Week 11 Prediction Games: Cardinal, Chicken with Upcoming Raven

Sorry, won't be much pontificating this week.  The post is up early to get the Week 12 Predication Games up ASAP.  We have a special case this week with the 49ers playing in a Thursday Thanksgiving game.  We always skip the Thursday games because they don't leave people much time to submit a prediction.  However its the 49ers, we cannot ignore the game either.

Here is how the contest is going to work this week.  We will have our typical five non-49ers related Sunday & Monday prediction games.  The 49ers game will contain an option.  Can either submit a prediction for the 49ers Thursday game or will be given an optional game to predict. Fooch will decide the optional game when he posts the Week 12 slate later tonight.  The 49ers game and Optional game will be scored separately but you cannot play in both, it's your pick. If you don't get your 49ers prediction in by kickoff Thursday you'll still have the optional game to fall back on.

Week 11 Scoring Recap

Arizona Cardinals @ San Francisco 49ers

1. groug (4)
2. bayboy, bonbrillio, Tim Lincecum's Bong (6)
3. reedkrase, MATTCW, mikeinsp, SportsChicken, Rossalex, Takeo33, SharksFanEst.1994 (8)
4. PHUT!, Stupifyed (10)
5. bakoninerfan, Ten-Man, Frisco_Kid, Mo9er, illini49er, mpotter14, MRandolph, Str8Balr, leaping_larry, AKinferno (12)

Kansas City Chiefs @ New England Patriots

1. mikeinsp (6)
2. PHUT!, MATTCW, benna11, SportsChicken, nostocksjustbonds (8)
3. RJames (12)
4. bakoninerfan, Rossalex, Frisco_Kid, Ni9er, Mo9er, mpotter14, San Fran Niners, Beamer1960, houdeaney, Rhombus, beecharmer, SpurredOn, teekay, rlott#42 (14)
5. Edggy, bignerd (16)

Philadelphia Eagles @ New York Giants

1. McTee (14)
2. J2daZ, RJames, Rabbit T, 49erLou, rlott#42, urnext, SharksFanEst.1994 (20)
3. Stupifyed, howtheyscored (22)
4. js1987, Pat Willie, groug (28)
5. grantmp (34)

Cincinnati Bengals @ Baltimore Ravens

1. mcwagner (2)
2. LASVEGASNINER, 49erLou (6)
3. ZeroIndulgence, Drew Kerr, Stupifyed (8)
4. jbrown63, these3words (10)
5. manraj7, Rossalex, Frisco_Kid, Dukeston1, Ni9er, Takeo33, Rhombus, wjackalope, beecharmer, liberty_JAC, bignerd, TheEliTorres, David Fucillo (14)

Carolina Panthers @ Detroit Lions

1. nostocksjustbonds (22)
2. 49erLou (28)
3. David Fucillo, SharksFanEst.1994 (30)
4. bayboy (32)
5. reedkrase, renke81, Rabbit T, js1987, Ni9er, San Fran Niners, McTee, liberty_JAC (36)

Tennessee Titans @ Atlanta Falcons

1. SportsChicken, Rossalex, liberty_JAC (PERFECT)
2. reedkrase, mikeinsp, manraj7, Stupifyed, Dukeston1, bayboy, jbrown63, Str8Balr (2)
3. chap9er, Beamer1960 (4)
4. J2daZ, Ninerfromacrossthepond, nostocksjustbonds, bonbrillio, San Fran Niners, howtheyscored, Tim Lincecum's Bong, wjackalope, leaping_larry, David Fucillo (6)
5. dlh, Edggy, renke81, MATTCW, benna11, LASVEGASNINER, Frisco_Kid, js1987, neder, McTee, SpurredOn, AKinferno, teekay, urnext, SharksFanEst.1994 (8)

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	SportsChicken	17	Reminds me of chikmagnet. What ever happened to him?
	2nd	Rossalex	16	If this were school I'd be expelling him at this moment, he blatantly copied SportsChicken's predictions. Next time just hit the reply button and type "ditto".
	3rd	49erLou	12	Champions turn it on during the stretch run beginning around Thanksgiving. He did this last year.
	3rd	liberty_JAC	12	He scored 12 points and I scored 2, our predictions are almost identical.
	3rd	Stupifyed	12	That was my reaction. His 3rd trip to the podium, he's good.
	3rd	mikeinsp	12	Makes it two weeks in a row.

Week 11 Awards

	Perfect Weapon Andy Lee, Rossalex, liberty_JAC, SportsChicken
	Whammy SanFranciscoKnights, HardCorvallis, Haggardninja, DAD OF VLAD, libra45

Week 11 Leader Board

Week 11 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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