Non-Participants in MVC Pick-em Contest

[Shocker1976]

A thread to ask if other posters on Shockernet are as surprised/disappointed as I am that some of our more vociferous posters do not participate in the MVC Pick-em Contest. The two non-participants that are most surprising to me are JH4P and Kel Varsen given their frequent posts of explanation on any thread that discusses statistics and probabilities of Shocker success.

IMO these two do not participate as the reality of their expertise in statistics and probabilities would be demonstrated weekly.

[WheatShock]

This thread is pointless, its their choice to participate or not.

[Shocker_Power]

This thread is pointless, its their choice to participate or not.

Maybe they will choose not to participate in this thread.

[ShockerFever]

A thread to ask if other posters on Shockernet are as surprised/disappointed as I am that some of our more vociferous posters do not participate in the MVC Pick-em Contest. The two non-participants that are most surprising to me are JH4P and Kel Varsen given their frequent posts of explanation on any thread that discusses statistics and probabilities of Shocker success.

IMO these two do not participate as the reality of their expertise in statistics and probabilities would be demonstrated weekly.

Hilariously true.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Are you really dying for me to copy/paste KenPom's predictions into the Pick-em thread?

[Cdizzle]

Cool. Another MVC Pick-em contest thread to constantly avoid because it has no information.

Actually, JH4P, it would be a nice baseline to have. And it might cause me to actually open those threads.

[ShockerFever]

Are you really dying for me to copy/paste KenPom's predictions into the Pick-em thread?

So is every decision in your life based on numbers and analytics?

[Cdizzle]

So is every decision in your life based on numbers and analytics?

Not every decision. 78.4% of decisions. There's a well-honed formula that will tell you what percentage of decisions you should base on numbers and analytics. The primary determinant is the users rating on a scale of 1-100 of how big a contrarian arse they would like to be.

[ShockerFever]

Not every decision. 78.4% of decisions. There's a well-honed formula that will tell you what percentage of decisions you should base on numbers and analytics. The primary determinant is the users rating on a scale of 1-100 of how big a contrarian arse they would like to be.

LOL

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

So is every decision in your life based on numbers and analytics?

Every time I respond to you is an example to the contrary. Analytics would tell me to just ignore you, but you are too much fun.

[ShockerFever]

Every time I respond to you is an example to the contrary. Analytics would tell me to just ignore you, but you are too much fun.

Can't even answer the question. So dishonest.

[RussDaBus]

Are you really dying for me to copy/paste KenPom's predictions into the Pick-em thread?

I won this thing 2 straight years by doing exactly that!

[Shocker1976]

Maybe they will choose not to participate in this thread.

You are correct they are certainly free to avoid this thread.

[Dave Stalwart]

I can never play Pick em because I would always choose winners based on what I want to happen instead of what I actually think will happen. I lose fantasy football every year because of that and I would lose Pick em the same way. Shocks always get a 4, Creighton always gets a 1. What? Creighton isn't in the Valley? See, I already lost.

[Shocker1976]

Cool. Another MVC Pick-em contest thread to constantly avoid because it has no information.

Actually, JH4P, it would be a nice baseline to have. And it might cause me to actually open those threads.

Yes drizzle i considered including you in my original post as you also choose not to engage in a fun and harmless exercise on a Shocker fan board. But I was confident that you would post some meaningless drizzle, excuse me I meant to type drivel.

But I disagree with your statement "...thread to constantly avoid because it has no information"; IMO the MVC Pick-em thread offers information regards the participants ability to divorce their fandom for Shocker basketball from the realities of the teams competing for the MVC Championship. Such separation provides the reader(s) with insight on the objectivity of the participants' postings on other threads. All IMO. of course.