Pretty straight forward this week:

If LA Rams win between 1-5 or by 7 or more then Ian Powell (E) is your victor.

If LA Rams wins by 6 then Chris McTague (Tagger) would steal the win.

If Miami wins then Noelle Stephens (Forever Falcons) would fly away victorious.

Even more straight forward.

If Miami wins Glen Evans (trainwreck) is your champ.

If LA Rams win then Dallas Leclerc (Smokin Punts) cashes in.

Good luck to all.

There is a game in Munich this week so one Sunday game starting at 6:30am PST so please remember to get that pick in.

The H2H 2nd Half tournament brackets for the Main Pool are set up and ready to go. The Platinum Pool will start in Week 12. Check out who your opponent is this week.

The Chiefs minimum win benefited both Rick Savino in the Main Pool and Ryan Allaire (Air Allaire) in the Platinum Pool as they were our weekly winners. A blowout win by the Chiefs would have had two different winners.

Raith Tymchak was the only poolster to achieve to manage 4 Bang On's in the Main Pool.

Let's start with a Gridiron first. The Survivor Pool in the Platinum Pool for the Winners and Losers have now been completed and Nick Stripp (Consistently Picking Losers) is the first to cash in on the Winner AND the Loser Pool (tieing in the Loser Pool). The Main Pool is down to 6 Winners and 8 Losers. Best of luck to those remaining.

The Main Pools race for supremacy is a tight pack with Gary Morrissey leading the way with Jim Carpenter right on his heels, Clayton Clarke (Hunter Clarke), Rajan Hayre and Noah Jessup are one win away of passing them though. In the Platinum Pool, it's a little de ja vous as Gary Morrissey and Jim Carpenter lead this field as well. Don Milner (JE | Donny M), Bruce Faulkner (Dak Dak Dak Bruce) and Ryan Allaire (Air Allaire) are in pursuit.

The first H2H Tournament has come to an end and the 2nd tournament is about to start. (60)Trevor Day ran the table with a 9-Game Winning streak to win the Main Pool Championship. (35)Brendan Mykle-Winkler fell just a little short to capture 2nd.  Rookie (505)Kris Little (Team Primetime) got a taste of the prize money winning the Consolation Bracket while (298) Nick Taylor (The Dirty Bird) claimed 4th.

In the Platinum Pool, (5) Gary Morrissey is continuing his great season winning the H2H by discarding (103)Scott Findlay (Famfin) in the finals. (6) Ryan Allaire's (Air Allaire) weekly win came at the right time as he slipped past (40)Greg Bowie (GBO) who had a great week himself finishing 6th for the weekly for the consolation prizes.

Here is the balance of the rest of the paying spots at the halfway point. Let's see how this changes at the end:

Good luck to everyone in the 2nd Half of the Season !!!!!!!!

Congrats to our Weekly Winners this week Krista McTavish in the Main Pool and Brian Causier (CAUS 7) in the Platinum Pool.

Two poolsters were able to muscle up 4 Bang On's each. Way to go Dan Beketa (LaCrosse) and Matt Desjardins (JOK DJ) (Matt's first 4 of the season).

A 14-2 record is fantastic this week and two poolsters managed to cash in on this feast as Krista McTavish and Jeff Fraser both won weekly prizes.

We have reached the finals of the H2H pools. In the Main Pool, (35) Brendan Mykle-Winkler needed a Pittsburgh win between 1-9 on Monday night which he got to advance to the finals to square off against (60) Trevor Day. In the Platinum Pool, (5) Gary Morrissey, our Overall leader, is the favourite facing a very determined (103) Scott Findlay (Famfin). The consolation finals have (298) Nick Taylor (The Dirty Bird) vs (505) Kris Little (Team Primetime) in the Main Pool and (6) Ryan Allaire (Air Allaire) vs (40) Greg Bowie (GBO) in the Platinum Pool.

Week # 9 introduces the Second Chance Survivor Pool and Week # 10, the second portion of the H2H Tournament will start for the Main Pool (Week # 12 for the Platinum Pool).

Best of luck Everyone.

Well most of us have gone through Survivor withdrawal for long enough.

If NY Giants win or if Pittsburgh wins between 1-5 or 7-9 or by 36 or more then Krista McTavish will be crowned Queen for the week.

If Pittsburgh wins by 6 then Al Champagne (BigPaPi at the Plate) will pluck a victory.

If Pittsburgh wins between 10-12 then we will have a three-way tie between Krista McTavish, Glen Stewart (Dr. Evil) and Rowan Morrissey.

If Pittsburgh wins between 13-34 then Mike Zore (Zore) pulls out the victory.

If Pittsburgh wins by 35 then Krista McTavish and Mike Zore will tie for the week.

Much easier. If they play the game (or don't) Brian Causier (CAUS 7) is the weekly CHAMP.

We had our first tie for the weekly. Congrats to both Tyrel Edinborough (JE | Tyler) and Miles Powell in the Main Pool. Miles needed the late FG by Arizona to get into the tie position. After a week full of perfect winner picks, we still ended up with one poolster achieving the most wins. John Ryan (VanHawk) managed 15 wins, which didn't get him the win but did get him into a money spot. Honourable mention to both Melody Johnston (Reid 'em and Weep) and Miles Powell who both only got 1 wrong. The weekly winner in the Platinum pool was Sean Slater (Slates17) with a 13-2 record.

The first round of the League Play has wrapped up and 64 division winners are set up and advanced to the Secondary Round. JT McDowell (HIngle McCringleberry), Louis Shortreed (PenVegas), Jeannie Johnston (Pats Princess), Rajan Hayre, Paul St. Hilaire, Nick Taylor (The Dirty Bird), and Ashley Pescott all went undefeated to capture their respective divisions. Good luck to all winners in the next round.

Only one poolster managed to reach 3 Bang On's this week and that was Ryan Mills (Ray Finkle) in the Platinum Pool.

Good luck to all in Week 8.

This week was unlike other weeks as a lot of people did VERY well. Unfortunately, when lots do well and there are only 4 payout spots (3 in Platinum) a lot of people will say what the heck!!!!

A total of 31 poolsters entered every winner correctly (13 in Platinum) and this is why I love this pool as the spread points separate the contenders from the pretenders (going 14/14 is not pretending but you get the gist....LOL). Mike Stefiuk (Dolphins Tua Super Bowl) was the cream of the crop. Jim Carpenter is in both pools and let's one set of picks do the talking in both pools and it paid off winning the weekly in the Platinum Pool and 2nd place in the Main Pool.

Matt Shaw and Chris Aeichele (Ikelee77) both knocked off 4 Bang On's each this week.

One week left in the League Play Preliminary Round. Lots of division winners are still up for grabs. Only the winner of each Group moves onto the Secondary Round. Tiebreaker info can be found in the menu of the home page.

Good luck to all in Week 7.

If Buffalo wins then Dolphins Tua Super Bowl wins

If New York Jets win then Nav is your winner

Good luck to the 4 of you and Happy Thanksgiving to all us Canadians eh.

Has been clinched as Mandelbaum has a big enough lead that nobody with the Saints can catch him.

For those that don't read all of the email. Guess what? WE'RE GOING TO LONDON THIS WEEK!!!

We have ourselves a game at 6:30am PST on Sunday and I know how you all love to get up early just to get that pick in. Here's a little tip for you. Enter that game when you record your Thursday pick. This way you have something recorded and you can still change it before game time if you want to. If you sleep in, oh well. Better than ZERO, just saying......

DOUBLE WINNER - Gary Morrissey was showing off this week winning both the Main AND Platinum Pool. Gary picked the same teams but changed his spreads up. It appeared to make a difference because in the Main pool he gained 8 points because of his changes to allow him to win by 5.

Survivor Pool has taken its toll.  Survivors remaining in each pool:

Main Pool Winners - 29

Main Pool Losers - 27

Platinum Pool Winners - 3

Platinum Pool Losers - 6

Constantly Picking Losers is doing exactly that as he is still alive in both Survivor pools in the Platinum.

DJ Reynes and Polly Pringle have accomplished the same thing in the Main Pool.

Mike Davis was our Platinum Week # 3 weekly winner going 12-4 with a Bang On.

JOK Mike had the biggest Monday night with 2 wins and both with decent spreads to move from 111th to 5th in the Platinum Monday Night category.

There won't be any weekly scenarios sent out because there are two games tonight and lots can happen.

What I can send out are some Survivor stats from the past. With the crazy start to the season and the Survivor pool dwindling down I thought I would take a walk down memory lane and see how crazy this year has been compared to others. To my amazement this has NOT been the wackiest.

In 2015, Week 2, the heavily favoured Saints with Drew Brees were 10 point favourites over Jameis Winston and the lowly Buccaneers. 196 poolsters picked the Saints to cruise over the Bucs but it didn't happen. Along with 4 other heavy favourites, 389 poolsters were eliminated in one week. By far, the most in one week in Gridiron history.

If Buffalo or Cincy lose tonight we will have the lowest remaining after 3 weeks.

Below is a chart of the Survivor Pool since its inception with 512 poolsters. I only looked at the Winners Pool but you'll get the jist.

Overall Standings now reflect your Highest Dropped Week so only 1 of your 2 weeks count. This reflects the end result of your best 17 of 18 weeks counting towards your Overall score.

Taliban Munchma Quchi recorded 5 Bang On's this week in the Main Pool.

Tortured Football Wife could coast at the end of last week with her guaranteed weekly win in the Main Pool.

JE|FRIZZNASTY in the prize pool in back to back weeks in the Platinum Pool while J-ville Jack takes Top honours this week.

Congrats already goes out to Tortured Football Wife whose picks were not as bad as her name leads us to believe.......LOL

She has already clinched the weekly win.

If Atlanta wins or if Philadelphia wins by 13 or more then J-ville Jack is Da Champ.

If Philadelphia wins between 1-12 then Phil "12 men in the huddle" Hamel would be smelling like roses.

Good luck to both of you.

If San Francisco wins between 1-11 or if NY Jets win between 1-6 or by 13 or more then WascowyWabit would win the weekly.

If San Francisco wins by 12 to 36 then Coco-loco would win the weekly outright.

If San Francisco wins by 37 or more then WascowyWabit and Coco-loco would split 1st and 2nd place pot.

If NY Jets win between 7-11 then DangeRuss would prosper.

If NY Jets win by 12 the WascowyWabit and DangeRuss would share the winnings.

JE | F R I Z Z N A S T Y would take home the inaugural weekly win with a NY Jet upset or a San Francisco victory between 10-12.

JE | F R I Z Z N A S T Y and GJayhawks would tie with a San Francisco by 1-6 win.

GJayhawks takes the prize with a San Francisco between 7-9 win

If San Francisco wins by 13 or more then JOK Press would be declared weekly champ.

Best of luck to all of you.