Pick Per Day for 12/23/08 - Day 40

MNSnowman

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Tuesday's deadline for picks is 5PM except as noted.

Good luck with your picks!
Kent State at Cleveland State -7.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Butler at Xavier -8 (7:00 PM EST)
Detroit at Central Michigan -4.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Illinois at Missouri -2.5 (7:30 PM EST)
Marshall at Dayton -10 (8:00 PM EST)
SMU at Northwestern -16 (8:00 PM EST)
New Mexico State at New Mexico -10 (8:30 PM EST)
UL-Monroe at Colorado -16.5 (9:00 PM EST)
Texas -1.5 at Wisconsin (9:30 PM EST)
Wyoming at Ucla -19.5 (10:00 PM EST)
Saint Mary's Ca -7 at Pacific (10:00 PM EST)
Kansas at Arizona -2 (10:30 PM EST)
Stanford -2.5 at Santa Clara (11:00 PM EST)
Cal Riverside at Hawaii -5.5 (12:00 Am EST)
Marist at Delaware -11.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Niagara -2.5 at St. Bonaventure (7:00 PM EST)
Buffalo at Siena -9.5 (7:00 PM EST)
Iona at Hofstra -4 (7:00 PM EST)
Se Missouri St at Arkansas State -16 (8:00 PM EST)
Portland State at Gonzaga -19 (8:00 PM EST)
Weber State at So Mississippi -10.5 (8:30 PM EST)
Geo Washington -9.5 at Sacramento State (10:00 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.
 


PPD Standings after 12/22

NOTES

  • Indiana is the consensus pick with 12 votes … and loses despite being favored by 2 pts.
  • TheSportsAce has just joined PPD … and gets a push
  • Marquette (-3) wins by 3 for the push
Yes, it was too good to be true: Wake Forest was originally set at +10 and later corrected to -9. I sent e-mails (if able to) and private msgs to all 3 who had picked 'em; 2 resubmitted and the 3rd was given a "push"

Today's Results
6 - Wins
15 - Losses
4 - Pushes
0.286 - Winning pctge
25 - Participants
Consensus Pick: Indiana -2 (picked by 12)​
Cumulative Record
438 - Wins
411 - Losses
12 - Pushes
0.516 - Winning pctge
861 - Number of Picks
39 - Number of Days​
Consensus Picks
32 - Wins
17 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.653 - Winning pctge​
Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - GopherRock ( 21 - 11 - 1 ) - 0.656
.. 2 - OSUfan ( 19 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.613
.. 3 - rrjack ( 18 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.600
.. 4 - Ilovethebarn ( 15 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.577
.. 5 - The Big L ( 15 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.556
.. 6 - NemosGold ( 14 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.538
.. 7 - Goldy 1966 ( 19 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.528
.. ... Ski U Mah Gopher ( 19 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.528
.. 9 - Gopher In Qatar ( 20 - 19 - 0 ) - 0.513
10 - MinnMarchDTF ( 14 - 14 - 2 ) - 0.500
11 - RoyalGO4 ( 16 - 18 - 1 ) - 0.471
12 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 15 - 19 - 0 ) - 0.441
13 - Jike Spingleton ( 17 - 22 - 0 ) - 0.436
14 - Gopherholefan ( 14 - 19 - 1 ) - 0.424
15 - Zales04 ( 13 - 22 - 0 ) - 0.371
16 - MNSnowman ( 14 - 25 - 0 ) - 0.359

Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - Gopherlady ( 7 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.700
.. 3 - SaturnSweater ( 16 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.696
.. 4 - USTGopher ( 15 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.625
.. .. ..MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 10 - 6 - 1 ) - 0.625
.. 6 - gopherfan10 ( 13 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.619
.. 7 - NateDawgUM ( 12 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.600
.. 8 - mom8pop ( 14 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.560
.. 9 - Gopher07 ( 11 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.550
10 - GoldenFuture5 ( 9 - 8 - 1 ) - 0.529
11 - soneillumn ( 11 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.524
12 - Xman ( 10 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.500
..
.. GopherHarvey ( 7 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.500
14 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
15 - CoolHand ( 6 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.462
16 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
17 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
18 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300
19 - JMGIII ( 0 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.000
20 - TheSportsAce ( 0 - 0 - 1 ) - 0.000

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






















The Sports Ace: Texas -1.5

Great way to start...get a push. Hmm.

Go Gophers!
 




Score

XMan: Xavier -8
 




OSUfan: Illinois +2.5

Why is it that the Big Ten teams that are better than their opponents from rival BCS leagues are consistently underdogs? Compared with Missouri, Illinois is the better team. PERIOD.
 





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