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Staff Confidence Pool (No Spread): Final

Weekly Staff Confidence Pool (No Spread)

By Will Grant
January 2, 2013
Staff Confidence Pool (No Spread): Final
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This season, we are proud to bring you the return of the Footballguys.com Staff Confidence Pool Challenge. 17 staff members will pick the winner of each NFL game, and rank each choice from most confident (16 points) to least (1 point). As a tie-breaker, the person who is closest to the total points scored on the last Monday Night game will be the winner. Winners will be announced from week to week and the best overall record will be crowned Confidence pool Champion. Picks and ranks are due on Wednesday, so any late-breaking news may not be reflected in the choices. Also please note that no point spread is taken into account with these picks – it is a straight up pick of which NFL team will win this week. See the other confidence pools for picks against the spread (ATS) or Survivor / Eliminator style.

WEEK 17 RESULTS

Two nearly perfect cards this week. Had the Jets not upset Miami, both Andrew Garda and Aaron Rudnicki would have had a perfect card. But 15 out of 16 is still pretty impressive, even in week 17. Garda notched his first weekly win because he only put 3 confidence points on Miami, while Aaron put 5 points on them. Although Matt Bitonti correctly picked the Jets, he also picked Detroit and Chicago, so he finished third. 

Staffer CAR DET WAS BAL CLE HOU NYJ JAC DEN KC SF STL TB GB BUF PHI TOT
ATL MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND OAK SD ARI SEA NO CHI NE DAL Pts
Garda CAR MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO GB NE PHI 133
  13 2 1 10 12 5 3 8 16 4 9 7 14 6 15 11  
Rudnicki CAR MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO GB NE PHI 131
  9 1 6 8 15 7 5 10 14 13 4 11 16 2 12 3  
Bitonti CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN NYJ IND DEN SD SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 129
  10 6 5 4 11 7 8 13 12 3 2 14 15 1 16 9  
Grant CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO GB NE PHI 128
  11 1 9 6 8 10 7 12 15 5 3 14 16 2 13 4  
Hester CAR MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO GB NE PHI 127
  4 2 1 6 11 5 9 15 12 10 3 16 13 7 14 8  
Larkin CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD ARI SEA NO GB NE PHI 124
  2 1 11 10 13 9 8 7 15 4 3 12 16 6 14 5  
Tremblay CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 124
  12 6 4 9 3 2 5 7 16 8 13 14 15 1 10 11  
Hicks CAR DET NYG BAL PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 121
  16 1 2 3 14 11 5 7 9 10 4 12 8 6 13 15  
Holloway CAR MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD ARI SEA NO GB NE PHI 120
  6 5 4 7 12 8 13 11 14 1 3 15 16 2 10 9  
Russell CAR DET NYG CIN PIT HOU MIA IND DEN SD ARI SEA NO GB NE PHI 115
  13 3 2 10 11 1 9 14 12 7 8 6 5 4 15 16  
Brimacombe CAR DET WAS CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD ARI SEA NO CHI NE PHI 115
  9 8 7 6 5 4 3 12 11 10 2 14 13 1 15 16  
Wimer CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN KC ARI SEA NO GB NE DAL 115
  16 8 7 6 15 11 5 14 13 4 3 10 9 2 12 1  
Harstad CAR DET WAS CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 114
  16 3 4 11 7 10 9 12 15 2 1 8 13 6 5 14  
Cummings CAR MIN NYG BAL PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 113
  16 2 3 10 9 1 8 14 13 4 7 6 15 5 11 12  
Wood CAR DET WAS CIN PIT TEN NYJ IND DEN KC SF SEA NO CHI NE PHI 111
  13 6 4 3 15 2 1 11 12 7 5 10 14 8 9 16  
Haseley CAR DET NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND DEN SD SF SEA NO GB NE PHI 111
  16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  
Pasquino CAR DET WAS BAL PIT TEN MIA JAC DEN SD ARI SEA NO GB NE PHI 77
  9 12 13 2 5 3 1 16 4 11 15 8 7 14 6 10  
Away CAR DET WAS BAL CLE HOU NYJ JAC DEN KC SF STL TB GB BUF PHI  
Total Pts 191 70 28 15 0 1 9 16 211 11 57 0 0 48 0 160  
Home ATL MIN NYG CIN PIT TEN MIA IND OAK SD ARI SEA NO CHI NE DAL  
Total Pts 0 12 69 109 178 106 100 176 0 99 34 182 209 28 192 1  

Pasquino swung for the fence this week with some wild picks in the hope of making a run at the top spot. There are no points for second, so Jeff definitely took his shot.

OVERALL RANKINGS

Hester had an impressive week, finishing 5th in the weekly contest with 127 points. His only miss was the Miami game, but he put nine points on them so it cost him a bit. Andy Hicks missed four games, but did not risk a lot of points on any of them. His lead was just a little too much to overcome and as such. Andy Hicks wins the overall contest. 

Staffer W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 W15 W16 W17 Total
Hicks 113 85 86 100 72 82 82 83 46 68 85 79 103 117 90 91 121 1503
Hester 95 115 87 72 69 95 78 87 56 71 95 47 113 132 72 84 127 1495
Rudnicki 101 111 78 88 66 100 82 85 49 50 92 59 102 118 87 80 131 1479
Holloway 103 111 84 81 64 97 81 85 55 52 93 48 109 121 72 84 120 1460
Harstad 85 117 66 84 76 106 86 88 59 41 92 54 93 120 64 99 114 1444
Tremblay 92 106 71 97 62 96 80 82 55 49 93 52 108 116 80 81 124 1444
Cummings 100 101 77 83 62 107 76 82 57 59 75 55 119 117 81 78 113 1442
Larkin 102 121 84 71 63 94 85 83 47 55 92 67 90 94 80 83 124 1435
Pasquino 94 112 98 80 78 82 81 82 64 49 88 49 97 124 91 71 77 1417
Grant 107 105 68 87 63 97 86 79 60 60 81 49 84 107 74 75 128 1410
Bitonti 112 97 79 87 66 71 76 85 54 55 86 52 99 112 69 79 129 1408
Brimacombe 109 103 53 91 68 100 85 75 67 57 86 40 77 118 74 82 115 1400
Haseley 100 117 96 77 63 82 63 84 60 53 95 55 107 101 64 69 111 1397
Wood 117 110 89 68 57 93 61 63 49 43 49 58 130 127 76 79 111 1380
Garda 81 105 86 64 67 94 82 75 52 68 77 48 87 106 67 80 133 1372
Russell 100 102 75 76 62 98 67 83 51 56 68 37 109 90 78 76 115 1343
Wimer 90 90 57 72 91 102 66 79 52 42 89 31 97 96 83 61 115 1313

Final Results

Here is a breakdown of the winners by week:

FBG Weekly Winner Overall Winner
Hicks Week 4 Week 12 Overall Winner
Harstad Week 8 Week 16  
Hester Week 10 Week 14  
Pasquino Week 3 Week 15  
Wood Week 1 Week 13  
Brimacombe Week 9    
Cummings Week 6    
Garda Week 17    
Grant Week 7    
Haseley Week 11    
Larkin Week 2    
Wimer Week 5    

Thanks for playing along! See you next year.

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