How did we do last week?
Pretty damn well. Fourteen up, thirteen down. This is the second consecutive winning week for the group. Make it three in a row and I'll chip in for an ice cream social.
Week 10 Winner:
Congratulations to our Week 10 winner, Rubber_Duck, who went 5-1 on the week with 81.5 petittis! The coldest brew exploded in the freezer, but when your favorite team looks like the Duck Star of old (after you called your shot and picked it) and you win the week, you are free to jump in as many puddles as you please.
Honorable mention: NU06er also went 5-1 on the week with 67 petittis, but failed in their final selection by predicting Michigan State/Michigan to go Over the total. Just... not winning football there.
Pick of the Week: Michigan State +13.5 (LTW_O_MI (CB), DtownK (CB), SkyBlueH2O (CB), SeeJayBee (CB), IUinVA, Rubber_Duck, IronMonkee, scarlet_pimpernal_hand, IWasSayingBooUrns, ziowa9, RockyMtnBlue, Mr_Grizz, tech01, wesd2005, LordFerentzofHouseKinnick). Wow, ok. Maybe I should have just listed everyone who didn't make this pick. The jury is still out on whether the best team in Michigan is Western or State.
Dishonorable mention: Ohio State -7 (NUDave (CB), IUinVA, scarlet_pimpernal_hand, RockyMtnBlue, Sasser, LordFerentzofHouseKinnick). Yea, you're not skating by without a callout this week. There's no way that I was going to miss out on the opportunity to poke fun at both Michigan and Ohio State after those performances. I swear, one of you always sees what the other does and has to go and try to one-up it.
Six Pack Certified (6-0): MNW (week 3).
Season Standings:
Super League-worthy
Tony Petitti wants you and all of your friends in the playoff!
Jim Delany’s Coast-to-Coast Utopia/Dystopia
Kevin Warren is on the phone; he wants to talk to you about an alliance...
Itty Bitty Petitti Committee
Wow, so empty.
Living Forever on a Boat out in the Sea
This game requires a lot of data entry and I will make mistakes. Please let me know if you have any questions about scoring or if something looks wrong:
Rules:
Make six picks every week. Correct picks are worth five points, incorrect picks are negative five points. Mark one of your picks as the Coldest Brew (CB), which will be worth ten points if correct, negative ten if incorrect. Bonus points are allocated based on deviation from the spread. Please include the spread with your pick (Iowa -3 (CB), Iowa/Opponent Over 36, etc). If anyone manages to get all six correct in a week, they’ll be Six Pack Certified and garner an additional twenty-five bonus points.
I’ll tabulate the scores and standings every week. If anyone missed previous weeks and would like to join, no problem! You’ll start at the current league median value of 922 Petittis. If I make any egregious errors (Ohio State as a 27 point underdog, when they are actually favored by 27), please let me know. Obvious spread errors won’t count.
Friday night (“-“ means a team is favored):
Illinois at UCLA (-10), O/U 46.5
Saturday (early):
Northwestern at Ohio State (-12.5), O/U 47.5
Wisconsin (-8.5) at Maryland, O/U 43.5
Nebraska (-13.5) at Rutgers, O/U 52.5
Saturday (mid-afternoon):
Southern Cal at Indiana (-7.5), O/U 49.5
Michigan at Oregon (-11.5), O/U 38.5
Washington (-3) at Michigan State, O/U 42.5
Saturday (evening):
Minnesota at Penn State (-9.5), O/U 43.5
Purdue at Iowa (-17.5), O/U 47.5
Have fun, and always Iowa Over responsibly.
