Pick per Day for 1/7/09 - Day 52

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DEADLINE for Wednesday games is 5PM.
Good luck with your picks!
Louisville -10 at South Florida (7:00 PM EST)
Harvard at Boston College -18.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Temple -9 at Eastern Michigan (7:00 PM EST)
Delaware at Hofstra -3.5 (7:00 PM EST)
St. Bonaventure -4.5 at Fordham (7:00 PM EST)
Depaul at Syracuse -14 (7:00 PM EST)
William & Mary -4 at Nc Wilmington (7:00 PM EST)
Northeastern -1.5 at Georgia State (7:00 PM EST)
James Madison at Old Dominion -9.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Nc Charlotte at Duquesne -3.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Providence at Cincinnati -3 (7:00 PM EST)
Tulane at East Carolina -7.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Michigan -6.5 at Indiana U (6:30 PM EST)
Marquette -9.5 at Rutgers (7:30 PM EST)
Indiana State at Drake -13 (8:00 PM EST)
Tulsa at So Mississippi -6 (8:00 PM EST)
Missouri St at Evansville -8 (8:00 PM EST)
So Illinois at Wichita State -4.5 (8:00 PM EST)
Northwestern at Wisconsin -8 - (8:30 PM EST)
Gonzaga at Tennessee -2.5 (9:00 PM EST)
Marshall at Memphis U -18.5 (9:00 PM EST)
Davidson at Duke -13 (7:00 PM EST)

Small Print

If you'd like to participate but haven't done so before, please send
me a Private Message (PM) by clicking on my screen-name.

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)
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.
 

Summary of 1/7/09 Picks

MNSnowman: Wichita State -4.5
OSUfan: Michigan -6.5
USTGopher: Duke -13
MinnMarchDTF: Cincy -3
rrjack: Michigan -6.5
Ski U Mah Gopher: Tennessee -2.5
Zales04: Cincinnati -3
RoyalGO4: St. Bonaventure -4.5
SaturnSweater: Temple -9
ilovethebarn: Michigan -6.5
Gopher In Qatar: Cincinnati -3
TheSportsAce: Tennessee -2.5
Gopherholefan: Rutgers +9.5
GopherRock: Michigan -6.5
NateDawgUM: Northwestern +8
Alltimetwinsfan: Tennessee -2.5
XMan: Duke -13
Jike Spingleton: Tennessee -2.5
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Michigan -6.5
goldenfuture5: Tennessee -2.5
The Big L: Wisconsin -8
GopherHarvey: Davidson +13
nemosgold: tennessee -2.5
GOLDY1966: TENN -2.5
 

PPD Standings after 1/6/09 Games

NOTES

  • Last year, the half-point spread seemed to work more in our favor than not. This year? Not so much. Spartans win by 9 but are favored by 9.5. Grrr.
  • Texas lost to Oklahoma 67-61 … strangely, nobody picked either team tonight.
  • Illinois State loses its first game when visiting Bradley (52-56)
Today's Results
For the first time, the group fell below .500. All those picks for Purdue (despite the recommendation to the contrary from MinnesotaBoiler99) and the failure of the Spartans to cover the spread doomed us.
6 - Wins
17 - Losses
0.261 - Winning pctge
23 - Participants
Consensus Pick: Purdue (-2.5), selected by 7.​
Cumulative Record
545 - Wins
548 - Losses
15 - Pushes
0.499 - Winning pctge
1108 - Number of Picks
51 - Number of Days​
Consensus Picks
37 - Wins
27 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.578 - Winning pctge​
Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - SaturnSweater ( 23 - 11 - 1 ) - 0.676
.. 2 - GopherRock ( 27 - 17 - 1 ) - 0.614
.. 3 - OSUfan ( 23 - 16 - 0 ) - 0.590
.. 4 - USTGopher ( 19 - 14 - 1 ) - 0.576
.. 5 - Goldy 1966 ( 27 - 21 - 0 ) - 0.563
.. 6 - rrjack ( 22 - 18 - 1 ) - 0.550
.. 7 - MinnMarchDTF ( 17 - 16 - 2 ) - 0.515
.. 8 - NemosGold ( 19 - 18 - 0 ) - 0.514
.. 9 - The Big L ( 17 - 17 - 1 ) - 0.500
10 - Gopher In Qatar ( 24 - 27 - 0 ) - 0.471
11 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 22 - 25 - 0 ) - 0.468
12 - RoyalGO4 ( 21 - 24 - 2 ) - 0.467
13 - Gopherholefan ( 19 - 22 - 1 ) - 0.463
14 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 19 - 23 - 0 ) - 0.452
15 - Jike Spingleton ( 23 - 28 - 0 ) - 0.451
16 - MNSnowman ( 19 - 32 - 0 ) - 0.373
17 - Zales04 ( 16 - 30 - 0 ) - 0.348
Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - Gopherlady ( 8 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.727
.. 3 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 19 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.679
.. 4 - GopherHarvey ( 13 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.565
.. 5 - NateDawgUM ( 13 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.542
.. 6 - Gopher07 ( 12 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.522
.. 7 - mom8pop ( 15 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.500
.. 8 - GoldenFuture5 ( 14 - 14 - 1 ) - 0.500
.. 9 - gopherfan10 ( 14 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.500
10 - CoolHand ( 7 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.500
11 - Ilovethebarn ( 15 - 16 - 0 ) - 0.484
12 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
13 - soneillumn ( 12 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.462
14 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
15 - Xman ( 11 - 16 - 0 ) - 0.407
16 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
17 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300
18 - TheSportsAce ( 1 - 3 - 1 ) - 0.250
Retired (no picks in last 3-4 weeks) - GopherKev, Howeda7 JMGIII and LloydBraun
 

OSUfan: Michigan -6.5

If I was 23-16 before I picked Penn State +2.5 against Purdue (which was a WINNER), wouldn't I be 24-16 now? So is "Oklahoma" now code for "Arkansas" (reading your recap from yesterday's picks)? :)
 






Zales04: Cincinnati -3
 















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XMan: Duke -13
 




MHenry -

MHenry - please check your mailbox for a PM I sent you last week.
 

OSU Fan

Sorry, I didn't catch your pick yesterday (you'll see it's not listed on the summary for yesterday either). I'll make the changes to today's standings which will be posted when tomorrow's picks go up.

As to the mistake with Oklahoma/Arkansas ... not new code, I'm terribly guilty of making a mistake. I've been battling a cold/flu this week so I'll blame it on that.
 





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