By Shaft
Unbelievable. Seventeen weeks of picking NFL games and the whole thing came down to a single game: Dolphins vs. Jets.
The third contender for the top spot, HRH, had a strong week finishing in a tie for second place with twelve points and amazingly in a three way tie for the overall lead. However, since he had only two weekly wins this year it meant that this was going to come down to a head to head battle between last years champ, viceroy, and the champ from two years ago and leader for most of this year, Kender. They both PM’d me their picks and incredibly there was only one pick different between them.
viceroy picked the Jets and won three weeks this year.
Kender picked the Dolphins and won four. He is your 2008 NPP NFL Pick ‘em champion! Congratulations! As a reward, $50 will be donated to the charity of your choosing so post the charity and it shall be done.
Week 17 also saw daycru pick up his fourth weekly win, and third since Week 12, with thirteen correct picks. This left him with 164 points overall and in a solid 6th place.
The bottom of the final leaderboard of the year is occupied by SoP, buckdiddy, and loosejonnyt who all ended up with just 8 points a piece. Overall, Scotsman has clinched last place overall (outside of those who dropped out) with 139 points just one point behind n00b.
WEEK 17 FUN FACTS
Three teams were unanimously picked this week, but only two of them were correct. Both Baltimore’s win over Jacksonville and Atlanta’s victory over St. Louis were correctly picked by everyone while everyone goofed and picked Tampa Bay over Oakland.
WEEK 17 RESULTS
1. daycru – 13
2. Osiris – 12
2. HRH – 12
2. YRD – 12
2. robelgordo – 12
6. Boner – 11
6. Scotsman – 11
6. PeteMoss – 11
6. Kender – 11
6. Shaft – 11
11. nateeasy – 10
11. manbooba – 10
11. n00b – 10
11. viceroy – 10
11. Dirty Hun – 10
11. Hamass – 10
11. tron – 10
11. Tucho – 10
19. SoP – 8
19. buckdiddy – 8
19. loosejonnyt – 8
OVERALL
1. Kender – 170*
1. viceroy – 170
1. HRH – 170
4. nateeasy – 166
5. Hamass – 165
6. daycru – 164
7. robelgordo – 162
8. YRD – 159
9. Shaft – 158
10. Boner – 156
11. Tucho – 153
12. Osiris – 152
12. Dirty Hun – 152
14. SoP – 151
15. PeteMoss – 150
15. manbooba – 150
17. tron – 147
18. buckdiddy – 146
19. loosejonnyt – 142
20. n00b – 140
21. Scotsman – 139
22. Mallard – DNF
23. Taff – DNF
24. CliffX – DNF
25. Rookie Monster – DNF
26. JoeyAt75 – DNF
27. cheekbone – DNF
28. Dr. Mort – DNF
* – wins tiebreaker
2008 WEEKLY WINNERS
Week 1 – manbooba, JoeyAt75, Kender, CliffX
Week 2 – nateeasy, cheekbone, daycru
Week 3 – HRH
Week 4 – Kender
Week 5 – Scotsman, Mallard, SoP
Week 6 – Osiris, n00b
Week 7 – manbooba
Week 8 – PeteMoss
Week 9 – viceroy
Week 10 – Hamass, viceroy
Week 11 – Kender, Taff
Week 12 – Dirty Hun, daycru, buckdiddy, tron, Kender
Week 13 – manbooba, n00b, HRH, Dirty Hun, Shaft, Hamass, robelgordo, Tucho, YRD, daycru
Week 14 – Hamass, Tucho
Week 15 – Tucho, viceroy
Week 16 – tron
Week 17 – daycru
NUMBER OF WEEKS WON
4 – Kender, daycru
3 – viceroy, manbooba, Hamass, Tucho
2 – HRH, Dirty Hun, n00b, tron
1 – JoeyAt75, CliffX, nateeasy, cheekbone, Scotsman, Mallard, SoP, Osiris, PeteMoss, Taff, buckdiddy, Shaft, robelgordo, YRD
With all of those useless stats out of the way, another year is in the books. Congratulations again go out to Kender as well as to viceroy and HRH who both had tremendous years as well. Thanks to everyone who participated and hopefully we’ll do it all again next year. If I do run this again I guarantee you some tiebreakers will be in effect right from Week 1 rather than being added so hastily in Week 16 and I apologize to both viceroy and HRH for being so ill-prepared for a possible tie.
That does it for me. Thanks again everybody and have a Happy New Year!
Written by robelgordo
What was a terrible Week Two for most people was a great one for Don Majkowski. Not only did his twelve correct picks give him first place this week but it also moved him into a three point lead early on in the overall standings with 25 points. For the most part all the upsets made for a rough week for everyone else with only six people making 10 or more correct picks as opposed to last week where everyone except Tucho (who rebounded with 11 this week) had 10 or more. faarcyde suffered the worst in this regard with the week’s low total of six correct picks. 
Written by robelgordo
