Saturday, August 31, 2013
Well at any rate...
It's good to have all these scrub team games over with so we can see some real football. Clemson and Gawga should be a good one.
Friday, August 30, 2013
I think the scoring scheme is going to work well now
I think that last change did it. What do y'all think?
Updated scores after the Scar UNC game
Week 1
Actual scores
Scar
27 - UNC 10
Brent
Scar 20 - UNC 17 +
Score: 36
Rich
Scar 31 - UNC 16 +
Score: 40
Vance
Scar 14 - UNC 13 +
Score: 34
Blake
Scar 28 - UNC 17 +
Score: 42
Rich and Brent
said boosting the points awarded to 50 points was good with them. This will make picking the right team to win extremely important. Making the change on the rules page now. I will also post an updated tally of everyone's scores after the Scar UNC game.
Yes, but we all want the importance of picking score predictions
to be incorporated into the game as well. Is boosting the points awarded to 50 for picking the right team to win ok with you?
Right bro...
My only point is that picking that score is much less offensive than picking SC State to win.
Yes, I think we all agree that the score predictions are a huge part of this game
and everyone likes the idea of that. After talking to Ryan and Brent about it and explaining it to them I think they really like it. It will influence us to make wiser choices when we attempt to predict the scores of the games. It will make me think twice before I make that Clem 38 - SC St 37 score prediction that I previously had in place for next week lol. No one said it was going to be easy to predict the scores bro. It's going to be pure luck for all of us. Then again, will predicting the wins and losses not be pure luck as well?
Subtracting points for a loss wasn't going to be smart. It was too brutal of a punishment. I think we are still going to have some negative scores but it won't be as bad as it would have been before. If anything we need to boost the points awarded to like 50 if you pick the correct team to win. I would be all for that. It would make the predicting the right team to win far more important. The person that chooses the wrong winner is going to come out far worse than the person that chooses the right one even if we leave it at 20 points rewarded for picking the right team to win. For example, with your scenario of Clem 40 - UGA 20:
Rich's prediction: UGA 41 - Clem 36
41 - 20 = 21 points deducted
40- 36 = 4 points deducted
That's negative 25 points for Rich
Vance's prediction: UGA 43 - Clem 48
20 points awarded for picking the right team
43 - 20 = 23 points deducted
48 - 40 = 8 points deducted
That's negative 31 points + the 20 awarded which leaves Vance with negative 11 points
If we changed it to 50 points awarded for picking correct team Rich's score would remain the same at negative 25. Yours would be 50 - 31 = 19 points.
This may be the way to do it. Let me know if you like it and I will talk to Rich and Brent about it.
Subtracting points for a loss wasn't going to be smart. It was too brutal of a punishment. I think we are still going to have some negative scores but it won't be as bad as it would have been before. If anything we need to boost the points awarded to like 50 if you pick the correct team to win. I would be all for that. It would make the predicting the right team to win far more important. The person that chooses the wrong winner is going to come out far worse than the person that chooses the right one even if we leave it at 20 points rewarded for picking the right team to win. For example, with your scenario of Clem 40 - UGA 20:
Rich's prediction: UGA 41 - Clem 36
41 - 20 = 21 points deducted
40- 36 = 4 points deducted
That's negative 25 points for Rich
Vance's prediction: UGA 43 - Clem 48
20 points awarded for picking the right team
43 - 20 = 23 points deducted
48 - 40 = 8 points deducted
That's negative 31 points + the 20 awarded which leaves Vance with negative 11 points
If we changed it to 50 points awarded for picking correct team Rich's score would remain the same at negative 25. Yours would be 50 - 31 = 19 points.
This may be the way to do it. Let me know if you like it and I will talk to Rich and Brent about it.
Also...
Ryan is the pretty obvious pick for a super small Clemson shirt. What the heck would we put on Brent, a real big shirt?
I keep using Ryan...
As an example because he picked UGA and I picked Clemson. It would also be easy to imagine a scenario where Clemson wins and he still gets less points taken away than me. Is the score really more important than getting the winner right for everyone? If it is, it's fine.
Even with not subtracting...
For a loss, you will still need to subtract points for guessing the score if we go with that scenario. Otherwise if UGA scores 20 and Clemson score 40, I will get the win right but still lose more Points than Ryan who picked UGA. I'm sure you know that, but making sure.
My opinion is...
To stop subtracting points for the score and subtract point for losses. Give one person for each game points for getting closest to the correct score. Guessing the score is pure luck IMO. But I am fine with whatever the group wants.
I say lets change it then
If it's ok with Brent and Vance. Lets ditch the 20 point deduction if you make an incorrect prediction and just have the point deduction. We'll leave the 20 points awarded if you get a correct prediction but keep the point deduction in place there as well. That ok with y'all?
I will make the change on the official rules page and of anyone disagrees I will change it back. Let me know.
I knew it wouldn't be perfect lol.
My Game Obsevations
First of all I think Carolina(SC) completely controlled the game from the very beginning and I feel like spurrier knew this. Once Scar got up 17-0, it was a very vanilla performance. We could have ran the ball and threw off of play action all night cause UNC had no answer for either. The offensive line looked really good in the running and somewhat shaky in pass coverages, but mostly just against blitz packages. They did seem to struggle in recognizing blitzes but you can def tell this is the most physical o line since spurrier has been in Columbia I thought the backs looked good, and as bad as is this may sound, don't think there will a ton of a drop off without Latt. Receivers I thought as a group looked decent. Downfield blocking doesn't appear to be as good as in the past but they all seem to be open and very quick. Outside of the Roland drop in the endzone, pretty decent performance. Shaw looked a little gun shy at times, as I think he still has that "run first" mentality but he's a winner so ill take it. Still needs to learn to slide on scrambles.
Defensively, I was impressed with the over all team speed. This Carolina team is by far the fastest I've ever seen in my lifetime. They're not the biggest but extremely athletic. As far as Clowney is concerned, I think he went "too hard" early in the game and burned him self out. He was chasing plays from behind on the other side of the field, not to mention taking on 2, sometimes 3 blockers. I don't care who it is, when you are constantly getting doubled and tripled its gonna take its toll. Of course he took plays off, he was exhausted. Also an article up on yahoo stating that he suffered from a stomach virus, take it for what it's worth. When clowney is rested you can see the freak that he is. Not worried about this defense at all. We only rushed 4 all night, Quarles didn't even play in the first half, and UNC only td drive should've never happened because of the phantom face mask. So overall I give the defense a B.
One quick note here, ACC officials are absolute trash. Not gonna take the time to indulge into all the bad calls or no calls but it was an extremely poor officiated game. Thank God we are done with acc clowns the rest of the year. Sad part is, SEC officials prob won't be any better.
The scoring flaw
Is what I was talking about the other day. Lol. Gonna be a ton of negative scores at the end of the year
I'm hearing Clowney...
Had a good game as well. They were saying before the game he was in the best shape of his life. I will watch some of the highlights and commentary from ESPN latter and see.
I already see a flaw in my scoring scheme
There is going to be a lot of negative scores at the end of the season probably lol. That may be ok with you guys and if it is that's ok with me.
If you guys do want to change it we could make it to where if you have an incorrect weekly prediction during the season there would be a minus 10 deduction of points or no deduction of points instead of minus 20. If we have minus 20 points for an incorrect weekly W/L prediction and add in the point deductions there will be a lot of negative scores. You may never make it back to positive points just because of one incorrect weekly prediction. It's ok with me to leave it like it is and it may need to be evaluated and changed for next season since we have already made it through the first game.
I'm just thinking the winner may have negative points at the end of the season. Like I said, the scoring probably wouldn't be perfect. I came up with it on the fly.
Let me know if we need to make this change.
If you guys do want to change it we could make it to where if you have an incorrect weekly prediction during the season there would be a minus 10 deduction of points or no deduction of points instead of minus 20. If we have minus 20 points for an incorrect weekly W/L prediction and add in the point deductions there will be a lot of negative scores. You may never make it back to positive points just because of one incorrect weekly prediction. It's ok with me to leave it like it is and it may need to be evaluated and changed for next season since we have already made it through the first game.
I'm just thinking the winner may have negative points at the end of the season. Like I said, the scoring probably wouldn't be perfect. I came up with it on the fly.
Let me know if we need to make this change.
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