Final Standings
Final Standings and Account Balances for the 2009 NFL Pool.
Julian and Steve tied for 1st overall, so they will split the 1st and 2nd place prize.
Joe took 3rd overall, and won the suicide pool.
Steve took the 2nd half.
Julian took the 1st half.
Steve and Julian also won 3 weeks apiece, so they really were the big winners this year. Outstanding!
Congratulations to all of our winners this year and thanks to everyone for playing. For those that were pure donaters this year, THANKS! We’ll see you next year!
Down to the short strokes…
Updated Standings and Account Balances.
With only one week of regular season play left in our pools, things are really heating up!
There are only two players (Rich and Tino) left in the suicide pool, and neither of them have easy picks ahead of them this week. If they both pick winners or losers then they will split the money. But if only one picks correct he will get all the bananas!
The main pool is also pretty tight after Julian gave up some of his lead in the overall in week 15, but managed to hold on pretty well in week 16, so he has a fairly comfortable 4 point lead. Not impossible to give that up, but he’s probably OK. There are 3 players in position to win the 2nd and 3rd place prizes.
I kinda sucked it up for the second half points by giving up 4 points to Joe in week 16, so he now sits in the lead by 1 point. That race is wide open with 4 players within 4 points of the lead. This will be a crazy week, with lots of teams sitting their regular starters while lots of other teams are still trying to clinch their playoff spots, so anything can happen!
Good luck to everyone for the final week of play, and start getting ready for the playoff pool too!
A blowout win…
Steve Moore has won the week already in a blowout victory. This was a tough week for many as not a single one of the favored teams had held the line on their spreads through the end of the early games on Sunday. The afternoon wasn’t much better as only 2 of 5 teams held. This was a disaster for anyone that took the “safe” road and played the favorites.
This was an especially good week for Steve as it allowed him to gain 8 points on Julian for the overall overall lead, putting him into 2nd! It also vaulted him into a good position to challenge for the second half lead as well. There are only a couple of weeks left for anyone wanting to make a move on the overall or second half points! I don’t think anyone has ever made such a large move in one day in our pools before!
Even worse for Julian was the Denver loss to Oakland, which knocked him out of the suicide pool. Only 3 players and 2 weeks left in that one!
Another Exciting Week
It’s always fun when the week comes down to the Monday Night game. Week 4 was really great because the tiebreaker was a father/son duel between Adrian and Julian Neale for the cash. Even better, they both chose opposing teams!
Fortunately for the elder Neale, he chose to back the Favre train instead of the Rodgers train wreck. And it really was a huge train wreck! Rodgers threw up an interception and a fumble (both turnovers get converted into TD’s for Minnesota) and got crushed for 8 sacks. At one point he stood and watched as the defender ran straight at him from 15 yards away and never even thought about getting rid of the ball. He was the deer in the headlights on that one.
Unfortunately, the suicide pool was much less exciting as nobody bowed out. That’s two weeks in a row… Maybe next week will be a better week!
Week 2 and 3 Update
I kind of forgot to put out an update after week 2 because it was such a landslide. Tino pretty much walked away with it and had it in the bag after the Sunday morning games.
Week 3 was much more interesting. There was a 3 way tie for first at 11 wins, and there were another 9 players locked up at 10 wins. Nothing even close to this has ever happened in our pool before. Anyway, Jack pulled out the win by going really low in the in the Monday night tie-breaker score, beating out Steve M. and Aaron for the weekly cash. And it was a real barn burner of a game too!
The suicide pool was much less interesting as nobody fell. Better luck next week!
Week 1 Results
Congratulations to everyone for making it through to week 2 of the Suicide Pool! Everyone took pretty easy picks in week 2 and there were no crazy upsets (although Aaron had to be a little worried in the 4th quarter of the Pats vs. Bills game). There are some more big spreads in week 2 so it will be interesting to see who everyone picks.
Rob B. took week 1 in the main pool by holding on to the tiebreaker vs. Julian. This was another one that got interesting towards the end of the final game and it looked like it could go either way. Better luck next week Julian!
2009 NFL Pool Update
Welcome back to all our returning players (everybody from last year is back this year!) and we also picked up 1 new player!! Please welcome my friend Steve Ward. That brings our total to 14 for 2009.
I have updated all the pool rules, prize details, and account information, and I will start tracking the points and pool status after week 2. Good luck to everyone!
