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| Introduction |
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Canadian Football League [CFL] Pickem is a fairly standard pickem game designed as a doppelganger to our NFL Pickem, game but with CFL games coming into play instead of NFL games. For each of the 81 regular season and five playoff games of the Canadian Football League, submit your predicted score line. Your predicted result will automatically be determined based on the scores you submit. Your predicted scores and result will then earn you points based on their accuracy.
What is the Canadian Football League? It's Canada's answer to the NFL, though the sport itself is played slightly differently. The league was founded in 1958, but the game itself dates back to 1861, as both Canadian and American football diverged from rugby around the same time. The most obvious differences are the fact that 12 players are on a 110-yard field with 20 yard endzones on either end (compared to 11, 100 and 10 in the NFL). Beyond that, CFL teams get three downs to gain ten yards instead of four and any kick to enter the endzone but not be run out by the receiving team scores the kicking team a single point (called a single or a rouge). The other important difference to note is that CFL regular season games follow the NCAA overtime rules, beginning at the offensive 35-yard line, but with a limit of two overtimes before a game is ruled a tie. For an in-depth comparison of the CFL and NFL, check out this wikipedia entry.
The regular season covers 20 weeks from the Canada Day (Canadian Independence Day) weekend around July 1st to the end of October/beginning of November with the playoffs running a further three weeks after the regular season. Teams play 18 games over the course of 20 weeks with two bye weeks per team and at least one team off per week aside from one week where a one team plays twice over the course of seven days. |
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| Participating |
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To participate you need to go to the "Sign Up" page and register. The game is free for all participants. If you are an ASFL2 member, make sure to enter your name as you registered it for the website. When registering you can choose to receive an email reminder to make your picks two days and a day before any game if you have yet to. You can change your email or password after registering by using the appropriate links on the game's front page.
Once registered you can submit your weekly picks via the "Submit Your Picks" link on the game page and review them via the "Review Your Picks" link. You can also submit your pick for an individual game through the various schedule pages. You can submit your pick for all games up to their scheduled start as recorded on the various game pages. If you don't submit a score for a game, you will be noted as having made an incorrect pick and will receive 0 points for it. To keep track of all game scoring you can follow the "Game Standings" link.
To help you make your decision, we've provided the full CFL schedule and team schedules that can be viewed by week, month or the entire season. The game also provides detailed CFL Standings including full league, home/road, monthly, half and scoring-specific standings as well as standings against a team's last five games or in OT. Once the season begins, CFL Pickem and CFL team scoring stats will also be available via the "Game Stats" link.
To help enchance the interaction, I strongly encourage discussion of the game and the CFL season on the league message board via the game thread. |
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| Game Scoring |
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| Correct Pick: |
30 Pts |
| Correct Winning Margin: |
15 Pts |
| Within 1 of the Correct Margin: |
14 Pts |
| Within 2 of the Correct Margin: |
13 Pts |
| Within 3 of the Correct Margin: |
12 Pts |
| Within 4 of the Correct Margin: |
11 Pts |
| Within 5 of the Correct Margin: |
10 Pts |
| Within 6 of the Correct Margin: |
9 Pts |
| Within 7 of the Correct Margin: |
8 Pts |
| Within 8 of the Correct Margin: |
7 Pts |
| Within 9 of the Correct Margin: |
6 Pts |
| Within 10 of the Correct Margin: |
5 Pts |
| Within 11 of the Correct Margin: |
4 Pts |
| Within 12 of the Correct Margin: |
3 Pts |
| Within 13 of the Correct Margin: |
2 Pts |
| Within 14 of the Correct Margin: |
1 Point |
| Correct Team Score: |
6 Pts |
| Within 1 of a Team's Correct Score: |
5 Pts |
| Within 3 of a Team's Correct Score: |
4 Pts |
| Within 7 of a Team's Correct Score: |
3 Pts |
| Within 10 of a Team's Correct Score: |
2 Pts |
| Within 14 of a Team's Correct Score: |
1 Point |
| Correct Pick, Margin & Team Scores (a Perfect Game): |
6 Pts |
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Tiebreakers: |
| (1) Number of Correct Picks. |
| (2) Number of Perfect Games. |
| (3) Number of games scored between 51-60 points. |
| (4) Number of games scored between 46-50 points. |
| (5) Number of games scored between 41-45 points. |
| (6) Number of games scored between 36-40 points. |
| (7) Number of games scored between 30-35 points. |
| (8) Number of games scored between 21-29 points. |
| (9) Number of games scored between 16-20 points. |
| (10) Number of games scored between 11-15 points. |
| (11) Number of games scored between 6-10 points. |
| (12) Number of games scored between 0-5 points. |
| (13) Number of Correct Margins picked. |
| (14) Number of Correct Scores picked. |
| (15) Number of Picks Made. |
| (16) Number of margins within one point of being correct. |
| (17) Number of scores within one point of being correct. |
| (18) Number of margins within two points of being correct. |
| (19) Number of margins within three points of being correct. |
| (20) Number of scores within three points of being correct. |
| (21) Number of margins within four points of being correct. |
| (22) Number of margins within five points of being correct. |
| (23) Number of margins within six points of being correct. |
| (24) Number of margins within seven points of being correct. |
| (25) Number of scores within seven points of being correct. |
| (26) Number of margins within eight points of being correct. |
| (27) Number of margins within nine points of being correct. |
| (28) Number of margins within ten points of being correct. |
| (29) Number of scores within ten points of being correct. |
| (30) Number of margins within 11 points of being correct. |
| (31) Number of margins within 12 points of being correct. |
| (32) Number of margins within 13 points of being correct. |
| (33) Number of margins within 14 points of being correct. |
| (34) Number of scores within 14 points of being correct. |
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