I'm in a 9 way tie for 37th place in Pickems

[occupant]

With 51 points.

5 people got a perfect 55 points.

Looks like most people had a pretty good first week.

 

[theSabanator20]

Fuck Northwestern and fuck the B1G. What a shitty conference.

Cost me 2 points. But hey, I'm starting off good

 

[WizardHawk]

I'm betting texas did his picks from 10 - 1 thinking 1 was where your most safest bet goes and 10 the most risky.

I had to read it closely to see 10 was 10 points (safest bet) myself.

 

[WizardHawk]

And wait, there were 4 others foolish enough to take Cal over Northwestern?




Er, smart enough?

 

[WhiteMamba]

And wait, there were 4 others foolish enough to take Cal over Northwestern?




Er, smart enough?

I believe they made enough improvement to beat a bad NWestern team.

Dykes means business. He has a tough job to turn it around. But give him a few years and I can see hem playing football that resembles the early 2000s teams.

 

[nddulac]

I believe they made enough improvement to beat a bad NWestern team.

And Northwestern probably made a good deal of deprovment.

It's always tough to tell at this point. Both teams have eleven more games to make their impressions.

I, however, fully expect to get it wrong pretty much every time I make a pick.

 

[WhiteMamba]

And Northwestern probably made a good deal of deprovment.

It's always tough to tell at this point. Both teams have eleven more games to make their impressions.

I, however, fully expect to get it wrong pretty much every time I make a pick.

All tries, except your picks. lol, you got this... Just don't over think it.

 

[nddulac]

Just don't over think it.

I over think everything. What I need to do is to not take the results too seriously! (I generally don't - as much as I believe I understand the game, I also understand the meaning of "variance.")

 

[WizardHawk]

It's the meaning of standard deviation more like, but this is all for fun. If any of us were that great at doing it we would be making a living at it.

I can't tell you how many times I've over thought the games and ended up talking myself out of the correct answer.

 

[nddulac]

I can't tell you how many times I've over thought the games and ended up talking myself out of the correct answer.

Or you bust out your every last resource and make the absolute best prediction you possibly can - and then something absolutely goofy happens that skews the actual result.

 

[nddulac]

Here is a great scam to run (and one I figure is being run regularly.) Get 1000 people to pay you for a pick and give them a money back guarantee. Give 500 people one team and 500 the other. Of the 500 that lose, pay them with the money you got from the 500 who won. Then offer the same deal to the 500 who won. Again, give 250 of them one team and 250 of them the other. Then repeat with the 250 who won the second time. After three rounds, you will be out no money, but will have 125 people who will pay you any amount you ask for the next winner, since you have given them three consecutive winners. So then you remove the money-back guarantee and just rake in the dough.

And then hope the feds don't find you - because it would be very illegal.

 

[4down20]

Because finding 1000 people to pay you for a pick is easy to get and happens without cost?



Hell, just give me that I can make plenty of money without doing anything illegal.

 

[nddulac]

Hell, just give me that I can make plenty of money without doing anything illegal.

Exactly. Step three? Profit!

 

[JuiceTheGator]

UCF costs me 4 points, so eff them, eff Penn State and eff Ireland. I hope their potatoes rot.

That was my only wrong pick as well...cost me 3. Anyone who picked PSUx is just damned lucky.

I can't remember a week with Pick'em scores this high.

 

[TexasExes98]

I'm betting texas did his picks from 10 - 1 thinking 1 was where your most safest bet goes and 10 the most risky.

I had to read it closely to see 10 was 10 points (safest bet) myself.

Not really, I really thought WVU and Okie jr would win and they almost did. When zero money is on the line, I'll take that risk. Had money been on the line, we're talking a different scenario.

 

[4down20]

Not really, I really thought WVU and Okie jr would win and they almost did. When zero money is on the line, I'll take that risk. Had money been on the line, we're talking a different scenario.

There is no reward for taking the extra risk.

 

[oaknightshockey1]

I thought Northwestern could handle Cal easily...there goes 9 confidence points

I also picked Wisky for 1 point. I did a decent job of picking, just a very poor job of assigning confidence points

 

[theSabanator20]

Here is a great scam to run (and one I figure is being run regularly.) Get 1000 people to pay you for a pick and give them a money back guarantee. Give 500 people one team and 500 the other. Of the 500 that lose, pay them with the money you got from the 500 who won. Then offer the same deal to the 500 who won. Again, give 250 of them one team and 250 of them the other. Then repeat with the 250 who won the second time. After three rounds, you will be out no money, but will have 125 people who will pay you any amount you ask for the next winner, since you have given them three consecutive winners. So then you remove the money-back guarantee and just rake in the dough.

And then hope the feds don't find you - because it would be very illegal.

 

[Acrux]

MSU any word on your injuries so I can figure out how I'm picking your game...?

I almost want to pick USC over Stanford...

 

[Taz_Hokie]

Not really, I really thought WVU and Okie jr would win and they almost did. When zero money is on the line, I'll take that risk. Had money been on the line, we're talking a different scenario.

Wait, you didn't have to throw in cash to join the league? Tech_Iceman, I want my $20 back you sumbitch!