Week 8 Prediction Games: Scary Larry

Time to conclude this weeks recaps.  By now you've seen all the highlights, heard everyone's opinions on the weekend, seen the latest power rankings (cause the label of "opinion rankings" didn't score well with audiences), processed the advanced statistics and the now the conclusion coup de grace Prediction Game results. I've tried drinking tonight to put myself in a better mood, don't think its working but Workaholics kicked arse.

Think we can all agree manraj7 is ruining the prediction game.  24-17 gets him first place in the Philly blowout of Dallas?  At some point you would think karma would catch up for spamming all those cat pictures?  Not all bad news this week, urnext is no longer the cellar dweller.  The new point and laugh title holder is mcwagner although beginning next week I may have consider those who have missed only a week.

Week 8 Scoring Recap

Cleveland Browns @ San Francisco 49ers

1. grantmp, benna11, sanguines (2)
2. SportsChicken (4)
3. bayboy, bonbrillio, foosball4949, bignerd, Str8Balr, wjackalope (6)
4. illini49er, Rossalex, McTee, mikeinsp, Rabbit T, mpotter14, Haggardninja, ZeroIndulgence, Beamer1960, Chukwamu, leaping_larry (8)
5. manraj7, Alligator Arms, reedkrase, RJames, HardCorvallis, Takeo33, SanFranciscoKnights, Tim Lincecum's Bong, LASVEGASNINER, renke81, petillius7, Ninerfromacrossthepond, bakoninerfan, neder, beecharmer, David Fucillo (14)

San Diego Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs

1. J2daZ, leaping_larry (PERFECT)
2. ninerpride, benna11, libra45, Mo9er, nostocksjustbonds, petillius7, SpurredOn, David Fucillo, urnext (2)
3. manraj7, Edggy, Drew Kerr, groug, RJames, Ninerfromacrossthepond (6)
4. MATTCW, Haggardninja, bignerd, jbrown63, AKinferno, liberty_JAC (8)
5. mpotter14, neder (10)

Dallas Cowboys @ Philadelphia Eagles

1. manraj7, Edggy, Stupifyed, Takeo33, bonbrillio, renke81, Mo9er, Pat Willie, Ni9er, neder (20)
2. McTee, mikeinsp, Rabbit T, SpurredOn, Beamer1960, urnext (26)
3. RJames, howtheyscored, foosball4949, liberty_JAC (28)
4. Ten-Man, illini49er, craziness@analltimehigh, bayboy, mpotter14, Aaron Emerson, Str8Balr, wjackalope (32)
5. ninerpride, reedkrase, Rossalex, houdeaney, js1987, nostocksjustbonds, petillius7, bignerd, teekay, beecharmer (34)

Minnesota Vikings @ Carolina Panthers

1. houdeaney (PERFECT)
2. HardCorvallis (2)
3. Edggy, renke81, Pat Willie (4)
4. reedkrase, liberty_JAC (6)
5. manraj7, illini49er, RJames, bayboy (8)

Detroit Lions @ Denver Broncos

1. howtheyscored (6)
2. craziness@analltimehigh (14)
3. sanguines, TriPPinG, SportsChicken, Takeo33 (20)
4. Ni9er, these3words, Chukwamu (22)
5. jpgarfunkle (26)

New England Patriots @ Pittsburgh Steelers

1. HardCorvallis (2)
2. libra45 (4)
3. bignerd, Ni9er (6)
4. David Fucillo (10)
5. groug, Str8Balr, urnext (12)

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	leaping_larry	12	Aww fudge! I guess I should feel lucky his name has been off the the list this long. Shallow congrats Larry!
	2nd	Edggy	11	Eleven, I get it. Could of had more points but had some accuracy issues.
	2nd	houdeaney	11	Nice little trick. My favorite place in Vegas, the magic shop in Caesar's mall. They even have Dungeons and Dragons cards.
	4th	J2daZ	10	A2daIfor0is10
	4th	manraj7	10	Meow! Lets just scrap the prediction game. I'll setup a grid 0 to 9 and everyone gets to pick a square.
	4th	HardCorvallis	10	Is this a Star Wars reference?
	4th	Ni9er	10	Annoyed me all week. Probably enjoys every Adam Sandler movie which all contain the same jokes. WHAADDDDAAYYYYAAAA MEAN ALL CONTAIN THE SAME JOKES?!?!

Week 8 Awards

	Perfect Weapon Andy Lee, J2daZ, leaping_larry, houdeaney
	Whammy PHUT!, MRandolph, TheEliTorres, Rhombus, mcwagner, San Fran Niners, 49erLou, rlott#42

Week 8 Leader Board

Week 8 Big Board Predictions (check your scores)

Scoring Explained

Your prediction has these same three components as the actual game score.

1) If you predict the correct winner for an individual game, we will score your prediction against the actual game. If you predict the incorrect winner for an individual game, your prediction will not be scored.

2) Ideally, you will predict the exact point differential of the actual game. Say, for example, this is 45. If you predict a score with a PD of 45, the difference between your predicted PD and the actual PD is 0 (45 - 45 = 0). The worse your prediction, the greater that difference becomes. Therefore, the closer the difference is to zero, the better.

3) Ideally, you will predict the exact point total of the actual game. Say, for example, this is 65. If you predict a score with a PT of 65, the difference between your predicted PT and the actual PT is 0 (65 - 65 = 0). The worse your prediction, the greater that difference becomes. Therefore, the closer the difference is to zero, the better.

So, assuming that you predict the correct winner of the individual game, we simply add the difference between your predicted and the actual PD to the difference between your predicted and the actual PT. The closer this total is to zero, the better your prediction is. A zero exactly will always be a perfect prediction.

pPD = Predicted Point Differential
aPD = Actual Point Differential
pPT = Predicted Point Total
aPT = Actual Point Total
x = Subscore

|pPD - aPD| + |pPT - aPT| = x

That total becomes your subscore for each individual game. These subscores are then ranked, and the five best (including ALL ties) are awarded points. Perfect predictions are awarded 10 points. If the highest subscore for a particular game is not a perfect prediction, it is awarded 5 points. Points then follow in descending order, so that all of the second best predictions get 4 points, the third best all get 3 points, and so on.

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