Dang it, I picked the wrong week to be out of town and missed the chance to be right on Indiana over Missouri. So I’ve got UCLA, Auburn, LSU, and Mississippi to lose this week. Congrats again to the Hoosiers for knocking off a rated SEC team on the road.
Is there a way to score for picking no ranked teams to lose this week? I don’t see any games between ranked teams, and I’m not really feeling an upset this week…
Actually, I could imagine that it won’t come up very often at all now that we’re in conference play for the most part. Assuming it ever does though, how would you score it? +1?
Interesting pickle! Assuming no impossible situations (like this week) I’d be inclined to award more than just a +1, but surely not the total number of ranked games, so something in between.
Maybe we can use comments in this thread to get at an idea for a consensus of what to score the situation where “No Losers” becomes a valid vote and result.
In such a situation (no Top 25 teams facing each other) ALL of them losing ought to be worth more that ALL of them winning, right? I mean, the expectation is that they all should win. So all of them LOSING would basically be your Cold Day In Hell!
Let’s game it out:
Situation: No top teams lose.
Choice 1: Don’t play that week, take a 0.
Choice 2: Take one or top teams to lose, -1 pt for every game picked.
Choice 3: Take the “No Losers” option, +1
If you pick it and you’re right, you gain season points on everyone who took Choice 1 or 2. Sounds about right to me.
See this is why the rest of the nation hates Big 10 fans. They don’t root for their teams. They don’t even like their teams that much. They spend all their time and energy rooting against other teams. Listening to them is like listening to a Republican Congressman that doesn’t care if his party fails just as long as Obama fails harder.
You are correct. I had one of astorian’s picks in your column and your score wasn’t moving to the summary page. It’ll be corrected on this week’s summary.
I disagree. I root for Michigan State, then the rest of the Big Ten teams in order of my fondness for the school, starting with Michigan and ending with Ohio State. What I object to is the sense of entitlement that SEC fans have, thinking they had a guaranteed place in the BCS title game and now at least one, maybe two (hell, why not four?) spots in the new four team tournament. Wisconsin and Michigan State lose to rated teams on the road, and people say the Big Ten is eliminated from the tournament. If this is true, why doesn’t Missouri’s loss to an unranked team at home eliminate the SEC?
OK, Magic 8-Ball says Texas A&M and UCLA lose this week. I voted accordingly. For anyone that cares, Arkansas on the road over Texas A&M will be my official Upset Special this week.
