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October 25, 2006
CFL Pick 'Em, Week 20: Last week of the season, and every single player is still in contention for either first or last place! Make your last-ditch picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 10:56 AM - 24 comments
You know, somehow either the leader should pick first or everybody's picks should be all submitted in secret. Otherwise DJE, not that you'd do this, you could totally cover your butt and make your picks overlap those of the people chasing you, thus perserving your lead. and that goes for the last place position too. I have my eyes on that!
posted by gspm at 11:37 AM on October 25, 2006
That's true, gspm, and I generally do tend to leave my picks until late in the week, so I will cheerfully pick first this week. Picking in secret isn't really an option, because that would mean that the pool manager would have to be a neutral party and thus wouldn't be allowed to play. Publishing picks publicly maintains integrity: anybody can go back and count up everybody's points to verify that I've done it correctly. But the idea of having the leader pick first is intriguing, although it would require some logistical acrobatics, since we'd no longer be free to pick whenever we can during the week. Anyway: Edmonton by 8 Montreal by 12 Winnipeg by 6
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:46 AM on October 25, 2006
Saskatchewan by 7 Montreal by 3 BC by 12 No stat breakdown this week. Too tired and it has proven more wrong than right (5-6) anyway. Part of the problem has to do with using a yearly average and not comparing trends, so just gut picks this week.
posted by apoch at 11:56 AM on October 25, 2006
I have had TP in hand, wiping up the rear for most of the season. I clearly suck at this, which says something about the rest of you. Certainly, I have no business in the middle of the pack. That said, here's my hail mary shot for 5th place: 4 'SKATCH comics will get 6 onlookers AL'OUETTE with some gag gone wrong, and 3 production executives, two of them with pre-signed development deals for movie treatments for cookie-cutter fish-out-of-water Borat ripoffs originally written for Rob Schneider but which have since been rejected by Joey Lawrence, Anne Heche, every Wayans brother, Carlos Mencia, Dakota Fanning, Harvey Fierstein, Molly Shannon and everyone else in Hollywood this side of Tom Green, will find them so hilarious that they'll wind up in E!'s Daily 10 for six weeks straight, fighting with co-stars and being romantically attached (falsely, natch) to everyone from Kirsten Dunst to Casey Affleck, and just before shooting begins some studio stuffed shirt will have a heart attack and the project will be shelved for another two years, to finally be given to the zebra from Racing Stripes, who will blend into the role so completely that the following year's Oscar telecast will have host Tom Hanks punctuating each punchline with the title character's now-totally-clichéd WINNIE. PEG. ...aaaand I'm spent. Thanks, DJE, for taking the trouble to do this. It's been fun, even when I was sucking the bell curve down.
posted by chicobangs at 12:13 PM on October 25, 2006
Edmonton by 6 Toronto by 4 Winnipeg by 8 Mathmatically, I can't win (since if I were right, it would mean Dr. John would be right enough as well), but I still feel as though I have won. Heck, I feel that way a lot.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 02:48 PM on October 25, 2006
Hey chico, so you know about my screenplay? Edmonton by 6 Montreal by 15 BC by 11 Thanks to everyone this year, especially those organising it. I've been leader earlier on, but now I am in contention for last. A bit like Edmonton's season, really, only without the leading bit.
posted by owlhouse at 02:51 PM on October 25, 2006
and that goes for the last place position too. I have my eyes on that! That's true! Spitztengle always makes his picks after mine. Saskatchewan by 16 Montreal by 6 I still hate Toronto Um...Boston College...BC by 10 Just for the record, I have no idea what teams chico picks for the week. I understand his sentances, but I have no freaking clue who the Alouettes are.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 03:52 PM on October 25, 2006
British Colombia!
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 05:35 PM on October 25, 2006
In my screenplay, here's how it goes this week: [opening shot: pan of the crowd shows Rider Priders in jubilation and Eskimo fans exiting the stadium dejected] [flash to scoreboard: Saskatchewan 35 Edmonton 25 fade to black] Next location: Skydome Storyline: Argos trying to stave off the Alouettes in a bid for first place in the east; aging quarterback called upon to take his team on a championship run for his swan song. The team suffers through some scary moments and has to overcome an early deficit, but last-minute heroics prevail. [flash to scoreboard: Montreal 28 Toronto 30
posted by Spitztengle at 08:22 PM on October 25, 2006
You forgot to add the closing credits thanking the city and people of Toronto (where exteriors were filmed), with music-over provided by the Goo Goo Dolls rehashing and speeding up some jangly pop thing from the 60s. I need to go home now.
posted by owlhouse at 10:03 PM on October 25, 2006
The time is so little, the time belongs to us Why is everybody in such a fucking rush? Make do with what you have Take what you can get Pay no mind to me I'm just a minor threat... Saskatchewan by 4 Toronto by 13 Winnipeg by 9 ...that's a promise
posted by MrFrisby at 07:52 AM on October 26, 2006
Saskatchewan by11 Montreal by 8 B.C. by 3
posted by Folkways at 10:48 AM on October 26, 2006
I must admit that I read the matchups and the preview and scroll to the bottom to offer my picks. Usually I am near the middle to end of the pickers and don't read other people's picks. Which might explain my standing in the pool. Saskatchewan by 11 Montreal by 5 Winnipeg by 6
posted by gspm at 05:23 PM on October 26, 2006
I must admit that I read the matchups and the preview and scroll to the bottom to offer my picks. I base my picks only on what DJE has to say about everything. Maybe that's why I'm at the bottom...
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 08:22 PM on October 26, 2006
For the first time in two years, I realize that people might actually read what I write. What a frightening thought.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:36 PM on October 26, 2006
Well Dr. J, no offense, but I don't read it until after I've made my picks.
posted by apoch at 10:04 PM on October 26, 2006
But still!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:15 AM on October 27, 2006
For the first time in two years, I realize that people might actually read what I write. I'm not sure it actually helps me since I always seem to be one of the only people picking Hamilton each week.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:33 AM on October 27, 2006
I read it, I just don't let it influence my picks. I think, "He's just trying to fool me, but he'll know I'll think that so he could be telling the truth, but if he thinks I might think that, he might try to fool me..." ...and around and around I go until my head explodes.
posted by MrFrisby at 10:09 AM on October 27, 2006
How do we handle the playoffs? Should someone set up a confidence pool?
posted by apoch at 12:18 PM on October 27, 2006
Last year we just did a separate playoffs pick 'em, with bonus picks (just like this year's MLB pick 'em). It worked pretty well, I thought. A confidence points pool would be a little redundant because of the small number of teams and games. Six teams, five games, not really a lot of points to be had.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 01:15 PM on October 27, 2006
That's true.
posted by apoch at 04:21 AM on October 28, 2006
Shit...missed the Friday game again...I know it won't count, but I haven't seen any results, so I'm doin' it anyway. Sassy by 12; Monty by 10; Hammy by 22. God love ya, Doc, you're the Elvis of Canadian Football Pick'em. Simply...The King.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 07:19 AM on October 28, 2006
Bad news for the East: all its teams lost, except for Winnipeg, which is really just a transplant from the West anyway. Toronto lost interest, Montreal stumbled, and Hamilton put up a valiant struggle but was still Hamilton at the end of the night.