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August 13, 2008
CFL Pick 'Em, Week 8: SpoFi is back and so is the CFL. Well, technically the CFL never left, although I'm having a continuing debate with the commissioner's office about that. Make your picks inside.
I made several calls to the commissioner's office over the past week, but despite SpoFi being down for server upgrades, the league insisted on playing the games anyway. Our loss is Hamilton's gain, as Winnipeg takes over as the league's doormat. Also, B.C. lost, for the first time in a REALLY FREAKING LONG TIME.
Also, apologies for the table being super-huge. It will probably be back to normal once Kirk fixes up the stylesheets.
| TOR @ HAM | CGY @ SSK | MTL @ WPG | EDM @ BC | |
| Result | Hamilton by 24 | Calgary by 5 | Montreal by 28 | B.C. by 6 |
| Margin of Error | 17 to 31 | 4 to 7 | 20 to 36 | 4 to 8 |
The good news is that our backup plan allowed almost the entire pool to make their picks. The bad news is that we still missed a couple of players. HATER, YYM, THX, and Anaconda, please accept my apologies for not getting the backup plan in place and advertised a little sooner. At the very least, it was a pretty low-scoring week, and heck, one of you is still in first place.
| SpoFite | TOR @ HAM | S | CGY @ SSK | S | MTL @ WPG | S | EDM @ BC | S | Points | Total Points |
| HATER 187 | 0 | 22 | ||||||||
| apoch | Hamilton | Montreal | 2 | 22 | ||||||
| tommytrump | Montreal | B.C. | 4 | 3 | 22 | |||||
| Reever | Montreal | B.C. | 7 | 3 | 22 | |||||
| JPR | Calgary | Montreal | B.C. | 4 | 4 | 22 | ||||
| MrFrisby | B.C. | 1 | 21 | |||||||
| Ying Yang Mafia | 0 | 20 | ||||||||
| NoMich | Montreal | 1 | 20 | |||||||
| BoKnows | Hamilton | Calgary | Montreal | 21 | 4 | 20 | ||||
| owlhouse | Montreal | 1 | 19 | |||||||
| Folkways | 5 | Montreal | 2 | 19 | ||||||
| Spitztengle | Calgary | 4 | Montreal | 3 | 18 | |||||
| DrJohnEvans | Montreal | B.C. | 8 | 3 | 17 | |||||
| The_Black_Hand | Montreal | B.C. | 4 | 3 | 16 | |||||
| Anaconda | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| THX-1138 | 0 | 14 | ||||||||
| Monica Poland | Hamilton | Montreal | 2 | 13 |
It's bye week! Unfortunately, the good division gets the week off, so we're left with what are essentially the league's dregs at the moment.
WEEK 8
Hamilton @ Winnipeg (Thursday, August 14)
Hamilton has shown that it can't beat anyone except Toronto, and Winnipeg just can't beat anybody. This is going to be a tough one to watch, and even tougher to pick.
Montreal @ Toronto (Friday, August 15)
Toronto has been showing sparks of life, but only before halftime, having scored only eight second-half points over the past three weeks. Montreal, on the other hand, is looking like the complete-game player it's tended to be.
Good luck!
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 01:29 AM - 21 comments
Dr. J you're a star!
Hamilton by 17 Toronto by 8
posted by Monica Poland at 02:04 AM on August 13, 2008
Winnipeg by 7 Toronto by 4
posted by apoch at 12:52 PM on August 13, 2008
You're right, Dr. J - strangely enough, when you're dealing with the league's bottom of the barrel teams, it's a lot harder to fine someone - anyone - who stands out.
Here goes...
Hamilton by 9 Toronto by 5
Again - you gotta believe...
posted by Reever at 01:30 PM on August 13, 2008
Peggy by 4 Monty by 12
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:35 PM on August 13, 2008
Hamilton by 3 Montreal by 7
posted by Anaconda at 07:24 PM on August 13, 2008
I've been reading in about something called 'nominative determinism'. It's basically that the name you are given will affect the kind of profession or activity that you enter. Winnipeg by 12. Like having 'Mr Cutts' as your butcher or 'Doctor Leak' as your urologist. Montreal by 12. I notice that Swimming Canada uses the same principle in team selection for the Beijing Olympics. Hello there, Keith Beaver.
posted by owlhouse at 11:20 PM on August 13, 2008
you wear sandals in the snow Hamilton by 9 and a smile that won't wash away can you look out the window Montreal by 17 without your shadow getting in the way
posted by MrFrisby at 11:23 PM on August 13, 2008
Hamilton by 7 Montreal by 14
Sorry i missed last guys, i didn't how to sign up for whatever it was that i had to sign up for to enter my picks. i am barely literate let alone computer literate.
posted by HATER 187 at 11:40 PM on August 13, 2008
see what i mean. look at how may words i left out of that post. expecting me to register for something other than spofi and yahoo is expecting way too much of my monkey brain.
posted by HATER 187 at 11:51 PM on August 13, 2008
Winnipeg by 8 Montreal by 26
posted by DrJohnEvans at 04:25 PM on August 14, 2008
Winnipeg by 3 Montreal by 7
posted by NoMich at 04:37 PM on August 14, 2008
Winnipeg by 10 Montreal by 16
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 03:26 PM on August 15, 2008
Hamilton by 7 Montreal by 14
Damn forgot to login first
posted by folkways at 06:22 PM on August 15, 2008
Who's winning this damn thing? Is it really the 4th annual? Have I been away that long?
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 04:56 PM on August 18, 2008
Welcome back, you sweet, sweet, dear man.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 07:44 PM on August 18, 2008
We've missed you weedy (and it just seems that long without your acerbic comments)
posted by Monica Poland at 11:06 AM on August 19, 2008
Welcome back, Weedy! We've still got more than half the season to go, so make sure you make some picks and play for fun if not the Costanza ;)
posted by Spitztengle at 12:32 PM on August 19, 2008
A note about the rankings for Week 6: I have the spreadsheet put together, and will post a table in TBH's thread later this week. I wanted to get the up-to-date table up ASAP.
As always, please double-check your picks. Doubly so this week, since I was pulling them from multiple sources. Thanks!