2023 Rodger’s Defection GoActuary NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest with Jordan’s Love

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@Funemployed

Week 9 COFP

Noted

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I can give you 27 reasons why this was a good idea & I’ll bet you can’t even make one coherent point for why it wasn’t.

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Going into SNF, here are this week’s winning scenarios:

Bills, Chargers - @3rookie
Bills, Jets - @3rookie; VALSA: @IPD
Bengals, Chargers - @UltimateAnyone; Runners up: A695814, @ldancer911, @3rookie
Bengals, Jets - A695814; Runners up: @ldancer911, @3rookie; VALSA: @IPD

This week’s award is Choose Your Own Adventure.

CYOA

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Choose Your Own Adventure Award: If you win this award you get to choose one award from a selection of two non-negative awards and two higher-variance, possibly-negative awards:

• Jables’ Home Field Advantage
• Random Poster’s Lucky 7
• The Arbitrary Award - If you use this award you may flip your pick for all non-Divisional games for one team for the rest of the season.
• The Arbitrary’s Lucky 7 Award - If you use this award you will flip your picks for exactly seven games in a week of your choosing.

Tomorrow’s write-up might be significantly delayed. If so, we’ll invoke the “Like a Good Sportsmanship Neighbor” clause.

discount double check the intern's work

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Finally, please keep in mind, mistakes and other unforeseen circumstances are going to happen. When they do, we’ll deal with them and move on. Your patience and understanding, especially with my intern (who is prone to the most egregious of errors), are necessary conditions of making this whole thing go. The participants of the GoA NFL Full Season Pick’em Contests have always been known for their good sportsmanship, jovial banter, and above average looks. Let’s continue that tradition.

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Bengals, Chargers - @UltimateAnyone; Runners up: A695814, @ldancer911, @3rookie
Bengals, Jets - A695814; Runners up: @ldancer911, @3rookie; VALSA: @IPD

@UltimateAnyone, if the Chargers win tonight, your default award will be to use the RPL7 award & apply all seven points to your Week 11 Broncos over Vikings pick. The usual disclaimers apply. If the Chargers don’t win, then none of this applies.

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No write up until at least tonight. Plan your life accordingly.

[Ezekial_Cumberland]

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Plan your life accordingly.

Guess I’ll go back to bed…

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Here are the results for week 9:

No. Player
 1  UltimateAnyone       11-3
 5  A695814              11-3
13  ldancer911           11-3
17  3rookie              11-3
 2  Funemployed          10-4
 6  TheArbitrary         10-4
 8  Ezekial_Cumberland   10-4
 9  Mountainhawk         10-4
16  Jahiegel             10-4
98  zAll Home Teams      10-4
 4  PatientZombie         9-5
 7  Carrie’s Carebears    9-5
12  Vorian_Atreides       9-5
18  Adam Ranks            9-5
10  Kid_Rock              8-6
14  IPD                   8-6
15  JudgeSmails           8-6
19  Conor Orr             8-6
 3  OutdoormanNowActuary  7-7
11  redearedslider        7-7

Congratulations to @UltimateAnyone for getting his entry in early in order to claim the tiebreaker this week. You’ve won the Week 9 award, Choose Your Own Adventure:

CYOA

Choose Your Own Adventure Award: If you win this award you get to choose one award from a selection of two non-negative awards and two higher-variance, possibly-negative awards:

• Jables’ Home Field Advantage
• Random Poster’s Lucky 7
• The Arbitrary Award - If you use this award you may flip your pick for all non-Divisional games for one team for the rest of the season.
• The Arbitrary’s Lucky 7 Award - If you use this award you will flip your picks for exactly seven games in a week of your choosing.

As previously communicated, your default award will be to use the RPL7 award & apply all seven points to your Week 11 Broncos over Vikings pick You may reject the default and choose your own adventure by posting your award declaration before TNF’s kickoff.

But there’s also a little extra somethin’ somethin’ in store for the frisbee throwing fanatic, and his friends, A695814, @ldancer911, & @3rookie – they has secured a Change one future pick award. Use it at your leisure or don’t use it at all.

This week, both OutdoormanNowActuary & redearedslider were in the basement playing super mario bros, so there will be no VALSA.

This week…
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@Funemployed used his CYOA: The Arb award to change his Browns pick to the Cardinals and then used a COFP to change it back to Browns. 1 / (1/x) or something like that.

I don’t like this…I don’t like it one bit…
Here are the overall results after week 9:

Place No. Player
    1  5  A695814                   94-42   69.12%
    2  2  Funemployed               93-43   68.38%
    3  6  TheArbitrary              92-44   67.65%
    4  7  Carrie’s Carebears        92-44   67.65%
    5 16  Jahiegel                  92-44   67.65%
    6  4  PatientZombie             91-45   66.91%
    7  1  UltimateAnyone            90-46   66.18%
    8 10  Kid_Rock                  90-46   66.18%
    9 13  ldancer911                89-47   65.44%
   10  9  Mountainhawk              88-48   64.71%
   11 14  IPD                       88-48   64.71%
   12 15  JudgeSmails               88-48   64.71%
   13  3  OutdoormanNowActuary      87-49   63.97%
   14 12  Vorian_Atreides           85-51   62.50%
   15 11  redearedslider            84-52   61.76%
   16  8  Ezekial_Cumberland        81-55   59.56%
   17 19  Conor Orr                 79-57   58.09%
   18 17  3rookie                   78-58   57.35%
   19 18  Adam Ranks                76-60   55.88%
   20 98  zAll Home Teams           75-61   55.15%

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[details=AWARDS SUMMARY]

AWARDS SUMMARY

Wk	Award	Player	Wk applied to & How used
PS	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone	Wk 7 Change Patriots to Bills
	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone
	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone
	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone
	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed	Wk 2 Change Jets to Cowboys
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed	Wk 5 Change Bears to Commanders
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed	Wk 7 Change Vikings to 49ers
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed	Wk 9 Change Cardinals to Browns
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary	Wk 4 Change Jets to Chiefs
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary	Wk 6 Change Browns to 49ers
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary	Wk 6 Change Jets to Eagles
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie	Wk 8 Change Panthers to Texans
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary
1	I Guarantee It	ldancer911	Wk 18 Guarantee Commanders over Cowboys
	Change One Future Pick	ldancer911
2	I Guarantee It	ldancer911	Wk 18 Guarantee Panthers over Buccaneers
	Change One Future Pick	ldancer911
	Change One Future Pick	IPD	Wk 8 Change Raiders to Lions
	Change One Future Pick	3rookie
	Lion’s Share Award	MountainHawk	Wk 8 Change Bengals to 49ers
3	Lovable Losers	OutdoormanNowActuary	Wk 10 Guarantee Cardinals over Falcons
	Change One Future Pick	OutdoormanNowActuary
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary	Wk 7 Change Falcons to Buccaneers
	Lion’s Share Award	3rookie	Change Broncos to Chiefs
4	Lovable Losers	PatientZombie	Wk 10 Guarantee Cardinals over Falcons
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	TheArbitrary	Wk 7 Change Steelers to Rams
	Change One Future Pick	Carrie’s Carebears
	Lion’s Share Award	Ezekial_Cumberland	Wk 6 Change Jets to Eagles
5	Lovable Losers	Carrie’s Carebears	Wk 18 Guarantee Panthers over Buccaneers
	Change One Future Pick	Carrie’s Carebears
	Lion’s Share Award	OutdoormanNowActuary	Wk 6 Change Broncos to Chiefs
6	Jables’ Home Field Advantage	PatientZombie	Wk 13 +3 Away teams’ scores
	Change One Future Pick	PatientZombie
	Change One Future Pick	ldancer911
7	Jables’ Home Field Advantage	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
8	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 9 Change Browns to Cardinals
	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 13 Change Rams to Browns
	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 14 Change Browns to Jaguars
	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 15 Change Bears to Browns
	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 16 Change Browns to Texans
	Choose Your Own Adventure	Funemployed	Wk 17 Change Jets to Browns
	Change One Future Pick	Funemployed
	Lion’s Share Award	3rookie	Wk 11 Change Panthers to Cowboys
9	Choose Your Own Adventure	UltimateAnyone	Wk 11 +7 to Broncos over Vikings
	Change One Future Pick	UltimateAnyone
	Change One Future Pick	A695814
	Change One Future Pick	ldancer911
	Change One Future Pick	3rookie

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SURE THING Picks:

Week 10 Bengals Over Texans

[PatientZombie]

COFP:

[Vorian_Atreides]

[UltimateAnyone]

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your default award will be to use the RPL7 award & apply all seven points to your Week 11 Broncos over Vikings pick You may reject the default and choose your own adventure by posting your award declaration before TNF’s kickoff.

I will reject the default option, and Choose! My!! Own!!! Adventure!!!

I’ll go with the Jables Home Field Advantage for Week 11, please.

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Cats to Cubs. Noted.

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@UltimateAnyone

Jables Home Field Advantage for Week 11

Noted.

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Going into the night game, here are this week’s winning scenarios:
Jets, Broncos - @Kid_Rock; Runner up: @redearedslider; VALSA: @3rookie
Jets, Bills - @Kid_Rock; Runner up: @redearedslider; VALSA: @Vorian_Atreides
Raiders, Broncos - @redearedslider
Raiders, Bills - @redearedslider; VALSA: @Vorian_Atreides

[Kid_Rock]

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets

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It’s like if the Bills Win, I’m by myself at the bottom of the pile.

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It literally is

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Here are the results for week 10:

No. Player
11  redearedslider       10-4
 1  UltimateAnyone        9-5
 9  Mountainhawk          9-5
10  Kid_Rock              8-6
14  IPD                   8-6
98  zAll Home Teams       8-6
 2  Funemployed           7-7
 6  TheArbitrary          7-7
 7  Carrie’s Carebears    7-7
 8  Ezekial_Cumberland    7-7
16  Jahiegel              7-7
 4  PatientZombie         6-8
 5  A695814               6-8
12  Vorian_Atreides       6-8
13  ldancer911            6-8
15  JudgeSmails           6-8
 3  OutdoormanNowActuary  5-9
17  3rookie               5-9
18  Adam Ranks            5-9
19  Conor Orr             5-9

@redearedslider may have been helpless on its back last week, but this week is on top, winning Week 10 & its award, Choose Your Own Adventure:

CYOA

Choose Your Own Adventure Award: If you win this award you get to choose one award from a selection of two non-negative awards and two higher-variance, possibly-negative awards:

• Jables’ Home Field Advantage
• Random Poster’s Lucky 7
• The Arbitrary Award - If you use this award you may flip your pick for all non-Divisional games for one team for the rest of the season.
• The Arbitrary’s Lucky 7 Award - If you use this award you will flip your picks for exactly seven games in a week of your choosing.

Your default award will be to use the RPL7 & apply all seven points to your Week 11 Ravens over Bengals pick. You may reject the default and choose your own adventure by posting your award declaration before TNF’s kickoff.

Of course, the shell-abration doesn’t stop there. Redearedslider slides into success with a shiny new Change one future pick award as well.

This week, both OutdoormanNowActuary & 3rookie dug a hole so deep they found water, so there may be a refreshing drink for both of them but there will be no VALSA.

This week…

@PatientZombie used a COFP to change his Panthers pick to the Bears.

Both PatientZombie & @OutdoormanNowActuary used their Lovable Losers award to guarantee their Cardinals over Falcons pick.

Here are the overall results after week 10:

Place No. Player
    1  2  Funemployed              100-50   66.67%
    2  5  A695814                  100-50   66.67%
    3  1  UltimateAnyone            99-51   66.00%
    4  6  TheArbitrary              99-51   66.00%
    5  7  Carrie’s Carebears        99-51   66.00%
    6 16  Jahiegel                  99-51   66.00%
    7 10  Kid_Rock                  98-52   65.33%
    8  4  PatientZombie             97-53   64.67%
    9  9  Mountainhawk              97-53   64.67%
   10 14  IPD                       96-54   64.00%
   11 13  ldancer911                95-55   63.33%
   12 11  redearedslider            94-56   62.67%
   13 15  JudgeSmails               94-56   62.67%
   14  3  OutdoormanNowActuary      92-58   61.33%
   15 12  Vorian_Atreides           91-59   60.67%
   16  8  Ezekial_Cumberland        88-62   58.67%
   17 19  Conor Orr                 84-66   56.00%
   18 17  3rookie                   83-67   55.33%
   19 98  zAll Home Teams           83-67   55.33%
   20 18  Adam Ranks                81-69   54.00%

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SURE THING Picks:

Week 10 Bengals Over Texans
Week 11 Jaguars Over Titans

12 out of 16 for the season.
One matchup next week.