Happy New Year Footballers!
Week 16 wrapped up with a lot of people having solid performances. Special shoutout to Charlie N for his strategy of telling everyone his plan, and then getting 5 points out of 5. I daresay that maybe some of you boldly copied him. Either way, it was a fun week with lots of 4 and 5 point winners. Speaking for myself, I was heading into the Sunday night game with 4 points and really hoping that Tennessee would beat Green Bay to crush all the folks who had picked the Packers, but as soon as I saw the snow in pre-game, I knew I was in trouble. Dang it – I coulda been a contender!
Going into our final week, Margie is in the lead by one point, and Bill and Jim are right on her tail. Knowing it was so close, for this week I went with close games where each team had something on the line. And….that means both NFC East games are on the list.
The week 17 Games are:
Dolphins v. Bills
Cowboys v. Giants
Football Team v. Eagles (feels funny typing that).
Also, this seems like a good place to layout what happens here at the end as far as determining a winner so here are the steps:
- If one person is alone atop the leader board with the most points, that person will be declared the winner.
- If there is a tie of two or more people atop the leader board, we will continue picking into the playoffs, but only the people who are tied for the lead.
- We will still use the “pick 3 games with one as your power pick” style of picking. I will send out the games early in the week. The first week there is one contestant with more points than the others, that person will be declared the winner.
- On this week’s standings, I have made gray everyone who is mathematically ineligible to win the pool.
We sure hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas. Ours was tiny, but we ate like kings and definitely got to relax a little. Let’s all say a cheer for 2021, may it be full of family visits and lots of joy.
And, even though Pittsburgh is gonna sit Big Ben, I still say GO STEELERS!!!!