Wednesday, September 10, 2008
CFL Pick 'Em, Week 12 The favourites stayed true to form and would've made us a lot of money had we actually bet on this week. Something to think about in future, for sure. But not this week: big spreads give way to coin tosses. Make your picks inside.
Three of four favourites win big, with Edmonton maintaining some level of incomprehensible mystery. Just kidding: any team in the West can win any night. Not so in the other division, though, and both Rich Stubler and Charlie Taaffe paid dearly for it.
| CGY @ EDM | BC @ HAM | TOR @ MTL | SSK @ WPG | |
| Result | Calgary by 5 | B.C. by 23 | Montreal by 26 | Saskatchewan by 3 |
| Margin of Error | 4 to 7 | 16 to 30 | 18 to 34 | 2 to 4 |
Heavy betting on the favourites means no single players pulled away from the pack, but enough separation occurred that we're down to only three three-way ties. tommytrump maintains his top spot, but one very good week is all that separates him from most of the pool.
| SpoFite | CGY @ EDM | S | BC @ HAM | S | TOR @ MTL | S | SSK @ WPG | S | Points | Total Points |
| tommytrump | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 3 | 36 | |||||
| apoch | Calgary | 7 | Montreal | 3 | 35 | |||||
| Ying Yang Mafia | B.C. | Montreal | 18 | Saskatchewan | 4 | 34 | ||||
| MrFrisby | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 3 | 33 | |||||
| HATER 187 | Calgary | 7 | B.C. | Montreal | 4 | 33 | ||||
| JPR | 5 | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 4 | 33 | ||||
| owlhouse | B.C. | Montreal | 21 | Saskatchewan | 4 | 32 | ||||
| Reever | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 3 | 30 | |||||
| Spitztengle | Montreal | 3 | 2 | 29 | ||||||
| NoMich | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 3 | 29 | |||||
| The_Black_Hand | B.C. | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 3 | 3 | 29 | ||||
| BoKnows | Saskatchewan | 1 | 28 | |||||||
| Folkways | Calgary | Montreal | 18 | 3 | 28 | |||||
| DrJohnEvans | B.C. | 21 | Montreal | Saskatchewan | 4 | 28 | ||||
| Monica Poland | Calgary | Montreal | 2 | 23 |
It's all downhill after Labour Day.
WEEK 12
Winnipeg @ Toronto (Friday, September 12) Don Matthews is back in town, an occurrence which, according to Boatmen Blog, "tops the Don King apperance in the TSN booth for oddest moment of the year." Lucky for him, he's re-starting his career against the one team in the league that the Argos have had absolutely no problem with so far.
Montreal @ Calgary (Friday, September 12) Montreal seems to be rounding into form while Calgary is still too inconsistent for West success, but given the venue, this is still a rare East-West coin toss.
Hamilton @ Edmonton (Saturday, September 13) Pre-season prognosticators could be forgiven for looking ahead to this game and assuming it would be the league's two non-playoff teams playing out the stretch. They would've been half right.
Saskatchewan @ B.C. (Sunday, September 13) This could be a statement game for one of these clubs. Saskatchewan is relying on their hot start and Michael Bishop to get them through the season, while B.C.'s trying to regain their old form and break out of the second-place pack in the West. (Okay, so they're technically in third, but barely.) This is another coin toss, and will be well worth watching.
Good luck!
