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Pretty much the standard Eliminator challenge, but you get additional lives. Sorry about the short notice!


The objective of the challenge is to correctly select a "Winning Pick" for one NFL game each week.

Each week, you must select one team which you believe will be the winner of that game. If you are correct, you stay alive. However, if your pick for that week loses its game, or you fail to make a pick for a given week, you earn a Strike. If you earn three Strikes, you are eliminated. Once you pick a team, you can't use that team the rest of the season.

The last remaining person wins. If more than one person is left standing after Week 17, the following tiebreaker is used:

1. The person who has the least amount of Strikes
2. The person who has the longest streak of correct picks
3. The person whose Winning Picks have the largest aggregate total score difference over the course of the season.

For example:

The aggregate total would be 31+21+3 = 55 points.

Week 1: Win 45-14 (31pts)
Week 2: Win 31-10 (21)
Week 3: Win 17-14 (3)


All selections will lock at the scheduled kick-off of each game. Players must make sure their picks are submitted by the scheduled locktime each week. You will not be able to make selections for games that have already locked. Selections submitted after the deadline are considered invalid, and will not be counted as Winning Picks. Entrants who submit selections after the lock time and do not submit another entry for the week will earn a Strike.


In the event a game should end in a tie after overtime, players that had selected teams in the game as their picks for that week will neither be recorded with a Winning Pick or a Strike.


Players have until Week 3 to join.
If you join in Week 2, you start the game with one Strike. If you join in Week 3, you start the game with two Strikes.


Scoreboard




THU, SEP 4 TIME (ET)
Green Bay at Seattle 8:30 PM

SUN, SEP 7 TIME (ET)
New Orleans at Atlanta 1:00 PM
Minnesota at St. Louis 1:00 PM
Cleveland at Pittsburgh 1:00 PM
Jacksonville at Philadelphia 1:00 PM
Oakland at NY Jets 1:00 PM
Cincinnati at Baltimore 1:00 PM
Buffalo at Chicago 1:00 PM
Washington at Houston 1:00 PM
Tennessee at Kansas City 1:00 PM
New England at Miami 1:00 PM
Carolina at Tampa Bay 4:25 PM
San Francisco at Dallas 4:25 PM
Indianapolis at Denver 8:30 PM

MON, SEP 8 TIME (ET)
NY Giants at Detroit 7:10 PM
San Diego at Arizona 10:20 PM

I'm going to start off easy and pick the over the Jags.

can we repick teams, cause usually we play with restrictions on picking a team more than once

Nope, you can only pick a team once and that's it.

In post 9, RedCoyote wrote:

Jets

Err, Aronis' emoticon had me go look at NFL.com, let me change to instead. I didn't realize Derek Carr would be starting for them. I also don't really follow NFL as much since I like NCAA better. But now that the BCS rankings are gone I'm not as interested in that either.

I've thought of one additional tie breaker that'll be used in case it happens:

1. The person who has the least amount of Strikes

3. The person whose Winning Picks have the largest aggregate total score difference over the course of the season.

Hopefully this will allow more players to stay in the game longer, and motivate them to go undefeated the rest of the way after an incorrect pick.

In post 11, RedCoyote wrote:Err, Aronis' emoticon had me go look at NFL.com, let me change to

Oakland

instead. I didn't realize Derek Carr would be starting for them. I also don't really follow NFL as much since I like NCAA better. But now that the BCS rankings are gone I'm not as interested in that either.

Yw.

In post 13, Aronis wrote:

In post 11, RedCoyote wrote:Err, Aronis' emoticon had me go look at NFL.com, let me change to

Oakland

instead. I didn't realize Derek Carr would be starting for them. I also don't really follow NFL as much since I like NCAA better. But now that the BCS rankings are gone I'm not as interested in that either.

Yw.

Oakland is 2-14 in their last 16 road games in EST time zone. Carr might make it a respectable game, but betting against Oakland in EST is always the right move.

Oakland is actually 2-14 in their last 16 road games

I'm buying the Derek Carr hype tho, I picked the raiders in my pick'em.

Hey guys, one game down and we are all still in the competition!

gamsimbre wrote:

Week 1: September 3 - September 9

THU, SEP 4 TIME (ET)
Green Bay at

Seattle

8:30 PM

SUN, SEP 7 TIME (ET)
New Orleans at

Atlanta

1:00 PM
Minnesota at

St. Louis

1:00 PM
Cleveland at

Pittsburgh

1:00 PM
Jacksonville at

Philadelphia

1:00 PM
Oakland at

NY Jets

1:00 PM
Cincinnati at

Baltimore

1:00 PM
Buffalo at

Chicago

1:00 PM
Washington at

Houston

1:00 PM
Tennessee at

Kansas City

1:00 PM

New England

at Miami 1:00 PM

Carolina

at Tampa Bay 4:25 PM

San Francisco

at Dallas 4:25 PM
Indianapolis at

Denver

8:30 PM

MON, SEP 8 TIME (ET)
NY Giants at

Detroit

7:10 PM
San Diego at

Arizona

10:20 PM

main pick is underlined and italiced

great start

In post 21, shaft.ed wrote:great start

No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!

Go Bills

Nevermind. I already did this.

If only Jacksonville had maintained their early lead. . .