A few quick notes…
Just a quick email before week 5 kicks off…
This is the last week for buybacks if you lose. So if you lose this week and haven’t used your buyback yet, you can buy back for $15. Once you lose in week 6 and going forward, you’re out. No more buybacks.
We are officially under the halfway mark, and by that I mean that not everyone who was eligible to buyback this week did. So we have 81 eliminated players and 71 active going into week 5.
There are still a couple of people that aren’t sending me their picks. In case you wanted to know, the way that the picks are assigned goes like this: The odds are taken from either Fox Sports or USA Today as of Sunday morning, and it goes down in order from top to bottom, looking for a favored team that you haven’t used yet. You may get assigned a team that’s favored by 10 points or one favored by 0.5 points.
And as I keep stressing but people don’t listen, I only accept picks via my bill at billma dot com email address. Not text messages, not my work email, not a handwritten note folded into an airplane left in my mailbox (okay, noone’s tried that yet but you get the point). That account has a special filter in place so 1) I can record timestamps when my server receives your email, 2) it won’t get sent to a spam folder, and 3) so there’s a written record should there be a dispute.
Dallas and Carolina are by far the two most popular teams this week. 27 picked the Boys and 25 picked the Panthers. The next closest is the Giants with 7 picking them. Go Bengals!