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Pigskin Pick’em Week 16 report

By Bill on December 23, 2008 in

This week, the Redskins were officially eliminated from the playoffs even as they defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in a must-win game for the Eagles, putting a serious blow in the Eagles chances.  Throwing out a defensive gem, the Redskins dominated the Eagles, and guaranteed that Jim Zorn will have a record no worse than Joe Gibbs in Gibbs rookie season, and a 3-3 split in the NFC East.  Too bad that we muffed the Cincinnati game and the St. Louis game; if we could have pulled out those two games, we’d have just clinched a playoff berth, and both of those were games we could have and should have won easily.  That kind of mirrors this week’s picks in the Pigskin Pick’em… coulda, woulda, shoulda, but no playoffs for some players.

This week’s player of the week props go to coooooley and Tidewater Picks with 11 picks; that’s a good week when a number of minor upsets pulled quite a few players off their “A” game.  Three others were nearly as good, with 10.  Special notice to Tidewater picks; he didn’t get his picks in before the Thursday game, so he only had 15 games to go, and he picked Philly (cooooooley picked Washington).  Regardless, both earned this week’s Weekly Player Props!

This week’s Upset Pick of the Week is an easy one… with all the doom and gloom in Redskins Nation the last few weeks, especially after calls for the firing of Jim Zorn after last weeks debacle, Washington’s defensive domination earned Washington Upset Pick of the Week honors; hey, if Jason Taylor could have performed like that all season, we would have a substantially better record.  And if everyone except cooooooley, Texas Redskin, Pizzatown, Veretax’s Picks, stuck in the ‘tah, and Sundayisforfootball had picked the Redskins, they’d have a better record, too.  But those are the folks who did, earning Upset Pick of the Week Kudos.

 What with the shakeup in weekly records the last few weeks, we’ve had some juggling in our season league leaderboard.  While Hot Stuff Coming Through has nearly cemented his season victory with 152 points, last year’s winner A. Fishman’s Picks has gone from also-ran to a somewhat shaky second place with 148 picks; the reason his position is somewhat shaky is because there is now a three way tie for third, at 147, between Star City Sportzkats, cooooooley, and chris horton hears a who; any of those could easily move into second with an exceptional week.  In addition, even those four may not get second or third, as two more players are just a single game back at 146, and could easily jump into second or third with a good week.  However, those are our current season leaders, and deserve their props this week!  Remember that there is but a single week left to play, so get in it to win it and finish strong!  Oh, and from my family to all of the rest of you in Redskin’s Nation, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah.  Next week comes the big announcement of our season winner!

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Pigskin Pick’em Week 15 results

By Bill on December 16, 2008 in

The old saying is that on any given Sunday, any professional football team (except Detroit, but then I did say PROFESSIONAL football team) can beat any other team.  Last Sunday, if Detroit had played our beloved Redskins, we would have proven that even Detroit could beat a team… but instead, we lost to the next worst team in the league, the lowly Bengals, effectively ending any chance for a playoff spot.  In all the wailing and gnashing of teeth (well earned over the loss to the Bengals, but not in general for many of the other losses), a lot of folks are losing sight of something that most folks took for granted prior to the season…. the Redskins are a 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 team.  Most folks figured over-under was 8 (Vegas had it at 7.5 prior to the season).  And guess what?  That’s exactly the season we’re looking at even if we came at it from being one of the best teams early in the season.  It’s not time to jump off the wagon, and it’s not time to throw the Redskins under the bus.  This season wasn’t supposed to be a playoff season, it was supposed to be a rebuilding season.  In that same thought, we’re starting to finally have people be eliminated from ultimate victory in the Pigskin Pick’em now, even as some move up into contention.  This week’s big winners, cooooooley, I miss Schroeder to Bryant, Fletchskins and Star City Sportzkatz, were able to garner 12 point weeks when most players fell into the 9-10 win range, which greatly increased the “playoff chances” for at least two of them.  They deserve their player of the week props for week 15!

Upset pick of the week was pretty upsetting; I don’t even need to tell all of Redskin nation what that game was.  Two folks were pessimistic enough to see this upset coming, earning them Upset Pick of the Week kudos, I miss Schroeder to Bryant and Fletchskins (hmm, maybe that’s how they got the 12s?)  At any rate, Kudos to them for the upset pick of the week.

There’s a bit of excitement near the top this week in our season standings; Hot Stuff Coming Through fortified his position with 11 wins, stretching his lead back to three games with two weeks left, at 143.  A. Fishman’s Picks and chris horton hears a who, tied in second, both only picked up 9 wins, allowing the rabid horde below them to tighten the series for the final two weeks; in the meantime, Star City Sportzkatz 12 win week allowed him to tie A. Fishman’s Picks and chris horton hears a who with 140 points for the season, for a three way tie for second.  Four other players are within 4 points of one of the coveted spots, as well, allowing room for a late season surge, but they still need help in order to steal one of those coveted spots, though it’s starting to look like 1st place is in the bag for Hot Stuff Coming Through.  Kudos to all four of our leaders, and don’t forget to get your picks in in time for the Thursday night game!

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Pigskin Pick’em week 14 results

By Bill on December 10, 2008 in

I want to apologize for the lateness of this update; I’ve been travelling over the weekend, and am a day behind in nearly everything.  Well, here it is in Week 14, with the Redskins having fallen to 7-6 and nearly out of playoff consideration; it will take a Gibbsian late season string to pull out the playoff berth that seemed a certainty just a month ago.  But just as the playoffs in the NFL are starting to take shape, with teams finally starting to clinch berths, we now have a serious “playoff” picture emerging in our Pigskin Pick’em contest.

A. Fishman’s picks led the way this week with 13 picks, a simply outstanding run, and possibly cementing him one of the three coveted winning berths.  However, chris horton hears a who, stuck in the ‘tah, Fletchskins, and I miss Shroeder to Bryant all managed to post 12 win weeks, keeping the game close.  Quite a few players managed to pull out an 11 as well, but for this week, Props to A. Fishman’s picks for his weekly win!

Upset pick of the week is a near no-brainer.  The Giants have looked like world beaters, and the Philadelphia Eagles have looked like the world… so you expect the World Beaters to beat the world, and the Giants to rip Philly…. funny way the ball bounces, though, as Philly pulled up a win that kept their playoff dreams alive.  A few players predicted it, lostnbigD, Veretax’s Picks, and Terp4Life.  Kudos to these guys for the upset pick of the week!

Last, but not least, we have our season leaderboard.  Last year at this time I started the final leaderboard, with all the players listed so that for all posterity they could be shown; I thought about doing it, and said, nah, I’ll post the final leaderboard at the end of the season, so we’re going to stay with the top three players (or at least the top three SPOTS).  For the umpteenth time, Hot Stuff Coming Through is ensconced on our leaderboard… however, the top has seriously trimmed, as his starting to be commanding lead shrunk to a single game as the standings at the top became much tighter.  Hot Stuff Coming Through now leads the pack with 132 points, followed by A. Fishman’s picks and chris horton hears a who, both at 131.  Separation from the “pack” is 3 games; that can be made up, but time is starting to get low.  Twelve people are within ten picks of the leaders, but they need to pick up the pace to get one of those prizes!  Props to our leaders, and remember to get those picks in!

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Pigskin Pick’em week 13 results

By Bill on December 2, 2008 in

Most folks predicted our Redskins would lose this week, and most people would be right.  While there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Redskinville, we can take heart in two things:  the score was not indicative of how close the game was (nor was it indicative of how far apart the two teams were).  Washington missed an realistically makeable field goal just before the half, and nearly had a touchdown in the dying moments; those would have produced a more reasonable score of 23-17.  Poor performance in the defensive secondary, in the punting game, and way too many drops by the wideouts on catchable balls.  It didn’t help that Clinton Portis was injured, nor that Jason Campbell had a pedestrian game himself.  However, regardless of the Doom and Gloom in some quarters, Washington is nearly guaranteed a playoff spot if they win 4 of the last five, and have a reasonable chance at 3 of 5.  There are four games left; sweeping the table should get these guys in.  That said, we have two serious tests still ahead, one this week against the Ravens, and two weeks later against the Eagles.  Winning this week goes a long way, so go Skins!

Just as the Redskins game was neither as close as might be thought, nor as bad as the doom and gloom crowd are moaning, this week’s Pigskin Pick’em results are misleading; while there are four games separating this week’s winners from the lowest picks for the week, those picks in most cases made all the difference.   This week’s winners were A. Fishman’s picks, Star City Sportzcatz, Hot Stuff Coming Through, we want dallas, and lostnbigD with 11 points out of the 16.  That’s pretty good indeed, so props to our weekly winners.

Upset pick of the week was last week’s “Hottest Team in the AFC”, the New York Jets, losing to the erratic Denver Broncos.  The old adage of “don’t believe your own hype” seems to have been in full force here!  I miss Schroeder to Bryant and Tidewater Picks didn’t believe the hype; both of them correctly predicted Denver’s humiliation of Brett Favre’s team.  Kudos to both of them for the Upset Pick of the Week!

Last, but definitely not least, is our stretch run at the championship.  This week saw the first time this season where our season leader has had a distinct separation between him/herself (yes, some of the players are female) and the pack, with Hot Stuff Coming Through taking his already decent lead and expanding it to four points, at 123; while that’s still surmountable, it’s starting to become a winning edge, and is only a mere three points below the full season total for the season champion from two years ago, we want dallas.  However, below that we have a little bit of a shakeup in the (for the last two weeks) solid ranking at #2 and #3.  chris horton hears a who is still in second, but with a tenuous one game lead for the position at 119.  At #3, we now have a tie, with last season’s champion A. Fishman’s picks pulling into a tie (and owning the tiebreaker) over 22209 at 118; a number of other players are close behind, with 9 more players in the next 6 points.  It’s still possible for nearly anyone to win who has been playing all season, but some of the folks who haven’t been as diligent are already, like the Lions, out of the picture.  As we make our way through these last four weeks, we’re setting up for a furious finish!  However, props to our season winners, and I’ll pick up next week again.

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