Terminalcoffee discussion

Another "great" 85 point day for me! :) Other than the Raider game, the other four games I missed were by a total of ten points.

a 19 yr old girl is beating all of us... just saying :)

Week to week is of no concern. One week is a fluke, sixteen is the real thing.

Phil, I did the same thing with Tennessee. I changed it at the last minute in both of my games. I should know better. :(

if carolina could kick away from hester i would have stole some upset points. this is shaping out to be a very interesting year in football. did the lock-out cause some parity?

fudgecycle! i had IND as one of my two upsets this week (along with CAR over CHI) they both had a chance to pull it off but stepped on their own crank. shoot.

I'm certainly glad IND didn't pull it out. TB was my 16-pt game. That would have hurt.

Petra, give my congrats to C. She had a very good week.

I will! that's my girl. :)

i think that we will each have to make some upset predictions to jump ahead (or fall behind) and split the pack up. can we drop 2 weeks? :)

The byes will change the dropped weeks. In the end, most everyone's dropped week will be one of the bye weeks.

not necessarily...

it is a long season Charly... you will come around... I went crazy with upsets this week so I am not even going to look at the points until Mon morning :)

i will prob spend a season of "what if's" after i pick upsets each week. last week it was what if for CAR and IND

Charly wrote: "I don't think so either. There are only three less games if that. I think there is always a week where you just get blown up and that's the one that will be the drop."

Three fewer games. That translates to 45 fewer points available. A full-slate of games offers 136 total points to be won. Take away that 45 and you only have 91 available points.

Discounting "Brawny Bender," who forgot to enter picks for games in the first week, our dropped scores currently range from 76 to 98.

League Avg. Score: 97
Pct. of total:   71.5%

Pct. applied to bye week:   65 pts.

If we pick about the same as we have been, we should average about 65 points for the weeks with three fewer games.

Mathematically, your statement is unlikely to be borne out.

*I am simply suggesting that usually in the course of a season you have a week that you get blown up in and it may very well be a full week or a bye week. *

yes, this appears to have been my week. :(
but, Tim Tebow almost won the game for us in the 2nd half and it was SOOOO exciting!

fudgecycle! i picked the bears to win only because i thought DET's late game heroics would wear out and instead they make big plays and win. i went from 4th to 7th with that one game and only missed 3 picks this week. IND, NYG and CHI all lost for me. suckers

I am erasing this past week from my memory!

Let me know how that works for you.

Phil wrote: "The byes will change the dropped weeks. In the end, most everyone's dropped week will be one of the bye weeks."

::high fives self::

Got one right. Even the person with the highest score this week had their lowest total of the season.

Can't argue with math.

Phil wrote: "I am so pissed at myself and my FIL. I told him early in the week that KC was going to be my 3-point pick this week, and that's exactly where I had them until 10:00 last night. That's when he finally talked me out of it, and I took the Vikes for 5.

I'm a fucking asshole for letting him talk me out of it."

::slaps self::

I did it again. When, when, when will I learn?

This time FIL kept repeating that Oakland would NEVER beat Houston -- they didn't have a chance.

Thanks, dad.

yea, Phil... blame it on your FIL... :)

Notice I called myself the bad name. He was just the catalyst for my stupidity.   :)

another mediocre week for me, but Tebow made my day!

I am having a difficult time getting a handle on some of these teams.

agreed P, i loved the tebow win. not pretty but a win. that might be what he brings to the table.

also agree jim. SEA looks decent and then can't beat CLE. TEN looked terrible. OAK gets mauled by KC (i know they had diff QB but...), NYJ's are a doc jekyl / mr hyde team, whatta weird season so far

remind me not to try and pick any upsets next week! Broncos were humiliated today! :(

Just pick the right ones. This week it was St. Louis. Ouch!

I did have a feeling that they would do something like that, so I only put eight points on New Orleans. Still, that eight points hurts. My upset pick is losing, too. I've got one point on Dallas, who currently trail 24-0 at the half.

Well Phil, you and Michael had a nice week. Good job!

Phil wrote: "Just pick the right ones. This week it was St. Louis. Ouch!

I did have a feeling that they would do something like that, so I only put eight points on New Orleans. Still, that eight points hurt..."

Phil, I picked Dallas as well... and KC because I used to live there and know how that rivalry supersedes their records. anything could happen.

After watching yesterday I can't explain it to you Charly.

Tebow will start in Oakland this week, so you guys can put a lock on your highest point game. :)
But to be honest, other than our kicker, Prader, the Broncos are just awful. Tebow was bad Sunday, but no O-line, D is not getting it done, rb's are too small, and a coach that is not the right fit for Denver either.... should I go on?....

Hey, hey, ho, ho,

NORV TURNER'S GOT TO GO!

It will be a long, continued descent for San Diego until that asshole is run out of town.

Tough week coming up. I've changed my picks three times and I'm still looking them over. No advice from grandpa, though. He has steered me wrong too many times.

I put my picks in and walk away or I would second guess myself into an asylum.

I did that last week, entering them on Tuesday morning and forgetting about them, and the results were okay. But my confidence level this week is seriously off. I'm on my way to Arkham.

The Swami (ESPN's Chris Berman) has two of the games as:

Baltimore 23, Pittsburgh 22

San Diego 30, Green Bay 28

Grrr. I have both of those going the other way and I don't want to change them.

I'm surprised he doesn't think Green Bay will win.

Swami got San Diego wrong. That helped me a little. Let's hope his bad luck holds for Baltimore.

i had to pick yesterday's games a week in advance and week 8's on my phone on an airplane the friday night before. i sucked both weeks but did better picking a week in advance.

That last Baltimore touchdown hurt me here, but helped in my fantasy league. Maybe I should make my picks here align with my fantasy team? It would make it easier to know who to root for.

I am still riding the beating Oakland high! welcome back, Kevin!

Thank you, Charly. The Tebow lover's are happy and the haters are still haters. There is no in between here in Denver.
Good job this week, Kevin.
Phil, you are in first, just barely. Nice job.

I really deserve last place since I really do not know what I am doing. It's been fun.

ms.petra wrote: "Thank you, Charly. The Tebow lover's are happy and the haters are still haters. There is no in between here in Denver.
Good job this week, Kevin.
Phil, you are in first, just barely. Nice job."

I'll take "barely." It's fine by me.

Nice job on the gamble for BigButkus -- 12 pts on Chicago. Bold!

This is the toughest week yet for picking games. A lot of them should be close.

I agree, Phil...working on mine right now.

i really like the parity in this year. there have been many games where most all of us have picked the same team and lost on a sure thing (Rams vs Saints). this is where the confidence points make a big diff on picks

@Charly, sportsbook.com? just kidding.
I have a friend that bets a lot of games and you are right, it is an entirely different animal.
I also like the Survivor Pool where you pick one winner every week. You can only pick that team once per season and if your team loses you are out. KC killed me with their loss to MIAMI.

Since I forgot to pick the Thursday night game, I took out the "16" game pick. But, when I picked the 15 others just now, says it's incomplete. Sorry, totally forgot about the Raider game!