
Big_Dangerous said:
Yikes, things not looking for for the Texans right now. They benched Savage at the half and now are down 26-7 in the 4th...

I'll take Carolina by 6, not many other options at this point. :(
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More than happy to be proved wrong on that one!

That's the good thing about picking against a team you have a soft spot for, you win either way :D
 
Big_Dangerous

Big_Dangerous

Talk Tennis Guru
stringertom said:
Should I keep track manually with the 3-time limitation on "pigeons"???
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Oh yeah I forgot about that, yeah if it's easier, or if you want to add in a section in the google sheets, then that's cool too. I'll try and work on it tomorrow if I can, since I'm about done for the day at the office. :p
 
stringertom

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Week 2 Schedule:

Houston at Cincinnati (TNF)

Buffalo at Carolina

New England at New Orleans

Chicago at Tampa

Minnesota at Pittsburgh

Arizona at Indianapolis

Cleveland at Baltimore

Philadelphia at Kansas City

Tennessee at Jacksonville

NY Jets at Oakland

Miami at LA Chargers

Dallas at Denver

San Francisco at Seattle

Washington at LA Rams

Green Bay at Atlanta (SNF)

Detroit at NY Giants (MNF)
 
Big_Dangerous

Big_Dangerous

Talk Tennis Guru
stringertom said:
Week 2: RAIDERS just win baby vs my grounded Jets. By 21.
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Is that like your hometown team?

I don't know, I feel like it's a bad omen to pick against my hometown team, even if I can't or don't really consider myself a fan. Seems like every time I do, that game ends up being so much less straight forward than I expect it to be.

Like some years ago back in 2010 (I looked it up because I remember it was a MNF game in December) I got tickets from my cousin to the Texans vs Ravens game. It was my brother and I whom received the tickets from our cousin because she couldn't use them for some reason. I had put like a small amount on the Ravens to cover the spread which was maybe like a field goal or less. Anyway, the Ravens dominated the first half, and I think they had a kickoff return for a touchdown late in the 2nd quarter to go up something like 28-7 at the half. My brother and I were like okay, if this gets out of hand like another Ravens td without the Texans scoring anything, then we're walking out. Texans ended up roaring back in the second half. They scored a crazy touchdown on a drive that was essentially the ball game. They scored with either no time left in regulation or only a few seconds. Then they needed the 2-pt conversion to tie the game, which they got and everyone in the stadium was going nuts. Then they play ot - and boom - Matt Schaub throws a pick-six when the Texans were backed up deep in their own territory. I've never heard the stadium that quiet before, you could hear a pin drop as the Baltimore defender waltzed into the end zone. I can't believe that was 7 years ago... Freaking time flies. :(

 
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