[martyup]

If you are looking for feedback, I'd remove the "if you pick against Stanford you lose 10 points".  This board already has cardinal-colored glasses enough without the 10 point bonus, but that's just me.

BC

Two considerations regarding this rule.  First, this is the Cardboard and Stanford fans should be rewarded for loyalty to the team vs the opposite.  Second, consider the hypothetical that Stanford loses a close game by 1 point.  One entrant picked Stanford to win by 1 while another entrant picked Stanford to lose by 3.  Each entrant has an error of 2 points.  Which one should get a higher point score?  

This brings up the question of whether we like rule 2, which says that all entrants that correctly picked the winning team score higher than all entrants that did not pick the winning team.  This rule could be deleted and we could just go by the error number.  Without rule 2, the entrants in the hypothetical above would tie.

Rule 2 provides a big penalty for not picking the winner, unless very few entrants did pick the winner.  This penalty is much greater than that of rule 4 (10 points for not picking Stanford to win).

[martyup]

If you are looking for feedback, I'd remove the "if you pick against Stanford you lose 10 points".  This board already has cardinal-colored glasses enough without the 10 point bonus, but that's just me.

BC

Two considerations regarding this rule.  First, this is the Cardboard and Stanford fans should be rewarded for loyalty to the team vs the opposite.  Second, consider the hypothetical that Stanford loses a close game by 1 point.  One entrant picked Stanford to win by 1 while another entrant picked Stanford to lose by 3.  Each entrant has an error of 2 points.  Which one should get a higher point score?  

This brings up the question of whether we like rule 2, which says that all entrants that correctly picked the winning team score higher than all entrants that did not pick the winning team.  This rule could be deleted and we could just go by the error number.  Without rule 2, the entrants in the hypothetical above would tie.

Rule 2 provides a big penalty for not picking the winner, unless very few entrants did pick the winner.  This penalty is much greater than that of rule 4 (10 points for not picking Stanford to win).