12-01-2019, 02:36 AM
Thanks for managing this, george. I ended up tied for 4th and picked the following games wrong: USC, Washington, UCLA, Arizona, Colorado and Cal. Guess that shows how tough the season was.
One small quibble from my side on the scoring system. There appears to be no reward in the system for getting the spread right. Example: If you pick Stanford to win 24-23 and the final score is 34-33, you are worse off than somebody who picks Stanford to win 38-28. There is certainly also some skill in predicting how close a game will be; but the scoring system focuses much more on the individual numbers and how far away they are from the final result. Not sure if integrating spread can be done elegantly, but it's certainly an important element to the sport (ultimately, it's what you win the money for if you are betting, which I am not).
One small quibble from my side on the scoring system. There appears to be no reward in the system for getting the spread right. Example: If you pick Stanford to win 24-23 and the final score is 34-33, you are worse off than somebody who picks Stanford to win 38-28. There is certainly also some skill in predicting how close a game will be; but the scoring system focuses much more on the individual numbers and how far away they are from the final result. Not sure if integrating spread can be done elegantly, but it's certainly an important element to the sport (ultimately, it's what you win the money for if you are betting, which I am not).