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NOFilm Room · Week 2
Week 2: 174 perfect.
One exact call.
Last week, 15 cards survived all seven games. This week the field went 10 times better, which made the tiebreaker the whole ballgame. Here is how 2,460 cards got down to one.
This week's winner
Perfect card, then the tiebreaker exactly right. Casper52 submitted Thursday at 12:06 PM ET, three days before kickoff, and said the Giants and Rams would combine for 34. They did.
Week 2 prize
Hammer Zero Mercy Hybrid
ARV $194.95. Headed to Casper52.
Two weeks, two winners, and both hit the combined score exactly: Rick Z. called 41 in Week 1.
How the 174 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 the Rams took a knee. Only three perfect cards were at or under 34. Hover a dot.
Show as a table
The funnel
2,460 in. 174 standing.
Cards still perfect after each game, in kickoff order. Tap a game to see what it did to the field, or flip to Week 1 to compare.
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 6 and 1; the one that lost did almost all the damage.
Chalk got chalked
The most popular card in the contest was every favorite, all seven. 284 people turned it in, 11.5% of the field. Cincinnati beat Houston 20 to 6 in the one o'clock window and sank all 284 in a single afternoon.
How many did you get?
Share of the field by games right, Week 1 against Week 2.
Everyone took the over
All 2,460 tiebreaker guesses. The median guess was 46 and 48 was the single most popular number (258 cards). The Final landed at 34, and 39 people (1.6%) had it exactly.
Players of the week
The locker room
Perfect in Week 1, when only 15 of 2,165 cards made it. Perfect again in Week 2. Nobody else in the contest is 14 for 14. The tiebreakers didn't go ElmoTrey's way (56, then 47), which is the cruelest sentence in this recap.
One pick away from joining ElmoTrey:
Named themselves after this week's prize ball, then went 7 for 7. Commitment to the bit. The tiebreaker (45) just missed.
The last card of Week 2 came in at 12:54:21 PM ET Sunday, 39 seconds before lock. 66 cards arrived in the final hour.
When the cards come in
Week 2 entries, Eastern time. Sunday entries went from 70 in Week 1 to 302.
Who's repping who
Team balls set on player profiles, Week 2 entrants. Dallas fans are loud and they are everywhere.
Brand loyalty
Favorite ball brand, from player profiles. Hammer leads Storm by 90. Fitting for a week with a Hammer on the line.
Coast to coast
Entrants who shared a home state came from 48 states. The top ten:
Week 1 players who came back for Week 2 (60%).
First-timers in Week 2. Welcome in.
of the field turned in the week's most popular card.
of the field took Seattle at Arizona, the week's most confident pick. They were right, 31 to 7.
Up next
Week 3's ball drops 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 2 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.
