Predict the Score vs Col. State - from old board

[MNSnowman]

Predict the score for Saturday's first road game against Colorado State. Tip-off is at 9:30 but because of the 6:00 kickoff time for the football game against the Hawkeyes earlier that night, predictions must be submitted by 4PM Saturday.

If you pick the exact score (hasn't happened yet either last season or this), you win. Otherwise, whoever picks the winning team and is closest to the exact score wins. (See Small Print for how that's calculated.)

Please note that your prediction must be in this format:

moniker Gophers (or Minnesota) xx Rams (or Colorado State) xx

example: MNSnowman Gophers 70 Rams 65

Even if you think the Gophers will lose, please put the Gopher score before the opposing team score ... I try to automate the data entry process as much as possible and thus need your prediction in the right order for the macros to work. And please put your moniker (or screen name) in the post and at the start of the prediction.

If everyone uses their moniker, this format and consistent names for the teams, its easy and fast to transfer the data to a spreadsheet used to track predictions. You should check the summary for your prediction to make sure it has been included and check this thread for any notes to those who have predictions that cannot be counted.

And even if you don't win, you'll garner valuable points in the Predict the Score Contest (see "Small Print" below).

You should check the summary for your prediction to make sure it has been included and check this thread for any notes to those who have predictions that cannot be counted. And even if you don't win, you'll garner points in the Predict the Score Season Contest (see "Small Print" below). Winners of the individual competitions are listed below:

Predict The Score Winners
11-14-08 - Concordia (St Paul): CharlesBenjamin
11-15-08 - Bowling Green: CottageGrove 12
11-16-08 - Georgia State: Anderson 8284

For the season competition standings, see the next post in this thread.


The 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.

- 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.


Predict the Score 2008-09 Season Contest.
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. Standings are published after every game and following the announcement of that game's Predict the Score contest winner.

[MNSnowman]

After the first three games, here are the standings:

Place/points - GopherHoler
1 / 32 pts - Anderson8284
2 / 23 pts - Charlesbenjamin
3 / 18 pts - CottageGrove 12 and USTGopher
5 / 16 pts - HopHead
6 / 12 pts - Blizzard and mom8pop
8 / 11 pts - sandiegopete
9 / 9 pts - ChemEGopher, Gopherholefan and GopherKev
12 / 7 pts - MNSnowman, Runext07 and The Big L
15 / 3 pts - book, Freshtrout, Gopher In Qatar, Mikie S, ron456, Ski U Mah, WadeHokenson and Warrior04
23 / 2 pts - Tubtastic and Whogoofed
25 / 1 pts - Cheeseheadgophfan, cncmin, DevOJoe5, gortonsfisherman0, stevenmgr and Zales04

[MNSnowman]

Well, we have 25 predictions in with 20 favoring the Gophers and five choosing Colorado State. Predictions are due by 4:00 Saturday; here is the summary:

........ Gophers Colorado State
Gophers Colorado State
Group Avg: 67.3 63.3
Grp Median: 68 63
Lowest score: 57 51
Highest score: 76 76
Predictions: 20 5

G'holer - Gophers Score vs Rams (Winner)

MNSnowman = 70-65 (Gophers)
Runext07 = 67-58 (Gophers)
Mikie S = 66-63 (Gophers)
blizzard = 76-69 (Gophers)
Ron456= 71-65 (Gophers)
Gopherholefan= 70-59 (Gophers)
XMan= 68-60 (Gophers)
Warrior04= 74-66 (Gophers)
Zales04= 63-55 (Gophers)
Gopher In Qatar= 71-64 (Gophers)
Anderson8284= 62-61 (Gophers)
GortonsFisherman011= 69-59 (Gophers)
ChemEGopher = 68-64 (Gophers)
HopHead= 72-59 (Gophers)
book= 66-60 (Gophers)
WadeHokenson = 69-62 (Gophers)
whogoofed= 65-60 (Gophers)
Ski U Mah Gopher= 65-62 (Gophers)
GoldRush = 73-69 (Gophers)
The Big L= 57-51 (Gophers)

Figi = 60-70 (Col. State)
sec105 = 59-65 (Col. State)
freshtrout = 71-76 (Col. State)
Technogopher= 65-70 (Col. State)
Charlesbenjamin = 66-71 (Col. State)

[sec105]

sec105= 65-59 (Col St.)

[MNSnowman]

please use the right format - thanks!

[Anderson8284]

Anderson8284 Gophers 62 Rams 61

[GortonsFisherman011]

GortonsFisherman011 Gophers 69 Rams 59

[ChemEGopher]

ChemEGopher: Gophers 68 Rams 64

[sec105]

sec105: Rams 65 Gophers 59

With the new board I thoiught you had a new format when I looked at your "summary of predictons".

[freshtrout]

freshtrout -- Rams 76 -- Gophers 71

[Big Play]

Rams85 Gophers76

[technogopher]

Technogopher Gophers 65 Rams 70

[MNSnowman]

Originally Posted by sec105

sec105: Rams 65 Gophers 59

With the new board I thoiught you had a new format when I looked at your "summary of predictons".

Still the wrong format ... I've reformatted it but for future reference, you need to put the Gopher score first (even if you think the opponent will win) so that the macros work correctly. Sorry it's so picky but otherwise it takes too much time to fiddle with it.

Thanks!

[MNSnowman]

I've reformatted it but for future reference, you need to put the Gopher score first (even if you think the opponent will win) so that the macros work correctly. Thanks!

[MNSnowman]

please use the right format and resubmit -- thanks!

Please note that your prediction must be in this format:

moniker Gophers (or Minnesota) xx Opponents xx

example: MNSnowman Gophers 70 Rams 65

Even if you think the Gophers will lose, please put the Gopher score before the opposing team score ... I try to automate the data entry process as much as possible and thus need your prediction in the right order for the macros to work. And please put your moniker (or screen name) in the post and at the start of the prediction.

If everyone uses their moniker, this format and consistent names for the teams, its easy and fast to transfer the data to a spreadsheet used to track predictions. You should check the summary for your prediction to make sure it has been included and check this thread for any notes to those who have predictions that cannot be counted.

[MNSnowman]

Originally Posted by freshtrout

freshtrout -- Rams 76 -- Gophers 71

Also the wrong format ... I've reformatted it but for future reference, you need to put the Gopher score first (even if you think the opponent will win) so that the macros work correctly. Thanks!

[HopHead]

HopHead Gophers 72 Rams 59

[charlesbenjamin7]

Charlesbenjamin - Gophers 66 - Rams 71

[WadeHokenson]

WadeHokenson: Gophers 69 Rams 62

[book]

book Gophers 66 Rams 60