This could be a really interesting exercise for the first couple of weeks of the regular season. Since training camps are just getting started and there is going to be a lot of trading early on, teams won't have a solid roster until well in to the preseason and they have the ability of working down from 90 men now thanks to the CBA. Preseason football if always interesting to watch but what you see in the preseason may not be an indication of how a team will do in the regular season. I think it's going to be hard to tell what teams are going to do better than others until we get a chance to see them play in the regular season.
It seems like the rules should be fairly straight forward:
1) Pick three winning teams from each week of the regular season. All picks must be posted an hour before any of the games start.
2) Keep a running tally of the wins and losses on a common webpage. The winner is the person with the most correct picks in the regular season.
3) Have an option to count the playoffs and Super Bowl as a spoiler just to keep things interesting.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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otisptoadwater wrote: This could be a really interesting exercise for the first couple of weeks of the regular season. Since training camps are just getting started and there is going to be a lot of trading early on, teams won't have a solid roster until well in to the preseason and they have the ability of working down from 90 men now thanks to the CBA. Preseason football if always interesting to watch but what you see in the preseason may not be an indication of how a team will do in the regular season. I think it's going to be hard to tell what teams are going to do better than others until we get a chance to see them play in the regular season.
It seems like the rules should be fairly straight forward:
1) Pick three winning teams from each week of the regular season. All picks must be posted an hour before any of the games start.
2) Keep a running tally of the wins and losses on a common webpage. The winner is the person with the most correct picks in the regular season.
3) Have an option to count the playoffs and Super Bowl as a spoiler just to keep things interesting.
The problem we had last year is on a few weeks, I would make a pick of a team early in the week and for example the spread was (-3) Then VL or others would pick the same game later in the week and the spread might be (-5). Well the game would end up being a 4 point difference. So I had a win and they had a loss on the same game due to the spread. Then they would want me to take the (-5) to make it fair so we all picked the same game with the same spread, even though I picked that game when the spread was better at (-3). I wouldn't have picked that game if it was (-5). I would have picked another game. So that turned into several arguments. So VL complained enough to have them take at least one win away from me that way. After that we all had to take the same spread that was posted by a specific posting at a specific time. But I still ended up winning the season.
