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*** Official CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest - Week 1 ***

Kent State

*** I have no idea how I am going to score this. I can't even get my program to read the web page, probably due to cookies or some weird thing. I just keep getting redirected.
 
Folks, I have no idea if this is going to work. I can start it, but don't have any means to do the scoring or checking yet. It may fall apart quickly since I don't have time to manually do all the scoring. MTcatfan did such a good job keeping it going. I just hated to just drop it. So let's see what happens.

Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Vegas Insider web page (usually on Monday) and posted in a thread on CatsIllustrated (which we will hopefully get pinned for convenience). This contest runs for the entire football season (the bowls are treated as one really long week).

There are several ways to win: there are weekly winners, the person with the highest cumulative point total after the season is over is the overall winner but we recognize the contestants that have the most correct picks also.

How do you get points? Select the underdog (second team listed in each game) and have that team pull the upset. The bigger the dog, the bigger the reward but the longer the odds.

Some rules that we need to keep things running smoothly:

1) If you edit your pick after the first game listed has started, your pick is invalidated. I can't know that you didn't change your pick from one that didn't win to a later game in hopes of getting a winner. If you want to change your pick after the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. Doesn't work if you are switching from the game that has already started.

2) If you make your pick after your game was supposed to kick off, it is invalidated.

3) If you pick the favored team instead of the underdog, we all laugh at you. Ok, we don't but you can't expect to get points in SUP for that.

4) You can appeal an invalidation by posting in that week's thread, include what you think is wrong.

Understand that a perl script is scoring this, if you make the spelling of the teams intentionally obtuse or you are just really bad at spelling, your pick might be missed. If you want to tell us all about the underdogs you thought you might choose and then tell us about the one you finally did pick, you might be surprised which one the script finds.

So your post should look something like:
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Purdue

Everyone hates the Irish right?
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Don't put any other team name in your post with your SUP pick without putting an '***' in front of it. Everything after the '***' will be ignored. My program may find the wrong name if you don't. Once you post your pick, you can post in the thread any comment you like. Your first post is your pick (if I can find your pick).

Because the scoring is done by a script and not by hand, if you feel a mistake was made in scoring your SUP, post that on that Week's thread. We'll try to get it resolved quickly. The scripts are far from perfect and VegasInsider also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.

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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 1:

Thursday, Sep. 3

South Carolina 3 NORTH CAROLINA
CENTRAL FLORIDA 16½ Florida Intl
Oklahoma State 23 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
UTAH 5½ Michigan
Texas Christian 14½ MINNESOTA
Duke 9 TULANE
Ohio 8½ IDAHO
ARIZONA 31½ Texas-San Antonio
VANDERBILT 1 Western Kentucky

Friday, Sep. 4

Colorado 7½ HAWAII
Baylor 35½ SOUTHERN METHODIST
GEORGIA STATE 6½ UNC Charlotte
Michigan State 18½ WESTERN MICHIGAN
ILLINOIS 14½ Kent State
BOISE STATE 11½ Washington

Saturday, Sep. 5

Old Dominion 6 EASTERN MICHIGAN
FLORIDA 36½ New Mexico State
Penn State 7 TEMPLE
TULSA 7 Florida Atlantic
UCLA 17 Virginia
Stanford 12 NORTHWESTERN
AUBURN 11 Louisville
TEXAS AM 3 Arizona State
NEBRASKA 6 BYU
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 26 Troy
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 21 UNLV
OKLAHOMA 31 Akron
TENNESSEE 20½ Bowling Green State
GEORGIA 35 Louisiana-Monroe
KENTUCKY 16 Louisiana-Lafayette
ARKANSAS 33 UTEP
WEST VIRGINIA 20 Georgia Southern
NOTRE DAME 9½ Texas
FLORIDA STATE 30 Texas State
ALABAMA 10 Wisconsin
Mississippi State 23½ SOUTHERN MISS
SOUTHERN CAL 29 Arkansas State

Sunday, Sep. 6

MARSHALL 7½ Purdue

Monday, Sep. 7

Ohio State 11 VIRGINIA TECH

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OK, OK! The dates were just fine for last year. Fixed...
Texas
 
VIRGINIA TECH

Got in late Red so only have one option left, I'll get back into the game starting next week and see if I can hit a couple of SUP's before end-of-season.
 
This contest is closed. I still have no idea how I am going to score it. Working on that now. I still can't read the stinking web pages unless I save them off by hand. I'll probably put the next contest up before I score this one. I am probably going to have to cobble something together later.
 
should be easy to score this one by hand with so few upsets
 
I have no idea how many mistakes are in this. My brain is shot right now so you all will have to double check me. Post any questions or correction here and I'll try to address it. Things are very manual and kludgy right now so I apologize in advance.

Underdog Winners - Week #1:


Florida Intl : 16.5 points
NORTHWESTERN : 12.0 points
HAWAII : 7.5 points
TEMPLE : 7.0 points
UNC Charlotte : 6.5 points
BYU : 6.0 points
Western Kentucky : 1.0 points

Correct Underdog Picks - Week #1:

Florida Intl: crosbycatfan3745

NORTHWESTERN: BigBlueFan1963, straykat, Hang_Time_2, Serenity Now!!!

HAWAII: GoB!gBlue, calicat21, gamecockcat, BoulderCat, stinger11723, RS73CAT, UKMKG

TEMPLE: no_neutrality

BYU: THE_OAK, OSOK, jte123, SWVA WildcatFan

Western Kentucky: ram1955, RocknRollCats, IamnotRalph, KyMaster, ashlandcatfan600, TTU/UK fan



Nobody picked: UNC Charlotte



Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #1:

16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
12.0 : BigBlueFan1963
12.0 : Hang_Time_2
12.0 : Serenity Now!!!
12.0 : straykat
7.5 : BoulderCat
7.5 : calicat21
7.5 : gamecockcat
7.5 : GoB!gBlue
7.5 : RS73CAT
7.5 : stinger11723
7.5 : UKMKG
7.0 : no_neutrality
6.0 : jte123
6.0 : OSOK
6.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
6.0 : THE_OAK
1.0 : ashlandcatfan600
1.0 : IamnotRalph
1.0 : KyMaster
1.0 : ram1955
1.0 : RocknRollCats
1.0 : TTU/UK fan




Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #1:



Underdog Winners:

Week 1: 7

Season Average for Underdog Winners: 7.0


Correct Underdog Picks:

Week 1: 23

Season Average for Correct Picks: 23.0

Total Picks Made:

Week 1: 96

Season Average for Total Picks: 96.0


Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #1:

crosbycatfan3745, BigBlueFan1963, straykat, Hang_Time_2, Serenity Now!!!, GoB!gBlue, calicat21, gamecockcat, BoulderCat, stinger11723, RS73CAT, UKMKG, no_neutrality, THE_OAK, OSOK, jte123, SWVA WildcatFan, ram1955, RocknRollCats, IamnotRalph, KyMaster, ashlandcatfan600, TTU/UK fan<br>
 
OLD RED:

You left mre out. I had picked Hawaii +7.5

Please corrrect.

Thanks,
Gabewcat

Gabewcat, That happened because you quoted Tskware quoting me and I picked out that you picked Michigan which was his pick. Try not to quote someone else's pick next time because I don't have a clue how to just pick up your pick and ignore his. I'll fix the score up manually, for now. But, if you quote someone else's pick this week, you'll get his because I don't have time to fix the program and I don't have time to manually correct everything. There is a spot at the bottom of every thread where you can post into the thread but not quote anyone.
 
Old_Red, thanks for running this again this year,I understand that it has become more difficult,which makes me and Im sure others even more appreciative of your efforts.
 
Thanks... I did get a lot of the recoding done so it won't be absolutely awful. It is more work right now and there are "surprises" along the way with new changes (like people quoting people quoting picks) but I'll soon be ok. This week will be late getting scored and the next week will be late starting because I will be out of town so don't be surprised. I am all set though so it is simply a matter of saving off the web pages. Still can't get my program to read them on its own. Sheesh!
 
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