KIWA NFL Picks – Semifinals (Week Two)

KIWA Sports is back with more predictions for this year’s NFL Playoffs! Hopefully it isn’t your first time here, but if it is, here is what is going on:

Sam, Nate, Katie, and Anna send out their individual game picks for the week. They are trying to predict the obvious favorites as well as chaotic upsets for ultimate bragging rights here at KIWA.

The KIWA Picks Playoff is now underway! Each correct pick is critical as each player tries to advance to the championship game.

Playoff Structure

Round One

#	*Semifinal #1*	#	*Semifinal #2*
1	Nate Broek	T2	Anna Stallman
4	Katie Loger	T2	Sam Heyn

Round Two

#	Championship	#	Third Place
TBD	Winner of Nate vs. Katie	TBD	Loser of Nate vs. Katie
TBD	Winner of Anna vs. Sam	TBD	Loser of Anna vs. Sam

Like the NFL postseason, prior regular season standings are meaningless going forward for the KIWA crew. Each correct pick in our playoff is awarded point values based on the importance of each NFL playoff game.

To correspond with NFL play, we must factor that there are 14 total teams involved in their playoff as well as the unique wildcard structure for the AFC/NFC’s #1 seed (four rounds needed). But, there are only four players here at KIWA (two rounds needed). Because of this, each round of our playoff will last two weeks of the NFL playoffs.

Round One contains the six wildcard matchups (1/10 through 1/12), each worth one point. along with four divisional matchups (1/17 and 1/18), each worth two points for a full potential of 14 points.

Round Two only features three games, the NFC and AFC Championship (1/25), each worth three points, as well as the Super Bowl (2/8), worth four points, for a full potential of 10 points.

If there is a tie in points at the end of a round, the matchup will follow a point differential system. The first tiebreaker goes to whoever scored higher in total point differential from all their selections in that round. If the tie still isn’t broken, it goes to the player whose unique pick had the highest point differential.

We’ll see if the playoff here at KIWA follows a similar trend of the regular season rankings. Anything can happen, however; we may just see chaos unfold in year one.

Our selections for the second week of Round One were made at 4:30 p.m. Friday, January 16.

Round One

Semifinal #1

#1	Nate Broek (87-50)	5	5	Katie Loger (77-60)	#4
	Point Diff.	43	3	Point Diff.

Week One: Wildcard Matchups (1pt each) – January 10, 11, and 12

Away	#	Home	#	*Nate’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*	*Katie’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*
Rams	34	Panthers	31	Rams	1	+3	Rams	1	+3
Packers	27	Bears	31	Bears	1	+4	Bears	1	+4
Bills	27	Jaguars	24	Bills	1	+3	Bills	1	+3
49ers	23	Eagles	19	Eagles	0	-4	49ers	1	+4
Chargers	3	Patriots	16	Patriots	1	+13	Patriots	1	+13
Texans	30	Steelers	6	Texans	1	+24	Steelers	0	-24

Week Two: Divisional Matchups (2pts each) – January 17 and 18

Away	#	Home	#	*Nate’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*	*Katie’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*
Bills		Broncos		Bills			Bills
49ers		Seahawks		Seahawks			49ers
Rams		Bears		Rams			Bears
Texans		Patriots		Patriots			Texans

——

Semifinal #2

#2	Anna Stallman (85-52)	5	4	Sam Heyn (85-52)	#2
	Point Diff.	45	35	Point Diff.

Week One: Wildcard Matchups (1pt each) – January 10, 11, and 12

Away	#	Home	#	*Anna’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*	*Sam’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*
Rams	34	Panthers	31	Rams	1	+3	Rams	1	+3
Packers	27	Bears	31	Bears	1	+4	Packers	0	-4
Bills	27	Jaguars	24	Jaguars	0	-3	Bills	1	+3
49ers	23	Eagles	19	49ers	1	+4	Eagles	0	-4
Chargers	3	Patriots	16	Patriots	1	+13	Patriots	1	+13
Texans	30	Steelers	6	Texans	1	+24	Texans	1	+24

Week Two: Divisional Matchups (2pts each) – January 17 and 18

Away	#	Home	#	*Anna’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*	*Sam’s Pick*	*Pts.*	*Diff.*
Bills		Broncos		Broncos			Bills
49ers		Seahawks		Seahawks			Seahawks
Rams		Bears		Bears			Rams
Texans		Patriots		Patriots			Texans