[BearDogg-X]

Welcome to the playoff edition of the eleventh season of the NFL “Pick the Winners” game here at the Sports board! For those who have played this game before, you know how the drill goes. If you are new to the game, it’s pretty simple. During each week of the season, there will be a thread posted with that week’s slate of games. It is your job to pick the winner of each match-up and place a point value on it.

At the conclusion of each week, we will add up the total points and crown a “Pick the Winners” champion. Over the course of the season, we will keep a list of the weekly champions and a running point total for each participant. At the end of the season, the person(s) with the highest point total and/or best record and/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.

The rules are basically the same as the regular season, except there fewer games to work with. So there will be a slight change to the rules just for the playoffs, just like the NFL's overtime rules:

There are 11 games in the playoffs.

4 Wild Card
4 Divisional Playoff
2 Conference Championship
1 Superbowl

11 total games, so everyone will get the numbers 1-11 to use.

As normal, In round 1, you pick the four winners, and give each of them a number as to the likelihood of that team's victory. for example:

Team A beats 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 three right, but miss the last one. You get 18 points. Now in round two, you pick again, but you have already used 6, 10, 2, and 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 two, but miss the first two. So now you have 33 points. And only the values 1, 3, and 5 left for the two semi finals and the Superbowl.

Do you follow?

Here's the current standings after the Wild Card Weekend:

Wingster: 20 pts.(3-1)
Uh Blah: 15 pts.(3-1)
Matt Logan: 15 pts.(2-2)
hann: 15 pts.(2-2)
living destiny: 14 pts.(3-1)
blondebombshell: 13 pts.(2-2)
Avatar: 12 pts.(2-2)
Ms Cyatt: 12 pts.(2-2)
TruLove: 10 pts.(3-1)
Hot Rod: 10 pts.(1-3)
RedRooster: 9 pts.(2-2)
BearDogg-X: 6 pts.(3-1)
canflam: 6 pts.(2-2)
Yellow Mustang Girl: 4 pts.(1-3)
cls21c: 2 pts.(1-3)

These are the numbers each player has remaining that they can still use:

Wingster: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10
Uh Blah: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11
Matt Logan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
hann: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
living destiny: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10
blondebombshell: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10
Avatar: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Ms Cyatt: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10
TruLove: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
RedRooster: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
Hot Rod: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
BearDogg-X: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
canflam: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Yellow Mustang Girl: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9
cls21c: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11

Divisional Playoffs:

Saturday, January 15th
Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers(3:30pm, CBS)
Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons(7pm, Fox)

Sunday, January 16th
Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears(Noon, Fox)
New York Jets at New England Patriots(3:30pm, CBS)

[BearDogg-X]

Pittsburgh - 5
Green Bay - 4

Chicago - 6
New England - 10

I'll get back to this before the deadline. Green Bay-Atlanta looks too close to call to me.

[Wingster]

Steelers- 3
Atlanta- 2

Bears- 10
New England - 6

[Logan]

Patriots -8

Steelers- 4

Green Bay -3

Bears- 5

[Yellow Mustang Girl]

Ugh. I did horrible this past weekend

3 - Baltimore Ravens
8 - Atlanta Falcons

7 - Chicago Bears
9 - New England Patriots

[blonde bombshell]

Baltimore 2
Green Bay 1
Chicago 4
New England 9

[living destiny]

Pittsburgh Steelers -1
Atlanta Falcons -2

Chicago Bears -9
New England Patriots- 10

[Avatar]

Pittsburgh 3
Green Bay 5
Chicago 9
New England 8

[RedRooster]

Pittsburgh Steelers 7
Green Bay Packers 3
Chicago Bears 10
New York Jets 2

[cls21c]

5-Pittsburgh Steelers
3 -Atlanta Falcons

11 -Chicago Bears
1 -New England Patriots

[hann]

Baltimore Ravens - 8
Atlanta Falcons - 7

Chicago Bears -1
New England Patriots -10

[Ms Cyatt]

Pittsburg Steelers: 1
Green Bay Packers: 3

Chicago Bears: 9
New England Patriots: 10

[TruLove]

10 - New England Patriots
9 - Chicago Bears
3 - Atlanta Falcons
2 - Pittsburgh Steelers

[Hot Rod]

New England - 8
Chicago - 6
Atlanta - 4
Pittsburgh - 1

[Logan]

Gee nobody loves the Jets or Seahawks Yet ....

Still feel Ravens Steelers might be the game of weekend . Green Bay /Falcons also ranks as a possible nail bitter . Watch Pats /Jets & Seahawks Bears be close the other 2 be 10 pt wins

Joe Flaco was shaky in his play I see the Steelers defensive line klieg him last week vas a easy KC team. sacks fumbles still managed to win . Steelers are no Chiefs