Pick per Day for 12/10/08 - Day 27

MNSnowman

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14 games to choose from ... the Gonzaga-Washington State game should be interesting. Deadline for picks is 5PM, Wednesday.

Good luck!
northeastern -4.5 at harvard (7:00 PM EST)
rutgers -4.5 at princeton (7:00 PM EST)
tcu at indiana u -2 (8:00 PM EST)
nc charlotte at mississippi st -6.5 (7:00 PM EST)
butler -1.5 at bradley (8:00 PM EST)
ohio at xavier -16 (7:30 PM EST)
missouri st at tulsa -7 (8:00 PM EST)
dayton at creighton -6 (8:00 PM EST)
san diego state at arizona -6 (9:00 PM EST)
new mexico at san diego Pick (10:00 PM EST)
colorado state at colorado -2 (10:00 PM EST)
boise state at byu -19.5 (10:00 PM EST)
gonzaga -3.5 at washington state (10:00 PM EST)
eastern illinois at evansville -13 (8:00 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 want to start participating, please send me a private message (just click on my screen name) and we'll take a look at it.


Small Print
If you'd like to participate but haven't done so before, please send me a Private Message (PM) by clicking on my screen-name. 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.
 

Summary of 12/10 Picks

MNSnowman: Butler -1.5
CoolhandGopher: Rutgers -4.5
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Arizona -6
OSUfan: TCU +2
Gopherlady: IU -2
goldenfuture5: Butler -1.5
Alltimetwinsfan: TCU +2
Ski U Mah Gopher: Wazzu +3.5
Zales04: Indiana U -2
rrjack: northeastern -4.5
RoyalGO4: Boise State +19.5
Gopher In Qatar: Northeastern -4.5
soneillumn: Washington State +3.5
NateDawgUM: Dayton +6
From the Barn: Gonzaga -3.5
Gopherholefan: Gonzaga -3.5
ilovethebarn: colorado state +2
XMan: Arizona -6
The Big L: Colorado -2
gopherfan10: Butler -1.5
Alan Shore: rutgers -4.5
GopherRock: Arizona -6
Jike Spingleton: New Mexico pick
mom8pop: Gonzaga -3.5
Mikie S: boise state +19.5
nemosgold: TCU +2
GOLDY1966: Miss State -6.5
 

PPD Standings after 12/9 Games

Texas beats 'Nova by 10 which made 8 of our participants happy ... Texas was the consensus pick. Today's tally is:
16 - Wins
13 - Losses
0 - Pushes
0.552 - Winning pctge
29 - Participants
Other comments:

  • Davidson wins by 3 -- with Curry "held" to 27 pts. He actually had a cold start to the game but warmed up by the end when it mattered;
  • Drake beats Iowa State in one of the uglier wins (or, if you're Greg McDermott, uglier losses). Drake was down by 17 points in the first half and ten points with about 7-8 minutes left and somehow managed to stumble their way to the win.
  • Wisconsin wins by only 2 over Idaho State
Cumulative Record
295 - Wins
244 - Losses
6 - Pushes
0.547 - Winning pctge
545 - Number of Picks
26 - Number of Days

Consensus Picks
22 - Wins
11 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.667 - Winning pctge

Individual Standings
..1 - GopherJim ( 6 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.857
..2 - GopherRock ( 16 - 3 - 1 ) - 0.842
..3 - Gopherlady ( 5 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.833
........MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 5 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.833
..5 - SaturnSweater ( 11 - 4 - 1 ) - 0.733
..6 - NateDawgUM ( 9 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.692
..7 - Ilovethebarn ( 10 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.667
........USTGopher ( 10 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.667
........gopherfan10 ( 8 - 4 - 0 ) - 0.667
........GoldenFuture5 ( 4 - 2 - 0 ) - 0.667
11 - Goldy 1966 ( 15 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.625
........ NemosGold ( 10 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.625
13 - rrjack ( 12 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.600
14 - OSUfan ( 13 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.591
15 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 14 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.583
16 - mom8pop ( 8 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.571
17 - The Big L ( 9 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.563
18 - RoyalGO4 ( 12 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.545
19 - Gopher07 ( 9 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.529
20 - Mikie S ( 10 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.526
........MinnMarchDTF ( 10 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.526
22 - Gopher In Qatar ( 13 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.500
........soneillumn ( 6 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.500
........Xman ( 6 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.500
........GopherHarvey ( 5 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.500
26 - Jike Spingleton ( 12 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.462
27 - Alan Shore ( 5 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.455
28 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 10 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.435
29 - Zales04 ( 9 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.409
30 - Gopherholefan ( 9 - 14 - 1 ) - 0.391
31 - MNSnowman ( 10 - 16 - 0 ) - 0.385
32 - From the Barn ( 2 - 5 - 0 ) - 0.286
33 - grunkiejr ( 2 - 6 - 0 ) - 0.250
34 - JMGIII ( 0 - 3 - 0 ) - -
........GopherKev ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
........Howeda7 ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
........LloydBraun ( 0 - 1 - 0 ) - -
 






Alltimetwinsfan: TCU +2

My first dog of the year...picking favorites hasn't been working too well...
 















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XMan: Arizona -6
 













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