RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Dust off your gambling gloves, children. There's a new competition in town and it hungers for the blood of naive young fools. I'm running this separate from the regular season pick em, so WeaponX can keep his regular season crown, but the playoffs are a whole nother bag of cats. The Rules: There are two ways you can go about predicting games. The first is the standard method of going week by week, and picking the games as they come. You will get one point for getting a game right, and nothing for getting it wrong. The second has a lot more variance involved, higher risk and higher reward. This comes from picking every game all at once, and your deadline to do so according to this method is just before the first playoff game of the wildcard round. The points will be distributed as follows Wild Card Round: 1 point for every correct pick, 0 for any incorrect pick. Divisional Round: 2 points for correctly picking the winner and both teams playing. 1 point for picking a correct winner, but against the wrong team, 0 for any incorrect pick Conference Championships: 4 points for correctly picking the winner and both teams playing, 2 points for picking the winner, but against the wrong team, 0 points for an incorrect pick, but having at least one of the correct teams there, -1 points for the wrong winner and neither team in the game. Super Bowl: 8 points for correctly picking the winner and both teams. 4 points for correctly picking the winner but against the wrong team, 0 points for an incorrect pick, but having at least one of the teams playing, -2 for the wrong winner and neither team in the game. So as you can see, the spread is a lot higher, but the margin for error is risky enough that you could end up with a worse score than if you had just predicted every game wrong one week at a time. Whichever method you choose is up to your leisure, but once you've chosen a method, you can't back out. Wild Card Schedule: Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET The slates are clean, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pick em! Edited January 2, 2017 by RazorStar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos 2,847 Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Wild Card Schedule: Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Im just going to put down the WC picks, still debating on which method to go with. Edited January 2, 2017 by Thanatos Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WeaponX20 26 Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Raiders @ Texans Lions @ Seattle Dolphins @ Steelers Giants @ Packers Giants @ Cowboys Seahawks @ Falcons Steelers @ Chiefs Raiders @ Patriots Giants @ Falcons Steelers @ Patriots Giants vs Patriots Super Bowl Winners Patriots Edited January 2, 2017 by WeaponX20 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 2, 2017 Well I am a fortunate man, and I must make my fortune. Wildcard: Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Divisional Round: Giants @ Falcons 4:35 ET Raiders @ Patriots 8:15 ET Steelers @ Chiefs 1:05 ET Lions @ Cowboys 4:40 ET Conference Championships: Chiefs @ Patriots Giants @ Cowboys Super Bowl: Giants vs. Patriots Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oochymp 2,393 Posted January 2, 2017 Divisional Round: 2 points for correctly picking the winner and both teams playing. 1 point for picking a correct winner, but against the wrong team, 0 for any incorrect pick Seems like that puts a lot of weight on getting the 3v6 games right Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 2, 2017 Well getting those games wrong will lose you at least 4 potential points in the divisional round, while messing up the 4/5 will only lose you at least 2 potential points in that round. So it does make a difference, but it can be made up in spades by getting the later rounds correct. I tried to balance out the risk/reward so it wouldn't just be an obvious conclusion on which method to choose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteVo+ 3,702 Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) For the record, I'm doing the one-week-at-a-time method as it pertains to Razor's points system. But I'm also predicting the entire playoffs for fun. Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET ----------------------- Patriots > Raiders Chiefs > Steelers Cowboys > Packers Falcons > Seahawks Patriots > Chiefs Cowboys > Falcons Patriots > Cowboys Pretty much chalk, but, that's how it's gonna be. Edited January 3, 2017 by SteVo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
56AceInDaPlace 110 Posted January 3, 2017 Wild card week Raiders Seahawks Steelers Packers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bucman 891 Posted January 3, 2017 Wildcard: Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Divisional Round: Packers @ Falcons 4:35 ET Texans @ Patriots 8:15 ET Steelers @ Chiefs 1:05 ET Seahawks @ Cowboys 4:40 ET Conference Championships: Chiefs @ Patriots Falcons @ Cowboys Super Bowl: Chiefs vs. Cowboys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos 2,847 Posted January 3, 2017 I know too much about NFL playoffs being damn near impossible for me to pick. Going to stick with the one week at a time method. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jayrus 51 Posted January 4, 2017 Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FartWaffles 1,857 Posted January 4, 2017 All home teams: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seanbrock 1,684 Posted January 4, 2017 Raiders @ Texans is gonna be hard to watch lol. Seattle isn't losing at home. Packers are the hottest team in the league and I just don't see Matt Moore going on the road and putting up enough points to beat Pittsburgh in their building. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ATL_Predator+ 1,196 Posted January 4, 2017 Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oochymp 2,393 Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) looks like more people are doing weekly, so fuck it, let's do it all: Wild Card Round: Raiders @ Texans Lions @ Seahawks Dolphins @ Steelers Giants @ Packers Divisional Round: Raiders @ Patriots Steelers @ Chiefs Seahawks @ Falcons Packers @ Cowboys Conference Championships: Steelers @ Patriots Packers @ Falcons Super Bowl LI: Packers v Patriots Still don't like the extra weight on the 3/6 game, but not sure how to balance it out, I'll just blame the NFL for not doing a straight bracket Also, I might post weekly just to see how I'd have done under the alternative scoring for my own curiosity, but I'm going to consider this post my official entry Edited January 6, 2017 by oochymp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparty 110 Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) Edited January 7, 2017 by Sparty Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vin+ 3,121 Posted January 7, 2017 Wild Card Schedule: Saturday: Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Sunday: Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET Divisional Round: Texans @ Patriots Steelers @ Chiefs Seahawks @ Falcons Giants @ Cowboys Chiefs @ Patriots Giants @ Falcons Super Bowl: Chiefs vs. Giants Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 7, 2017 30 Minutes to go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blotsfan 2,112 Posted January 7, 2017 Anthem is still being sung! Texans Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blotsfan 2,112 Posted January 8, 2017 Seattle Pitt Green bay Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maverick 791 Posted January 8, 2017 Texans Hawks SteelersPackers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteVo+ 3,702 Posted January 9, 2017 For the record, I'm doing the one-week-at-a-time method as it pertains to Razor's points system. But I'm also predicting the entire playoffs for fun. Raiders @ Texans 4:35 ET Lions @ Seahawks 8:15 ET Dolphins @ Steelers 1:05 ET Giants @ Packers 4:40 ET ----------------------- Patriots > Raiders Chiefs > Steelers Cowboys > Packers Falcons > Seahawks Patriots > Chiefs Cowboys > Falcons Patriots > Cowboys 3-1, but all my Divisional Round picks are intact. I shall stick with them. Seahawks @ Falcons Texans @ Patriots Steelers @ Chiefs Packers @ Cowboys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 10, 2017 Current Standings: WhoDak? 4 (ALL) Thanatos 4 (ONE) FartWaffles 4 (ONE) Seanbrock 4 (ONE) Sparty 4 (ONE) Mav 4 (ONE) Blots 4 (ONE) Vin 3 (ALL) Oochy 3 (ALL) SteVo 3 (ONE) Ace 3 (ONE) WeaponX 2 (ALL) Bay 2 (ONE) PhilElliot 2 (ONE) Jayrus 2 (ONE) RazorStar 1 (ALL) Churlz 1 (ONE) All meaning you picked all the games at once, One meaning you're picking one week at a time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
