…because it doesn’t matter. In fact, tonight’s game didn’t matter either based on someone snagging all those upsets. Congratulations to “The Plummer,” our Week 10 Winner, with a pot of 1,575. (That is what it says; I did not misspell the profession)
As I predicted, the same group of people called me and texted me this...
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Hola Kiddies!
Well, the pot was larger than I had prognosticated: 1,575. Not to shabby for a Thursday due date… and certainly better than the Thursday night game. Ugh. The spreadsheet is posted to the left.
The three most important games are NE-IND, SD-PHI, and KC-OAK, two out of three of which would be worth watching.
One quick...
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Hey gang,
I’ve been thinking about a couple things for the last few weeks and debating on the direction in which we should go with the pool. Obviously we have had issues in Abacoa with problems at Rooney’s and lack of follow-through at Jumby Bay. Now comes whatever has been going on over by Paddy Mac’s...
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Congratulations to our largest winner EVER, Garrett Post, taking down the pot of 2,480 with a record of 12-1.
On to Week 10! It’s due in three days so get cracking. I do not expect this pot to be anywhere near the size of this last one, but I have been wrong before. My guess is...
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I admit it - I fell asleep during the Eagles-Cowboys game last night after barely sleeping this week. Now - 15 hours later - I’ll post what I said I would post.
Possibilities for tonight’s game to take home the entire record pot of 2,480:
Pittsburgh
2-46 Garrett Post
47+ Chris Rose
Denver
Shaun Smith
No split pots possible; one person is...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 8:03pm Posted in NFL | football
For the record pot of 2,480:
DAL + PIT (12-1)
2-46 Garrett Post
47+ Chris Rose
DAL + DEN (12-1)
Shaun Smith
PHI + PIT (12-1)
2-37 Ryan R.
38 Ryan R. + Capt. Stabbin (split pot)
39-42 Capt. Stabbin’
43 Capt. Stabbin’ (split pot)
44+ Dan B.
PHI + DEN (11-2)
2-34 Todd
35-36 Ryan R.
37-38 Jessica Miller
39-40 Capt. Stabbin’
41-43 Shaun Smith + Charlie Brown (split...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:33am Posted in NFL | football
Quick! Everybody in the pool!
Our old record of 2,155 has been killed. The best part of all of this is that the extra picks I handed out to people only drove the pot higher; we would have broken the record without my freebies to my assistants! I also challenged you to screw me over and...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 2:14am Posted in football
I know the title kinda lead you into this thought but I’m going for it anyway… Happy Birthday, Joan of Arcadia!!!
We love our numbers runnin’ connection.
I believe your day was the 2nd, which means we’re the same age for only 19 days: I’ll be 29 on the 22nd.
We love you and please enjoy...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:37am Posted in NFL | football
First off, congratulations to Barry Wood (my boy!!!) for winning the Week 8 NFL pool, taking home the entire pot of 1,935!!!
Let’s blow that number out of the water this week! It’s time to crash the pot. This is the last weekend before the holiday season where the pool is due on a Saturday, making...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 7:32pm Posted in football
387 entered, 4 remain. For the pot of 1,935:
Atlanta
2-51 Bill B.
52 Bill B. + Barry Wood (split pot)
53-54 Barry Wood
55 Barry Wood + Rich G. (split pot)
56-61 Rich G.
62 Rich G. + Randy Roberts (split pot)
63+ Randy Roberts
New Orleans
2-51 Bill B.
52 Bill B. + Barry Wood (split pot)
53+ Barry Wood
No offense to anyone else, but...
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Congratulations to Johnnie Radcliff, the Week 8 NCAA winner! (90)
Since 90 < 100, that pool is finished. I had so many requests for a college version over the years but it just did not catch on anywhere near the way we had hoped. It was more time-consuming on our end, so honestly I’m not too...
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2:06 am, huh? FAIL!!!
I’m still working on the spreadsheet; I’ll be back in a bit!
- Steve Pogo
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Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:06am Posted in football
Well, the computer and the cell phone were dead on at 1:59 - 1:00. Let’s test the on-line program!
- Steve Pogo
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It’s 1:48am, turning the clocks in a few. Let’s see what the program does with these.
I just counted the pot. Unofficially it’s 1,940. I’ll punch in all the picks and check everywhere any more could be hiding and I’ll have the official one later.
- Steve Pogo
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Let’s have fun with daylight savings time! It’s 1:19am, we’re changing the clocks at 2am, so I am going to post a few times and see if the program re-organizes the entries based on actual or perceived chronological order. I’ll try again later this hour, then just after “1am” which would normally be 2am if...
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…and it will be the last one. We tried to toss in a few things to make it more interesting and it just scared off a few more people, dropping the pot below 100 and - as per our previously stated condition - makes this the final one. The final pot is 90; the spreadsheet...
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I’m working on the NCAA pool… and a ton of stuff around the house. I will get to the NCAA one soon.
In the meantime, congratulations to Jeannine, our Week 7 winner, taking home the pot of 1,910. Week 8 pick sheet and spreadsheet template are posted to the left. Check back later today for the...
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The possibilities for tonight are in the post directly below this one. I ALMOST went the entire weekend without someone emailing me thinking they were in the running with too many losses (this is why we have the spreadsheet and full disclosure everyone!), but that did get me looking through the spreadsheet and I did...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 7:49pm Posted in NFL | football
For the pot of 1,910:
Philadelphia
2-35 George Howard
36 George Howard + Kim N. (split pot)
37-42 Kim N.
43-46 Jeannine
47 Jeanine + Bob Seabury (split pot)
48-50 Bob Seabury
51+ Marie
Washington
BYK
Good luck, guys and gals!
- Steve Pogo
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 4:14pm Posted in NFL | football
Are you guys feeling good about life? Did you nail all of the the 1:00 games? If so, you’re one of the 110 people tied for the lead!
This should be a nice close one…
- Steve Pogo
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Congratulations to the Calkins, the Week 7 NCAA winners! (110)
As for the NFL pool, that number is slightly larger. Once again, we have a season-best pot with Week 7’s total of 1,910. We’re almost back to 2K! The spreadsheet is posted to the left.
It was a pretty smooth week as far as turning them in...
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Pot is 110… again. The NCAA pool survives to see another week; a week in which it will have a whole host of random games from every corner of the obscure Div II & III universe!
I’ll keep it short and sweet and share this mind boggling exchange, discussing adding a stop to our trip to...
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Congratulations to our Week 6 Winners:
Barry Wood, NCAA (110)
Amber Lindsay, NFL (1,710)
Everything you need for Week 7 is posted to the left!
Three quick notes for upcoming pools:
1. If the NCAA pool has a pot under 100 that will be the last one of the season.
2. As long as the NCAA pool extends into Week 8,...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 at 5:18pm Posted in football
Barry Wood just emailed me regarding the pools… from his cruise through the Caribbean! So just to recap, he has already won the NCAA pool and can possibly win the NFL pool tonight, all while on vacation.
For the rest of you… how’s work?
- Steve Pogo
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Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 11:34pm Posted in NFL | football
Possibilities for the Week 6 NFL pool:
For 1,710…
Denver:
Amber Lindsay
San Diego:
2-31 Robert Conway
32 Robert Conway + Judy F. + Cierra Marshall (3-way split pot)
33-45 Judy F + Cierra Marshall (split pot)
46-53 Barry Wood
54- 58 My Two Sons
59 My Two Sons + Amber Lindsay (split pot)
60+ Amber Lindsay
Barry, I can’t believe you have a shot to win...
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Nicely done Barry Wood, the NCAA Week 6 winner (110). Once again, I was in second. What a revolting pattern. We’ll have the new pick sheet posted by late Monday night.
As for the NFL pool, we have yet another season-best pot, this time clocking in at 1,710.
This was a fun pot to do! Most of...
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Pot is 110, spreadsheet to the left!
We decided awhile ago that if the pot dorpped below 100 we would ditch the NCAA pool altogether, but just as a pot of 90 looked like it was going final, Barry dropped in 5 from Stuart so there will be a Week 7! Start promoting it if you...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 5:45am Posted in pogo news
(Football stuff is below, all picksheets and templates posted)
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Congratulations to our Week 5 winners:
Dumas (NCAA, 175)
“DF - The Commish” (NFL, 1,620)
Week 6 spreadsheet templates and picksheets posted to the left.
Thank you EVERYONE for a stress-free pool this week. No late entries, no random emails, no screw-ups (except for 6 No Picks in the pool.) Let’s keep this up for the rest of the...
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Spreadsheet and Template to the left.
I attempted to have 20 match-ups with big name schools (like last week when our winner went 19-1) but I went back and selected the games in terms of point spreads (like I did two weeks ago when our winner was 12-8) so it should be more interesting. We should...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 11:58pm Posted in NFL | football
Possibilities for the pot of 1,620:
New York Jets:
2-30 Vinny Hermanns
31-34 Susan K.
35 Susan K. + Mike Brooking (split pot)
36 Mike Brooking
37 Mike Brooking + Hogan G. (split pot)
38 -39 Hogan G.
40 Hogan G. + Rich G. (split pot)
41+ Rich G.
Miami:
2-37 Eric B.
38 Eric B. + The Commish (split pot)
39+ The Commish
Please double check them for...
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Spreadsheet is posted to the left. Enjoy it!
*Bashing my head on the desk* I literally flipped a coin last night, knowing I would pick Stanford AND Oregon State in the college pool. Stanford for… TAILS! That will go in my second pick. Guess what? I had the low end on the points and an 18-2...
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(NCAA and NFL updates below; NFL tie procedure further down in the post)
NCAA Spreadsheet is up and the pot is 175. That’s up from last week, down from the previous few weeks. You’re not really loving the college version as much as we thought; you should have heard how many people asked me to do...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 12:21am Posted in football
NCAA (125) Weepers
NFL (1,420) Bill T.
Nice picks, there, Bill! 14-0, missed the points by 4! Yes, John Sanford, you were 14-0 as well. Too bad about the points. (If it makes you feel any better, Todd ran the pool and lost the NCAA by one lousy point and three years ago I went 15-0 and...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:42pm Posted in football
Hola everyone! It looks like the PIT-SD game is going final so we have possibilities but first….
Congratulations to Weepers (yes, that’s what they put as a name) for taking down the pot of 125 for the NCAA pool. In my world, this is the second consecutive week I have had the correct number of games...
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What’s up, peeps?! I have the spreadsheet updated (the only update is fixing the amount of no-picks) and the final pot size (which is 1,420.)
Two quick notes… first off, if Todd’s only issue was not picking up some spreadsheets on Saturday night for a pool what was due on Friday, I’d say he did a...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 1:04pm Posted in football
Scott got his picks in and the new and updated spreadsheet was posted on the web site by 12:57 p.m. That was close! That makes the pool another $45.00 higher (I’m not good enough at math to give a total.) But, again, the pool’s integrity is intact which is the most important thing. Rotten luck...
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Hi Todd!!! … and everyone else. :-) (For those of you just getting here, scroll down for Todd’s update)
Spreadsheet works just fine; don’t worry about the “no picks;” the important thing is the formulas work. I have a bunch of hidden cells in there; at the end of the second row there are some totals...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 12:33pm Posted in football
Scott at Waterway is sending me 8-10 more pick sheets. i am going to try and post them before 1:00 p.m so if you have already downloaded this weeks spreadsheet, redownload it. If I can not get the new spreadsheet up before 1:00 p.m., the new picks will not be added to the pool. like...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:53am Posted in football
One thing I am noticing about the -125 no picks is that the pot size is incorrect. The pot for this week is $1375. I entered in some potential winners and it looks like the formula’s are working, but let’s take a wait and see attitude. Sorry to anyone who wanted to add some last...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:45am Posted in football
Holy @#$%!! I finally got the damn thing on-line and correct. I had a hundred things go wrong and I was starting to wonder if I was going to succeed or not. The sheet is up, however, with an hour and a half to spare. My wife is sick and my son was supposed to...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 2:59am Posted in football
All right you mf-er’s. The college pool is posted with minimal difficulty and maximum effort.It is nearly 3 a.m. and I am tired. This endeavor has taken me away from my beautiful wife for the evening ( although she is pissed at me right now ). That being said, I wish to simply tell all...
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Well, it’s Wednesday night and I’m personally finished with the pool for the weekend. I will admit, it feels strange handing it over to someone else. It’s like we’re going out and leaving our baby with a sitter for the first time ever. I have five typed pages here for Todd, complete with emergency phone...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 1:34am Posted in football
I thought some of you might appreciate this.
I went to the bank today (where I’m known as “The $5 Bill Man”) in one of my uber-annoying counting excursions turning in a couple thousand bucks worth of 10’s, 5’s and 1’s. Three guesses whose pool my teller was filling out when I walked up to the...
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Ok, let’s try that with the right winners:
NCAA (190) goes to Johnnie Radcliff
NFL (1,350) Goes to Kim N
I had two other people up there for possibilities BUT… Arizona did not win. (I’m sorry if you had false hopes, Dan! Someone asked me for possibilities as I was walking out the door and I pasted in...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 2:25am Posted in football
Hey everyone, Todd here getting some practice on taking care of business while Steve is away. How did I get so lucky! Oh wait, I remember, I opened my big mouth and volunteered to help this season not knowing the douche-nozzle was leaving three different weeks. Oh well, I’m suckered in now. For next weeks...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 1:41am Posted in football
If it sucks, blame Todd. If it’s awesome… nah, it won’t be awesome (unless you win). Pot is $190.
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Congratulations to Aniunas, our Week 3 winner, taking down the entire pot of 1,180. Also, good job to Barry’s people up there in the Stuart / PSL area for winning for the first time in awhile!
Everything you need for Week 3 (picksheets and templates for NFL and NCAA) are posted to the left.
As a friendly...
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Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:15am Posted in football
236 entered, 3 remain. For the pot of 1,180….
If Indianapolis wins:
Aniunas
If Miami wins:
0-39 Jon Ermides
40-43 Aniunas
44 Aniunas + Jeff Martin (split pot)
45+ Jeff Martin
Also, the NCAA picksheet and spreadsheet template are now posted to the left. I included the Toledo vs. FIU game just to be a jackass.
- Steve Pogo
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Thank you to Kim at Waterway! While my Bills are being demolished in heart-breaking fashion on Monday night, most of my friends give me crap. Kim gives me a “Go Bills!” on her sheet along with a Buffalo Bills pen/light! I’ll be using it tomorrow to keep track of all my bets! Thank you, Kim! ...
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