NFL Playoff Prediction Contest

The Game Room
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Part 1:

  1. Divisional round

AFC:
Indianapolis Colts vs New York Jets
San Diego Chargers vs New England Patriots

NFC:
New Orleans Saints vs Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings vs Dallas Cowboys

  1. Conference championship game rounds

AFC:
Indianapolis Colts vs San Diego Chargers

NFC:
Minnesota Vikings vs Green Bay Packers

  1. Super Bowl

San Diego Chargers vs Minnesota Vikings

  1. Super Bowl winner

Minnesota Vikings

Part 2:

Wild card round

New York Jets 20 Cincinnati Bengals 17
Baltimore Ravens 20 vs New England Patriots 24
Green Bay Packers 31 vs Arizona Cardinals 20
Philadelphia Eagles 21 vs Dallas Cowboys 24

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Part 1:
AFC:
Indianapolis Colts vs Cincinatti Bengals
San Diego Chargers vs New England Patriots

NFC:
New Orleans Saints vs Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings vs Dallas Cowboys

Predict the championship games (5 points per team)

AFC:
Cincinatti Bengals vs New England Patriots

NFC:
New Orleans Saints vs Minnesota Vikings
3. Predict the superbowl (5 points per team)

New Orleans Saints vs New England Patriots

  1. Predict the superbowl winner (10 points)

New Orleans Saints

Part 2:

New York Jets 13 vs Cincinatti Bengals 20
Baltimore Ravens 17 vs New England Patriots 27
Green Bay Packers 27 vs Arizona Cardinals 20
Philadelphia Eagles 13 vs Dallas Cowboys 20

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It looks like I’m the only one who went 4-0 in the Wildcard round, even if I got the exact scores terribly wrong. Woooooooot!

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Contest cancelled! Let’s just forget this whole thing ever happened.

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3 points off on one game today, 69 on the other.

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New York Jets 24 vs Cincinnati Bengals 14 – 4 + 5 = 9
Baltimore Ravens 33 vs New England Patriots 14 – 6 + 9 = 15
Green Bay Packers 45 vs Arizona Cardinals 51 – 11 + 28 = 39
Philadelphia Eagles 14 vs Dallas Cowboys 34 – 2 + 14 = 16
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9 + 15 + 39 + 16 = 79**

Man, for a guy that got 3 of 4 games right I was pretty poor here. Not sure why I gave the Cowboys just 20 points, I pretty much expected a repeat of Week 17 all along. Probably just rushed though and screwed that one up.

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With the -10 bonus for picking the winners, I calculate my Part 2 score this week at 45.

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Ah yes, forgot about the bonus.

New York Jets 24 vs Cincinnati Bengals 14 – 4 + 5 = 9
Baltimore Ravens 33 vs New England Patriots 14 – 6 + 9 = 15
Green Bay Packers 45 vs Arizona Cardinals 51 – 11 + 28 = 39
Philadelphia Eagles 14 vs Dallas Cowboys 34 – 2 + 14 = 16

9 + 15 + 39 + 16 - 30 = 49

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New York Jets 24 vs Cincinnati Bengals 14…10+3=13
Baltimore Ravens 33 vs New England Patriots 14…16+17=33
Green Bay Packers 45 vs Arizona Cardinals 51…15+30=45
Philadelphia Eagles 14 vs Dallas Cowboys 34…0+18=18

So we have 13+33+45+18=109-10=99

Sweet Jesus.

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I wanted to get a baseline for how well everybody did.

Using this as my source for odds, combining the over/under and the spread to create the Vegas-predicted scores:

Bengals 18.5 vs Jets 16 . . . . . . . . 4.5+8=12.5
Cowboys 24.75 vs Eagles 21.25 … 9.25+7.25=16.5
Patriots 23.75 vs Ravens 20.25 … 9.75+12.75=22.5
Packers 25.75 vs Cardinals 22.75 … 19.25+28.25=47.5

12.5+16.5+22.5+47.5 = 99
minus 10 for picking one game right (Cowboys) equals 89

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New York Jets 24 vs Cincinnati Bengals 14 – 3+10 = 13
Baltimore Ravens 33 vs New England Patriots 14 – 2+4 = 6
Green Bay Packers 45 vs Arizona Cardinals 51 – 21+30 = 51
Philadelphia Eagles 14 vs Dallas Cowboys 34 – 4+21 = 25

13+6+51+25 = 95-10-10 = 75

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New York Jets 24 vs Cincinnati Bengals 14 – 9+7=16
Baltimore Ravens 33 vs New England Patriots 14 – 16+14=30
Green Bay Packers 45 vs Arizona Cardinals 51 – 14+30=44
Philadelphia Eagles 14 vs Dallas Cowboys 34 – 10+13=23

16+30+44+23 = 113
Wowowowowow. Last year, my score for the entire postseason was 101.

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Not sure why I’m bothering, with Green Bay going out yesterday, still…

NY Jets 24 / Cincy 14. Perfect, so -10 points;
Baltimore 33 / NE 14. 13 + 3, picked winner so -10, = 6 points.
Green Bay 45 / Arizona 51. 14 + 31 (goddamn GB defense), = 45 points.
Philly 14 / Dallas 34. 13 + 20. = 33 points.

(-10)+6+45+33= 74 points for the week.

Worthless f*cking Green Bay defense. Would it kill you to blitz one of the most fragile quarterbacks in the league? Dom Capers, you leave Houston and you still continue to screw me?!

The Jets game was pretty sweet though.

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NY Jets 24 / Cincy 14. 0 + 4 -10 = -6
Baltimore 33 / NE 14. 9 + 17 = 26
Green Bay 45 / Arizona 51. 10 + 34 = 44
Philly 14 / Dallas 34 3 + 14 -10 = 7

71 ugh. I was feeling so good after Jets Cinci

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NY Jets 24 / Cincy 14. 0 + 3 -10 = -7
Baltimore 33 / NE 14. 13 + 4 - 10 = 7
Green Bay 45 / Arizona 51. 14 + 23 = 37
Philly 14 / Dallas 34 7 + 3 -10 = 0

  1. Not too bad.
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I’ll go by and double check/correct self-scoring today, but some of you left out the 10 point bonus for correctly picking the winning team.

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Not me.

(And not you, either, apparently.)

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If I’m the only one to post before the deadline, that means I win, right? :wink:

Arizona 34 New Orleans 37
Baltimore Ravens 24 Indianapolis Colts 17
Dallas Cowboys 24 Minnesota Vikings 21
San Diego Chargers 31 New York Jets 21

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Oh, right, forgot to tabulate an official score. I’ll get to that tomorrow. Post your scores for this week.

Baltimore At Indianapolis
New York Jets at San Diego
Dallas at Minnesota
Arizona at New Orleans

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Baltimore 21 At Indianapolis 31
New York Jets 22 at San Diego 19
Dallas 21 at Minnesota 27
Arizona 24 at New Orleans 35