Welcome to our 6th year of NFL CONFIDENCE PICKS  !!!!!
This also marks the 99th SEASON OF THE NFL!!
PANTHER GRAHAM GANO NAILS 63 YARD FG in closing seconds of regulation to lift Carolina over NY Giants.  This puts him in a 5-way tie for second longest FG; behind  MATT PRATER who hit a 64 yd FG for the BRONCOS ( in the thin air of Denver) in 2013.
Four weeks; SIX OTs . Yeah we have had 6 OTs  One each of the first 3 weeks and 3 this week. Â
Is it because of the rule changes or are we seeing more parity in the league.
The COLTS situatioa. Tie or win. USUALLY, I would favor going for the win. HOWEVER in the present status of the COLTS, I would have welcomed a tie. I didn’t feel they have what it takes at this time of the season, to risk a win. Had they been deeper in the Texans field I probably would go for the win. But from their field position, there is just NO WAY.
Here is a list of the rule changes, as I understand them.
http://fromthemiddleblog.com/2018/09/12/new-nfl-rules-for-2018/
For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain.
If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 16 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 16 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1.  You add up the TOTAL CORRECT PICKS.. That would be your score.  We use the Monday night (Last game played) as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broken by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating teams) final score, without going over.
If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold
YOU can adopt the scoring described above.  Or, the optional method. A  negative score for missed games. We will continue to get a positive score for correct predictions. EXAMPLE:  if you scored      1 pt on the first game and you had 15 pts on the second game and lost you would still have a 1 on regular scoring.
 1.  HOWEVER. with the same scenario new scoring system would result with a –14 score.
I will fill in my picks Thursday. Until then feel free to:
Just copy and paste for your own Fun 7Pool Use. Or to see if you can beat me.
IF YOU SEE I MADE A MIS-COPY OF THE GAMES AND TIMES FEELÂ FREE TO EMAIL ME AND TELL ME I GOOFED.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
BYE WEEK: BEARS and BUCCANEERS
All Times AST (Atlantic Standard Time) Alias EDTÂ
GAME # | TV | VISITOR | SCORE | Â | HOME | SCORE | CONFIDENCE | RUNNING SCORE | |
THURSDAY | Â | 10/4/18 | 2020 | ||||||
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1 | FOX | Colts | 24 | @ | PATRIOTS | 38 | 15 | 15/15 | |
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SUNDAY | 10/7/18 | 13:00 | |||||||
2 | CBS | TITANS | 12 | Bills | 13 | 3 | 15/12 | ||
3 | FOX | Falcons | 17 | STEELERS | 41 | 6 | 21/18 | ||
4 | CBS | Broncos | 16 | JETS | 24 | 1 | 22/19 | ||
5 | CBS | Jaguars | 14 | CHIEFS | 30 | 4 | 26/23 | ||
6 | FOX | PACKERS | 23 | Lions | 31 | 2 | 26/21 | ||
7 | CBS | RAVENS | 9 | Browns | 12Â (OT) | 13 | 26/8 | ||
8 | FOX | Giants | 31 | PANTHERS | 33 | 8 | 34/16 | ||
9 | CBS | Dolphins | 17 | BENGALS | 27 | 11 | 45/27 | ||
SUNDAY | 10/7/18 | 16:05 | |||||||
10 | CBS | Raiders | 10 | CHARGERS | 26 | 10 | 55/37 | ||
SUNDAY | 10/7/18 | 16:25 | |||||||
11 | FOX | Cardinals | 28 | 49’ERS | 18 | 9 | 55/28 | ||
12 | FOX | Vikings | 23 | EAGLES | 21 | 5 | 55/23 | ||
13 | FOX | RAMS | 33 | Seahawks | 31 | 14 | 69/37 | ||
SUNDAY | 10/7/18 | 20:20 | |||||||
14 | NBC | Cowboys | 16 | TEXANS | 19Â (OT) |
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76/44 | ||
MONDAY | 10/08/18 | 20:15 | .. | ||||||
15 | ESPN | Redskins | 19 | SAINTS | 43 | 12 |
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GAMES | |||||||||
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Possible | 120 | |||||||
Tie Break | (Total score | Last Game) | 51 | ||||||
Total | 62 | ||||||||
Points | Off | -11 | |||||||