Sports Forum College Bowl Pick Em'

[LeftWideOpen]

This got lost in the NCAA Football thread, so I thought I'd make a thread about it.

It's on yahoo. Group ID# is 18546 and the password is freetyrone.

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[J.C.]

I'm in.

[iihungrieii]

im in...


and i just saw the final for the college football pickem... i was tied with scott going into the final week and lost by 1.........

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[Scott Weber]

im in...


and i just saw the final for the college football pickem... i was tied with scott going into the final week and lost by 1.........

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awwwwwwwwww, shoulda picked UCLA to beat the spread.

[livethesounds]

i was terrible this year, as opposed to last year i was top 3 in both leagues. i just quit like 3 weeks ago.

[iihungrieii]

awwwwwwwwww, shoulda picked UCLA to beat the spread.

shouldve ........=(

[acfrue]

sounds like fun, i'll give it a shot.

[Andrew Love]

in

[LeftWideOpen]

bump.

games start in 5 days. sign up if you already haven't! and use your AP name, if you don't mind.

[nateisawesome]

I am in. I did pretty well in the regular season one

[Dirty Ernie]

I'm in. My biggest "upset" is Buffalo over Uconn, which isn't really an upset but they are the underdog.

[preppyak]

I decided that bowl season was so random, might as well employ a random strategy...so, I picked the team whose name started first...and then closed my eyes and re-ordered the picks for a bit.

I actually kind of like my picks, a few I disagree with (I had to pick Texas over OSU...only one that defies my rule)...but for the most part, I like my chances, cause for some reason it turns out that about 85% of the favored teams have a name starting sooner than the non-favored team

[Scott Weber]

this confidence level stuff is bullshit.

[J.C.]

I don't have a huge problem with it. It adds another dimension.

[Scott Weber]

there's just too many games to rank. i don't have time for it. i have time to pick games once a week, not rank 35 some games. i shuffled a few around but i'll leave it at that. I might just delete the team.

It's like when facebook had upset scoring for the NCAA tournament, haha.

[preppyak]

meh...for a national pick'em...ok, it allows one fan to get luckier than another and be the sole winner with all the right picks. But, for the casual fan, it makes it completely worthless to play (speaking as a fairly casual fan), because I could get 80% of my picks right, but still finish behind a guy who gets 65% right...

[preppyak]

oh god, fuck upset scoring...easily the biggest bullshit scoring system ever

[Scott Weber]

meh...for a national pick'em...ok, it allows one fan to get luckier than another and be the sole winner with all the right picks. But, for the casual fan, it makes it completely worthless to play (speaking as a fairly casual fan), because I could get 80% of my picks right, but still finish behind a guy who gets 65% right...
it just rewards luck a whole lot more than skill at that point. not a fan.

[acfrue]

the first time i was in a pick 'em with confidence scoring it was pretty challenging and annoying but after a few years its grown on me so i'm used to it. with that said it is a very stupid system.

[Scott Weber]

i would be down for confidence scoring in an NFL pick 'em league maybe. but for 35 games it's just overwhelmingly too much.

[nateisawesome]

yea there is no way I can tell you if I am more confident that Northern Illinois will beat La Tech than I am that Troy will beat Southern Miss. Hell I truly just guessed on who would win those games

[Swayback]

In.