In our contest against the NFL predicting hotties over at Hot Chicks Hot Picks, we have fallen behind by one game after the second week. In Week 1 of this battle of the sexies, the ladies tied us up. We were helpless in our efforts to get ahead and both ended up with seven correct.
How this works is that ALIKAT pulls herself away from fighting with her bathroon contractors long enough to go through all the weekend’s NFL games and, using a point spread, pick the winners of each. We use the Yardstick and, depending on what you, the FanYard community has said en masse about the outcome of each game, make our picks using the same numbers as her.
If she takes Oakland to win, minus two points, but the Yardstick actually says Kansas City will win by at least two points, we would take Kansas City to win by at least two. Since the opposite side of the line she is using would be Kansas City plus two, we would take that side and go against her Oakland minus-two pick. This happened in one of the games this weekend, and the Chiefs did win by two. Perfection.
Unfortunately, it does not always work that way. In the Giants vs. Niners game, she had the Giants to win, minus nine points. The Yardstick for that game said that New York would win by seven or more. Since her line said nine, and ours said seven, we took the other side, which was San Fran plus nine points. Well, of course, the poor Niners offensive woes continued and they were whupped. The final score was NYG 33, SF 15. Add nine points to the Niners and we lose. Subtract nine from the G-men and they still win. Unnastand?
Those are two of the seven games we disagreed on and the Dallas / Minnesota game was a tie. The others:
1) The girls had Tennessee -1.5 and the Yardstick was set at a one-point Titans win. They won by two one a last-second record-breaking eight field goal by Roberto Bironas. Notch one for the chicks.
2) Chicks were taking the Redskins to win by at least 10, while we had them by just 6. That meant, we took the Cards plus 9.5 points, and when the Skins won by just two. Boom!
3) The Saints had the ladies in their pockets with nine points to shave, but they could only manage a 6-point victory. The Yardstick suggested just 3, so we won another point.
4) With Cincinnati getting 6.5 points taken away, this was a tough pill to swallow. The girls jumped on it and we had a Yardstick of 6 for the cats, so we passed. They won this battle.
5) The Seahawks had to win by more than eight for the girls to get a win and they won by 27! We saw at least a 7-point win, but it was not enough, and was the tie-breaker.
Last week’s score:
TheFanYard – 7-6
Hot Chicks – 7-6
This week’s score:
TheFanYard – 7-6-1
Hot Chicks – 6-7-1
Tomorrow we see how FanYard did in our competition with Jon from Pyle of List.
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