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NOFilm Room · Week 1
Week 1: The Jets.
And one exact call.
2,165 cards opened the season, 62% of them on Thursday. Then the Jets won at Tennessee and took 1,011 perfect cards with them. By the end of Monday night, 15 cards were 7 for 7, and only one of them had the Final's total exactly right.
This week's winner
Perfect card, then the tiebreaker exactly right. Rick Z. submitted Friday at 4:58 PM ET, two days before kickoff, and said Denver and Kansas City would combine for 41. Kansas City won 31 to 10.
Week 1 prize
Hammer Fallout
ARV $169.95. Headed to Rick Z.
The season's first winner, and the start of a pattern: in Week 2, Casper52 hit the combined score exactly too.
How the 15 perfect cards called the Final
One dot per perfect card. The rule is closest without going over, so everything right of the line was out the moment Kansas City's 31 to 10 went final. Seven of the 15 were at or under 41, and one was exactly 41. Hover a dot.
Show as a table
The funnel
2,165 in. 15 standing.
Cards still perfect after each game, in kickoff order. Tap a game to see what it did to the field.
Game by game
Where the field was right
Every bar is the whole field's picks for one game. Blue is the side that won. Favorites went 4 and 3, and the Jets' win at Tennessee did most of the damage.
The Jets did the damage
Tennessee was a 72% pick at home against the Jets. New York won 23 to 10, and 1,011 of the 1,379 cards still perfect went with it. The most popular card in the contest, turned in 194 times, died right there too.
How many did you get?
Share of the field by games right.
Everyone took the over
All 2,165 tiebreaker guesses. The median guess was 43 and 38 was the single most popular number (164 cards). The Final landed at 41, and 119 people (5.5%) had it exactly.
Players of the week
The locker room
15 of 2,165 cards went 7 for 7:
1,350 of the 2,165 cards came in on Thursday, the day the card opened. Only 70 waited for Sunday morning.
The last card of Week 1 came in at 12:50:57 PM ET Sunday, four minutes before lock. 25 cards arrived in the final hour.
When the cards come in
Week 1 entries, Eastern time.
Who's repping who
Team balls set on player profiles, Week 1 entrants. Dallas leads the team balls with 83. The Giants beat Dallas 28 to 20 anyway.
Brand loyalty
Favorite ball brand, from player profiles. Hammer leads Storm by 85. Fitting for a week with a Hammer Fallout on the line.
Coast to coast
Entrants who shared a home state came from 50 states. The top ten:
of the field turned in the week's most popular card.
of the field took Chicago at Carolina, the week's most confident pick. They were right, 59 to 37.
Up next
A new ball drops every Thursday.
Entries open Thursday at 9:00 AM ET. Free to play, a new ball every week.
Go to Pick 'EmFigures from the Pick 'Em contest database after Week 1 was final. Player names are the usernames players chose; anonymous players are counted but never named. Staff entries are excluded from player highlights and cannot win. No purchase necessary; see the official rules.
