Fixed it for you, Jason.
Unfortunately, I don't look ahead. I go with the best pick available that week and usually look at the home teams. I have been making the same pick in both pools. I've made a pick for the week but may change it before the deadline.
I always think about looking ahead and preserving a team if I can... but I rarely do it. This week I did.
DiK, if we reach week week 14, I'm gonna have a killer pick... but I may not make it past this week to get there.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Ah well, I had my best survivor football run ever. And yes, I chose my second-best available matchup (Eagles -7 at home vs. Cryboys) instead of Chargers / Raiders. So it goes...
"Quality is not an option!"
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
So, is it over?
Yep. DinK wins the one-strike pool, but is eliminated from the no-strike pool. Highlander and I are the last ones standing in the no-strike pool, after Ben Roethlisberger’s last-second heroics salvaged Highlander’s Steelers luck today.
*caveat: The Saints haven’t technically won yet, but they’re up 45-7 with 7 minutes left, so I should be good.
This is what I get for looking ahead. I aw the Steelers playing the Raiders in a few weeks and so I figured I would save the Steelers. What a huge freaking mistake that was!
Congrats DiK... nice win! I shall now reward you with some moderator sporks... which are really valuable
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
I also survived earlier this year when Rodgers made a miracle 4Q comeback and a second time when Gano hit a 63 yard field goal. Sometimes its better to be lucky than good.
I actually still have the Saints available, but not sure I will burn them this week. At this point, everyone the Saints play looks pretty attractive (Tampa Bay, Dallas, Carolina, Atlanta, etc.).
"There can BE only one."
I picked the Cowboys this week in part because I believed Washington was in trouble with Alex Smith hurt, but also in part because I was feeling impatient and wanted to get my matchup out of the way early this week. Paid off.
Baltimore cruises vs. Oakland and I'm on to another week. Some interesting possibilities this week and next.
"There can BE only one."
I was going to ask what the record was for most weeks. I think someone survived into double digit weeks a few years ago (Bob Green maybe?), but it was kind of anticlimactic since it was just one person for 6+ of those weeks.
I still have NO and Houston left. Tempted to take the Browns vs. my Panthers as bad as the cats have looked recently.
"There can BE only one."
Houston is a good one to have still alive, but NO is possibly close to the point of diminishing returns...holding a 4-game divisional lead with 4 left to play, they may start sitting people to preserve playoff health. I presume that you're rooting for a down-to-the-wire race between the Saints & the Rams for the #1 NFC seed, which would largely forestall this.
Agree that the NFC South Division is essentially locked up. But there are still important things for the Saints to play for over the next 3 weeks, namely a 1R bye and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, so I don't think they will start mailing it in prior to week 17. Having the H2H win vs. the Rams helps towards the latter, but they are down a game currently so they would need to win out and hope the Rams drop at least one more game.
Getting to Week 17 could be very difficult as the favorites could treat it like a preseason game and most of the rest will have been mathematically eliminated from contention and playing for draft position.
"There can BE only one."