canflam

Welcome to the Playoff edition of the 17th season of NFL "Pick the Winners game here at the Sports board! For those who have played this game before, you know the drill. If you are new to the game, it's pretty simple. During each week of the playoffs there will a thread posted with week's slate of games. It is your job to pick the Winners of each match-up & place a point value on it.

At the conclusion of each week, we will add up the total points & crown a "Pick The Winners" champion. Over the course of the season, we will keep a list of the weekly champions & a running point total for each participant. At the end of the season, the person(s) with the highest point total &/or best record &/or closest to the actual score of the Super Bowl will be crowned the playoff winner. Sounds pretty simple , right? So, join in! If you have any questions, feel free to ask here.

Remember, you must have your picks posted by the deadline listed, so make sure to double-check to make sure your picks are correct before then. Also, once the deadline listed passes, your picks are locked in.

There are 13 games in the playoffs.
Super Bowl LV A.F.C. Champions vs. N.F.C. Champions in Tampa, FL at 6:30 P.M. EST on February 7th.
please note this season 2 more teams are added to the playoffs.



4 Wild Card games
4 Divisional Playoff
2 Conference Championships
1 Super Bowl

13 total games, so everyone will get the numbers 1-13 to use.

As normal in Divisional rounds, you pick the 4 winners & give each of them a number as to the likelihood of that teams victory. For examples:

Team A beast Team B (6)
Team C beats Team D (10)
Team E beats Team F (2)
Team G beats Team H (9)

Say you get the first 3 right, but miss the last 1. You get 18 points. Now in Round 2, you pick again, but you have already 6, 10, 2, & 9, so you can't assign those values anymore. And we'll keep a running tab on the values you've already assigned.

Team I beats Team A (11)
Team J beats Team C (4)
Team E beats Team K (8)
Team L beats Team H (7)

This time you get the last 2, but miss the first 2. So now you have 33 points & only the values 1, 3, & 5 left for the 2 semifinals & Super Bowl.

Do you follow?

Overall Standings:

canflam: 41 pts. (4-2)
NOLA504: 41 pts. (4-2)
MS Cyatt: 38 pts. (4-2)
Logan: 33 pts. (4-2)
Hot Rod: 33 pts. (4-2)
The Survivor: 23 pts. (5-1)

Numbers left:

canflam: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
Hot Rod: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11
Logan: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11
MS Cyatt: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
NOLA504: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10
The Survivor: 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13


Divisional Round:

Saturday, January 16th


L.A. Rams @ Green Bay 4:35 P.M. EST
Baltimore @ Buffalo 8:15 P.M. EST


Sunday January 17th


Cleveland @ Kansas City 3:05 P.M. EST
Tampa Bay @ New Orleans 6:40 P.M. EST

The Survivor

Kansas City Chiefs - 13
Green Bay Packers - 7
Buffalo Bills - 5
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 4

Numbers left: 4 5 7 10 11 12 13

Let me preface and say I will be shocked if Browns beat Chiefs and will effectively change my pick to Cleveland to win the whole thing.

Good luck everyone!

Logan

Thanks for doing this , I am dealing with the loss of a close friend .
This weekend will be good therapy
Numbers left 1-2-3–6-9-10-11

Kansas -11
New Orleans -3
Bill -6
Green Bay 10

canflam

That's horrific news. You have my condolences.

Logan

Thanx Matt .
I went low on New Orleans saints pick, I think they will win a tight game , but being a Brady lover for over 20 years I know what he can do.

Hot Rod

Numbers left: 1,2,4,6,8,10,11

Kansas City - 11
Green Bay - 10
New Orleans - 6
Buffalo - 2

BTW my condolences on your friend, Matt.

canflam

Thanks for posting your numbers left. I put the list up of numbers left for everyone today in the O.P.

The Survivor

Very sorry for the loss of your friend, Matt.

NOLA504

New Orleans-10
Kansas City-9
Baltimore-3
L.A.-1

NikNak

Good luck this week, everyone.

I am very sorry for your loss.

Ms Cyatt

Sorry for your loss.

Numbers left 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10

Kansas City Chiefs: 10
Green Bay Packers: 9
New Orleans Saints: 3
Buffalo Bills: 1

canflam

Kansas City 9
New Orleans 8
Buffalo 7
L.A. Rams 4

Logan

LA made it close in the third then Green Bay made a few stops , took over the game in the 4th

canflam

Ugh. Figures. Let's go Bills!

Hot Rod

Here are the standings after today's games:

Logan: 16 pts (2-0)
The Survivor: 12 pts (2-0)
Hot Rod: 12 pts (2-0)
Ms Cyatt: 10 pts 2-0)
canflam: 7 pts (1-1)
NOLA504: 0 pts (0-2)