Gonna make this short, sweet and under 187 words. Predict well enough this week or don't make the Championship bracket for the playoffs. The Top 16 or tied at 16 make it in while the rest keep playing in the Bignerd Invitational Tournament (The BIT©). No one has locked up a playoff spot yet although I'm currently sitting pretty.

Good luck to all! Playoff qualifiers and rules will be announced next week.

Week 16 Scoring Recap

San Francisco 49ers @ Seattle Seahawks

1. nostocksjustbonds (24)
2. ZeroIndulgence (30)
3. groug, beecharmer (36)
4. leaping_larry, MadManWithABox (44)
5. urnext (50)

New Orleans Saints @ Dallas Cowboys

1. 49erLou, bignerd (6)
2. Ador08, McTee, groug, jbrown63, SpurredOn, Edggy (8)
3. J2daZ, beecharmer (12)
4. ninerpunk, benna11, Nick Bays, Ni9er, Str8Balr, Haggardninja, Fred.P.Soft (14)
5. Naguabo, Mo9er (16)

Washington Redskins @ Philadelphia Eagles

1. Shazi5, wjackalope (PERFECT)
2. McTee, 49erLou (2)
3. urnext (4)
4. bayboy, ninerpunk, Drew Kerr, neder, these3words, bonbrillio, Haggardninja, grantmp, Mo9er, liberty_JAC, obfuscius, leaping_larry, Beamer1960 (6)
5. ZeroIndulgence, benna11, Naguabo, bradyk2, Nick Bays, Str8Balr, jbrown63, Ten-Man, SpurredOn, Takeo33, AKinferno (8)

Oakland Raiders @ Carolina Panthers

1. groug (PERFECT)
2. Str8Balr, Mo9er (6)
3. neder (8)
4. Andrew Davidson, 49erLou (12)
5. reedkrase, Ten-Man, Edggy (14)

New York Giants @ Baltimore Ravens

1. PHUT! (10)
2. neder (14)
3. ninerpunk, reedkrase, McTee, bradyk2, Ni9er, Aaron Emerson, Ten-Man, liberty_JAC, Fred.P.Soft, bignerd (18)
4. urnext, ZeroIndulgence, CUARENTAYNUEVES, Haggardninja, beecharmer (20)
5. danknerd49, Ador08 (24)

Chicago Bears @ Arizona Cardinals

1. jbrown63, AKinferno (2)
2. Naguabo, reedkrase, McTee (6)
3. danknerd49, San Fran Niners, nostocksjustbonds, Ten-Man, Edggy, Beamer1960 (8)
4. groug, Str8Balr, liberty_JAC (10)
5. Shazi5 (12)

Week 16 Awards

	Perfect Weapon Andy Lee, Shazi5, groug, wjackalope
	Whammy ak4niner, rhythmismt, Rhardin49

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	groug	19	The Mayan's were right.
	2nd	McTee	15	McWishYou'd a Merry X-Mas
	3rd	Shazi5	11	I get it, you're for real. Already got a comment stalker.
	3rd	49erLou	11	Skunk Busted!
	5th	jbrown63	10	Double the cats this week. Possibly you two can team up to clean out some annoying conference birds.
	5th	wjackalope	10	Whoa! 80 points scored this month? Should be getting the Tebow timeslot on ESPN for this streak.

Week 16 Leader Board

Week 16 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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