Lobo97 Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 49 minutes ago, KirtFalcon said: If you want to change the format to include confidence picks that's your rat killing and I'm sure there are some that would prefer that format ... I can set up another pick-em for straight picks for those of us who prefer that format .... it already takes a loooooong time to get the results each week just doing straight picks, I can imagine how long it would take to get the results with the confidence format .... The last game is Saturday night. I generally have the results posted Sunday afternoon. That's a loooong time? I also haven't said that I'm changing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 6 hours ago, Lobo97 said: The last game is Saturday night. I generally have the results posted Sunday afternoon. That's a loooong time? I also haven't said that I'm changing it. Well there’s only one way to find out if everyone will like it and that’s to do it. So far I’ve seen at least 4 people on this page alone for it and only 1 against. Yes you might lose a few people because of the format, but you also might greatly increase the intrigue for the 75% that do stay in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 9 hours ago, Lobo97 said: I personally like the idea of the confidence picks, but it would have to be more than a simple vote to move forward with it. As it is, we have a good amount that participate in our pickem. I wouldn't want a good number to drop off bc they don't like the format. If I remember right, we always do straight picks with you and confidence picks on ESPN or something. It's been that way for at least 5-6 years, so take that for what the value of that information is worth and nothing more 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobo97 Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 After thinking about it, I will continue our pickem as a straight pick format as we've been doing. While I like the idea of the confidence picks, my concern is it will not generate enough participation. We generally have around 25, or so, participants for our weekly pickem. The confidence picks that we do for bowl season, generally garners around 10. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Lobo97 said: After thinking about it, I will continue our pickem as a straight pick format as we've been doing. While I like the idea of the confidence picks, my concern is it will not generate enough participation. We generally have around 25, or so, participants for our weekly pickem. The confidence picks that we do for bowl season, generally garners around 10. The difference isn’t that people don’t like the bowl confidence points. It’s that people don’t go to ESPN to do it. They can make their picks on here on the weekly pick em and they like that. The bowl pickem will drastically increase if you are willing to let everyone list their picks and points in a comment instead of posting a link to ESPN. Just my two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I am Mavgrad, and I appreciated be his decision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 9 minutes ago, MavGrad99 said: I am Mavgrad, and I appreciated be his decision I’m cool with it to, just thought it would be fun to spice it up a little bit. I do think you guys need to put your heads together about trying to take bowl season off of ESPN and just do it on here. I know it will be harder, but I think the participation will be much higher if it stays in this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobo97 Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 15 minutes ago, WETSU said: I’m cool with it to, just thought it would be fun to spice it up a little bit. I do think you guys need to put your heads together about trying to take bowl season off of ESPN and just do it on here. I know it will be harder, but I think the participation will be much higher if it stays in this site. Since the bowl participation is already light anyway, then we may try that this year for that and see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETXfan16 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I think you could do your 10 most interested matchups like normal, and then choose a really random FCS game. And whoever gets that game right gets an additional point or something. Kind of makes it fun and take a little risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, ETXfan16 said: I think you could do your 10 most interested matchups like normal, and then choose a really random FCS game. And whoever gets that game right gets an additional point or something. Kind of makes it fun and take a little risk. Or everyone picks an upset that week. By upset I mean the spread has to be like 7+. If your upset happens you get extra points. Let’s say something like 1 point for 5 points your team got. So if say clemson is favored by 17 against wake forest, and wake forest wins, whoever picked wake forest would get an addition 3 points added to their win total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 So the bigger the upset pick, the more chance you have to get points. Again im just throwing out ideas that could spice this up. The just straight pickem gets so boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETXfan16 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, WETSU said: Or everyone picks an upset that week. By upset I mean the spread has to be like 7+. If your upset happens you get extra points. Let’s say something like 1 point for 5 points your team got. So if say clemson is favored by 17 against wake forest, and wake forest wins, whoever picked wake forest would get an addition 3 points added to their win total. Yeah I like that. Makes it more interesting like March Madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I like straight pick em. Takes out the luck factor 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 39 minutes ago, MavGrad99 said: I like straight pick em. Takes out the luck factor It’s not really about trying to add luck, it’s trying to add something new to something we’ve done for a while. An interesting wrinkle. Something To keep people motivated late in the year. I personally just want to see something rewarded for being able to accurately predict upsets. 10 games isn’t very many games. But let’s say you have a gut feeling that say Boston college beats Clemson, but it’s not in our list of games, I feel like if someone accurately can call that pretty big upset, they should get a little reward. It’s just adding a wrinkle to something fun we already do. Same old pickem and essentially the creame will still rise, just makes it a little more interesting late. Maybe between middle of the pack guys just looking for something to feel good about instead of monatony when you know you can’t realisticly win without going the opposite of the leaders just hoping luck falls your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I kind of miss the Fudruckers that David used to give us for winning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirtFalcon Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, MavGrad99 said: I like straight pick em. Takes out the luck factor same here ... if they do gum up the pick-ums with that kind of stuff, I will do one with just straight picks ... guess we will just have to wait and see if they change from the traditional straight picks format ... Edited August 14, 2018 by KirtFalcon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 4 hours ago, MavGrad99 said: I kind of miss the Fudruckers that David used to give us for winning Can we get Snickers or Metamucil to sponsor it? Hopefully Kirt wins one of those. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, Stoney said: Can we get Snickers or Metamucil to sponsor it? Hopefully Kirt wins one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirtFalcon Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 50 minutes ago, Stoney said: Can we get Snickers or Metamucil to sponsor it? Hopefully Kirt wins one of those. Why not go all out and get Depends to sponsor ... Kolmes would really get into that kind of stuff ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 The new pickem sponsor: Fleet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 This year’s winner gets the KirtFalcon Golden Metamucil Bottle Trophy. The loser gets the WestHardin Bronze Depends Diaper. Good luck and pray you finish somewhere in the middle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cats69 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 On 8/10/2018 at 4:39 PM, KirtFalcon said: Not sure I like that idea ... no need to complicate the thing .... at least put it up for a vote ... I'm with you. I hate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WETSU Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 15 minutes ago, cats69 said: I'm with you. I hate it. So far it’s been literally mixed. About half and half. But if everyone is going to cry about it, not you Kirt, then by all means leave it the same. I just don’t understand what’s so complicated about picking an upset and getting points if you guess right. Just adding a tiny something to make it a little more interesting late in the year. But if majority hates it then leave it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sportsfanatic1 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I'm in @Lobo97. However you want to do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAFan11 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Im confident in all my picks so no need to rank them. FOr the record, I like the straight pickem better than the bowl confidence pickem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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