September 2024 - NFL_Pickem

2024 NFL Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Howard Lu 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the 2024 season! What a great opening game last night if you were able to see it all the way until the end. We have a record 76 players in the pool this year! We have 9 new players so let's welcome Aaron L, Alec S, Beth C, Jason M, Joshua L, Tim S, TJ C, Tom B and Tom C! Here's an interesting table of how many years each of the players in this league have played for, now in its 14th season (10th online through Pick'em Plus). Years Played 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total # Players 9 10 5 4 1 2 4 1 6 4 7 3 6 14 76 Special thanks to the 14 players who have stuck with us through all of these years! To learn more about who's in the pool this year, go to the red Info button on your home page and you can see everyone's updates & predictions for the season. You'll also see your payment status and I've updated it through all funds received at the time of this email. Thanks to about 2/3 of the pool for sending in your payment. If you haven't paid yet, please do so. Now for some changes to the process for this year's pool. Congrats to everyone for getting their picks in for Week 1 but I understand that sometimes life gets busy and we forget about the pool and missing a week pretty much puts you out of contention for the season-long prizes. So here's a reminder to set a weekly reminder for Thursdays to get your picks in. The website is non-forgiving--you miss the deadline for the first kickoff of the week and you're locked out, there's nothing you or an admin can do to see or modify your picks. However, if that fails, we are introducing a backup procedure that will allow players to still get their picks in so they still have a shot at the current weekly prizes and it doesn't destroy their season chances. Here are the rules: • Thursday’s pick (and any that have already passed), Survivor pick and Monday night tie breaker points are forfeited • Picks for the remaining games that week will be emailed to the Pool Administrator (me at howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com) for manual entry • A $5 administration fee will be paid electronically for the labor intensive decoding and encoding of pick data to insert into the database. The fee is an admin fee and will not increase any pool payouts. • Deadline for emailed picks and $5 electronic admin fee is due by that Saturday 11:59pm ET. If both are not received by then, the week’s picks are forfeited. • Players who picked but missed one or more picks are also eligible to submit the $5 fee and email their missed pick(s) in but any existing picks cannot be changed. Thursday and Survivor picks are not eligible as “missed picks”. • Late submissions are allowed for the entire regular season except for Week 18, the last week of the season where a player can potentially gain an unfair advantage knowing the picks of the season leaders despite forfeiting the first game. • For transparency, all manually added late submission picks will be announced to the entire pool prior to the start of Sunday’s games. We also switched the source of the spreads from OddsShark to ESPN as they have a more consistent feed that is less likely to change in the future. Attached are all of the rules for the year as reference. Good luck picking this year and have fun! -H P.S. If you haven't signed up for the season yet and would still like to join, I will waive the admin fee for this week to get in if you still want to. Going forward for the season, I will only email players who are in so as not to spam everyone.

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Re: 2024 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Howard Lu 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

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Re: 2024 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by James Scheurer 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Howard, Jim Scheurer here. Good Luck to another football season. Can you remove me from your listing? jimscheureriii(a)gmail.com Have a great football season! On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 7:52 AM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > Erick, > Thanks for pointing that out. As with all weeks, the job that updates the > spreads run 3x per week Tue-Thu at noon ET. The calculation of the spreads > come from the median value of all the sources at oddsshark.com. With that > said though, we haven’t tested that this year yet and the format may have > changed so it might take a little bit longer for the first set of spreads > to make it into the pool. > > Also note that the games are currently displayed out of order and I’ll get > that fixed. But do note that for anyone who has already picked, the tie > breaker score is for the Monday night game NYJ@SF, not what is currently > displayed. You can make your tie breaker guess now but the game that it > will be applied to will be shifted to the Monday night game. > > As a reminder for the new(er) players, you can always make your picks now > and review them later as you are picking straight-up winners of the games, > not winners against the spread as teams play to win, not beat the spread > (at least ethically). The spread only comes into play if the underdog wins > to determine the points scored (1 + 1/spread) > -H > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 3, 2024, at 1:53 AM, Erick Mechler via NFL_Pickem < > nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > > > So excited for another season, Howard! > > I did notice that the lines are all blank however. Just a FYI. > > Thanks > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < > nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > >> Hello everyone! >> Several of you have asked and sorry about the late start but the 2024 season >> is online and open for players to join. >> >> For those who are new or have friends or kids who want to join, go to >> www.pickemplus.com and create an account. Then copy and paste the >> following invitation string to join the Pick'em Plus Founder's League ( >> Leagues > Member > Join a League button): >> f9HPP67DoICMZ1CrKcIbu8IRC1pn2nHZ >> >> You can send the $100 entry fee to PaylPal (choose Friends & Family to >> avoid fee) or Venmo using (howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com) Electronic payment is >> preferred but if you must, you can send a check, just ask for my address if >> you don't already have it. >> >> Thanks and good luck this season! >> >> -H >> >

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Re: 2024 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Jim Gill 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

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Re: 2024 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Erick Mechler 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

So excited for another season, Howard! I did notice that the lines are all blank however. Just a FYI. Thanks On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > Hello everyone! > Several of you have asked and sorry about the late start but the 2024 season > is online and open for players to join. > > For those who are new or have friends or kids who want to join, go to > www.pickemplus.com and create an account. Then copy and paste the > following invitation string to join the Pick'em Plus Founder's League ( > Leagues > Member > Join a League button): > f9HPP67DoICMZ1CrKcIbu8IRC1pn2nHZ > > You can send the $100 entry fee to PaylPal (choose Friends & Family to > avoid fee) or Venmo using (howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com) Electronic payment is > preferred but if you must, you can send a check, just ask for my address if > you don't already have it. > > Thanks and good luck this season! > > -H >

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2024 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Howard Lu 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Hello everyone! Several of you have asked and sorry about the late start but the 2024 season is online and open for players to join. For those who are new or have friends or kids who want to join, go to www.pickemplus.com and create an account. Then copy and paste the following invitation string to join the Pick'em Plus Founder's League ( Leagues > Member > Join a League button): f9HPP67DoICMZ1CrKcIbu8IRC1pn2nHZ You can send the $100 entry fee to PaylPal (choose Friends & Family to avoid fee) or Venmo using (howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com) Electronic payment is preferred but if you must, you can send a check, just ask for my address if you don't already have it. Thanks and good luck this season! -H

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