2008 Playoff Picks Game

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

Welcome to the 3rd Round of the 2008 Playoff Picks Game. Picks for this round will be accepted now through the opening face-off this Thursday (5-8). Mods, if you don't mind please Pin this thread for a couple days.

** NOTICE: For this (and the subsequent rounds) please follow the template below when making your picks. This will speed things up for myself immensely. Keep in mind that this is just a template, and not my actual picks! As you'll notice, I'd like you to bold the team you feel is going to win the series and then post the series score in numerical format.

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-1

Feel free to post any questions, and best of luck to you all. Final first round standings will be up as soon as I finish two "gems" that I'm working on for the Photoshop Wars thread.

Once again, please copy and paste this template below and use it to post your picks:

DET/DAL: 4-

PIT/PHI: 4-

Below are the current standings through the conclusion of Round 2:

Rank - Player - Round 2 Final Score

1 wings1fan19 74

2 winsgnut_19 70

3 Lidstrom5 D-Man 69

3 UKWING 69

5 Welt 68

5 wingsgirl001 68

7 Giant Robot 67

7 interminded 67

7 Wildwings44 67

10 3dominikhasek9 66

10 Dano33 66

12 Ontario Wingsfan 65

13 rwfan007 64

14 Doggy 63

14 johnnyoski 63

14 vangvace 63

14 zetterisbetter 63

18 HockeyCrazy3033 62

18 Wings_Dynasty 62

20 dgodzina 61

20 Echolalia 61

20 edicius 61

20 Frozen-Man 61

20 PunkChildP 61

20 redwings2002 61

20 tweekvp 61

27 Breadgy 60

27 pjgj13 60

27 scotvm 60

30 Hockey13Playa 59

30 Z and D for the C 59

32 Batigol2k 57

32 CaliWingsNut 57

32 Never Forget Mac #25 57

32 puckhead 57

32 StaticWithABeat 57

37 awingsincebirth 56

38 55fan 55

38 Dominator2005 55

38 McCartyFanForLife 55

38 redwingslady87 55

38 Shaman464 55

38 wingsfan40 55

44 calfan 54

44 dallas27 54

44 Donohue75 54

44 JayUp88 54

44 juice71285 54

44 redwinger4747 54

44 The Nephilim 54

51 Firehawk 53

51 IceMunkee 53

51 marcaractac 53

51 WhiteLightning91 53

55 FinWing 52

55 pavyaz19 52

55 VM1138 52

58 Bluedevils_13 51

59 Eva Unit Zero 50

60 hckypete96 49

61 captainsteviey 48

61 GoWings1905 48

61 PashaFan 48

61 RedWingedKitten 48

65 jim3033 47

65 redwingrob 47

65 wingsfan979802 47

65 Wingslogo19 47

69 This Is Bida 46

70 -=Red_Force=- 45

70 BlackhawksFan 45

70 Majsheppard 45

70 naranja 45

70 RedStormRising 45

70 russianswede919293 45

70 sibiriak 45

77 aflac9262 43

77 Aussie_Wing 43

77 CupChamps979802 43

80 Herr Hockey 42

80 OsGOD 42

80 Redwingsfan18 42

80 WiNgSowN 42

84 hillbillywingsfan 41

84 Reds4Life 41

84 TRD604 41

87 #19=Legend 40

87 Greatness=PavelDatsyuk 40

87 Gutierrez 40

87 lets go pavel 40

87 Lou-Siffer 40

92 Barrie 39

92 FinRedWing 39

92 Lebda22 39

92 Superman54 39

92 ultrapail 39

97 Drake_Marcus 38

98 ashenhigh 37

99 evil204 35

99 Saran 35

99 tazzer82 35

99 TheHoff 35

103 omnipotent_hudler 34

103 RedLightGoesOn 34

103 Vladinator 34

103 Yzerman191 34

103 yzershanafan 34

108 Hank=FutureCaptain 33

108 hoogs 33

108 The_Clear(y)_Picture 33

111 KillerB14 32

111 Never_Retire_Steve 32

111 shannyfan1414 32

111 timothy1997 32

115 mmorland 31

116 CrossCheck24 28

116 Kp-Wings 28

118 bellarina 27

119 T-Ruff 26

119 F.Michael 26

121 Magus Relmyn 25

122 12Newf 24

123 Hockeytown0001 20

123 Beeryce 20

123 #96 20

126 bluejackets61 19

127 WingsWingsWings 14

127 WingsWingsWings-Wife 14

127 PhoenixAD 14

130 redwing_sparty 13

130 Duck Guy 13

132 swedeforall 7

Edited May 6, 2008 by Never Forget Mac #25

[FinWing 26]

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-2

EDIT: 1st one to pick! :beerbuddy:

Edited May 5, 2008 by FinWing

[Wings_Dynasty 267]

I am shocked to see my score near the top, I am usually horrible at picks games.

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-3

[Real1 2]

Can I play If I haven't played the first two rounds? If I can, here are my picks...

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-3

[captainsteviey 0]

wow, I sucked in R2. Here's hoping for a better number 3.

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-2

[JayUp88 1]

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-2

[scotvm 0]

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-3

[#19=Legend 29]

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-2

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

Can I play If I haven't played the first two rounds? If I can, here are my picks...

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-3

You can, but there's not much chance of finishing in the top 100 given that you are only able to pick up a maximum of 24 points in the next 2 rounds.

Sidenote: I wonder if I shouldn't weighting the point system next year given that the first round has 8 more points possible than the following 3 rounds combined. Thoughts anyone?

[pjgj13 30]

DET over DAL 4-1

PHI over PIT 4-3

I hope it comes down to the Wings and Flyers. I work with ALOT of Flyer fans and the trash talking would be great. As well as another sweep of them!!

GO WINGS!!

[Ontario Wingsfan 0]

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-1

[McCartyFanForLife 17]

You can, but there's not much chance of finishing in the top 100 given that you are only able to pick up a maximum of 24 points in the next 2 rounds.

Sidenote: I wonder if I shouldn't weighting the point system next year given that the first round has 8 more points possible than the following 3 rounds combined. Thoughts anyone?

I agree. I think that is how most NCAA tournament picks are done. Although you have to pick the entire tourney ahead of time where in our case, if you screw up a round, you start from scratch in the next round because the picks are done each round. I do like the idea of weighing the points though

[McCartyFanForLife 17]

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-2

Here's hoping for a better round than the last 1.

[FinWing 26]

You can, but there's not much chance of finishing in the top 100 given that you are only able to pick up a maximum of 24 points in the next 2 rounds.

Sidenote: I wonder if I shouldn't weighting the point system next year given that the first round has 8 more points possible than the following 3 rounds combined. Thoughts anyone?

I think that would be a good idea. with the current system you can basically wrap up the victory in the 1st round if you pick perfectly. Maybe simple multipliers of 2,3,4 for latter rounds..?

[Real1 2]

You can, but there's not much chance of finishing in the top 100 given that you are only able to pick up a maximum of 24 points in the next 2 rounds.

Sidenote: I wonder if I shouldn't weighting the point system next year given that the first round has 8 more points possible than the following 3 rounds combined. Thoughts anyone?

I will play anyway, just for the hell of it.

[edicius 3,269]

Blech. I bombed in the 2nd round. Not nearly as good as my 1st round picks.

Onto the 4rd round.

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-2

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

I think that would be a good idea. with the current system you can basically wrap up the victory in the 1st round if you pick perfectly. Maybe simple multipliers of 2,3,4 for latter rounds..?

That's not a bad idea. It might not be a bad idea if I do the multipliers (2,3,4 for the latter rounds) but continue to hold the bonus points at 1 a piece just to keep things from swaying too much. Thoughts on that setup?

[timothy1997 0]

You can, but there's not much chance of finishing in the top 100 given that you are only able to pick up a maximum of 24 points in the next 2 rounds.

Sidenote: I wonder if I shouldn't weighting the point system next year given that the first round has 8 more points possible than the following 3 rounds combined. Thoughts anyone?

I like the idea of having all your picks done ahead of time before the playoffs begin and then rewarding you based on if your team actually makes it as far as you predicted. That would defeat the round by round predictions.

But the current game is all about the 1st round. Maybe thats why Montreal fans partied after round 1, because they picked well in this game early on.

[FinWing 26]

That's not a bad idea. It might not be a bad idea if I do the multipliers (2,3,4 for the latter rounds) but continue to hold the bonus points at 1 a piece just to keep things from swaying too much. Thoughts on that setup?

That might be a reasonable compromise. Maybe you can do some mock picking and see how it works once you have extra time on your hands.

[rwfan007 18]

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-2

[Aussie_Wing 354]

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-2

And boy do I suck at this game! Thanks for all the hard work Mac!

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

I like the idea of having all your picks done ahead of time before the playoffs begin and then rewarding you based on if your team actually makes it as far as you predicted. That would defeat the round by round predictions.

But the current game is all about the 1st round. Maybe thats why Montreal fans partied after round 1, because they picked well in this game early on.

That's a pretty simple game to keep track of, but IMHO I think people would prefer to repick after each round since round 2 is juggled due to seedings. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would think people would prefer to keep picking each round since the playoffs aren't set up like the NCAA tournament. There's gotta be a compromise that the majority would prefer. Right now, weighting each round sounds like a decent option.

[redwings2002 0]

DET/DAL: 4-2

PIT/PHI: 4-3

Edited May 5, 2008 by redwings2002

[StaticWithABeat 0]

DET/DAL: 4-3

PIT/PHI: 4-3

[wings1fan19 0]

DET/DAL: 4-1

PIT/PHI: 4-2