- NFL_Pickem - moukki

ACTION: Check Pick'em Tie Breaker Game Scores
by Howard Lu 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

Hi All, I noticed that the Tie Breaker score for week 1 was associated with the wrong game so if you had picked before Noon-ish today, please check your tie breaker guesses. Originally, it was associated with the Sun night BAL @ BUF game but it should be associated with Monday night's MIN @ CHI game. Your guesses are preserved but you may want to adjust i for the new gamet. Sorry for the late notice but glad this was caught before kickoff and I've fixed it for all of the remaining weeks as well. Reminder that picks are due by 8:20pm EDT so you have 4 hours left to join the season and make your picks. Thanks! -H On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > Here’s a reminder to join the 2025 season if you haven’t already done so > and if you have, don’t forget to make your picks for both week 1 as well as > survivor. > > In case you need a reminder of how to join the season: > - Login to www.pickemplus.com > - Near the bottom of the page, there should be the Pick'em Plus Founder's > League and click Join Season > - Fill in the questions for this season and you're in! > - Navigate to Leagues > Member > Your Active Leagues > Picks to make your > picks. > > Week 1 picks are due tomorrow Thurs 9/4/2025 by 8:20pm EDT > > We have 57 players so far. Hope to see you back in the league! > -H > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 28, 2025, at 5:34 PM, Howard Lu <howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone! > Football is a week away and it's time for some Pick'em fun! > > 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. > > If you forgot your password, please let me know as the self service reset > password emails are not sending out for some reason. > > Thanks and good luck this season! > -H > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

1 0

Re: 2025 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Sean Wooden 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

I am in. How much? On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > Here’s a reminder to join the 2025 season if you haven’t already done so > and if you have, don’t forget to make your picks for both week 1 as well as > survivor. > > In case you need a reminder of how to join the season: > - Login to www.pickemplus.com > - Near the bottom of the page, there should be the Pick'em Plus Founder's > League and click Join Season > - Fill in the questions for this season and you're in! > - Navigate to Leagues > Member > Your Active Leagues > Picks to make your > picks. > > Week 1 picks are due tomorrow Thurs 9/4/2025 by 8:20pm EDT > > We have 57 players so far. Hope to see you back in the league! > -H > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 28, 2025, at 5:34 PM, Howard Lu <howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone! > Football is a week away and it's time for some Pick'em fun! > > 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. > > If you forgot your password, please let me know as the self service reset > password emails are not sending out for some reason. > > Thanks and good luck this season! > -H > >

1 0

2025 Pick'em Plus Founder's League
by Howard Lu 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

Hi Everyone! Football is a week away and it's time for some Pick'em fun! 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. If you forgot your password, please let me know as the self service reset password emails are not sending out for some reason. Thanks and good luck this season! -H

1 1

Re: Fwd: 2025 Pick’em Plus Madness
by David Bedrin 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Hey Howard, Thanks for organizing! On the Survivor page, it seems I can't access the Seeds #11 and up - they are off the screen. Is that a me issue or a coding issue? Dave On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM Howard Lu via NFL_Pickem < nfl_pickem(a)moukki.net> wrote: > Hi Footballers, > For the new folks who have joined football in the past year or two and for > those not on the madness mailing list, if you are interested in joining a > madness pool, here’s your chance. You have until 12:15pm EDT tomorrow to > get your picks in so do it tonight before you forget. > > You can use the same login you use for football and Join the Pick’em Plus > Madness league with the following code: GbN2RZTjxGAXGJftt3EPThlk8ytJtIlH > > As with football, you get rewarded for correct upset picks. Each matchup > is scored as follows: > (ESPB + (Winning Seed - Losing Seed)) * RW > where: > ESPB = Even Seed Point Base = 20 > RW = Round Weight for the 6 rounds is 2,3,4,6,9,12 > > Thus, if a 16 seed beats a 1 seed, a player crazy enough to pick that > would score (20 + (16-1))*2 =70 pts. Conversely, 1 beating the 16 would > score (20 + (1-16))*2 =10 10 pts. That gutsy 16 seed pick win would score > 7x the points and rightfully be rewarded for it. The scoring scales > linearly as the seeds get closer together until they potentially converge > into even seeds (hence ESPB) playing each other in the Final 4. You can > also submit multiple entries for only $10 each. We also have Survivor and > Confidence pools as well all picked before the start of tip-off tomorrow. > > More details below but hope you can join the fun! > -H > > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* Howard Lu <howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com> > *Date:* March 19, 2025 at 9:14:58 AM EDT > *To:* mm_pickem(a)moukki.net > *Cc:* Howard Lu <howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com> > *Subject:* *2025 Pick’em Plus Madness* > > > Hi Everyone! > March Madness is back upon us! $20 for a primary entry which includes > entry into 3 pools with prize allocation as follows: 80% Tournament > Bracket, 10% Survivor and 10% Confidence. Additional unlimited entries > will be for the Tournament Bracket pool only and are $10 each. Each pool > will have 1 prize for every 10 players or fraction thereof with each prize > winning 50% more. $1 is set aside for each player to run the pool. No > additional fees are taken for multiple bracket pool entries. Only one > slight change this year to the confidence pool points from 3/2/1/0 to > 4/3/2/1 within each seed grouping. > > If you've played before, just go to www.pickemplus.com to join the 2025 > season. If you forgot your password, ask me to help reset it as there is a > mailout issue for the self help reset. For anyone new or if you have > friends who want to play, the invitation string for our league is: > GbN2RZTjxGAXGJftt3EPThlk8ytJtIlH > > Deadline is the first tipoff which is Thurs 3/20/2025 at 12:15 EDT so get > your entries in before then! You can send payment ($20 + > $10/multi-entry) to howard.c.lu(a)gmail.com via paypal or venmo. > > Good luck this year! > -H > P.S. Bob K is also running his original Moukki Madness pool which inspired > pick'em plus. If you'd like to join a traditional pool with Fibonacci > round weights or have an entry in another pool, contact him for more > details at bkuo(a)moukki.net > >

2 1

Re: Fwd: 2025 Pick’em Plus Madness
by Howard Lu 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

1 0

Re: Fwd: 2025 Pick’em Plus Madness
by ALEC SCHUMACHER 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

1 0

Fwd: 2025 Pick’em Plus Madness
by Howard Lu 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

1 0

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.

1 0

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

04 Sep '24

1 1

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 >> >

1 0