This contest was played under CBS Sports Football Pick'em under the pool called Rochester Challenge. We add to that the bowl game/NCAA Championship Game results in website www.rtsports.com. If you do not play the bowl contest, you don't get any points at all for those games. Our contest winner this year was very good in both the NFL picks and in the college picks. Congratulations, Billy Rochester. As is the case virtually every year, our NFL picks only winner, John Folts, beat most experts who do this for a living. The CBS Sports experts seem to do better as a team than others I can find, so I included them. The USA Today experts have a couple of very solid guys, too. Everyone can check out their NFL picks against the big boy experts below. The Bowl Game part of our contest was won by Chris Sturgill. He got 28 correct out of 42 bowl games played. Most of the numbers just below involve NFL picks, but our contest winner is based on all picks in both NFL and college games. Those numbers, as usual, are at the very bottom. So, here are the numbers. Here are the final NFL standings for this year including playoffs. (Tie games count as incorrect picks.) One game (Bills/Bengals) was cancelled. Normally, you have to pick every regular season week except for one or two to be included. Not everyone picked all of the games. John 189-95 66.5% Billy 187-97 65.8% Chris S 182-102 64.1% Rick 181-103 63.7% Michael O 175-109 61.6% Derrick 174-110 61.3% Chris W 171-113 60.2% Greg 162-122 57.0% Karl 161-123 56.7% Anthony 148-136 52.1% Here is the all-time NFL record for one season. Draftman Rick in 2005 was 196-71 73.4% Here are the NFL standings for all previous years for the three guys who I kept stats for over the years. (No stats for 2011) Rick 3701-1935 (21 years) 65.7% Chris S 2501-1394 (approx. 15 years) 64.2% (Chris stopped playing after week 12 of 2005 and resumed in week 4 of 2013.) Billy 3577-2059 (21 years) 63.5% Here is how people who do this for a living did. (No stats for 2011) This list comes from Inside The NFL (Now on Paramount+) or CBS’s The NFL Today. Cris Collinsworth Retired Last 10 years 1722-923 65.1% Warren Sapp Retired Last 3 years 503-273 64.8% Dan Marino Retired Regular seasons only for 2012 and 2013. 7 years total 1181-666 63.9% Cris Carter Retired Last 5 years 853-482 63.9% Bill Cowher Unable to get 2018 through 2021. Might not pick full seasons now. Previous 6 years 980-556 63.8% Phil Simms No straight up picks this year (49.1% against the spread) Last 7 years 1345-766 63.7% Could not get 2014, 2015, 2018 or 2021. Boomer Esiason Unable to get 2018 through 2021. Might not pick full seasons now. Previous 6 years 981-577 63.0% Shannon Sharpe Retired Regular seasons only. Last 2 years 320-192 62.5% Bob Costas Retired Last 5 years 830-505 62.2%
Julian Edelman No straight up picks this year (49.1% against the spread) Brandon Marshall No straight up picks this year (46.8% against the spread)
Ray Lewis No straight up picks this year (46.1% against the spread) CBS Sports Expert Picks Team Jamey Eisenberg 191-93 67.3% Dave Richard 188-96 66.2% Ryan Wilson 183-101 64.4% Jared Dubin 180-104 63.4% Pete Prisco 179-105 63.0% John Breech 172-112 60.6% Will Brinson 170-114 59.9% Jason La Confora 169-115 59.5% Pro Football Weekly usually had 9 guys who pick all the games for the whole year plus a "Consensus" of the 9 guys' picks, but the magazine went bankrupt after 2012 after about 40 years. Some of them were very good, but our winner beat all of them most of the time. USA Today staff made picks online this year. No picks for 2021. Chris Bumbaca 172-80 68.3% First year but did not pick Weeks 1 & 2 Nate Davis 189-95 66.5% Last 8 years 1389-764 64.5% Lorenzo Reyes 182-102 64.1% Last 7 years 1213-673 64.3% Jarrett Bell 179-105 63.0% Last 9 years 1525-895 63.0% Safid Deen 179-105 63.0% First year Tyler Dragon 176-108 62.0% First year Also, Rob Maaddi is the Associated Press lead NFL writer. His picks are in USA Today 181-103 63.7% The Spartanburg Herald-Journal often carried the NFL picks for this person from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch but didn’t carry anyone since 2012... Dan Caesar - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has not picked since 2013. Last 5 years 861-474 64.5% Here are totals from our College picks this year. This includes the 180 games on the website, and 42 bowl games/NCAA Championship Game. Not everyone picked all of the games. Unpicked bowl games count as a loss. Billy 154-68 69.4% Rick 152-70 68.5% Chris S 148-74 66.7% Derrick 147-75 66.2% John 146-76 65.8% Michael O 142-80 64.0% Greg 141-81 63.5% Anthony 122-100 55.0% No bowl picks Chris W 118-104 53.2% No bowl picks Karl 116-106 52.3% No bowl picks Total NFL plus College for this year. (Contest Winner) Note: Number correct wins the contest, not percentage. So, if you miss picks, it hurts you. Billy 341-165 67.4% John 335-171 66.2% Rick 333-173 65.8% Chris S 330-176 65.2% Derrick 321-185 63.4% Michael O 317-189 62.6% Greg 303-203 59.9% Chris W 289-217 57.1% Karl 277-229 54.7% Anthony 270-236 53.4% Contest Winners by Year (2001 through 2004 was NFL only. 2005 to the present is NFL and College.) 2001 - Chris Sturgill 2002 - Chris Sturgill 2003 - Josh Page 2004 - Rick Anderson 2005 - Rick Anderson 2006 - Josh Page 2007 - Rick Anderson 2008 - Rick Anderson 2009 - Rick Anderson 2010 - Josh Page 2011 - Josh Page 2012 - Rick Anderson 2013 - Rick Anderson 2014 - Billy Rochester 2015 - Anthony Cancer 2016 - Rick Anderson 2017 - Rick Anderson 2018 - Rick Anderson 2019 - Billy Rochester 2020 - Greg Kallner 2021 - Chris Sturgill 2022 - Billy Rochester May God always be your number 1 draft pick! Draftman Rick