Pick Per Day for 1/3/09 - Day 48

[MNSnowman]

for all games starting on or before 6:00 PM EST, Saturday's deadline for picks is prior to tip-off time CST (times below are EST).

For all games with tip-off after 6:00PM EST, deadline is 5PM.

The spread for the Gopher game is now available. Good luck with your picks!

tOSU at Minnesota -4 (12:00 PM EST)

Pittsburgh at Georgetown -2.5 (12:00 PM EST)
Rice at Richmond -10.5 (12:00 PM EST)
Missouri -6 at Georgia (1:00 PM EST)
William & Mary at Northeastern -8 (1:00 PM EST)
Penn State at Wisconsin -10 (2:00 PM EST)
Notre Dame -9.5 at St. John's (2:00 PM EST)
Tennessee at Kansas -2 (2:00 PM EST)
Xavier -3 at Virginia (2:00 PM EST)
Drexel at Hofstra -5 (2:00 PM EST)
Fordham at Bowling Green -15.5 (2:00 PM EST)
Akron at Rhode Island -9.5 (2:00 PM EST)
St. Joseph's -7.5 at Ball State (2:00 PM EST)
Georgia Tech at Alabama -3 (3:00 PM EST)
North Texas at Arkansas -9 (3:00 PM EST)
Nc Charlotte at Maryland -9 (4:00 PM EST)
Houston U at Mississippi St -3 (4:00 PM EST)
Wyoming at Utah U -11.5 (4:00 PM EST)
Old Dominion -4.5 at Georgia State (4:00 PM EST)
East Carolina at Clemson -22.5 (4:00 PM EST)
Cleveland State -7.5 at Detroit (4:00 PM EST)
West Virginia -8 at Seton Hall (4:00 PM EST)
Ncstate at Florida -11 (4:00 PM EST)
Vanderbilt at Massachusetts -1 (5:00 PM EST)
Denver U at Ul - Lafayette -8 (6:00 PM EST)
Washington U at Washington State -1.5 (6:00 PM EST)
Tulane at Auburn -12.5 (6:00 PM EST)
James Madison at Towson State -0 (7:00 PM EST)
Michigan State -4.5 at Northwestern (7:00 PM EST)
Rutgers at Connecticut -21.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Youngstown State at Wright State -14 (7:00 PM EST)
Depaul at Providence -9 (7:00 PM EST)
Colorado State at TCU -5 (8:00 PM EST)
Middle Tenn St at South Alabama -2.5 (8:00 PM EST)
Arkansas Lr at Western Kentucky -7 (8:00 PM EST)
Creighton at Illinois State -1.5 (8:00 PM EST)
Wichita State at Northern Iowa -4 (8:00 PM EST)
Wisc Green Bay at Illinois Chicago -7.5 (8:00 PM EST)
San Diego State -6.5 at Air Force (9:00 PM EST)
Idaho U at Nevada -12 (10:00 PM EST)
Cs Fullerton -2 at Cal Irvine (10:00 PM EST)
Manhattan at Niagara -13 (7:00 PM EST)
Se Missouri St at Tennessee Tech -13.5 (8:30 PM EST)
Eastern Kentucky -2.5 at Tennessee State (8:30 PM EST)
Morehead State at Austin Peay -7 (8:30 PM EST)
Eastern Illinois at Jacksonville St -11 (8:30 PM EST)
Northern Colorado at Weber State -6 (9:00 PM EST)
Montana State at Montana -3.5 -(9:00 PM EST)





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Small Print

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Here's the way Pick-per-Day (PPD) works:

1. You make one pick per day by selecting a team and the point spread that's offered.
For example, if Florida is favored by 22.5 points versus Toledo and you choose Florida, you pick Florida -22.5
If instead you think that spread is too generous, you pick Toledo +22.5

2. The pick must be in required format (see#5 below) and submitted by that day's deadline.

3. I always identify the deadlines for picks (picks on weekdays are usually due at 5:00 while picks on weekends and holidays will usually be due at 12 noon.) If you don't make the published deadline, I'll still try to include your pick if I can, but no promises and it largely depends on how busy I am around the deadline time or after I edit the summary.

4. Please verify your pick was recorded when the posting is Closed and please check the next days tally to make sure I correctly credited you with the win or loss. Mistakes will happen and I'm more than happy to go back a day or two and figure out what went wrong and then make any corrections. But I really don't want to go back a couple of weeks and try to recalculate the wins and losses.

5. All picks must be entered using this format:

Moniker: Team and Spread
(e.g. MNSnowman: Minnesota +1)
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Picks that are submitted after the deadline without making prior arrangements or do not use this format will not be counted in that days tally

6. If you want to change your pick, please add a new post rather than editing your original pick and please note it's a change in the header. (It's easier to pick up and make the change this way.

7. Every now and then, the provider of the Lines has a strange point spread. I reserve the right to scratch games where the spread exceeds normal expectations or if the picks are subsequently corrected, the correction is substantially different than the first pick and the original spread gives a participant an unfair advantage.

In other words, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

8. We now have two divisions ... one for the seriously addicted (must have made picks 2/3rds of the time) and the other for the more leisurely, laid-back participants. You'll move to the "upper" division if you make frequent picks over time ... the divisions are calculated each night. Because I round off the required minimum number of games, you may bounce back and forth between divisions from one night to another if you're close to the cut-off.

 

[MNSnowman]

Summary of 1/3/09 Picks

MNSnowman: Minnesota -4
Gopher In Qatar: Michigan State -4.5
rrjack: Michigan State -4.5
goldenfuture5: Minnesota -4
GopherHarvey: Penn State +10
MinnMarchDTF: Xavier -3
Jike Spingleton: Washington State -1.5
Gopherlady: Michigan State -4.5
OSUfan: Minnesota -4
SaturnSweater: Northern Iowa -4
Ski U Mah Gopher: Washington St -1.5
Nemosgold: Illinois St -1.5
RoyalGO4: Michigan State -4.5
GopherRock: Michigan State -4.5
Zales04: Michigan State -4.5
soneillumn: Tennessee +2
GOLDY1966: Wash St -1.5
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Michigan State -4.5
Xman: Michigan St. -4.5
USTGopher: Michigan State -4.5
Alltimetwinsfan: Michigan State -4.5

 

[MNSnowman]

UPDATED PPD Standings after 1/2/09 Games

NOTES

• Syracuse wins by only 5 -- they were picked by 7 at -8.5
• Stanford vs ASU was a pick 'em. ASU won by 30 -- in a pick 'em game?!?
• Group goes to just five games over .500
• MNSnowman plumbling new lows in win tallies. Despondent. Listless. Oh, yeah, I'm a Realtor® … that's just like the market!
• Madoff asked to join our group but I denied the request. He wanted to pick future wins/losses and collaterilize our picks. Bah.

Today's Results

7 - Wins
12 - Losses
0.368 - Winning pctge
19 - Participants
Consensus Pick: Syracuse (-8.5) selected by seven​

Cumulative Record

507 - Wins
502 - Losses
15 - Pushes
0.502 - Winning pctge
1024 - Number of Picks
47 - Number of Days​

Consensus Picks

36 - Wins
24 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.600 - Winning pctge​

Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - SaturnSweater ( 21 - 10 - 1 ) - 0.677
.. 2 - GopherRock ( 25 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.625
.. 3 - USTGopher ( 18 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.600
.. 4 - OSUfan ( 22 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.595
.. 5 - Goldy 1966 ( 26 - 18 - 0 ) - 0.591
.. 6 - rrjack ( 20 - 16 - 1 ) - 0.556
.. 7 - The Big L ( 16 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.516
.. 8 - NemosGold ( 17 - 16 - 0 ) - 0.515
.. 9 - RoyalGO4 ( 20 - 21 - 2 ) - 0.488
10 - MinnMarchDTF ( 15 - 16 - 2 ) - 0.484
11 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 21 - 23 - 0 ) - 0.477
12 - Gopher In Qatar ( 22 - 25 - 0 ) - 0.468
13 - Gopherholefan ( 17 - 21 - 1 ) - 0.447
...... Alltimetwinsfan ( 17 - 21 - 0 ) - 0.447
15 - Jike Spingleton ( 20 - 27 - 0 ) - 0.426
16 - Zales04 ( 15 - 28 - 0 ) - 0.349
17 - MNSnowman ( 16 - 31 - 0 ) - 0.340
Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - Gopherlady ( 7 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.700
.. 3 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 16 - 8 - 1 ) - 0.667
.. 4 - GopherHarvey ( 11 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.579
.. 5 - NateDawgUM ( 13 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.565
.. 6 - Gopher07 ( 12 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.545
.. 7 - GoldenFuture5 ( 13 - 11 - 1 ) - 0.542
.. 8 - gopherfan10 ( 14 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.538
.. 9 - mom8pop ( 15 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.517
10 - Ilovethebarn ( 15 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.500
...... CoolHand ( 7 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.500
...... TheSportsAce ( 1 - 1 - 1 ) - 0.500
13 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
14 - soneillumn ( 11 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.458
15 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
16 - Xman ( 10 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.417
17 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
18 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300
19 - JMGIII ( 0 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.000

One & Apparently Done (all 0 - 1 - 0 ) - GopherKev, Howeda7 and LloydBraun

 

[Gopher in Qatar]

Gopher In Qatar: Michigan State -4.5

 

[rrjackIII]

rrjack: Michigan State -4.5

 

[goldenfuture5]

goldenfuture5: I'll take the Gophers + or - anything

 

[GopherHarvey]

GopherHarvey: Penn State +10

 

[MinnMarchDTF]

MinnMarchDTF: Xavier -3

 

[Jike Spingleton]

Jike Spingleton: Washington State -1.5

 

[GopherLady]

Gopherlady: Michigan State -4.5

 

[OSUfan]

OSUfan: Minnesota -anything

 

[SaturnSweater]

SaturnSweater: Northern Iowa -4

 

[Ski U Mah Gopher]

Ski U Mah Gopher: Washington St -1.5

 

[nemosgold]

Nemosgold: Illinois St -1.5

 

[RoyalGO4]

RoyalGO4: Michigan State -4.5

 

[mhenry41h]

Penn State +10

 

[GopherRock]

GopherRock: Michigan State -4.5

 

[Zales04]

Zales04: Michigan State -4.5

 

[soneillumn]

soneillumn: Tennessee +2

 

[GOLDY1966]

GOLDY1966: Wash St -1.5

 

[MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed]

MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Michigan State -4.5

 

[XMan]

Pick

Xman: Michigan St. -4.5

 

[USTGopher]

USTGopher: Michigan State -4.5

 

[alltimetwinsfan]

Alltimetwinsfan: Michigan State -4.5