Friday, October 19, 2007

gearing up for Bball

Granted I love football, the stewey's head shaped, not the copa mundal type so much, but bball is definitely a personal favorite - and with a greater frequency of viewing events, I think I understand it more. I certainly follow it more precisely (i think).

So of course I want to put this thinking to the test: to say I feel I know bball better than fball isn't to say I know much, but I'm wondering how I square up with the sportier folks out there - granted I could run the table on club ultimate matchups - and most college games.

Please let me know if someone already had this worked out and we can use a prearranged URL or software piece.

We all pool together teams we'd like to follow from college hoops day one through early april - local ACC and a few (sec? big east) other conference favorites and we pick their games weekly-ish; the winner and the spread or total points. (they're already talking about Calipari and Memphis on sports radio for some reason) We keep a database tracking the picks - 1 for a win 2 with the closest spread - and tally points through the season.

Would you all be interested in starting that with the onset of college ball?

eh?

3 comments:

The Greguar said...

I would. However I'm not sure of anything you just said, regarding how this whole situation would work other than we pick games against the spread.

t-bone said...

so this probably means that in addition to my inability to clearly communicate on a blog, there's not an existing site, etc that supports this idea.

Here's a possible more detailed look at the idea.
For the week (mon-sun) of Jan 6-13
some potential games to consider (mostly ACC) include:
(t-bone theoretical picks)
Jan 7
UNC at Clemson (UNC by 5)
Jan 8
Purdue at MSU (MSU by 7
Georgetown at Depaul (Hoyas by 22)
BYU at Wake (BYU by 8)
Florida at Alabama (UF by 13)
Jan 9
Duke at Temple (dook by 9)
Ga Tech at UGA (Tech by 7)

If I pick 4 right and two inside the margin, I'd have six points for those three nights of games.

Each week we pull about a dozen games to pick and tally results on a total points spreadsheet as we go.

I was even thinking that a different person can pull the games to weigh in on each week.

At the end of regular season, we crown a winner and then go for all with NCAA bracket time.

and I'm gonna use preview more often.

The Greguar said...

Very understandable now. So we are picking winners, 1 pt, and then if we pick the spread correctly, we get another pt? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by inside the margin. I am much like a robot that I know absolutely nothing until you program it in. Then I know it forever.