Which games would you say the Patriots will probably win? (1 Viewer)

[Despyzer]

Only select the games that you think the Patriots are likely to win. In other words, if you were laying down five bucks a game and bragging rights were at stake, would you actually pick this team to win?

The poll doesn't work if no votes are tallied for a question, so I included the last options for each one. Please only select it if you feel it truly applies.

Feel free to post your win total and/or what games you've selected for them.

 

[brady2moss]

14-2

drop one to the Colts or Chargers. Definatley not both

the other loss comes from eithe Denver/Seahawks/Jets

 

[Despyzer]

drop one to the Colts or Chargers. Definatley not both

Why definitely? Those are both pretty good teams with some impressive home field records these past few years.

 

[Lash]

lose to Colts and Chargers on road

lose to either Steelers or Seahawks

13-3

 

[brady2moss]

drop one to the Colts or Chargers. Definatley not both

Why definitely? Those are both pretty good teams with some impressive home field records these past few years.

Of course they are pretty good teams. This is just my insight. They could drop both or win both. I just don't see it happening.

 

[Godsbrother]

13-3.

Lose to Chargers and Colts on the road. Lose to Bills in the final game at Buffalo -- meaningless to the Pats.

 

[Workhorse]

I had 14-2. Losing to the Colts and Chargers on the road.

 

[AB in DC]

I'm going with 11-5. I don't see any of the home games being a challenge, but I see losses at Jets, Chargers, Colts, Raiders (!), and Bills.

 

[Godsbrother]

I'll have whatever the people that believe the Pats will start the season 0-3 are having.

 

[IM666]

I'll have whatever the people that believe the Pats will start the season 0-3 are having.

There is also a vote for no wins after the break. If Alex Smith is the QB by week 4 and beats the Patriots, he may wish to retire after the game; it just may be his career highlight.

 

[Despyzer]

12-4

Win all of their home games + SF, Mia, Sea, & Oak

 

[jurb26]

I have them winning all their home games and finishing 13-3. Losses on the road to the Colts, Seahawks and Buf (meaningless game for NE as they have playoff seed wrapped up and Buf needs win the reach playoffs.)

 

[Chase Stuart]

This thread is a good example of the fallacies people talk themselves into when predicting games. When looking at the Chargers schedule, 12 of 17 people thought the Pats would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 23 of 29 people thought the Chargers would win. When looking at the Colts schedule, 40 of 70 people thought the Patriots would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 25 of 29 people thought the Colt would win.

This a good lesson for two rules. 1) When picking games, you should pick all the games from the NFL schedule, and not go with the team by team schedule. That way you avoid inconsistency, which would be simply to avoid if you simply 2) When picking games, you assigned a partial number of wins each week, instead of a binary amount of wins in each game. Giving the Colts 0.5 wins against the Pats this year, and the Pats 0.5 wins against the Colts this year, would make your projections more accurate and help avoid inconsistencies.

(The most absurd one, of course, was how only 17 of 29 people picked the Pats over the Bills in week 17 here, whereas 32 of 35 people picked the Pats to win in the Bills thread.

 

[Despyzer]

This thread is a good example of the fallacies people talk themselves into when predicting games. When looking at the Chargers schedule, 12 of 17 people thought the Pats would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 23 of 29 people thought the Chargers would win. When looking at the Colts schedule, 40 of 70 people thought the Patriots would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 25 of 29 people thought the Colt would win.

This a good lesson for two rules. 1) When picking games, you should pick all the games from the NFL schedule, and not go with the team by team schedule. That way you avoid inconsistency, which would be simply to avoid if you simply 2) When picking games, you assigned a partial number of wins each week, instead of a binary amount of wins in each game. Giving the Colts 0.5 wins against the Pats this year, and the Pats 0.5 wins against the Colts this year, would make your projections more accurate and help avoid inconsistencies.

(The most absurd one, of course, was how only 17 of 29 people picked the Pats over the Bills in week 17 here, whereas 32 of 35 people picked the Pats to win in the Bills thread.

I agree with you. I was hoping to avoid some of that by using the wording that I did. I would have much rather had an entire schedule that people could have used to cast their votes, but I couldn't figure out how to do so here.

 

[mozzy84]

nice catch chase

15-1 here, only loss to indy

 

[jurb26]

This thread is a good example of the fallacies people talk themselves into when predicting games. When looking at the Chargers schedule, 12 of 17 people thought the Pats would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 23 of 29 people thought the Chargers would win. When looking at the Colts schedule, 40 of 70 people thought the Patriots would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 25 of 29 people thought the Colt would win.

This a good lesson for two rules. 1) When picking games, you should pick all the games from the NFL schedule, and not go with the team by team schedule. That way you avoid inconsistency, which would be simply to avoid if you simply 2) When picking games, you assigned a partial number of wins each week, instead of a binary amount of wins in each game. Giving the Colts 0.5 wins against the Pats this year, and the Pats 0.5 wins against the Colts this year, would make your projections more accurate and help avoid inconsistencies.

(The most absurd one, of course, was how only 17 of 29 people picked the Pats over the Bills in week 17 here, whereas 32 of 35 people picked the Pats to win in the Bills thread.

Isn't it possible that different people are voting in the threads. I know I have only voted in 3 of these threads. None of my votes of contradicted one another.

 

[David Yudkin]

I would give the Pats more of a chance of going unbeaten again than missing the playoffs entirely.

 

[Chase Stuart]

This thread is a good example of the fallacies people talk themselves into when predicting games. When looking at the Chargers schedule, 12 of 17 people thought the Pats would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 23 of 29 people thought the Chargers would win. When looking at the Colts schedule, 40 of 70 people thought the Patriots would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 25 of 29 people thought the Colt would win.

This a good lesson for two rules. 1) When picking games, you should pick all the games from the NFL schedule, and not go with the team by team schedule. That way you avoid inconsistency, which would be simply to avoid if you simply 2) When picking games, you assigned a partial number of wins each week, instead of a binary amount of wins in each game. Giving the Colts 0.5 wins against the Pats this year, and the Pats 0.5 wins against the Colts this year, would make your projections more accurate and help avoid inconsistencies.

(The most absurd one, of course, was how only 17 of 29 people picked the Pats over the Bills in week 17 here, whereas 32 of 35 people picked the Pats to win in the Bills thread.

Isn't it possible that different people are voting in the threads. I know I have only voted in 3 of these threads. None of my votes of contradicted one another.

People are voting in different threads, but that explanation isn't enough to explain the big discrepancies. The thinking here is no one wants to predict the Pats going 16-0, so they give them a loss in their most difficult games. When doing the Chargers schedule, no one wants to predict the Chargers going 16-0, so they give them a loss to the Patriots.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

They would go 12-4 with Matt Cassel at the helm all season. Talk about a powder puff schedule. They do have a few challenges away this year, but they have a chance to point to those games as they are well dispersed.

 

[jurb26]

This thread is a good example of the fallacies people talk themselves into when predicting games. When looking at the Chargers schedule, 12 of 17 people thought the Pats would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 23 of 29 people thought the Chargers would win. When looking at the Colts schedule, 40 of 70 people thought the Patriots would win. When looking at the Pats schedule, 25 of 29 people thought the Colt would win.

This a good lesson for two rules. 1) When picking games, you should pick all the games from the NFL schedule, and not go with the team by team schedule. That way you avoid inconsistency, which would be simply to avoid if you simply 2) When picking games, you assigned a partial number of wins each week, instead of a binary amount of wins in each game. Giving the Colts 0.5 wins against the Pats this year, and the Pats 0.5 wins against the Colts this year, would make your projections more accurate and help avoid inconsistencies.

(The most absurd one, of course, was how only 17 of 29 people picked the Pats over the Bills in week 17 here, whereas 32 of 35 people picked the Pats to win in the Bills thread.

Isn't it possible that different people are voting in the threads. I know I have only voted in 3 of these threads. None of my votes of contradicted one another.

People are voting in different threads, but that explanation isn't enough to explain the big discrepancies. The thinking here is no one wants to predict the Pats going 16-0, so they give them a loss in their most difficult games. When doing the Chargers schedule, no one wants to predict the Chargers going 16-0, so they give them a loss to the Patriots.

Well, for the record, I have SD loosing to NE in both threads.

 

[Routilla]

Jets snake them in week 2. :(

 

[Ministry of Pain]

3 road losses to the Jets, Chargers, and Colts...only real tough game at home might be Pittsburgh.

13-3, decent shot at 15-1.

 

[Spike]

14-2drop one to the Colts or Chargers. Definatley not boththe other loss comes from eithe Denver/Seahawks/Jets

We're halfway in agreement.I also have them down for 14-2 but have them losing (away) to the Colts and Chargers.

 

[Iwannabeacowboybaby!]

I would give the Pats more of a chance of going unbeaten again than missing the playoffs entirely.

I'll up the ante, I would give more of a chance the NE would go undefeated during the regular season again than not winning their division. Can you name that tune in 3 notes?

 

[Iwannabeacowboybaby!]

I would give the Pats more of a chance of going unbeaten again than missing the playoffs entirely.

I'll up the ante, I would give more of a chance that NE would go undefeated during the regular season again than not winning their division. Can you name that tune in 3 notes?With that said, if you look at the Patriots of last season, they started off hot and towards the end of the season, they had some close calls. Maybe teams figured them out a little, maybe they're an older team and the grind of the season caught up to them a bit, who knows for sure.I look at the Seattle game as a tough one. They have to travel all the way across the country and play against probably a playoff team who will need that win. I know most people see SD and Indy as the two games that they're more than likely to lose and maybe it is but it's also the two games NE will be geeked up to win themselves, my No. 1 potential pitfall is the Seattle game.

 

[AB in DC]

I would give the Pats more of a chance of going unbeaten again than missing the playoffs entirely.

I'll up the ante, I would give more of a chance the NE would go undefeated during the regular season again than not winning their division. Can you name that tune in 3 notes?

I think that's too big a stretch. The Jets and Bills look much better in 2008 than in 2007, so a couple key injuries to Pats players could easily drop them to 2nd place.And every team in the division has a weak non-divisional schedule.