Pick Em Point Totals

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

At first thought, I assumed something like 68%, 67%, 66%, 65%, 51% should be 3, 2, 2, 2, 1. That is how I treated the first few weeks of this when I was asked to go back and retroactively find what Ken would have scored. Basically, my thought process was that 51% gets an obvious 1, the rest are all nearly equal and all get 2, and then you have 1 left over and have to bump 68% up to a 3.

After further thought, even a case like this one with four nearly unique prediction %'s still should be scored 4,3,1,1,1 if you truly want to best play the odds. The math is rather straightforward, and it shows an interesting distinction between math and "gut reaction". I'll fully admit my initial "gut reaction" was wrong. Glad that the scoring happened to come out the same to-date, and I'll use the proper method going forward.

[Shocker1976]

Congratulations to capnkirk for taking sole possession of First Place

Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Top Scores
capnkirk	5	10	7	7	10	10	10												59
valleyclimber	9	10	7	5	9	9	9												58
JH4P/KenPom	6	10	8	5	9	7	9												54
Play Angry	8	9	7	6	10	5	9												54
shocks771	6	10	7	6	8	8	9												54
im4wsu	8	9	7	5	9	6	9												53
EliShocker	5	9	7	6	10	6	9												52
Aargh	7	9	6	3	10	6	10												51
ShockerFever	5	8	7	5	8	8	10												51
shocks02	5	9	6	4	9	9	9												51
ccrunner101	5	10	8	5	8	5	9												50
Onegreatracer	6	7	9	7	9	4	8												50
Triticum aestivum l	5	9	7	4	8	8	9												50
WSU and Reds Fan	5	8	6	7	9	7	8												50
AndShock	6	9	6	5	8	3	6												43
BAShocker	4	8	8	6	10	6	7												49
bleednblackngold	4	8	6	7	8	5	8												46
btp1029	5	8	6	5	6	7	9												46
B1ShockFan	5	8	6	5	8	8	9												49
Calshockfan	5	9	6	5	8	5	7												45
COS Shocker	5	9	5	5	7	8	8												47
dregn	7	8	7	5	8	6	8												49
DUShock	2	8	5	4	8	4	9												40
dwbarcl	5	9	4	7	9	3	6												43
eeshocker	4	10	5	6	9	6													40
goob65	5	9	6	6	7	5	8												46
Horn28Clem30	4	6	6	6	9	8	8												47
molly jabali	4		7	3	9	9	9												41
moshock	5	10	5	6	8	5													39
MoValley John	4	9	5	6	8	5	7												44
newshock1234	5	9	7	5	8	5	8												47
pie n eye	5	9	7		8														29
proshox	3	9	8	8	9	3													40
Ricardo del Rio	4	8	5	4	7	4	9												41
rrshock	5	9	5	5	9	7	9												49
SB Shock	6	9	5	5	9	6	9												49
Shockadelica	6	7	6	4	8	8	9												48
ShockdaWorld	5	9	5	4	9	5	8												45
ShockerDave	4	7	6	5	7	5	9												43
ShockerDropOut	5	7	8	5	10	4	7												46
shockerfanmas	4	9	5	5	8														31
Shocker1976	6	10	6	4	10	5	6												47
Shockerfan34	6	8		4	8	7	8												41
ShockerMas	4	8	7	2	10		8												39
shockerofandover0943	4	10	8	5	9	4	8												48
ShockerPhi	5	7	5	4	8	4	7												40
shocker22	6	8	7	7	6	5	7												46
shock-it-to-me	6	7	5	5	8	7	7												45
ShockTalk	4	7	5	5	9	8	10												48
shocktheheart	6	9	6	3	9	6	9												48
shox_engineer24	3	10	6	5	10	7	7												48
ShoxFan7	5	9	4	4	8	5	8												43
SHOXJOCK	4	9	6	5	8	6	8												46
SHOXMVC	4	6	6	4	4	8	4												36
shoxxfmr	4	10	8	4	8	7	8												49
SumShocker	5	8	7	4	8	6	8												46
vancedave56	3	7	6	6		5	9												36
WheatShock	6	8	6	5	9	5	7												46
wufan	7	9	6	5	7	8	7												49
WuShock16	3	9	6	4	6	7	8												43
wushock27	6	8	4	8	10	4	6												46
Zardoz	5	9	6	6	7	4													37
1972Shocker	4	6	6	7	9	4	8												44

[ShockerFever]

Well, no weekly comparisons again this time from Jamar.

[ShockdaWorld]

Or....he's got something more important to do before he gets on kenpom and SN to post them. For someone that likes to talk about other people's obsessions, you sure do jump in quick to make sure if he's posting or not.

[ShockerFever]

Or....he's got something more important to do before he gets on kenpom and SN to post them. For someone that likes to talk about other people's obsessions, you sure do jump in quick to make sure if he's posting or not.

Um, well every other time he's "beaten" me, it's usually plastered all over the place before 7AM. The last two games I've "beaten" him, he's nowhere to be found.

He does it to me, I'm doing it to him. How come you aren't around when he does it? Yep, exactly.

[ShockTalk]

Um, well every other time he's "beaten" me, it's usually plastered all over the place before 7AM. The last two games I've "beaten" him, he's nowhere to be found.

He does it to me, I'm doing it to him. How come you aren't around when he does it? Yep, exactly.

By him you mean Ken? I didn't think he was posting. By the way, we both have beaten Ken the last 2 times.

[ShockdaWorld]

Um, well every other time he's "beaten" me, it's usually plastered all over the place before 7AM. The last two games I've "beaten" him, he's nowhere to be found.

He does it to me, I'm doing it to him. How come you aren't around when he does it? Yep, exactly.

Yep, exactly. So you're saying you're both obsessed?

[ShockerFever]

Yep, exactly. So you're saying you're both obsessed?

You seem to be pretty obsessed with me.

[ShockerFever]

By him you mean Ken? I didn't think he was posting. By the way, we both have beaten Ken the last 2 times.

Right, Ken.

That's shocking that analytics have taken a bit of a dip lately.
*crickets*

[ShockdaWorld]

You seem to be pretty obsessed with me.

Yes, that's it. I'm absolutely obsessed with your constant bickering with someone on damn near every thread. You sound like the crabby old ladies my grandma used to play bridge with when I was young.

[Ricardo del Rio]

The hacker is still messing with my picks.

[ShockdaWorld]

The hacker is still messing with my picks.

Mine too. Damn Russians.

[ShockerFever]

Yes, that's it. I'm absolutely obsessed with your constant bickering with someone on damn near every thread. You sound like the crabby old ladies my grandma used to play bridge with when I was young.

You keep responding as if you want to justify my point.

[valleyclimber]

Okay, three 10 point pick 'ems in a row, capnkirk is to be given props to the top....for now. Darn phantom travel call on SIU in the DU/SIU game...tipped the scales. Just kidding, congrats out the Bulldogs program for finally showing a pulse after almost a decade. Anyhoo, enjoying the Shocker Showdown pick 'em contest this season and looking forward to getting back to the top. It's on capn! :)

[WheatShock]

Mine too. Damn Russians.

The Chinese got mine.