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I put together a little draft prediction contest, just for fun. It consists of 10 prediction questions, plus a tie-breaker question. Example question: Which college will have the most players selected in the first round?
https://meanmark.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/2017-draft-contest-just-for-fun/
To enter, just click the above link and answer the quiz in a comment to that blog post. |
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Pigskin
You should be getting it on or around the 28th. |
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Pigskin
I don't save them because people move sometimes without notifying me. |
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Mark
John McMillan
4613 Pantina Way
Indianapolis In 46237
Thought you already had it from prior years |
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The checks are in the mail. Special thanks to MR BILL for generously volunteering to pay for B-Man and me in next year's contest.
PigskinPicker, I still haven't sent yours yet because you never sent me your address. If you prefer, I can just hold it for your entry next year. |
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| MR BILL I sent you a message via e-mail. B-Man and Kirby.com I have your addresses. PigskinPicker, I still need your address. |
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| Mean Mark resent e mail |
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| congratulation to the B Man and Kirby. As always it was fun, hope to see you all next year |
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| Congrats to the Patriots for an amazing comeback win. That was the first OT Superbowl in history, and arguably one of the best (or at least most entertaining) Superbowl games of all-time. |
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MR BILL, I didn't get an e-mail from you, so I guess you need to resend it. mwganson at hotmail dot com should get to me. If that doesn't work you can try mwganson at gmail dot com.
All winners need to send me their current mailing addresses. I don't save them because sometimes people move. |
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| Username | Pick | Result | Wins | Losses | Ties | Win PCT | Booby Wins | Booby Losses | Booby Ties | Booby PCT | Upset Pick | Superbowl Bonus | Tie Breaker Points | | MR BILL | Falcons | Loss | 16 | 5 | 0 | .762 | 16 | 5 | 0 | .762 | Bears Week 14 (L) | Cowboys (L) | 156 | | The B-Man | Patriots | Win | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | Bears Week 11 (L) | Cowboys(L) | 147 | | kirby.com | NE AT ATL OVER 59 | Win | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | Browns Week 9 (L) | Falcons (L) | 102 | | Dogs Rule | Patriots | Win | 13 | 8 | 0 | .619 | 13 | 8 | 0 | .619 | Bengals Week 6 (L) | Packers (L) | 153 | | Ron | Patriots | Win | 12 | 9 | 0 | .571 | 12 | 9 | 0 | .571 | Browns Week 4 (L) |
| 150 | | Mean Mark | Falcons | Loss | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 11 | 10 | 0 | .524 | Browns Week 4 (L) | Patriots (W) | 141 | | Eugenius | Patriots | Win | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 11 | 10 | 0 | .524 | Jets Week 6 (L) | Patriots (W) | 123 | | Killer Kevin | Falcons | Loss | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | Colts Week 12 (L) | Packers (L) | 177 | | Queen B | Patriots | Win | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | Jaguars Week 12 (L) | Raiders (L) | 96 | | The Boys | NE AT ATL UNDER 59 | Loss | 10 | 12 | 0 | .455 | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | Cardinals Week 16 (W) | Steelers (L) | 144 | | SilverArmy | Falcons | Loss | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 49er's Week 15 (L) |
| 150 | | Doc. Rolf | NO PICK | NO PICK | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 13 | 8 | 0 | .619 | Jets Week 16 (L) | Giants (L) | 88 | | PigskinPicker | Falcons | Loss | 8 | 13 | 0 | .381 | 8 | 13 | 0 | .381 | Lions Week 3 (L) | Chiefs (L) | 93 |
13 players. $975 total pot. $75 goes to the booby prize (last place finisher). 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place gets 1st = 60% = $540, 2nd = 25% = $225, 3rd = 15% = $135.
Congrats to all the winners! Well-played. As usual, I will be sending out the checks on Friday in order to give time for anybody who wants to challenge the standings. Speak up now if you know of an error. |
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So this is a strange position to be in, but I will be rooting for the Atlanta Falcons, yet I feel compelled to make this Lock pick to give myself a chance to win 2nd place:
B-Man's Super Bowl Lock of the Week: New England Patriots |
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| LOCK PICK PATRIOTS/FALCONS OVER 59 |
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| Lock New England |
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Thank You B MAN for another great year. I look forward to this site every year.
Thanks for running the lock club pool once again
Mean Mark also sent you a email not sure you received it.
Lock Pick ATLANTA
Thank You Dogs Rule |
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| LOCK PICK FALCONS |
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| Super Bowl Lock Pick: Under |
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MAKING A CHANGE...
LOCK PICK---> NEW ENGLAND |
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Lock Pick: ATLANTA
P.P. |
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| Lock of the week - New England Patriots |
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| LOCK: Atlanta |
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| I'm the pool manager and they are asking me the following question. There are two players who are fighting for the first place, the difference is just a game. If the first place does not make his pick, in automatic wins, since it would not be subtracted a point. My question is, am I correct? |
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| FALCONS |
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| LOCK: PATS |
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Lock: Atlanta
I guess I'll pull for the dirty birds. I pulled for the Panthers last year. |
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NE AT ATL Over/Under = 59
Kickoff time: 02/05 6:30 PM (Eastern) |
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| Username | Pick | Result | Wins | Losses | Ties | Win PCT | Booby Wins | Booby Losses | Booby Ties | Booby PCT | Upset Pick | Superbowl Bonus | Tie Breaker Points | | MR BILL | Patriots | WIN | 16 | 4 | 0 | .800 | 16 | 4 | 0 | .800 | Bears Week 14 (L) | Cowboys (L) | 157 | | The B-Man | Steelers | LOSS | 13 | 7 | 0 | .650 | 13 | 7 | 0 | .650 | Bears Week 11 (L) | Cowboys(L) | 148 | | kirby.com | GB @ ATL OVER 60 | WIN | 13 | 7 | 0 | .650 | 13 | 7 | 0 | .650 | Browns Week 9 (L) | Falcons | 103 | | Dogs Rule | Patriots | WIN | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | Bengals Week 6 (L) | Packers (L) | 154 | | Ron | Patriots | WIN | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | Browns Week 4 (L) |
| 148 | | Mean Mark | Packers | LOSS | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | Browns Week 4 (L) | Patriots | 142 | | Killer Kevin | Packers | LOSS | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | Colts Week 12 (L) | Packers (L) | 178 | | Eugenius | Packers | LOSS | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | Jets Week 6 (L) | Patriots | 121 | | The Boys | Steelers | LOSS | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | Cardinals Week 16 (W) | Steelers (L) | 142 | | SilverArmy | Patriots | WIN | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 49er's Week 15 (L) |
| 151 | | Queen B | Patriots | WIN | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | Jaguars Week 12 (L) | Raiders (L) | 94 | | Doc. Rolf | NO PICK | NO PICK | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | Jets Week 16 (L) | Giants (L) | 88 | | PigskinPicker | Steelers | LOSS | 8 | 12 | 0 | .400 | 8 | 12 | 0 | .400 | Lions Week 3 (L) | Chiefs (L) | 94 |
I'm trying a different font this week. That's why it looks a little different from normal.
It appears MR BILL has it locked up already. He has been on fire (somebody better call the fire department) all year. Did you catch that state farm commercial reference? Good one, huh? This must be how Antonio Brown feels while he's dancing in the end zone. (Yeah, I watch too many commercials, or at least pay way too attention to the ones I do watch.)
My Superbowl pick is still alive, but it looks like the best I can possibly finish is 13-9, which won't put me in the top 3 no matter what else happens. I picked against the Falcons twice and got burned both times here in the playoffs. I'm a bit torn on who to root for. On the one hand the Falcons are a division rival, but on the other hand the NFC SOUTH only has 2 trophies in its trophy case all-time (Saints and Bucs), so in a way it would be nice to see them add a third trophy.
PigskinPicker looks to have positioned himself well for the booby prize, but still several players breathing down his neck. There are no tie-breakers for the booby prize, it just gets evenly divided among the "winners".
As always, double check my figures. Hopefully you've been doing this each week all year. If there are any errors now is the time to get them fixed. Any errors discovered after the checks are mailed out, good luck getting your money from the winner because it ain't comin' from me.
I've been tracking the club picks all year using an open office spreadsheet, adding a new worksheet for each week and manually updating the records. Then I save the file in html format and copy and paste the current week's standings. I use this tool to remove the line breaks and hard returns before pasting here. The tie-breaker points are copied and pasted in from the Lock Club Pool page. I have to copy them into a temporary worksheet, along with the player names, etc, and then sort the temporary sheet by username. Next step is to sort the working sheet by player name, which lines up all the tie-breaker points with the right players, said tie-breaker points then can be copied and pasted into the working sheet as a single column. After that's done, the next step is to sort the working sheet by winning percentage, then by tie-breaker points. Final step is to highlight every odd row and apply a different background to create the green-bar look. Anyways, if anybody wants a copy of the spreadsheet file, just e-mail me and I'll send it to you. You can look through the sheets week-by-week all the way back to week 1. You would need the open office software, which is a free download, or it might be something you could import into Excel or Works. |
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| Mr. Bill congratulations will be looking for you next year. You were just awesome. |
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| Mean Mark was a fun year and thanks for running this pool.B-Man great site thanks. The only way Im in some money here is picking against you I think, but all said and done Good luck. Thanks to all was fun playing with you all |
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| Lock New England |
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| B-Man's Lock of the Week: The Pittsburgh Steelers |
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| LOCK PICK PACKERS/FALCONS OVER 60 |
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| change my lock to Patriots |
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| LOCK PICK PACKERS |
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| Lock: Patriots |
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Lock Pick: PITTSBURG
P.P. |
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| LOCK: PATRIOTS |
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| LOCK PICK PACKERS |
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| Lock of the week - Green Bay Packers |
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| Lock of the Week: Pittsburgh |
