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    Celebrating 10 Years of Steel Balls!

    Bycopanut

    Allow me to extend a humble thank you to the teeming hordes of miscreants who have graced this site with their boundless charm, rapier-like wit, and prescient insight into all things Steelers, for these past ten non-losing seasons.

    We began this enterprise as a response to the P-G paywall, and to have a place to compare opinions and predictions, and now we are only a few weeks away from what may be a momentous NFL draft event where we can once again prove just how much more we know than the professionals.

    We’ve had a lot of fun over the years, but we still have much yet to be accomplished, beginning with a jointly-enjoyed Super Bowl appearance and championship.

    I poured through our user list, which numbers well over 1800 thanks largely to Russian spam bots, to try to extract a list of legitimate users. I may have deleted some that were legit, but here is my best guess at our participant list over the years. Here they are, in order of registration.

    copanut
    abennihana
    jeffmi
    steelerfan58
    drock
    ChicoSteelersFan
    BGINTN
    steelers1
    MWalsh26
    Tuskegee_Brown
    TomPaulBillyBob
    mack
    tennbob
    Earl
    STILLERS35
    craig
    Steeltyke
    Army01
    steelerfan
    JMS55
    malsor
    J A M E S H
    EstimatedProphet
    saneman
    ktyoung
    Clubber
    cerone
    BlitzBurghDude
    jac
    gsmaroff
    floyd3421
    fatxbrian
    hksteelerfan
    RickinLA
    Black and Gold Foo
    endaround
    stillers_35
    Steeler_in_VZ
    Toadsly
    Poz
    Froggy
    testname
    sixter
    bgigli
    Reacher
    JoeSlice
    Pete
    Steeler 1950
    afrazier9
    JimHim
    Steelergill66
    steelddiddy
    jconroy
    WritersRock
    reddog
    pubunchka
    SteelerFanBudMan
    blackanyellow
    tobiathan
    Fansincebubbywouldntmopup
    kalel1199
    kingribel
    BigJ
    Ravenslayer
    sean.willison
    Bill Strickland
    davesdogs
    Bill S
    BiggiePops67
    kedorfman
    HetBob
    ktalk
    Stu
    captainnasty86
    kordellStewart
    Steelers252006
    dberry731
    justjack1961
    diamondback13
    Miguelipto
    sdsteel
    moose
    GodfatherofPittsburgh
    72Steel
    mikeflores16
    eneg
    Bilbo_shaggins80
    elesher43
    therealdonaldtrump
    DumbCrackerDouche
    Tomee4758

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    2017 Season Prognosticator of the Year

    Bycopanut2

    Now that the NFL 2017 season has officially come to a close, we put our Steel Balls supercomputers to work crunching numbers to determine the winner of the coveted LamBalldi Trophy. MWalsh defeated last year’s winner (Army01) by a hair. The race was so close, in order to reach the final result we had to delve into tie breakers.

    As for the rest of us, well, it was a sad showing. Two participants (kalel1199 and mwalsh) correctly guessed the final season wins total for the Steelers (13), and another six of us (copanut, tuskeegee_brown, tompaulbillybob, army01, estimatedprophet, and tennbob) were off by only one win. However it should not come as a shock that the Browns were the undoing of the majority of us who incorrectly guessed that the Browns would finally put all of their myriad high draft picks to some use. Boy, were we wrong.

    Earl was the most pessimistic (10 Steelers wins) and jamesh the most optimistic (16 wins). Go figure. Who could have ever guessed such soul-mates could have such opposing world views?

    Getting back to our winner and runner-up, both had exceptionally strong regular season predictions, with mwalsh nailing the Steelers, Ravens, and Bengals, and only whiffing on the Browns, while army01 was slightly more accurate on playoff wins. As a result they both ended up with 7 points and we had to go to the first tiebreaker where we look at the predicted game by game results. Even that was close, with mwalsh guessing 12 games correctly, compared to 11 for army01.

    The full results are summarized below. As for now, cheers to mwalsh, while the rest of us lick our wounds and get ready for our springtime draft predictions.