Postseason Pick’em Contest: Wild Card Round official picks

If you didn’t do so well in the regular season pick’em contest, the first annual Water Cooler Sports Postseason Pick’em Contest is your chance to redeem yourself!

Wildcard Week!

And we’re off!

The bracket for our first annual Water Cooler Sports Postseason Pick’em Contest is full. Most of the names on the bracket are familiar faces, but I am pleased to note that we have a few new faces as well.

This is a 24-team, single-elimination bracket, which means that a whopping eight of our participants receive first-round byes this week. The remaining 16 of us will battle it out for a chance to take on our top seeds in the second round. Only half of us will make it, while the eight of us bereft of “second sight” will be watching the rest of the action from the sidelines.

Logistics

Her team will be watching the playoffs from the same place she will be: the couch.

In case you missed them last time, here is a brief rundown of the rules:

1. Contestants are seeded according to their performance in the regular-season contest; i.e., the higher their picking percentage, the higher their seed. Anyone who did not compete in the regular-season contest will be seeded as though they had a picking percentage of .000.
2. Contestants pick the winners and final scores for each game in a round. Games in the Wild Card and Divisional rounds are scored as follows:
   1. 1 point for each correctly picked winner
   2. 1 point for each correctly predicted score
   3. 5 points for each perfectly predicted game (i.e., both scores correct)
   4. Example: SDL picks Packers over Vikings 35-17; if actual score is 35-21, he scores two points.
   5. Example: Joedirte picks Bengals over Texans 30-27; if that is the actual final score, he scores five points.
3. Tiebreaker is combined points scored for the featured game in that round; e.g., Vikings at Packers in Wild Card round.
4. The game for the semi-final round will be the Pro Bowl.
5. Losers of the semi-final round will compete in a Bronze match for 3rd place.
6. Any contestant who does not submit picks on time will be dropped from the contest and a player on the waiting list will be substituted.

Contest bracket

Here is your 2012 Postseason WCSN Pick’em Contest bracket!

If you haven’t submitted your bracket predictions yet, be sure to do so as soon as possible. The contest will close just before kickoff of the early Wild Card game tomorrow. After that point, no more predictions can be accepted.

Wild Card Round official picks

In case you’re wondering how our contestants picked, here are all the nitty-gritty details.

Fill out those cards

If there are blanks next to your card, it means that I didn’t receive a full playoff pick’em card from you. Please get your scores and tiebreakers into me at nfcncontest@hotmail.com before kickoff of the Wild Card round tomorrow so that you can maximize your scoring opportunities. It would be most unfortunate if you failed to advance to the next round simply because you forgot to pick the scores for the games.