Sunday, September 14, 2008

College Pick'em Standings

Well, we're 3 weeks in on the GTSB College Football Pick'em Challenge. Here's the overall leaderboard:

Overall Standings Through Week 3
Rank Selection W-L Pts
1 GTKirk99's picks 29-7 215
2 VegasJacket's picks 30-6 211
3 PCooper 30-6 206
3 ARCHER_DAVE's picks 31-5 206
5 augustabuzz's picks 27-9 205
6 GTPOJE's picks 28-8 204
6 Blue Pants's picks 29-7 204
6 greenbrier's picks 29-7 204
9 sealegs's picks 29-7 203
9 willwc's Picks 29-7 203
11 Koriasneeeeeegro's picks 29-7 202
12 magicode's picks 28-8 201
13 Good Buzz' picks 28-8 200
13 tsrich's picks 28-8 200
13 GTBlogScott's picks 27-9 200
13 rach8347's picks 28-8 200
13 sockerdude32's picks 30-6 200
18 Zach 27-9 199
18 JiggyMcBee's picks 27-9 199
18 theGTgent 28-8 199
18 GTCardinal's picks 28-8 199
22 taverenGT's picks 27-9 198
22 Mark's picks 28-8 198
22 gtNC's picks 28-8 198
22 Ben 30-6 198
22 cpajacket's picks 29-7 198


Congrats to GTKirk99 for his stellar picking and confidence point choices. VegasJacket is close behind, but these two guys have built a slight lead.

What it shows you is how important those confidence points become. If you get a game wrong, you don't want it to cost you more than 5 or 6 points, or you really start dropping in the standings. I'm 27-9 overall picking games, but I'm tied for 13th place out of 173 people total, with 200 points.

For example, this week there were 12 games, and I went 8-4. I got my points for #12, 11, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4. So I missed out on all my lowest three confidence picks (#1,2,3), in addition to #9 and #7. Overall, I'm 27-9, but there a lot of people who have a better record picking games (like "SimpleGT" who is also 27-9, but finds himself in 133rd place with only 170 points).

I've locked the games in for this week, although they're not available yet for picking. In addition to the ACC slate and UGAg, I added Bama/Ark, Fl/Tenn and LSU/Auburn. I thought about Navy/Rutgers, but decided 12 games was enough.