Football picks - 12/21/07

So, here is what I did:

I took the book I am currently reading, The Battles for Spotsylvania Courthouse and the Road to the Yellow Tavern by Gordon Rhea and started with the page where my bookmark is (p. 71). Beginning with the first full paragraph, I marked each NEW person mentioned. If they were from the Federals, I marked column A, if they were Confederates I chose from B.

Here are the results:

B - Pvt Dame, Richmond Howitzers
A - Genl Wainright
A - Genl Buell
A - Genl Warren
A - Genl Hancock
A - Genl Sedgewick
A - Genl Meade
B - Genl Anderson
B - Genl Ewell
A - Maj Hyde
A - Gel Wright
A - Genl Davies
B - Genl Kershaw
A - Col Lyman
A - Lt.Genl Grant

Here are the football picks for this week:

Dallas at Carolina
Oakland at Jacksonville
Philadelphia at New Orleans
Kansas City at Detroit
Cleveland at Cincinnati
Green Bay at Chicago
NY Giants at Buffalo
Houston at Indianapolis
Atlanta at Arizona
Tampa Bay at San Francisco
Baltimore at Seattle
Miami at New England
NY Jets at Tennessee
Washington at Minnesota
Denver at San Diego

Picks for football pool

Here's the picks for thursday. I'll work on instructions for you for next week.

Football pool

Here's the teams:

Denver at Houston
Cincinnati at San Francisco
Jacksonville at Pittsburgh
Atlanta at Tampa Bay
Seattle at Carolina
Green Bay at St. Louis
Baltimore at Miami
NY Jets at New England
Arizona at New Orleans
Buffalo at Cleveland
Tennessee at Kansas City
Indianapolis at Oakland
Detroit at San Diego
Philadelphia at Dallas
Washington at NY Giants
Chicago at Minnesota

I will play some golf.

Football instructions, week whatever

Here are the new instructions for picking football teams for next week (go Pats!) --

I know you have a drawer full of take-out menus. To pick teams, remove the menus from the drawer in order, and look at the phone number of the restaurant. If the last digit is odd, pick the team from the A column, if it is even then choose B. Do this until you have selected all teams. Post all documentation here.

Football sucks -- here are our next losing picks

Cleveland at Baltimore
San Diego at Jacksonville
Miami at Philadelphia
Oakland at Minnesota
Kansas City at Indianapolis
Carolina at Green Bay
NY Giants at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Atlanta
New Orleans at Houston
Arizona at Cincinnati
Pittsburgh at NY Jets
Chicago at Seattle
St. Louis at San Francisco
Washington at Dallas
New England at Buffalo
Tennessee at Denver

Football sucks

We need a good strategy this week....we are in dead last.

Jason-68 points - 9th place

Here's the pics:
Cleveland at Baltimore
San Diego at Jacksonville
Miami at Philadelphia
Oakland at Minnesota
Kansas City at Indianapolis
Carolina at Green Bay
NY Giants at Detroit
Tampa Bay at Atlanta
New Orleans at Houston
Arizona at Cincinnati
Pittsburgh at NY Jets
Chicago at Seattle
St. Louis at San Francisco
Washington at Dallas
New England at Buffalo
Tennessee at Denver

Ok to pick:
Using itunes, playing on random, the next song that comes up look at the 'Play count' column. If the song that plays next has been played less than 20 times, pick the team from the 'A' column. If it has been played more than 20 times than pick team 'B'.

Post the results.

Football pool - part 10

Here's the picks:

Cleveland
Washington
Carolina
St. Louis
Buffalo
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Green Bay
Cincinnati
NY Giants
Detroit
Chicago
Indianapolis
Seattle

It's weird to see still frames of the tv, it takes me back to some of our early work. It's like they were never meant to be seen like that. Or it's too easy for them to look really funny?

Football picks - part whatever - instructions

For this weeks picks, here are your instructions.

Turn on your television
Switch to a random channel
Make note of the first person you see on screen.
If the person is female then choose team A, male for team B
If there are no people on the screen, try again.
If there is no clear choice for your decision, or if there are too many people to pick one and choose gender, try again.
If the first person you see is transgendered, use the gender with which they identify.
Animals, cartoons, puppets, muppets and other non-humans do not count.
Do this 14 times.
Document everything and post here.

Football pool - part whatever

These are sad, hard times...we are in a solid last place...oh well, we are the real winners with a conceptual art piece that no one can take away!

the choices this week:

Cleveland at Pittsburgh
Philadelphia at Washington
Atlanta at Carolina
St. Louis at New Orleans
Buffalo at Miami
Denver at Kansas City
Jacksonville at Tennessee
Minnesota at Green Bay
Cincinnati at Baltimore
Dallas at NY Giants
Detroit at Arizona
Chicago at Oakland
Indianapolis at San Diego
San Francisco at Seattle

tell me what to do.

Football Pool

Ouch...we are loosing big time, There's the pic of Jason's daughter choosing teams. But she really didn't help us much...oh well, it's not over yet.
Here's the results:


Week 8
Jason (6-7)

Season To Date
Jason-55 points 7th (tie)


So here's this weeks teams:
Denver at Detroit
San Francisco at Atlanta
Cincinnati at Buffalo
Carolina at Tennessee
Green Bay at Kansas City
San Diego at Minnesota
Jacksonville at New Orleans
Washington at NY Jets
Arizona at Tampa Bay
Seattle at Cleveland
New England at Indianapolis
Houston at Oakland
Dallas at Philadelphia
Baltimore at Pittsburgh

Here's the instructions: They have to use your cats in some way... make two areas calling one A and one B, they should be pretty close together. Then put a treat or a toy or catnip on both areas, whichever one they go for that's the pick. Repeat 14 times. It could also be you and nicole both calling them...etc. You get the idea.

Football picks Oct 21

Tennessee
Baltimore
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Arizona
San Francisco
New Orleans
New England
Kansas City
NY Jets
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Indianapolis

Newer instructions for football

Matt,
That sounds great for next week, because my friend has offered his 4 year old daughter to pick teams this week. He's sure she knows what she is doing and I just had to give her a chance...so it's out of our hands this week, and I can't wait to see the footage.

Football picks - new instructions

In order to pick our teams for next week, here are your instructions:

Go to your bookshelf, and pick the first book you find by Shakespeare, Nabakov, Murakami or Tolstoy. If you don't have any books by these guys, choose a book by a similarly prestigious author.

Flip to a random page.

Starting with the first complete sentence on the page, note every letter "A" and "B" that you encounter, in order. Continue until you have enough "A" and "B" notes to select all games.

Document everything and post here.

Football Pool wk 6 - stupid punting game

Above is the documentation, and here are the picks:

Minnesota
Cleveland
Washington
Kansas City
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
NY Jets
Carolina
San Diego
Dallas
Seattle
NY Giants

We're going to be rich!

Football pool - week 6

Matt - This week.

Minnesota at Chicago
Miami at Cleveland
Washington at Green Bay
Cincinnati at Kansas City
Tennessee at Tampa Bay
St. Louis at Baltimore
Philadelphia at NY Jets
Carolina at Arizona
Oakland at San Diego
New England at Dallas
New Orleans at Seattle
NY Giants at Atlanta

The first column is 'A' the second is 'B', as usual. Goto this football flash game and try to make the punt. Do not practice. If you make it it's A if you miss it's B.
Record the outcome and post, I'll email sawyer.

Football pool - part 3

Matt,
Here's where our results are being posted...we are tied for 4th....not bad:
http://canterburypool.blogspot.com/

Here are the games for this sunday:
Green Bay at Minnesota
Oakland at Miami
NY Jets at Buffalo
Houston at Atlanta
Chicago at Detroit
Baltimore at Cleveland
St. Louis at Dallas
Tampa Bay at Carolina
Seattle at San Francisco
Kansas City at San Diego
Pittsburgh at Arizona
Denver at Indianapolis
Philadelphia at NY Giants
New England at Cincinnati

This is what I want you to do:
Get a blindfold or hat or something, and a tennis ball or other ball that bounces.
Put the blindfold on.
Throw the ball at a wall.
If you catch it, first team wins, if you miss 2nd team pick.

Let me know what happens.
I can't wait to see the documentation.

Week 3 NFL betting picks

Matt,
I'm just about to get our results this morning and I'm starting to feel a little bad about doing pretty good. We got 10 right I think this week. After tonights games we'll know more. I think there are going to be some pissed people, and I have nothing to say about our picks, I think that might be the most upsetting part, that we're openly saying we don't give a shit. I was willing to just give them our money, but not take it.
Oh well.

Betting Methodology Pt1

Here at Harvey Loves Harvey we strongly believe in leaving nothing up to chance.
We have a theory for betting that is based on the all or nothing rule. Why bother with playing it safe? You might break even, but you just wasted a weekend. In the sake of time and energy the most efficient betting method is not complete chance, but creating a set of rules to choose the winners with the least prior knowledge as possible. This is known as the 'Harvey Rule'
For an office football pool at work, we will attempt to prove this rule by betting on every game played in the 2007 season, not by chance, but by eliminating any kind of thought process, or personal feelings you have for the teams involved. Therefore either coming in dead last or winning the whole damn pot.

For the second week, each game's team was given a letter A or B respectively, Matt would choose the team as quickly as possible based on the particular leaning he had towards one letter or another.

Listen to the audio.

Matt will come up with a similar game for week 3. I'm ready to pick em.

-jason