Nov
15
Week ten
All received picks have been entered. At the top of linesmaker are the Jets and Broncos.
Nov
10
Week nine recap
Well, Rodgers threw more INTs against the previously winless Buccaneers to knock out the 17 players that picked the Packers. Looks like the Tampa might have finally found a real quarterback.
So let’s take a quick look to see who everyone’s been picking so far. Through nine weeks, NFC teams lead the AFC in times picked: NFC teams have been picked 1390 times, AFC 1007. Without breaking down the actual matchups, that could mean one of two things: There’s more disparity in the NFC than the AFC (if they were intra-conference games) or the NFC is stronger than the AFC (if they were inter-conference games).
The NFC East leads all divisions, having its teams been picked 560 times so far, led by the Eagles with 207. The NFC North comes in second with 418, led by the Packers with 176. The closest AFC division is the AFC North with 349. Tops in the AFC are the Ravens with 204.
On the other hand, losses by NFC teams are also responsible for knocking out more players. NFC teams account for 225 losses (out of 1390, that’s 16.2%) in the pool, AFC is 126 (12.5%). With the lower chance of losing, are AFC picks more reliable?
Not surprisingly the same two NFC leaders show up again in this stat category. The Packers are responsible for the most, at 91, having already lost twice as heavy favorites. The Eagles come in second at 73, primarily due to their inexplicable loss to the Raiders in week six.
Anyhoo, on with the show. All picks this week are due Sunday at 10am ET. However, if you want to pick in the Thursday night game, I must have your pick by Thursday at 5pm ET.
Also, another reminder: In two weeks is Thanksgiving, and all picks that week are due Thursday morning, not Sunday morning!!!
Nov
8
Week nine
All received picks have been entered.
At the top of linesmaker this week is Jacksonville and Baltimore.
I still haven’t figured out the hiccup. It still looks configured correctly to me, but maybe it’s a bug in the software my hosting provider uses. Dunno.
Nov
5
Script hiccup – ignore the autopick emails (updated)
Those of you that haven’t gotten your picks entered into the system yet got autopick emails sent to you this morning.
The autopick script ran accidentally this morning for some reason. I have it scheduled to run on Thanksgiving Thursday but I might have messed it up.
I’ll have to look into it tonight. You can all safely ignore those emails. I will fix everything when I get a chance. Thanks for your patience.
[Edit 5pm: So I still haven't figured out why it ran early this week. I have the cronjob scheduled for every Sunday in November except the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I had a second cronjob scheduled for Thanksgiving Thursday, and it looks like it was that scheduled cronjob that ran early for some reason. Until I figure it out, I disabled the second cronjob. I've fixed all of the picks and entered all of the picks I've received so far.]
Nov
3
Week eight recap
Cardinals got knocked off at home by the Panthers a week after beating the Giants. Oops.
So someone asked a few days ago about how the auto-picks are affecting the pool. So let’s assume that we got rid of auto-picks, and anyone who didn’t send in their pick on time would automatically get eliminated.
We have 144 players left after eight weeks. I crunched the numbers, and although auto-picks have been used over 75 times, there would only be 24 less players in the pool.
On the other hand, if we got rid of buybacks instead, there would be 45 less players in the pool.
All picks by Sunday at 10am ET. Reminder again: Thanksgiving week’s deadline is Thursday at 10am ET.