How did we do last week?
Thirteen up, fifteen down. This could have been a great week, but nineteen (!) of you chose to pick Purdue to win and give points. You know who you are.
Week 7 Winner:
Congratulations to our Week 7 winner, IUinVA, who went 5-1 with 84.5 Petittis! Ohhh yeeeaaah, this feels nice. Let me go ahead and streeeetch out in here. The only thing that kept me from becoming Six Pack Certified was trusting the newly-ranked ‘Cats to cover on the road. Oh well, we all make mistakes.
Honorable mention: LTW_O_MI, RockyMtnBlue, and SkyBlueH20 also went 5-1 on the week, but registered fewer Petittis. You didn't win the week, but you'll get a nice bump in the season standings. As the saying goes, "almost" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and OTR B1G Six Pack.
Pick of the Week: It was tie between the Unders of Wisconsin/UCLA (IUinVA, WarlockofWestwood, wesd2005) and Nebraska/Oregon (IUinVA, Rubber_Duck). I blame Lewis, Clark, and Delaney for this B1g Westward expansion.
Dishonorable mention: Many picked the Overs in one of these games, but only NU06er missed both. It saddens me to report that you have died of dysentery.
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
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 943 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.
Saturday early (“-“ means a team is favored):
Indiana (-7) at Michigan, O/U 41.5
Rutgers at Northwestern (-16.5), O/U 58.5
Saturday (mid-afternoon):
Oregon (-8.5) at Illinois, O/U 50.5
Michigan State at UCLA (-14), O/U 44.5
Iowa (-7) at Minnesota, O/U 40.5
Saturday (evening):
Southern Cal (-3) at Wisconsin, O/U 49.5
Have fun, and always Iowa Over responsibly.
