Being wrong feels just right for new GBF leader

Nov. 11, 2019Posted by NawFuL

 
Week 10 results

Sean

Leads By

1

90-57-1
3-10
91-56-1
4-9
86-61-1
4-9
Thursday, November 7, 2019
L.A. Chargers @ Oakland L.A. Chargers Oakland Oakland
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Arizona @ Tampa Bay Arizona Arizona Tampa Bay
Atlanta @ New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans
Baltimore @ Cincinnati Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore
Buffalo @ Cleveland Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
Carolina @ Green Bay Green Bay Green Bay Green Bay
Detroit @ Chicago Chicago Detroit Detroit
Kansas City @ Tennessee Kansas City Kansas City Kansas City
N.Y. Giants @ N.Y. Jets New York Giants New York Giants New York Giants
Miami @ Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis
L.A. Rams @ Pittsburgh L.A. Rams L.A. Rams L.A. Rams
Minnesota @ Dallas Dallas Minnesota Dallas
Monday, November 11, 2019
Seattle @ San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco
Byes: Denver, Houston, Jacksonville, New England, Philadelphia, Washington
© 2019 Gehlke Bros. Football

With any activity based largely on statistics, you should eventually expect a once-in-a-lifetime event. Just as in hydrology you have the 100-year flood, or the Great Depression in economics, or the perfect 6-of-6 lottery ticket, the rules of probability state that you will occasionally fail to select most of the winners on “any given Sunday” in the NawFuL. And that is precisely what happened in Week 10.

It was a disastrous week for football predictions, and if there was any saving grace then it was the fact that there were only 13 games on the schedule, which gave us three fewer opportunities to be wrong. This is not to say that we were all wrong in equal proportions, and for the Junior Bro it could mean that if being wrong feels this good then he doesn’t want to be right.

There were three splits for the Bros, starting with the Thursday night game between the Chargers and Raiders. L.A. has had Oakland’s number for years, but on this night Philip Rivers looked more like Ryan Leaf as the mistake-prone Chargers fell to their hosts by a 26-24 final, giving Sean a rare leg-up heading into the Sunday contests.

Glenn scored an unlikely win when a gametime scratch of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford led him to change his pick to Chicago, and after a slow start the Bears pulled away to a 20-13 victory. It was a highlight reel that was to be short lived; the Senior Bro’s struggles on Sunday night this year continued when his Cowboys fell to the Vikings, 28-24, and by virtue of Sean’s other victory on Thursday he was able to win the week and capture his first lead in the Surfy standings of 2019.

Meanwhile, there was little to cheer about from a prognostication standpoint. Sean and Ben won the week with identical 4-9 records, while Glenn sputtered to 3-10 — his worst showing and first sub-.500 performance since Week 9 of the 2017 season. The Senior Bro, now trailing by a game in defense of his GBF championship, hasn’t won a week since Week 2. Joining him in the losers column will be the 49ers, who became the last team in the league this season toppled from the ranks of the undefeated — a 27-24 home loss to the Seahawks.

With so many blown predictions, the only winners we all correctly guessed were Baltimore and Green Bay. There were seven games that we all missed, the winners of which were Atlanta, Cleveland, Tennessee, the New York Jets, Miami, Pittsburgh and Seattle.

PROGRAMMING ALERT: The Gehlke Bros. head out for adventure on the high seas for the next few weeks, so some of our posts may be sporadic between Weeks 11 and 14. We’ll still be on Twitter for game days.