Week 12 will be worth $3,180.00 to a single winner
Week 11 wasn’t all that difficult to pick until it was. The college games were, for the most part, some of the larger overall point spread games of the Pick 10 season. On the NFL side of the Pool, 7 teams had in excess of 200 picks. I envisioned another week of at least 80 winners.
And, early on, the Pool was going in that direction. There was a little blip in an early evening upset of Oregon State by Air Force. That eliminated 65 Poolers. Not bad, but going into the very late starting Kansas vs BYU, 5 Poolers selected Kansas, while 124 picked BYU. That game didn’t end until the wee hours of Sunday morning. And when we arose, found out that BYU was defeated.
We went into Sunday with 134 Poolers without a loss. 7 of those were 2-0, 23 were 1-0 and 104 were 0-0. There was still a long way to go to 10 wins.
Everything was going along pretty well with the early NFL games. That is until Baltimore, with 113 picks, lost to the Steelers. That reduced the number of potential winners to 3 at 7-0, 10 at 6-0 and 6 at 5-0 going into the Sunday late games. However, once San Francisco lost to Seattle, we were down to only Royal72 with an opportunity to win the week and $1,590.00 all to himself. Royal72 was 8-0 at the time of the 49’er loss. That didn’t last long as he was eliminated shortly after with his Kansas City pick. WHEW! A long winded route to get to the ROLLOVER!!
While we didn’t have any winners this week, 8 Poolers did finish the week by going 9-1. Along with Royal72, was C2COOL, Football Queen, KisaMamma, Oban, Steamrollers, Stoners and T-Bone.
And then there was Sites and his 2-8 finish. OY VEY!!
In the Pick 1 Winner Pool, of the 31 Poolers that started the week, Dr Evil was the only one that was eliminated with his Baltimore pick.
The Pick 1 Loser Pool experienced a total of 9 Poolers being eliminated. All with a Seattle pick. That reduces the number still participating to 33. Of that number, 5 are still without a loss.
In the Accumulative Pool, we are back to a tie for 1st place with Junior D and Killer B at 84 wins. But now, tied for 3rd place with 82 wins, 2 wins out of 1st are Big ‘Ol Ditka, Chris9080, MrChicagoTWP, Roso903, Tommy G and Tungey. Still 7 weeks left, so if you are remotely close to the leaders, never give up hope.
We enter Week 12 with a difficult week. There are only 13 NFL games. Obviously, that means there are 12 college teams. Many of you are going to have to make a decision. I’m particularly talking about those of you that wait until Sunday to make your picks. If you do that this week, you will have to pick 10 winners out of only 12 games. Sports betting makes a fortune off of people trying to pick 6 winners out of 16 games. If you have that much confidence that you can wait until Sunday and pick 10 teams correctly, you need to put a buck on those 10 teams with an online betting site. If you aren’t that confident, you may want to think about making your picks on Thursday of Saturday.
