HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em!

[damontucker]

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And, OBTW, your sig goes dark Sunday afternoon, regardless of the outcome of this week. New week, new bet.

Nacho... the coincidences that we posted the same is irritating me...especially when i've been choosing pics first!

I will be changing at least one of my picks... just cause I can't handle us being that closely aligned!

Ugh! Good thing you never wanted your initial bet which was the season long one... you would have a lot of catch up to do!

And, OBTW, your sig goes dark Sunday afternoon, regardless of the outcome of this week. New week, new bet.

That's sunday afternoon Hawaii time about 3:47

[pzarquon]

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This message is hidden because manoasurfer123 is on your ignore list.

There are few happier words in the English language than these... nevertheless, even spared the actual content, I can see this thread continues to be Manoa'd.

If you're bickering about your 'side bet,' why not keep it on the side? You know, via Private Message? This is the HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em game, not the Watch Manoa Change His Picks and Bicker game. Sheesh.

[damontucker]

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Geez pz... this just a "game"... nacho knows I just rubbing him...

sorry if I rubbing you...

Every playground needs a bully to get beat down once in awhile

[Surfingfarmboy]

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About the replications one choosing winners identical to the picks of others: While I hope I do not pick a line-up of winners that matches another participant's team for team, it could potentially (and probably will) happen. I make my picks independent from any information that has posted in this thread..in fact I try to avoid looking at picks from other players (other than the MNF game) to avoid the replication thing, as well as to make picks based on my own intuition and not to be swayed by what I read from others.

In a game where winners and losers are determined by straight-up winning and no spread with contend with, there is bound to be replication among the picks, especially toward the latter half of the season when the overall trend of what teams are winners and what teams are losers has been established. Like previously mentioned though, there is no exact replication of any picks in this game due the MNF factor.

I'm not sure anybody would want to replicate my picks at this point in the game. I've kinda struggled so far. I feel pretty good about my picks for this week though, which I will be posting soon before the deadline.

[timkona]

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Indianapolis Colts at NY Jets
New Orleans Saints at Carolina Pantehrs
Minnesota Vikings at Buffalo Bills
Arizona Cardinals at Atlanta Falcons
San Diego Chargers at Baltimore Ravens
Miami Dolphins at Houston Texans
San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs
Dallas Cowboys at Tennessee Titans
Detroit Lions at St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars at Washington Redskins
Cleveland Browns at Oakland Raiders
New England Patriots at Cincinnati Bengals
Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears

Monday Night Tie-Breaker: Pick Winner and Predict Score!
Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles
27-16

[damontucker]

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good call on that chicago game TK...

I was going to switch it to... but it's my beloved Seahawks.... and now that if I did... I would have the exact same posts as you!
So I guess I keep my Seahawks and pray for the best

[Surfingfarmboy]

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Surfingfarmboy's picks for Week 4 of HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em:

Indianapolis Colts (Peyton Manning goes for 2 wins in Big Apple this year)

Carolina Panthers
Minnesota Vikings
Atlanta Falcons
Baltimore Ravens

Miami Dolphins (It's funny how the football schedule worked out this week for the cities of Miami and Houston, as the Houston Cougars are visiting the 'Canes in Miami in D1A football this weekend as well.)

Kansas City Chiefs
Dallas Cowboys
St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars

Oakland Raiders (This might be the Raiders best chance at a victory in '06)

Cincinnati Bengals (Johnson, Henry, and Houshmanzadeh too much for NE secondary to handle)

Chicago Bears (Grossman may have finally arrived)

Philadelphia Eagles 31-20

[oceanpacific]

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After last week's disaster (8-6), here are my WINNERS for week 4:

INDIANAPOLIS vs. New York Jets
New Orleans vs. CAROLINA
MINNESOTA vs. Buffalo
Arizona vs. ATLANTA
San Diego vs. BALTIMORE
MIAMI vs. Houston
San Francisco vs. KANSAS CITY
DALLAS vs. Tennessee
Detroit vs. ST.LOUIS
JACKSONVILLE vs. Washington
Cleveland vs. OAKLAND
New England vs. CINCINNATI
SEATTLE vs.Chicago

PHILADELPHIA 35, Green Bay 20

[damontucker]

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Indianapolis Colts at NY Jets
New Orleans Saints at Carolina Panthers (changed to have some sort of variable here on HT... well see if it works )
Minnesota Vikings at Buffalo Bills
Arizona Cardinals at Atlanta Falcons the lelie factor
San Diego Chargers at Baltimore Ravens
Miami Dolphins at Houston Texans
San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs
Dallas Cowboys at Tennessee Titans
Detroit Lions at St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars at Washington Redskins
Cleveland Browns at Oakland Raiders Raiders get their first win
New England Patriots at Cincinnati Bengals
Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears I hate to pick against my Hawks... but I got to seperate myself from the rest of the pack! Allow Seattle to adjust without Alexander and they p/u up their only loss of the season. (It will be close though and I'll be stoked if they win besides here)

Monday Night Tie-Breaker: Pick Winner and Predict Score!
Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles 28-21

[scrivener]

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Indianapolis Colts at NY Jets
Jets on a roll, but Colts on a better roll.

New Orleans Saints at Carolina Panthers
I'm not a believer.

Minnesota Vikings at Buffalo Bills
Bills could be this year's surprise team.

Arizona Cardinals at Atlanta Falcons
Falcons embarrassed last week; look for huge rebound this week.

San Diego Chargers at Baltimore Ravens
Tough game to call; I usually take the better running back, but in this case I'm going with the better D against inexperienced QB.

Miami Dolphins at Houston Texans
I don't think the Texans are as bad as they've been, but I really like the Culpepper-led 'Phins!

San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs
Oh, I'm so tempted to take the niners here. I'm going with LJ at home.

Dallas Cowboys at Tennessee Titans
I can't figure out the Titans OR the Cowboys.

Detroit Lions at St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars at Washington Redskins
Toughest game to call this week.

Cleveland Browns at Oakland Raiders
Besides this one!

New England Patriots at Cincinnati Bengals
Bengals on a roll and tough to beat at home. I love this team.

Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears

Monday Night Tie-Breaker: Pick Winner and Predict Score!
Green Bay Packers 24 at Philadelphia Eagles 35

I'm not feeling too confident about these!

[scrivener]

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For fun: I'm using MS Excel's random-number generator to have the computer randomly pick winners in the pick'em game. It's an experiment to see how well random picks would do against the rest of us. Here are the random picks for this week:

Indianapolis
NewOrleans
Minnesota
Atlanta
SanDiego
Houston
KansasCity
Dallas
Detroit
Washington
Oakland
NewEngland
Chicago
Philadelphia

I'm thinking of playing with the formula; using the percentage of home teams that have won so far, I could weight the picks accordingly so that Excel is more likely to pick a home team by the same factor. For example, if the home team has won in 71% of the game, I could make Excel likely to pick the home team 71% of the time. This week, though, it's a straight 50-50 random pick. I'll post the random picks results with the rest of our results.

[SusieMisajon]

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I no get it...can somebody please tell a dumb girl (yes, blonde) how to play this game? I only see a list of teams...are we supposed to guess who is gonna play who?

(does the 'whom' go to the first who or to the second one? I know there's a whom in there somewhere)

[scrivener]

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Here are the Week 4 match-ups. Please post your picks before 6:00 in the morning Sunday.

Hi Susie. The post I'm quoting here has this week's scheduled NFL games. You post which teams you think will win. It's explained a little bit more in this thread's first post. If you'd like to participate (and it would be cool if you would), please submit your predictions by 6:00 in the morning (our time).

[SusieMisajon]

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Okay, then...I vote for all the teams that are playing on their home turf...that's okay, isn't it? I figure teams are better on their own ground, and when they've not been traveling.

[damontucker]

I'm not feeling too confident about these!

nice morning pics scriv!

Surfingfarmboy's picks for Week 4 of HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em:

nice morning pics Surfing farmboy

May I call it for you Scriv -

I think you got this weeks win in the bag already... just from my computations...
and we haven't even gotten to half time of the 2nd half yet...!

congrats

First Draft of the week... I think there will be some adjustments as Now I see I've picked all home teams except for the Monday night game and the Dallas game

I should have kept my first instincts! Would have been 7-1 in the morning!

Mark these words.... I won't have another terrible pickem week like this again!

Okay, then...I vote for all the teams that are playing on their home turf...that's okay, isn't it? I figure teams are better on their own ground, and when they've not been traveling.

Nice pics Susie... You beat me!

Now I'm really hurting!