Survivor Week 10

[Walter]

Seattle over Tampa won in Week 1.
Chicago over Kansas City won in Week 2.
Pittsburgh over San Francisco won in Week 3.
Dallas over St. Louis won in Week 4.
New England over Cleveland won in Week 5.
Baltimore over St. Louis won in Week 6.
Washington over Arizona won in Week 7.
Tennessee over Oakland won in Week 8.
Cleveland over Seattle won in Week 9.

In case you don't know what this is, you need to pick a team to just win each week. If that team wins, you stay alive. If that team loses, you're out. You can't pick the same team twice.


These are guidelines I use:

1. Never pick road teams
2. Never pick a bad team
3. Stay away from public plays
4. Never pick a team that could either be looking ahead or behind
5. Never pick divisional games

Getting tougher now...

The 14 home teams in Week 9 are (excluding ones I picked):

Carolina
Miami
Kansas City
Green Bay
New Orleans
Oakland
NY Giants
Arizona
San Diego


Knocking the bad teams off, we have:

Carolina
Kansas City
Green Bay
New Orleans
NY Giants
San Diego

Eliminating divisional games, we have:

New Orleans
San Diego


Only two LOL...

New Orleans over St. Louis, why the hell not?
San Diego over Indy, no!



We've narrowed it down to:
New Orleans over St. Louis

One option this week.


Teams looking ahead:
New Orleans has Houston, so no look-ahead.


We've now narrowed it down to:
New Orleans over St. Louis

No idea where the public is.

OK, so what do you guys think? Can anyone find any reason not to take the Saints?

[Walter]

Week 10 strong possibilities: New Orleans, (tough week; lots of div. matchups)
Week 11 strong possibilities: Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia
Week 12 strong possibilities: Jacksonville, San Diego
Week 13 strong possibilities: Carolina
Week 14 strong possibilities: Cincinnati
Week 15 strong possibilities: San Diego

[candyman82]

That makes it an easy pick

[swifty222]

the rams nice and rested off a bye still looking for a first win kinda scares me. what would happened if they won you would see alot of players out of the survivor this week.

[Phil]

The Saints game also scares me. You know St. Louis is going to eventually get its first win; and if Steven Jackson plays the whole game, their offense can be deadly. If there's any 0-8 team that can keep up offensively with the Saints (granted there are only 2), it's the Rams.

[RazrBackFan05]

I'm thinking the Rams win this game. I know it's a scary thought but I'm a sucker for small chances and risk taking. I would take San Diego over Indy. Mainly because I'm a Chargers fan and my roomates a Indy fan. So that reasoning is kind of shot too. How about Seattle over San Fran?

[Walter]

Seattle over San Fran is a divisional matchup. Violates Rule 5

[jimmyp]

Hmm, Walter, good job with the Cleveland pick last week. In the end I didn't mind so much my aussie cable covered it instead of the mini-Superbowl.

As for your assertion that picking gets harder now. I would almost say that the selection gets easier as the season goes on as you have less teams to choose between. Plus early in the season, there needs to be way more consideration about "should I use this team now, or in week ?"

The Saints definitely for this week though. I try not to look at teams entire seasons, so much can change. N.O. definitely aren't the same team now that lost 4 straight. The Rams too aren't the team that lost their first four straight, they're probably even worse. LOL. I'm so glad I didn't pick Steven Jackson in any leagues.

The fact that you haven't used Indy, GB, SD or the Giants yet means you might run the table.

[Walter]

Let's hope so, JimmyP!

If we survive this week, I think I'm going to use Indy over KC next week.

[candyman82]

Hmm, Walter, good job with the Cleveland pick last week. In the end I didn't mind so much my aussie cable covered it instead of the mini-Superbowl.

As for your assertion that picking gets harder now. I would almost say that the selection gets easier as the season goes on as you have less teams to choose between. Plus early in the season, there needs to be way more consideration about "should I use this team now, or in week ?"

The Saints definitely for this week though. I try not to look at teams entire seasons, so much can change. N.O. definitely aren't the same team now that lost 4 straight. The Rams too aren't the team that lost their first four straight, they're probably even worse. LOL. I'm so glad I didn't pick Steven Jackson in any leagues.

The fact that you haven't used Indy, GB, SD or the Giants yet means you might run the table.

I live in Ohio, so I always get crappy games

[Matt McGuire]

Shoulda taken the Packers, but NOOOOO you can't take division games. lol

[candyman82]

Yeah, you had horrible luck this week

[Phil]

Hindsight is 20/20. By the way Walter, I know plenty of people who were eliminated from survivor this week because of New Orleans.

[candyman82]

Hindsight is 20/20. By the way Walter, I know plenty of people who were eliminated from survivor this week because of New Orleans.

It was just a bad game to pick

[Walter]

Shoulda taken the Packers, but NOOOOO you can't take division games. lol

I never heard you saying to pick the Packers?