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This was a cool thing, and it's always fun to see how things change from preseason predictions.
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Also I should remember to finish things I start. Set 2 Wins by best AFC Team losses by worst NFC Team Everyone thought the Patriots or Steelers would be ridiculous and everyone else in the AFC would suck... so, uh, yeah. And the NFC was thought to have some real trainwreck teams like the Rams, 49ers, Bears, But no one quite Browns bad and there was a bunch of 16-0 hype, so almost everyone took the AFC. Anyway, another push happened, whoops Patriots road wins Cowboys home wins People kept predicting the Patriots would go 16-0, and I thought they'd lose a handful because I've actually watched them play defense the last few years, ANYWAY, I figured the Cowboys would end up not losing Elliot for that long and this would be closer, but the Pats lost 2 home games, while the Cowboys went 3-5 at Jerry's World. Patriots pickers: wandler20 Diqnol fsif SKULL.GIF shyduck Metapod GeneX oldskool Intruder Whooping Crabs Athanatos on the bored wop GaussianCopula Marshmallow Blue King Hong Kong Infidel Castro a new study bible! a neat cape Kalli Magnetic North axeil IcePhoenix Dubious 49ers + Rams + Cardinals wins Jets + Bills + Dolphins + Jaguars wins This was a the NFC west was supposed to the Seahawks and shmucks and same with the AFC, but the Jets could be horrifically bad, so let's also give them the Jaguars, because that'll be a laugh. Of course, everyone ended up overperforming I'd say. 11 + 8 + 6 for the NFC, 25 for the NFC vs 9 + 6 + 5 for the AFC East... but then the Jaguars added 10, whoops. Closer to even picks though, people *really* thought the AFC East was all shmucks. AFC BEASTS: wandler20 Diqnol fsif SKULL.GIF shyduck Metapod GeneX oldskool Intruder Athanatos on the bored wop Infidel Castro a new study bible! a neat cape Magnetic North axeil MalarkeyToboggan Benne TSBX The Puppy Bowl Maximum number of passing TDs by a player from this group: Blake Bortles, Sam Bradford, Jay Cutler, Alex Smith, Joe Flacco, Andy Dalton Minimum number of passing TDs by a player from this group: Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers Drew Brees This was probably the most even one, and basically should've been: did you think one of the great QB's would get injured this year? Of course, it ended up being a weird down year for touchdowns, so we had: Brady - 32 Ben - 28 Brees - 23 Rodgers - 16 Seriously, did anyone think Brees would play the full year and only throw 23 drat TD's? While on the bottom franchise QB pile we got: Smith - 26 Dalton - 25 Bortles - 21 Cutler - 19 Flacco - 18 Bradford - 3 QB's aren't always the best: fsif SKULL.GIF Metapod GeneX oldskool Infidel Castro a new study bible! axeil MalarkeyToboggan The Puppy Bowl GaussianCopula King Hong Kong IcePhoenix Ginger Beer Belly OxySnake Longest TD play from scrimmage by Le’Veon Bell Longest Field Goal by Justin Tucker Goofy little thing considering any kicker probably gets off a 50 yarder and any running back that gets fed the ball a billion times probably breaks off a ridiculous run at some point. Bell didn't. His longest run this year was 27 drat yards and his longest reception was 42... and neither was a touchdown, he had an 11 yard rushing and a 35 yard receiving TD. Kickers are people too: fsif Metapod axeil The Puppy Bowl OxySnake on the bored wop a neat cape Whooping Crabs Marshmallow Blue Dubious Number of Head coaches fired before the end of the season Total Ties Remember ties? Those were cool, Anyway, a bunch of coaches got fired, almost everyone figured that would happen, fsif Metapod The Puppy Bowl OxySnake a neat cape Whooping Crabs Marshmallow Blue Dubious SKULL.GIF GeneX oldskool Infidel Castro a new study bible! MalarkeyToboggan GaussianCopula King Hong Kong IcePhoenix Diqnol Intruder Athanatos Benne TSBX sexy tiger boobs TurboFlamingChicken wandler20 Kalli Adrian Peterson rushing yards Marshawn Lynch rushing yards old fogey running backs are probably the most depreciated asset to NFL teams, but casual fans loving love 'em. Lynch is way more lovable though, and he at least had a few okay antics this year, while Peterson basically had an Emmitt Smith like year on the Cardinals fsif Metapod The Puppy Bowl OxySnake Marshmallow Blue Dubious SKULL.GIF GeneX oldskool Infidel Castro IcePhoenix Diqnol Intruder Athanatos TSBX sexy tiger boobs TurboFlamingChicken axeil on the bored wop Ginger Beer Belly shyduck Magnetic North wandler20 Kalli Games started by rookie quarterback Games started by QBs who will be 38 years old during this season (i.e., Brees, Palmer, McCown) So yeah, were any of the old fogeys going to break down Palmer, who breaks down a lot, McCown who was probably going to play bad and get benched for Hackenberg AT SOME POINT RIGHT?? vs a guy sitting behind a QB who just got $18m guaranteed, A guy behind Alex Smith, a dude in Cleveland who .. oh my god what you doing Cleveland and a guy who'd probably lose half the year to SAVAGE. So yeah, 16 for Brees, 13 for McCown, 7 for Palmer... which switch those latter two and that's what I bet on. While we've got: 15 for Kizer (also 15 benchings), 12 for Trubisky, 6 for Watson (RIP), 1 for Mahomes, 2 for Peterman oh my god it's a push it's a pus... oh who the gently caress is, CJ Beathard and who cares that he started 5 games for the 49ers in the pre-pretty era. fsif Dubious GeneX Athanatos TSBX sexy tiger boobs TurboFlamingChicken Ginger Beer Belly Magnetic North Benne Starts by Joe Flacco Starts by Andrew Luck Flacco has sucked for years so he has to get benched at some point right? and Luck is supposed to be back any day now right?  fsif Dubious GeneX Athanatos TSBX sexy tiger boobs TurboFlamingChicken Ginger Beer Belly Magnetic North Benne Metapod The Puppy Bowl OxySnake Marshmallow Blue SKULL.GIF oldskool Infidel Castro IcePhoenix Intruder on the bored wop shyduck a neat cape a new study bible! MalarkeyToboggan Kalli Sam Bradford yards per pass attempt Most interceptions by Blake Bortles in a game. This was just me being kind of a cheeky bitch. Bortles has never had more then 3 ints in a game (feels like more then that), while even a terrible checkdown QB hits like 6 YPA. Anyway, Bortles cleaned up his act this year int wise, while Bradford actually was hucking the ball until he exploded, a drat 8.9 YPA after never topping 7 before. (almost as if the Vikings receivers are really good, hmm). fsif Dubious GeneX TSBX sexy tiger boobs TurboFlamingChicken Ginger Beer Belly Benne The Puppy Bowl OxySnake Marshmallow Blue SKULL.GIF oldskool Infidel Castro IcePhoenix Intruder on the bored wop shyduck a new study bible! Diqnol axeil Whooping Crabs GaussianCopula King Hong Kong wandler20 Current Scores: 13 fsif 11 Marshmallow Blue 11 SKULL.GIF 10 a new study bible! 10 Dubious 10 IcePhoenix 9 Benne 9 GeneX 9 Infidel Castro 9 Metapod 9 oldskool 9 TSBX 8 a neat cape 8 axeil 8 on the bored wop 8 sexy tiger boobs 8 shyduck 8 The Puppy Bowl 7 Athanatos 7 Diqnol 7 GaussianCopula 7 Ginger Beer Belly 7 Intruder 7 Kalli 7 OxySnake 7 wandler20 7 Whooping Crabs 6 Magnetic North 6 TurboFlamingChicken 5 King Hong Kong 5 MalarkeyToboggan
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Kalli posted:This was a the NFC west was supposed to the Seahawks and shmucks and same with the AFC, but the Jets could be horrifically bad, so let's also give them the Jaguars, because that'll be a laugh. huh
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Feb 18, 2018 23:47
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Turns out I have no idea what the gently caress is going to happen year to year in the NFL
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Athanatos posted:Turns out I have no idea what the gently caress is going to happen year to year in the NFL Hell, I made the drat questions up and am doing just as bad.
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Feb 18, 2018 23:54
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I have zero memory of C.J. Beathard and he was literally starting games as late as Thanksgiving week
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Feb 19, 2018 07:05
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I only remember him because his name is Beathard.
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Mega64 posted:I only remember him because his name is Beathard. The one thing I remember was making a bunch of shameless Beat Hard jokes on Twitter
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hifi posted:huh I'm underselling the cardinals a little bit, since they did have David Johnson, but the consensus was they missed their window and would need a bunch of things to break right to be a WC team, while the rams and 49ers were expected to be trash. And in the AFC, the Dolphins had Tannehill's injury knock them out, while everyone thought the Bills would be pretty bad and the Jets would be unable to score an offensive point. Also the Jags were expected to be really bad too because of the previous 6 years of Jags football.
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No I meant that post read like you were having a stroke
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Finishing this up finally. First up, I forgot I said ties gave the point to the side with less votes. So first up, fixed scores before we start: 18 fsif 15 Dubious 15 GeneX 15 shyduck 15 SKULL.GIF 15 TurboFlamingChicken 14 axeil 14 Ginger Beer Belly 14 Infidel Castro 14 Marshmallow Blue 14 OxySnake 14 The Puppy Bowl 13 a neat cape 13 Athanatos 13 IcePhoenix 13 Intruder 13 on the bored wop 13 Whooping Crabs 12 Diqnol 12 GaussianCopula 12 Kalli 12 TSBX 12 wandler20 11 Magnetic North 11 MalarkeyToboggan 11 Metapod 11 oldskool 11 sexy tiger boobs 10 a new study bible! 10 Benne 10 King Hong Kong ================================================================ And here we go. Number of playoff (non-Super Bowl) games won by the visiting team Maximum number of TDs thrown by Kirk Cousins in a single game There's 10 playoff games, and in the Wildcard round, the home team wins almost half the time, Divisional round home teams win like 75% while Conference Championships are closer to 60%... so on average 3-4 road team wins. This year we had 3. Kirk Cousins threw... 3 TD's in 4 different games. You figure a QB who starts 16 games has a random 4 high TD game (especially these last few years), but not this year. a neat cape Diqnol GeneX Ginger Beer Belly Infidel Castro on the bored wop sexy tiger boobs shyduck SKULL.GIF The Puppy Bowl TurboFlamingChicken wandler20 Whooping Crabs # of Pages in SB thread. Highest Yards from scrimmage for a non-QB in the Superbowl SA's been losing posters for years, but the Superbowl thread still gets big, especially with all the close, good games. And typically someone in the Superbowl goes off for like ~150 yards from scrimmage. This year 194 pages (granted the game stops around like 170 or so), the leading player for the Superbowl was.... Danny Amendola a pretty big shock, with 152. Lots of people got this one right, congrats shitposters a neat cape GeneX Ginger Beer Belly Infidel Castro shyduck SKULL.GIF TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs a new study bible! Athanatos axeil Dubious fsif GaussianCopula IcePhoenix Intruder Kalli King Hong Kong Magnetic North MalarkeyToboggan Marshmallow Blue Metapod OxySnake Games where Jared Goff is sacked at least 6 times Number of head coaches who coach in week 1 and do not coach 16 games Whoops, I had 2 different coaches get fired mid-season questions. Anyway, Goff was a loving trainwreck as a rookie and in his half season of starts, got sacked 7 times in a game and could've easily had a few others. Either way, most people correctly assumed he wouldn't get sacked that many times often, whereas I think just about everyone expected some coaches to get got. a neat cape GeneX Ginger Beer Belly shyduck SKULL.GIF TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs Athanatos Dubious Intruder Kalli MalarkeyToboggan Marshmallow Blue OxySnake Diqnol on the bored wop sexy tiger boobs The Puppy Bowl wandler20 Benne oldskool TSBX Number of repeat divisions champions Number of new division champions The AFC felt like the Patriots and the Steelers and who knows what, while in the NFC, the Packers and Seahawks were pretty close to shoe-ins for their divisions, and the Falcons too!. The NFC turned on its head, while the AFC played out that way. Only the Patriots, Steelers and Chiefs repeated this year, neat. shyduck Diqnol sexy tiger boobs The Puppy Bowl wandler20 fsif AFC Championship Game win by the AFC East AFC Championship Game win by the rest of the AFC The Pats were somewhat overwhelming favorites for the SB, so the Steelers got whomever out of the West and South to even things up. It's always smart to take the field, and most posters did, but guess who overcame the odds  . shyduck fsif SKULL.GIF Marshmallow Blue OxySnake Benne oldskool Infidel Castro GaussianCopula IcePhoenix King Hong Kong Magnetic North NFC Championship Game win by the NFC East and NFC West NFC Championship Game win by the NFC North and NFC South The Seahawks and Cowboys vs the Packers and Falcons / Panthers, a tough choice, who to choose? I love how seasons play out versus the preseason, it all just breaks so beautifully. shyduck fsif Marshmallow Blue OxySnake Benne GaussianCopula GeneX Ginger Beer Belly Athanatos Intruder MalarkeyToboggan on the bored wop a new study bible! axeil Sacks by JJ Watt + Clowney Texans' Offensive rank in Points scored The Texans were supposed to start Savage for half the season, then have Watson limp along the second half aka, suck poo poo, while Watt and Clowney would be finally healthy and get to ~20 something combined sacks and it'd be awesome. Clowney held up his end with 9.5, but Watt died again, and Watson was awesome during the 6 watchable Texans games last year, and got the Texans to an average scoring offense at 17th... which tells you something about all those non-Watson games. shyduck GeneX a new study bible! SKULL.GIF Infidel Castro King Hong Kong TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs TSBX Hackenberg completions this season. Years since the Jets won the Superbowl.  Hack was bad, but he was picked so high and had nothing keeping him on the bench, so of course he gets a few Ryan Lindley games right? shyduck GeneX a new study bible! Infidel Castro TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs TSBX fsif OxySnake Ginger Beer Belly Athanatos Intruder MalarkeyToboggan on the bored wop axeil Magnetic North sexy tiger boobs The Puppy Bowl Dubious Kalli Metapod Bell + Brown + Bryant yards from scrimmage Total passing yardage for the Browns Even a bad passing team should be okay right? While the Steelers were a three man show on offense. Bell and Bryant were ridiculous as usual, while Bryant was a distant contributor. The Browns just loving sucked. Bell - 1946 Brown -1533 Bryant - 625 vs Browns - 3228 TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs TSBX OxySnake Ginger Beer Belly MalarkeyToboggan on the bored wop Magnetic North sexy tiger boobs Kalli Metapod SKULL.GIF King Hong Kong GaussianCopula oldskool IcePhoenix Diqnol wandler20 Chargers wins Philip Rivers children. I thought Rivers had 7 kids, SA2k corrected me, so it turned into an over or under .500. The Chargers were certainly talented, but have had overall poor rosters and horrible injury problems for years. Things started to come together this year, and they hit 9-7 and Rivers did not pop out another one. Only 8 of us thought the Chargers would break .500, which is surprising. Or they just picked the funny response. Ginger Beer Belly GaussianCopula Diqnol wandler20 fsif Athanatos Dubious a neat cape Yards from scrimmage for Jordan Howard Total receiving yards by the Bears top 4 WR's. Howard had 1600 YFS last year, while the Bears had nothing at WR after offseason purging. Howard fell off a bit, and boy were the Bears' WR's bad, but 3 of them were just enough to squeak by: Jordan Howard - 1247 vs Kendall Wright - 614 Josh Bellamy - 376 Dontrolle Inman - 334 Tre' McBride - 144 GaussianCopula Diqnol wandler20 fsif Athanatos Dubious a neat cape TurboFlamingChicken Whooping Crabs TSBX MalarkeyToboggan oldskool IcePhoenix shyduck Infidel Castro Intruder axeil The Puppy Bowl Marshmallow Blue Benne Highest Margin of victory for the Panthers Age of the QB who leads the league in passing yards Only 3 people thought the Panthers would truly blow someone out. Never would've expected Brady to lead in passing yards, so 40 shouldn't have been there, but Brees is always a safe bet, while I expected someone like Stafford, and come on Panthers, you could've put another TD on the Dolphins. 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GaussianCopula fsif a neat cape TurboFlamingChicken IcePhoenix Intruder axeil The Puppy Bowl Marshmallow Blue Ginger Beer Belly OxySnake on the bored wop Magnetic North Kalli King Hong Kong Sacks taken by Giants' Quarterbacks Longest punt return by Washington The Giants' OL expected to have some huge problems, while typically a punt returner breaks something for 40-50 yards pretty regularly. The Giants started poor, but cleaned their act up a bit, and they "only" allowed 34 sacks last year, which would be great for Washington, but their ST weren't so great and their longest return was only 29 yards. a neat cape axeil Marshmallow Blue Kalli Dubious Whooping Crabs SKULL.GIF shyduck Final tally: 23 fsif 19 Marshmallow Blue 19 SKULL.GIF 18 Dubious 18 IcePhoenix 18 shyduck 17 a neat cape 17 Ginger Beer Belly 16 axeil 16 GeneX 16 Infidel Castro 16 The Puppy Bowl 16 TurboFlamingChicken 16 Whooping Crabs 15 Athanatos 15 Benne 15 GaussianCopula 15 Kalli 15 on the bored wop 15 OxySnake 15 TSBX 14 a new study bible! 14 Diqnol 14 Intruder 14 sexy tiger boobs 14 wandler20 13 MalarkeyToboggan 13 Metapod 13 oldskool 12 Magnetic North 11 King Hong Kong Congratulations fsif, you crushed this dumb game. You should probably gamble more.
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Not last! Woo!
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Magnetic North posted:Not last! Woo! The last shall be first.
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Benne posted:The one thing I remember was making a bunch of shameless Beat Hard jokes on Twitter really disappointing that no newspaper ever ran the headline Beathard Beat Hard as Iowa Falls to Northwestern
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Right in the meaty part of the curve. Not showing off, not falling behind.
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Mar 2, 2018 20:05
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Well with a little assist from alphabetical order, I beat the game runner. Good enough for me. Thanks for doing this Kalli. It's great to look back at the questions after the season.
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Okay I'll take a bow.
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Athanatos posted:Well with a little assist from alphabetical order, I beat the game runner. Good enough for me. Yeah, in retrospect some of the questions sure seemed silly. Like, how often could he get realistically get sacked 6 times in a season? But only a few were truly lopsided in how people picked, and most of those the majority got wrong. Wow, looking it up, David Carr managed to get sacked 6+ times 5 times his rookie season and 12 times in his career... which, man the Texans really did set out to ruin his life huh?
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I'm pretty happy with how I did in this despite barely paying attention to the NFL compared to the other two major sports.
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