Highway6 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Bowl season is upon us. 20thstdad has set up for us a Haify Espn Bowl Pickem League, complete with confidence points (new this yr). Come join us. HAIF Bowl Pickem Challenge 2010 Magic Link: http://games.espn.go...p?groupID=11556 Group: HAIF Bowl Challenge 2010 Password: haify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Haha great name 20thstdad. That alone got me to sign up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Haha great name 20thstdad. That alone got me to sign up!To hell with conference loyalty. There is no reason to do anything other than hate Auburn and hope they lose. Unless you are pulling for them to win, and then a couple months later have it all taken away due to rules violations. That might be almost as good as losing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 First bowl games are a week from tomorrow. People need to get signed up and get your picks in probably by Friday 17th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Thread bump. We have 5 people signed up so far. First bowl game is Friday. See opening post for link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 Thread bump...A forum comprised of mostly dudes and we only have 5 signed up for a football challenge. Sadness. Despair. 48 hours to sign up and get your picks in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 So for the confidence points...we are putting the highest points with our most confident predictions, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 So for the confidence points...we are putting the highest points with our most confident predictions, correct?As I understand it, yes. I believe how it works is if the team you rank with 1 confidence points wins, You get 1 point, regardless of which bowl game it is. Same can be said for every winner up to 35 points.Unlike the strait up Bowl Pickem, I have not found where it says the bowl games are also weighted by importance.So, my understanding is, there are No incentives to rank more important bowls, for example, rank Auburn with 35 confidence points... You would not get an additional weighted amount of points over if I had given Middle Tennessee 35 confidence points.If I'm wrong in that assessment, I'll have some re-ranking to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 As I understand it, yes. I believe how it works is if the team you rank with 1 confidence points wins, You get 1 point, regardless of which bowl game it is. Same can be said for every winner up to 35 points.Unlike the strait up Bowl Pickem, I have not found where it says the bowl games are also weighted by importance.So, my understanding is, there are No incentives to rank more important bowls, for example, rank Auburn with 35 confidence points... You would not get an additional weighted amount of points over if I had given Middle Tennessee 35 confidence points.If I'm wrong in that assessment, I'll have some re-ranking to do.You are right, bowl importance has nothing to do with it. You get the points that you assign to a game if you pick it right. I think it plays on those emotional homer or hater picks even more than the against-the-spread format.Once it locks, your picks will be shown in chronological order to make it easier. Points are given as games complete, and on the group page it will show totals and possible points remaining after each game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 First bowl game is at 2 tomorrow. Get your picks in.http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/en/group?groupID=11556Group: HAIF Bowl Challenge 2010 Password: haify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Well, got the picks in. It was an odd year for CFB so who knows how these bowls will play out. Not really much science to my method, just found the games I thought were close to "locks" and moved them up and didn't really mess with the rest. Good luck to everyone named ME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Well, got the picks in. It was an odd year for CFB so who knows how these bowls will play out. Not really much science to my method, just found the games I thought were close to "locks" and moved them up and didn't really mess with the rest. Good luck to everyone named ME!I've never done one with confidence points before. Over on yahoo, each user's winner and their wager on that game will be displayed under group picks. I'm hoping our ESPN game is the same There's gonna be lots of ups and downs and turmoil when we see for any given game that one person has waged 30 pnts on team A while someone else has waged 33 pnts on team B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I've never done one with confidence points before. Over on yahoo, each user's winner and their wager on that game will be displayed under group picks. I'm hoping our ESPN game is the same There's gonna be lots of ups and downs and turmoil when we see for any given game that one person has waged 30 pnts on team A while someone else has waged 33 pnts on team B.When the first game starts it will lock all picks and you can see everyone's picks and confidence. Coming up to the last games, you'll be able to do some math (and it'll show you PPR) to figure out the likely scenario. Looking at tomorrow's games, I think I have single digit confidence on all of them, so even if I'm right I won't have much to show for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 I have a 30+ pnt game on day 1... but not by design. I wasn't looking at the dates when I picked em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Ugh. I didn't fill out the confidence points so it looks like it did it for me by the dates of the bowls going from most confident to least as time marches on. Bummer on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Ugh. I didn't fill out the confidence points so it looks like it did it for me by the dates of the bowls going from most confident to least as time marches on. Bummer on that one.That's okay.. I was so distracted by playing with confidence points, that I completely forgot I was supposed to be picking against the spread.Of course.. i am 4 for 4 so far... so I may have found my new winning strategy for next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 That's okay.. I was so distracted by playing with confidence points, that I completely forgot I was supposed to be picking against the spread.Of course.. i am 4 for 4 so far... so I may have found my new winning strategy for next season.It's not against the spread, all straight up. For bowls that's never as easy as you would think.At least I got my 35 pointer right! Enough of this one game per day stuff, I need 5-6 at a time happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 It's not against the spread, all straight up. For bowls that's never as easy as you would think.You're right. I got it confused with my yahoo league, which is against the spread. I just copied all my picks from there over to our espn league.Still, its working so far. I agree though... ready for next week once serious bowl season starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 20th and brijon... you two were aware we're supposed to pick who we think would win each bowl, right ?That's 6 losses in a row for each of ya.http://games.espn.go...t?groupID=11556 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 20th and brijon... you two were aware we're supposed to pick who we think would win each bowl, right ?That's 6 losses in a row for each of ya.http://games.espn.go...t?groupID=11556I picked on opposite day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 20th and brijon... you two were aware we're supposed to pick who we think would win each bowl, right ?That's 6 losses in a row for each of ya.http://games.espn.go...t?groupID=11556Someone must have sabotaged my picks. I look back on a couple thinking I would never pick that. There are 3 specifically that I originally had right, then I read some column by some sports idiot and decided I should change them. That never works out well. That big 12 bias seems to have hurt you yesterday. Then again I'm an SEC guy and got the same 2 wrong, although for less points.All is not lost, I haven't lost anything higher than 24. After that I lost a 23, then nothing higher than 13. I knew which ones I didn't know. Something like that. Anyway, it could all change today with big numbers on the line (17, 22, 19, 33). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 30, 2010 Author Share Posted December 30, 2010 That big 12 bias seems to have hurt you yesterday. Yeah.. Baylor looked terrible.I say we switch back to Yahoo for next time. I'm in a league there as well.a) it just looks more professionalb ) it hides your opponents pick and wager till game time, which increases the drama.c) it has your "max score possible" listed as well on the scoreboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Yeah.. Baylor looked terrible.I say we switch back to Yahoo for next time. I'm in a league there as well.a) it just looks more professionalb ) it hides your opponents pick and wager till game time, which increases the drama.c) it has your "max score possible" listed as well on the scoreboardFine by me, I'll do both. I like seeing everyone's picks lined out, so I can think they're crazy for putting a 27 on Tulsa, then they end up being right. ESPN used to show PPR, and I know they always do for the NCAA bracket challenge, Maybe they got lazy this year or let the interns run this one over the holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggie92 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I'm winning but not a lot of big points left for me except OU and Nebraska so you never know with the confidence picks. My Big 12 bias hurt with Baylor and Missouri going down. A 1-3 record so far for Big 12 hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 All is not lost, I haven't lost anything higher than 24. After that I lost a 23, then nothing higher than 13. I knew which ones I didn't know. Something like that. Anyway, it could all change today with big numbers on the line (17, 22, 19, 33).About to be 0-3 today, so I would like to change my story to that I am trying to lose on purpose. Because technically, getting them all wrong is as hard as getting them all right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Syracuse- North Carolina, Nebraska, USF, and Notre Dame provided me with a nice little run. Hopefully UCF can pull it out in the Liberty Bowl.Bad news is that because I didn't use confidence points, I am running out of opportunities to score many more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I have 168 points just on today's games, so I either drop even further out of it or make my comeback. Why can't games start at 7am? I can only occupy myself so much with smoking this pork butt since 6:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggie92 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 You did stack a lot of points towards the end and definitely a risk taker with 31 on Wisconsin/TCU and 32 on TAMU/LSU which are both coin flips. The good news is you could be set for a big comeback while the rest of us run out of points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 Wow.. I didnt realize till now the lead Aggie and Kinkaid had.I have 128 pnts riding on today. A Wisconsin win will really help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Woo-Hoo.Nice job, Frogs. Made it 12 correct picks in a row... Now, come on Huskies and shock the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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