SDMB NFL Pick 'em and Survival Leagues

The Game Room
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Last year’s thread

In NFL Pick 'em leagues, each player predicts the outcome of every NFL game. There are three different types, and we run all three. You can join any or all of them.

Straight up: You simply pick the winner of each game, and get a point.

Spread: A spread is determined for a game (like with sports betting), where one team has a certain amount of points given to them, and you have to pick the game with that adjustment taken into account.

Confidence: The most complex one, but in my view also the most fun. There are no spreads, so you pick the winner straight up. But you get a confidence value you can assign to every game, 1 through the number of games being played that weekend, and can only use each number once. So if there are 16 games that weekend, you’ll assign the confidence number 16 to the game where the outcome seems most clear to you, 15 for the next one, all the way down to 1 for the one you’re least sure of. If you pick correctly, the confidence value of your pick is added to your weekly score.

And survival football: Each player picks one team that has to win each week. If your picked team fails to win, you’re out for the season. You can only use each team once.

These leagues can hold up to 50 players each, so we’re not really at risk for filling up, and you’re competing against the whole league, not one other team per week like fantasy football, so it’s not a big deal if you end up dropping out. I’d like for everyone to play all the way through the season, but it’s not a big deal if you don’t, so feel free to sign up if you’re only a little interested.

To Join to go fantasysports.yahoo.com, go to NFL pick 'em (and/or survival) and join the following groups:

Straight Up Pick 'Em: Group ID# 20844
Spread Pick 'Em: Group ID# 20848
Confidence Pick 'em: Group ID# 20852
SDMB Survival: Group ID# 4775

Password for all is cecil.

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Hooray! off to join 'em.

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I joined the straight up game. Easiest to play.

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We’ve got a bad password on the Survival Pool.

I’m keeping it light this season – Pick’ Em and Survival only. I enjoy the confidence and spread pools, but I’m not going in on them this time around. With my daughter getting older, I don’t have the amount of research time I used to, so I’m cutting back on the number of pools I’m in. I love confidence pools, but it seems I’d spend a good half-hour each week trying to figure the best position for each number.

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You have to go to the survival section to join that.

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Wha-oops…ok, makes sense.

I like the addition of the “% User Picked” on the selection page. You’ll get buried if you rely on picking exactly what people expect, but it makes for interesting info.

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Sweet…I’m in. As soon as work lightens up, I can actually think about football.

On the plus side, I’ve missed pretty much the whole Favre situation.

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I don’t like this:

Because I joined another private Pick’Em, I can’t join all 3 SDMB? Very disappointed, Yahoo!

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You could use a second yahoo account…

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I’m in (again)

Hopefully I can improve from last years debacle.

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I joined up with the Confidence, Spread and Survival. Here is me hoping that I can last more than a week or two in the Survival league this year.

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I was waiting for this thread.

GL everybody!
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Time to set a benchmark.

I haven’t followed it properly for ages and I’m on the wrong continent.

If you can’t beat me, there’s a problem :smiley:
Edit: Entered the Straight Pick and Survival Games, this should be fun.

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I wasn’t going to play… but how can I resist the opportunity to gloat at you?

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The Checkered Demon is back for abuse and ridicule once more :stuck_out_tongue:

Can’t hardly wait for the season to start

Go Pack

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Since these things usually get many more people joining, I’m guessing there are people out there who haven’t seen this yet so I’m going to bump it once a week or so.

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In. If I can beat my results in last years various pools, I still stand a really good chance of doing horribly.

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Just signed up for everything. See you all there.

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I’m signed up for all four. I hope only to last longer than two weeks in Survival.

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While we’re talking pools, I’ve emptied out the waiting list and I still have one, possibly two slots open up in the pool that I run. It seems that just about every year we have one Doper join in, so if anyone is interested in an insanely fun pool, come take a look.