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I'm catching up with this. I'm not sure even if anyone cares about what someone else is doing in these play offs if they are not directly involved. Look at it this way. You may go up against one of these competitors some day. This is their history including how they approach a given play off game. Are they making a careful pick given the play off rules or are they just throwing a pick out there, letting the chips fall where they may? Given
the rules as they are, one should be conservative. Don' ...

First here are the leaders in the Composite. The Composite combines the winning percentage in all three won/lost measures: Straight up, vs spread, and vs the over/under. It is this mrk that drives our contest. The higher marks will get a " bye " round for the mid season Madden's Cup and the play offs at the end of the season. Here they are, the best....

.633 Accuscore of the LA Times
.621 CBS Sports
.618 Frazer Jr. (unafiliated)

.598 Jeffrey Boswell of Fan Nation

.608 Brian ...

A Perfect game is when you were correct on all three measures of won/lost....picking straight up AND vs spread AND the over/under.
Here are the leaders after 4 weeks. I hope to have time to include the middle of the pack in the list below.

35 Boswell
34 Greenberg
30 Matthews
29 Inman
27 Thomas
27 Lazar
27 Duncan
29 Dillon
29 Iyer
23 DuLac

NFL Lines For Week 8 - NFL Football Line Week Eight
NFL Line 11/1 - 11/2, 2009
Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total
11/1 1:00 ET At Baltimore -3.5 Denver 41.5
11/1 1:00 ET At Chicago -13.5 Cleveland 40
11/1 1:00 ET Houston -3.5 At Buffalo 41.5
11/1 4:15 ET At Green Bay -3 Minnesota 47.5
11/1 1:00 ET At Indianapolis -12.5 San Francisco 45
11/1 1:00 ET At NY Jets -3 Miami 40.5
11/1 1:00 ET At Detroit -4 St. Louis 44.5
11/1 1:00 ET At Dallas -9.5 Seattle 46
11/1 4:05 E ...

Here were the leaders after week 6:

SCORE DIFFERENTIAL

15.44 Shultz
15.77 Stoll
15.89 Triplett
15.92 Accuscore
16.01 Wackel
16.04 Iyer
16.07 Wunderdog
16.09 Walsh
16.10 Babineau
16.17 Frazer jr
16.39 Brown

Lande, the top performer in the farm league has been drafted and will be pressed into service immediately filling in the games that Bob Stoll does not pick each week starting tomorrow.

There are 3 ways to move up to the pro league: assignments, drafts, and offers.

Assignments:
Detailed in the prior posting of Policy Changes as of 9/23/09.

Drafts:
A person is drafted if an offer has been turned down and there are no other offers outstanding. If you are drafted, you have the choice to decline the position. If you refuse the position, you might not get a chance for the rest of the season. It's your call. If you're drafted and you take the position, you will be allowe ...

After week one, changes are typically made to the configuration of the divisions. The poorer performers of the 2008-9 season, based on their composite winning percentages, were announced as cut from the pro league as starters. Here is that list in no particular order:

Jim Lazar
Greg Cote
The NFL Edge
Fan IQ
Pete Prisco
Dennis Dillon
Carl Kotala

Some sources dry up as was the case with Terry Bannon.

As week two arrived, it was clear that back-ups would be needed. The policy was to ...

NEWS FLASH --- Brian Allee-Walsh has moved from The Times-Picayune over to neworleans.com It is not clear yet if his weekly score picks will be discontinued or not. Emmanuel Pepis has been making picks and his record is being tabbed.

What line are we using?

We will go by the line posted courtesy of www.footballlocks.com

It is our intention to post a final line established on Saturday prior to Sunday games. For Thursday games use the line posted Wednes ...

A differential is a per game accuracy stat measuring how far off your average pick was. The Total Points Differential reflects your accuracy in predicting how many total points were scored in each game. The leaders usually averaged being off by 11 or 12 points. Here is a list of the leaders after 6 weeks 2009-10:

TOTAL POINTS DIFFERENTIAL LEADERS

9.86 Sports Weekly *
10.03 Wackel
10.71 Walsh
10.75 Bradley *
10.83 Stoll
11.43 Brown
11.47 Boswell
11.52 Matthews

Here is a ...