Bowl Game Pools - How'd you do?
Now that it's all done, how'd you finish?
Went 19-15 vs. The spread, all picked before the games started (so no latest lines or massaging the points). Don't feel too bad since I started 1-6. (Kinda finished 2-4 too. 8-2 on Jan. 1 & 2 helped).
Oh, and won my pool. How'd you do?
January 8th, 2010 at 1:02 AM ^
I lost my house, my car, and my dog in my pool. Then my girlfriend left me. Thanks for reminding me.
January 8th, 2010 at 1:31 AM ^
Or a country-western song?
Or do you just have a really big pool and everything keeps falling in it?
January 8th, 2010 at 1:34 AM ^
Won! 20-14...made the picks as soon as the schedule was set...I started off terribly, but from Jan. 1 on I was near perfect, and I nailed the BCS games...my score for the title game was 35-17 Bama, came pretty close there...
Picked all Big Ten teams to win except OSU and MSU...
January 8th, 2010 at 1:56 AM ^
+1 for you're avatar
January 8th, 2010 at 8:33 AM ^
Don't you mean, "+1 for you're AN avatar"?
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
January 8th, 2010 at 1:35 AM ^
Went 19-12 against the spread (all games picked at beginning of bowl season) ... good for 18th place out of 155. Ga Tech and TCU did me in.
January 8th, 2010 at 1:41 AM ^
I won both of the pools I was in on ESPN, although for some stupid reason I didn't put money on either of them.
On my straight up bracket, I finished 21-13 good for 97.1th percentile, the 7120th ranked bracket.
My confidence bracket was amazing, 98.6th percentile, 4765th rank. Which is hilarious because I was stupid and ranked all of my games backwards for confidence (that is, my most confident pick was worth 1 point, while my least confident was worth 34).
I started 1-6 as well, btw.
January 8th, 2010 at 1:51 AM ^
Nonsensical picks with an ounce of logical editing and went 26-8. Really wish our pool was more than $75 though... Oh well.
January 8th, 2010 at 3:23 AM ^
21-10 (we didn't do it early enough to get the earliest 3 games) with my confidence being 358. Good enough for #1 out of 6.
Funniest part was that I had to fight off someone who did a random # generator for the crown.
January 8th, 2010 at 6:38 AM ^
17-17, really poor showing after having won the previous year. Some close games killed me, but some picks were just incredibly stupid.
January 8th, 2010 at 9:27 AM ^
HaHaHa I beat you white_tiger (same pool). I finished 19-15, but I started 0-8, and finished 19-7 down the stretch.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:31 AM ^
Haha I negged you to vent my anger so THERE!
January 8th, 2010 at 6:50 AM ^
for the forth year in a row and yet I still believe I finished ahead of the ESPN crew.
January 8th, 2010 at 7:04 AM ^
23-9
We weren't picking vs. the spread, though. We were just picking the winners.
A couple weeks ago, I was in an NFL pool and went 14-1 on the weekend. The problem? TWO people went 15-0. That sucked.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:05 AM ^
I found a Baby Ruth in my pool.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:09 AM ^
Lets put it this way -
They're threatening to have me castrated so that I don't pass on my unbelievably horrible bowl picking genes to any offspring. They say it'd be too cruel.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:21 AM ^
18-16 and 27/51 and 20/32 in the MGoBlog pick'em groups.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:33 AM ^
I won the 51 member mgoblog yahoo confidence group. Do I get free mgopoints?
January 8th, 2010 at 8:50 AM ^
looked at that yesterday and decided that to catch anyone i had to switch my winner to texas last night. they woulda had it and those mgopoint would be mine, all mine, if....whatever.