As promised, I’ve started a College Pick’em league. Invitations should have gone out to everyone that played last year, and everyone else is welcome to participate. There is no limit of the number of players. There should be fewer games to pick each week this year, as I set it to “Top 25” and “SEC”, but not the Yahoo choices.
We’re using confidence point scoring, and your lowest week will be dropped for ranking purposes.
The league is at Yahoo, Group ID# 1362
Password is cecil
Note: I will not edit your picks, ever, for any reason. You may as well not select the option that would allow it, cuz it ain’t gonna happen. You can select an option to send you email reminders before the first game each week if you like. The deadline to get your picks in is 5 minutes before each game.
Got the invite, glad you are reducing the # games, although I would like to see it fixed to a specific number of games per week. If a player happens to miss a week that has more games played than any other week then he will be at a disadvantage.
IIRC, I think a couple of entrants (me included) forgot to hit the submit button after making the picks last year.
I don’t think there’s an option for a set number of games. I only remember choices for Yahoo choices, Top 25, and one conference. The dropped lowest week will partially mitigate a player forgetting to hit submit one time.
Judging by the “ranking numbers” at The Best of Recruiting and High School Sports they will depend on the AP Poll’s choices. If I remember correctly in past years those numbers get adjusted soon after the new AP numbers come out, but may not be shown in the week’s schedule right away.
Do you know how soon the “Top 25” will be visible to the “Pick’em” crowd?
If the assumption is good that the AP Top 25 will be in line with the other polls in this list, the games we will have to work with ought to come from these:
Week 1 Scoreboard [Coaches] (Yahoo!) <Rivals>
Thursday September 1, 2011
UNLV 8:00 pm EDT
[10] (7) <7> Wisconsin
[20] (15) Mississippi St. 8:00 pm EDT SEC
Memphis
Kentucky 9:15 pm EDT SEC
West. Kentucky
UC Davis 10:00 pm EDT
<20> Arizona St.
Friday September 2, 2011
Youngstown St. 7:30 pm EDT
[17] (14) <18> Michigan St.
[15] (2) <15> TCU 8:00 pm EDT
Baylor
Saturday September 3, 2011
Utah St. 12:00 pm EDT
[19] (1) Auburn SEC
Indiana St. 12:00 pm EDT
[25] <23> Penn St.
Miami (OH) 12:00 pm EDT
[21] (18) Missouri
Akron 12:00 pm EDT
[16] (5) <16> Ohio St.
Kent St. 12:20 pm EDT
[2] (10) <2> Alabama SEC
Appalachian St. 12:30 pm EDT
[13] (16) <12> Virginia Tech
Minnesota 3:30 pm EDT
<19> USC
LA Monroe 3:30 pm EDT
[5] (17) <8> Florida St.
Chattanooga 3:30 pm EDT
[11] (20) <9> Nebraska
South Florida 3:30 pm EDT
[18] <13> Notre Dame
<25> BYU 4:45 pm EDT
Mississippi SEC
San Jose St. 5:00 pm EDT
[6] (4) <6> Stanford
Montana 6:00 pm EDT
Tennessee SEC
Liberty 6:00 pm EDT
(25) N.C. State
LA Lafayette 7:00 pm EDT
[8] (13) <11> Oklahoma St.
[12] (22) <17> South Carolina 7:00 pm EDT SEC
East Carolina
Rice 7:00 pm EDT
[24] <22> Texas
Missouri St. 7:00 pm EDT
[14] (12) <14> Arkansas SEC
Charleston Sou. 7:00 pm EDT
(21) UCF
Florida Atlantic 7:00 pm EDT
[23] <21> Florida SEC
Elon 7:30 pm EDT
Vanderbilt SEC
(24) Tulsa 8:00 pm EDT
[1] (6) <1> Oklahoma
[4] (8) <4> LSU 8:00 pm EDT SEC
[3] (3) <3> Oregon
[7] (9) <5> Boise St. 8:00 pm EDT
[22] Georgia SEC
Sunday September 4, 2011
Marshall 3:30 pm EDT
<24> West Virginia
SMU 7:30 pm EDT
[9] (19) <10> Texas A&M
Monday September 5, 2011
Miami (FL) 8:00 pm EDT
(23) Maryland
Not very many. Less than I put on BYU over Ole Miss in Oxford. I expect the Rebels to stink up the place. One of the guys competing for the starting QB job got himself arrested last week. That doesn’t bode well for the season. Fortunately, I’m a Mississippi State fan, so kudos to the fine law enforcement officers in Oxford for doing their duty.
RamblinWreckage also picked UGA over Boise. This post might come back to haunt me, but I think if UGA can beat BSU and USC, they will run the table to the SEC Championship (aka the De Facto National Championship game).
Hey, guys, let me show you a little tinkering I have done just to give my “confidence points” more “science” than just grabbing numbers.
Using http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt11.htm to get Sagarin’s preseason rankings for both teams, and getting the difference in those ranking numbers, and then sorting by the resulting differences I get:
@(18)Ohio St. vs Akron Sat 09/03 11:00am - 3 157 154
@(15)Arkansas vs Missouri St. Sat 09/03 06:00pm - 13 156 143
@(10)Nebraska vs Chattanooga Sat 09/03 02:30pm - 18 148 130
@(22)Florida vs Florida Atlantic Sat 09/03 06:00pm - 6 133 127
@(7)Stanford vs San Jose St. Sat 09/03 04:00pm - 12 136 124
@(2)Alabama vs Kent St. Sat 09/03 11:20am - 1 124 123
@(9)Oklahoma St. vs LA Lafayette Sat 09/03 06:00pm - 16 139 123
@(6)Florida St. vs LA Monroe Sat 09/03 02:30pm - 15 131 116
@(17)Michigan St. vs Youngstown St. Fri 09/02 06:30pm - 36 151 115
@(23)Auburn vs Utah St. Sat 09/03 11:00am - 11 118 107
@(21)Missouri vs Miami (OH) Sat 09/03 11:00am - 21 117 96
@(24)West Virginia vs Marshall Sun 09/04 02:30pm - 22 101 79
@(25)USC vs Minnesota Sat 09/03 02:30pm - 10 81 71
@(13)Virginia Tech vs Appalachian St. Sat 09/03 11:30am - 9 74 65
(14)TCU vs @Baylor Fri 09/02 07:00pm - 4 69 65
@(8)Texas A&M vs SMU Sun 09/04 06:30pm - 37 95 58
@(1)Oklahoma vs Tulsa Sat 09/03 07:00pm - 5 57 52
@Tennessee vs Montana Sat 09/03 05:00pm - 42 91 49
@(12)South Carolina vs East Carolina Sat 09/03 06:00pm - 26 71 45
@Vanderbilt vs Elon Sat 09/03 06:30pm - 90 112 22
(5)Boise St. vs @(19)Georgia Sat 09/03 07:00pm - 7 25 18
BYU vs @Mississippi Sat 09/03 03:45pm - 35 50 15
@(16)Notre Dame vs South Florida Sat 09/03 02:30pm - 33 45 12
(3)Oregon vs @(4)LSU Sat 09/03 07:00pm - 2 8 6
I’m assigning “confidence points” from 24 at the top to 1 at the bottom.
Since money’s not involved I thought I’d share the method with y’all just to see what you think. Shoot it down, or use it (or a variation of it) for yourself.
Notice that I have not blindly followed Sagarin’s rankings to pick WINNERS; I have some upsets in my picks. But I ranked the games themselves (confidence wise) with this approach.
More mocking here. My confidence point rankings are pulled straight outta my ass, based on what I think/hope might/could/should happen maybe/kinda/sorta.
Okay. I will give you credit for lack of perspiration in the process. I have next to zero faith in the “method” I used, but after all the bullshit I spread in that thread about “must-see OOC games” I figured I ought to use some of that approach here as well. Besides, it’s hard to work up much anticipation for tonight’s games. I may watch enough of either or both to see the ranked team get maybe 30 points ahead. Then switch over to some comedy show or whatever.
As soon as I lose this week I will revert to a similar approach, but I think this gives a bit of an indicator of how cupcake the first week really is. Notice how only four games feature rivals within 20 ranking points of each other! And one of them is on our list because it’s an SEC game.
I find it really amusing how “tight” the Vandy game is!
