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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 12:55 am
Thanks for stopping by my folder and reminding me, Who!! I'm so excited about football being back that I could pop!! I'm anticipating the Hall of Fame game like it's the Super Bowl!! LOL!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 1:41 am
Thanks, Whohoney! Whew!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 9:45 am
Hey KL, we all had to learn sometime! I got my butt kicked royally the first year, but it was still fun. Thanks Who! You're tops.
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Guinluvsc
Member
08-23-2005
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 1:07 pm
lets get ready to taaaaackle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (said in wrestling guy voice)
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 4:27 pm
Hi Guinluvsc! (said in neighborly voice)
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 6:39 pm
did anyone else notice a game on today between the Eagles and the Raiders?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 6:54 pm
Yea, that's the Hall Of Fame Game. Its separate from Week 1 of the Pre Season. If you'll notice, the Eagles also play again on Aug 10 (vs Cleveland) when Pre-Season Week 1 starts. And Oakland is in the Monday Night game vs Minnesota. I excluded the Hall Of Fame Game last year too. Its sort of like its own week of play. And since its only one game, just not worth including in the mix. Sorry I didn't mention that all to start with! 
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, August 07, 2006 - 9:39 am
No problem, just wanted to make sure I was seeing it right. I also thought I'd waited too long to pick then saw the first game was Thursday. I'll make my picks now.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, August 07, 2006 - 9:51 am
Thanks for the reminder Who... I figured I missed the first game already but it didnt matter cause I would have picked the Phillies anyway or I wouldnt be able to go home... dang I am going to be handicapped this season unless they have a spectacular season. Dumb question... point spread... that means after the actual game is played right? Not what the bookies pick.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, August 07, 2006 - 4:54 pm
Yup! You're basically trying to guess how much the winning team will win by on the game in question. And, you didn't miss the first game (the one played last night). It was the Hall Of Fame Game, and was in a different week-of-play than Pre-Season Week 1 (deadline for that is still Thursday!). I excluded the HoF Game from the Pre-Season Picks cause it was sort of an oddball game out there by itself.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 9:14 am
Just a reminder that tonight kicks off the first week of the pre-season, so get your picks in! Remember, pre-season does not count towards the regular season average scores. So if you miss tonight/this week, its not too late to join up. In fact, late comers to the game are always welcome, even during the regular season. Joining late in the regular season will hurt your average score, since the season average factors in all weeks of play, regardless of whether you missed a week or not. But there's always weekly bragging rights to play for.
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Redpen
Member
07-24-2003
| Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 11:04 am
Thank you for having this game. I'll just make me a little spot at the bottom and relax. Go Raiders!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, August 12, 2006 - 3:29 pm
The chart with everyone's picks for this week has been posted at the end of the Weekly Picks/Pre-Season Week 1 thread. Please verify the chart to make sure your picks were entered correctly. Thank you! WebTV'ers. If you have any trouble accessing the chart, please let me know. I'm hoping by posting each chart at the end of its appropriate week, we can eliminate the problems we had in previous years when the charts got too big for your pages to load!
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 9:56 pm
WOW my Raiders have one 2 games IN A ROW I wish this was the real seson. hoping for the best from the raiders this year nc
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 11:32 pm
The Results for this week's game is posted in the Weekly Results folder. Congrats to TheOwl, who becomes our first weekly winner of the season! Whoo Hoo! Also, I've opened up the game for picks for Pre Season Week 2. Please go to the Weekly Picks folder to place your picks. Remember, THURSDAY deadline! Happy Playing! Oh, and here's how I score this.... As indicated in the "game open" announcement, you get 40 points for each game you correctly guessed the winner. Bonus questions take the variance of your guess from the actual score, and subract that from the available bonus value. The total possible bonus points never equals more than the points earned for guessing a game correctly. So bonus questions are primarily tie breakers. Your final score is factored by the percentage of how many total points you earned as opposed the total available points possible to win in that given week. So.....using my score as an example. I got 6 games right, earning 40 points for each game. I guessed 10 for BQ1 (point spread). The acutal point spread for that game was 16. I was off by 6. BQ1 was worth 15 total points minus the variance. So 15 minus 6 gets 9 points I earned for BQ1. Same goes for BQ2. I guessed 38 for the final score, the actual final score was 29. I was off by 9. BQ2 was worth 25 points minus the variance, so 25 minus 9 gets me 16 points earned for BQ2. So, I earned 240 for the games guessed correctly (40 X 6), and adding in the 25 total bonus points gets me 265 total points for the week. The total available points possible to earn for the week was 680 (16 games @ 40 points each, plus 40 total possible bonus points). 265 is 38.971% of 680, thus my score is 38.971. Whew! I sure hope that all made sense! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, either here, or PM/e-mail me.
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 4:12 pm
Thanks Who!! Now I have no where else to go but DOWN!! HOOO HOOOO!!!! 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 4:40 pm
LOL MsOwl! And as you can see, I don't have much where else to go but up. Maybe by the end of the season we'll meet somewhere in the middle! 
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 4:52 pm
If it's anything like last year, we'll probably trade places!! LOL!! 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 7:22 pm
Whooot Whoot Ms.Owl! Congratulations. Ya'll can see I'm in the middle and I'll probably be meeting you both at some point! LOL
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:40 pm
Thanks Gracie!! 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 6:00 pm
Remember, Thursday deadline this week!
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 10:22 am
Congratulations Owl... nice to see some players I remember.
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Tater
Member
03-19-2003
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 10:55 am
Whew! I'm glad I found this!
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:22 pm
Congratulations on your win this week Owl!! Way to go!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 3:17 pm
Did I get my picks in on time? I almost forgot!
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