NFL Elimination League 2013- Sign up and Discussion Thread

How do you lose to the Jets? They're the league joke. Also I'm terrible at this game.

I picked a bad week to pick the Bucs...

5 Bucs, 1 Browns, and 1 Bengals... all gone in the first week.

garion333 wrote:

Yeah, I picked the Bills back when Manuel wasn't starting. Didn't change my pick so as to not confuse things. Oh well.

Holy crap NE! That was too close. Last minute FG to beat the Bills. Should of picked KC.

I'm totally fine with people switching their picks up til the actual games. If you don't pick on Thursday but you can pick on Sunday. I just didn't know if ESPN would actually let you.

Secret Asian Man wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Yeah, I picked the Bills back when Manuel wasn't starting. Didn't change my pick so as to not confuse things. Oh well.

Holy crap NE! That was too close. Last minute FG to beat the Bills. Should of picked KC.

I'm totally fine with people switching their picks up til the actual games. If you don't pick on Thursday but you can pick on Sunday. I just didn't know if ESPN would actually let you.

That's cool, but I'm willing to live with the consequences of my actions. In this case, I won!

I want to pick against the Raiders this week, but they're playing the Jaguars.

Yeah maybe this is the week to pick Oakland to win.

This is a tough week. Only a few games seem obvious but then you would have to choose a powerhouse you couldn't pick later. hmmmm

I went Packers this week. They're at home and RG3 didn't look right last week and Washington has a short week. Later in the season you can't trust the Packers due to eventual o-line injuries and the fact that they randomly lose to a bad opponent each year.

The only other one I was considering is Chicago because I know the Vikings are going to be bad this year but Chicago doesn't really get much of a home field advantage so I'll save them for an easy match-up later on.

I just found out that Gabbert won't be starting this week, it's less tempting to bet against the Raiders now.

I'm just going with surefire wins (like NE over the Bills, wut?)

I think the Ravens will be very motivated going into next week. Also...it's against the Browns.

This strategy will probably bite me when I have to choose between two mediocre teams but we'll see.

I'm taking NE this week. Surely they can't lose to the Jets, I mean it is the Jets.

onewild wrote:

I'm taking NE this week. Surely they can't lose to the Jets, I mean it is the Jets.

That assumption cost like 5 people their season last week.

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

S0LIDARITY wrote:
onewild wrote:

I'm taking NE this week. Surely they can't lose to the Jets, I mean it is the Jets.

That assumption cost like 5 people their season last week.

Yeah but that was TB, this is NE.

That makes it even harder a pick I think. Pats and jets always play each other hard. Combined with the crippled pats offense that's not a pick I would make.

Yeah. The Pats lost the two players on offense who did anything of note against the Bills ... so Brady is basically throwing to practice team scrubs and Julian Edelman. Not encouraging.

karmajay wrote:

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

Yeah that was the way I thought this game worked. There's a reason it's called Eliminator. Last one standing is supposed to win.

Stele wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

Yeah that was the way I thought this game worked. There's a reason it's called Eliminator. Last one standing is supposed to win.

Feel free to continue making bad decisions though.

Stele wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

Yeah that was the way I thought this game worked. There's a reason it's called Eliminator. Last one standing is supposed to win.

I thought that was the way it worked too...odd. Feel free to keep making picks. Maybe we'll do a consolidation prize of most correct picks at the end of the season.

Winner of this league should be longest running with no losses though.

Secret Asian Man wrote:
Stele wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

Yeah that was the way I thought this game worked. There's a reason it's called Eliminator. Last one standing is supposed to win.

I thought that was the way it worked too...odd. Feel free to keep making picks. Maybe we'll do a consolidation prize of most correct picks at the end of the season.

Winner of this league should be longest running with no losses though.

Do you mean longest streak or who survives the longest before their 1st incorrect pick?

Am I blind? I can't find where to make a change for week 2.

Click the My Entry tab then click week 2.
EDIT: Went through and made tentative picks through week 17. Managed to avoid picking the Raiders, Jags, Jets, and Bills.

S0LIDARITY wrote:
Secret Asian Man wrote:
Stele wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Cool, I was under the impression it was lose and you are out. Glad to be able to keep playing and making bad decisions!

Yeah that was the way I thought this game worked. There's a reason it's called Eliminator. Last one standing is supposed to win.

I thought that was the way it worked too...odd. Feel free to keep making picks. Maybe we'll do a consolidation prize of most correct picks at the end of the season.

Winner of this league should be longest running with no losses though.

Do you mean longest streak or who survives the longest before their 1st incorrect pick?

Survives the longest before their first incorrect pick. Which is what I think we all thought an "Elimination" league was/is.

The consolation of most correct picks (tiebreaker longest streak) will let us have something to do after we've all been eliminated by week 5

Well, the site itself looks like it over a season but you can only pick a team once. Might as ell just let the site do the work at the end

Agreed, last person to make a wrong pick is how I've always played this.

And in the rare event that everyone remaining misses for the first time in the same week, those people get back in to continue. But that doesn't happen often.

This thing usually doesn't make it past week 10 or 11 in my experience.

I only made it to week 8 last year before my challenge fell apart. I was going for broke though where the only prize was for a perfect run and got 15/17 weeks correct.

Told you all that NE were a lock :p

Nvm, locked I'll pick a later game.

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