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Well I've said I'd do better at college than at the pros. So better late than never. I started a Hatrack Group over at the college Pigskin PickEm ESPN site. It's week four but what the heck?
It works slightly differently. There are 10 games listed for the week. You pick the winners, and then you have to assign confidence levels to how certain you are they will happen 10 being absolutely certain and 1 being the most uncertain.
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I've also joined, hopefully I'll do better at this than I do in my fantasy football league (I know next to nothing about the NFL)...
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quote: But if the team is outside the Big 12, I probably will know absolutely nothing about them....
Don't worry, if it's a Big 12 team, I'll know almost nothing about them (I an firmly resisting any attempts at Longhorn assimilation thrown my way)... Together we can have complete CFB knowledge!
well, except that I also know nothing about the Pac-10 and Big-10...
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Ok, I just submitted my picks, so I should up now. Hopefully I'll remember to go back and tweak them when I have more time.
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Not necessarily, there are a couple of Illinois grads or attendees around.
I guess the question is, do you pick who you want to win, or who you think will win. My problem with the Pro league so far is that I've let emotion and arbitrariness dominate my picks. Even though I'm actually more passionate about college, I'm less emotional and arbitrary about my picks.
As I said before, the one I debated the most on was the NC state Va Tech game. Notice my confidence level is 1, which means I'm not that confident either way though I picked the home team.
quote: Step 4 - SCORING SYSTEM In conjunction with selecting which team will win, you're now challenged to assign a confidence value to each game. The higher the confidence you assign to a game, the more points you will earn if you have selected the winning team. Each game must have a different confidence value assigned to it from 1-15. Please read all the details below as it's important to understand how everything works in order to win the game.
Note: Fractions of percentages are not displayed on the group page.
ACCUMULATING POINTS You receive the amount of confidence points you assigned to each game you correctly selected the winning team to win. You do not receive or lose points for incorrect picks. You accumulate points from the date of your first winning pick. You may begin playing after the start of the promotion but you will not receive any points for the games you have missed. In the event a scheduled college football game listed does not occur as scheduled (e.g., a game is cancelled, postponed, etc.) no points will be awarded.
Entrants are allowed (but not required) to submit a predicted score for the tiebreaker game of each week as indicated as such in the selection area. The tiebreaker game is the final game of the week unless otherwise noted. This prediction is used for weekly tiebreaker purposes only. Ties will be broken in accordance with the tie-breaker procedure contained in the rules.
Your season-to-date point total is displayed on your frontpage, entry and group pages (if you're in a group). Overall winners will be displayed on the leaderboard each Monday morning. There are 14 weeks in the game, with 15 games each week. Your season-to-date point total is displayed on your frontpage, entry, group page (if you're in a group) and on the bottom of the leaderboard page (unless you're in the Top 50!).
So if I assign "10" confidence points to a certain game, and my team wins, then I get ten points, if I am understanding it correctly.
And I'm in now too. With my massive Big 10 expertise, we could put together quite the college football knowledge front...
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And now it's time to go and do some research on the matchups I'm not certain about, since I just did off the cuff picks earlier...
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Well I'm glad that VT game had my lowest probablity. If I get my last pick right I'll be at 54/55 points. I nearly had a heart attack when I read the Purdue-Iowa score wrong on the scrolling bar! That was my 10 pointer that purdue would win!
The way the points are tallied is if you are right, you get the number of points as your choice. If you are wrong you get zero. The maximum possible points is 10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+ 2+1=55
As a group we'll never catch up on the year with the statistics, since we started on the 4th week but oh well.
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The top three people have all so far had the exact same missed pick. It was just how confident we were in the pick that differentiates our scores.
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Iowa was playing AT Michigan. After Michigan lost to Notre Dame do you actually think they were going to let anyone beat them on their home turf?
Generally speaking, unless the away team is Extremely high in the polls there is even more of a home field advantage in college ball than there is in the Pros.
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Oh my goodness. This weeks college picks are impossibly hard. There are maybe three that I've got any confidence in. West Virginia Virginia Tech Purdue Notre Dame Colorado Missouri Illinois Wisconsin Iowa State Oklahoma State South Carolina Alabama Fresno State Louisiana Tech Auburn Tennessee Penn State Minnesota LSU Georgia
Right now I'm thinking Wisconsin beating Illinios is the best bet.
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If Wisconsin is at home, give that game a 10... otherwise a 9 or 8. They COULD lose, since they have no offense to speak of, without their star running back. But at home? Simply not possible. That defense, in Camp Randall, is... something like both the rock AND the hard place.
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Stop saying Wisconsin is going to win. The more people who say that, the less likely it is that we will. Jerks!
I do agree, however, that our defense can and will shut anyone down. Even if means killing two quarterbacks. Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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