My Mountain Town Pick 5 Contest

Here are the rules, from a previous year.

1) Pick 5 games each week. We play against the spread according to the following website. We use the "Opening Lines" which never change. http://www.covers.com/odds/football/nfl-spreads.aspx

2) Each week we will record a score for each contestant, keeping track of correct, incorrect, and ties. Ties will not matter, except in the case of a tie between 2 contestants after the final pick (which is the superbowl). In other words, only correct picks matter.

3) You must pick your games before the games start. This doesn't mean before the first game of the week, but rather whatever games you pick. Once you post a pick, you are locked into that pick. No changes. Doesn't matter if your whole team comes down with the flu, and they don't play, or the starting quarterback gets a hangnail.

4) If you forget to pick until after games have started, you are out of luck.

5) Post all picks on this thread. This is the official sheet.

For those new to picking games, lets use the first game as an example.
The line is Dallas +3 @ NY Giants. If you pick Dallas, you are saying you think Dallas will either win, or lose by less than 3 points. Basically, you get to add 3 points to the Dallas total score, then figure out who wins.

Make sense? Feel free to PM renegadecj with questions.


Each week Science Chic will compile the records, and typically (if he is available, or someone else is) quote everyone's picks before the early games.

RenegadeCJ wrote: www.covers.com/odds/football/nfl-spreads.aspx

Week 1 Opening Spreads
Thursday, September 5th
Baltimore +9 @ Denver

Sunday, September 8th
Cincinnati +4 @ Chicago
Miami PICKUM @ Cleveland
Seattle -3.5 @ Carolina
Oakland +7.5 @ Indy
Minnesota +3 @ Detroit
New England -7.5 @ Buffalo
Tennessee +7 @ Pittsburgh
Atlanta +2.5 @ New Orleans
Kansas City (KC) -1.5 @ Jacksonville
Tampa Bay -1 @ NY Jets
Arizona +6 @ St Louis
Green Bay (GB) +5 @ San Francisco
NY Giants +3 @ Dallas

Monday September 9th
Philadelphia (Philly) +5 @ Washington
Houston -3 @ San Diego

You may certainly use 3 of your picks from the Pick 3 Contest if you are participating in that one as well. If you wish to pick more, just for fun, only the 1st 5 you post will be the ones that count.

Good luck everyone!

Sorry, I forgot to edit those details. This is the Pick 5 and I'm keeping track of this one. Thanks for catching that Pacamom!

PrintSmith wrote: Week 1

New England
Tampa Bay
Indianapolis
Houston
Cincinnati (just for you SC)

Good luck PS - I'm terrible at picking the Bengals games (too un-objective). lol

Here's Viking's picks:

The Viking wrote:

Science Chic wrote: Whoo-hoo!

If anyone wants to pick two extra each week, I'll start a separate thread and you'll have to post your picks on both.

I'm contemplating picking my 5 for the contest, then all the games every week, just to see how bad I am at this.

I am in.

Houston
Tampa Bay
Chicago
Seattle
Kansas City

Blondie wrote: pick 5 -Blondie
Cincinnati
Indy
Kansas City
Arizona
Houston

Thanks Blondie! Now I know who to pick.