20.04 - FOURTH AND TEN

Its the fourth round of the FMIGames NFL tipping competition, and we have 10 more to play after this.

All the match-ups and data are hosted here. Get your tips in by Saturday. This week we play the (US time) Sunday afternoon and twilight games, plus Sunday night and Monday night. A first for this season.

If you want more Monday night games included (Tuesday daytime here) then let me now on twitter at @FMIGames_NFL.

 

20.03 - THIRD DIG

 Week three of the FMIGames NFL season... get amongst it.

20.02 - GOING AGAIN

OK, week 1 in the bag... lets get week 2 underway.

The tipping link is in your emails, so if you didn't get one tell me on twitter and I will sort it.

20.01 - KICKOFF

OK Folks.

Here is the blogpost for Week 1 of the 2020 season

At the top are the games being played. Under on the right I will populate all your margin tips once collected and deadline is passed... yes you can see your opponents tips and ride the NFL games knowing what you need to win the leg, and of of course, the weekend.

Down the left hand side are the match-ups and scores.

I'll generate a TABLES tab for the ladders soon.

Again, scoring is as follows;
-  If you tip correct and are closer to the actual margin, you get 1 point and your opponent gets zero, (if both the same distance its a point each).
-  For tipping the exact margin, you get an extra 2 points
-  If you tipped within three points of the correct margin (but not exact) you get a bonus point.

The above applies for the 5 legs, and the highest score over the 5 gets the win against their opponent. 

Easy enough. Any questions - HMU on twitter at @FMIGames_NFL.

Also, its all a bit 'manual' still, so a bit of slack for the first few weeks would be appreciated.

17. INAUGURAL SEASON FINALE POST

OK players, a few things to round out the year.

First, thanks for joining in and playing. Its been a bit clunky, but overall I think it went OK. Nice to read some positive comments tweeted. Much thanks.

Second, if the new job is manageable and not killing me, then this show will be back for 2018. Hope you all want back in, no pressure if you don't. I'll send out invitations / confirmations around Sept. Don't be afraid to remind me because its 'London to a brick' I will forget.

Finally, and the big one - its time to release some end of season awards.

Division Winners.

1

@AndrewM_81

1

@BenSmith94

Wonderful tipping saw Andrew a game clear on top of Purple, and Ben half a game on top of Grey. Ben also dominated on the scoring front finishing +19 score difference, a whole 12 ahead of second.

Division Spoons.

8

@Amul82

8

@Lucrious

As tweeted, it was a surprise to see these 2 last. Both were dead keen to play when the idea was floated.

Four wins for Amul and three for Luc placed them both 5 wins behind top.

MAE Champions.

@J_Foreigner

9.54

@SteveSmithFFX

9.30

When tipping a discreet number as in this competition, accuracy is important. The closer tip in this game gets the points when it matters.

A way to calculate how accurate tips are is to look at the Mean Average Error (MAE) between the tip and actual result. The lower the number over the season, the better.

Steve and J_F are your 2017 most accurate margin tipsters.

Most Correct.

@AndrewM_81

54

@The_FMI

57

Another interesting twist with this competition is that you can tip lots of matches correctly but not win because of your accuracy. So regardless of accuracy, the most correct matched tipped were by FMI and Andrew. 

Most in Bonus Window.

@BrotherAmos

15

@J_Foreigner

15

@BenSmith94

12

@The_FMI

12

Once again in this comp, accuracy is rewarded with bonus points for tipping between -2 to +2 of the actual margin (inclusive).

Both divisions had two players that landed in that window 15 or 12 times respectively.

Most Exacts.

@AndrewM_81

5

@BenSmith94

6

More bonus points were awarded for exactly tipping the margin. Ben and Andrew scored the most on this count.

Longest Correct Tip Streak.

@AndrewM_81

23

@SteveSmithFFX

16

The above 23 and 16 for Andrew and Steve respectively are the number of consecutive correctly tipped games in a season.

Andrew's streak started on Week 11, and lasted all the way through weeks 12, 13 and 14, with the last three stretching into the divisional playoff match. Four and a half weeks of correctly tipped games.

Inaugural Virtual Bowl.

After 14 regular weeks of play and a divisional playoff, the season ended with a Final between the Purple and Grey divisions.
Qualifying for the final via the divisional play-offs were

@AndrewM_81

vs

@The_FMI

All the game data is over on the VIRTUAL BOWL page, but the game results fell as:

		AWAY				at	HOME					SCORE				RES
1	(+)	Indianapolis				at	Baltimore				(-)	16		23		-7
2	(+)	Minnesota				at	Green Bay				(-)	16		0		16
3	(+)	Buffalo				at	New England				(-)	16		37		-21
4	(+)	Denver				at	Washington				(-)	11		27		-16
5	(+)	NY Giants				at	Arizona				(-)	0		23		-23

And this made the winner of the FMI_NFL 2017 VIRTUAL BOWL as 

THE FINAL HEAD TO HEAD SCORES
		@AndrewM_81						2		,			@The_FMI						3

Ahem.

Those that know my other comps will know that I don't manage to win them all, so calls for a stewards inquiry will not be heard.

Once again as a final note, thanks to all players this year, hope it was a fun thing for you all, and lets see if I can bring it back for the 2018 season.