Bold Prediction Contest - Cardinals

Written by William P. Tomisser | 16 October 2009

Bold Prediction Contest - Arizona At Seattle

Welcome to the fifth week of the "Bold Prediction" contest at Seahawk Addicts with Arizona playing at Seattle. To play please follow the directions that follow. Results will be tallied and posted by Seahawk Addicts userid so don't change your userid from week to week so we know who you are and to insure your results get tallied to the same person. The winner at the end of the season will receive a Seahawk's jersey. This is the last week you can enter the contest.

It is important that you follow the procedures in place in which to enter your predictions. Failure to follow the directions explicitly will result in your entry being disqualified for this week. I will post the userids who are disqualified plus any errors I happen to find while inputting the data in Saturday's error report each week. If you just have an invalid entry for a particular prediction like the giveaway/takeaway quotient, just that prediction will be disqualified and need to be fixed.

If I happen to notice any problems with your entry as I input the data, I'll list it on Saturday's error report and you can make changes. Any errors I find are not the result of searching for errors but are incidental as I input the data. Those I notice, will be listed. You are ultimately responsible for entering the data correctly as well as the accuracy of your entries.

All entries or changes must be input by midnight Saturday night. As long as your comment was generated on Friday or Saturday, it will be accepted.

Please follow these directions. The format for each entry is in parenthesis after the dash.

The entries are (in this order):

Team Sacks - (number)
Rushing Yards - (number)
Passing Yards - (number)
Most Tackles - (last name)
Most Receptions - (last name)
QB rating - (one decimal place - decimal not required)
Most Sacks - (last name)
Takeaway/Giveaway - (number with + or - sign or 0)
Sacks Allowed - (number)
Defensive Yards Allowed - (number)
Bonus Prediction (worth two points) - Seahawk Interceptions - (number)

List your answers in the same order on 11 consecutive lines. Please follow the format for each prediction and don't embellish your answers or add anything.

Here's what it should look like:

4
122
300
Wilson
Burleson
108.9
Curry
+3
1
359
1

If I find your answers in an incorrect format or if I happen to notice they are out of order, I will put you on the list of people with invalid entries that publishes on Saturdays and it will be up to you to correct them before midnight Saturday.

I'll expect to find a set of predictions for you each week. You can miss a week or two but if a contestant misses more than two weeks in a row without a response, that person will be removed from the spreadsheet and will not be able to re-enter the contest. Remember, the deadline for starting play is this week against the Cards.

You can make up to two weeks of predictions ahead of time to allow for vacations and other circumstances that arise. On the Friday before you leave, make a comment that contains your regular predictions for that week and add the set(s) of predictions for the week(s) that you'll be gone. Clearly label the sets by opponent for identification. I'll input them for the current week and the week or two that follows.You can contact me through my e-mail address listed on the blog to make any other arrangements for special circumstances that may arise.

The only prediction anyone has had any trouble with is the takeaway/giveaway quotient. Here's the expanded definition of that prediction and the correct format of that entry:

8) Takeaway/giveaway quotient for the day expressed as a plus or minus number or zero (+1, -2, 0, etc). For example, two recovered opponent fumbles counts +2, an interception counts +1, two lost fumble counts -2. For that example adding 2 + 1 - 2 gives a total of +1 to be entered. This entry should be a single number.

My predictions for the game (not in proper entry format - for information pupropses only).

Tuesday we'll post everyones points and the leader board. Good luck!

Hasta,

BillT