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June 25, 2014
The 10th Annual chicobangs Memorial SpoFi CFL Pick 'Em: That's right, it's a big round numberversary! This will have been the tenth time we all decide to while away our Junes and Julys with the pickings of games football du Canada. It's three downs, 110 yards, and all the players whose names you learned last year have already been cut, but otherwise you have no excuse not to jump in and make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 09:35 AM - 19 comments
Argos by 7
Calgary by 7
BC by 7
Hamilton by 3
BTW, does anyone know which SIRIUS channel will be carrying CFL games? From the CFL site:
Every regular and post-season game as well as the 101st Grey Cup Championship will be available to Sirius and XM subscribers on channel.
posted by cixelsyd at 11:57 AM on June 25, 2014
Hello all again.
Argos by 6
Cal by 6
BC by 8
Sask by 5
posted by argoal at 08:19 PM on June 25, 2014
Toronto by 5 Calgary by 10 BC by 12 Saskatchewan by 7
posted by goddam at 08:43 PM on June 25, 2014
Toronto by 18
Calgary by 9
British Columbia by 6
Saskatchewan by 12
posted by tommybiden at 09:28 PM on June 25, 2014
Bonjour! Ca va? Now that I'm based in the Republique Populaire Democratique du Lao, I am finding many more uses for my cod Franglais. Toronto by 14. Why, just the other day, I found the only restaurant in town that does poutine. The owner is from Montreal. So Montreal by 5. I'll see if I can get him to show CFL on the big screen. Edmonton by 11. Mind you, he might not like me showing up at 3 in the morning, waving a bottle of Bordeaux and a baguette. Saskatchewan by 9.
posted by owlhouse at 09:52 PM on June 25, 2014
Missed out last year because I was off somewhere doing something more productive than picking football winners. Not so this time around. Look out, SpoFites, The great Howard_T is back and ready to turn amazing prescience into the routine.
Toronto at Winnipeg: By the end of this one it will be "Knock, knock. Who's there? Argo. Argo who? Argonna whup yo butt." Toronto by 11.
Montreal at Calgary: Little birdies play with horsies. Little birdies left with nothing to do except look behind horsie and try to find something to eat that horsie has dropped on the ground behind it. Not much there for little birdie. Calgary by 8.
Edmonton at BC: Everybody knows that Lions live in Africa (or zoos). Everybody knows that Eskimos do not live in either Africa or zoos. When Eskimos get out of their usual habitat and enter lion country, the result is not pretty. BC by 13.
Hamilton at Saskatchewan: More cats to think about. These are of the striped variety, and they can be big and mean. Too bad they have to run into a group of roughriders. Look out, kitty, your pretty striped pelt might wind up as a rug. Saskatchewan by 5.
posted by Howard_T at 11:04 PM on June 25, 2014
Toronto by 14
Calgary by 16
Edmonton by 3
Saskatchewan by 9
posted by DrJohnEvans at 08:58 AM on June 26, 2014
cixelsyd, not sure about the Sirius channel. That's very weird. Googling has not produced much either.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 08:59 AM on June 26, 2014
Toronto by 13
Calgary by 14
Lions by 7
Saskatchewan by 6
posted by Reever at 03:45 PM on June 26, 2014
I'm back for another season of coin flip CFL picks. In honor of today's US "victory" into the knockout round, I will be making these picks with a 2002 quarter, minted the same year as the US also advanced from the group stage despite losing the final match (to Poland). Fun fact: It's a Tennessee quarter--the state of my birth!
Toronto Argonauts by 9
Montreal Alouettes by 15
B.C. Lions by 8
Hamilton Tiger-Cats by 11
posted by bender at 05:45 PM on June 26, 2014
Toronto by 6
Calgary by 7
British Columbia by 7
Saskatchewan by 3
posted by rcade at 07:02 PM on June 26, 2014
Toronto by 10
Montreal by 6
BC by 15
Hamilton by 3
I think Hamilton is good now?
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 07:28 PM on June 26, 2014
Hello all again.
Argos by 6
Cal by 6
BC by 8
Sask by 5
posted by argoal at 08:24 PM on June 26, 2014
Not many points handed out last night, I guess.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 01:31 PM on June 27, 2014
ESPN & CFL reach multi-year US broadcast deal
posted by tommybiden at 03:06 PM on June 27, 2014
Not many points handed out last night, I guess.
The Argos D handed out lots of points.
oh .. you meant in the pool
posted by cixelsyd at 03:51 PM on June 27, 2014
Just saw that, tommytrump. Here's the schedule for July:
| ESPN Broadcast Information | ||||
| Regular Season | ||||
| Date | Time | Away | Home | ESPN Network |
| Saturday, June 28 | 3:00pm ET | Montreal | Calgary | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Saturday, July 5 | 3:00pm ET | Saskatchewan | Toronto | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Friday, July 11 | 10:00pm ET | Ottawa | Edmonton | ESPNNEWS, WatchESPN |
| Thursday, July 17 | 8:30pm ET | Edmonton | Winnipeg | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Friday, July 18 | 10:00pm ET | Hamilton | Calgary | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Thursday, July 24 | 9:00pm ET | Calgary | Edmonton | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Satuday, July 26 | 10:00pm ET | Toronto | Saskatchewan | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Thursday, July 31 | 7:00pm ET | Winnipeg | Hamilton | ESPN, WatchESPN |
posted by DrJohnEvans at 05:52 PM on June 27, 2014
THE PICK 'EM - What we do
Four hundred years ago, Jacques Cartier accientally sat down on his son's soccer ball, squishing it into a now-familiar oblong shape. "Putain ce football!" he cried, drop-kicking it into oblivion. And Canada's national summer pastime starting with F was born.
We honour his memory each summer by picking the outcome of each and every one of the 7,235 CFL games. And now you can too!
THE SEASON - When we do it
The season kicks off
this Friday nightholy crap, TOMORROW and runs for 20 weeks through the summer. There are generally four games per week, mostly running from Thursday to Sunday.If you're in Canada, you'll find the games on TSN. If you're in the States, the occasional game is available on the NFL Network, and in the past all games appeared on ESPN3, but they don't seem to have released a confirmed broadcast sked yet. And if you're somewhere else, you'll have to resort to Sirius on the satellite radio dial.
THE RULES - How we do it
Here's how she works. You pick who you think will win, and by how much. You then get points based on the result:
What's the Margin of Error?
It's a window around the spread that's defined as
spread - round(0.3 * spread) <= Margin of Error <= spread + round(0.3 * spread)So you can get rewarded for being close to the spread even if you're not spot-on. The bigger the spread, the bigger the margin of error, so you don't have to be as accurate when predicting a blowout as you would when predicting a close game. Here are some examples:
So if you picked Toronto by 15, here's how you'd fare given certain outcomes:
Any questions?
THE GAMES, WEEK ONE - Where we start
In lieu of attempting to sum up each team's status in a single sentence, for this opening week I'm just linking to season preview pages for each of 'em.
All times are EDT.
Toronto Argonauts (Preview) @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Preview) - Thursday, June 26, 8:30pm
Montreal Alouettes (Preview) @ Calgary Stampeders (Preview) - Saturday, June 28, 3:00pm
Edmonton Eskimos (Preview) @ B.C. Lions (Preview) - Saturday, June 28, 6:00pm
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Preview) @ Saskatchewan Roughriders (Preview) - Sunday, June 29, 7:00pm
NEW TEAM ALERT! The capital returns to the fold, as the Ottawa Redblacks get a first-week bye this week.
Good luck!