Week Four Prediction Games: The Surprisingly Whelming Results

I'm late. I'm tired. I'm busy. I'm making this quick. Sorry. It's more fun for me when I take the time to riff in these things. I'll give you the short version, though.

Someone's a jerk. I'm awesome. You guys really picked the Chargers a lot. And let me tell you, that probably saved me a good 10 minutes of data entry. There's a puppy in my house! It's not mine. There is a chance that it will be winning the prediction games at the end of this thread. Because, much like He-Man, I HAVE THE POWER! And if I want, the puppy can get 45 points this week.

Whatever. Here's the scores:

St. Louis @ 49ers:

1. these3words (6)
2. BEETLE49715 (8)
3. 5-0 (10)
4. SpurredOn, Mike Hawk (12)
5. nocal81, 49ersAllTheWay, Dub4lif3, snowweasel30 (14)

Green Bay @ Minnesota:

1. LASVEGASNINER, Joshpreet, foosball4949 (2)
2. FaStRmAn (4)
3. Ten-Man, bonbrillio, ZeroIndulgence, leaping_larry, these3words, remembertheCATCH, bignerd, ar4gsw, crevis1987, Florida Danny, jtoj (6)
4. grantmp, youngbuckeroo (8)
5. 49erLou, RBoogy29 (10)

San Diego @ Pittsburgh:

1. bonbrillio (16)
2. mikemccwolf, Kaizre (20)
3. mpotter14, nocal81, crevis1987, bignerd, PHUT!, ar4gsw (22)
4. wjackalope, Joshpreet (24)
5. shovel-25, MontanaPass, sfgfan, Drew K, renke81, Ten-Man (28)

Baltimore @ New England:

1. Ninerfromacrossthepond (2)
2. Persiflage (4)
3. mpotter14, nocal81, bayboy, LASVEGASNINER, Joshpreet, etb2, leaping_larry, beecharmer, ar4gsw (6)
4. 49RFAN, Drew K, bonbrillio, urnext, remembertheCATCH, JoeO (8)
5. sfgfan (10)

New York Jets @ New Orleans:

1. these3words (4)
2. renke81, SpurredOn, Florida Danny, Number22Drew (8)
3. bonbrillio, albertoleecho, Ninerfromacrossthepond, rlott#42, remembertheCATCH (12)
4. shovel-25, howtheyscored, illini49er, J2daZ, nocal81, bayboy, sfgfan, snowweasel30, etb2, RBoogy29, grantmp, leaping_larry, TonyC, bignerd, youngbuckeroo (14)
5. Kaizre (16)

Dallas @ Denver:

1. ro128487 (0) - It's another perfect! We're rolling ‘em in almost weekly now (but you think that out of close to 500 predictions a week, we'd be seeing more)
2. bonbrillio, howtheyscored, ZeroIndulgence, JoeO (6)
3. nacho49, LASVEGASNINER, groug, Kaizre, Florida Danny (8)
4. Sloan (10)
5. SpurredOn, snowweasel30 (12)

And that makes our week 4 leaderboard look like this:

1. howtheyscored                       -           34
2. nocal81                                 -           29
3. MontanaPass                        -           28
3. Joshpreet                              -           28
5. PHUT!                                   -           27
5. JoeO                                     -           27
5. ro128487                               -           27
8. foosball4949                          -           26
9. cassusriff                               -           25
10. ar4gsw                                -           24
10. remembertheCATCH -           24
12. bignerd                                -           23
13. grantmp                               -           22
13. renke81                               -           22
15. gbears16                             -           21
15. jpgarfunkle                           -           21
15. wjackalope                           -           21
15. Persiflage                            -           21
15. illini49er                               -           21
15. sfgfan                                  -           21
15. etb2                                    -           21
15. these3words                        -           21
23. nini9er                                 -           20
23. SpurredOn                           -           20
23. ZeroIndulgence                     -           20
23. bonbrillio                              -           20
27. CB30                                   -           19
27. ProfessorBigelow                  -           19
27. 5-0                                      -           19
27. 49erLou                               -           19
27. leaping_larry                        -           19
27. LASVEGASNINER               -           19
33. YoungWillis                         -           18
33. nacho49                              -           18
35. Ten-Man                              -           17
35. mpotter14                            -           17
35. J2daZ                                  -           17
38. DuikeBuike                          -           16
38. mikemccwolf                        -           16
38. RBoogy29                            -           16
38. youngbuckeroo                     -           16
38. Ninerfromacrossthepond        -           16
43. shlecko                               -           15
43. sundaysfinest                       -           15
43. 49ersfan29405                      -           15
43. jtoj                                      -           15
43. shovel-25                             -           15
43. bayboy                                -           15
43. Number22Drew                     -           15
50. Dub4lif3                               -           14
50. Mike Hawk                           -           14
50. Drew K                                -           14
50. Florida Danny                       -           14
54. Ninjames                             -           13
54. urnext                                  -           13
54. Sloan                                  -           13
54. groug                                   -           13
54. Kaizre                                 -           13
59. danknerd49                          -           12
59. Riding The F Train                -           12
59. BEETLE49715                     -           12
59. rlott#42                                -           12
63. Fooch                                  -           11
63. 49RFAN                              -           11
65. Ceradecke                           -           10
65. Widowwolf                           -           10
65. proudcanadian99                  -           10
68. ronniemac03                        -           9
68. Mr. Nice Guy                       -           9
68. beecharmer                          -           9
68. Tony C                                -           9
68. albertoleecho                       -           9
73. Smithisstilltheanswer            -           8
74. hudd07                                -           7
74. 49ERFAN                            -           7
76. lincypoo i wuv u                    -           6
76. shulkdog                              -           6
76. supraman                            -           6
76. FaStRmAn                           -           6
76. crevis1987                           -           6
81. snowweasel30                      -           4
82. De Stijl                                -           3
82. JerseyNinerFan                    -           3
82. RilezG                                 -           3
82. CW30                                  -           3
82. ManBearPig21                     -           3
82. StevenC                               -           3
82. LADubbz45                          -           3
89. connie mack                        -           2
89. Tricky-Nicky                         -           2
89. Brendan Scolari                    -           2
92. UnleashTheGore                   -           1
92. nostocksjustbonds               -           1
92. 49ersAllTheWay                   -           1

Boy, a lot of people did really well this week. Congrats first to ro128487, who notched a perfect prediction this week - and in one of the major underdog games, too! How does it feel riding that bad boy of a prediction straight to a top 5 spot?

Congratulations also go to nocal81, MontanaPass, Joshpreet, JoeO, ar4gsw (had one our best days of the week!), bonbrillio, Florida Danny, and anybody else I've missed.

Regarding Danny, I just want to point out that our resident STATS NERD, who "spotted" us two weeks in the game by not playing until last week, has now climbed over nearly half of the competition (including groug!). Maybe he does know what he's doing here. If you give him the benefit of the doubt for those two missing weeks, he's in the top-ten easy. Can we hold him off? I don't know. I kind of want to see STATS win out fair and square for once.

LULZ go to... well... you guys know who you are.

I'm out. Here's a link that might confuse you:

How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a traveled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!