Pick per Day for 12/4/08 - Day 21

MNSnowman

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Deadline for picks is 5:00 Thursday.

Good luck on your pick!
valparaiso -3 at youngstown state (7:00 PM EST)
connecticut -14.5 at buffalo (7:00 PM EST)
usc at oklahoma -8 (7:00 PM EST)
saint mary's ca -3.5 at kent state (7:00 PM EST)
coll charleston -5 at elon (7:00 PM EST)
the citadel at nc greensboro -8 (7:00 PM EST)
murray state -1.5 at eastern kentucky (7:30 PM EST)
tenn martin at morehead state Pick (7:30 PM EST)
austin peay -5.5 at se missouri st (8:45 PM EST)
tennessee state at eastern illinois -4 (9:00 PM EST)
denver u at montana – 9 (9:00 PM EST)

Lines on games in italics were added late Wednesday and early Thursday AM. If you change your picks, please do so with a new post and indicate it's a revised pick. Thanks!

western michigan at va commonwealth -12 (7:30 PM EST)
butler at cleveland state -3.5 (8:00 PM EST)
oklahoma state at washington u -5 (11:00 PM EST
detroit at wisc milwaukee -5 (8:00 PM EST)
wright state at wisc green bay -10 (8:00 PM EST)
ucla at texas -5.5 (9:00 PM EST)





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:
Moniker: Team and Spread
(e.g. MNSnowman: Minnesota +1)
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.

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Summary of 12/3 Picks

MNSnowman: Texas -5.5
RoyalGO4: Tennessee State +4
soneillumn: connecticut -14.5
Gopher In Qatar: Oklahoma -8
Gopher07: Connecticut -14.5
mom8pop: connecticut -14.5
SaturnSweater: Texas -5.5
Gopherholefan: Connecticut -14.5
NateDawgUM: connecticut -14.5
ilovethebarn: connecticut -14.5
Jike Spingleton: Oklahoma -8
GopherHarvey: Oklahoma -8
gopherfan10: St. Mary's CA -3.5
Alan Shore: cleveland state -3.5
grunkiejr: valparaiso -3
GopherRock: Washington -5
goldenfuture5: Washington U -5
GOLDY1966: OKlahoma -8
USTGopher: Coll Charleston -5
Alltimetwinsfan: Oklahoma -8
MinnMarchDTF Texas -5.5
Zales04: Valparaiso -3
nemosgold: uconn -14.5
XMan: Oklahoma -8
 

UPDATED PPD Standings after 12/3 games

Last night the board went 16-10-0 (a .615 winning percentage). North Carolina was the consensus pick (selected by 6) and they easily covered the spread. That's two rather embarrassing losses for Izzo's team.

In other games, Illinois-Chicago visited Vandy and beat the Commodores 74-55, largely on Josh Mayo's 30 points (including 8 3-pointers). As a team, Illinois-Chicago shot .632 beyond the arc while Vandy could only shoot 0.167.

Michigan lost ... but only by 5 and were 6-point underdogs.

Cumulative Record
234 - Wins
171 - Losses
5 - Pushes
0.578 - Winning pctge
410 - Number of Picks
20 - Number of Days

Consensus Picks
19 - Wins
8 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.704 - Winning pctge

Individual Standings
1 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 1 - 0 - 0 ) - 1.000
2 - GopherRock ( 13 - 1 - 1 ) - 0.929
3 - GopherJim ( 6 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.857
4 - NateDawgUM ( 8 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.800
....... Gopherlady ( 4 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.800
6 - SaturnSweater ( 11 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.786
7 - Ilovethebarn ( 8 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.727
.......NemosGold ( 8 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.727
9 - Goldy 1966 ( 13 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.722
10 - OSUfan ( 12 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.667
11 - Gopher07 ( 9 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.643
12 - USTGopher ( 7 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.636
13 - rrjack ( 10 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.625
.......gopherfan10 ( 5 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.625
.......GopherHarvey ( 5 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.625
16 - RoyalGO4 ( 11 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.611
17 - Alan Shore ( 3 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.600
18 - The Big L ( 7 - 5 - 1 ) - 0.583
19 - MinnMarchDTF ( 8 - 6 - 1 ) - 0.571
.......soneillumn ( 4 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.571
21 - Jike Spingleton ( 11 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.550
.......Ski U Mah Gopher ( 11 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.550
23 - mom8pop ( 6 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.545
24 - Mikie S ( 8 - 8 - 1 ) - 0.500
.......Xman ( 4 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.500
.......GoldenFuture5 ( 1 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.500
27 - Gopherholefan ( 8 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.471
28 - Gopher In Qatar ( 9 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.450
29 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 8 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.444
30 - Zales04 ( 6 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.353
31 - MNSnowman ( 7 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.350
32 - From the Barn ( 1 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.250
33 - grunkiejr ( 1 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.200
34 - JMGIII ( 0 - 2 - 0 ) - -
.......GopherKev ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
.......Howeda7 ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
.......LloydBraun ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
 










Atten: Gopher Rock

You are en fuego. Seriously, I have a buddy who's in Vegas for the next 4 days. He's going to call me before he hits the sportsbook, and I bet (pun intended) he'd like to know your pick. Who are you taking taking today? Thanks.

(Snowman, sorry for interrupting the purpose of this thread.)
 











Hodger,

God, knows we need to preserve thread integrity! Tell you what, I'll tell your friend who I'm picking and all he has to do is pick the opponent. (I'm on a 3-game positive streak that's bound to end soon.) ;)


Regards
 

You are en fuego. Seriously, I have a buddy who's in Vegas for the next 4 days. He's going to call me before he hits the sportsbook, and I bet (pun intended) he'd like to know your pick. Who are you taking taking today? Thanks.

(Snowman, sorry for interrupting the purpose of this thread.)

Thanks, Hodger. I must say I haven't been on a good run like this in anything for a long time, and as soon as it ends I'll go on a 8 or 9 game skid.

As for my pick tonight, I like the mutts to cover 5 at home against the Pokes, making the long trip west.

GopherRock: Washington -5
 



Thanks GR. I've placed the call to Vegas. He's pulling for a monster night out of Brockman tonight! I put a little somethin'-somethin' on it as well, along with the one I like, UConn minus the points.

Snowman, been there, done that. Stay on the hot streak & enjoy it while it lasts.
 






Pick

XMan: Oklahoma -8
 




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