Would anybody be interested in doing something similar for Rugby's Heineken Cup?

Format's a bit different, with the twenty qualifying teams split into five groups of four, playing home and away. The eight best teams (five group winners, plus the three second place teams with the best records) go through to single leg quarterfinals seeded on pool results (i.e 1v8, 2v7) with higher seedings having home advantage, single leg semis (with a complicated formula for who gets the home country advantage, i.e. you don't play in your home stadium but in another club in your country's stadium) and a final in Edinburgh.

As regards the picking what I'd be thinking for the pool games is that the pick can be win, lose, draw (yes a draw is a legitimate result in rugby), and also whether either team gets the bonus point for scoring four tries, and the losing team gets the <7 point loss bonus point (though the bps can be dropped), straight win/loss for the knock out games, eight qualifiers picked before the start of the pick'em and eventual winners.

The tournament starts in seven days (pity I didn't think of it earlier), but we could always skip picking the first round games, especially if people want to research teams. Second round is the week after. Now as the competition is multinational and with international breaks in between, it'll go on until May.

Back when there was Fox Sports World, I did watch a lot of Super Rugby (what was then Super 12). Especially Highlanders. I'm no expert, but I'd give it a whack.

(October 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm)c172 Wrote: Back when there was Fox Sports World, I did watch a lot of Super Rugby (what was then Super 12). Especially Highlanders. I'm no expert, but I'd give it a whack.

I'll open a thread later today then, when I have more time.

Fucking Lions. The first week I've ever picked against them because I was tired of giving away a point, and they squeak out a win against the undefeated Eagles.

These last two weeks have been brutal. I think I'm gonna jump on Tazzy's plan of picking best uniforms. I can't do any worse!

Results for Week 5

Here are the results for the NFL 2016 Pick'em League Week 5.

Standings:

1) Tazzycorn (9 - 5) (+11)
=2) Brian37 (8 - 6) (+1)
=2) Jörmungandr (8 - 6) (+2)
=2) The Gentleman Bastard (8 - 6) (+2)
=2) c172 (8 - 6) (-1)
=2) Nymphadora (8 - 6) (+10)
=2) Cato (8 - 6) (+2)
=2) Rubber Ducky (Brian's Mom) (8 - 6) (+2)
=2) TheRealJoeFish (8 - 6) (-1)
=2) Faith No More (8 - 6) (+2)
=11) Wisdom of the Crowd (7 - 7) (-1)
=11) Tiberius (7 - 7) (-1)
=11) Crossless1 (7 - 7) (-7)

Well done to Tazzycorn!

The "Lucky Pick" Awards

Jörmungandr for picking the Falcons over the Broncos.

The "What were they thinking!?" Awards

c172 for picking the Bears over the Colts.
Rubber Ducky (Brian's Mom) for picking the Chargers over the Raiders.
Nymphadora for picking the Giants over the Packers.

Analysis

10 players had winning records.
2 players had tying records.
No players had a losing record!

The Wisdom of the Crowd had a tying record this week (7 - 7) and 10 players managed to beat that record!

Tazzycorn improved the most since last week, moving up 11 places in the weekly standings.

Crossless1 dropped the most since last week, moving down 7 places in the weekly standings.

Overall Standings:

1) Brian37 (51 - 26) (+0)
2) Tazzycorn (49 - 28) (+0)
3) Wisdom of the Crowd (47 - 30) (-1)
=4) The Gentleman Bastard (46 - 31) (+0)
=4) Nymphadora (46 - 31) (+0)
=4) Rubber Ducky (Brian's Mom) (46 - 31) (+0)
7) Jörmungandr (45 - 32) (+0)
8) c172 (44 - 33) (+0)
=9) Tiberius (43 - 34) (-1)
=9) TheRealJoeFish (43 - 34) (+1)
=9) Faith No More (43 - 34) (+1)
12) Cato (41 - 36) (+0)
13) Crossless1 (40 - 37) (-1)

TheRealJoeFish and Faith No More improved the most since last week, each moving up 1 place in the overall standings.

Tiberius and Crossless1 dropped the most since last week, each moving down 1 place in the overall standings.

Yay! I still have my dignity!!!

Here are the picks I need for week 6. Please PM me the name of the winning team by midnight on Wednesday. Late submissions will be penalized the Thursday night pick!

Please note there are only 15 games this week, as the Vikings and Buccaneers are on a BYE.

Broncos (4 - 1) @ Chargers (1 - 4)
49ers (1 - 4) @ Bills (3 - 2)
Eagles (3 - 1) @ Redskins (3 - 2)
Browns (0 - 5) @ Titans (2 - 3)
Ravens (3 - 2) @ Giants (2 - 3)
Panthers (1 - 4) @ Saints (1 - 3)
Jaguars (1 - 3) @ Bears (1 - 4)
Rams (3 - 2) @ Lions (2 - 3)
Steelers (4 - 1) @ Dolphins (1 - 4)
Bengals (2 - 3) @ Patriots (4 - 1)
Chiefs (2 - 2) @ Raiders (4 - 1)
Falcons (4 - 1) @ Seahawks (3 - 1)
Cowboys (4 - 1) @ Packers (3 - 1)
Colts (2 - 3) @ Texans (3 - 2)
Jets (1 - 4) @ Cardinals (2 - 3)

I went back and forth on a number of picks this week. A lot of even matchups made this a hard week to pick.

Lol maybe I'm just weird, but I went down that list, looked at w-l records, who the home team was and made my picks.

That's all I ever do.