Super Bowl XLV

Tipping Comp

The scoring system will be the same as last year:

• one point a correct pick in Weeks 1 and 2,
  1 point for picking the winner of the AFC Championship Game,
  1 point for picking the winner of the NFC Championship Game,
  4 points for picking the winner of the Super Bowl.
  
  
• total points each week, excluding bonus points:
  Week 1 : 4 points
  Week 2 : 4 points
  Week 3 : 4 points
  Week 4 : 3 points
  
  
• bonus points for the seeding of the winner of a game.
  
  
• bonus points for picking the Super Bowl winner in advance, before the fact:
  4 bonus points for picking it in week 1,
  3 bonus points for picking it in week 2,
  2 bonus points for picking it in week 3.
  
  
• tie-breaker :: if players are on equal points after the Super Bowl:
  (a) first team to score, then
  (b) leader at half-time, then
  (c) total points in Super Bowl then, if required,
  (d) aggregate total points of the two Championship Games combined.

These are the 11 end of season games: Week 1 : Wildcard Weekend (Saturday/Sunday January 8th/9th, 2011) NFC : New Orleans Saints at Seattle Seahawks AFC : New York Jets at Indianapolis Colts AFC : Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs NFC : Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles AFC Champion: 1 pt if this pick wins NFC Champion: 1 point if this pick wins Super Bowl winner: 4 pts if this pick wins Week 2 : Divisional Finals (Saturday/Sunday January 15th/16th, 2011) AFC : Highest AFC Wildcard Weekend winner at Pittsburgh Steelers NFC : Lowest NFC Wildcard Weekend winner at Atlanta Falcons NFC : Highest NFC Wildcard Weekend winner at Chicago Bears AFC : Lowest AFC Wildcard Weekend winner at New England Patriots Super Bowl winner: 3 points if this pick wins [ you only need to choose if your pick in Week 1 was eliminated ] Week 3 : Conference Championships (Sunday January 23th, 2011) NFC Championship Game Away Team at Home Team Tie-breaker: Total points: AFC Championships Game Away Team at Home Team Tie-breaker: Total pts: Super Bowl winner: 2 points if this pick wins [ you only need to choose if your pick in Week 1 or Week 2 was eliminated ] Week 4 : Super Bowl (Sunday February 6th, 2011) NFC Champions vs AFC Champions [ you only need to choose if your pick in Week 1 or Week 2 or Week 3 was eliminated ] Tie-breaker: First team to score: Leader at half-time: Total points scored in game:

Previous winners:

2002-03 Sypher
2003-04 No Comp
2004-05 ElfTwinkle
2005-06 gtho4
2006-07 LeoDaVinci
2007-08 srini701
2008-09 Sypher
2009-10 illiniman14

LeoDaVinci and Sypher are the only players to complete the double -- regular season comp plus the Super Bowl.


Thank You to gtho4 for setting up the code for this post and the results & standings format.

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Week 1 - http://www.funtrivia.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/582987#Post582987
Week 2 - http://www.funtrivia.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/583231#Post583231
Week 3 - http://www.funtrivia.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/583340#Post583340
Week 4 - http://www.funtrivia.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/583342#Post583342

The regular season hasn't been good to me, let's see how I do in the playoffs.

Just one question,

We get 4 points for guessing the Super Bowl winner, but we can only get 3 points in that week, max. How is that?

I suppose I might as well go for the repeat... I'll just have to balance my head and my heart since the Bears are in it this year.

You get 4 additional points if you pick the Superbowl winner before Week 1 of the playoffs. If that team you pick to win the Superbowl is knocked out of the playoffs before the Superbowl you can pick a different team to win the Superbowl, but for less additional points.

Ah, I get it now.

I'm in, might get confused but never mind. go ravens!

Tenpin Bowling, right?

Count me in, please...

add one more to the list

go the 49ers!

Didn't do so well this season but now that I know who the good teams are (I think) I'll try this one out.

I figured LDV would say that!

Yup...add me please...

I'm in - a glutton for punishment -

Goooooo Colts!

Did anyone pick the Vikings to beat the Eagles?
Even the good teams don't know who they are.

Go...um, Jags?
They might not be there, but I am.

Nope...not a one.

I'm in again...I had thought Falcons/Pats in SB XLV here in Dallas, but not so much now!

I've been around the site for 3 years but this is the first I have seen the "tipping competition". ...I know sad...

I would love to take part if you will have me. Maybe I will have a healthy dose of beginners luck!

I still have the Falcons/Pats in the Super Bowl. The 'Who Dat' Saints are going down! LOL.

I'll have a go.

The more the merrier rx.

Nothing wrong with taking your time finding the thread, I just started participating in the tipping threads last year myself and you know I have been around for a few years.

Add me on the list - thanks

If you'd found it a little sooner, you'd have made only the second time in FT history to have 30 participants in any tipping comp (record is 32). Rx, you are welcome to join any comp at any time...just post your tips in the current thread and remember to bold/underline/italicize picks (as long as one team is in a different format and not regular font in the three I run, I am ok with that (prefer the bolding though)).

Just about all set now. Only thing still unknown is who will win the Sunday night game, which will determine the winner of the NFC West and who hosts New Orleans next week.

Doesn't matter who's gonna win the default division tonight, the Saints will beat them in double digits

...which will make my brother mad. As long as the Eagles or Saints aren't in, he's happy...doesn't matter that much to me.

It's the 7-9 seahawks, who will get smashed

A Saints fan freind of mine said the Saints were gonna beat the lowly Bucks with double digits yesterday as well. What happen LOL? Better not play like that for the next four games if they are lucky enough to play in them. Atlanta Falcons all the way Best of luck to everyone!