2021 NFL Pick-the-Loser Game

Westheim · 09-02-2021, 08:13 AM

(is hit in the head by a sharply hurled eggball out of leftfield)

Hm! Must be time for the NFL Season and the universally beloved annual “Pick the Loser” bonanza! …where otherwise wiser OOTP forum members pick a team to lose each week and then hope for the best. Or the worst. Depends on your point of view entirely!

As defending champion of the Biggest Loser trophy, storming to victory in Week 13 (or 12, depending on how you counted) last year, I heartily invite all of you lot again to partake in the shenanigans. Be warned though – I have this losing thing figured out now. It will be hard to beat my expertise at picking failure!

And here is the rulebook. Veterans might notice that I scrapped the previous Section XII – Mystery Rule (we never used it anyway, as far as I can tell), and replaced it with a new Section XIV. Last year’s Rule 8b has been scrapped without replacement, since I actually managed to put this up BEFORE the season started

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Section I - General Rules

1. Picks must be submitted by posting in this thread at least 30 minutes before the start of the respective game as given on the schedule posted in this thread. The reason for this is that start times in US sports as given by networks and homepages are notoriously not true and will include relentless time for pointless babble in the run-up to the main event, and I can never be bothered to find out when actual kickoff took place. If you miss the deadline for the Thursday game, however, you can still pick f.e. a team that plays on Sunday.

2. Submit your picks as early as you want, but if you change it for whatever reason, make a new post with the new pick since I might have drafted your pick into my Excel file already. Your most recent post in this thread will count.

3. The deadline for changing picks is 30 minutes from the start of the respective game as given on the schedule posted to this thread by your very understanding but ultimately can't-be-arsed host.

4. You must not pick a winning team with any pick. If you pick a team that wins its game, you are out. In the case of a tied game, postponement, and other acts of god, the disaster draft rules in Section IX shall be applied.

5. You must make a pick every week. If you miss to make a pick on any team, you are automatically out.

6. You must not pick the same team multiple times.

7. Please consider that your host's knowledge of football is limited to random trivia like the Heidi Game and he doesn't know that one team from that other team. Please state your picks clearly with either team name or team city, or both. No clever word plays, no pseudo nicknames, no fun slang. Your host does not know who the Typhoons, Twats, or Timber Gargoyles are. If your most recent pick does not state a team city (or state where applicable) or name, and your host can't make sense of it, you are automatically out.

Section IX - Disaster Draft

8. In case of a tied game in which you made your pick, since tying is for losers, you shall advance to the next week.

8a. In case of nature, invasion by Canada, or other acts of god causing suspension or postponement of a game in which you made your pick *before* the announcement of the suspension or postponement, you shall advance to the next week. Your host *will* make an effort to investigate the time of postponement.

9. In the case that all players in any given round lose (all picked a winner), the game will continue with all players in the most recent round still eligible for the next round, except for those that made no valid pick at all.

Section XIV – Various Inconveniences

11. While your host will usually provide the next week’s slate of games in a post on Monday or Tuesday morning (depending on whether there were picks in the Monday night games) unless he's overslept, you obviously can post your picks for the following week early in case you’re going on vacation in central Montana or wherever else there is no Internet. Please state clearly though which week the pick will be for.

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I hope that no clarities whatsoever remain.

Appeals against these rules or any decisions by your host can only be directed at Jeff, the wet Jets helmet, who has no mouth and thus can not speak judgment on your complaint.

Do not hesitate - join the other aspiring losers in the pool to-day!

CONN CHRIS · 09-02-2021, 08:52 AM

Welcome back losers!

Browns to lose

UltimateAverageGuy · 09-02-2021, 11:05 AM

This could be fun….

Saints for me

mirrf · 09-02-2021, 11:06 AM

Detroit to lose.

mirrf · 09-02-2021, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mirrf

Detroit to lose.

Ya know what, screw that. The Browns to lose.

Westheim · 09-02-2021, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mirrf

Detroit to lose.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mirrf

Ya know what, screw that. The Browns to lose.

Kids, this is how you change a pick!

pilight · 09-02-2021, 02:51 PM

Week 1

Dallas Cowbots

rudel.dietrich · 09-02-2021, 07:12 PM

I look forward to this yearly. I have never won (lost?, does the 'winner' lose or win? Should I even put the winner in brackets?)

I will make my pick sometime early next week

Week 1 is always the most difficult

cephasjames · 09-03-2021, 03:18 PM

First-time player, long-time noticer of previous threads though I've never even opened them before.

I choose New Orleans to lose.

monkeyman576 · 09-03-2021, 08:56 PM

Ready to defend my championship!

Cleveland to lose

dsvitak · 09-03-2021, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

I look forward to this yearly. I have never won (lost?, does the 'winner' lose or win? Should I even put the winner in brackets?)

I will make my pick sometime early next week

Week 1 is always the most difficult

It takes three weeks to see which team will be any good.

dsvitak · 09-03-2021, 09:59 PM

Week 1: Cleveland Browns

swoboda · 09-03-2021, 10:16 PM

Washington FB Team will lose.

Bub13 · 09-03-2021, 10:16 PM

I'll go with the unpopular pick and say Cleveland.

DamPenguin · 09-05-2021, 11:34 AM

Good luck everyone!!!

Chicago Bears to lose - week 1

TC Dale · 09-05-2021, 02:23 PM

Browns to lose.

BBGiovanni · 09-05-2021, 04:38 PM

Jeff looks like the best Jets rookie QB since Browning Nagle! He certainly has more leadership qualities!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dsvitak

It takes three weeks to see which team will be any good.

No it doesn't! I pick the Jets, and retire after week 1 as usual!

Ty Cobb · 09-09-2021, 11:37 PM

Must be Dallas in Week 1...the Buc's crowd certainly dropped the hammer on THEIR opponent!

rudel.dietrich · 09-10-2021, 01:15 AM

Chicago

Westheim · 09-10-2021, 03:03 PM

I'm gonna go with the majority here... the Browns seem like a good pick to lose and I don't see any other one, despite some ... uh, heavy analysis?

Brooowns!

09-02-2021, 08:13 AM	#1
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,832	2021 NFL Pick-the-Loser Game (is hit in the head by a sharply hurled eggball out of leftfield) Hm! Must be time for the NFL Season and the universally beloved annual “Pick the Loser” bonanza! …where otherwise wiser OOTP forum members pick a team to lose each week and then hope for the best. Or the worst. Depends on your point of view entirely! As defending champion of the Biggest Loser trophy, storming to victory in Week 13 (or 12, depending on how you counted) last year, I heartily invite all of you lot again to partake in the shenanigans. Be warned though – I have this losing thing figured out now. It will be hard to beat my expertise at picking failure! And here is the rulebook. Veterans might notice that I scrapped the previous Section XII – Mystery Rule (we never used it anyway, as far as I can tell), and replaced it with a new Section XIV. Last year’s Rule 8b has been scrapped without replacement, since I actually managed to put this up BEFORE the season started +++ Section I - General Rules 1. Picks must be submitted by posting in this thread at least 30 minutes before the start of the respective game as given on the schedule posted in this thread. The reason for this is that start times in US sports as given by networks and homepages are notoriously not true and will include relentless time for pointless babble in the run-up to the main event, and I can never be bothered to find out when actual kickoff took place. If you miss the deadline for the Thursday game, however, you can still pick f.e. a team that plays on Sunday. 2. Submit your picks as early as you want, but if you change it for whatever reason, make a new post with the new pick since I might have drafted your pick into my Excel file already. Your most recent post in this thread will count. 3. The deadline for changing picks is 30 minutes from the start of the respective game as given on the schedule posted to this thread by your very understanding but ultimately can't-be-arsed host. 4. You must not pick a winning team with any pick. If you pick a team that wins its game, you are out. In the case of a tied game, postponement, and other acts of god, the disaster draft rules in Section IX shall be applied. 5. You must make a pick every week. If you miss to make a pick on any team, you are automatically out. 6. You must not pick the same team multiple times. 7. Please consider that your host's knowledge of football is limited to random trivia like the Heidi Game and he doesn't know that one team from that other team. Please state your picks clearly with either team name or team city, or both. No clever word plays, no pseudo nicknames, no fun slang. Your host does not know who the Typhoons, Twats, or Timber Gargoyles are. If your most recent pick does not state a team city (or state where applicable) or name, and your host can't make sense of it, you are automatically out. Section IX - Disaster Draft 8. In case of a tied game in which you made your pick, since tying is for losers, you shall advance to the next week. 8a. In case of nature, invasion by Canada, or other acts of god causing suspension or postponement of a game in which you made your pick before the announcement of the suspension or postponement, you shall advance to the next week. Your host will make an effort to investigate the time of postponement. 9. In the case that all players in any given round lose (all picked a winner), the game will continue with all players in the most recent round still eligible for the next round, except for those that made no valid pick at all. Section XIV – Various Inconveniences 11. While your host will usually provide the next week’s slate of games in a post on Monday or Tuesday morning (depending on whether there were picks in the Monday night games) unless he's overslept, you obviously can post your picks for the following week early in case you’re going on vacation in central Montana or wherever else there is no Internet. Please state clearly though which week the pick will be for. +++ I hope that no clarities whatsoever remain. Appeals against these rules or any decisions by your host can only be directed at Jeff, the wet Jets helmet, who has no mouth and thus can not speak judgment on your complaint. Do not hesitate - join the other aspiring losers in the pool to-day! Attached Images __________________ Portland Raccoons, 92 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

09-02-2021, 08:52 AM	#2
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 29,019	Welcome back losers! Browns to lose __________________ Check Out My Cards!

09-02-2021, 07:12 PM	#8
rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 8,608	I look forward to this yearly. I have never won (lost?, does the 'winner' lose or win? Should I even put the winner in brackets?) I will make my pick sometime early next week Week 1 is always the most difficult Last edited by rudel.dietrich; 09-02-2021 at 07:21 PM.

09-03-2021, 03:18 PM	#9
cephasjames Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,736	First-time player, long-time noticer of previous threads though I've never even opened them before. I choose New Orleans to lose. __________________ 5000+ Generic Logos Free for the Taking FREE: Uniforms and logos for 500+ teams spanning 1871-present Great Lakes League: 10 Conferences, 100 Teams Pre-OOTP 23 Custom Cap & Jersey Template v3.0 by Deft and NoPepper (with layers from other various artists) that I use: Caps, Jerseys

09-03-2021, 10:16 PM	#13
swoboda All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Guarding The Line Posts: 1,220	Washington FB Team will lose. __________________ "...If you want to look ahead to the bottom of the ninth, the Mets will be sending up Buddy Harrelson, Jerry Buchek , and Don Bosch, we'll be right back after this word from Rheingold Beer" The late great Lindsey Nelson

09-02-2021, 11:05 AM	#3
UltimateAverageGuy All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 588	This could be fun…. Saints for me

09-02-2021, 02:51 PM	#7
pilight All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Where the Action is Posts: 1,998	Week 1 Dallas Cowbots

09-03-2021, 08:56 PM	#10
monkeyman576 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 3,684	Ready to defend my championship! Cleveland to lose

09-03-2021, 09:59 PM	#12
dsvitak Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,359	Week 1: Cleveland Browns

09-03-2021, 10:16 PM	#14
Bub13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Maine Posts: 748	I'll go with the unpopular pick and say Cleveland. __________________ Introducing Your Hawaii Islanders!

09-05-2021, 11:34 AM	#15
DamPenguin All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 600	Good luck everyone!!! Chicago Bears to lose - week 1

09-05-2021, 02:23 PM	#16
TC Dale Global Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,961	Browns to lose. __________________ ----------------------------------

09-09-2021, 11:37 PM	#18
Ty Cobb Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Grayling, MI Posts: 4,589	Must be Dallas in Week 1...the Buc's crowd certainly dropped the hammer on THEIR opponent! __________________ "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." Thanos

09-10-2021, 01:15 AM	#19
rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 8,608	Chicago

09-10-2021, 03:03 PM	#20
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,832	I'm gonna go with the majority here... the Browns seem like a good pick to lose and I don't see any other one, despite some ... uh, heavy analysis? Brooowns! Attached Images __________________ Portland Raccoons, 92 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.