I’m just going to paste from there changing the relevant data for this year.
This contest has two components. In one component, we make our playoff bracket with who we expect to win each round and eventually win the superbowl. This prediction is made before week 1 of the playoffs - you aren’t penalized for wrong answers, it’s just bonus points if you make get it right.
The second part of the contest is predicting the actual score of each game. This will be done once per week once we know for sure what the next batch of matchups is. Your score for that week will be the difference between your predicted score and the actual score. This will be calculated by taking how many points you were off of each team’s individual predicted score (not the difference from the combined score).
So for example, if you predict the game as Team A 27 Team B 17, and the actual score is Team A 35 Team B 20, then your score for that game will be 11. You were off on team A’s score by 8, and off of team B’s score by 3, hence 8+3=11.
There will also be a 10 point bonus to correctly predicting the winning team. It was 5 points last year, but after how it played out I think it should have a little more weight. So in that case your actual score would be 11, minus the 10 point bonus, for a total of 1. Lower scores are better.
So at the end of the year, the bonus score from the first part of the contest (with the entire bracket prediction) will be subtracted from the amount of points you have in part 2 to combine for a total score.
I’m probably making this sound a bit more complex than it is - if you look over last year’s thread it should be clear how it works.
So if you want to play, first you must submit a playoff bracket. We already know who the wildcard weekend teams will be, and we also know who will host the divsion weekend playoff games, so the only blanks you need to fill out are the unknowns. Again, you aren’t punished for wrong answers in this section, just a bonus for correct ones.
Take care to watch your seeding - there are certain scenarios that can’t happen (like New England playing Houston in the divisional round) so if you choose those, you’ll be wrong.
Part 1:
This is where you make a complete playoff bracket. This is only done once, at the beginning of the contest.
Predict the divisional games (5 points per correct team)
AFC:
New England Patriots vs _____
Baltimore Ravens vs ______
NFC:
Green Bay Packers vs _____
San Francisco 49ers 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 is where every week you will submit a predicted score from the matchups that weekend. A new submission is required every week.
The games this week are
Cincinatti @ Houston
Pittsburgh @ Denver
Atlanta @ NYG
DET @ NO
A proper entry into this contest will look like this, although obviously with this year’s playoff teams instead of last year’s.
If you miss any weeks during the contest, you will be disqualified, although you (and new people to the contest) can make predictions on any given week to see how you fared against that week’s competition. You just won’t be eligible for the overall contest.
If you’re confused, this is what a bracket should look like. And then on subsequent weeks, you would only guess the scores for that week’s games.
2008-09 results:
1st. VarlosZ
2. Furt
3. Ro0sh
4. Borchevsky
5. SenorBeef
6. Hamlet
7. DiggitCamara
8. CatInASuit
9. Fear The Turtle
2009-10 results:
- Omniscient
- Garygnu
- Jahiegel
- SenorBeef
- drm
- Fear The Turtle
- Taber
- Gray Ghost
2010-11 results are… not in last year’s thread. Did I post the results in another thread, or forget it entirely? I’ll dig around later for that.
Anyway, it would be nice if everyone could grade their own scores like Garygnu does here to divide up the workload. Just do your math in the thread, like he does, so it’s easy for me to double check for accuracy.
I’ll post my bracket later. Again, there’s a link to a properly formed bracket if you want to see an example.
We also have the NFL.com fantasy playoff challenge going if you want to join that too.