- 09:10 AM
- 09/24/23
My picks:
49ers by 24 (lock)
Browns by 3
Lions by 7
Packers by 7 (lock)
Dolphins by 10 (lock)
Chargers by 3
Patriots by 3
Bills by 7
Jaguars by 7 (lock)
Ravens by 14 (lock)
Seahawks by 3
Chiefs by 17 (lock)
Cowboys by 20 (lock)
Raiders by 7
Eagles by 14 (lock)
Bengals by 14 (lock)
I feel like there are fewer really good teams this year.
posted by rcade at 11:47 PM on September 20, 2023
Link to make picks: https://sportsfilter.com/game/nfl-pickem
posted by rcade at 11:44 PM on September 20, 2023
wfrazerjr: Your picks from week one are not in the database yet. I'll fix that and recalculate tomorrow.
posted by rcade at 11:46 PM on September 13, 2023
My picks:
Eagles by 13 (lock)
Falcons by 3
Bills by 7 (lock)
Bengals by 3
Lions by 7 (lock)
Chargers by 14 (lock)
Bears by 3
Chiefs by 7
Colts by 3
49ers by 17 (lock)
Giants by 7 (lock)
Cowboys by 7 (lock)
Broncos by 3
Dolphins by 7
Saints by 3
Browns by 10 (lock)
Can a soccer ref loan NFL refs his yellow and red card so we don't have to hear any more explanations that a foul is the first to count against a player towards disqualification?
posted by rcade at 11:44 PM on September 13, 2023
I've been trying to think of anything like this in sports before where a star athlete is going to be a season-long inescapable media narrative and the plans fall apart so quickly and completely.
Dan and Dave in 1992?
posted by rcade at 11:17 PM on September 13, 2023
My picks:
Argonauts by 13 (lock)
Roughriders by 7
Blue Bombers by 24 (lock)
Lions by 34 (lock)
Wish I could see some of these games. Every time I try CFL+ I'm told the stream is not allowed in the U.S.
posted by rcade at 10:54 PM on September 13, 2023
I love the photo of Belichick in colorful plaid trying to look like he's enjoying a physical embrace " when he could be diagramming plays.
posted by rcade at 12:44 PM on September 08, 2023
My picks:
Redblacks by 7
Argonauts by 17 (lock)
Blue Bombers by 10 (lock)
Elks by 7
Here comes another Elk victory.
posted by rcade at 10:40 AM on September 08, 2023
My picks:
Chiefs by 10 (lock)
Falcons by 10 (lock)
Browns by 3
Jaguars by 14 (lock)
Vikings by 14 (lock)
Saints by 7
49ers by 3
Commanders by 17 (lock)
Ravens by 14 (lock)
Bears by 3
Broncos by 3
Eagles by 3
Chargers by 3
Seahawks by 7
Cowboys by 3
Bills by 7
This feels like the season that the Patriots rise up from mediocrity again and I am absolutely not ready for that.
posted by rcade at 05:28 PM on September 05, 2023
Only one game to get his first win over a ranked team!
posted by rcade at 09:27 PM on September 02, 2023
My picks:
Lions by 13 (lock)
Blue Bombers by 14 (lock)
Argonauts by 21 (lock)
Stampeders by 7
Sorry, Elk. We've lost that lovin' feeling.
posted by rcade at 11:14 PM on September 01, 2023
$10 for the season per entry. You pick a winner every week for each entry until you lose.
Last season I just did one entry. This time I bought four, though I don't have any idea what to do with the extra three.
posted by rcade at 06:15 PM on August 31, 2023
Picking Tom Brady's Bucs knocked me out last year in week 7 (Panthers win).
Then I entered another pool for the knocked out and picking the Bucs knocked me out of that one in week 8 (Ravens win).
Gonna steer clear of Brady this year.
posted by rcade at 01:15 PM on August 31, 2023
It's interesting to see Colorado jumping back to the Big 12. When it left the Big 12 that conference seemed doomed. Now it's the same for the Pac-12.
Colorado was so bad that a total teardown seems appropriate. It appears that Sanders was blunt with athletes about where they stood soon after his arrival, which is more fair than a lot of college coaches have been.
I lived briefly in Denver in the 1990s when Colorado was good. The upside for Sanders is huge.
posted by rcade at 10:58 AM on August 31, 2023
I got to see Strasburg pitch in spring training for several years at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, which the team sadly left in 2016. I got spoiled having games less than two hours from home.
A shame he didn't have another comeback in him. In the early years there was nothing bigger in baseball than a Strasburg start.
posted by rcade at 07:58 PM on August 24, 2023
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 6
Argonauts by 13
Lions by 17 (lock)
Elks by 7
Gonna let it ride on Edmonton. Elk be a lady tonight.
posted by rcade at 11:46 PM on August 23, 2023
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since for years degenerate gamblers have been taking their frustrations out on tennis players on Ex-Twitter after losing bets.
posted by rcade at 01:09 PM on August 23, 2023
I started playing in NFL survivor pools last season. If anyone wants to join the league I'm in with around 50-70 players, it's $10 per entry. Send me an email to my last name at gmail.com and I'll send you an invite.
posted by rcade at 06:21 PM on August 20, 2023
I refuse to enjoy the women's game opening up until the men reach a World Cup final. Fair is fair.
posted by rcade at 03:49 PM on August 20, 2023
"OPS+ takes a player's on-base plus slugging percentage and normalizes the number across the entire league. It accounts for external factors like ballparks. It then adjusts so a score of 100 is league average, and 150 is 50 percent better than the league average." -- MLB.Com
posted by rcade at 07:28 PM on August 18, 2023
My picks:
Elks by 3
Blue Bombers by 28 (lock)
Alouettes by 17 (lock)
Lions by 14 (lock)
I'm calling my shot: This is Elk week.
posted by rcade at 11:19 PM on August 16, 2023
NBC Sports should never make Rebecca Lowe do a tawdry Crisley Knows Best lead-in. Give that job to one of the Robbies.
posted by rcade at 04:55 PM on August 15, 2023
This is a bizarre situation. If everyone in the Tuohy family but the person they say they adopted was getting royalty checks, that's a staggering level of cynical exploitation worthy of its own movie.
How could a 37-year-old man who earned $30 million in an NFL career not know that he was under a conservatorship that extended all the way to recent years?
posted by rcade at 04:51 PM on August 15, 2023
Fernandomania made it to Dallas too.
posted by rcade at 12:23 PM on August 11, 2023
Didn't the season just end recently?
Last season went on longer because of the Qatar World Cup, making the already brief English football offseason even briefer.
posted by rcade at 12:35 PM on August 10, 2023
The gameweek 1 deadline is Friday August 11 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern, 90 minutes before the Premier League season opener between Burnley and Manchester City.
posted by rcade at 07:50 PM on August 09, 2023
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 34 (lock)
Alouettes by 7
Lions by 14 (lock)
Argonauts by 13 (lock)
posted by rcade at 07:37 PM on August 09, 2023
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 7
Argonauts by 20
Alouettes by 17
Redblacks by 3
posted by rcade at 09:37 AM on August 03, 2023
Lenny Randle was a madman. I had forgotten him in 1974 bunting down the first base line just so he could blow up the pitcher.
posted by rcade at 06:03 PM on July 31, 2023
My picks:
Argonauts by 21 (lock)
Lions by 17 (lock)
Stampeders by 3
This is not the year of the underdog.
posted by rcade at 07:45 PM on July 28, 2023
Sorry about the late post. I've been neck deep in programming for the day job.
posted by rcade at 07:43 PM on July 28, 2023
That sucks. He wasn't even doing anything risky on the jet ski and now his season is over.
posted by rcade at 11:42 AM on July 27, 2023
I'm glad Khan and the Jaguars organization are being so vocally supportive. The NFL needs to become a place where none of the gay athletes, coaches or staff feel like they have to hide being LGBT.
posted by rcade at 08:57 AM on July 21, 2023
Nike might also want to cut ties with Nike.
From the story: "Last year the Globe and Mail reported that a senior employee at Nike Canada was seen buying drinks for national junior hockey players just before the alleged sexual assault, according to unsealed court records."
posted by rcade at 08:28 PM on July 19, 2023
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 20 (lock)
Argonauts by 13 (lock)
Roughriders by 6
Redblacks by 7
Mason's a better quarterback than that long bomb last week that was completed because the defenders did their best impersonation of the Black Sox.
posted by rcade at 08:24 PM on July 19, 2023
Current Standings, aside from The_Black_Hand who is in fifth place at 266 (not shown).
posted by rcade at 08:22 PM on July 19, 2023
My picks:
Tiger-Cats by 14 (lock)
Argonauts by 18 (lock)
Blue Bombers by 10 (lock)
Stampeders by 3
posted by rcade at 05:45 AM on July 13, 2023
Goodell not telling the Raiders for months about the emails, when the league, Snyder and other owners knew, is remarkable. How is his job so secure?
posted by rcade at 05:29 AM on July 13, 2023
This is so cringe I actually feel bad for Bayless. Barkley has the best talking gig in sports alongside the rest of the NBA on TNT crew. He's not going to tie a bony white albatross around his neck.
The part about how he "could, dare I say, actually have a life and forget about prepping so furiously hard" is such tedious self-aggrandizement.
Are there really people out there charmed by this clod? There must be but I can't understand why.
posted by rcade at 09:44 AM on July 07, 2023
My picks:
Roughriders by 30 (lock)
Blue Bombers by 21 (lock)
Redblacks by 7
Lions by 10 (lock)
I'm brewing Tim Horton's coffee while I make these picks. It is not good but we ran out of everything else.
posted by rcade at 09:11 AM on July 06, 2023
Before he played a game for Dallas I was giddy about the prospect of this happening.
Now I'm like the characters in It's a Wonderful Life who wept and prayed.
posted by rcade at 08:27 PM on July 02, 2023
That was way more fun than a Liverpool jersey. Even got some beautiful weather. I envy English fans for the abundance of football from the top all the way down to scenes like this five levels down where there's drama, affordable tickets and cozy stadiums.
posted by rcade at 03:23 PM on July 01, 2023
May the $1.2 million be with you.
posted by rcade at 12:34 PM on July 01, 2023
There was recent talk the Mavs wanted to hire Van Gundy as an assistant.
posted by rcade at 01:48 PM on June 30, 2023
My picks:
Redblacks by 7
Blue Bombers by 20 (lock)
Lions by 13 (lock)
posted by rcade at 01:49 PM on June 29, 2023
CFL Pickem Week 16: Elks on Fire Edition
My picks:
Roughriders by 17 (lock)
Lions by 17 (lock)
Alouettes by 7
Argonauts by 17 (lock)