The Small Print for "Predict the Score" Participants

[Rick Mons]

Small Print:
Predict the Score rules​

- whoever picks the exact score and winning team wins. If more than one person picks the exact score and team, the person who first chose that score wins that game's competition.

- if nobody picks the exact score, the person who predicted the winning team and whose prediction is closest to the actual score wins. The closest pick will be calculated by subtracting the predicted scores from each team's actual score. The absolute value of those differences shall determine the total variance.

- If two or more have the same variation between their projected scores and the actual scores, the closest to the exact winning team's score wins.

- If there is still a tie, the person who first entered the contest wins.

- just one entry per person and predictions cannot be changed once made.

- If the prediction isn't in the correct format, it may get rejected. Depends on how busy I am (and how patient).

EDIT: I've added a "twit" rule. If you're an unrepentant twit and I put you on the "ignore" list, I'll not be able to see your entry and thus will not include it. This rule includes, for example, those who use "retard" or "retards" as a term of disparagement or insult. This may violate your perceived "Freedom of Speech" -- but I get to run the competition as I see fit. ... ... (added 10/10/09)

Predict the Score 2009-10 Basketball Season Contest.
You need to be an ongoing member of GopherHole in order to earn points in the season standings. I've added this provision due to the number of opposition fans who enter just once ... it complicates the stats unnecessarily since these folks never return. (added 9/27/09; revised 10/18/09)

After the results are tallied for each game, points are awarded to those who made predictions based upon how close the actual score is to the predicted scores:

15 points will go to the First Place winner(s)
10 points will go to Second Place
7 points to Third Place
5 points to Fourth Place
3 points to Fifth Place
1 point if you pick the winning team but failed to place.​

If there are two or more with the same difference between actual and predicted score, each will get the points provided that all predicted the winning team. Season standings are published after every game and following the announcement of that game's Predict the Score contest winner.