BobBrews wrote:PP's check bounced.

Adman, lylo stole the lead from me last year on the very last game if memory serves me correctly? I cursed him at the time and since then his house burned down, his dog died and his wife ran off with another woman (well, a woman). I reckon it's probably best to play it safe and not play in the next two games .

PistolPatch 116 points.
Adman1966 114 points.
alymere 106 points.
lylo 99 points.
Mally 96 points.
BobBrews 92 points.
Yeasty 88 points.
Mad_Scientist 87 points.
Joco 84 points.


116-99= 17 Hmm, looks like lylo isn't actually out of this little dance party yet.And no you memory does not serve you well,you were never close last year!! (I think). Doesn't matter!
I am the reigning champ and will remain so until I read differently!
(Note to mods: how do I keep a topic from showing on my screen?)

Adman1966 wrote:Bob
Now that we are getting to crunch time I will continue to double the payment each week! You can't say fairer than that...

Thanks for the money. I bought brewing supplies with it! This "Cheese scam is working great." I am converting to a new computer as I type here. I bought that one with PP's cash inflow.

P.S. I hate windows 8 so far. If I ever get through all the updates I will attempt to reconfigure it to look like windows 7. I will attempt to reuse the old operating system to recover all my files and programs? This mess is going to take a lifetime?

Good luck to all this Sunday. The two teams left after this weekend will play in the Super bowl on February 2nd. Everyone in the world will have the opportunity to watch it live. You might be up in the middle of the night or have to take a vacation day but for "Cheese" it's worth it?

Players,

Remember to do the Cheese! Do it now! This Sunday the two Super Bowl teams are chosen. The time is getting close to make a move or "Shut Up" about it all ready!

This week I will......? Oh never mind?

Players.

I have modified the Cheese program to NOT show the picks you made publicly. The word ( Hidden ) is shown where your pitiful guesses normally are. My accurate and insightful answers are hidden also to keep you from copying me and winning.

The picks will be hidden also for the Super-bowl on February 2nd 2014.

Thanks again for playing this crazy contest.

Make sure your addresses are correct so I can mail out your prizes!

PistolPatch wrote:Adman, lylo stole the lead from me last year on the very last game if memory serves me correctly?

Yep, my memory was correct. Here you go lylo. Don't do it again!!!

BobBrews wrote:I have modified the Cheese program to NOT show the picks you made publicly. The word ( Hidden ) is shown where your pitiful guesses normally are.

What the??? You only did this on the last game last year Bob. How can I possibly win now when I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing???

Ha!! PP, I made ya look! Lets see how you do playing in the dark!

Luckily the average picks are still visible... I don't know if this helps or not?

I think I'll just randomly guess as usual, that way if I score badly it doesn't reflect on my analysis skills, just poor guessing.

And there's still time for Bob to shoot us all down!

My position is weak, but I have my vast football reservoir of knowledge to dip into. Look where it got me last year and this. The average player numbers are there but has someone made very wild predictions to throw off the averages? Only to change them to his real numbers just before the game?

I will share some information here. The average score the last two times these two teams met in Seattle was Seattle 35 and San Francisco 8 (42 to 13 and 29 to 3) So will the scores hold true? Will San Francisco be crushed again?


Today is the day! (actually this evening)

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/t ... a/2013.htm

Players,

Seattle and San Francisco fought a hard battle but the Seattle Seahawks came out on top 23 to 17.

PistolPatch 15 points.
lylo 11 points.
alymere 10 points.
Joco 10 points.
Mally 9 points.
BobBrews 8 points.
Yeasty 6 points.
Adman1966 4 points.

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Over all.

PistolPatch 131 points.
Adman1966 118 points.
alymere 116 points.
lylo 110 points.
Mally 105 points.
BobBrews 100 points.
Joco 94 points.
Yeasty 94 points.
Mad_Scientist 87 points.

Damn PP, how is he doing this ? No wonder BIBacus ver.7.9 is delayed. He is doing NFL algorythms instead of hop utilization formulae.
Eff it, I think I will make a new tie dyed tee shirt and move to Colorado with Bob and the rest of the Americans .
Nothing makes sense anymore.

Looks like PP finally paid up and my cheque got lost in the post!

Hopefully it will arrive in time for the season finale. I could still score the full 30 (please Bob)

All,

I will be waiting anxiously for the postman to deliver the cheques. If I receive enough? I will be able to afford to mail the prizes out! It's going to be hard to catch PP But mathematically it can be done!

I do think that BIABacus has a secret page that figures out the picks for Cheese? Or PP is just taking the averages of everybody else and playing that? I never got around to checking out the averages as a player? Wow! For next year I will have a fictitious player names "Joe Average" and have the program play it with everyones averages? Interesting?

The program puked (failed) last night. When it reaches the kick off when the game started. It normally shows the names and picks below without the scores (of course). This time it was blank?? So I had to find a older version that worked and I uploaded to get it to show the correct way. I am going to work on the fix now. I don't know what triggered it? Maybe end of season involved? Anyway I am going to get on it now!

Good luck all! February second is the Super Bowl for the world championship. The game is broadcast around the world so you can watch it to see if you win or if PP Chokes and loses? Good luck in two weeks!

P.S.
Not that it makes any difference? The player Grand_Busha with 124 points is my 91 year old Mom who lets me pick for her. "It's too complicated! You pick for me." So again, It doesn't count for anything to us but..... and A_Packer_Fan is me also. I was using it to test the program and I just left it in. A_Packer_Fan has 114 points! I am just saying.....

BobBrews is the no account slacker that counts towards our BIAB champion.

Hahaha Bob ,

Look, I'm as bewildered as you guys as to why I am winning this comp . I do honestly know nothing about rushing/passing etc etc. The only reason I even play here is it forces me to read more witty posts by Bob and you others.

Last week I picked the actual scores but I did that by doing some googling and taking an average of opinions which may not have been the actual average as I had just got off an aeroplane and was rehydrating with liquids like IPA's. As for picking who would first and last score, my picks were contradictory but my thinking was that the home team would be so busy listening to the roar of the crowd they would forget about the actual game. Meanwhile, the away team would be just focussed on the game.

As for the rest of my picks, I think I spent ages trying to work out what that email Bob sends us each week actually meant. I still have no idea and I'm not sure I got any points on that rushing/passing stuff anyway?

Joe Average would be a fun idea Bob but if it did well then maybe everyone would just copy Joe Average .

Crazy stuff ,
PP

the Super Bowl is here

Players,

Get the Cheese done! Sunday February 2nd 6:30 PM Eastern time USA. The Superbowl will be played. Depending on where in the world you are you may be able to actually see the game!

The game is televised in every country on earth on some sort of sports channel! If you have to record it, do it! It's about time you saw what you are playing. Make sure your address is current if you are winning a prize. You might as well fill it in because I might feel like granting a boon and send out booby prizes to good sports????

Thanks again for playing and get ready for next August to play again and if you can persuade friends to play, who are not brewing buddies (just free beer junkies.) Recruit them. It makes it more fun when you have family playing even though they have no idea what they are doing? Play with more than one identity (if you have extra email addresses?) I don't care!

For those who are in the race and beating me. Go to hell !

Your truly
BobBrews!

It's finally here! The culmination of a seasons guessing on a sport nobody really understands! (At least not outside the US)

Well, the gloves are off ... if I'm going down, I'm going down fighting!

My side prediction for this week? 30 points for me resulting in a comfortable victory, bragging rights for 2014 and international glory!!!

Either that or another 4 points like last week and international obscurity.

It's now just a waiting game.

Good luck guys.

Adman1966 wrote:30 points for me resulting in a comfortable victory, bragging rights for 2014 and international glory!!!

Adman... BobBrew's brother/son perhaps???



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It's Sunday 7:00pm now here in Perth. Has the game finished? Did I win the Winnebago?

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I don't know if I am going to play this again next year - too nerve-wracking. For posterity's sake I am attaching a pic of the Cheesetradamus leaderboard before the Superbowl 'cos I don't think we'll ever see this again ...Biting my nails .

I'm "That British cousin" nobody ever mentions!

Players

The Super Bowl was a crappy game and was a total surprise to everyone involved. Especially for Denver Broncos who expected to win. Denver has the best offense in NFL history but were totally crushed by Seattle by a score of 43 to 8 (and the game was not as close as the score indicated!)

We expected a close and exciting game but it was a . Thanks again for playing and having fun with each other.

http://www.nfl.com/


Over all winner is

PistolPatch 134 Points.
alymere 122 Points.
Adman1966 119 Points.
lylo 119 Points.
Mally 114 Points.
Joco 103 Points.
Yeasty 102 Points.
BobBrews 102 Points.
Mad_Scientist 87 Points

Super Bowl week winner is Joco and lylo and Mally!!

Joco 9 points.
lylo 9 points.
Mally 9 points. Edit: Sorry I missed you Mally
Yeasty 8 points.
alymere 6 points.
PistolPatch 3 points.
BobBrews 2 points.
Adman1966 1 point.

Joco you started strong and finished strong . You probably just need some of Bob's consistency now. Oh, hold on, maybe not . You know what I mean .

Missed out on making BIABrewer famous by two points and that was after about a half hour googling score predictions . I still have no idea how to read that statistic thing Bob sends out every week let alone knowing what rushing, passing, offense and defence mean.

Anyway, another fun season. Was great to have new players this year and hopefully we'll get more next season. Thanks for the fun reads here guys .

And, of course, as Joco said above, most thanks needs to go to Bob for all the great laughs and masses of time he puts into Cheese.

Good on you Bob. You are a legend .

Well, last week I was hoping to win a Winnebago. This week I can say I won one Winnebago! Then, when I won the one Winnebago, I wondered if one would see it within one week. Whether this would be so would wholly depend on whether the weather was wild and woolly but who would know what the weather would do? Anyway, wet weather permitting, is there any way I will see a Winnebago within one week Bob? I can't wait! And I want it to be white to withstand the woefully warm weather we welter in in WA. Well, this para is woeful, not what I wanted but when you're a winner, what can one say?

I think I have gone mad . It's the pressure of the Cheese .

Joco wrote:I'll wear my ring every day! (or every other day, I guess I'm having shared custody with Lylo)

Didn't know you two shared a boyfriend, I thought Lylo was married?

Player and lurkers.

• The first half (games 1 - 9) winner is SenorYuletide!
  
  The Second half winner (games 10-17) is PistolPatch!
  
  The playoff's winner is Clutch16!
  
  The over all winner for the 2013 Season is Bobsprotege

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Thanks for playing everyone! I sincerely hope you had as much fun playing as I did running it. I will tweak the program over the off season so that it will look and work better next year (that's a lie! I will put if off until a couple of weeks before the preseason starts and work on it 18 hours a day until done!) Hey, I am a typical wanker!

Prizes will be mailed out as soon as I get all the addresses. I have PP's I will drive PistolPatch's prize over to his place soon.
http://www.kryptonitekollectibles.com/G ... OgodVUUAIg

Thanks Bob for another fun filled year of cheese!

I had managed to sort everything out last night, kids in bed, work done, all just in time for superbowl (advertised as 10.30 PM in the UK).
sits down in front of the TV just in time to hear them say "here is what is coming up in this 1 hour of build-up!..... What???? You mean I have got to sit and watch people talk about it for an hour before I can watch it?..... Sod that, I'm off to bed .

Mind you, looking at my score... Maybe I need to dedicate more time to this sport

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Just noticed I scored 9 points in the superbowl week too!!!

Look like it's a threesome for Lylo & Joco

Thank you Mally.

I edited the post! Please forgive me. You earned bragging rights! Next year I will start trying harder and earlier! The game was a BUST. Everyone expected a great game with the best scoring team and the best defensive team playing against each other.

They set a NFL record with one team leading for 59 minutes and 48 seconds in a 60 minute (playing time) game! What a farce! Anyway, lots of people and corporations made lots of money and the simple folk gave it to them and that's all that counts? Right? I gained 2 pounds in junk food and beer!

Now that the fat lady has sung it's time to take stock and review what I've learnt this season.

I know very little about the sport, but slightly more than I did 6 months ago.
My guessing prowess needs some work if I wish to compete at the highest level. (PP)
If I brag about my future performance in the style of Bob I achieve scores in the style of Bob!

Thanks for all the work you put into Cheese each week Bob. It's been a lot of fun.

I think now is the time to start planning the 2015 Superbowl superbrew. All we need is a suitable recipe.
I'll leave it up to either the Head Cheese (PP) or the Mature Cheese (Bob) to suggest something fitting the occasion.