# 14th Annual SDMB Early Super Bowl Pick Contest

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 2, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-annual-sdmb-early-super-bowl-pick-contest/776124 "2017-01-02T03:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-annual-sdmb-early-super-bowl-pick-contest/776124/51 "2017-01-06T01:45:39Z")

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We changed the tiebreaker system last year, I think:

> [@13th Annual SDMB Early Super Bowl Pick Contest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13th-annual-sdmb-early-super-bowl-pick-contest/742184/48):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

> [@13th Annual SDMB Early Super Bowl Pick Contest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13th-annual-sdmb-early-super-bowl-pick-contest/742184/72):
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> As to the tiebreaker, yes, I’m good with **SenorBeef** ’s proposal. I had always gone with total score, simply because that’s the standard pool tiebreaker – you make you picks, and you pick a score total – but since we’re looking for _individual_ team scores, his proposal does make more sense. Lets roll with this.

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