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Post by hc87 on Jan 18, 2020 15:05:39 GMT -5
Bettah late than nevah. CHC8485 "wins" here if we are going by the always official Price is Right rules with his 23-16 Bison pick.
See you in Septembah....
Final Standings:
1 CHC8485 16-7
KYCru75
DeepPurple
nycru10
5 cruskate 31 15-7
hcnation 15-8
7 rgs 14-9
hc87
9 Cruscis1 13-10
efg 13-10
11 ChuChu 11-4
12 crossisback 10-6
13 long-suffering 7-10
14 hcpride 4-4
15 cru12 3-5
alum
inhocsigno
4cru3
HC16
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Post by CHC8485 on Jan 18, 2020 19:15:23 GMT -5
Probably? Probably? There is no doubt. From the Championship pick 'em thread ... And then there were 2, JMU-NDSU....which most people would have predicted in August. Two semifinal blowouts by both squads. The game isn't until next Saturday 1/11 at noon on ABC. A hearty few remain here... probably going to need a tiebreaker, so we'll go with picking the winner and by how much they win by....Price is Right rules in effect (closest without going ovah) FCS National Championship Game on January 11th, Frisco, TX Noon Eastern Time on ABC: James Madison vs, North Dakota St Believe KY and I both picked the Bison. He had NDSU by 6. I had them by 7. I wasn't a math major, but last I checked 7 is closer to the 8 point margin (without going over) than 6. And you can't just bail out until September. I hung around for weeks investing time & effort picking winners in this interminable playoff that I barely remember Holy Cross played in it and couldn't name more than 5 teams that played in it! You've been awarding cool stuff on a somewhat regular basis in this contest for years. And now you just want to run off until September?? Where's my gift certificate to the Rum Keg Pub? Where's my preferred seating at Herbies? I demand to know what I won.   |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 18, 2020 20:47:37 GMT -5
Well said!!!!
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Post by hc87 on Jan 19, 2020 13:19:52 GMT -5
Probably? Probably? There is no doubt. From the Championship pick 'em thread ... And then there were 2, JMU-NDSU....which most people would have predicted in August. Two semifinal blowouts by both squads. The game isn't until next Saturday 1/11 at noon on ABC. A hearty few remain here... probably going to need a tiebreaker, so we'll go with picking the winner and by how much they win by....Price is Right rules in effect (closest without going ovah) FCS National Championship Game on January 11th, Frisco, TX Noon Eastern Time on ABC: James Madison vs, North Dakota St Believe KY and I both picked the Bison. He had NDSU by 6. I had them by 7. I wasn't a math major, but last I checked 7 is closer to the 8 point margin (without going over) than 6. And you can't just bail out until September. I hung around for weeks investing time & effort picking winners in this interminable playoff that I barely remember Holy Cross played in it and couldn't name more than 5 teams that played in it! You've been awarding cool stuff on a somewhat regular basis in this contest for years. And now you just want to run off until September?? Where's my gift certificate to the Rum Keg Pub? Where's my preferred seating at Herbies? I demand to know what I won. LOL....apologies, edited to verify your complete and total victory. You win 2 drink tickets at the next post-game cocktail pahhty in the Fieldhouse....oh, wait  |
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 19, 2020 13:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by Chu Chu on Jan 20, 2020 10:35:04 GMT -5
Instead of just going by total number of winning picks, I think that there should be another category, for those who have the greatest % of correct predictions. This would allow those of us who missed a week or two to still compete. This years winner using that methodology would be yours truly.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 20, 2020 10:54:11 GMT -5
Instead of just going by total number of winning picks, I think that there should be another category, for those who have the greatest % of correct predictions. This would allow those of us who missed a week or two to still compete. This years winner using that methodology would be yours truly. So if you see a tough slate of games looming you could then skip that week and avoid the likely hit to your W-L pctg? |
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Post by hc87 on Jan 20, 2020 12:10:04 GMT -5
As TR most famously said Chu Chu, "It's the man in the arena..." |
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Post by Chu Chu on Jan 20, 2020 12:42:17 GMT -5
Instead of just going by total number of winning picks, I think that there should be another category, for those who have the greatest % of correct predictions. This would allow those of us who missed a week or two to still compete. This years winner using that methodology would be yours truly. So if you see a tough slate of games looming you could then skip that week and avoid the likely hit to your W-L pctg? I get that point. |
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Post by CHC8485 on Jan 20, 2020 13:08:56 GMT -5
It appears you missed the first week of picks, Chu. I went 4-4 that week. Compare apples to apples and look at the record over the next 4 rounds CHC8484: 12-3 Chu Chu : 11-4 Appears I still beat you! But I'm not a heavy drinker so, if you're at the post game reception in the field house, or Lower Kimball, or the Luth, I'll give you one of my free drink tickets! |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 20, 2020 13:42:46 GMT -5
One possibility to consider--to keep people interested in the competition if they do miss a week--would be to have a default of "all home teams". In that case, if you do miss a week you might end up with, say, 3-1 instead of the 4-0 that many others would get. Of course, I do know that you could get lucky and go 3-1 when the median is 2-2 but those instances would be very rare. The same logic could be applied to our basketball and football regular season competitions
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 20, 2020 16:52:36 GMT -5
KY, nahhhh!
Chu is just out of luck. I was on hiatus and missed the beginning of football season and just wrote it off as far as competing in the prediction contest.
No way should a missed pick default to all home winners but does bring up that I almost posted I was considering not trying to analyze the games (not like you do, KY) and simply pick the home team regardless of who was playing who just to see what the results would be. I'm not going to do that but I am sure that someone can very quickly see if someone had picked all home teams from the beginning of the PL season, where he or she would be in the standings.
I will say that I am very impressed with our friend from the '67 Class who is leading the pack as I am pretty sure he has not gone to many (any?) games in person. So, he's basing everything on whatever games he sees on our sterling PL Stadium shows. That, or he has a great Ouija board.
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Post by hc87 on Jan 21, 2020 11:59:31 GMT -5
There was actually very little attrition during the PL regular season pick ems....on average, maybe one out of 30+ week to week or so,, many weeks none. We are a very committed crew. |
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