Guess Rams 2014 schedule, win $100k. Also Buffalo contest (1 Viewer)

[Wingnut]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24527078/rams-will-give-you-100000-if-you-guess-their-2014-schedule

Guess the Rams 2014 schedule correctly and win $100k.

Also, Buffalo is doing something similar, except the prize is season tickets for life. If no one guesses correctly, the one with the most correct weeks will get season tickets this season. Details in above link.

The 2014 schedule will be released April 22nd, so get your entries in!

 

[Raiderfan32904]

The St. Louis Rams want to make you $100,000 richer, except they don’t really, because the contest they made up is just about impossible.

The team is offering a $100,000 prize to anyone who can correctly guess their entire schedule, including bye week. Also, you have to predict which games are on Monday night and/or Thursday night.

I’ll leave someone smarter than me to do the math behind this, but the odds at someone correctly guessing the schedule, with Monday night game(s), Thursday night game, and bye week predicted, are astronomical.

In a slightly smaller-scale contest, the Bills are offering free season tickets to anyone who can correctly guess their schedule. Really Bills? No one is doing this. You could make the prize a million dollars. No one is correctly guessing 16 games and bye weeks and which games get put on Thursday and Monday. Even though you know who every team they play is, guessing the correct order and which games will be selected for Thursday/Monday nights is impossible. No one is doing this.

…Unless he/she has an inside source at the NFL. Hm…INTRIGUE.

By the way, even though this is impossible, I am definitely going to try.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/st-louis-rams-100k-schedule-contest/

Read the fine print and it's astonomical anyone will win the money. About as likely as someone winning the billion dollar bracket challenge for March Madness.

 

[steveski]

Wow, I had no clue you had to predict which time slot they played as well. I thought at first you just had to predict what teams they would play and in which order and I thought that was pretty cool. I wont even waste my time now.

 

[Wingnut]

Hmm. Didn't realize the time slot was required too.

I wonder how many people would just get the weeks/order right.

 

[Spin]

No one. The possible combinations are 16!. I guess you can reduce it a bit since you know a division game will be last and probably week 14 so it's like 2092279000000+ possible orders. What a stupid contest.

 

[Caesar]

You don't have to guess the time slot, just the day it will be played. Sunday obviously most common, and I gave them one Thursday night and one Monday night game.

It didn't cost me more than 5 minutes to make a guess. Don't see where the harm is.

 

[KellysHeroes]

better chance at guessing the number I'm thinking of between 1 and 1,000,000,000,000

 

[ConnSKINS26]

better chance at guessing the number I'm thinking of between 1 and 1,000,000,000,000

19.

 

[Bob Magaw]

No one. The possible combinations are 16!. I guess you can reduce it a bit since you know a division game will be last and probably week 14 so it's like 2092279000000+ possible orders. What a stupid contest.

It's a lot worse than that.

There is also the bye, and you have to correctly guess home and away.

It was estimated in the hundreds of sextillions, per a tweet Faust posted.

You are far more likely to have a meteor hit your house.

 

[RUSF18]

No one. The possible combinations are 16!. I guess you can reduce it a bit since you know a division game will be last and probably week 14 so it's like 2092279000000+ possible orders. What a stupid contest.

It's a lot worse than that.There is also the bye, and you have to correctly guess home and away.

It was estimated in the hundreds of sextillions, per a tweet Faust posted.

You are far more likely to have a meteor hit your house.

I think you're more likely to have a meteor hit your house on the same day you win the perfect bracket challenge.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

No one. The possible combinations are 16!. I guess you can reduce it a bit since you know a division game will be last and probably week 14 so it's like 2092279000000+ possible orders. What a stupid contest.

It's a lot worse than that.There is also the bye, and you have to correctly guess home and away.

It was estimated in the hundreds of sextillions, per a tweet Faust posted.

You are far more likely to have a meteor hit your house.

I think you're more likely to have a meteor hit your house on the same day you win the perfect bracket challenge.

that would suck.

 

[ldizzle]

wow. "In the event no entrant submitted the exact St. Louis Rams 2014 regular season Game Schedule, prize will not be awarded." lol.

at least in the bills one its who ever gets the most right

 

[lod01]

better chance at guessing the number I'm thinking of between 1 and 1,000,000,000,000

19.

Correct.

 

[Chase Stuart]

The odds are worse than 1 in 1 quadrillion:

http://www.footballperspective.com/the-st-louis-rams-are-hosting-a-horrible-contest/

 

[fantasycurse42]

You have a better chance of winning the Powerball and that pays A LOT more and only costs $2.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter15m

Nobody could correctly predict an exact schedule (other than schedule makers) and nobody can predict a 1st-round mock draft. Ever.

Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter16m

Of approximate 30,000 people who tried to predict Rams exact schedule for $100K, nobody came close. 4 people got 4 weeks in a row. That's it

update

 

[Wingnut]

Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter15m

Nobody could correctly predict an exact schedule (other than schedule makers) and nobody can predict a 1st-round mock draft. Ever.

Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter16m

Of approximate 30,000 people who tried to predict Rams exact schedule for $100K, nobody came close. 4 people got 4 weeks in a row. That's it

update

Just came here to post those tweets.