It’s getting tougher…

I’m thinking Giants, or Miami, or 49ers this week.

bit nails and grey hair…

Detroit won a nail biter…
Dallas got lucky…
Jacksonville kept it close till the end…

Just a couple points or a couple plays different and most everybody in the elimination league I am in would have gone bye bye…

That 12.8% still alive would be more like 1.2%.

What an amazing football week it was.

FYI: I picked Detroit.

As for my other leagues…

Two weeks in a row, Santa’s Little Helpers have scored enough points to beat any of the other 10 teams in the league, only to lose to a no name who got lucky and won top dawg (highest weekly score)… Arrrgh!

My prediction: Todd (currently 4-7) will be the 3rd (no name) team in a row to beat me by somehow miraculously getting the top dawg award. Double Arrrgh!

The Weekend Warriors are rolling right along and after spending the entire season in the middle of the pack are now tied for the lead!

The Pariahs, well, lets just say they are still playing… Just not winning very much….

Oh, and I went 12 – 4 for my predictions last week.

All in all, not too bad.

Weekly Predictions

Are you kidding me?

I’m still trying to figure out who to pick in my elimination league !!!

Way too many flip of the coin or who cares games this week.

But, hey, I’ll give it a shot.

Miami Dolphins @ Carolina Panthers = Panthers

Washington Redskins @ Dallas Cowboys = Cowboys

Cleveland Browns @ Detroit Lions = Lions

San Francisco 49ers @ Green Bay Packers = Packers

Pittsburgh Steelers @ Kansas City Chiefs = Steelers

Seattle Seahawks @ Minnesota Vikings = Vikings

Atlanta Falcons @ New York Giants = Falcons

New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers = Saints

Buffalo Bills @ Jacksonville Jaguars = Jags

Indianapolis Colts @ Baltimore Ravens = Colts

Arizona Cardinals @ St Louis Rams = Cardinals

San Diego Chargers @ Denver Broncos = Chargers

Cincinnati Bengals @ Oakland Raiders = Bengals

New York Jets @ New England Patriots = Patriots

Philadelphia Eagles @ Chicago Bears = Eagles

Tennessee Titans @ Houston Texans = Titans

I want to be King….

OK,

I’ve have a small secret confession to reveal.

I’ve said all along that I am in 3 fantasy leagues.

Truth is, I am in 4….

GASP!

I also signed up for this elimination league.

The idea is simple, yet intriguing, and incredibly challenging all at the same time.

You get to pick one team each week that you think is going to win.

Easy.

But… There is always a but…

Once you pick that team, you can never pick that team again for the rest of the season. Including the playoffs and the Super Bowl!

The idea is to pick a winning team each week through the whole season, playoffs and ultimately the super bowl. All without repeating a team.

If the team you pick wins, you advance to play again.
If the team you pick looses or ties, you are out.

Last player picking wins. Or in this case; is “King of the Mountain”.

So, how have I done.

Well, I have survived; but not without some nail biters…

First nail biter was Redskins vs Rams. The Skins managed to eek out a win 9 – 7.

Next nail victim game was Bengals vs Browns. A close one 23 – 20.

Not to be out done… the Cowboys decided they needed and extra quarter to defeat the Chiefs in week 5.

And seeing that OT was the way to give fans a thrilling heart attack, Jacksonville proceeded to do the exact same thing against the Rams in Week 6. Oh and if that was not enough, I had had the Eagles picked to win against the Raiders all week but for some reason, decided to change it the day before…
Oh yeah, that’s right… I decided that I was not ready to eliminate the Eagles from being a playoff team yet…

Thankfully the last two weeks have gone smoothly and without any more loss of finger nails.

But, (there’s that incredible word again)…

Now it seems to be getting tougher. Now it seems that one has to think more and more about the potential playoff teams. Trouble is, at this point in time, there are is a ton of unpredictable potential when it comes to the playoffs and how well a team is or is not going to do on any given week.

This week is the first that it struck me as “getting difficult”. I still think there are a couple “safe” bets but each week from now on will get trickier and trickier…

Who would you pick?