The 20th year of the OSGA Progressive Pick ‘Em came down to the very last game

The 20th year for the OSGA NFL Progressive Pick ‘Em saw just one perfect card, a different winners every week and a huge amount of cash and prizes ever given away. The final leaderboard saw three players tied with a massive point total.

Top players followed surprising hot teams

This was an NFL season that saw more parity, but key injuries crushed hopes for teams early and late in the season and some surprising squads, behind great QB play, headed to the playoffs. The Steelers with Aaron Rodgers somehow made it into the playoffs, the Chiefs struggled all season and lost future Hall of Fame quarterback Patrick Mahomes along the way, and injuries to Lamar Jackson cost the Ravens a playoff bid and their 18 year head coach. The 2025 season featured the rise of second year quarterbacks with Bo Nix, Drake Maye and Caleb Williams all taking their teams to division titles and Daniel Jones proved that maybe the New York Giants were the problem, not him. Players that picked up on the Colts, Patriots and Broncos strengths, faded the Commanders, Chiefs and Lions and trusted that the Raiders, Browns and both NY squads would remain terrible were rewarded. After a year that saw ties in multiple weeks for perfect cards, only one player cashed the Progressive Pool in 2025, in week 12. Last year players needed well over 21,000 total points to sit atop the final leaderboard, but 19,500 total points was enough to generate a 3-way tie after the final gun of Week 18.

Congratulations to “romgav5150” who averaged more than 10 wins a week for the entire season to win the 2025 OSGA Progressive Pick ‘Em! With extra points awarded for a correct Monday Night Football pick and 183 winning selections, “romgav5150” amassed 19,500 points, yet still was tied at the top of the leaderboard! This year’s pool was again guaranteed and that really worked out for players. The final pool was just $600 after being hit in Week 12, so the guaranteed $1000 final pool was a serious boost to the top 4 players. Despite a dismal week 18, “romgav5150” pulled pulled out the victory, cashing for 50% of the final pool money – $500.

Tie-breakers need to declare a winner

The first four places at the end of the season are all winners in the OSGA Progressive Pick ‘Em and after 272 games, multiple tie-breakers still needed to be used to determine the final standings. “romgav5150”, “spike manning” and “Caddy111” tied for the top spot with a massive 19,500 points, so we had to go to the season-long tie breakers. It was so close that we had to go to the 2nd tie-breaker! “romgav5150” picked 183 games correctly and that was enough to satisfy the first tie-breaker (number of correct picks) to claim first place. But “spike manning” and “Caddy111” each picked 181 games correctly, so we had to use the second tie breaker – the closest number of points scored in the tiebreaker game of week 18 (SNF). In week 18 the Sunday Night Football game is the deciding factor and after three quarters it looked like a low scoring game, but a massive 24 points were scored in the final period. “spike manning’ had 48 and “Caddy111” had 38 and with a final score of Steelers 26, Ravens 24, handing “spike manning” second place and the $250 prize for the runner-up. “Caddy111” was awarded 15% of the total prize pool, good enough for $150! “TallShip” managed to grab 1,200 points in Week 18 to come from behind and grab $100 for 4th place with 19,400 points.

We would like to thank all the players for participating in 20 years of the OSGA Progressive Pick ’em! It has been our pleasure to roll out this contest for the past two decades.

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