kenbuzz

Green Bay 32, LA Rams 18

JeffTheAlpaca to the front!

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	-	-	42	50	8

kenbuzz

Buffalo 17, Baltimore 3

Four advance, two do not, but nobody came anywhere CLOSE to tonight's tiebreaker.

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	-	-	42	50	8
2	JoeySeven	New Orleans	Buffalo	-	-	44	20	24
3	Kal Varnsen	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	50	20	30
4	printerati	Baltimore	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
5	tripfour	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
14	Ginwen	Buffalo	Baltimore	-	-	51	20	31
15	sleepyhead55	New Orleans	Baltimore	-	-	52	20	32

kenbuzz

Kansas City 22, Cleveland 17

We'll see if Jericho comes up a prophet using the Chiefs this early in the pool.

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	-	-	42	50	8
2	Jericho	Tampa Bay	Kansas City	-	-	58	39	19
3	JoeySeven	New Orleans	Buffalo	-	-	44	20	24
4	Kal Varnsen	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	50	20	30
5	printerati	Baltimore	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
6	tripfour	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
14	Ginwen	Buffalo	Baltimore	-	-	51	20	31
15	sleepyhead55	New Orleans	Baltimore	-	-	52	20	32

kenbuzz

The biggest game of the weekend - from the pool's perspective - is next. Seven players, four with New Orleans, three with Tampa.

And, interestingly enough, none of the players who have or who can advance to the Conference Finals will be preemptively Shut Out. Everyone's done a good job of having at least one team from both conferences still alive in the pool. Should be a lot of fun next week...

kenbuzz

Tampa Bay 30, New Orleans 20

The Cow takes over first place, four more players bow out, and we have nine players surviving into the Conference Finals.

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	The Cow	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	-	-	56	50	6
2	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	-	-	42	50	8
3	kenbuzz	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	-	-	41	50	9
4	LaxBandit	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	-	-	61	50	11
5	Jericho	Tampa Bay	Kansas City	-	-	58	39	19
6	JoeySeven	New Orleans	Buffalo	-	-	44	20	24
7	Kal Varnsen	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	50	20	30
8	printerati	Baltimore	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
9	tripfour	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	-	-	51	20	31
10	BrewCrew	Tampa Bay	New Orleans	-	-	55	50	5
11	rabbit77	Tampa Bay	New Orleans	-	-	58	50	8
12	Jeremy517	Tampa Bay	New Orleans	-	-	59	50	9
13	LurkerDan	Tampa Bay	New Orleans	-	-	60	50	10
14	Ginwen	Buffalo	Baltimore	-	-	51	20	31
15	sleepyhead55	New Orleans	Baltimore	-	-	52	20	32

Stand by for a few minutes while I get things set up for the next round....

kenbuzz

The pool is now OPEN for Conference Final picks.

kenbuzz

Nobody is Shut Out of the Super Bowl yet, as all nine of our semi-finalists have at least one team left in both conferences. As of right now, the Super Bowl combos left are:

Green Bay vs Anybody: The Cow, kenbuzz, LaxBandit
Green Bay vs Buffalo: Jericho
Green Bay vs Kansas City: Kal Varnsen, tripfour
Tampa Bay vs Anybody: JeffTheAlpaca
Anybody vs Kansas City: JoeySeven, printerati

And, as pointed our during last year's pool:

Jericho

Though they always let me down when I need them...

Green Bay 58

JeffTheAlpaca

Chiefs 50

LurkerDan

D'oh!

Thanks for running this again, Ken!

IDrinkMolson

Crap I missed it. Haven't been watching/following any sports.

The Cow

Might as well get a pick in...

Green Bay 55

Kal Varnsen

Green Bay 52

tripfour

Green Bay 47

printerati

Kansas City - 47

kenbuzz

Sorry everyone.... it's been a week.

I'm catching the picks up now... stand by.

kenbuzz

Oh... my pick.

Buffalo, 45

kenbuzz

I've taken the liberty of adding each players' forced picks for the Super Bowl, based on the current choices:

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	Jericho	Tampa Bay	Kansas City	Green Bay	[BUF]	58	-	-
2	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	Kansas City	[TBB]	50	-	-
3	The Cow	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	Green Bay	[AFC]	55	-	-
4	Kal Varnsen	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	Green Bay	[KCC]	52	-	-
5	tripfour	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	Green Bay	[KCC]	47	-	-
6	printerati	Baltimore	Buffalo	Kansas City	[NFC]	47	-	-
7	kenbuzz	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	[GBP]	45	-	-
-	LaxBandit	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	-	-	61	50	11
-	JoeySeven	New Orleans	Buffalo	-	-	44	20	24

JoeySeven

Kansas City Chiefs 54

kenbuzz

Paxing LaxBandit to thread 652134....

kenbuzz

Rank	Player	Wild Card	Divisional	Conference	Super Bowl	Points	Actual	Diff
1	Jericho	Tampa Bay	Kansas City	Green Bay	[BUF]	58	-	-
2	JeffTheAlpaca	Baltimore	Green Bay	Kansas City	[TBB]	50	-	-
3	The Cow	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	Green Bay	[AFC]	55	-	-
4	Kal Varnsen	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	Green Bay	[KCC]	52	-	-
5	tripfour	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	Green Bay	[KCC]	47	-	-
6	printerati	Baltimore	Buffalo	Kansas City	[NFC]	47	-	-
7	kenbuzz	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	Buffalo	[GBP]	45	-	-
8	JoeySeven	New Orleans	Buffalo	Kansas City	[NFC]	54	-	-
-	LaxBandit	New Orleans	Tampa Bay	-	-	61	50	11

kenbuzz

All picks above this post have been noted. Please doublecheck the listing at the top of this thread to ensure that yours is correct.

Changes made to posts above this will be ignored. If you wish to change your selection, you must add a new post to this thread.

kenbuzz

FYI:

• Once we get past the Conference Finals, I will go ahead and post each players' respective Super Bowl picks. (Each player will have no more than one eligible team.)
• If more than one player has the same team, please PM your total points pick to me. This denies anyone an unfair advantage. If you are the only player to have one of the teams, you do NOT need to submit a guess for total points.
• There is a chance that your Super Bowl tiebreaker will be the same as that chosen by another player. So when you submit your number, please also indicate whether you wish me to ADD or SUBTRACT points from your guess to make your pick unique. If you do not, I will flip a coin. In either case, I will move your pick in one direction just far enough to make it unique.
• Once all of the guesses for a particular team have been made, I will publish them openly to this thread. Once that happens you will NOT be able to change yours.

kenbuzz

And to clarify just in case it happens..... if everybody is eliminated OR Shut Out of the Super Bowl as a result of today's games, the pool will effectively end this evening. That means that the tiebreaker values for this week will be the ones that determine our final standings.

kenbuzz

KICKOFF!

The pool is now CLOSED for the Conference Championships.

Good luck all.