NFL Survivor Pool

Bad weekend for the commish… between the Hawkeyes upset and the Giants marching on… Oy.

No real consensus on a dominating popular team this week, but despite that, everyone made it through the week. Some kind of record?

Of the top three teams picked, two needed to swat away two-point conversion attempts to preserve the win (Chiefs going for the win over the Chargers, hey what do they have to lose, and the Seahawks going for the tie with Miami), and last night Arizona’s D stopped former Penn State star MRob inches away from the goal line on the game’s final play to hang on 29-24.

If you want to pick in the Thursday night match-up between the Bretts and the Pats, be sure to have your pick in by Thursday at 5pm. Otherwise, all other picks due Sunday at 10am.

As I mentioned in my email last night, the site is now on a different server, so update your bookmarks. And another tidbit from the email: I’m working on a new design for the site, and I’m hoping it’ll be done before the season’s over.

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With so many new people this year, some people who lost within the last couple weeks have asked if they could continue to receive my weekly recap emails. Apparently they find them interesting, who woulda thunk I was so interesting? However, since I have all of my utilities set up to only send emails to active users (that’s why you might not see players who lose marked as out until after I send my recap email), this proved to be more difficult than I had thought.

So I decided the next best thing would be just to post all of my stuff to a blog for the world to see instead. So starting this week, I’ll be putting my weekly thoughts onto the blog. I’ll still continue to send out a weekly email, but you’ll just get a link to the blog instead of a lengthy email.

Another benefit is now everyone can add their comments (smack talk?) instead of the communication being one-sided from me to you.

As I get more time, I’ll dig through my sent emails and retroactively add the older stuff to the blog.

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Close calls for the two popular picks this week. Da Bears lost Orton but Grossman led them back to win in overtime. The Bucs kept turning the ball over but somehow won in overtime after a weird third-down series.

Texas Tech will not survive both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Noone wants to win the NFC West. Well, maybe the Cards, they’re the only team in the division with a winning streak. (A 1-game winning streak counts, right?)

None of the teams in the two East divisions have a record below 0.500. Only one team in the two West divisions have a record above 0.500 (the aforementioned Cards). Hmmm.

The Lions are now the only winless team in the NFL, after the Bungles got their first win by knocking off the Jags and knocking off 4 more players in our pool.

Florida is better than Alabama. Alabama’s wins over Clemson and Georgia are looking worse week after week.

Another Denver loss knocked off 1 more.

We are now down to 32 players left after nine weeks, still the most left standing at the same point compared to previous years. There were 25 players after week nine last year.

Of the 32 players left, 5 of them are from participants that have won in previous years. 3 of the 5 eliminated this week also fell in that category.

The NFC East teams are still by far the most popular division to pick from, being picked 200 times through nine weeks. Second is the AFC East with 131.

A reminder for this week: There is a Thursday night game between Broncos and the Browns, so if you want to pick that game, I must have your pick by Thursday evening at 5pm ET. All other picks are due Sunday at 10am ET. These deadlines apply for the next three weeks.

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