Michigan Reverse Sheep, a weekly futures prediction game - Week 6

Week 5 Recap

Gobluescrewosu7 topped the leaderboard last week with 30 points.  Kire is currently the overall leader for the season at 249 total points.  Aces were difficult to come by this past week.  cavalry21 recorded the only ace of the week by picking Markell Jones from Purdue as a B1G player to record a rush of 10 yards or more.

Week 6 Questions

• Pick a Big Ten team with more rushing than net passing yards.
• Michigan and Maryland will score AT LEAST how many combined points?
• Pick a Big Ten team that will have more rushing yards than their opponent.
• Pick a Michigan player that will advance the ball in at least two of the following four ways: passing, rushing, receiving, returning.
• Pick a Big Ten player with 100 yards rushing, receiving, or passing.

Submissions will lock at 11:55 AM EDT tomorrow, just prior to the first B1G games kicking off.

 

Reverse Sheep FAQs

What is it?

This will be a weekly futures prediction game with an emphasis on Michigan-relevant challenges.  Each week, there will be 5 different challenges relating to the Michigan game that week, other B1G games, and our rivals.  The goal is to come up with answers that are both correct and unique. In other words, you want to pick the least popular answer that is still correct for each challenge.

 

How does scoring work?

If you guess a correct answer, your score will be the number of people who picked that answer in total.  If you pick an incorrect answer, your score for that challenge will be the number of users who picked the most popular correct answer added to the total number of correct answers for that challenge.  The best scenario is to get an “ace”, which happens when you are the only person to correctly pick an answer, giving a score of 1.

 

How about an example?

Let’s say that the challenge is to “Pick the length of a scoring play in the Michigan-Notre Dame game.” and that the following answers end up being correct:

• 1 yard (20 respondents)

• 3 yards (15 respondents)

• 5 yards (12 respondents)

• 12 yards (5 respondents)

• 34 yards (2 respondents)

• 49 yards (1 respondent)

Everyone who successfully picked the length of a scoring play receives a score equal to the total number of respondents to pick that answer.  The person who picked “49 yards” gets an ace (a score of 1 point). Everyone who picked incorrectly gets a score of 26, which is the number of people who picked the most popular correct answer (20) plus the total number of correct answers (6).

 

Sounds fun. How do I play?

1. Join our Michigan Wolverines Discord server.  It’s as easy as clicking a link: https://discord.gg/Gqqsczy

2. Go to reversesheep.michigancfbrisk.com and login with your Discord credentials.

We plan to keep our Discord server active during the week and especially on game days.  If you would like to have a place to discuss all things Michigan football with some fellow fans in a non-toxic environment, we welcome you to join us!  If you just sign up to play the game, then that’s cool, too.

 

But why do I have to join your Discord server?

This is the mechanism we are using to authenticate users and to track everyone’s scores.  In an ideal world, you could log into the game website with your mgoblog account. Something like that would require some setup on Brian, Seth, et al.’s part and I’m sure they have much bigger concerns heading into the season.

 

Will there be any awards?

Flair will be rewarded on our Discord each week to the winners and to anyone who gets an ace.  Any other awards/prizes are TBD.

 

I’d like to suggest a challenge or question for a future week.

We welcome any and all suggestions for future weeks.  Post them in this thread or in the #reverse-sheep channel on Discord.