{"id":1348,"date":"2011-01-03T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2011-01-08T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:19:39","slug":"bsbs-2011-nfl-playoff-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"BSB&#8217;s 2011 NFL Playoff Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know anything about BSB, you know that we like to play stupid little games.\u00a0 Well, here is one that went so well last year, we figured we&#8217;d run it back.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little challenge for the NFL Playoffs, and anyone is welcome to join, if they so please.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You assign each playoff team a &#8220;weight&#8221; (1 &#8211; 12, with 12 being the &#8220;most confident&#8221;) of how confident you have of them going far in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For each playoff win, you will receive the amount of points that you have that team weighted.<\/li>\n<li>For instance, if I feel most confident in the Patriots, I would give them the 12, and I would get 12 points for every playoff game they win.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a bit of a catch here in that a bye gives you nothing, so there may be some advantage to giving a high weight to one of the 8 teams playing this week because they will play an extra game.\u00a0 But, then again, they will then be on the road next week, if they win.<\/li>\n<li>Points for the Championship Games will be doubled, and points for the Super Bowl will be tripled.\u00a0 This makes it so the Championship Game round is just as important as the other rounds, even though there are fewer games, and the Super Bowl pick is the most important single pick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to join us in the Challenge, if you want.\u00a0 You can post your picks on the comment here or email me or Doogan.\u00a0 We will update the standings after each round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know anything about BSB, you know that we like to play stupid little games.\u00a0 Well, here is one that went so well last year, we figured we&#8217;d run it back.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little challenge for the NFL Playoffs, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[944,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}