Playoff Prediction Games: Round 2 Results

by howtheyscored on Jan 12, 2009 10:00 PM PST

Well, let us review:

Anybody have the balls to pick the upsets? It almost seems foolish to even take the gambles, doesn't it?

I mean, really, you guys all fell for that! I lulled you into this idea that if you picked the upsets you'd all be stupid idiots, so I could pick them all (except Pittsburgh) and run the table on you fools!

Wait... what's that? I apologize. I just got a call from groug. He wanted to tell me I only picked one upset, too. He wanted to tell me that I'm the stupid idiot here. He wanted to tell me that... whoa, hey man... I can't repeat that in the results thread. Geez. There's no need to use that kind of language. I mean, what have I ever done to him?

Anyway, at least I picked Pittsburgh. I bet all you guys who picked San Diego feel pretty dumb right about now.

Hold on again. Yeah? Oh. It's groug again. He says, "enough babbling and get on with it already." And then he apologized for what he said earlier and called me his favorite person ever. Even more favorite than his mom. I'm totally not making that up, either. Whatever. Results below.

Baltimore @ Tennessee:

DuikeBuike, FluLikeSymptoms (6)
JerseyNinerFan, DiegoAsFan, onexmanxshow49, wjackalope, albertoleecho, 49ersfan29405 (8)
marcello (12)

Arizona @ Carolina:

J2daZ (22)
49ersfan29405 (30)

Philadelphia @ New York Giants:

francaise, howtheyscored (12)
groug, Dub4lif3, DuikeBuike, bablue (18)
J2daZ, jtoj (20)

San Diego @ Pittsburgh:

mikev (8)
illini49er (14)
ProfessorBigelow, LoneStranger, Fooch (16)

Which makes our playoff round 2 scoreboard look like this:

albertoleecho – 9
howtheyscored – 8
49ersfan29405 – 7
francaise – 7
JerseyNinerFan – 7
DuikeBuike – 5
FluLikeSymptoms – 5
jtoj – 5
mikev – 5
bayboy – 4
groug – 4
Florida Danny – 4
J2daZ – 4
DiegoAsFan – 3
elmojad0 – 3
LoneStranger – 3
Niner Fan Lost in WI – 3
ro128487 – 3
bablue – 2
Dub4lif3 – 2
illini49er – 2
marcello – 2
Ninerfromacrossthepond – 2
onexmanxshow – 2
ProfessorBigelow – 2
wjackalope – 2
Fooch – 1
spenczar – 1
StrictlyFootball - 1

At first glance, it might not seem as though much has changed. albertoleecho and I are still hanging tight at the top. The operative word there, though, is tight. Each of us did a little bit to help our causes, but others managed to do more. 49ersfan29405 is having a brilliant postseason and finds himself tied for third only two points behind our leader. Tied with him is one familiar face in JerseyNinerFan and another total newcomer in francaise.

francaise only even stumbled upon the predictions game in round one of the playoffs, and he's immediately taken a dominant position among the players.

The second tier is no less intimidating, as we see a four-way battle just a point behind third. DuikeBuike, FluLikeSymptoms, jtoj and mikev are biting and scratching at the heels of our leaders, and find themselves well within shooting distance of even the top spot with two full weeks to play.

Interestingly enough, for the second week in a row we didn't have very loud weeks from our regular season stars. wjackalope cracked the standings for the first time in the postseason, but him, StrictlyFootball, Ninerfromacrossthepond, sfgfan, 49erLou, and Niner Fan Lost in WI are all in very tough spots going forward against our brand new breed of superstars.

Having spoken about our lovable losers, though, I think it's time to see how they did when facing each other in the tournament they earned entry into by being winners. Oh, what a difference a post-season makes!

(4) StrictlyFootball @ (1) Ninerfromacrossthepond:

Ninerfromacrossthepond (14)

StrictlyFootball (26)

Ninerfromacrossthepond (30)

Ninerfromacrossthepond

(3) albertoleecho @ (2) wjackalope:

albertoleecho (8) - wjackalope (8)

wjackalope (22)

wjackalope

Another week and the matchups have only gotten closer. Ninerfromacrossthepond just barely squeaked by StrictlyFootball in a matchup that ultimately came down to a 6 point decision in the very first game of the weekend. Then wjackalope continued in a string of ridiculously close matchups as albertoleecho matched him essentially score for score up until the very final game of the weekend. This was the closest we've come to needing a tiebreaker all tournament, and if wjackalope's history holds, it won't get any easier against the season's top seed.

Meanwhile StrictlyFootball will face albertoleecho in our consolation third place match (the consolation for which is a prize!). I know who I'm rooting for, but I won't tell you guys. I'll simply fudge the results a little bit in that player's favor. It's like I always say, if there's ever a time to back down from your oath of scorekeeper's integrity, it's in a third place consolation match.

To help you visualize the way this is shaping up:

And here's a link to last week's results!

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors.

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Yeesh

A whopping one point. Good times.

by David Fucillo on Jan 12, 2009 10:58 PM PST reply actions

my 2 points aren't looking much better

but they have managed to squeak me past two opponents, so I’ll take it.

Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis

by wjackalope on Jan 13, 2009 8:46 AM PST up reply actions

It’s better than 2 goose eggs the past 2 weeks

by Number22Drew on Jan 13, 2009 2:18 PM PST up reply actions

yea i'll second that

Simply by pulling on both ends, Patrick Willis can stretch diamonds back into coal

by 49erLou on Jan 13, 2009 8:24 PM PST up reply actions

Weird

I finally got one right!!!!! Pick the wrong winner in three games and get points for the one game I pick the correct winner? Hmmmm.

by illini49er on Jan 13, 2009 10:18 AM PST reply actions

Vive les froggies!

I find it strange that a gridiron-adoring European with amateur predicting capacities can be so high up your league. I wonder if it’s the unpredictability of your great game that is the cause, my good luck or your lack of it? Whatever I’m sure you’ll have it come right for the Divisional semi-final matches :-)
Another thing I found bizarre when glancing at the blog’s All Time 49er team was that there was no room in it for Ronnie Lott. Maybe I missed his name? For me he showed all that was great about SF football in the period when the game was taking off in Europe. Sure Montana, Rice, Young etc took the plaudits and deservedly so, but that Lott, man he was a linebacker with speed, timing, the hits – and class. The best safety of all time imho and he’s not an AT Niner :-(

by francaise on Jan 13, 2009 12:41 PM PST reply actions

If he’s not on our AT Niner list, it’s only because we haven’t finished voting on the team yet. There are still a number of positions to go, and it was only even just a couple weeks ago that we got to WR and added Rice to the “official” list.

Rest assured, Lott will make it on.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Jan 13, 2009 1:18 PM PST up reply actions

Safety

I think I’m planning on doing two “safety” positions instead of free safety and strong safety. Ronnie Lott is an auto-entry so we’ll be voting on the second safety position. That will actually be going up in the next couple of days.

Aside from safety, we’re actually just about done. I’m tempted to go with a third receiver given the use of 1 running back at times, but not 100% sure on that. And of course there will be the all-time coach. Tough call there.

by David Fucillo on Jan 13, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions