NFL Playoff Confidence Pool

[MarkItZero]

Hello Everyobody.

If you missed out on the Schmoe NFL Weekly Confidence Pool...then you should be ashamed of yourself.

Fortunately you have been given an oppurtunity for redemption.

Introducing the Schmoe NFL Playoffs Condfidence Pool:

The rules are similar to any other confidence pool.

Every weekend you pick the winner of each game and assign a point value to each game. If you pick the correct winner of the game, you add the assigned score to your total score. Whoever has the most points at the end of the week is declared the winner.

Here is the twist...each week you have a total of 100 points to assign to your games. You can break up the points between games in any fashion you would like but you must give each game a minimum of 15 points. Your total points for the week must add up to 100.

Ex.
Conference Champiohship Weekend
60 pts New England over Tennessee
40 pts Philly over Dallas

I will add up everyones scores and keep track throughout the playoffs so that there will be a Grand Champion as well as weekly champions.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Good Luck Everyone!

[Morgana]

I'm anxious for the playoffs to start, so I'll get the party started.


55 - Green Bay

15 - Carolina

15 - Tennessee

15 - Indy

[MarkItZero]

Very nice avatar Morg! :D

[Rated R]

45 - Green Bay
25 - Tennessee
15 - Carolina
15 - Indianapolis

[horrorfreak13]

To continue with last week's success
50 Green Bay
20 Tennessee
15 Indianapolis
15 Carolina

[Morgana]

Originally posted by MarkItZero
Very nice avatar Morg! :D

Thanks, MIZ. That's Matt Hasselhoff...my mad scientist creation. :)

[Indiana Sev]

55 - Seattle @ Green Bay
15 - Dallas @ Carolina
15 - Tennessee @ Baltimore
15 - Denver @ Indianapolis

0 - Oakland :D

[MarkItZero]

15: Carolina
20: Indy
25: Titans
40: Greenbay

Good Luck everyone!

[sharkstank]

cool!

40-------PACKERS
30------COLTS
15------TITANS
15------COWBOYS

WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[chasingbanky]

55 - Green Bay WAY OVER SEATTLE
15 - Carolina Over Dallas
15 - TITANS OVER RAVENS
15 - COLTS OVER BRONCOS


Seems pretty clear cut this week....Hopefully for the sake of this game no real upsets take place............GO FAVRE!!!!!

[Moviefan1234]

40 - Green Bay
30 - Denver
15 - Baltimore
15 - Dallas

[Strider]

Seattle Seahawks @ Green Bay Packers - 50

Tennessee Titans @ Baltimore Ravens - 20

Denver Broncos @ Indianapolis Colts - 15

Dallas Cowboys @ Carolina Panthers - 15

GO PACKERS!!!!!!!!! :D

[Puck Bond]

Titans @ Ravens-15
Cowboys @ Panthers-35
Seahawks @ Packers-35
Broncos @ Colts-15

[RicochetShaw]

55 - Dallas

15 - Baltimore

15 - Green Bay

15 - Indianapolis

[PapaJupe2k]

Indianapolis- 40
Carolina- 30
Seattle- 15 (yeah that's right)
Tennesee-15

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by PapaJupe2k
Seattle- 15 (yeah that's right)

No, that's wrong.

;):D

[Benny]

I couldn't make the regular season pool (although I didd do it for my health club, I never had the time to post the picks here), so I'll start now:

50- Green Bay
25- Indianapolis
15- Carolina
10- Baltimore

All the home teams win...

[Morgana]

Devastating mistake there by Hasselhoff at the very end, but overall, a great game by both teams. Seattle played much better than I had expected...next year will be our year. I still love my Seahawks, and despite the mistake, my Matt Hasselhoff.

[Moviefan1234]

Next week, I'm not taking so many risks. My astronomical point total of 40 points nearly killed me off already.

[MarkItZero]

And the winner is........MarkItZero!! (and most everybody else) :D

100
Morgana
Rated R
HorrorFreak13
Indiana Sev
MarkItZero
ChasingBanky
Strider

90
Benny

85
Puck Bond
Sharkstank
PapaJupe2k

40
Moviefan1234

30
RicochetShaw

Dont worry if you didnt score well this week. It should be easy to make up points the next week.

Congrats to everyone who had perfect scores and good luck this week!

:cool:

[horrorfreak13]

Let's see this week to keepp my perfect playoff record

45 St.Louis
25 New England
15 Indianapolis
15 Philadelphia

[Indiana Sev]

Congrats to all the winners!

This weekend is much harder.

55 - Tennessee @ New England

15 - Indianapolis @ Kansas City

15 - Green Bay @ Philadelphia

15 - Carolina @ St. Louis

[sharkstank]

DAMNIT!
damn cowboys

i must make my comeback, then you'll see, you'll be sorry, well teach em, you and me, that's right, just like old tim........

sorry

I thought each game was to be given a minimum of 15 points? oh well, here are my picks

Rams------55
Colts------15
Eagles----15
Titans-----15

WWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[RicochetShaw]

Originally posted by MarkItZero
30
RicochetShaw



Oooooooooouuucch. :o Darn Cowboys, I guess being risky doesn't always pay off. I'll post my picks later this week.

[Strider]

Congrats to all the winning players!

Now, it's time to post this week's predictions, and it sure as hell ain't gonna be easy. But here goes nothing.....

Carolina Panthers @ St. Louis Rams - 40
Tennessee Titans @ New England Patriots - 30
Green Bay Packers @ Philadelphia Eagles - 15
Indianapolis Colts @ Kansas City Chiefs - 15

Damn! These are gonna be some tough games.....

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by sharkstank
I thought each game was to be given a minimum of 15 points?

Yes, that's the rule. I guess not everybody was aware of that.

15 point MINIMUM must be given to each game.

[Rated R]

30 - New England
30 - St. Louis
20 - Green Bay
20 - Indianapolis

[Morgana]

55 - New England
15 - St. Louis
15 - Indy
15 - Philly

[PapaJupe2k]

New England- 40
Kansas City- 30
Philadelphia- 15
Carolina- 15

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by PapaJupe2k
Carolina- 15

We are the only believers so far.

[horrorfreak13]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
We are the only believers so far.

You may end up being the only believers.

I can't see Carolina winning this game in St.Louis. If it was in Carolina possibily.

[Moviefan1234]

St. Louis Rams - 50
New England Patriots - 20
Green Bay Packers - 15
Indianapolis Colts - 15

[Benny]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
Yes, that's the rule. I guess not everybody was aware of that.

15 point MINIMUM must be given to each game.

In Johnny Carson voice: "I did not know that." Reset my score to 85, then.

This weekend:
St. Louis- 40
New England- 30
Philadelphia- 15
Indianapolis- 15


Do we have to make our picks in multiples of 5? Or can we give the teams points like 38, 28, 18, and 16?

[horrorfreak13]

Originally posted by Benny
Do we have to make our picks in multiples of 5? Or can we give the teams points like 38, 28, 18, and 16?

I don't think so. It just somehow happens everyone makes their picks in multiples of 5.

[Puck Bond]

Panthers @ Rams-35
Titans @ Patriots-35
Colts @ Chiefs-15
Packers @ Eagles-15

[MarkItZero]

55 St.Louis
15 New England
15 Indianapolis
15 Philadelphia

[RicochetShaw]

I'll split it up evenly this week....


25 - Green Bay
25 - Kansas City
25 - St. Louis
25 - New England

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
We are the only believers so far.

:cool:

We're also the only ones who pick up 15 points!!!!!

I'm so happy the Panthers won, I hate the Rams.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

[Strider]

Well, that game could have gone either way. Each team had a lot of chances to win the game, but in the end, the Panthers were the team to pull out the victory.

So, Sev and PapeJupe, you two are lucky bastards..... ;)

[Moviefan1234]

Shit! Fuck! Those motherfucking Panthers caused me to lose 50 fucking points.
:mad::mad::mad:

Phew, glad to get that off my chest. :)

Thankfully NE came through for me.

[PapaJupe2k]

Originally posted by Strider
So, Sev and PapeJupe, you two are lucky bastards..... ;) Luck!?? Whaaa? I broke down this game in the Road To The Superbowl thread earlier in the week and people acted like I was crazy. I was wrong on one thing though, I said Carolina would win by a field goal, instead it was six.

I hate to gloat though... Sev get over here and gloat for me!:)

[horrorfreak13]

I put my trust in St.Louis home winningg streak and the fuck it up.

DAMN YOU RAMS TO HELL

[Strider]

My downfall was that I was too damn confident that the Rams would defeat and eliminate the Panthers. Especially since the Rams were playing at home. But in the end, not only did the Panthers win the game, but they cost me 40 fuckin' points!!!

[Morgana]

Damn the useless Rams! Grumble grumble. At least they cost me only 15 points. Now if Philly wins, I'll do ok since I picked Indy over KC.

[sharkstank]

WELL, I SUCK

damn martz. how can you be so conservative. same with sherman, fourth and 1, make it and you win. conservative kills, people. both my sb predictions are out (raiders,rams in pre season) (titans, rams in this pool)

on the other hand, i knew green bay's streak would end, with eagles winning. and i definately knew the chiefs would do what they do best and choke. a new defense is in order for them.
anyone catch the locker room interview with tony gonzalez. he looked like he was going to cry and criticized the refs for his push off call. weak call, and those are the kinds of players you want. the ones that care.

here's next week's even though i suck

COLTS- 50
EAGLES-50

WWWHHHHHHHH00000000000000000000000000

[MarkItZero]

Suprisingly there were no perfect scores this week.

There is a two-way tie for this weeks winner:

Congrats Sev and Morgana!

85
Indiana Sev
Morgana

70
PapaJupe2k

60
Strider
Benny

55
HorrorFreak13

50
Rated R

45
MarkItZero

35
MovieFan1234
Puck Bond

30
SharkStank

25
Ricochet Shaw



Overall
Indiana Sev: 185
Morgana: 185
Strider: 160
HorrorFreak13: 155
PapaJupe2k: 155
Rated R: 150
Benny: 145
MarkItZero: 145
Puck Bond: 120
SharkStank: 115
ChasingBanky: 100
MovieFan1234: 75
RicochetShaw: 55

Good Luck Next Week!

[horrorfreak13]

4th place all I have to say to that is DAMN YOU ST.LOUIS RAMS TO FUCKING HELL!!!!!!!!!!

[Indiana Sev]

Nice!

Congrats to my fellow (lady) leader - Morgana! Once again, nice job MIZ!

Next week's picks:

85 - Carolina @ Philadelphia
15 - Indianapolis @ New England

Good luck to everyone!

[horrorfreak13]

22 Indianapolis
78 Philadelphia

[Rated R]

75 - Philadelphia
25 - Indianapolis

Poor Shaw, can't catch a break

[Strider]

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP:

Indianapolis Colts @ New England Patriots - 20

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP:

Carolina Panthers @ Philadelphia Eagles - 80

[PapaJupe2k]

*******IDEA FOR SUPER BOWL WEEK CONFIDENCE POOL******

This could be interesting, I just want to see what you schmoes think. How about we play the Super Bowl week like a round a final jeopardy, you know the tv show. I say each schmoe can bet up to half of their total points accumulated on the Super Bowl, but if you lose the wager, you lose the points. I'll DQ myself after this week and kind of be Alex Trebek.:D I think it would be fun if no one else knew who you are picking and how much you are betting. PM me your picks before gametime and I'll post them on that Sunday in this thread.

Example round

MIZ- 220 (he bets 100 pts on Team A)
Morgana-200(she bets 75 pts on Team A)
Sev-180(he bets 90 pts on Team A)

Team B wins the game

Final standings
Morgana- 125
MIZ- 120
Sev- 90

Sound good? I promise I wont cheat.:) We can even declare two separate winners, one for the first three playoff rounds, and a Super Bowl winner if you guys want, since I'm making up rules as I go.:)

Just a thought to try to make it fun. Let me know. This way if everyone takes the same team and that team loses, it could be the person that bet the least may have a shot.

[MarkItZero]

Awesome.

I think its a great idea. Sign me up.

[horrorfreak13]

I like the idea too.

[Indiana Sev]

Good idea. This prevents too many people from being eliminated immediately after next week's games.

PJ, you could technically participate too if you pm'ed me your picks & points immediately after next week's games. I would just not open the pm until I've made my choices.

You could trust me. :cool::p

[PapaJupe2k]

Glad people are liking this idea, it adds intrigue to final week. Sure I'll do that, I'll pm Sev with my pick right away and I'll be in too. Everyone seems to like these rules I'm making up as we go, I've got one more, tell me what you schmoes think.

I propose that Morgana forfeit all her points to the board to be divided up evenly among the rest of the group. Why you ask? Well um... hmmm.... because I'd be embarassed to get beat by a girl in this. Shall we take a vote?:D Just kidding, here are my picks for this week.

Carolina- 50
New England- 50

[Moviefan1234]

I like the idea as well.

Eagles - 50
Colts - 50

[Benny]

71- Eagles
29- Patriots

Yeah I like PJupe's Idea.

[Strider]

Sounds like a damn good idea to me, Papa J. You can consider me in the round. It'll add another level of entertainment and excitement to watching the SuperBowl......

[Morgana]

Originally posted by PapaJupe2k


I propose that Morgana forfeit all her points to the board to be divided up evenly among the rest of the group. Why you ask? Well um... hmmm.... because I'd be embarassed to get beat by a girl in this. Shall we take a vote?:D

Hmpf! :p

The other idea sounds fine though, I'm in.


My picks for this week:

New England - 50
Philly - 50

[MarkItZero]

50: Carolina
50: New England

Good Luck Everyone!

[RicochetShaw]

I suck, really bad. 25 points?



50 - New England
50 - Philadelphia

[Puck Bond]

Panthers @ Eagles-85
Colts @ Patriots-15

[sharkstank]

well, i got BOTH games wrong. baad prognostication year for me, as im usually good at this.

i stopped caring about my pics once mcnabb showed his true colors. i wrote a long rant in the road to sb thread, but it sickened me.

for the record, my pick is carolina

[Strider]

Don't worry, sharkstank. You're not the only who got both games wrong. I did too as well, along with several others..... ;)

Oh well, on to the SuperBowl!

Go Panthers!!!

[RicochetShaw]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
Panthers @ Eagles-85


Holy crap, Puck. How did you know? Nice job.

[Moviefan1234]

Originally posted by Strider
Don't worry, sharkstank. You're not the only who got both games wrong. I did too as well, along with several others..... ;)


Yeah, I got zero as well. :o

I've really sucked at the playoff confidence pool. Even when I try to be conservative like this past weekend, I get zip! :D

[horrorfreak13]

You know when I switched the points because I had more confidence in Phily winning but it didn't matter both teams lost which leaves me with a big fat 0

[MarkItZero]

Carolina is in the SuperBowl, who would have thunk it.

Well, apparently, Me, Puck and PJ thunk it. :D


100
Puck Bond
PapaJupe2k
MarkItZero

50
Ricochet Shaw
Morgana

29
Benny

15
Indiana Sev

0 :eek:
SharkStank
HorrorFreak13
Rated R
Strider
MovieFan1234

Overall
PapaJupe2k: 255
MarkItZero: 245
Morgana: 235
Puck Bond: 220
Indiana Sev: 200
Benny: 174
Strider: 160
HorrorFreak13: 155
Rated R: 150
SharkStank: 115
RicochetShaw: 105
ChasingBanky: 100
MovieFan1234: 75

After 3 weekends, PJ is in the lead but Morgana and I are not too far behind.

I now relinquish control of this thread to your new commish, our bold and fearless leader PapaJupe2k.

Good Luck Everyone!

[Indiana Sev]

For anybody who has forgotten, what'll happen now is you have to bet an amount from your final total (no more than half of what you have) and pm that number along with the team you think will win to PapaJupe2k. He will not look at your pm until he has first sent me his picks in a pm.

Don't worry, you can all trust us, we are honorable men. :cool: Before Superbowl Sunday, PJ wil post everybody's picks


PJ, if I got any of it wrong, please correct me.

PS: Thank you MIZ for the great effort through the whole year and congrats to this week's winners.

[Benny]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
(no more than half of what you have)



I vote that this be changed. Why can't we bet it all if we want? It's just a game...

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by Benny
I vote that this be changed. Why can't we bet it all if we want? It's just a game...

You're one of the ones who agreed to the rule though.

[PapaJupe2k]

Originally posted by Benny
I vote that this be changed. Why can't we bet it all if we want? It's just a game... Because me being the humanitarian that I am... it would break my heart to see you finish with 0 Benny.:D Haven't you suffered enough with the Eagles loss yesterday? My thinking is that this rule is kind of a reward for people at the top, who have done well up to this point. So that people near the bottom cant double up, it's just more for the fact that you should do well through the whole thing to win it. But like I said, if everyone picks one team, you never know what could happen.

I probably wont be making my pick until tomorrow but you can send me a pm with your picks anytime, I've already got a couple so I wont open them until then.

Sev is your pick in the pm, or did you write about the upcoming Winter Dance Party? I wont open it just to be safe.

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by PapaJupe2k
Sev is your pick in the pm, or did you write about the upcoming Winter Dance Party? I wont open it just to be safe.

It's about the party, you can open it. :D

My picks pm will be entitled: Sev's Horrible Superbowl Picks.

[Moviefan1234]

Yikes! I finished with 75! :o

[Morgana]

Just a big thanks to MIZ before PJ takes over as the commish of our pool... I had a blast. Hope we can do this again next season. :cool:

[Puck Bond]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
Holy crap, Puck. How did you know? Nice job.

Truth is I saw that Indy Sev had put 85 on Philly and I picked Carolina mainly to catch up to him and the rest of the pack as most were going with the Eagles.

[Strider]

Well, it looks like I finished with a grand total of 160 points. I suppose that's not too bad, but I could have done much better. So, I would say my finish isn't completely satisfying. Hopefully, I'll be able to redeem myself with my SuperBowl prediction..... :D

GO PANTHERS!!!!

Strider

[PapaJupe2k]

**********UPDATE**********

Still a week to go before the big game. Just a confirmation here, I have recieved picks from the following people and they have been recorded in my little black book. Sharkstank, Rated R, Horrorfreak, Indiana Sev, Strider, and MarkItZero. My pick has been made as well.

So I still need picks from the following people: Morgana, Puck Bond, Benny, RicShaw, Chasingbanky, and MovieFan. Take your time, but I'm just letting you know in case you did send already and it didn't get to me for some reason.

Good luck.

[Indiana Sev]

Bump for those still to make their PM predictions.

[PapaJupe2k]

It's over schmoes, I've won my own contest again.:)

Here were the winning New England bets:

Me- +115
MIZ- +122
Morgs- +118
Puck Bond- +110
Sev- +100
Horrorfreak- +77
MovieFan- +35
RicShaw- +25

Losing Carolina bets:

Benny- -87
Strider- -80
Rated R- -75
Sharkstank- -57

I did not recieve a bet from Chasingbanky so he stays at his original total.

Final Standings:

Me- 370
MIZ- 368
Morgs- 353
Puck Bond- 330
Sev- 300
Horrorfreak- 232
RicShaw- 130
Moviefan- 110
Chasingbanky- 100
Benny- 87
Strider- 80
Rated R- 75
Sharkstank- 58

Well that's it, thanks for playing everyone. Maybe I'll try to think of some game for NCAA March Madness, so keep an eye out.

[Indiana Sev]

Congratulations! Well done PJ!

5th place for me. Not too shabby.

[Morgana]

Originally posted by PapaJupe2k


Well that's it, thanks for playing everyone. Maybe I'll try to think of some game for NCAA March Madness, so keep an eye out.

Oooh...March Madness, that would be a blast! We could do brackets or something. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

Congrats on winning your own game again, PJ. :cool:

And congrats to me for coming in 3rd. :D

[PapaJupe2k]

Originally posted by Morgana
Oooh...March Madness, that would be a blast! We could do brackets or something. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

Congrats on winning your own game again, PJ. :cool:

And congrats to me for coming in 3rd. :D Thanks Morgs and Sev, I was really sweating it out after Carolina scored to tie it up. But my best friend John Kasay booted one out of bounds to give them great field position.:D They only needed 20 or 30 yards after that, and well you know the how it ended.:)

Yeah speaking of March Madness we'll just pick the games all the way to the end before the tournament starts and see who does the best. Usually I find it works out the best if you assign a point total to each round of the games and go up as it gets closer to the finals, but we have time work that out.

[Strider]

11th place?


YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy......




















Bullshit I'm happy...... :D

Congrats on the victory, Papa J!

[horrorfreak13]

Well congrats on the victory PJ while I'll take 6th place. :cool:

[MarkItZero]

Congrats PJ!

And thanks for running this for us. :cool:

[Benny]

If the Panthers won I would have won too! Dammit!

We were betting against the spread, right? ;)

[Puck Bond]

2nd in the regular season and 4th in the playoffs...not too bad if I say so myself...congrats to PJ for winning!