BG Bowl Pick Em

[Akiyama]

I actually do have FAU over Memphis o.o;

[Byrd]

Tonight is the first game. Although last year, they allowed us to switch picks and confidence levels around for the first few bowl games, the rules imply it will lock at kickoff of the first game (tonight). Get your picks in now. You might also doublecheck that you have a check mark for every game; last year someone missed a game somehow. Although he called it correctly well beforehand, it still had the potential to screw things up. So here's your disclaimer now: if you miss picking a game, tough shit. Doublecheck your picks now.

We've currently got 28 participants. If you can somehow incorporate your BG name into your team name (unless it's obvious from your last name), that'd be helpful.

[Remyo]

douchebags are clogging the site so be warned if you need to do last minute checks.

[archibaldcrane]

You might also doublecheck that you have a check mark for every game; last year someone missed a game somehow. Although he called it correctly well beforehand

That was me, there was much QQing on my behalf involved.

DON'T BE THIS MAN!

[Mizango]

You might also doublecheck that you have a check mark for every game; last year someone missed a game somehow. Although he called it correctly well beforehand

That was me, there was much QQing on my behalf involved.

DON'T BE THIS MAN!

Triple checked due to this post. I had no idea that was possible... Thanks for the heads up. lol

[Akiyama]

Had to double check mine tonight as well.

[LAGUNA]

cmon navy

[Remyo]

damn navy, well atleast it was one of my lower point games. was looking through a few peoples selections and one persons picks showed an incorrect mark on their Utah pick.

[Akiyama]

Yeah.. wtf? My Utah pick says I'm wrong..

[Remyo]

Yeah.. wtf? My Utah pick says I'm wrong..

HAHAHA

[Akiyama]

Yeah.. wtf? My Utah pick says I'm wrong..

HAHAHA

Actually, everyone got it "wrong"

[Byrd]

Woohoo! First place for me! Am I the only one who realized that Navy's coach quit between the final game of the season and the bowl game? Or did everyone else simply not give that transition much importance? Or did everyone forget to move their picks around, seeing as how #1 was the default position?

Looks like we only have one person who forgot to make picks (Colm), but there's a lot of people who didn't change their order much, if at all, judging by the number of people who still have Utah & Navy as their #1 confidence, since that was the default.

And the Utah pick is marked correctly now, it appears.

[Ryany]

Did some people pick their confidence values in reverse order? (like confidence of 1 for most confidence)

It just seems strange that some of these games have 20 people picking a team 25+ confidence and then there will be 4-5 people picking the other team at 25+ confidence. Obviously you would expect to see the people that picked the underdog picking them at a single-digit confidence and not super high confidence.

[Akiyama]

I moved my picks around about 50 times so definitely not me.

Also, we seem to have two Colms anyway so maybe he just forgot to remove the one on the bottom, lol.

[Byrd]

Did some people pick their confidence values in reverse order? (like confidence of 1 for most confidence)

It just seems strange that some of these games have 20 people picking a team 25+ confidence and then there will be 4-5 people picking the other team at 25+ confidence. Obviously you would expect to see the people that picked the underdog picking them at a single-digit confidence and not super high confidence.

I know a least a couple of people make homer picks for the top (Kalika and Archibaldcrane come to mind) pick or two. My best guess as to why underdogs are so high is that I think what people might have done is gone through once, made their picks, maybe made a couple of minor changes (if any), with the mindset to come back and edit later once they saw point spreads or whatever, then simpy forgot to follow-up.

[Akiyama]

I notice a lot of people picking Memphis over FAU, but eh. Go FAU!

[Byrd]

http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/whop ... DFrom=3011

This shows who pick whom and for how much, for every entry in the game.

[Ryany]

I picked Memphis because I thought they gave Tennessee a tough game, but it was the other team from Tennessee (Vanderbilt) that gave them a tough game. Both teams got blown out by their quality competition so this game is probably a hard one to pick anyway.

[Akiyama]

http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/whopickedwhom?entryIDFrom=3011

This shows who pick whom and for how much, for every entry in the game.

Ah, that's cool. Well apart from a few games (The Texas Tech/Virginia being one of them).. our picks seem to be about the same.

[Makaveli]

Damn didnt realize they lost their coach before the bowl game, oh well 31 more games to go.