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NOFilm Room · Week 3
Week 3: Da Bears.
Nobody cracked it.
89% of the field took Philadelphia on Monday night. Da Bears had other plans: 27 to 7, and the first week of the season with nobody left holding a ball. Sunday was no picnic for the chalk either. Favorites went 2 and 5, and Carolina's loss at Cleveland wiped out 1,706 of 2,111 cards in the first window.
No winner this week
36 cards survived the Sunday slate. 31 of them rode with Philadelphia, and Chicago held Philadelphia to seven points. The five who believed in Da Bears went 7 for 7 and then ran into the number: the lowest of their calls was 42, and the Final finished at 34. Closest without going over. All five went over.
Week 3 prize
Ebonite The Great One
ARV $159.95.
Weeks 1 and 2 were both won by an exact call: Rick Z. with 41, Casper52 with 34. Week 3 is the first week nobody qualified.
How the 5 perfect cards called the Final
One dot per perfect card. Everything right of the line went over, and that is exactly where all five Chicago believers landed. The lowest call was 42. Nobody saw a 27 to 7 defensive clinic coming. Hover a dot.
Show as a table
The funnel
2,111 in. 5 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 2 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 2 and 5, and the field's two most confident picks, Carolina and Philadelphia, both lost. Da Bears saved the biggest one for last.
Chalk got chewed up
The most popular card in the contest was every favorite, all seven. 198 people turned it in. Carolina lost 21 to 18 at Cleveland and sank all 198 in the one o'clock window. By Monday night, five of the seven favorites had lost.
How many did you get?
Share of the field by games right, Week 2 against Week 3.
Everyone took the over
All 2,111 tiebreaker guesses. The median guess was 42 and 42 was the single most popular number (178 cards). The Final landed at 34, and 65 people (3.1%) had it exactly.
Players of the week
The locker room
Across three weeks of Sunday slates, dre has missed one game. 17 of 18 is the best mark in the contest, one clear of pelican, Munchy and ElmoTrey.
The only 7-for-7 cards of Week 3. Five people took Chicago on Monday night, and all five called over 34:
Six for six, then called 28, one of only two finalists at or under 34. The team pick was Philadelphia, and that ended it. pelican has now gone six for six on the Sunday slate two weeks running.
The only player perfect through two weeks, 14 for 14, went 4 for 6 on Sunday. Nobody in the contest is perfect anymore.
The last card of Week 3 came in 27 seconds before lock. 57 cards arrived in the final hour.
When the cards come in
Week 3 entries, Eastern time. Sunday entries went from 302 in Week 2 to 234.
Who's repping who
Team balls set on player profiles, Week 3 entrants. Chicago is third on this list. Only 222 cards took Da Bears on Monday night. The other 1,889 would like a word.
Brand loyalty
Favorite ball brand, from player profiles. Hammer leads Storm by 79.
Coast to coast
Entrants who shared a home state came from 51 states. The top ten:
Week 2 players who came back for Week 3 (58%).
First-timers in Week 3. Welcome in.
of the field turned in the week's most popular card.
of the field took Philadelphia at Chicago, the week's most confident pick. Da Bears won 27 to 7.
Up next
Week 4'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 3 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.
