NFL regular season ends

As the NFL playoffs have reached the Conference championships (ie Top 2 teams from AFC and NFC play off) I thought I should update everyone on the NFL tipping race.

NFL Wks 8-14 saw some furious competition as Mushi took an initial lead in the tips before Nasde (spurred on by the addition of Gobbo) came charging back to level the scores. The final 3 weeks of the season started with Mushi and Nasde even.

Wk 15: Mushi nudges ahead by 1
Wk 16: Nasde goes ahead by 2

With one week of the regular season to go, and a schedule over-burdened with New Year's eve parties and farewells to Jo-jo, we both put in random tips for wk 17. More careful examination would have revealed teams resting players for the playoffs, teams with nothing to play for and mismatches across the board. The result for wk 17: Mushi goes 10-5-1, Nasde 5-10-1

Season finishes: Mushi up by 3

What a disgrace! Two points were proven: Firstly, Mushi is a much better random guesser than I am. Secondly, how hard it is to win money gambling on sports! Even the so-called experts finished basically even, and only slightly infront of Mushi who does not follow the NFL results AT ALL!!

Well, what prize did the winner get, you ask?? Well it was agreed that the loser had to buy the winner dinner ... so it's congratulations to Gobbo - who by virute of failing to enter a tip for the last 3 weeks, hence automatically securing the lowest point score for that week, finished last. And the judges declare that he should take Mushi for dinner!

And on a final note, to prove the season results were an abberation (with Mushi finishing on top) we are continuing to tip for the playoffs! In the playoffs, with less random teams, teams competing at 110% and more time to analyse picks, there should be no way that picks based on team colours, team names, or movie gossip will succeed! Check out SportsGuy's Playoff Manifesto to get some sports tips from the man!