NFL Yardage Pool Competition 2011

Didn’t I miss another week somewhere along the line?

No. I was saying that I’d be fine if you were to make double picks this week. But if someone objected, and you miss a week, it won’t ruin your standing for the season, since the worst week is dropped anyway.

Spreadsheet up. Get your Thursday picks in now if you have any - you can pick any Sunday picks later.

Omni, go ahead and make double picks this week and I’ll put one set as last week’s score. I don’t want to make a habit of it but I’d rather keep the competition viable.

Nevermind.

qb - freeman, grossman, fitzpatrick, painter, stafford, rodgers, romo, roethlisberger, manning, newton, alex smith
rb - hillis, greene, mendenhall, forte, blount, turner, mcfadden, cj2k, jackson, MJD, marshawn
wr - nicks, johnson, santana moss, calvin johnson, ec mike williams, bryant, cruz, bowe, Smith 1, jennings

This week:
matt ryan
demarco murray
brandon lloyd

Used
QB - Philip Rivers, Rex Grossman, Drew Brees, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan, Jay Cutler, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Cassel, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers
RB - Darren McFadden, Peyton Hillis, Michael Turner, Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Shonn Greene, Ray Rice, Ryan Matthews, Steven Jackson, Frank Gore
WR - Calvin Johnson, Greg Jennings, Brandon Marshall, Larry Fitzgerald, Percy Harvin, Miles Austin, Vincent Jackson, DeSean Jackson, Victor Cruz

Week 11 Makeup Picks
Cam Newton
Michael Bush
Dez Bryant

Week 12 Picks
Tony Romo
Rashard Mendenhall
Steve Smith 1.0

Weird, I had the week 11 stuff updated in the spreadsheet and now it’s gone, wtf. It reverted to an earlier version of the file or something.

Well, anyway, it’s updated now, sorry.

Matt Ryan
Matt Forte
Roddy White

So I’m doing basically the same thing I did last week - pick a QB/WR combo against the Minnesota defense, and it ended horribly last time. Oh well.

My week would look a lot better if White hadn’t let a bomb slip through his fingers, but so far Ryan at 262 and White at 120 is pretty solid.

262/2 + 87 + 74 = 292

qb - freeman, grossman, fitzpatrick, painter, stafford, rodgers, romo, roethlisberger, manning, newton, alex smith, matt ryan
rb - hillis, greene, mendenhall, forte, blount, turner, mcfadden, cj2k, jackson, mjd, marshawn, demarco murray
wr - nicks, johnson, santana moss, calvin johnson, ec mike williams, bryant, cruz, bowe, smith 1, jennings, brandon lloyd

this week:
tom brady
frank gore
wes welker

208/2 + 69 + 35 = 208

226/2 + 57 + 68 = 238

Man, that really couldn’t have worked out any worse.

Used
QB - Philip Rivers, Rex Grossman, Drew Brees, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan, Jay Cutler, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Cassel, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, Tony Romo
RB - Darren McFadden, Peyton Hillis, Michael Turner, Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Shonn Greene, Ray Rice, Ryan Matthews, Steven Jackson, Frank Gore, Michael Bush, Rashard Mendenhall
WR - Calvin Johnson, Greg Jennings, Brandon Marshall, Larry Fitzgerald, Percy Harvin, Miles Austin, Vincent Jackson, DeSean Jackson, Victor Cruz, Dez Bryant, Steve Smith 1.0

Week 13 Picks
Tom Brady
LaGarrett Blount
Jimmy Graham

Son of a bitch, I was going to pick Lynch but didn’t get home in time.

Used:
QB: Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, Matt Schaub, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Cam Newton; Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Big Ben, Tony Romo, Mark Sanchez, Tom Brady, Josh Freeman
RB: Frank Gore, Darren McFadden, LeSean McCoy, Ryan Matthews, Arian Foster. Matt Forte, Rashard Mendenhall, Fred Jackson, Stephen Jackson, MJD, Demarco Murray, Michael Turner
WR: Marques Colston, Calvin Johnson, Kenny Britt, Roddy White, Hakeem Nicks, Mike Wallace, Miles Austin, AJ Green, Brandon Lloyd. Steve Smith (CAR), Anquan Boldin, Greg Jennings

This week: Matt Stafford, Ray Rice, Wes Welker

Spreadsheet updated.

Week 12 scores
SenorBeef 310 (saved by Roddy White)
RNATB 292
Omni 238
Wilson 234

The scores by position

QB
SenorBeef 3425
Wilson 3344
RNATB 3085
Omni 3059

RB
SenorBeef 1004
Wilson 999
RNATB 930
Omni 902

WR
SenorBeef 904
RNATB 886
Omniscient 742
Wilson 632

I’m leading all categories. Woo.

Brees
Blount
Calvin Johnson

I feel kinda weird about those picks because I was specifically saving Brees and Johnson for the last 2 or 3 weeks, when the weather would be the worst. But I feel like that game is gonna be result in big yardage numbers and I can’t resist doing it now. This probably means I’ll end up starting Joe Flacco in a blizzard for 49 yards though.

FFS, so many pundits had Blount projected to have a big day. I almost picked Chris Johnson… again.

289/2 + 110 + 73 = 327.5

342
19
69

Meh… Not worth blowing my big guns.