Staff Confidence Pool (No Spread) 2014 Final Results

Will Grant's Staff Confidence Pool (No Spread) 2014 Final Results Will Grant Published 12/31/2014

We are proud to bring you the return of the Footballguys.com Staff Confidence Pool Challenge. 20 Staff members will pick the winner of each NFL game, and rank each choice from most confident (16 points) to least (1 point). As a tie-breaker, the person who is closest to the total points scored on the last Monday Night game will be the winner. Winners will be announced from week to week and the best overall record will be crowned Confidence pool Champion. Picks and ranks are due on Wednesday, so any late-breaking news may not be reflected in the choices. Also please note that no point spread is taken into account with these picks – it is a straight up pick of which NFL team will win this week. See the other confidence pools for picks against the spread (ATS) or Survivor / Eliminator style.

RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK

For the final week, we saw a lot of interesting picks, but Tremblay took home the top spot again with an impressive 113 point performance. He missed only four picks this week, but his biggest loss was only 11 points and the other three losses combined for just 11 points as well. Several other players lost only four games as well, but Tremblay managed his risk the best and took home the top spot.

Staffer PHI JAX NYJ CHI BUF SD NO CLE IND DAL STL ARI DET OAK CAR CIN TOT
NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC TB BAL TEN WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT Pts
Tremblay PHI HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL TEN DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 113
  8 14 11 12 6 10 3 9 1 4 15 13 7 16 5 2  
Haseley NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 111
  3 5 2 8 13 11 10 16 12 6 14 1 9 15 7 4  
Buzzard NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 110
  6 14 10 9 2 5 7 13 3 4 15 11 12 16 8 1  
Grant PHI HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 110
  1 9 7 2 10 6 13 8 12 11 15 5 16 14 3 4  
Wood PHI HOU MIA MIN BUF SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN CAR CIN 110
  16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  
Larkin PHI HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN CAR CIN 110
  8 11 10 9 12 3 7 16 5 6 14 4 15 13 2 1  
Miglio NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 108
  5 16 10 9 11 6 8 13 12 4 15 7 3 14 2 1  
Hindery NYG HOU MIA MIN BUF SD NO BAL TEN WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 106
  4 14 9 10 5 1 11 12 6 3 15 8 13 16 7 2  
Cummings PHI HOU MIA CHI NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 106
  11 13 7 4 8 9 10 6 16 12 14 5 3 15 2 1  
Gray NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 105
  1 15 14 7 10 4 3 11 12 8 13 5 9 16 6 2  
Garda PHI HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 105
  8 14 3 13 12 11 10 6 9 4 16 2 7 15 5 1  
Rudnicki PHI HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 103
  5 13 12 9 11 3 8 7 14 1 15 2 10 16 6 4  
Lee NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL CIN 102
  5 15 13 11 10 7 4 12 9 2 16 8 6 14 3 1  
Holloway NYG HOU MIA MIN NE SD TB BAL IND DAL SEA ARI GB DEN ATL PIT 102
  3 11 8 5 10 4 1 16 12 13 15 2 9 14 6 7  
Bitonti NYG HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA ARI GB DEN ATL PIT 99
  8 11 1 7 9 10 12 16 15 3 13 4 14 2 5 6  
Wimer NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA ARI GB DEN ATL PIT 97
  10 9 8 7 6 5 12 4 11 3 14 2 16 15 13 1  
Brimacombe PHI HOU MIA MIN NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 97
  16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  
Hicks PHI HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL CIN 91
  14 1 7 11 10 15 9 5 6 2 3 13 8 4 12 16  
Heiser NYG HOU NYJ CHI NE SD NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT 82
  16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  
Pasquino NYG HOU MIA CHI BUF SD NO BAL IND WAS SEA ARI GB DEN CAR CIN 73
  7 11 2 10 8 6 4 5 1 9 13 15 3 12 16 14  
Away PHI JAX NYJ CHI BUF SD NO CLE IND DAL STL ARI DET OAK CAR CIN  
Total Pts 87 0 14 27 25 86 161 0 173 101 0 23 0 0 20 33  
Home NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC TB BAL TEN WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT  
Total Pts 68 241 162 155 164 63 1 202 7 15 253 99 172 236 94 38  

Miami and New England were the biggest upsets this week. Both took down over 160 confidence points, but overall the teams that were 'expected' to win did. Pasquino tooks some big swings in the final week and came up short, but at that point, he was just playing for the top spot.

OVERALL RANKINGS

So before we get to the overall rankings, let's look at how our top 3 teams performed: 

Staffer PHI JAX NYJ CHI BUF SD NO CLE IND DAL STL ARI DET OAK CAR CIN
NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC TB BAL TEN WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT
Hindery NYG HOU MIA MIN BUF SD NO BAL TEN WAS SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT
  4 14 9 10 5 1 11 12 6 3 15 8 13 16 7 2
Buzzard NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT
  6 14 10 9 2 5 7 13 3 4 15 11 12 16 8 1
Miglio NYG HOU MIA MIN NE KC NO BAL IND DAL SEA SF GB DEN ATL PIT
  5 16 10 9 11 6 8 13 12 4 15 7 3 14 2 1

Hindery correctly picked Buffalo to beat the Patriots, giving him a nice boost and he only lost 1 confidence point taking San Diego while the other two picked Kansas City. However, losting nine confidence points picking Tennessee and Washingto to upset Indianapolis and Dallas respectively really hurt his performance this week. And it cost him the overall spot:

Staffer W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 W15 W16 W17 Total
Buzzard 87 74 95 54 105 87 94 93 71 74 57 103 97 97 114 82 110 1494
Hindery 95 85 115 47 103 87 92 71 68 70 56 106 104 94 114 79 106 1492
Miglio 91 66 102 50 108 79 79 83 73 74 63 98 111 100 110 90 108 1485
Haseley 81 83 120 48 92 98 86 81 60 74 55 98 94 91 105 89 111 1466
Larkin 91 82 110 60 100 79 84 86 63 63 50 96 97 101 99 88 110 1459
Cummings 75 75 121 53 93 91 71 77 62 67 58 111 95 113 109 79 106 1456
Bitonti 87 69 104 65 94 82 82 83 69 67 53 100 97 104 119 81 99 1455
Holloway 78 62 107 44 106 89 85 85 74 71 56 102 90 101 112 85 102 1449
Rudnicki 86 70 97 49 100 85 88 77 69 67 50 101 112 104 103 86 103 1447
Grant 94 65 95 58 102 90 77 87 69 66 60 94 102 100 95 78 110 1442
Gray 80 87 108 40 101 88 89 79 61 76 52 101 102 94 107 69 105 1439
Wood 82 91 94 37 72 91 70 88 70 72 62 86 105 102 111 73 110 1416
Garda 73 57 102 48 110 95 73 88 78 71 52 85 80 116 102 80 105 1415
Lee 87 51 108 50 105 88 81 87 57 68 60 105 82 93 104 86 102 1414
Pasquino 85 68 100 49 96 96 76 77 73 75 64 89 95 100 100 72 73 1388
Brimacombe 76 60 111 39 93 97 68 78 69 75 49 102 91 79 95 85 97 1364
Wimer 78 45 91 44 103 91 78 82 68 65 41 85 82 94 120 96 97 1360
Hicks 77 82 98 48 82 75 69 74 66 37 45 81 97 101 104 65 91 1292
Tremblay 68 60 77 39 66 54 81 107 57 66 38 104 103 70 96 65 113 1264
Heiser 98 55 99 42 97 96 76 60 51 72 57 69 46 88 72 72 82 1232

Buzzard took home the overall title by just two points. He also had the top score in week 7, giving him a nice finish to the overall season. Hindery and Miglio finished 2nd and 3rd, but because they did not have the top score in any given week, they went home empty handed for the year despite being in it to the very end. 

While several staffers came out on top for two weeks, including Wimer's back to back wins in week 16 and 17, it was Andrew Garda that came out on top the most with three weekly victories. Heiser wins the 'how did that happen?' award for being the top scoring team the first week of the season, but finishing last by the end, a full 32 points behind Tremblay. 

It's been a great season and we hope you have enjoyed this series. Look for these again next year as well!

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