Football!

I don't know how many of you watch football, but lately this year I've been keeping up and listening to Sports news, watching a few games etc., and I've come to the conclusion that I'm doing fairly alright at deciding who the winner is going to be! I'm not saying I can give a point spread, I just think that in terms of win to lose I think I'm good at deciding the winner. Then I thought about it and furthered my conclusion to: it isn't very hard to pick. If you keep up with football, watch a couple games every week, keep up with who has more wins than losses and home field advantage and stuff, you too can do a-ok.

We have a football point game that some people at work are participating in (not at work, just between coworkers). The general gist is, say there are 14 games in one week. First you pick who you think is going to win each of the 14 games... then you assign a point value to each game, from 14 down to 1. Your 14 is your most confident win (this year that would be ANY Patriots game, or ANY team playing against the Dolphins) and 1 is the one you're least confident in that win (say, that Patriots/Colts game). At the end of all the games of that week (Thursday, Sunday, and Monday) you add up the points from the games you picked correctly, and you compare them to everyone else. It gets interesting... even if you picked game-for-game the same as someone else, your point values were different, so you really have to choose carefully who you REALLY think will win or lose as far as points are concerned.

Aside from keeping totals of points, we're keeping totals of how many games people are picking correctly, that's more bragging rights to the winner you see. Even if you have the most games right, you might have done bad point-wise and someone who did badly on picks could have their points wisely chosen and pull the win. Whee :)

So far today here is a list of my picks. Yellow means I got that correct, and Grey means "damn". I'll admit I'm not the best in our coworker brawl, but I'm holding my own. Not bad for a guy who last year didn't seriously watch football at all.