Smogon NFL PPC 2016 Winner: Texas Cloverleaf

Super Bowl LI Winner?

  • Jaguars

    Votes: 12 33.3%
  • Raiders

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • Bills

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • 49ers

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • Lions

    Votes: 9 25.0%
  • Bucs

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • Total voters
    36
Killah is really lazy and copy/pastes everything edition edition
It's that time of the year again!

The rules are the same as last year, if you've played before, and are pretty simple if you're new. The competition will be split into two parts again, but before I explain them here's the general rules first:

Rules said:
1. Failure to submit a prediction by gametime will result in a forfeit of that game: no exceptions. If the game kicks off at 1:00 EST and you submit at 1:02 EST, tough shit.
2. In addition to this, any edits to posts after the first games kick off will result in the forfeiting of all prior games. If you make your guesses for the saturday games and sunday games in the same post, then decide to edit your sunday afternoon pick on sunday morning by editing that post, you will be given losses for the two saturday games. Instead, make a new post with your changed picks.
3. Do NOT get into discussions/debates with other peoples' picks. No flaming, no bashing, no "omg why did you pick them" etc. Tips are OK, but it's preferable to keep them in the NFL discussion thread instead.
4. This competition is graded by hand, by an incompetent and unpaid flunky. Grievances can be made here.

This game will be split into two parts. Scoring for each part will be done separately, and the scoring for each part will also be combined to give an overall winner.


Part 1: Weekly Picks

This part's easy. For each week after the first (or the first too, if you prefer) the matchups for the week will be posted in the thread. Simply choose the winners for each matchup sometime between when they're posted (Sunday night) to when the first game the next week is played (Saturday afternoon/night). Each correct pick is worth one point.

Example using this week's matchups:

Wild Card Matchups said:
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)


Part 2: Overall Picks

For this part, you have to pick the overall outcome of every playoff game, from the wild card games to the Super Bowl. There are 11 games, and 1 point is awarded for choosing the winner of each game (only the winner is necessary, ie it does not matter if the #1 seeded Patriots beat the #5 seeded Bengals or the #6 seeded Ravens, you still get 1 point if the Patriots win).

Since all four matchups are the same in week 1, you'll only have to post those once. However, after that, take special note of the seedings! The lowest remaining seed in each conference plays the #1 seed after the wild card round, and the highest remaining seed (3-5) plays the #2 seed. The higher seed always plays at home, so remember that while making your picks. If you do not follow the seedings carefully, you're liable to fuck it all up and not be awarded any points from those games.

Here's this year's schedule, and an example of how your bracket should look:

AFC
Denver (#1) @ BYE
New England (#2) @ BYE
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

NFC
Carolina (#1) @ BYE
Arizona (#2) @ BYE
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Example Bracket said:
AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Kansas City (#5)
@ New England (#2)

Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6)
@ Carolina (#1)

Seattle (#6) @ Arizona (#2)


Superb Owl
Kansas City
vs. Arizona
Remember, there's no website we're using for this. Post all your picks in the thread.

Good luck!


Wild Card Matchups said:
Arizona (#5) @ Carolina (#4)
Baltimore (#6) @ Pittsburgh (#3)
Cincinnati (#5) @ Indianapolis (#4)
Detroit (#6) @ Dallas (#3)

Byes: Seattle (#1), Green Bay (#2), New England (#1), Denver (#2)
 
Weekly
AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@
Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

NFC
Seattle (#6)
@
Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Overall

AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Cincinnati (#3) @ New England (#2)
Kansas City (#5)
@ Denver (#1)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
New England
vs. Arizona
 
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AFC
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinatti (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6)
@ Denver (#1)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2)

NFC

Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)

Super Bowl

New England @ Arizona
 

THE_IRON_...KENYAN?

Banned deucer.
AFC
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinatti (#3)

NFC
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)

Divisional

AFC
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)

NFC
Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)

Championship

AFC

Denver vs Kansas City

NFC

Seattle vs Arizona


Superbowl


Seattle vs Denver in a close game
 

Texas Cloverleaf

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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)

New England (#2) @ Denver (#1)


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
Arizona
vs. Denver
 

jacob

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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinatti (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6)@ Denver (#1)

Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)

NFC

Green Bay (#5)
@ Washington (#4)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)

Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6)
@ Carolina (#1)

Seattle (#6) @ Arizona (#2)

Super Bowl

Seattle @ Kansas City
 
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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Cincinnati (#3) @ New England (#2)
Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)

New England (#2) @ Denver (#1)


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6)
@ Carolina (#1)

Seattle (#6) @ Arizona (#2)


Super Bowl
Arizona vs. Denver

Probably going to get a ton wrong considering I'm awful at predicting playoff games in comparison to regular season games.
 

Yeti

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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Kansas City (#5)

NFC
Green Bay (#5)
@ Washington (#4)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)

Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6)
@ Carolina (#1)

Seattle (#6) @ Arizona (#2)

Super Bowl
Seattle
vs Kansas City

I believe in the #wildcards

I think PITT is going to carve up the DEN defense like they did SEA, but the DEN qb situation will result in not being able to keep up in points. If Dalton isn't back CIN will also suffer from not being able to put points on the board. SEA v CAR/ARI will both be close games but the fourth quarter choke that lost SEA the game vs CAR earlier in the season won't happen. Marshawn Lynch drops a Beastquake run for the ages to take SEA to the SB in the last stretch of the game vs ARI. After the SB win, he retires.
 
AFC

Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2)

NFC

Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)

Super Bowl

New England
vs. Carolina
 

Stallion

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AFC

Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)

NFC

Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)

Super Bowl

Kansas City vs. Carolina

Kansas City to shock the world and go on a Cinderella run, the Bengals to choke on a dick first round again and Seattle vs. Carolina to be the game of the playoffs.
 
didn't even see this thread and i had my post deleted in the general nfl conversation thread. but anyway...

wild card:

kansas city vs houston

cincinnati vs pittsburgh

seattle vs minnesota

green bay vs washington

divisional:

new england vs cincinnati

denver vs kansas city

seattle vs carolina

arizona vs washington

championships:

new england vs kansas city

carolina vs arizona

SB50: ARIZONA
 
NFC
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)

Seattle (#6) @
Arizona (#2)

AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6)
@ Denver (#1)
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2)

SB 50
Seattle (#6)
@ New England (#2)
 

TheValkyries

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OVERALL PICKS

AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)

Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
Kansas City (#5) vs Carolina (#1)


WEEKLY PICKS


Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)
 

ZoroDark

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AFC

Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6)
@ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Houston (#4) @ New England (#2)

New England (#2) @ Denver (#1)

NFC

Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)

Seattle (#6) @ Arizona (#2)

Super Bowl

Seattle
vs Denver - go hawks

e: http://playtronics.net/nfl/bracket/170311/
 
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AFC

Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)
Cincinnati (#3) @ New England (#2)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)

NFC

Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2)

Carolina (#1) @ Arizona (#2)

Super Bowl
New England

Peyton Manning completes 6 passes against a 4-12 chargers team with 3/4s of its secondary on IR and everyone jumps on the Broncos bandwagon.

I think the Steelers are in trouble because they haven't played well the last few weeks and just lost their starting RB. Big Ben is also an INT machine on the road this season.

I have blind faith in the Patriots because they have the greatest Quarterback of all time and the leagues best coach, so of course i'm picking them to win the superbowl.

Not buying the Seattle hype because they've randomly laid some serious eggs in the regular season.

And I think Arizona is the best team in the NFL.

Hey man, we started the season 10-0 and have since gone 2-4. I HAVE NO ILLUSIONS. Only the hope of possible hope.
Tom Brady eats grass and dirt for dinner to make sure hes healthy, how dare you doubt him
 
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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2)
Pittsburgh (#6)
@ Denver (#1)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2)


NFC
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Minnesota (#3) @ Arizona (#2)
Washington (#4) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
New England
vs. Arizona
 
OVERALL
AFC
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Cincinnati (#3) @ New England (#2)
Houston (#4) @ Denver (#1)

New England (#2) @ Denver (#1)

NFC
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5)
@ Washington (#4)

Minnesota (#3) @ Arizona (#2)
Green Bay (#5) @ Carolina (#1)

Minnesota (#3) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
New England vs. Carolina

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WEEKLY
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5)
@ Washington (#4)

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Pretty pissed that the Browns aren't in the poll... Even in a joke they get laughed out.
 

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AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Cincinnati (#3) @ New England (#2)
Kansas City (#5) @ Denver (#1)

New England (#2) @ Denver (#1)


NFC
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Minnesota (#3) @ Arizona (#2)
Washington (#4) @ Carolina (#1)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)


Super Bowl
New England vs. Arizona
 
I'll do this

Weekly:
Wild Card
AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4) - Houston is about one year away from making some noise in the playoffs in my opinion.
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3) - If Big Ben can limit the turnovers, Steelers win.
NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3) - Minnesota won't lose as badly, but Seattle gets Marshawn back.
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4) - Packers don't look like a playoff-ready team at the moment. I think the Redskins can win this one, probably by one score.

Divisional
Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2) - New England will be rested up and have lots of starters back.
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1) - same as the previous round. Possibly Peyton's last playoff game.

Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2) - Maybe closer, but Arizona still wins.
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1) - If they Seahawks play as badly as last Sunday (unlikely but possible), Carolina wins.

Championship Games
New England (#2)
@ Denver (#1) - Pats looking for revenge. Brady-Manning one more time.
Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1) - Home field will be a huge factor, this win will be tight regardless of who it is.

Super Bowl
~

Overall:
AFC
Kansas City (#5)
@ Houston (#4) - Houston is about one year away from making some noise in the playoffs in my opinion.
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3) - If Big Ben can limit the turnovers, Steelers win.
NFC

Kansas City (#5) @ New England (#2) - New England will be rested up and have lots of starters back.
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1) - same as the previous round. Possibly Peyton's last playoff game.

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2) - High possibility of being a shootout. New England has the better defense.


NFC
Seattle (#6)
@ Minnesota (#3) - Minnesota won't lose as badly, but Seattle gets Marshawn back.
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4) - Packers don't look like a playoff-ready team at the moment. I think the Redskins can win this one, probably by one score.

Washington (#4) @ Arizona (#2) - Arizona is too strong for the Redskins.
Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1) - I'll put this in a hide tag:
Seattle doesn't match up that well actually. Doug Baldwin had negative yards against Josh Norman last time, this time he will have more success but will still have not as much of an impact as usual. Running the ball won't be very useful. Jimmy Graham, the main weapon against the Panthers (more like Roman Harper) that day, is out for the season. Lockett may have an impact, but will have less than what Graham did that day (140 rec. yards). Panthers WRs are much improved and coming into the game (no longer the worst in the league by far). Ginn, Stewart, Coleman will all be healthy. The secondary will have more time to adjust to the loss of Tillman (though they performed pretty well together last week). The game will be close though.


Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1) - Home field will be a huge factor, this win will be tight regardless of who it is.


Super Bowl
New England (#2) vs. Carolina (#1) - Super Bowl XXXVIII revenge time
 
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Weekly:
AFC

Kansas City
(#5) @ Houston(#4)
Pittsburgh(#6) @ Cincinnati(#3)
NFC
Green Bay(#5) @ Washington(#4)
Seattle(#6) @ Minnesota(#3)
Overall:
WC Weekend(AFC)

Denver(#1) @ BYE
New England(#2) @ BYE
Kansas City(#5) @ Houston(#4)
Pittsburgh(#6) @ Cincinnati(#3)
WC Weekend(NFC)

Carolina(#1) @ BYE
Arizona(#2) @ BYE
Green Bay(#5) @ Washington(#4)
Seattle(#6)
@ Minnesota(#3)
Divisional(AFC)

Pittsburgh
(#6) @ Denver(#1)
Kansas City(#5) @ New England(#2)
Divisional(NFC)

Seattle(#6) @ Carolina(#1)
Washington(#4) @ Arizona(#2)
Conference Championships

Pittsburgh(#6) @ New England(#2)
Arizona(#2) @ Carolina(#1)
Super Bowl 50
Arizona
(#2) VS New England(#2)
 

Finchinator

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AFC
Denver (#1) @ BYE
New England (#2) @ BYE
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ Denver (#1)
Houston (#5) @ New England (#2)

Pittsburgh (#6) @ New England (#2)

NFC
Carolina (#1) @ BYE
Arizona (#2) @ BYE
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)

Seattle (#6) @ Carolina (#1)
Green Bay (#5) @ Arizona (#2)

Arizona (#2) @ Carolina (#1)

Super Bowl Winner: Carolina

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Weekly:
Kansas City (#5) @ Houston (#4)
Pittsburgh (#6) @ Cincinnati (#3)
Seattle (#6) @ Minnesota (#3)
Green Bay (#5) @ Washington (#4)
 

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