Last week was a busy week for us all so let's not dwell on the fact these results and standings are late, let's instead focus on the good: I had a lovely dinner and got lots of presents. Probably the best was a little Airfix kit of a WWII Spitfire that reignited a long-lost hobby from when I was a pre-pubescent geek, as opposed to now when I have fully pubed, but remain a ridiculous geek. Anyway, this week's awards are sponsored by my half-assed festive season hangover. Don't like it? Tough Tits.

No time for much ado as it's the final week of the season and we need to get going. I've written a few ideas down for the future of the site and I think it will turn into a pretty good picking resource, but that's all in the future, whilst the present is more important because we're at the end of the Pickwatch season. The big news is that Mike Silver of Yahoo Sports played his way into championship contention with a 12-4 week, while Marc Sessler of NFL.com... well, read on for what happened...

Time for Tuesday's awards and such like.

Average weekly Score: 11-5
Excellent week across the board with not one analyst (who picked...) falling below .500 for the first time this year. It was a reasonably easy batch of games to pick - hell, I even got 11-5 while picking Arizona - but that shouldn't detract from the overall consistency. It's a bit like... Tom Hanks. He can pretty much turn up and play Tom Hanks every day of his life and come out looking great, even though he's not really taken any risks or done any work to get there.

CONTROVERSIAL!

Top Picker of the Week: Josh Katzowitz, CBS** 14-2**
The Polish Pussycat leaps into the top 5 with a big ol' score that was only tripped up by Tampa Bay and Houston. You could easily make a case for the Rams, less so the the Vikings (who not one analyst went for last week) but even so, Katzowitz is now becoming one to watch. He courageously went for the Cardinals to win in week 15 and now posts the top score of week 16. What's left to do in Week 17? Well the answer is he's going to be top picker, rain man of the week, and he's also going to be the top scorer in my New Year's Eve game of Scrabble.

Worst Picker of the Week: **NFL Around the League: 0-16**

SIZZLER!!!... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You were so close! I bet a 12/13 ball this week would have led to some serious nervousness in Bristol, but instead you finished 0-16 and plummeted down the rankings along with all of the Around the League crew who failed to post any scores at all. This is a tragedy for all involved and I lit a candle of embarrassment for each of you this week, along with Fantasy Live's Matt Smith who also didn't post anything.

I mean seriously, there's a danger that Wandering Hanzus could even finish last behind Kriegel. Can you handle that knowledge deep down Dan? CAN YOU? I CAN'T SO FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD GET YOUR PICKS IN! You're all on notice. Don't let it happen again.

Coin-Flip of the week award

Absolutely true: I am forced to watch this show every week
by my Fiancee. It's ok though as the premise of the program
is 'Sexy teens eat each other'

Adam Schefter: The Lions against Atlanta. ENOUGH SAID. I love watching the Lions and I definitely think Megatron's record is legit, despite accusations that the Lions being pass-happy makes the record invalid. Newsflash: Every team in the lats 4 weeks knew where the Lions were going with the ball and in that time he put up 635 yards on 44 catches. Try to comprehend that in real terms: 11 catches EVERY game.

I don't buy that Calvin is better than Rice, but he sure has the physical and mental ability to be better in the end. He'll need at least two rings for that to be the case, but he - more than any receiver I've seen in 20 years - can not be covered by mere humans.

Rain Man of the week award
*Nice job Warren Sapp, Josh Katzowitz, Ron Jaworski, me, and YOU. Yes YOU. *We all went for the Ravens, even though almost every analyst was against them last week and were proved right as the Giants imploded in style. The Ravens weren't bankers but the Giants have been easily as bad, if not worse so to automatically give them a W seems a little off. I had assumed a 50-50 split before I totted up the picks but for whatever reason, people seem to believe the Giants a re a magical team that doesn't ever play serious football before this stage of the season, even though this logic is plainly horsesh...

No Network of the week awards this week as NFL's Around The League would have walked it. Yahoo were again the best and deserve some props, but simply put, it was an easy-ish week and there's not much point.
I'll have the overall standings and my own week 17 picks in the next few hours...