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BigOrange1

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Here is the link: https://fantasy.espn.com/free-prize-games/sharer?challengeId=251&from=espn&context=GROUP_INVITE&edition=espn-en&groupId=43560b62-f318-46c8-8f9f-8ea219ef6f2e&joinKey=9637edb9-ac59-32a6-9430-38a2fed8e76f

password is "fuckaggy"

$30 entry fee.  we'll pay out the top three.  probably 60-25-15 split.

once you sign up, pm me and i'll let you know how you can pay.  i can do venmo, paypal, cash app.  we typically end up with something in the neighborhood of $1000 in the pot.

@immamac pin if you feel so inclined.  at least until the start of bowl season.

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On 12/8/2024 at 6:56 PM, jetsfan76 said:

How the hell is the Alamo Bowl BYU vs Colorado?

 

On 12/8/2024 at 7:38 PM, BigOrange1 said:

yeah i was curious about that one too.

 

On 12/8/2024 at 8:12 PM, markstanco said:


New contract with WCC and PAC12.

The old Pac12 teams have 2 seasons to finish out their bowl affiliations.  Alamo is/was Big 12-Pac 12 so CU took the Pac 12 spot there. 

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tokamak

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Maybe a dumb question because I've never done this before but what is the point of the confidence points? Is one game really worth 40x what another game is worth? What's to keep someone from just going all chalk and putting them in reverse order of the point spread?

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1 hour ago, tokamak said:

Maybe a dumb question because I've never done this before but what is the point of the confidence points? Is one game really worth 40x what another game is worth? What's to keep someone from just going all chalk and putting them in reverse order of the point spread?

Try that and see if it works. 

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7 hours ago, tokamak said:

Maybe a dumb question because I've never done this before but what is the point of the confidence points? Is one game really worth 40x what another game is worth? What's to keep someone from just going all chalk and putting them in reverse order of the point spread?

In the past, there've been people use all sorts of strategies.  It's up to you how you want to play it.

Gonna be in for 2 or 3 once I get my wife and son to log in to ESPN. 

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1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

In for one. I was a little cocky last year when I said I was using all y'alls money on whiskey. This year, I just want to go back to kicking my family's ass

 

@Knoxtnhorn

Exactly why I didn't say I would continue to take all your money after pillaging ass in the Bracket challenge.

I will, but I didn't say it. 

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Prepuce of Doom

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25 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

You can change your pick and the number of points you assigned to a game up until kickoff of that game.

Yeah, but we're still apparently forced to go through and make "dummy picks" before we're allowed to save just our two picks for tomorrow's games. 

Maybe the desktop site doesn't require that - their overall usability in these contests is always so bad that it wouldn't surprise me one bit. 

Edit - nope, can't just partially complete and save on the desktop either. Gotta make hundreds of clicks to do the bare minimum. 

 

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2 minutes ago, horn4life said:

Ok I signed up just now to catch the first game.  But it's not prompting me to pay via the site? 

See the first post for payment instructions. 

@BigOrange1 - just an idea, and I don't even know whether it's possible so maybe an idea dead on arrival, but since it seems like we have lackluster participation compared to past years, perhaps there's some merit to leaving the contest open to join even after the first game kicks off in an hour or so? If you left it open until kickoff Tuesday (or later?), then latecomers would be penalized in the sense of losing the potential points from their 1 or 2 point picks, but that's hardly disqualifying. 

Maybe some prompt enrolees might have an issue with that, and that's certainly understandable and reasonable, but I just thought I'd offer the idea just in case... 

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15 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Do we really have to make every single goddamn pick before kickoff tomorrow? 

Fuck ESPN and their shitful game design. 

I don’t think so

 I think the ones you made and are played that day get locked in for picks and position but others you can change before the game. 

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2 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

See the first post for payment instructions. 

@BigOrange1 - just an idea, and I don't even know whether it's possible so maybe an idea dead on arrival, but since it seems like we have lackluster participation compared to past years, perhaps there's some merit to leaving the contest open to join even after the first game kicks off in an hour or so? If you left it open until kickoff Tuesday (or later?), then latecomers would be penalized in the sense of losing the potential points from their 1 or 2 point picks, but that's hardly disqualifying. 

Maybe some prompt enrolees might have an issue with that, and that's certainly understandable and reasonable, but I just thought I'd offer the idea just in case... 

I second this. They're only losing out on 1 point anyways.

Anyone else not able to see everyone else's pick for this game? Usually once the game starts we can see it.

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