You can still do a bracket if you want, that’s separate and is just a one time thing.Laura Ingalls wrote:I will just sit this out since I'm not in the cumulative pool.
Football Pool IV
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Ryder is in charge of the Football Pool proper, yes. The one that is now over. He’ll have to sort out the last few winners when he gets back.
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Yeah, in my first question I was wondering if the regular pool continued, as I wasn't sure if it was officially over and didn't include the playoffs.bookworm wrote:Ryder is in charge of the Football Pool proper, yes. The one that is now over. He’ll have to sort out the last few winners when he gets back.
No, thanks...heh. I'm not very good at the bracket thing.bookworm wrote:You can still do a bracket if you want, that’s separate and is just a one time thing.
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Yes, in the playoffs there aren’t enough games each week to only pick winners. My real life pool compensates for this by adding in some over/unders for things like pass and rush yards, total score, etc, but I don’t play those ones. I stop after the regular season.Laura Ingalls wrote:I wasn't sure if it was officially over and didn't include the playoffs.
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Here you go bookworm.
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Here is my playoff bracket:
Wild Card Week:
Saturday:
Cincinnati @ Houston
Minnesota @ Green Bay
Sunday:
Indianapolis @ Baltimore
Seattle @ Washington
Bracket of probably epic failure:
Saturday:
Cincinnati @ Houston
Minnesota @ Green Bay
Sunday:
Indianapolis @ Baltimore
Seattle @ Washington
Bracket of probably epic failure:
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Okay my bracket is already done for.
Unicorns exist... they just got fat and now we call them rhinos.
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I won my real life cumulative pool! 
I really didn’t think I would be able to, I was one behind going into the final week. I thought the best I could do was make up one and tie it like last year, but somehow I made up two and won by one!
-- 07 Jan 2013 01:05 pm --
Cumulative Pool standings:
bookworm - 174
aussie aio fan - 168
American Eagle - 167
The Top Crusader - 162
Knight Fisher - 155
DanP740 - 141
EK - 60
I really didn’t think I would be able to, I was one behind going into the final week. I thought the best I could do was make up one and tie it like last year, but somehow I made up two and won by one!
-- 07 Jan 2013 01:05 pm --
Cumulative Pool standings:
bookworm - 174
aussie aio fan - 168
American Eagle - 167
The Top Crusader - 162
Knight Fisher - 155
DanP740 - 141
EK - 60
Wow, I really picked the Colts in my bracket? At least my picks were all correct.
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Yeah, I was wondering why you and KF had discrepancies between your week picks and brackets.
-- 07 Jan 2013 02:19 pm --
Division Week:
Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
-- 07 Jan 2013 02:19 pm --
Division Week:
Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
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Division Week:
Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
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Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
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Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Now that we’ve had a few Referee Rants it’s time for another installment of bookworm’s Rule Rebukes. These aren’t irritated tirades like the former, they are just objective critiques of things in the NFL that don’t make sense.
This week’s featured rule concerns field goals. As you all probably know, if the ball is kicked so high that it’s over the yellow goalposts, the referees standing under the uprights extend those uprights in their minds to judge whether the kick is good or not. We’ve all heard the commentators mention this. What you may not know though, is what that extending and judging actually entails.
Contrary to common sense, it does not mean that they extend the uprights and see if the ball would have been on the inside had they continued upward. No, all they look for is if part of the ball would have reached across to the inside. Any part, no matter how small. It’s similar to a touchdown where if any part of the ball breaks the goal line, the score is good. Here, if any part of the ball is on the inside of the extended uprights, the kick is good.
It shouldn’t take too much thought to see why this makes absolutely no sense. If the uprights were physically extended instead of just mentally, then of course all of the ball would need to be on the inside of them. If only part was sticking over, it would hit the upright and bounce away, and the kick would be no good. But for extended uprights, for some inexplicable reason, the ball is allowed to pass right through, meaning if merely the tip is sticking over the correct side, you get the points.
Under this system, it would be advantageous for the most part for a team to purposefully kick the ball high, because you can still score even if nearly the whole ball is on the wrong side of the upright. This gives you roughly eleven inches of leeway you would not have if the ball were kicked into the area of the physical goalpost.
If this world without physics is where the NFL wants to play their games, then what they need to do is remove the entire physical goalpost and shine lasers where the uprights would be. Then the boundaries would be marked, but the ball would be able to pass through them like it is through the imaginary uprights. The inconsistency currently in place is ridiculous.
This week’s featured rule concerns field goals. As you all probably know, if the ball is kicked so high that it’s over the yellow goalposts, the referees standing under the uprights extend those uprights in their minds to judge whether the kick is good or not. We’ve all heard the commentators mention this. What you may not know though, is what that extending and judging actually entails.
Contrary to common sense, it does not mean that they extend the uprights and see if the ball would have been on the inside had they continued upward. No, all they look for is if part of the ball would have reached across to the inside. Any part, no matter how small. It’s similar to a touchdown where if any part of the ball breaks the goal line, the score is good. Here, if any part of the ball is on the inside of the extended uprights, the kick is good.
It shouldn’t take too much thought to see why this makes absolutely no sense. If the uprights were physically extended instead of just mentally, then of course all of the ball would need to be on the inside of them. If only part was sticking over, it would hit the upright and bounce away, and the kick would be no good. But for extended uprights, for some inexplicable reason, the ball is allowed to pass right through, meaning if merely the tip is sticking over the correct side, you get the points.
Under this system, it would be advantageous for the most part for a team to purposefully kick the ball high, because you can still score even if nearly the whole ball is on the wrong side of the upright. This gives you roughly eleven inches of leeway you would not have if the ball were kicked into the area of the physical goalpost.
If this world without physics is where the NFL wants to play their games, then what they need to do is remove the entire physical goalpost and shine lasers where the uprights would be. Then the boundaries would be marked, but the ball would be able to pass through them like it is through the imaginary uprights. The inconsistency currently in place is ridiculous.
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Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
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Saturday:
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ Denver
Green Bay @ San Francisco
Sunday:
Houston @ New England
Seattle @ Atlanta
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You already made your picks Dan. Were you trying to change them? (Because one was different.) I’ll go with the most recent ones I guess, because they were in on time.
-- 14 Jan 2013 12:17 pm --
Cumulative Pool standings:
bookworm - 175
aussie aio fan - 170
American Eagle - 169
The Top Crusader - 162
Knight Fisher - 157
DanP740 - 143
EK - 60
-- 14 Jan 2013 12:17 pm --
Cumulative Pool standings:
bookworm - 175
aussie aio fan - 170
American Eagle - 169
The Top Crusader - 162
Knight Fisher - 157
DanP740 - 143
EK - 60
Wow, I guess I did. Must've forgotten.
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And with three games left bookworm has won.
To LGBT ToOers: The world is so much wider than your family and church. There are accepting people out there.
We have to finish it out though, for statistical purposes.
Championship Week:
San Francisco @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ New England
Championship Week:
San Francisco @ Atlanta
Baltimore @ New England