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  • What's up, assholes? Welcome to the 2019 Football Season Game Prediction Contest. I did this a long time ago on HornFans, then for the first time on shaggy in 2014, and now we are here at surly. Thanks to blacklab we are now (again) moving the prediction contest into the automated age.

    Do not put your entry in this thread.
    Click on the link below to enter your prediction:

    CONTEST LINK

    2014 winner - laga4
    2015 winner - EZ$
    2016 winner - knoxtnhorn
    2017 winner - EZ$
    2018 winner - mdmost

     

    Rules:

    1. An exactly correct prediction gets 200 points. 2 points are deducted for every point you miss the margin by and 1 point is deducted for every point you miss the total by. 25 points are deducted for not predicting the correct winner (pick a tie and you're automatically docked 25 points). Minimum score is zero. So go ahead and make smartass predictions, no sweat off my back.

    Example: You guess Texas 31, Louisiana Tech 13. Final score is Texas 41, Louisiana Tech 7. Your score is 200-2*(34-18)-(48-44)=164.

    2. Entries close at 5 minutes before listed gametime on the TexasSports.com team schedule page.

    3. All your scores are added up for the season long contest.

    4. Tiebreaker for each game is order of entry. The prediction post that is first in the thread among the tied entries wins the tiebreaker.

    5. Tiebreaker for season long contest is placement for the final game of the season prediction. Doesn't matter if it's a bowl game, a national semifinal, a national championship game, or the Texas Tech game if we don't make a bowl. Whatever the final game played is, that's the tiebreaker.

    That's it. Keep in mind that the tiebreaker and other rules are from last year and they may be tweaked based on the needs for blacklab's coding. Any other necessary rules or rule changes will be made up on the fly. Good luck. Overall season winner gets jack shit from me, but...

    6. Optional Prize Money - Posters may choose to pay the $25 entry fee but are not required to do so. Each week the top-ranked poster of those who are in the prize pool will receive $25. At the end of the season the top three overall finishers will receive 50%, 30%, and 20% respectively of the remaining pool.

    To enter the paid version paypal $25 to bob at tanmutt.com.
    Once you've done that send blacklab a PM so he can mark you as paid in the software.
    Please put your surly username in the note at PayPal, probably best to mention the prediction contest as well.


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    Irwin F Fletcher

    Posted

    Shoot forgot about getting my pick in. Just put me down again for 178 points. Thanks Huck

    Scraps

    Posted

    Pretty sure im a genius

    the idoit

    Posted

    So close. Dicker owes me for that miss.

    blacklab

    Posted

    scores have been posted.

    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right

    Modessit

    Posted

    scores have been posted.
    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right
    Can they add a ranking number at the front of the standings list so we can tell what place we're in without counting?
    Bone3421

    Posted

    scores have been posted.

    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right

    How are you sober enough to post scores after the game?

     

    DDD Dad

    Posted

    scores have been posted.
    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right

    I was told there would be no math.
    UTEX90

    Posted (edited)

    9 hours ago, blacklab said:

    scores have been posted.

    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right

    I was told there would be no maths.  

    Well shit.  DDD beat me to it.

    Edited by UTEX90
    Gil Bang

    Posted

    as I feared, my score didn't save.   I'm not even at the bottom of the standings.

    Modessit

    Posted

    as I feared, my score didn't save.   I'm not even at the bottom of the standings.
    If you left the tab open, close and reopen. Mine was showing zeroes until I did that.
    Xcalibur

    Posted

    Shouldn’t this thread stay pinned? @immamac

    Lots of people will want to edit their score predictions each week and a link at the top of the football forum would be helpful.

    NeverMarryAStripper

    Posted

    People have already made all of their predictions?  I don't predict anything more than a week out.  I might not even be around for the end of the contest and then it would just be a hassle for my executor to collect the winnings for my estate.

    jw4381

    Posted

    Is there any way to see what other predictions were?

    Cairn Horn88

    Posted

    Will weather be a factor?  aggy just might need a back-up excuse.

    Dnaguy

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    Will weather be a factor?  aggy just might need a back-up excuse.

    We didn’t lose we just ran out of time water.

    Rabidhorn

    Posted

    scores have been posted.
    check your points against huck's formula in the OP and make sure it's right

     

    14 years of college down the drain

    my moms gonna kill me

    salonghorn

    Posted

    19 hours ago, jw4381 said:

    Is there any way to see what other predictions were?

    I was wondering the same thing

    • Like 1
    jw4381

    Posted

    On 9/3/2019 at 1:25 PM, ShowMeALoss said:

    This is the next step to the team's maturity. Treat each game like a business transaction. Don't run your mouth and stop with the excessive celebration after making a play.

    Notice Brandon Jones after he makes a play...Gets up and runs back into position.

    blacklab

    Posted

    On 9/4/2019 at 9:11 PM, jw4381 said:

    Is there any way to see what other predictions were?

    yes, choose week 1 from the dropdown and you'll see everyone's prediction next to their name.

    • Like 1
    Planet Houston

    Posted

    On 9/5/2019 at 9:30 PM, blacklab said:

    yes, choose week 1 from the dropdown and you'll see everyone's prediction next to their name.

    Good, so we can shame anyone who picked LSU tonight.

    • Like 1
    Mudcat35

    Posted

    Missed it, and missed it bad.  Solidly in the middle of the pack.

    DDD Dad

    Posted

    Dropped a few places but the good news is that I'm in second place among those who paid.

    kingkoopa6

    Posted

    On 9/7/2019 at 6:07 AM, Planet Houston said:

    Good, so we can shame anyone who picked LSU tonight.

    Shame shame shame 

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    YoungCounty

    Posted

    Damn it.  Son was in the hospital last weekend, and I forgot to make my LSU prediction.  Need to win a week to get my money back since I don't see much chance in winning the whole thing (among the payers) by missing a week.

    Soul Glo

    Posted (edited)

    fuck all. my bad. (edit )

    Edited by Soul Glo
    wrong thread
    EZ$

    Posted

    4 hours ago, YoungCounty said:

    Need to win a week to get my money back

    Damn, forgot that there are weekly winners. Guess I’m in the money for LSU week. 

    blacklab

    Posted

    # Name Score Paid
    1 B00M (48 - 13) 200 $
    2 Modessit (48 - 13) 200  
    3 PhillyD (48 - 13) 200 $
    4 Sgt Hulk (48 - 13) 200  
    5 Texmexbuddha (48 - 13) 200  
    6 Vic Mackey (48 - 13) 200
    Gil Bang

    Posted

    197 points for me tonight.  I'll take it.   

    I figure Vic Mackey had some magical formula; tonight's date's waist size, their age differential, and her weight.

    48-13-200

    • Like 1
    Gil Bang

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, blacklab said:
    # Name Score Paid
    1 B00M (48 - 13) 200 $
    2 Modessit (48 - 13) 200  
    3 PhillyD (48 - 13) 200 $
    4 Sgt Hulk (48 - 13) 200  
    5 Texmexbuddha (48 - 13) 200  
    6 Vic Mackey (48 - 13) 200

    so do boom and philly split 25 bucks, or do they each get 25?

    blacklab

    Posted

    I added a timestamp to the database to see who put the pick in first and they would get it.

    Unfortunately I didn't realize when I updated the scores for everyone it also updated the timestamp, so I don't know who put it in first.

    So, I'm going to split this one and fix the timestamp before next week

    Gil Bang

    Posted

    Cool.  It's interesting that several people that had the same score are listed as 1,2,3,4 etc instead of all tied for 1st. 

    I was wondering if that order was based on time. 

    Bone3421

    Posted

    I've shorted the longhorns by a td all 3 games so far...so looks like i should bump my 45 pts against osu to 52

     

     

    DDD Dad

    Posted

    I added a timestamp to the database to see who put the pick in first and they would get it.
    Unfortunately I didn't realize when I updated the scores for everyone it also updated the timestamp, so I don't know who put it in first.
    So, I'm going to split this one and fix the timestamp before next week

    Not good, Bob!
    SHOOTER12

    Posted

    Any idea why I can't make a prediction for okie lite?

    • Like 1
    DDD Dad

    Posted

    Any idea why I can't make a prediction for okie lite?

    Because you touch yourself at night?
    SHOOTER12

    Posted

    Just now, DDD Dad said:


    Because you touch yourself at night?

    Dammit I knew that was it...

    • Like 1
    Gil Bang

    Posted

    I was able to get mine in. 

    SHOOTER12

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    I was able to get mine in. 

    Crap maybe I've gone totally stoopid since last week...damn.

    SHOOTER12

    Posted

    Cleared my cache and now all is good.

    blacklab

    Posted

    if you run into that a log out/log in should probably fix

    DDD Dad

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    if you run into that a log out/log in should probably fix

    Or just PM Derka.

    B00M

    Posted

    On 9/14/2019 at 10:45 PM, blacklab said:

    I added a timestamp to the database to see who put the pick in first and they would get it.

    Unfortunately I didn't realize when I updated the scores for everyone it also updated the timestamp, so I don't know who put it in first.

    So, I'm going to split this one and fix the timestamp before next week

    I updated my Rice prediction the day after the LaTech game if I recall. 

    I knew going into the 4th that any scoring would help me... Rice missed the PAT and I started feeling lucky. I was rooting for Rice to score quickly so our 2nd team offense might do something other than take a knee. With 1 minute to go I was embarrassingly interested in a 41-13 game. Knew we needed a kick return TD and, wtf? He's splitting the D? 1st KR TD since 2012? Fuck yeah.

     

    gmr548

    Posted

    Paid up, then forgot to enter a prediction for both LSU and Rice. Woops. Starting Big 12 play from 173rd place out of 176. Don't call it a comeback.

    Rabidhorn

    Posted

    Won't let me log in at all.




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