Sorry for starting this late. I had the idea a few days ago but it slipped my mind. Hopefully we can get some entries before game time Saturday.
There will be 2 components of this contest. One will be picking your predicted playoff brackets before the playoffs begin. The other will be predicting the score of each game, once known, week to week.
Part 1. We already know who will play the wild card weekend games. We also know one opponent in the divisional games - the #1 and #2 seeds. So I’m only leaving the unknowns as blanks. You don’t have to get both right to get credit - you get 5 points for correctly identified team, and 10 for picking the eventual superbowl winner.
Predict the divisional games (5 points per correct team)
AFC:
Tennessee Titans vs _____
Pittsburgh Steelers vs ______
NFC:
New York Giants vs _____
Carolina Panthers vs _____
Predict the championship games (5 points per team)
AFC:
______ vs _______
NFC:
______ vs _______
- Predict the superbowl (5 points per team)
______ vs _______
- Predict the superbowl winner (10 points)
Part 2. This section will be the weekly predictions of the score of each game. Scoring is determined by the total number of points a prediction is off from the actual score of each team (not the combined score) with 5 points being awarded (subtracted) for picking the actual winner.
For example, if you predict team A will score 13 and Team B will score 20, and the actual score is Team A 20, Team B 35, your score would be (7 off from team A’s actual score + 15 off from Team B’s actual score) = 22. Since you correctly picked the winner, 5 is subtracted. Total is 17. Lower is better.
At the end of this contest, the score from part 1 (more is better) will be subtracted from the score of part 2 (less is better) to determine your total score. So if you score 30 points in part 1, and 50 in part 2, your total will be 20 points.
Sample entry: This is not intended to be my actual prediction entry, I’ll do that in a day or two. I’m just plugging in teams/numbers to give an example of what I’m looking for:
- Divisional Games
AFC Titans vs Colts
Steelers vs Dolphins
NFC Giants vs Falcons
Panthers vs Vikings
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Championships
AFC Titans vs Dolphins
NFC Giants vs Panthers -
Superbowl
Titans vs Giants -
Superbowl Winner Titans
Part 2, wildcard weekend
AFC
Dolphins 24, Ravens 17
Chargers 13, Colts 20
NFC
Minnesota 17, Philadelphia 13
Arizona 24, Atlanta 31
And then the next week I would submit a new part 2, covering the predicted scores of the divisional games. So part 1 is submitted once, before the playoffs begin, and part 2 is submitted every week once we know what the games are, before the games actually begin.
Questions/comments?