Though We Do Have Pick Em Ratings

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Rank	Pick Set Name	Total Points	W-L
1	DBetts	664	84-59
2	sgwhiteinfla	634	82-61
3	Singapore Slingers	633	73-70
4	Please Dont Hit the Scoreboard	632	77-66
5	Electric Messiah	632	75-68
6	Odoacer's Guesses	631	82-61
7	Go Bengals!	620	79-64
8	Bearable	618	75-68
9	Also.	617	75-68
10	thegunner1981	616	77-66
11	Chi Picks	615	75-68
12	BisonMightyBison	615	77-66
13	Defpotec	612	79-64
14	Blandas	612	81-62
15	Child OfAnNFCEastDivorce	611	78-65
16	Jerry's Kids	609	74-69
17	Wookies	609	73-70
18	BlindHope	607	75-68
19	lheger	605	73-70
20	allusionist	604	72-71
21	szspeak	604	77-66
22	Team Mulva	602	78-65
23	SKI's Selections	602	76-67
24	Weehawken Toffees	601	74-69
25	Capt. Zubaz	600	77-66
26	Dan W	599	76-67
27	Bright Green Future	598	74-69
28	Josh's Picks	597	75-68
29	Districto Federal	596	71-72
30	Go Sqaudron Go	595	76-67
31	dondrapersdemons	595	73-70
32	The Ballad of Ron Mexico	592	75-68
33	sean_in_nh	592	75-68
34	drlemur	591	72-71
35	Pickin' the nose	589	74-69
36	Shoestring Tackle	586	71-72
37	BetterThanYou	586	72-71
38	jenawesome	585	76-67
39	CitizenE	583	76-67
40	bloodstar	583	73-70
41	ScoutAbouts	582	76-67
42	Replacements	580	76-67
43	Shark Week Every Week	580	75-68
44	The Best Guesses	580	76-67
45	BreakerBaker	580	68-75
46	Juba	579	74-69
47	motownjunk	577	76-67
48	Dirk Diggler	575	73-70
49	tinare	574	74-69
50	19th St. Gangsters	574	72-71
51	the oxford set	574	77-66
52	leland	570	66-77
53	altonsmith101	568	73-70
54	Fightin' Gremlins	568	72-71
55	Turf on Your Tonsils	566	71-72
56	Torgo3	565	72-71
57	Egan's Picks	565	74-69
58	Will in STL	562	67-76
59	Hot Sauce Committee	561	68-75
60	Blowed Up	560	70-73
61	TW Andrews	559	73-70
62	Persia's Picks	558	76-67
63	wolfpack	557	75-68
64	Far East Beasts	557	71-72
65	The Foulness	557	78-65
66	Cambridge Royal Giants	557	65-78
67	Incertus(Brian)	556	70-73
68	Da Demondeacs	556	73-70
69	Seymour's Ghost	553	69-74
70	AZfootballfan	553	68-75
71	Waimea Rancheros	552	73-70
72	scoundrels	550	71-72
73	Steven Donegal	549	68-75
74	daveintexas	547	71-72
75	Burgh AC	547	71-72
76	Eric K	547	77-66
77	Who We Thought They Were	547	67-76
78	Bevo's Ballsack	544	65-78
79	obscene	544	70-73
80	Baba Booey	544	70-73
81	Death Panel	542	68-75
82	Tom Brady's Achilles Ankle	539	69-74
83	The Blue Lanterns	537	75-68
84	N0chance - mjnewton	537	73-70
85	At Least We Got Herschel	535	67-76
86	drbec4dacolts	534	68-75
87	thephoenixnyc	533	66-77
88	DougEMI	530	67-76
89	Karate Fists FTW	521	68-75
90	Jesse S	519	65-78
91	Eric F	519	67-76
92	VandelayIndustries	518	70-73
93	Green Cup	510	68-75
94	brooklynj	508	63-80
95	TObills	508	63-80
96	CJ_in_Harlem	507	76-67
97	roadrunner	507	66-77
98	ticats	499	67-76
99	Imby	498	60-83
100	ThrowingDarts	495	63-80
101	I Dream of Mangini	493	62-81
102	Wonderlic My Balls	481	57-86
103	J-Dubs Pix	473	59-84
104	DW	468	61-82
105	Lincoln Abes	461	56-87
106	the pineapple express	460	56-87
107	ClubberMyPredictionisPainLang	450	61-82
108	Douchemanzadah	447	61-82
109	jennifer_oh_jenny	441	59-84
110	The Bailoutees	439	67-76
111	OGWiseman	426	52-91
112	DirtyLiberal	420	54-89
113	Gobblegobblegobble	417	55-88
114	earninghemistway	404	48-95
115	Justin C	398	49-94
116	nixpix	393	53-90
117	brendan	388	51-92
118	Law Abiding	364	47-96
119	Johannesburg Prawns	351	44-99
120	NYDCWolv	340	49-94
121	ajb498	316	40-103
122	Miskatonic Minions	309	36-107
123	TheBulge	303	39-104
124	bertie	301	38-105
125	BruceCrew	263	37-106
126	BrockAun's Picks	216	24-119
127	bourbon renewal	215	27-116
128	Jordan	213	50-93
129	Orton Hears Some Booooos	209	32-111
130	DC Texans	181	25-118
131	Tim Allen Is Not Very Funny	179	24-119
132	CerebralOllie	178	35-108
133	H.N.I.C.	170	20-123
134	beauzeau	167	22-121
135	VandyGirl	161	32-111
136	the fighting dogs	156	19-124
137	AndrewG	153	18-125
138	Pats Guy	72	9-134
139	Team Better Than You	70	8-135
140	A-Web	68	8-135
141	bobcats	16	14-129
142	MarcFein	16	11-132
143	l	0	22-93
144	AJCinSC	0	0-143
145	Ghetto Defendant	0	0-143
146	Ellis Carver	0	13-130
147	viktor vaughn	0	10-133
148	What's a Pick Set?	0	0-143

About the Author

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and the forthcoming book We Were Eight Years in Power.

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More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she said. “Do your parents drop you off?,” I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I’d enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. “No—I go with my family,” she replied. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we’re going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes.”

Those mall trips are infrequent—about once a month. More often, Athena and her friends spend time together on their phones, unchaperoned. Unlike the teens of my generation, who might have spent an evening tying up the family landline with gossip, they talk on Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send pictures and videos that quickly disappear. They make sure to keep up their Snapstreaks, which show how many days in a row they have Snapchatted with each other. Sometimes they save screenshots of particularly ridiculous pictures of friends. “It’s good blackmail,” Athena said. (Because she’s a minor, I’m not using her real name.) She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”