2011 NFL Regular Season [FINAL RESULTS UP!]

[Invertigone]

Texans
Saints
Steelers
Falcons

[octoinky]

(6) Cincinnati > (3) Houston
(5) Pittsburgh > (4) Denver

(3) New Orleans > (6) Detroit
(4) New York Giants > (5) Atlanta

And just for fun...

(1) New England > (6) Cincinnati
(2) Baltimore > (5) Pittsburgh
(1) New England > (2) Baltimore

(3) New Orleans > (2) San Francisco
(1) Green Bay > (4) New York Giants
(3) New Orleans > (1) Green Bay

(3) New Orleans > (1) New England


NFC Playoffs have a chance to be epic.  Not sure I feel the same about the AFC.

[Jimbo]

Octo's post implies that Drew Brees can accurately throw a football outside of a dome in brutal cold temperatures (we have a night time NFC Championship slot this year, remember that!)

Anyway, give me...

Cincinatti, DENVER, New Orleans, New York Giants

[octoinky]

Don't forget, New Orleans was a close Week 1 game in Green Bay away from having the 1 seed.  Week 20 in cold weather is different, but I think the Saints have been a bit too overshadowed by the Packers this season.

I'll be rooting for the 49ers though   I can see a Niners - Saints game in SF going one of two ways - Niners play how they want to and squeeze out a win, or they get blown the F out.

[Ngamer]

New topic is up for playoffs picks and discussion- just leaving this open a little longer to wrap things up.  Because...

It's all over!  Another exciting NFL regular season is in the books; let's see who came out on top in the Elite.

NFL Spread SuperBet Final Results



Full Results available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvhZ2lt476FmdENPaFpIdmpjNHN2a1FISTEwNXZfcUE

Congrats to Youse, our first ever Superbet Champion!  Interestingly, Youse had such a good season that, heading into W17, he would have been #2 in the world in the real-life Supercontest where thousands of dollars are on the line and all the best gamblers in Vegas are involved.  Unfortunately he would have blown a great chance at the win (went 1-4 this week, while the #1 Vegas guy went 4-1), but still would have finished in 3rd or 4th place and made a ton of money.  So hopefully he moves to Vegas and enters next year!

UNcongrats to the stupid Seahawks, who blew a perfect opportunity to beat the Cardinals in regulation, instead coming up 1/2 point short of the line and costing Ngamer 2nd place.  Instead that goes to Come, at 48 pts.   Booooo!


Pigskin Pick'Em Final Results



The Elite's worst fears have been realized!  Beaten by a girl, oh nooooooooooo...  Congrats to Ngamer's Sister, who won the league convincingly and finished in the top 99 percentile worldwide in the process.  Moto finished 3 wins back to settle for Silver, while Bronze was split between Woll and Ng's Cousin.  Ngamer ended up a disappointing 5th with 169 wins.


Survival was of course won by Come, as mentioned a couple months ago.  He was knocked out by picking the Chiefs in W9, which is I think the worst showing we've ever had for an Elite winner, but still looks good considering everyone else was dead by Week 5.

And as we talked about last week, Clark made an epic comeback to win the Elite Fantasy Super Bowl over QB.  wiff edged out DK there to snag the Bronze.

Another fun season, hope everyone enjoyed it!

[Ngamer]

Now let's wrap up this season of Ngamer Betting Action!


Ngamer Bets 2011 - Regular Season

SEASON: Colts will win UNDER 9.5 games in the 2011 regular season
* risking $5 to win $5.75

RESULT: Colts go 2-14, WIN

Safe to say this was the greatest bet of all time!

FANTASY SEASON: Ng's Fudge Pack will finish TOP FOUR (out of 14) in regular season total points scored
* risking $5 to win $15

RESULT: Despite outscoring Youse by a good 16 points, the Superteam came up a little short on this one.  LOSS

SEASON: the following 6 teams will miss 2011 Playoffs
* Panthers, Bills, Bengals, Redskins, Broncos, Dolphins
* risking $5 to win $5

RESULT: Bah, BAH I say!  Newton kept the Panthers relevant but they were never a threat, Bills looked like the team to ruin this before an incredible collapse, Dolphins played like a playoff team in the 2nd half but were luckily killed themselves in the first half, and Redskins certainly SHOULD have been in contention considering that awful NFC East but somehow messed that up.

As for the Bengals and Broncos, neither played well down the stretch and both lost in the final weeks which SHOULD have doomed them and given me my second miracle finish in a row on this bet.  Too bad the Raiders and Jets are a complete disgrace to the sports landscape.  LOSS

Week 3: OVER 3 points for Supercontest picks (3 exactly is a push)
* risking $5 to win $10

RESULT: Went 3-2 to make it a PUSH

Week 4: Philadelphia Phillies will win 2011 World Series
* risking $5 to win $8.75

RESULT: Would make this bet again in a heartbeat!  Stupid Cardinals... LOSS.

Week 8: Ngamer will earn more October ESPN BTS wins than QB
* risking $5 to win $5.01

RESULT: He had to take his laptop and walk across the parking lot at his hotel three times a night to steal wifi from the building next door in order to get enough picks in... but it paid off, with QB edging Ngamer by 1 win for the month.  LOSS


Final Result: $14.25 lost
 
Easily my worst season as a gambler... but I'm feeling a hot streak coming for these playoffs!

EDIT - Just for the record, the 7 other teams I was considering for the "miss the playoffs" pick were, in the order I was going to use them,

Cardinals, Browns, Seahawks, Raiders, Vikings, Titans, Jaguars

...all of which missed by a mile!  (Except the Raiders, which as I've said should have made it if they weren't complete failures at everything.)

Also, here were the 6 seasonlong OVER/UNDERS I wanted to bet

COLTS UNDER 9.5
Bears UNDER 8.5
Cowboys UNDER 9
Packers OVER 11.5
Jets UNDER 10
Rams OVER 7.5

Rams would have been a total disaster, but would have gone 5-1 overall, pretty slick!

[youseinthehouse]

Good news, Elite.  I have decided to enter the 2012 SuperContest!  If you were impressed by my performance this season, I am accepting help with the stake up to 50%.  Just paypal me the loot, I'll know what it's for.

Man I crushed it this year.  Don't see myself topping 50 ever again: I actually had an awful year overall vs. the spread.  Pretty hilarious actually.  In my private season-long spread pool, I ended up with a measly 114 correct.  114/256 is 44.5%, whereas my SC picks were right at a clip of 64.7%!!!!  (I ignored the half points for ties in the SC in order to compare to the 114 number... so 55/85 correct)  That disparity is astounding.

my w17 got Matt Flynn'd.  I was fairly sure the Lions would be alright, y'know, actually playing for something significant while A-Rod groomed his beard on the sidelines.  Not only should the Lions have handled business, but the Falcons also would have had nothing to play for and rested EVERYBODY in their late game... making their cover vs the Bucs a LOT less likely.

Unfortunately, I was driving back home from festivities afar during the games on NYD (what the hell is a smartphone??) and couldn't switch my Bucs pick to Falcons once I realized the Lions were blowing it via radio... I certainly would have taken this course of action otherwise.

All this means is I should have lost to the real 2nd place by 1, instead of 2.  Meh, no big deal.  BUT, if Lions aren't completely terrible at life, I maybe tie for 2nd in the big picture.  I now hope they lose to the Saints by 50 or so, Colts style.

[wishiwasfamous]

Does Clark get all the money?

[youseinthehouse]

I now hope they lose to the Saints by 50 or so, Colts style.

Good 'nuff.