Next week I’ll be entering two weeks at once, because I’m getting married on the 12th and I’ll be on my honeymoon for the next week of games.

If I do better on my blind week than I do on my reasoned, careful analysis, I’m going to start picking based off coin flips and who has the cooler uniform.

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia - I’m hoping Asante Samuel plays like Terence Newman instead of, you know, Asante Samuel. Plus, geez, Jason Campbell is on a TEAR.
Indianapolis at Houston - I changed my mind from Houston on this one. I just don’t see them getting upset that many times in one early-season stretch.
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit - Kitna, you muppet!
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona - Buffalo could go 5-0. That is INSANE.
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas - Battle of the Idiot Wideouts.
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville - Can Jacksonville beat Pittsburgh three times in nine games? I think that they can.
Minnesota at New Orleans - This is the kind of defense that Reggie Bush can excel against – they’re incredibly strong up the middle, and Bush is incredibly bad up the middle. I think if they can work the seams and the flats, though, they can win this. Plus, Drew Brees is going to throw for 300 yards even if his wideouts are rubbish due to injuries.

PEOPLE WITH MORE/LESS THAN 14 PICKS: Uncle Larry (15)
(double-check your bolding!)

dot dot dot

Shmtur – could you post threads for both weeks 6 and 7 next week to accomodate? Otherwise, the scoring script will get confused.

Will do.

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants - I hate to pick against the 'hawks, but I don’t have confidence in them yet.
Atlanta at Green Bay - If Rodgers is back that is
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

PEOPLE WITH MORE/LESS THAN 14 PICKS: Uncle Larry (15)
(double-check your bolding!)

The bolding of your “*all picks decided by a coin flip” statement is probably screwing with his program.

Nah, it should be OK. It looks for specific substrings in the bolded text; if they don’t match up, it ignores it. (OTOH, if it finds a fragment in something that’s not actually a team name, it might misinterpret your picks :)

… which could be what happened above, actually.

The coin flip is already getting chippy with the machine world. You’re next, *Rimbot!

Heh – there’s actually a little bit of goofiness I have to iron out from adding the Rimbo <–> *Rimbot thing :)

Here’s the list of fragments it looks for inside bold tags as team names, btw:

    'riz'  : 'ARI',
    'tla'  : 'ATL',
    'alt'  : 'BAL',
    'uff'  : 'BUF',
    'aro'  : 'CAR',
    'hic'  : 'CHI',
    'inc'  : 'CIN',
    'lev'  : 'CLE',
    'all'  : 'DAL',
    'env'  : 'DEN',
    'etr'  : 'DET',
    'ree'  : 'GB',
    'ous'  : 'HOU',
    'ndi'  : 'IND',
    'ack'  : 'JAC',
    'nsa'  : 'KC',
    'iam'  : 'MIA',
    'eso'  : 'MIN',
    'iant' : 'NYG',
    'jet'  : 'NYJ',
    'ngl'  : 'NE',
    'rle'  : 'NO',
    'akl'  : 'OAK',
    'hil'  : 'PHI',
    'itt'  : 'PIT',
    'ieg'  : 'SD',
    'ran'  : 'SF',
    'eat'  : 'SEA',
    'oui'  : 'STL',
    'amp'  : 'TB',
    'enn'  : 'TEN',
    'ash'  : 'WAS'

Made 'em as short as possible so’s to not have to hassle with people who miss the first/last letter when bolding, or bold half the word with one tag and the other half with the other, etc etc etc. It must’ve seen “all” and figured that for an extra Dallas pick or something.

So, if you want to make your picks hard for everyone else to read, just post those bits in bold, and leave everything else out :)

Titans at ALT
Chiefs at ARO
IEG at Dolphins
Redskins at HIL
NDI at Texans
Seahawks at IANT
Falcons at REE
HIC at Lions
Buccaneers at ENV
UFF at Cardinals
NGL at 49ers
Bengals at ALL
Steelers at ACK
Vikings at RLE

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston - Will be very close though.
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco - Upset pick of the week
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville - Steelers look terrible right now
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

Tennessee at Baltimore
Kansas City at Carolina
San Diego at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Houston
Seattle at N.Y. Giants
Atlanta at Green Bay
Chicago at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Denver
Buffalo at Arizona
New England at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Dallas
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Minnesota at New Orleans

LOL @ sluggo

If he wanted to go all out, he would’ve done it like this (except bold instead of italics, of course):

ALTAROIEGHILNDIIANTREEHICENVUFFNGLALLACKRLE