How did we do last week?
Ten up, fifteen down. Several people who made selections managed to have ZERO net points on the week. That's pretty impressive.
Week 8 Winner:
Congratulations to our Week 8 winner, SeeJayBee, who went 4-1 with 67.5 Petittis! The Oregon/Illinois Under and Wisconsin picks proved to quite prescient.
Honorable mention: ziowa9 continues to widen their lead in the standings with an incredible 30-16 season record, and has again jumped out to a new tier. HoustonBoiler went 5-1 on the week and has jumped out of the Itty Bitty Petitti Committee to join Kevin Warren's Alliance zoom call. You may have been promoted, but management still doesn’t trust you. Turn that camera on!
Pick of the Week: Indiana/Michigan Under 41.5 (IUinVA (CB), tech01 (CB), Sasser (CB), Rubber_Duck, Houston Boiler, TheDuluthPerspective, scarlet_pimpernal_hand, Hachigi2, Mr_Grizz, SkyBlueH2O, WifeofIUinVA). This game was tied 6-6 at the end of regulation. Just beautiful football.
Dishonorable mention: DtownK continues to make a mockery of this game and is now two full tiers lower than the next closest participant. It’s honestly quite impressive. You're still living forever out in the sea, but your boat has been downgraded to an inner tube.
Six Pack Certified (6-0): MNW (week 3).
Season Standings:
Lounging in the Suite
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 an Inner Tube 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 942 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):
Wisconsin at Iowa (-3.5), O/U 36.5
Illinois (-2.5) at Maryland, O/U 54.5
Michigan (-14) at Rutgers, O/U 46.5
Saturday (mid-afternoon):
Minnesota at Indiana (-20.5), O/U 42.5
Northwestern at Oregon (-3.5), O/U 47.5
Purdue at Penn State (-7.5), O/U 54.5
Nevada at UCLA (-22.5), O/U 44.5
Saturday (evening):
Ohio State (-6.5) at Southern Cal, O/U 51.5
Washington at Nebraska (-7.5), O/U 49.5
Have fun, and always Iowa Over responsibly.
