Final Results Of The CHTV Pick Em Contest

The regular season is over.  Since ESPN does not include playoffs, the results are now final.  The winner with 171 correct picks is Big Mel 75. 

1st Big Mel 75 171
2nd MikeD 170
3rd Croatpackfan* 169
T- 4th Butros, Jerry4049* 168
T-6th Latvian Cilveks, GoPack1265 167
T-8th Grimman, Dobber 166
10th Thegreatreynoldo 165
t-11th Cheesehead619, KevinMcCarthy 164
T-13th MattFlynn10, ESPN8512 163
T-15th LaFleur Delacour, Since '61* 161
T-17th Cheesetradamus, Jonathan Spader* 160
T-18th Brinkofdisaster, JeremyCHTVLive* 159
T-20th DamoninOhio, jkmpb, Bucky 53 158
T-23rd Uncle Tbag, Shooter McGavin 156
25th Bearmeat 154
26th Birddoguni 153
T-27th Cheesehead12, Ignitorkid 152
T-29th Dutchrd18, Paul100999* 148
31th Shooter McGee* 147
32nd Harleycops 146
33rd Hands75 144

An asterisk means that the participant failed to submit any picks for a couple of weeks and his or her score was adjusted to reflect that.  In all cases adjusted scores were rounded down, in part due to fairness issues (several times the missed week came in a week that most participants fared badly) and in part due to a despotic display of power by the author as a penalty for making me do a bunch of math.

ESPN Pick Em does not support the playoff games, so the CHTV Pick Em articles are over.  I acknowledge that my son, Latvian Cilveks finished ahead of me, in sixth place while I finished tenth.  He has graciously consented to continue to make picks during the playoffs to give me a chance to recover, unofficially.  Readers are free to provide their picks in the comment section.  There are eleven more games.  

On Saturday, Buffalo plays at Houston and Tennessee plays at New England.  On Sunday, Minnesota plays at New Orleans while Seattle plays at Philadelphia.  I am taking Buffalo, New England, New Orleans and Seattle.  My son is taking Houston, New England, New Orleans and Philadelphia. 

Once again, congratulations to Big Mel 75!


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Bearmeat's picture

January 03, 2020 at 09:46 pm

I was robbed, I say!

In all seriousness, TGR, thanks for putting this together. If you care to do so next year, CBS does a Confidence Pick 'Em league. Your least confident pick you'd rate as a "1" and most as a "16" (or however many games there are that week. If you get the "1" wrong, no big deal, but upsets would lose you big points.

They take more thought. It's lots of fun! I prefer them to traditional pick ems personally.

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dobber's picture

January 04, 2020 at 05:45 am

I really like survivor pools, personally.

For those unfamiliar, you pick the winner of only one game each week. If you're correct, you move on to the next week. If you're wrong, you're done. Once you pick a team, you can't use them again (for example: if you pick the Packers week 1, you can't pick them again the rest of the year).

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Big_Mel_75's picture

January 03, 2020 at 09:52 pm

Yeah!! It was a blast.. I kept bragging at work how I was doing and they kept saying how much you win if you win? I kept telling them bragging rights... :) Thank you for putting this together!! Was a lot of fun!!

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Big_Mel_75's picture

January 04, 2020 at 03:08 pm

Titians, Texans, Saints, Seahawks

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Handsback's picture

January 03, 2020 at 10:22 pm

I think I should give up picking games....used to be good even won 2nd place in ESPN bowl picks...but now 33rd place (did miss some weeks) I have to recalibrate my thoughts.

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Jonathan Spader's picture

January 03, 2020 at 11:05 pm

Here's hoping the Titans upset the Patriots!

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croatpackfan's picture

January 04, 2020 at 08:42 am

I'm realy surprised I get 3rd pisition. Also I agree you have to adjust score of those who missed some week or weeks, or some picks. I missed one whole week, I believe and few Thursday games. But I did not think I'm thatnhigh. I suppose I got some lucky upset scores...
TGR, it was fun and thank you for the idea and for following scores.

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Thegreatreynoldo's picture

January 04, 2020 at 09:40 am

ESPN listed you with 159 correct picks. You completely missed week 13. You got .665272% of picks correct, which when multiplied is 10.64. I rounded down as a penalty, so I added 10 and not 11 to you 159 nominal score to get 169 as your final score. I didn't adjust for missing one game, such as a Thursday game.

Congratulations on a nice job.

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croatpackfan's picture

January 04, 2020 at 10:42 am

Thanks TGR. I have no objections on your adjustments. You did nice job.

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Thegreatreynoldo's picture

January 04, 2020 at 09:49 am

We could do a trial run on these alternatives. Confidence with 4 being most confident:
4: NO
3: NE
2: BUF
1: SEA.

Survivor Pool: Hmm, I think there is some strategy that should be used. I'll take:
NE.

I think NE will win, but I probably won't take them in the divisional round.

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Jonathan Spader's picture

January 04, 2020 at 11:42 pm

Called the upset TGR ;)

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Thegreatreynoldo's picture

January 06, 2020 at 03:48 am

LOL. Yeah, in the Survivor Pool Game I'd be dead as a door nail. And I'd be in serious trouble after getting 1 point out of the 10 possible points for the Wild Card weekend. I should stick to straight up.

That said, ESPN has a confidence game format. It would be easy enough to run a straight up and a separate confidence pool. NFL.com had a survivor pool league. CBSsports runs all three, but I've never used them. I didn't love ESPN's format or layout, but it worked well.

Given my "One and Done" performance above, Dobber, I would be inclined to have a double elimination, but that can be discussed next August, and we'd have to find out what Jersey Al thinks about multiple formats, as well.

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croatpackfan's picture

January 06, 2020 at 04:58 am

As you call for play off prediction, I predict for

AFCCG Chiefs at Ravens

NFCCG Vikings at Packers

Put your prediction!

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Thegreatreynoldo's picture

January 07, 2020 at 04:22 am

(4) Baltimore
(3) SF
(2) KC
(1) GB

Survivor: KC (saving Ravens and SF).

So, just one difference of opinion: you like MN and I prefer SF.

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