Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando
PHOENIX -- Elion245 and leesters, come on down. You're the big winners in forecasting NFC West outcomes as part of You Called It for Week 12.
Elion245 nailed the Redskins-Seahawks score exactly (20-17, Redskins). Leesters nailed the Bears-Rams score exactly (27-3, Bears). Truly impressive. As promised, both will earn spots on the Wall of Fame, scheduled for completion in 2025 or when the Rams win another game, whichever comes first.
Five entrants came within one point of hitting the Redskins-Seahawks score: TheRooster58, FTBallenthusiast, kab1961, roadto_1 and joemeekfreak. Way to go.
A tip of the cap also goes to Huffdogg05 for coming within one point of hitting the 49ers-Cowboys score (35-21 prediction, 35-22 outcome).
Top10pick came closer than anyone on the Cardinals-Giants score, missing by four points (35-27 prediction, 37-29 outcome).
Participants had to predict the winning team correctly to qualify for consideration. Sixty-one entrants forecast at least one outcome correctly.
Twelve entrants forecast all four outcomes correctly. Quite a few Cardinals and 49ers fans missed one outcome by picking their favorite teams. Better to be loyal than correct, apparently.
Of the 12 people to predict all four winners,
Bigbluepete came within 9.25 points per game, on average, of hitting each final score correctly. No one fared better.
Digitool (10.0) and Week 11 champion
joe_cool585 (11.0) were next, followed by
jherbal (12.5) and
imreallygood (12.5).
Bigbluepete's most prescient pick: a 34-20 Cowboys victory (35-22 actual score for a 3-point deduction). Way to go.
Joe_cool585 was cruising toward glory until he missed the Bears-Rams outcome by 24 points. He hit the other three within 5, 5 and 10 points.
Sando joined ESPN.com in 2007 after nine seasons covering the Seattle Seahawks for the Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune. He lives in the Seattle-Tacoma area with his wife and two sons.
