Week 16 Prediction Games: Alex Gets Stiffed, Another Close Friend Gets Recongized

I thought I would make you sweat the results for awhile. Well it's here, the final week. One last weekend to make your final case for the playoffs, otherwise its BIT (Bignerd Invitational Tournament) against urnext. We did have a few playoff eliminations this week, anyone currently below 31 points, sorry it won't be possible to make the NN Prediction Game Playoffs.

A lot of big numbers were posted this week separating the field. If you are outside looking in for a playoffs spot will probably need a monster week. Still have a race for 1st place with Rossalex holding a 4 point lead on manraj2417 and teekay. Good luck to all, hopefully Fooch doesn't pull a Cowboys for a third consecutive week. Final results, playoff contestants, playoff rules and BIT invites for all next week (for those who cry quietly alone like me).

Week 16 Scoring Recap

San Francisco 49ers @ Seattle Seahawks

1. PHUT! (2)
2. J2daZ, benna11, Takeo33, Ninerfromacrossthepond, mpotter14, bonbrillio, teekay, wjackalope, howtheyscored, Haggardninja, leaping_larry, Str8Balr (8)
3. Monte M. Gallacher, SharksFanEst.1994, neder, McTee, manraj7, illini49er, HardCorvallis, LASVEGASNINER, renke81 (10)
4. nostocksjustbonds, bayboy, mikeinsp, Rossalex, chap9er, SportsChicken, Rabbit T, RJames, jbrown63, AKinferno (14)
5. Frisco_Kid, SpurredOn, Rhombus, Edggy, Stupifyed, libra45, Pat Willie, 49erLou, Ni9er, Beamer1960, Mo9er (16)

Atlanta Falcons @ New Orleans Saints

1. LASVEGASNINER, AKinferno (16)
2. McTee, Pat Willie (20)
3. MATTCW, Frisco_Kid, benna11, SharksFanEst.1994, Ninerfromacrossthepond, teekay, urnext, Str8Balr, grantmp (22)
4. 49erLou, howtheyscored (24)
5. Monte M. Gallacher, groug, Rhombus, San Fran Niners, mikeinsp, Rossalex, chap9er, Beamer1960, jbrown63, Mo9er (28)

Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers

1. Frisco_Kid (6)
2. Takeo33, SportsChicken, LASVEGASNINER, bakoninerfan (8)
3. McTee, wjackalope, Haggardninja (10)
4. Stupifyed, Aaron Emerson, HardCorvallis (14)
5. Monte M. Gallacher, SpurredOn, groug, benna11, Edggy, libra45, Pat Willie, Rabbit T, ZeroIndulgence, Ni9er, AKinferno, bignerd, Str8Balr, beecharmer (16)

Oakland Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs

1. Drew Kerr, chap9er, Ninerfromacrossthepond, Haggardninja (8)
2. benna11, Stupifyed, Aaron Emerson, HardCorvallis, renke81, Str8Balr (10)
3. mcwagner (12)
4. J2daZ, SharksFanEst.1994, Ten-Man, SportsChicken (14)
5. bayboy, Rossalex, manraj7, RJames, teekay, Mo9er (16)

New York Giants @ New York Jets

1. Edggy, bayboy (4)
2. benna11, Rhombus, Takeo33, Rossalex, Ni9er, teekay, Haggardninja, Mo9er (6)
3. PHUT!, chap9er, manraj7, 49erLou, AKinferno (8)
4. Monte M. Gallacher, mcwagner, mikeinsp, Stupifyed, illini49er, renke81 (10)
5. MATTCW, Frisco_Kid, ZeroIndulgence, Beamer1960, jbrown63, urnext (12)

San Diego Chargers @ Detroit Lions

1. teekay (20)
2. Stupifyed (24)
3. groug, HardCorvallis, bignerd (26)
4. SharksFanEst.1994, mikeinsp, libra45, 49erLou, LASVEGASNINER, howtheyscored, AKinferno, Str8Balr (28)
5. urnext (30)

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	teekay	17	Won't be making the Pro Bowl but assured to be making the playoffs.
	2nd	benna11	16	Really? Who am I gonna bump now for the playoffs? BTW, Fooch is that close to giving you the ban hammer himself.
	2nd	Haggardninja	16	Like the Falcons, holding a playoff spot and no one understands why.
	4th	Str8Balr	14	[Site Decorum], [Site Deocrum], [Site Decorum] another big number week from nowhere to slam the playoff seeding shut!!!
	4th	LASVEGASNINER	14	Finally someone I can relate to. Gonna need another big week plus Jets playoff scenario like help.

Week 16 Awards

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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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