Just gonna keep posting this, and noting my strikeless survival picks, while I still can. I will not be making similar comments about the spread league :).
I hadn’t noticed this post before, so I went in and tested it today. At first I couldn’t figure out how to switch my survival pick. I was just clicking on another team, and nothing was happening. I finally realized that you have to first click the X next to the big logo for your selected team (above the list of games) to remove your existing pick, and only then it will let you can choose a new one.
Is that maybe where you were getting hung up?
Yeah, that’s exactly what it was. I don’t think it was like that last year. I thought the site was broken and eventually gave up, leading to my second strike.
I’m really annoyed - my first strike was a case of not saving. I picked Dallas and it didn’t save. Then the second time I meant to switch from LAR to LAC - and ran into the issue where I didn’t realize clicking the X was necessary, so I guess my fault, but they changed it from previous years and it wasn’t super obvious. So I have two strikes where I intended to pick the right team, but was prevented by yahoo dumbness. And I posted about them in this thread before the games, so I’m not BSing about that. Oh well.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure last year you just had to click on a new team to change it. I also don’t think you had to hit a “save” confirm button after making your choice, so maybe they were having issues with people accidentally changing their choice without realizing it. The interface for making a change now isn’t at all intuitive.
And, still climbing the ladder:
This is going to be an interesting week as there are so many games on the schedule which seem like a slam dunk. I’ll probably change my confidence ratings ten times before Sunday. And yet, it’s the NFL and there will be a couple of upsets.
Massacre.
Only one person was right in survival - asterion picked Oakland, which seemed like a risky pick compared to some of the options, but he got it and we didn’t.
5 of us picked New Orleans as a 14 point home favorite against Atlanta. 4 picked Indy against Miami. One NYG against the jets. And one non-pick.
It was the third strike for 7 of us, leaving our contest down to 5.
I’m going to keep playing along unofficially, because I kinda got hosed earlier in the year. One of my picks didn’t save properly, and the other I didn’t they changed the interface and you had to unselect a saved team before selecting another - I thought it was glitched and wasn’t able to carry out the changes. So I feel like those two strikes weren’t real. But it’s unofficial so feel free to disregard. FTR, my intended picks were Dallas in week 3 and LAC in week 4. I posted about them on the thread before the games, so I’m not making it all up.
My playalong pick this week is Oakland.
My playalong survival pick this week is Cleveland.
I have a little over 500 points in the 538 pick 'em league, putting me in the 93rd percentile.
Don’t forget to pick those early Thursday games.
My playalong pick is Carolina. I’d feel better about picking KC, but I think I’m gonna need them in week 15.
Playalong survival pick this week is Green Bay. I got another strike with Carolina, but I had two erroneous strikes in yahoo this year which leaves me with only 2 strikes (NO and Carolina).
Jahiegel is the last survivor in our survival contest and is our winner this year.
If you count my intended picks I posted about I only have two strikes but it doesn’t count. I’m going to keep playing until my third strike just for fun. KC this week.
I’m a little late, but a reminder that Saturday games start this week.
My survival pick is Atlanta.
I’m 92nd percentile in 538’s contest even though I missed like 27 easy points in last week’s Thursday night game by forgetting about it. How are you guys doing?
I’m still on strike 2 in my unofficial playalong. Intended picks:
1: SEA
2: BAL
3: DAL
4: LAC
5: PHI
6: NE
7: BUF
8: MIN
9: SF
[del]10: NO[/del]
11: OAK
12: CLE
[del]13: CAR[/del]
14: GB
15: KC
16: ATL
And for week 17, LA Rams.
Remember guys, we keep picking through the playoffs.
Here are the regular season results:
Pick em
1
Selhurst Blues
158 6 158-84
2
Fighting borschevskys
157 4 157-85
3
Hal’s Rabid Ferrets
157 7 157-85
4
Gnu’s Pro ProGnostications
157 4 157-85
5
Jahiegel
156 6 156-86
6
Fear the Turtle
152 4 152-90
7
Isotopes
150 6 150-92
8
asterion
150 6 150-92
9
SenorBeef’s lack of tilde
149 6 149-93
10
Personal
144 4 144-98
11
How 'Bout Dem Cowboys!
142 2 142-98
12
Dalej42
121 0 121-118
13
Frosty’s Picks
69 0 69-170
14
RetroVertigo
60 0 60-179
15
Hendo
30 0 30-209
Spread
1
Purple Passion
133 5 133-100
2
Gnu’s Pro ProGnostications
132 6 132-105
3
Hamlet’s Coin Flips
130 0 130-104
4
Fear the Turtle
119 3 119-114
5
Selhurst Blues
117 4 117-117
6
SenorBeef’s Death Waffle
111 3 111-124
7
asterion
111 4 111-123
8
Jahiegel
110 5 110-125
9
Isotopes
110 3 110-125
10
Fighting borschevskys
107 4 107-130
11
Personal
107 4 107-127
12
CM’s Acid Trip Picks
106 4 106-128
13
Dalej42
97 0 97-137
14
Frosty’s Frozen Picks
53 0 53-181
15
Hendo
23 0 23-211
Confidence
1
Fighting borschevskys
1401 28 157-85
2
Jahiegel
1398 37 156-86
3
Selhurst Blues
1396 41 157-85
4
Gnu’s Pro ProGnostications
1388 32 157-85
5
Fear the Turtle
1365 31 152-90
6
Isotopes
1334 37 150-92
7
SenorBeef’s Slurpee Run
1328 14 149-92
8
asterion
1318 47 150-92
9
BigDadWolf
1294 0 150-89
10
eschrodinger’s picks
1287 40 146-96
11
I’m Better at College Picks
1274 26 142-98
12
Personal
1268 38 143-99
13
Dalej42
964 0 121-118
14
Frosty’s Fun Failures
567 0 65-174
15
Hendo
252 0 30-209
I played all three contests. I came in close to last for Pick 'Em and Confidence. But somehow managed to WIN the **Spread **contest. Yay me! but that being the case, how come I owe my bookie and not the other way around? Ha.
I’ve got about 750 points in 538’s contest, which makes me 99th percentile. How are you guys doing?
Posting here since some of you may be subscribed to this thread.
I totally forgot about starting these leagues this year until asterion remembered and started them going. He created a new thread with the league info. I also sent out invites to last year’s pick 'em league participants.
If you get in soon, you can pick Thursday night’s game, but if you miss that it’s not really that big deal, it’s just one game in the grand scheme of things. Even if you miss the whole first week, remember that we drop everyone’s worst week, so it’s not crippling at all. So hop in whenever you get this message.