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Week 3 Scoring Recap

San Francisco 49ers @ Minnesota Vikings

Green Bay Packers @ Seattle Seahawks

1. JH But not the Coach (6)
2. bonbrillio (12)
3. Edggy, groug, SpurredOn, Beamer1960 (18)
4. Andrew Davidson, makd2345, Delmuir, (Florida) Danny Tuccitto, obfuscius, urnext (20)
5. dlh (22)

New England Patriots @ Baltimore Ravens

1. spirit_of_the_niners, Takeo33, ninerpunk, danknerd49, AKinferno, Mo9er, foosball4949 (6)
2. ZeroIndulgence, Black59Razor, wjackalope, teekay, jbrown63, neder, liberty_JAC, beecharmer (12)
3. Andrew Davidson, NinerEast, rev420, HeartlessMike, Edggy, mpotter14, libra45, McTee (14)
4. Naguabo, Haggardninja, AK49e, Session9, whatsURdeal, masputo, 49erLou (18)
5. JH But not the Coach, The RealFakename, rlott#42, renke81, Rossalex, (Florida) Danny Tuccitto, manraj7, bayboy, whobob, SpurredOn, grantmp, Beamer1960, bakoninerfan, Ni9er, leaping_larry (20)

Cincinnati Bengals @ Washington Redskins

1. ZeroIndulgence, SpurredOn (14)
2. Naguabo (16)
3. Nick Bays, rev420 (20)
4. ezoo, reedkrase, ak4niner (22)
5. San Fran Niners, Edggy, bradyk2, EcERyda69, Mo9er (28)

Atlanta Falcons @ San Diego Chargers

1. DAD OF VLAD (18)
2. San Fran Niners, bayboy, bakoninerfan, Mo9er (20)
3. rlott#42, EcERyda69, mikeinsp (22)
4. Andrew Davidson, Stupifyed, MadManWithABox, ninerpunk, MRandolph, teekay (28)
5. SH0ck-D (30)

Houston Texans @ Denver Broncos

1. Haggardninja, bradyk2, groug, jbrown63 (2)
2. Nick Bays (4)
3. dlh, bakoninerfan, mountaindew77 (6)
4. SH0ck-D, Rhombus, spirit_of_the_niners, ezoo, mrg80, Mo9er (8)
5. Andrew Davidson, 40daysand49ers, Rossalex, 49erLou, wjackalope, bignerd (10)

The Big Five Finishers

	Rank	Screen Name	Points	Comments
	1st	Mo9er	12	Only 12 points but 5 standard deviations better than everyone else this week.
	2nd	jbrown63	9	Someone who can explain to these meat puppets what is a standard deviation.
	2nd	ZeroIndulgence	9	Has been saying for weeks the best defense is not a good offense... it's a good defense!
	2nd	SpurredOn	9	Look what the Skag drug in! Doesn't post comments any more.
	5th	bakoninerfan	8	Wow! You're not dead? Its been awhile since your Week 1 victory last season.
	5th	Andrew Davidson	8	Nine-hundred percent more awesome than me!
	5th	groug	8	LOL! What? Inconceivable.

Week 3 Awards

Whammy Fred.P.Soft, Mapletreemarty, Drew Kerr, Ten-Man, Alligator Arms, benna11, fanoftheunderdogs, cananball, jpgarfunkle, YellowMelonCust, mcwagner, RJames, nostocksjustbonds, Aaron Emerson, J2daZ, Shazi5, Mityt, SportsChicken, Str8Balr, sundaysfinest

Week 3 Leader Board

Week 3 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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