From the ESPN Eliminator Challenge Official Rules:
5. Tie Games. In the event a game should end in a tie after overtime, and is declared a tie by U.S. professional football officials, entrants that had selected teams in the game as their picks for that week in the Promotion will neither be recorded with a Winning Pick or a Losing Pick. All active streaks will continue to the next week.So basically, in this pool at least, anyone who had the Eagles is screwed. At the end of the regular season, there are going to be a bunch of people with 17 points; there is some kind of randomized system to pick a winner from that group. Anyone who had the Eagles this week, and picked a winner each of the other 16 weeks, will have only 16 points, and won't be eligible to win. I think.
7 comments:
Can you really argue that Eagles backers don't deserve to be screwed. I can see grading that as .5 points, but either 16 or 16.5 at the end of the season is less than 17. A tie is less than a win and that is just the way it is.
"Can you really argue that Eagles backers don't deserve to be screwed."
Certainly not.
The pools I have been in make it pretty simple. You pick a team to win. If that team doesn't win, you don't. I thought this tie would be pretty straightforward.
JBD, who'd you end up going with?
ahhh what would sports be without controversey.....tell donovan mcnabb that gary bettman is on the phone he wants to explain the tie game situation in the NHL to him.
Went with the 49ers. Was pulling hard for Oakland, but at least we have a lot of options ahead of us.
Philly brought it down to 106...Miami would have been 57. Oh well. Have to check my pool's rules but I'm pretty sure it is still one pick for week 12.
JPD, our pool is the same way. Either you win or you don't. A tie is the same as a loss. We had one entrant go down b/c she picked Philly. 8 more remaining.
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