Apolyton NFL Playoff Pick'em 2008

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New England
Green Bay

[Donegeal]

Still waiting for picks from:

Deity Dude
Me
Jrabbit
Homestopher
Jonny

I have received PM picks from Ming (not opened, so I don't know who he picked).

I will make my picks on Sunday.

[Deity Dude]

Originally posted by Ming




That's what you should do.

Also, I PM'ed you my picks for this week

Damn and I was gonna pick the opposite of you

Seriously if I was picking just to try and catch Ming I'd probably go with NY over GB because I woudl assume heis picking GB bu I, like others vowed to make their best picks and not be swayed by others. So in that case I will take:

NE
GB

[Deity Dude]

2 Questions:

1) In total points tie breaker is it closest to or closest without going over?

2) Can we pick in 1/2 point increments (i.e. 42 1/2)

[Donegeal]

1) Closest.

2) ... whatever floats your boat, I guess... but why on earth would you go with half numbers unless your looking at what other have picked?

[Ben Kenobi]

No half points.

If you allow half points you'd have to allow quarter points too.

[Jonny]

If I want a chance to win, I should pick opposite the favorites... but I'll just play to get myself a respectable score.

NE
GB

[Deity Dude]

Originally posted by Donegeal
why on earth would you go with half numbers unless your looking at what other have picked?

Because 1/2 point spreads allow you to strattle 2 good options. Neutral gamblers (i.e. Bookmakers) use 1/2 point spreads all the time on the over/under which is a total points bet.

Another good reason is because it doubles the number of "Total Points Options" thus making it twice as unlikely for a tie.

If we are PM'ing total points (assuming Ming hasn't already locked it up) allowing 1/2 points doesn't give anyone any sort of unfair advantage. It just doubles the number of options.

So I ask again are 1/2 points allowed?

[-Jrabbit]

Green Bay, New England

Piebreaker -- not sure if I'm supposed to submit something... 3.14196?

[snoopy369]

Is that where we try to make a close guess at Pi? If so, mine is 3.1415927...

[Deity Dude]

I'm not sure but from memory I believe this is Pi to 1000 digits,

If I am wrong please forgive me because I am doing this from memory.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 79821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 28481117450284102701935211055596446229489549303819 64428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909 14564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127 37245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643 67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609 43305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854 80744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491 29833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179 86094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513 20005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787 21468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923 54201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996 05187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185 95024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188 17101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730 35982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577 81857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198 9

[snoopy369]

It looks good as far as I can remember in a prompted manner, which is 10 digits. I never was that much of a math geek (although I was the leader of our math competition team; I did the binary/base n math and the quick calculations, the powers, the logarithms, and the polynomials, and others did things like the memorization of pi...)

[Deity Dude]

Homestopher takes:

San Diego
GB

[Donegeal]

Well... it's going to be cold in GB... VERY cold... and the last time they played in cold weather this year (no, last week was snowy, not cold) they played like absolute crap. However, the weather that day also had winds gusting up to 40 mph. Not happing in GB today. The favorites win.

New England Partiots
and
Green Bay Packers

[Donegeal]

Final descision on tie breaker:

Nice job of everyone coming together to come up with a solution.

With that in mind, here is how it will work:

Exactly like the rule already states. By Super Bowl start, either post your pick or PM it to me. Also, give the total number of points scored in the game. No half points of quater points or pi... seeing as it is impossible to score anything but whole points, that is all that will be allowed.

While it still is not required to PM me picks and point totals, I really would prefer at least one or the other be PMed from each of you for the sake of compitition. If your worried about post count , you can always come back here and post 'sent'.

BTW, Ming can confirm that I have not opened his PM picks yet. That PM tracking is VERY useful.

One last thing: Where does the road to the NFC Super Bowl go through? The NFC NORTH, baby!