The Off Shore Gaming Association (OSGA) is pleased to announce the winners of our annual Pro Football Progressive Pick ‘Em Contest. The 2014 OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick ‘Em winner is ‘illiniwx4caster’ who beat out over 110 contestants to win the cash grand prize.

The OSGA sponsors several football contests that run for the full football season, but the MacDaddy of them is the Progressive Pick ‘Em for Pro Football, now in its 8th year.

The OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick ‘Em was two contests in one! Each week there was also a prize winner of a $100 free betting account at OSGA Elite-rated BetOnline.ag. Every week the player with the most wins for that week was given a $100 Free Play. Though a deposit was required, BetOnlinegave away nearly $2000 in weekly prize Free Plays.

This year OSGA’s popular Progressive Pick ‘Em saw the Progressive part of the contest hit for the third year in a row. In fact this year the progressive portion of the contest was hit for a cool $1000 in week 10 and again for $200 in week12. Unfortunately, for the season long contest pool, this brought the final prize pool available down to $500. ‘illiniwx4caster’ ended up the season with a whopping 162 wins, defeating three players who unbelievably tied with 160 games picked correctly! ‘illiniwx4caster’ will get 50% of the remaining progressive prize pool of $500.

After 17 weeks and hundreds of games, three players still tied with 160 wins and thus we had to default to the first tie-breaker – the season-long win percentage. Again this was extremely close with ‘Miklos’ edging out the other players by less than a single percentage point to collect $125. ‘vikingboy13’ and ‘stormy1114’ both tied with a 66.6% win percentage, so OSGA had to move to the second tie-breaker – total wins in the weekly tie-breaker game. ’vikingboy13’ picked 11 of those correctly to claim third place and ‘stormy1114’ came in 4th with 9 wins. Utilizing all of the available tie-breakers determined that ‘harnpar’ came in 5th place with 159 wins and 13 of the weekly tie-breaker games picked correctly.

In all more than a third of the players hit games at a clip of 60% with 19 different players cashing in on prizes throughout the season.

“Every year this contest gets more interesting, and with two players hitting the progressive prize and three players tied for second place after picking nearly 250 games, this year was no exception,” stated Jim Quinn from OSGA. “We are fortunate to be able to work with some top online sportsbooks to be able to offer these contests and look forward to more contests for our visitors, fans and members,” added Quinn.

This has been another great year for the OSGA Progressive Pick ‘Em. OSGA is looking forward to crowning a winner in the 12th Annual Bowl Challenge in two weeks and their annual NCAA Tourney Contest in March.