Session 5 will consist of the games played between 1/3 and 1/9. You will pick every game ATS. I will provide the spreads as of RIGHT NOW. If the spread moves, too bad, you pick based on what I provide. You get more than 50% correct, you earn a point. You don't, you don't! Simple enough, right?
Sugar Bowl: Michigan -3 vs Virginia Tech Orange Bowl: Clemson -3 vs West Virginia Cotton Bowl: Arkansas -7.5 vs Kansas State Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh -3 vs SMU GoDaddy Bowl: Arkansas State -1.5 vs Northern Illinois BCS National Championship: Alabama -1 vs LSU
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Sugar Bowl: Michigan -3 vs Virginia Tech Orange Bowl: Clemson -3 vs West Virginia Cotton Bowl: Arkansas -7.5 vs Kansas State Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh -3 vs SMU GoDaddy Bowl: Arkansas State -1.5 vs Northern Illinois BCS National Championship: Alabama -1 vs LSU
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I don't like that Arkansas line, but I just don't feel comfortable picking KState at all. As for the other, I'd probably take Alabama anywhere up to a touchdown.
Goddamnit, why'd it have to be over a touchdown? I was counting on everybody else picking Arkansas! (I've got K-State straight up in Bowl Mania) ...Well, at least Camden's picks are radically different than mine, so if I get a point, I'm almost assured that he won't.
And yeah, ASU and Alabama as favorites is absolutely nuts.
Sugar Bowl: Michigan -3 vs Virginia Tech Orange Bowl: Clemson -3 vs West Virginia Cotton Bowl: Kansas State +7.5 vs Arkansas BBVA Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh -3 vs SMU GoDaddy.com Bowl: Northern Illinois +1.5 vs Arkansas State BCS National Championship: LSU +1 vs Alabama
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Wow, having a push when we have to get 4 out of 6 right kind of makes it nearly impossible to advance. I've never understood why they don't make all spreads end in a .5, anyway. It's very little difference but prevents pushes, which are weird.
Well, I guess it's for the best for me, because with Paratroopa and Camden in disagreement about every other bowl, if we were all 1-0-1 now instead, than either one or the other would be guaranteed to get to at least 3-2-1, but now there's a chance that both of them will go 2-3-1.
Though since I'm in agreement with each of them on two, if I go 3-1 in the next four, one of them would also have 3 wins--the two wins that I agreed with them on, and the one loss would be a win for them. So I guess this makes it easier for me, because instead of rooting to be less than perfect so that I'm just good enough, I need to be 4-0!
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So, at this point it looks like Tsunami has been eliminated from contention. Camden can still clinch first place by himself. Para and sonten could tie him.
So..... TIEBREAKER RULES:
Here's how the tiebreaker is going to work. It is only going to apply for the national championship game. The line for this game is Alabama -1. For the tiebreaker, you are going to PM me the highest line you are willing to take, and it will be measured from the distance from the original line.
Basically, if Person A is willing to take LSU -3 that's a difference of four points, so that line would be considered "farther" than someone who takes Alabama -4, which is only a difference of two points. The person with the highest line who also gets the game right will win the tiebreaker. If two people select the exact same line, the first person to PM me will win. You may ONLY PM me once, once you pick, there is NO changing your pick. In the event that everyone gets their line wrong, the tiebreaker will go the person whose predicted line was the closest, so it doesn't necessarily pay to take a HUGE gamble. In other words, if Person A takes LSU -10 and Person B takes LSU -8 and Alabama wins, Person B will win the tiebreaker.
Everybody got that?
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So essentially, the person with a spread that's the furthest from Alabama -1 that still wins will win the tiebreaker, but if no spreads win the person with the closest spread to the actual result wins?
I'm not even sure if I want to take Alabama at this point, as if I did and they lost I would pretty much be forfeiting any chance of taking the tiebreaker.
Edit: I deleted an earlier post because I pretty much said what my tiebreaker would have been in it.
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So essentially, the person with a spread that's the furthest from Alabama -1 that still wins will win the tiebreaker, but if no spreads win the person with the closest spread to the actual result wins?
Yes, pretty much!
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Looks like it's going to be sonten and I at this point. Strange, I'm going to be picking Alabama to win but my tiebreaker has to be LSU -X if I want any chance of winning that way.
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Alabama +7.5. I said in my deleted post that I would probably take Alabama anywhere up to a touchdown in this game and it looks like that's pretty much what I'm getting after all.
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Don’t worry. Have a nectarine. What about Obama?