UIC NFL Superbru League 2022/2023- SUPER BOWL

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I've sent out invitations to all previous players. If you'd like to join in, here is a link to the league. Fairly straightforward contest, you pick the winner of all the games every week, plus the margin of victory, and are awarded points based on how close you were. MadameBlum is the defending champion (sorry Spider.)


Join upinclass, our NFL league on Superbru! You can find the pool here:



www.superbru.com/nfl/pool.php?p=12485937





TW

[ziggy]

Don't forget Thursday. You lose the whole week if you miss that game!!! Happened to me last year.

ziggy

[tims70ar]

Bump

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Just a reminder to get your first pick in before tonight's season opening barn-burner between the Rams and Bills!




TW

[Badactor]

GOOD LUCK!

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A big shout out to yellow-cap wearin' TimS after a turbulent NFL week one, where he had 12 of 16 outcomes correct! Collected the most Margin and Bonus points too, and his total distance margin (TDM) was 121 (the next best was 138 by Arsignman.) Great performance Tim!

Top Ten:

tims70ar
madameblum
bitowisdom
italianstallion
Rooster Cogburn
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Cherokee Scot
funkymonkey
spiderjohn
Arsignman




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In Week Two, Otis' (Bill) selections were a tour-de-force, picking 12 winners and getting the most Margin and Bonus points, ending with nearly 20 points for the week. Fantastic! Honorable mention to Chaos Theory (Hugh) for 13 correct selections and Ziggy (Mike) for 12 correct. 

Top ten after week two:

tims70ar

otis0930
Chaos Theory
ziggymcg
bitowisdom
italianstallion
madameblum
Rooster Cogburn
phlierfreak
PapaBear




TW

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Sorry that I haven't updated this in a few weeks.


After Week Six, Otis has forged to the top of the standings with 58 winning selections (1st), and a Total Distance Margin of 829 (tied 2nd.) Spider is close behind, as always, with 55 winners (tied 3rd) and the best TDM at 801. Arsignman has moved up one spot into third place with 57 wins (2nd), and a TDM of 831. Rooster Cogburn was the week six yellow-cap winner with nine wins and 14.5 points. {TDM is Total Distance from Margin: the sum of the differences between a player's margin predictions and the actual margins.}


Top ten after week six:


otis0930

spiderjohn
arsignman
PapaBear
Rooster Cogburn
Chaos Theory
tims70ar
Lady Luck & Me
Bitowisdom
Cherokee Scot





TW

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Week eight results:

Turbine (Bryon) gets the yellow cap after a stellar effort with 12 of 15 winners, and a TDM of 127. MadameBlum (Mrs. TW) woke from her slumber and was second thanks to a bunch of bonus points. The Italian Stallion (Geno) copped third with 11 wins and a TDM of 129. Once again Spider shot a tight group, also with 11 wins and a TDM of 127.


Overall leaderboard:

Otis continues to pace the field, but the lead has tightened up as Spider moves up one spot with by far the best overall TDM (1103). RoosterCogburn moves up one spot to sit third. Other notables were Turbine moving on up, movin' on up, seven spots to fifth place; Italian Stallion up four places to sit seventh; and MadameBlum gaining five positions and now in eighth overall. 




TW
 

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Week ten results:

Otis is sporting the yellow cap after a 9/14 performance in a week where most of the players struggled to predict even half the outcomes correctly. Spider and Rooster Cogburn continued to shadow Otis but it was a tough week to make up any ground on the leader.


Overall leaderboard:

Otis has put some daylight between himself and the pack, now 8.4 points ahead of second-place Spider, who moved up one spot along with Rooster Cogburn as Italian Stallion slumped to fourth. Other notables were defending champion Madame Blum and Papa Bear each moving ahead two positions to sixth and seventh, respectively.

Top ten after week ten:

otis0930  142.40

spider  134.00
Rooster Cogburn  132.31
Italianstallion  131.41
tims70ar  127.83
MadameBlum  126.47
PapaBear  124.41
Arsignman  124.00
turbine  123.24
Lady Luck & Me  121.99






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After Week 14:

Spider has surged to the top of the leaderboard and has his foot on the gas, with a 15 point lead over third place Rooster Cogburn. Otis0930 is trying to keep pace, seven points behind the leader. Spider's stats are very impressive, and worth posting here. He's dominating nearly every category.

Winning picks: 1st

Margin points: 1st

Slam points: tied 1st

Bonus points: 3rd

Total distance margin: 1st, by far


Top ten:

Spider

Otis
Rooster Cogburn
italianstallion
phlierfreak
Chaos Theory
MadameBlum
turbine
Cherokee Scot
Papa Bear




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[spiderjohn]

thanx for the kind words tw---will try to re-break down the stretch, and remember that this continues throughout the playoffs
should be an interesting week of dicey games imo....

best wishes to everyone involved....

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Week fifteen results:

Cruzan2002 has the yellow cap after a 12/16 outing including six margin points. Otis0930 continues his rock steady play, with a TDM of only 77 to tie with ziggy for second place this week.


Overall leaderboard:

Spider still rules the roost but Otis0930 crept just a little bit closer in 2nd. Big movers for the week were turbine and MadameBlum into third and fourth, respectively. 


Top ten after week fifteen:

1) spider  216.99

2) otis0930  211.48

3) turbine  196.81

4) MadameBlum 196.55

5) Rooster Cogburn  196.22

6) italianstallion  194.99

7) Chaos Theory  193.24

8) Cherokee Scot  192.41

9) tims70ar  191.58

10) PapaBear  191.15





TW

[spiderjohn]

Trying to hold on.... can't believe that Otis, me and so many others picked the Jets Thursday. Lawrence vs Wilson? One of the worst team efforts in a while and torture to watch.
Hard to figure today with the weather being factored to varying degrees.

Yesterday might have been the coldest day of my life, and I was working animal rescue for part of it--back at it this morning and hopeful.

Stay safe--enjoy your families--good luck!

[cherokeescot]

Btw I noticed that Spider is currently 4th of all USA participants and Otis is 14th . Go Team UIC !!

[spiderjohn]

Wow—I never look at that
And after a tough week
I assume that I am still in 1st

[spiderjohn]

Oops
Good luck everyone!
Challenging Weeks ahead

[spanky]

good thoughts from the Cooler...

[cherokeescot]

Detroit winning and Otis getting the maximum 2.5 points puts the pressure on SpiderJohn . Great contest with the playoffs still to come  .

1. SpiderJohn 261.57
2. Otis 258.72
3. Turbine 246.72

[spiderjohn]

Pressure?
No……..

Great pick Otis!

[cherokeescot]

After tonight’s game Otis has closed to just one tenth of a point behind SpiderJohn 🥵

SpiderJohn 267.07
Otis 266.97 

[cherokeescot]

“Oh my “ as Verne Lundquist would say . Otis takes the narrowest of leads thanks to the win by Spider’s Bengals .

[tenfurlongs]

It all comes down to the Super Bowl, where the correct outcome is worth 3 points, plus the usual margin points, etc. Great battle all season between spider and otis, good luck to both of you next Sunday.







TW

[cherokeescot]

Spider’s strategy of using the 2pt winning margin all season has been a master stroke 🙌

[spiderjohn]

Honestly I came up with 3-4 #s that work similarly pending how closed I expected the game to be…..and the -2pt angle won’t come in to play in the final game.

If I hadn’t been a bungles homer last week, this thing would have been pretty much over. Credit to Otis for his strong late run. Very impressive….

One game left……

[otis0930]

Congrats Spider. I see we both picked the Eagles by 4 points. It's been fun.

[spiderjohn]

Thanx Otis!
Rough finish for both of us.

After finishing a very close 2nd each of the last 2 years, I tried to guess how you would go yesterday, and called that as well as possible. If we both picked the same team—I win.

A long but enjoyable season with SuperBru as always.
Finally beat Madam B…..