A cluster of perfect scores struck this week. If you're on the list like me you're happy else you're steaming mad like manraj7 who was snake bitten by the manraj7 rule. Not a lot to add this week. If I had won the week, this section would have been a big, big celebration of me but atlas I was outscored by a returning champion. LOL, not you 49erLOLu.

Little bit of housekeeping. leaping_larry and Haggardninja had tied for the first contest prize two weeks ago. Decided to run a tiebreaker on who posted the highest score the following week. Should have mentioned this last week, Larry won by a thrilling score 1 to 0 over Haggardninja, who continued his whammy streak to two this weekend.

Week 7 Scoring Recap

Seattle Seahawks @ San Francisco 49ers

1. whobob (8)
2. Rhombus (10)
3. Andrew Davidson, jbrown63, bayboy, MadManWithABox, bonbrillio, grantmp (14)
4. neder, ninerpunk (16)
5. SpurredOn, SportsChicken, Naguabo, leaping_larry (20)

Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears

1. Str8Balr, PHUT!, manraj7, Beamer1960, Edggy, urnext (20)
2. SportsChicken, mikeinsp, teekay, Takeo33 (22)
3. Fred.P.Soft, 49erLou, bonbrillio, Nick Bays (26)
4. San Fran Niners, ninerpunk, leaping_larry, wjackalope, obfuscius, Ni9er, bignerd (28)
5. SpurredOn, Alligator Arms, grantmp, groug, beecharmer, whobob, Mo9er (30)

Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals

1. bignerd (PERFECT)
2. Edggy, rlott#42 (2)
3. manraj7, ZeroIndulgence, David Fucillo, Nick Bays, AKinferno (6)
4. Drew Kerr, MadManWithABox, Shazi5, ninerpunk, fanoftheunderdogs, teekay, Mo9er (8)
5. SpurredOn, McTee, Naguabo, bonbrillio, reedkrase (12)

Green Bay Packers @ St. Louis Rams

1. Str8Balr, McTee, Nick Bays (PERFECT)
2. sundaysfinest (2)
3. SportsChicken, groug (4)
4. J2daZ, Ten-Man, SpurredOn, MadManWithABox, Alligator Arms, bonbrillio, reedkrase, grantmp, beecharmer, rlott#42, AKinferno (6)
5. madmatt, Stupifyed, leaping_larry, wjackalope, teekay, Ni9er (8)

Arizona Cardinals @ Minnesota Vikings

1. groug (PERFECT)
2. Drew Kerr, leaping_larry, whobob, urnext (2)
3. J2daZ, 49erLou, SpurredOn, ZeroIndulgence, Alligator Arms, David Fucillo (4)
4. bradyk2, Str8Balr, neder, Ten-Man, jbrown63, MadManWithABox, reedkrase, benna11, ninerpunk, Stupifyed, Beamer1960, wjackalope, sundaysfinest, obfuscius (6)
5. JH But not the Coach, Andrew Davidson, Mityt, Rhombus, bonbrillio, madmatt, grantmp, mikeinsp, beecharmer, Black59Razor, Nick Bays, teekay (8)

New York Jets @ New England Patriots

1. Mo9er (6)
2. JH But not the Coach (8)
3. neder (10)
4. ZeroIndulgence, madmatt, ninerpunk, whobob, liberty_JAC (12)
5. SportsChicken (14)

Jacksonville Jaguars @ Oakland Raiders

1. wjackalope (4)
2. obfuscius, bignerd (6)
3. Drew Kerr, danknerd49, Shazi5, nostocksjustbonds, liberty_JAC (12)
4. JH But not the Coach, urnext (18)
5. sundaysfinest, AKinferno, Ni9er (20)

Week 7 Awards

	Perfect Weapon Andy Lee, bignerd, McTee, groug, Nick Bays, Str8Balr
	Whammy ak4niner, mcwagner, these3words, renke81, mpotter14, Haggardninja, ezoo

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	Str8Balr	17	Our returning champion, at least one of them. Really, you couldn't submit a tiebreaker last February?
	1st	Nick Bays	17	One of those real name people. I'm always hesitant to embrace, a.k.a. the Brendan Scolari rule. Speaking of which I saw that ffffff ... person posting on Football Outsiders last week. Thankfully Nick is nothing like him.
	3rd	bignerd	16	Staying Classy!
	4th	groug	14	Ummmm ..... ummmmm ... ahhh [head looks back over should] .... ummmm .... $1, please?
	5th	whobob	12	I beat you Bob, I beat ya! Oh taste the defeat, taste it!

Week 7 Leader Board

Week 7 Big Board Predictions (check your scores)

Scoring Explained

Prediction Contest Rules and Guidelines

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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