Time to discuss Pick'ems 2022! Last year as you may recall NextYear_76 took top honors followed by MirandaB in 2nd. 3rd Place honors belonged to Triple D with Some Guy right behind Triple D. MGGopher was 5th with swelna nipping on MGGopher's heels in 6th. Then of course a boatload of people including me behind them.
Since then, last fall, I heard from a couple of you. More importantly perhaps are my more recent conversations with GopherHole Staff. First GopherHole Staff is more than happy to support Pick'ems for this fall. They have graciously donated three gift certificates to Gold Country in the amounts of $75.00 to the 1st place winner, $50.00 to the 2nd place winner and then $25.00 to Gold Country for the 3rd place winner. The last I look; this is more than what the national champion team at the end of the year get in certificates to Gold Country!
One of the concerns that people have is that people tend to drop off as the season goes along. The theme I keep hearing is to keep it simple. The more time one has to spend researching teams etc., perhaps the more disinterest occurs among potential players.
The issue of course is directed at the number of games I was asking people to pick from. We started at a lower number, and then I increased it as the season went along. My intent was an attempt to make it more difficult. Two things happened. One is that the leaders stayed bunched up, while at the same time there was a drop off of people participating in Pick'ems. While I personally was happy to see a group bunch up as that made it interesting. I wasn't happy to see the drop off. That wasn't the intent of Pick'ems.
Two suggestions, and of course I'm open to comments, suggestions etc.
1) All submissions would be sent to me PM. Simply post on the thread that you have participated and perhaps make a comment accordingly. This seemed to have worked well at the end of the year when we were coming to the conclusion of the year.
2) The theme keeping it simple perhaps not only works in life, but also perhaps here for Pick'ems. It has been suggested that I reduce the number of games down to 3 or 4. The idea would have the Gopher game of course, a top national game, and also perhaps another Big 10 game or national game depending upon the schedule for the week.
When you think about it, when someone misses a week, you fall behind somewhere between 9 and 12 wins. That is a tough hill to climb. Unfortunately, that also quickly leads to more drop offs.
At first when I heard this, I thought no way. We can't reduce the number of games that far. However, the more I think about it, the more I've warmed up to the idea mainly due to the reason that someone may fall behind quickly if you miss a week as mentioned above.
In conclusion we have three issues to agree upon where we do have plenty of time to hash this over.
1) The season would start with the Gophers playing New Mexico with other games starting later that weekend.
2) What is your reaction for sending all picks for the purposes of privacy etc.? Either you can trust me with my picks, or you may offer suggestions.
3) Give it some deep thought as to the idea of reducing the number of picks to 3-4 games a week. Games of course would be hopefully tougher to choose winners from. The idea is to make it less work to research a number of games, prevent drop offs so quickly, and if you missed a week, you wouldn't fall behind so quickly.
Commissioner #2Gopher
Since then, last fall, I heard from a couple of you. More importantly perhaps are my more recent conversations with GopherHole Staff. First GopherHole Staff is more than happy to support Pick'ems for this fall. They have graciously donated three gift certificates to Gold Country in the amounts of $75.00 to the 1st place winner, $50.00 to the 2nd place winner and then $25.00 to Gold Country for the 3rd place winner. The last I look; this is more than what the national champion team at the end of the year get in certificates to Gold Country!
One of the concerns that people have is that people tend to drop off as the season goes along. The theme I keep hearing is to keep it simple. The more time one has to spend researching teams etc., perhaps the more disinterest occurs among potential players.
The issue of course is directed at the number of games I was asking people to pick from. We started at a lower number, and then I increased it as the season went along. My intent was an attempt to make it more difficult. Two things happened. One is that the leaders stayed bunched up, while at the same time there was a drop off of people participating in Pick'ems. While I personally was happy to see a group bunch up as that made it interesting. I wasn't happy to see the drop off. That wasn't the intent of Pick'ems.
Two suggestions, and of course I'm open to comments, suggestions etc.
1) All submissions would be sent to me PM. Simply post on the thread that you have participated and perhaps make a comment accordingly. This seemed to have worked well at the end of the year when we were coming to the conclusion of the year.
2) The theme keeping it simple perhaps not only works in life, but also perhaps here for Pick'ems. It has been suggested that I reduce the number of games down to 3 or 4. The idea would have the Gopher game of course, a top national game, and also perhaps another Big 10 game or national game depending upon the schedule for the week.
When you think about it, when someone misses a week, you fall behind somewhere between 9 and 12 wins. That is a tough hill to climb. Unfortunately, that also quickly leads to more drop offs.
At first when I heard this, I thought no way. We can't reduce the number of games that far. However, the more I think about it, the more I've warmed up to the idea mainly due to the reason that someone may fall behind quickly if you miss a week as mentioned above.
In conclusion we have three issues to agree upon where we do have plenty of time to hash this over.
1) The season would start with the Gophers playing New Mexico with other games starting later that weekend.
2) What is your reaction for sending all picks for the purposes of privacy etc.? Either you can trust me with my picks, or you may offer suggestions.
3) Give it some deep thought as to the idea of reducing the number of picks to 3-4 games a week. Games of course would be hopefully tougher to choose winners from. The idea is to make it less work to research a number of games, prevent drop offs so quickly, and if you missed a week, you wouldn't fall behind so quickly.
Commissioner #2Gopher
