[Travis Hoffman]

The total scores for Week 16 STILL need to be modified, but I see that IndySam picked Baltimore instead of the Giants, so the net gain was 1 game last week.

I see a flaw in the pickem system, at least at the very end of the season: people know what others are picking. This permits pickem leaders to merely duplicate the picks of those chasing them, making it very difficult to catch up.

In the future, for the final 2-3 weeks (or all weeks), I ask you to make the submissions blind via PM, like Fantasy FIRST. Do this for at least anyone within 3 games of the lead. Then no one can react to anyone else. You can publish the picks after the fact.

Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012
Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1pm - Ryan will probably play, like a nerd. If I had Ryan in a Fantasy Football final, he'd sit, no doubt.
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1pm
Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1pm
Chicago at Detroit, 1pm
Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1pm
Houston at Indianapolis, 1pm - Pagano's return is emotional, but on paper, Houston is a vastly superior team. But Indy has won on smoke and mirrors all season, so who knows.
Carolina at New Orleans, 1pm
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1pm
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1pm - If the Steelers don't SMOKE the Browns with a 3rd string QB, no TRich, and no secondary, their franchise is truly in shambles.
Oakland at San Diego, 4:25pm
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25pm
St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25pm
Green Bay at Minnesota, 4:25pm
Miami at New England, 4:25pm
Kansas City at Denver, 4:25pm
Dallas at Washington, 8:20pm - Karthik and I are either celebrating or sinking together.

You see, what is happening right now is, either IndySam is a dork and forgot to submit his picks, or, much more likely, he knows I snookered him last week in changing some of my picks at the last minute in response to his, so he could not react to them by changing his to match them. So he's going to wait until the last minute this week to post, so I cannot repeat the same strategy. But then, I may just switch up what I already posted regardless of what he may or may not post.... :-)

Isn't this fun?

Edit - changes posted....again!