13th Annual SDMB Early Super Bowl Pick Contest

Tiebreaker rule (total score, then closest to winner score, then closest to loser score) should be changed, assuming that’s the plan from last year.

If team A wins a game 33-30, the guy who guessed Team A wins 62-0 will beat the guy who said Team A wins 30-27. Or make up your own absurd examples.

Tiebreaker should simply be number of points the prediction was off off from winning team score plus the number of points off from the losing team score.

So in the previous example, the guy who predicted 30-27 is off by 6. 3 off from 33, and 3 off from 30. The guy who predicted 62-0 is off by 29 + 30 = 59. Makes a lot more sense.

Patriots 27 Panthers 24