NFL Loser Bowl 2018-19 (football forum game)

I agree, things might resolve without any need for help. I think Dan was just brainstorming for next year.

I think for the first year, keeping it simple was the way to go.

One thought I had was maybe picking the favored team to lose (and they do) gets you two points.

Yep! I won’t change the rules midstream unless literally everybody wants that, and that’s not the case :)

One twist, it can only be used when picking a team .500 or better

Oooh, devious. I like the extension of that rule. You’d probably have to ban it until mid season though. Otherwise everyone would game it within the first three games or so.

Agreed. I could be convinced that week 5 or later is ok too.

I like that, that is easy. We could just get the final vegas line locked in prior to the game.

I don’t think we need it close to the game either. Isn’t one team usually favored early, but the spread goes up and down?

Yeah, I suppose, unless a major injury happens etc.

Make it easy, set a minimum threshold. No victory for picking San Francisco as 1 point dogs in Arizona or something, but big points for picking the Bills to beat the Vikings as 7 point dogs.

Like that would ever happen.

Raiders to lose.

Raiders to lose to the Chiefs (for the next 5 years or so until Jon Gruden gets fired)

My Vikes can still win the division. Let me study the odds a bit… I’m thinking Bengals for the loss.

OAK to lose

I am running out of bad teams. I always hate to pick a home team to lose, but this is my best available option.

The only road team I would be picking to be vulnerable would be the Vikings, but even with the Patriots playing so well at home, the Vikings D is tough, and New England’s is not. Not an easy pick that one.

Haven’t burned up my Raiders pick yet, so here goes.

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Raiders lose. Been waiting 13 weeks to say that. It’s everything I dreamed it would be.

Jumping on the Oakland to lose bandwagon. As far as changes for next year I will go with the flow.

Sorry for the delay, yesterday was a ‘fly out of O’hare while recovering from a blizzard’ type day.

  • Arizona Cardinals at Green Bay Packers
  • Baltimore Ravens at Atlanta Falcons
  • Buffalo Bills at Miami Dolphins
  • Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Chicago Bears at New York Giants
  • Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans
  • Denver Broncos at Cincinnati Bengals
  • Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Kansas City Chiefs at Oakland Raiders
  • Los Angeles Chargers at Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions
  • Minnesota Vikings at New England Patriots
  • New Orleans Saints at Dallas Cowboys
  • New York Jets at Tennessee Titans
  • San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks
  • Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles

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  • Atlanta Falcons vs Baltimore Ravens
  • Cincinnati Bengals vs Denver Broncos
  • Dallas Cowboys vs New Orleans Saints
  • Detroit Lions vs Los Angeles Rams
  • Green Bay Packers vs Arizona Cardinals
  • Houston Texans vs Cleveland Browns
  • Jacksonville Jaguars vs Indianapolis Colts
  • Miami Dolphins vs Buffalo Bills
  • New England Patriots vs Minnesota Vikings
  • New York Giants vs Chicago Bears
  • Oakland Raiders vs Kansas City Chiefs
  • Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Redskins
  • Pittsburgh Steelers vs Los Angeles Chargers
  • Seattle Seahawks vs San Francisco 49ers
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers
  • Tennessee Titans vs New York Jets

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I’m starting to lose track of who I already voted for. Is that tracked anywhere? Should I have been tracking that?

Dan has been logging that in the first post

Washington to lose, but I don’t feel good about it