NinersNation.com wake up from your bye week slumber ... wake up! I know it's difficult to get excited about a Rams game, Rams fans are excited at least.

Maybe you're focused on the election? Good luck with that and your candidates tonight, percentages say 48% of you will be disappointed. Twitter should be fun to follow, elections always bring out some bat [site decorum] crazy comments. Not into it, always the new Halo.

Week 9 results also means another prize give away for the highest score between Week 6 thru 9. And the winner is .... Str8Balr! Showed some real personal development avoiding the tie this time. Good luck getting that prize from Fooch.

Week 9 Scoring Recap

Philadelphia Eagles @ New Orleans Saints

1. Mo9er (2)
2. ak4niner (6)
3. danknerd49, Aaron Emerson, neder, Stupifyed, bonbrillio (8)
4. sundaysfinest (10)
5. Fred.P.Soft (12)

Dallas Cowboys @ Atlanta Falcons

1. bonbrillio (2)
2. neder (4)
3. ninerpunk, Takeo33, Beamer1960, mikeinsp, MadManWithABox (10)
4. SportsChicken, Andrew Davidson, Shazi5, leaping_larry (14)
5. Rhombus, Str8Balr, danknerd49, bayboy, Naguabo, Ten-Man, wjackalope, groug, whobob, jbrown63, Rossalex (16)

Denver Broncos @ Cincinnati Bengals

1. bonbrillio (2)
2. benna11, obfuscius (4)
3. Rhombus, bayboy, liberty_JAC (6)
4. San Fran Niners, Nick Bays, grantmp, leaping_larry, urnext (8)
5. Str8Balr, Ten-Man, wjackalope, AKinferno (10)

Miami Dolphins @ Indianapolis Colts

1. nostocksjustbonds, J2daZ, Haggardninja, Ten-Man, Nick Bays (PERFECT)
2. bayboy, Naguabo, grantmp, Takeo33, ezoo, mpotter14 (2)
3. Str8Balr, benna11, San Fran Niners (6)
4. bradyk2, neder, SpurredOn, sundaysfinest, bonbrillio, Rossalex (8)
5. Beamer1960 (10)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Oakland Raiders

1. bayboy, these3words (22)
2. Rhombus (24)
3. Black59Razor (28)
4. Edggy, PHUT!, Fred.P.Soft, Aaron Emerson, ZeroIndulgence, Naguabo, Takeo33, teekay, liberty_JAC, leaping_larry (30)
5. JH But not the Coach, groug, Shazi5, jbrown63, bonbrillio, beecharmer, Rossalex (36)

Minnesota Vikings @ Seattle Seahawks

1. wjackalope, bignerd (12)
2. bayboy, groug, Shazi5, ak4niner, SpurredOn, Takeo33, liberty_JAC, Rossalex, Ni9er (14)
3. ninerpunk, beecharmer, leaping_larry (18)
4. Str8Balr, nostocksjustbonds, manraj7, benna11, whobob, Nick Bays, Mo9er, jbrown63, mpotter14, AKinferno (20)
5. PHUT!, mikeinsp (22)

Week 9 Awards

	Perfect Weapon Andy Lee, nostocksjustbonds, Ten-Man, Nick Bays, J2daZ, Haggardninja
	Whammy mcwagner, Mityt, AK49e, CUARENTAYNUEVES, 49erLou

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	bayboy	17	How are those Chivas de Guadalajara?
	2nd	bonbrillio	16	I should probably ask you the same question. Next week we are simulcasting this post en Español
	3rd	Nick Bays	14	B's are ruling the Big Board. Wait, where am I at?
	4th	Takeo33	13	Is the main reason I think the Chargers don't make the playoffs. Norv curse is bad enough, but the Takeo curse is a 100% fatal.
	5th	nostocksjustbonds	12	Another Big 5 PED induced finish.
	5th	Ten-Man	12	I saw that perfect score, good symmetry.

Week 9 Leader Board

Week 9 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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