Pick per Day for 12/2/08 - Day 19

CLOSED - Pick per Day for 12/2/08 - Day 19

Gophers are 6.5 point favorites over the Cavaliers ... about the same spread that our G'hole members are predicting. Good luck on your pick!For those participating but at a relaxed rate, I'll probably set up two divisions in a couple of weeks. One will be for the seriously addicted and will probably include those who have made at least 20 predictions for games ending December 13. The other division (the occasional predictors) will be for those who have less than 20 predictions for games ending December 13. So there's still time for many of you to make daily predictions if you wish to be in the "upper" division.

If you haven't made a pick yet but want to begin, please send me a private message (just click on my screen name to the left in this post). If you're not familiar with the way this works -- or want to check on the rules -- please review the Small Print (below). And, if you have any questions, please let me know.


Small Print
Here's the way Pick-per-Day (PPD) works:

1. You make one pick per day by selecting a team and the point spread that's offered.
For example, if Florida is favored by 22.5 points versus Toledo and you choose Florida, you pick Florida -22.5
If instead you think that spread is too generous, you pick Toledo +22.5

2. The pick must be in required format (see#5 below) and submitted by that day's deadline.

3. Picks on weekdays are usually due at 5:00 while picks on weekends and holidays will usually be due at 12 noon.

4. Please verify your pick was recorded when the posting is Closed and please check the next days tally to make sure I correctly credited you with the win or loss. Mistakes will happen and I'm more than happy to go back a day or two and figure out what went wrong and then make any corrections. But I really don't want to go back a couple of weeks and try to recalculate the wins and losses.

5. All picks must be entered using this format:
Picks that are submitted after the deadline without making prior arrangements or do not use this format will not be counted in that days tally

6. If you want to change your pick, please add a new post rather than editing your original pick and please note it's a change in the header. (It's easier to pick up and make the change this way.

7. Every now and then, the provider of the Lines has a strange point spread. I reserve the right to scratch games where the spread exceeds normal expectations or if the picks are subsequently corrected, the correction is substantially different than the first pick and the original spread gives a participant an unfair advantage.

In other words, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

8. Later in the season, I may create two divisions to reflect those who participate regularly versus those who are more sporadic. This is done to reduce the likelihood of someone getting a relatively high winning percentage and resting on their laurels.

WILL FINALIZE AFTER VA GAME - Summary of 12/2 Picks

It's been a busy day and I've been away from the computer for most of it. I'll summarize the picks later and may not post today's results until Wednesday.

MNSnowman: Duke +3

PPD Standings after 12/1 games

Ah, the month of December gets off to a good start as

• The board has only two losses and 23 winning picks (a .920 winning ratio) and
• I break my losing streak by picking the Badgers ... and they didn't even need the two points. Of course, eight others also picked Bo's team, so it was hardly the maverick choice.

Kansas covered the spread without any real difficulty and that was the consensus pick with 10 who went with the Jayhawks.

Cumulative Record
205 - Wins
152 - Losses
4 - Pushes
0.574 - Winning pctge
361 - Number of Picks
18 - Number of Days

Consensus Picks
16 - Wins
7 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.696 - Winning pctge

Individual Standings
..1 - GopherRock ( 11 - 1 - 1 ) - 0.917
..2 - GopherJim ( 6 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.857
..3 - SaturnSweater ( 11 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.846
..4 - Ilovethebarn ( 8 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.800
..5 - Gopherlady ( 4 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.800
..6 - NemosGold ( 7 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.778
..7 - Goldy 1966 ( 12 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.750
...... NateDawgUM ( 6 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.750
..9 - MinnMarchDTF ( 8 - 4 - 1 ) - 0.667
10 - rrjack ( 9 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.643
11 - USTGopher ( 7 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.636
12 - OSUfan ( 10 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.625
13 - Gopher07 ( 8 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.615
14 - Alan Shore ( 3 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.600
15 - The Big L ( 7 - 5 - 1 ) - 0.583
16 - Mikie S ( 8 - 6 - 1 ) - 0.571
17 - RoyalGO4 ( 9 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.563
18 - Jike Spingleton ( 10 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.556
......Ski U Mah Gopher ( 10 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.556
......mom8pop ( 5 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.556
21 - Gopher In Qatar ( 9 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.500
...... gopherfan10 ( 3 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.500
......GopherHarvey ( 3 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.500
24 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 7 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.438
...... Gopherholefan ( 7 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.438
26 - Xman ( 3 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.429
27 - Zales04 ( 6 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.400
...... soneillumn ( 2 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.400
29 - MNSnowman ( 5 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.278
...... From the Barn ( 1 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.250
31 - grunkiejr ( 0 - 4 - 0 ) - -
......JMGIII ( 0 - 2 - 0 ) - -
......GopherKev ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
......Howeda7 ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -

MinnMarchDTF Illinois -2

Alltimetwinsfan: Ohio State +7.5

Today is the day of reckoning, Snowman...Today, YOU WILL PAY for the ill of your ways...

rrjack: loyola chicago -6

Ski U Mah Gopher: Illinois -2

Gopher In Qatar: Illinois -2

Zales04: Illinois -2

RoyalGO4: Ohio State +7.5

soneillumn: Duke +3

nemosgold: duke +3

SaturnSweater: So Mississippi -6.5

NateDawgUM: Ohio State +7.5

I don't like going with ATTF's kiss of death, but I'm not a fan of any of these...

GopherRock: Ohio State +7.5

goherfan10: Duke +3

Gopherholefan: Western Kentucky -4

Mikie S: purdue -3

GopherHarvey: So Illinois -8

Lloyd Braun: Illinois -2

Jike Spingleton: Iowa +8

OSUfan: Ohio State +7.5

GOLDY1966: Colorado State -3

mom8pop: Duke +3

Looks like Miami shouldn't have been giving OSU 7.5 points