At one point in this competition, the staff of this fine blog were a veritable Oracle of Delphi when it came to making correct picks. Sadly, that point was the first week. Since then, we’ve witnessed an overthrow of the status quo that’s not been seen since…I don’t know, the French Revolution?
This week’s results and the cumulative point total are after the jump.
As you can see, jhawk90 managed to beat all four of the staff’s combined point total this week. Well played, sir.
*jhawk90: 4
*Andrew Bucholtz: 2
*jjf3: 2
Adam: 1
thefuseproject: 1
Magnakai Haaskivi: 1
*Bluesfan: 1
TwoYellowsEqualsRed: 0
The (slightly less embarrassing) cumulative point totals:
*jjf3: 14
TwoYellowsEqualsRed: 12
Magnakai Haaskivi: 11
thefuseproject: 11
Adam: 11
*Bluesfan: 11
*jhawk90: 11
*Andrew Bucholtz: 8
*theredcarders: 4
This week kicks off on Wednesday, so make sure you check back then to get your picks in. Your game slate:
Chivas USA at Toronto FC
New York at Kansas City
Chicago at Columbus
New England at Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles at Colorado
FC Dallas at Chivas USA
San Jose at Seattle
D.C. United at New York
Kansas City at Toronto FC
Wow. A zero.
Full credit to jjf. I can’t make heads or tails of this league this year. And well done to jhawk for winning the week.
eh – blind squirrel, 4 nuts. However, Josh Wolff can go…do all those things I said he could do to himself after that 89′ goal.
I’m going to start predicting all draws, because clearly that’s the majority of the results the last few weeks. Ben Olsen’s goal in the second minute of stoppage time was painful. Especially since I was surrounded by a stadium of United fans at the time. Sigh. Tough luck Revs.
From now on my picks will be made by Chet, my paint-huffing monkey. I will be drawing a grid with a square for each team on my living room floor, each time Chet passes out during the week and falls onto a team’s square, they will be predicted to win. There are a few kinks to work out of this new system, but the important point is that I am no longer responsible for “my” picks.
fuse: I wish I had a “system” that good. My fear is that I will be doing well 3/4 of the way into the season, because, out of stupid competitiveness, I’ll then actually try to figure out who should win or lose each game. On Monday I look at Ives’s top 3 and bottom 3, hope I still remember them by the time the picks are due, and then, when they are, I just wing it, hoping not to pick a top 3 at home to lose, or a bottom 3 on the road to win. The Dynamo are the only team I think I have a real “read” on, and that’s clearly not treated me well so far…(I think I may have gotten them all wrong so far)
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