{"id":2545,"date":"2017-01-02T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2017-01-02T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:01:20","slug":"osga-announces-winner-of-2016-pro-football-progressive-pick-em-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/osga-announces-winner-of-2016-pro-football-progressive-pick-em-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"OSGA Announces Winner of 2016 Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Off Shore Gaming Association (OSGA) is pleased to announce the winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/2016FootballContests\/free-nfl-pickem-contest.html\" target=\"_blank\">2016 OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest<\/a>. OSGA sponsors two football contests that run for the full football season and the Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm for Pro Football is now in its 10th year. <strong>Congratulations go out to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctammyb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong>, who beat out over 180 other contestants to win the huge cash grand prize.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; border: 2px solid white; margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/images\/2016Pickem-winners.png\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"257\" height=\"571\" \/>The OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm was two contests in one! Each week there was also a prize winner of a free play at <strong>OSGA Elite-rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/osgabooks\/bookmaker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bookmaker.eu<\/a><\/strong>.  Every week the player with the most wins for that week was given a whopping $500 Free Play. Though a deposit was required, BookMaker gave away over $8000 in weekly prize Free Plays.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the contest is a season long \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Progressive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pool that rewards players who pick all of the weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 games correctly. If no player hits all the games, the weekly $100 cash prize rolls over to the next week. In the three out of the last four years, the Progressive Jackpot has been hit multiple times (once for $1200) and this year, Week 8 saw \u00e2\u20ac\u02dckevint\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cashing for $800. This win produced the full season prize pool at a maximum of $900.<\/p>\n<p>With 171 wins <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctammyb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>beat out the field by four games to cash in on 50% of the pool, $450 cash! \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctammyb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 moved into first place in week 10 and never looked back picking winners at a rate of over 67%. <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgpatek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>and <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjellyroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>tied for 2nd place with 167 wins. This effort rewards  both players by splitting the 2nd and 3rd place prizes. Second place is 25% of the final Progressive Prize pool and 3rd place is 10%. Both \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgpatek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjellyroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 will get 17.5% of the final pool &#8211; $157.50!<\/p>\n<p>Fourth place went to <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTropicalsports\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> who had 166 points and will receive a check for 10% of the prize pool, $90. 5th place ended up in a tie and so according to the rules, the players will split the combined 5th place prize (5% of the prize pool). However, After over 250 games <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBobby Gambler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>and <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjcoleman65 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<\/strong>, both veterans of OSGA contests, had 165 points. Though this would have been good enough in past years to win bigger prizes, these two players were to split $45. But with both players having a tremendous season of picking games, here at OSGA we have decided to reward each of them with the 5% prize!<\/p>\n<p>Every year players seem to be getting better and better at the Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm. In all 40 players hit games at a clip of 60% or better with over 15 different players cashing in on prizes throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are fortunate to be able to work with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/top-online-sportsbooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">top online sportsbooks<\/a> to be able to offer these contests,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stated Jim Quinn from OSGA. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every year this contest gets bigger and better and the players are getting smarter! This year we had 7 players tie for prizes in Week 12 and 5 players tie in Week 15,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>This has been another great year for the OSGA Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm. OSGA is looking forward to crowning a winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/bcscontest-2016\/free-ncaa-bowl-challenge.html?banner\" target=\"_blank\">14th Annual Bowl Challenge<\/a> next week. Players should make sure to check back for the annual College Basketball Tourney Contest in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Off Shore Gaming Association (OSGA) is pleased to announce &#8216;tammyb&#8217; as the winner of the 2016 OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctammyb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 beat out over 180 other contestants to win the huge cash grand prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,58,65,60,154,169],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","tag-contest","tag-free-bets","tag-nfl","tag-osga","tag-pick-em","tag-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}