Welcome to Patience Pays Off 2025 QB Shuffle Full Season Pick’em With Even More Tushes Pushes.
This game, initiated by @Jables in 2009, is poised to commence anew for the 2025 season, marking the 17th episode of enjoyment and amusement.
The basic concept is to have a pick’em contest, where all the picks are made before the start of the season, as opposed to a regular week-by-week pick’em league. All of the bets are straight up wins and losses - nothing involving the spread or any of that.
As many of you have noticed, our usual, fearless (yet timid) leader, the enigmatic (yet dull as off-white paint) Numbers Guy (1695814), is not around this year. Rumor has it he’s either…
- deep in a sabbatical, penning a groundbreaking tome on the evils of merged cells, or
- trapped somewhere inside an Excel (Not Responding) spreadsheet, feverishly pressing Ctrl + Break…because he’s absolutely dreadful at writing VBA code.
Therefore, I, FSP-Intern have been officially deputized to run the show and keep the Pick’em wheels turning smoothly…as smoothly as rocky road ice cream.
Welcome aboard, and let’s get ready for another season of fun, strategy, and, of course, lots of tushes pushed!
Ancient History
The Spectacular 2024 Vinksin Vonksin GoActuary Wúnderbar NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - now with extra cheesiness…won by @PatientZombie
2023 Rodger’s Defection GoActuary NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest with Jordan’s Love…won by @1695814
2022 GoActuary Kirk Cousins Stinks NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest…won by @OutdoormanNowActuary
2021 GoActuary Jahiegel Memorial NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest…won by Carrie’s Carebears
With the demise of the AO, I only have the first and last pages of most seasons which you may view here:
2020 Rainbows in the Endzone NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest-Tying Arbitrary Records - Page 1
2020 Rainbows in the Endzone NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest-Tying Arbitrary Records - Last Page with Posts
2020 Rainbows in the Endzone NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest-Tying Arbitrary Records now with GoActuary…won by @Jahiegel
2019 Jet Setter NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest-Patience Finally Pays Off - Page 1
2019 Jet Setter NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest-Patience Finally Pays Off - Page with Final Standings…won by @Funemployed.
Way Too Early 2018 SpamLite NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - w/25% Less Brown Losses - Page 1
Way Too Early 2018 SpamLite NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - w/25% Less Brown Losses - Page with Final Standings…won by @PatientZombie
YetAnother 2017 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Now With Special Sauce - Page 1
YetAnother 2017 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Now With Special Sauce - Page with Final Standings…won by @Funemployed
2016 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - A Dab Free Zone - Page 1
2016 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - A Dab Free Zone - Page with Final Standings…won by YetAnotherCareerChanger
2015 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Arby’s Quest for Numero Three-o - Page 1
2015 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Arby’s Quest for Numero Three-o - Page with Final Standings…won by @TheArbitrary
2014 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2014 AO NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by @TheArbitrary
2013 Jables Memorial NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2013 Jables Memorial NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by @Ezekial_Cumberland
2012 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2012 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by Juice
2011 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2011 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by sam10gle
2010 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2010 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by @trondogss
2009 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page 1
2009 NFL Full Season Pick’em Contest - Page with Final Standings…won by @TheArbitrary
How to Enter this Dreadful Contest
PREFERRED METHOD OF ENTRY: The second post of this thread will have the entire 2025 NFL schedule in it, week-by-week. **All you need to do to enter is quote that post and let me know who you think will win each of the (2^4)*17 games in the season. You can either delete the teams you think will lose from each match-up or retype (after the semicolon) the team you think will win. Whoever has the best predictions at the end of the season wins. After each week’s games are over, I’ll make a post showing everyone’s weekly and year-to-date results.
ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF ENTRY: Send an email to fspintern42 [at] gmail
. I will respond with an excel spreadsheet that you can fill out. Send that back to me and you’ll be entered…probably
Due to budget cuts, all awards this year will be a “Change One Future Pick” - colloquilaly colloquely kaloquially commonly referred to as a “COFP”.
Tiebreakers & Awards
Overall & Weekly Winners-Tiebreaker: In the case of an overall or weekly tie the winner will be whomever first submitted their picks.
Each week, all players who tie for first place for that week’s picks will receive a “Change One Future Pick” award.
The earliest entrant will also receive ANOTHER COFP.
The “Change One Future Pick” award can be held indefinitely — there’s no obligation to use it. If you do, it just needs to be declared before the kickoff of the game it affects.
Awards For Early Entries
Early entrants will receive a number of Change one future pick awards depending on how early your selections are made. The number of awards received will be based on a schedule:
Submit before [event, date & time] & receive n COFP awards.
Event | Date & Time | n |
---|---|---|
Juneteenth National Independence Day | 06/19/2025 11:59 PM ET | 5 |
United States Independence Day | 07/04/2025 11:59 PM ET | 3 |
Hall of Fame Game | 08/01/2025 11:59:00 PM ET | 1 |
Notably Missing
@Jables
@1695814
Non-Negative Awards
UA’s Early Bird Award of Continued Excellence
VA’s Lion’s Share Award
Changing picks after initial submission
After submitting your picks, if you want to make any changes to them you are free to do so. However, you must make a new post. If you edit your old post, I won’t see it, and your change will not be recognized. Obviously, making a new post will result in a new time stamp on your entry sending you to the back of the line, possibly losing your early-entrant-COFP awards. You also have the option of using any of your early-entrant-COFP awards, should you have any. This will maintain your place in line, and any other early-entrant-COFP awards that you haven’t used & wouldn’t re-earn.
The season kicks off with the Cowboys at Eagles at 8:20 PM ET on Thursday, September 4, 2025, so I’ll need all entries in by then. That gives you plenty of time to submit your predictions. However, I’ll accept entries up until the start of the Sunday games on September 7th. Just keep in mind, if your (complete) entry is submitted after the season-opening games (Cowboys at Eagles and Chiefs at Chargers), you’ll be given a loss for each of those games.
What’s in it for you? The winner will receive the adulation of many, a permanent seat in the GoA NFL Full Season Pick 'Em Contest Hall of Fame, & the naming rights for the " [fitb] [yyyy+1] [fitb] GoActuary [fitb] NFL [fitb] Full Season Pick’em Contest [fitb]"…assuming someone is around to run it and abides by the declaration.
Mistakes? Glitches? A misfiled COFP? Look, stuff happens. In the past, it seems, all blame was pinned on me, the intern – it was so unfair, you corndogs. Well, now I’m running the show — so let’s just agree to blame that numbnutsnumbersguy. Besides, your patience and good humor will keep this thing humming along. GoA Pick’em players have always brought top-tier sportsmanship, clever commentary, and an uncanny knack for rolling with the punches. Let’s keep that spirit alive.