On the strength of Seattle’s dominating performance, Cricket wins the 30th MSP Super Bowl. In addition to the Super Bowl winner prize, she will get free entry to MSP NFL 2026.

Congratulations to Cricket.

#4 Cricket and #20 The Wrinkle King have the exact same picks (Seattle -4.5 POW & Under 45.5).

In the event of duplicate picks, the outcome is determined by the higher seed’s POW. If Seattle covers Cricket wins, if New England covers, the Wrinkle King wins.

#4 Cricket (Seattle -4.5) vs. #20 The Wrinkle King (New England +4.5)

#20 The Wrinkle King finds himself in the Super Bowl after first wiping out #1 Bizarro Mister Sam and now #2 Ivan Hoe. On the other side, #4 Cricket slips by #14 Starrs as Cricket advances due to the season finish tiebreaker.

Cricket and The Wrinkle King will face off in the Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl, we add in the Over/Under as a potential tiebreaker if both players make the same pick for the against the spread winner. I will reach out to both players individually so that they understand the rules.

I will be making the lines next Sunday or Monday to make sure there are no wild swings with the lines. Congratulations to both players.

Here are the final scores from the weekend:

4 players have advanced to the Conference Championship Round next week. #1 Bizarro Mister Sam falls to #20 The Wrinkle King, #2 Ivan Hoe survives against #19 Big_Rippas, #3 Special K was eliminated by #14 Starrs while #4 Cricket defeats #9 NateG5791. Here are everyone’s picks and scores:

Next week’s match ups for the Conference Championship Round will be:

#2 Ivan Hoe vs. #20 The Wrinkle King

#4 Cricket vs. #14 Starrs

The following players will advance to the Divisional Round to play 1-on-1 match ups. #9 NateG5791 at +3 and winning his POW gives him the highest finish. #14 Starrs and #20 The Wrinkle King both had +3 but lost their POWs. All 3 will advance. The 4th player to advance is #19 Big_Rippas at +1. He ties JamieGSteelers and Cool Turban, but Big_Rippas won his POW while the others did not. As in the regular season, POWs are the first tiebreaker.

Here are the scores:

The Divisional Round match ups are:

#1 Bizarro Mister Sam vs. #20 The Wrinkle King

#2 Ivan Hoe vs. #19 Big_Rippas

#3 Special K vs. #14 Starrs

#4 Cricket vs. #9 NateG5791

JamieGSteelers and Greene Machine end Week 18 at +7 with JamieGSteelers taking the weekly prize based on the total points tiebreaker. Both players get credit for half of a weekly win.

Bizarro Mister Sam runs away with the season title at +27. Finishing in 2nd place is Ivan Hoe at +13. Special K at +11 takes 3rd place edging out Cricket based on the POW wins tiebreaker. Cricket finishes in 4th. Each of these players gets a bye for Wild Card Weekend.

Finishing in 5th place is SDuckett at +10, in 6th is Greene Machine at +9, 7th is NDuckett at +8 and rounding out the top 8 is Cool Turban also at +8 losing out on 7th place based on the POW wins tiebreaker.

The playoffs start this Saturday with the Wild Card Round. The top 4 regular season finishers get a bye. Players who finished 5th-20th (and players who finish with the same score as the 20th place player) will participate in a one-week competition with the top 4 scores advancing to play in individual matchups with against the top 4 finishers. Each round the matchups are based on final regular season finishes.

Participating in the Wild Card Playoffs are: #5 SDuckett, #6 Greene Machine, #7 NDuckett, #8 Cool Turban, #9 NateG5791, #10 Micktastic, #11 Cheese Curd, #12 JamieGSteelers, #13 Charlie, #14 Starrs, #15 Leprechaun Taint, #16 Jellodoc, #17 CGAutomall, #18 Schuetzy, #19 Big_Rippas, #20 The Wrinkle King and #21 Rosco. ALL PICKS FOR THE WILD CARD ROUND ARE DUE BY 4:30 PM EST SATURDAY, JANUARY 10.

SDuckett and the Wrinkle King end the week at +5, but SDuckett takes the week winning his MNF pick while the Wrinkle King incorrectly chose the Rams. SDuckett gets full credit for a weekly win.

Unless something insane happens (like last season), Bizarro Mister Sam is poised to take the 2025 regular season title, currently at +26. Special K sits currently in 2nd at +14 followed close behind at +13 is Cricket. Ivan Hoe at +9 is currently in 4th.

After Week 18, there will the annual playoff tournament. The top 20 players (and anyone with the same final score as the 20th player) will qualify to participate. Currently, the 20th position is at -2 but will most likely change based on Week 18 results.

In the playoffs, the top 4 teams will get a BYE during Wild Card Weekend. 5th Place – 20th Place (and others with the same score as the 20th place) will participate in a 1 week competition. There will be 6 games Wild Card Weekend and we will treat it as a normal week. The top 4 finishers of Wild Card Weekend will face individual match ups with the top 4 finishers. Match ups will be based on regular season finish (#1 would take on the lowest remaining seed). After each week, the match ups are again based on regular season finish.

Tiebreakers for the playoffs are POW (win or loss), the Mandatory last game of weekend (MNF although MNF is only in the Wild Card Round) and then seeding. If two players tie and win both POW and the last game of the weekend, the higher seed advances. If two players have exact duplicate picks, then the outcome is based on whether the higher seed wins their POW or not. The MNF total points mean nothing until we get to the Super Bowl.

Good luck to all and thank you for participating in our largest and best season in our 30 year history.

Mojo Toes and Micktastic ended Week 16 with +9 but MIcktastic erroneously gave the Cleveland Browns 10.5 points for his POW and ends up losing the week and giving Mojo Toes her first win of the season.

Bizarro Mister Sam continues on top of the season race at +25 followed by Cricket at +20, Special K at +15 and Micktastic at +14.

In an abnormally low scoring week, Cricket and Barry Mcockiner finish the week at +4 and both had the same MNF total (47) giving them each half credit for a week’s win and half of the weekly win prize $.

Bizarro Mister Sam holds the overall lead at +21 with Cricket starting to catch up at +15. NDuckett and Special K follow at +12.

Cricket correctly selected the Chargers on Monday Night giving her the Week 14 win. Cricket finishes the week at +6.

Bizarro Mister Sam holds a 10-point lead for the overall title at +22. 3 players (DMACII, Ivan Hoe, Charlie) are at +12 and 3 other players (Special K, Schuetzy and Cricket) are at +11.