[canflam]

Welcome to the playoff edition of the 17th season of the NFL “Pick the Winners” game here at the Sports board! :wave 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 winners 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:

There are 13 games in the playoffs
Super Bowl LV AFC Champion vs. NFC Champion in Tampa, 6:30 p.m. ET (CBS) Sunday Febuary 7
plese note this season two more teams added to the playoffs


4 Wild Card
4 Divisional Playoff
2 Conference Championship
1 Superbowl

13 total games, so everyone will get the numbers 1-13 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?

Wildcard Weekend:

Here is the complete wild card weekend schedule:


Saturday, January 15th


Las Vegas @ Cincinnati 4:30 P.M. EST
New England @ Buffalo 8:15 P.M. EST


Sunday, January 16th


Philadelphia @ Tampa Bay 1:00 A.M. EST
San Francisco @ Dallas 1:30 P.M. EST
Pittsburgh @ Kansas City 8:15 P.M. EST


Monday, January 17th


Arizona @ L.A. Rams 8:15 P.M. EST


Bye week for Green Bay & Tennessee

[Logan]

Patriots buffalo is at 8:15 PM on Saturday not that it makes a difference in the picks
Please fix the Sunday game it’s played at 1pm not 10 pm

[canflam]

Oops. Yeah. On Google, since I'm out west it gives the times in the Pacific Time Zone when I search for sports scheduled on there, but I'll fix it.

[NikNak]

It's playoffs!

Good luck this weekend, everyone.

[Logan]

Kansas CIty 10
Tampa 11
San Francisco 6
New England 3
Arizona 4
Cincinnati 2

[The Survivor]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 11
Kansas City Chiefs - 9
Los Angeles Rams - 6
Dallas Cowboys - 3
Las Vegas Raiders - 2
New England Patriots - 1

[canflam]

I needed to check to see how many N.F.L. games that there will be this year. There's going to be 11 I see. I did fix the early Sunday game. That game is scheduled for 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time not 10:00 P.M. in any of the North American Time Zones.


Kansas City 11
Tampa Bay 10
Cincinnati 7
Buffalo 6
Dallas 5
Arizona 4

[Logan]

Yes Eagles /Buccaneers is a 1 o’clock game . Not happy About a Monday night playoff game

[canflam]

Oh? Why not? I prefer playoff games at least to begin at Noon Pacific Time or later honestly. Of course with recording devices nowadays it's easy to go back to a game later to watch if some miss it.

[Hot Rod]

Kansas City - 12
Tampa Bay - 11
Cincinnati - 7
Buffalo - 6
L.A. Rams - 5
Dallas - 3

[Ms Cyatt]

Here are my picks:

Cincinnati Bengals: 7
New England Patriots: 1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 13
Dallas Cowboys: 3
Kansas City Chiefs: 12
Los Angeles Rams: 4



Didn't get to comment on the regular season thread before it was closed but congrats to everyone for having a great season. It was a fun. Good luck in the playoffs.

[NOLA504]

Buffalo-13
Kansas City-12
San Francisco-4
Cincinnati-3
Tampa Bay-2
L.A. Rams-1

[Logan]

Originally Posted by canflam (View Post) Oh? Why not? I prefer playoff games at least to begin at Noon Pacific Time or later honestly. Of course with recording devices nowadays it's easy to go back to a game later to watch if some miss it.

I feel your pain, about eight years ago my friends and I went to Las Vegas for a week which included a Sunday in December. I was not happy to get up at 8 AM so I could have breakfast and be at the casino to watch the game at 10 am !

[Logan]

Cincinnati wins game one

[canflam]

Yes. Buffalo is off to a good start today.