Week one recap
Wow, what a crazy Monday night.
In case you missed it, both Monday night games had a similar storyline. The favored team (the Patriots and the Chargers) trailed for most of the game into the fourth quarter. They then need to score (and they do) with less than two minutes left to take the lead.
Good thing the Chargers game started after my bedtime. I would have gotten no sleep last night.
Overall, it was a good week one for most of the players in the pool. We officially have 367 players in this year’s pool, more than doubling last year’s player count. The 21 players that lost in the first week comes out to under 6%, which is some kind of record. Usually week one is pretty tumultuous, as you can see if you take a look at previous seasons.
I don’t really have much to say about the other Sunday games; I only watched the Eagles beat up the Panthers. It was an otherwise nice day in PA after a few days of constant rain, so I got some other stuff done. If anyone has anything to add about Sunday’s games, feel free to post a comment.
Week two’s deadline is once again Sunday morning at 10am Eastern time.
If you are able, please submit your picks as early as possible. With over 300 players, it takes a while for me to update everyone’s picks, and I’d like not to do 200 of them at 9:59am. Don’t forget to follow the instructions on how to submit your picks.
Also, please submit your picks from your own email address, the one you specified when you signed up. It just makes life easier. The chance of mistakes happening increases when you submit someone else’s picks, as already happened in week one.
The chance of your picks not even making it to me increases even more if you send it from a non-registered email address. I have all of the email addresses in the pool set up to bypass the spam filter. If you send your picks from an unknown email address, the spam filter might pick it up and discard it.
If you are one of the 21 players that lost in week one, you have the option of buying back that entry for $15/each. To buy back, please following the original payment instructions to send $15. It must be received by the same 10am ET Sunday deadline, so checks must be in Saturday’s mail delivery. Let me know if you need more instructions.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hi all,
I am not sure if there have been any rule changes favoring the offense this season cos there was a lot of scoring involved. I was surprised to see Ravens and the chiefs put up so may points. Also, I a glad that the charger won as I had picked them but the raiders showed some promise on both sides of the line…..what say!!
September 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I think the referees def. had first game jitters, more-so then the players. A bunch of terrible calls in several different games. They should have instant replay to review penalties!
September 15th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Seahawks looked good.
They are well on their way to 12-4.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Haha… look who they played! Of course they are gonna look good against the RAMS!
September 17th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hey guys… This is my first season playing and I am excited about being in the pool. I was curious though… Based on what I can see from seasons past, shouldn’t the eliminated teams show up at the bottom of the main page? Do they show up later? Thanks.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
For the current season, they are hidden by default. At the top of the page, click the blue “Show eliminated players” button.