What is this nonsense of football games being pushed to Saturday, Christmas Eve? Sundays no longer good enough for the NFL? Rain, blackouts and blizzards but no Christmas stops the show? Should a long practicing pagan like me really have to shift my weekend routine over a little holiday? Christmas wasn't even that interesting when the Christians stole it the first time. Actually the schedule shift works out on my end. Will be at mom's house for Christmas Eve and can catch the game(s) there. Whereas I have to be with the rest of relatives Sunday and even if the creepy pagan faction had a TV they would elect human sacrifice over letting me watch it.

Here is to still outside looking in and the results of Week 15.

Week 15 Scoring Recap

Pittsburgh Steelers @ San Francisco 49ers

1. Edggy, SportsChicken, RJames, Stupifyed (14)
2. PHUT!, benna11, Rabbit T, Rhombus, mikeinsp, liberty_JAC, Ni9er (20)
3. libra45, mcwagner, Aaron Emerson, howtheyscored, SpurredOn, San Fran Niners (22)
4. Pat Willie (24)
5. Frisco_Kid, nostocksjustbonds, Haggardninja, teekay (26)

Baltimore Ravens @ San Diego Chargers

1. seton hall and steelers, Takeo33 (12)
2. ZeroIndulgence, Aaron Emerson, grantmp, Ninerfromacrossthepond (14)
3. Pat Willie (16)
4. benna11, Edggy, SportsChicken, neder, bonbrillio, bignerd (20)
5. RJames, liberty_JAC, AKinferno (22)

Seattle Seahawks @ Chicago Bears

1. PHUT!, manraj7, Drew Kerr, bakoninerfan (20)
2. LASVEGASNINER, teekay (22)
3. bayboy, reedkrase, renke81, PaVaSteeler, illini49er, grantmp, Takeo33 (28)
4. Stupifyed (32)
5. Edggy, Rossalex, Ni9er, beecharmer (34)

Detroit Lions @ Oakland Raiders

1. Frisco_Kid, J2daZ, Drew Kerr, grantmp, AKinferno, San Fran Niners (6)
2. bayboy, HardCorvallis, reedkrase, McTee, beecharmer (10)
3. renke81, howtheyscored, teekay, bignerd (12)
4. Rabbit T, SportsChicken, illini49er, Ten-Man, itsAteamGAME, wjackalope (14)
5. libra45 (18)

New England Patriots @ Denver Broncos

1. howtheyscored (6)
2. LASVEGASNINER (12)
3. PaVaSteeler, Ni9er (14)
4. Ten-Man (18)
5. PHUT!, bayboy, mcwagner, Pat Willie, Aaron Emerson, McTee, jbrown63 (20)

New York Jets @ Philadelphia Eagles

1. seton hall and steelers (20)
2. MATTCW (24)
3. Frisco_Kid, ZeroIndulgence, McTee, itsAteamGAME, Ni9er, beecharmer (28)
4. Ninerfromacrossthepond, bakoninerfan (30)
5. bayboy, Pat Willie, Drew Kerr, groug, bignerd (36)

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	grantmp	12	krakatoa grantmp heating up.
	2nd	Ni9er	11	Can't-Stanza Award 2011
	2nd	Drew Kerr	11	The Colts and Kerr get off the schneid. Still missing Manning, still missing 49ers predictions.
	2nd	howtheyscored	11	Remember two weeks ago when he was whining about making the playoffs without having a double digit score for a single week?
	5th	PHUT!	10	2nd redemption candidate of the week. 1st in the Golden Nuggets but last in the Prediction Games.
	5th	seton hall and steelers	10	A mighty one week performance for the Steeler guest star. Nearly produced as many points as Roethlisberger interceptions.

Week 15 Awards

Whammy leaping_larry, chap9er, mpotter14, urnext, 49erLou, Mo9er, Str8Balr, Beamer1960

Week 15 Leader Board

Week 15 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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