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) You must make your pick before any game has started or after the last game of the day has kicked off on the day you make your pick. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. I can't know that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game kicks off that day, it is invalidated. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day, but don't count on it.
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.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
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 16:
Thursday, Dec. 17
cancelled - TROY 26 Louisiana-Monroe
Friday, Dec. 18
MARSHALL 5½ UAB
SUNY-BUFFALO 12 Ball State
SOUTHERN CAL 7 Washington
Nebraska 5 RUTGERS
INDIANA 10½ Purdue
Saturday, Dec. 19
WAKE FOREST 7½ Florida State
Air Force 2 ARMY
WISCONSIN 11 Minnesota
PENN STATE 14½ Illinois
cancelled - IOWA 14 Michigan
cancelled - MARYLAND 2 Michigan State
UTAH 10½ Washington State
UCLA 7 Stanford
cancelled - Oregon 8½ COLORADO
Arizona State 7 OREGON STATE
cancelled - CALIFORNIA 14½ Arizona
OHIO STATE 20½ Northwestern
Oklahoma 6 IOWA STATE
COASTAL CAROLINA 3½ Louisiana-Lafayette
Clemson 10½ NOTRE DAME
CINCINNATI 15 Tulsa
Alabama 17 FLORIDA
Boise State 6½ SAN JOSE STATE
Texas AM 14 TENNESSEE
cancelled - GEORGIA 38½ Vanderbilt
LSU 1½ Mississippi
Missouri 1½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO 8 Southern Methodist
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Underdog Winners - Week #15:
LSU : 24.0 points
NEW MEXICO : 11.0 points
Minnesota : 10.5 points
North Texas : 10.0 points
SOUTHERN MISS : 8.5 points
Rutgers : 8.0 points
MEMPHIS : 4.0 points
North Carolina : 3.5 points
Utah : 2.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #15:
LSU: CGblue
North Texas: On_track_4_8
Rutgers: RocknRollCats, *CatinIL*
MEMPHIS: AsianPICat, SWVA WildcatFan, Old_Red, pappy52
North Carolina: Blueisbest
Nobody picked: NEW MEXICO, Minnesota, SOUTHERN MISS, Utah
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #15:
71.5 : RocknRollCats
64.5 : CGblue
63.0 : Cat4life_
52.0 : Nuke99m
46.0 : LeWiz
43.5 : On_track_4_8
39.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
37.0 : Corbin_Creeper
37.0 : WildcatDJ
35.5 : jwcat30
34.5 : AsianPICat
34.0 : pappy52
32.0 : no_neutrality
30.0 : *CatinIL*
30.0 : dvillecatfan
29.5 : Roe07
28.5 : Blueaz
28.5 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
26.0 : jrburt
25.5 : ashlandcatfan600
25.5 : Mash 2.4
23.5 : Ken Cat
23.5 : Maxwell41
19.0 : jsyeag
19.0 : maysvilleky
19.0 : wildcatbd21
18.5 : blubud
18.0 : Gabewcat
16.0 : MAYHOO22
16.0 : TOMCATS1990
15.0 : Blueisbest
13.0 : crosbycatfan3745
12.5 : spartacat
11.0 : Old_Red
10.5 : btodd0224
10.5 : Owen68
10.5 : ThreeHogNight
10.5 : warrior_SW
9.5 : Hang_Time_2
8.0 : JSgorocks
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : ukmonty2001
7.0 : bigbluemist
7.0 : BigTyrone
7.0 : pumpedupcats
6.5 : howercat
6.0 : GoBigBlue712
5.5 : number8please
5.5 : TreyGoggles
2.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #15:
9 : AsianPICat
8 : On_track_4_8
7 : RocknRollCats
7 : SWVA WildcatFan
6 : CGblue
5 : Cat4life_
5 : jwcat30
5 : LeWiz
5 : pappy52
5 : WildcatDJ
4 : *CatinIL*
4 : ashlandcatfan600
4 : Blueaz
4 : jsyeag
4 : Ken Cat
4 : Mash 2.4
4 : no_neutrality
4 : Nuke99m
4 : Old_Red
3 : blubud
3 : Blueisbest
3 : dvillecatfan
3 : jrburt
3 : Maxwell41
3 : MAYHOO22
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Roe07
3 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
2 : Corbin_Creeper
2 : crosbycatfan3745
2 : JSgorocks
2 : number8please
2 : Owen68
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 2: 4
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 4
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 7
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 10
Week 10: 10
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 14
Week 14: 11
Week 15: 9
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.3
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 2: 18
Week 3: 16
Week 4: 5
Week 5: 20
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 10
Week 9: 5
Week 10: 12
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 7
Week 13: 10
Week 14: 2
Week 15: 9
Season Average for Correct Picks: 10.3
Total Picks Made:
Week 2: 40
Week 3: 40
Week 4: 58
Week 5: 51
Week 6: 46
Week 7: 47
Week 8: 45
Week 9: 43
Week 10: 38
Week 11: 43
Week 12: 39
Week 13: 34
Week 14: 35
Week 15: 30
Season Average for Total Picks: 42.1
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) You must make your pick before any game has started or after the last game of the day has kicked off on the day you make your pick. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. I can't know that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game kicks off that day, it is invalidated. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day, but don't count on it.
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.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
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?
------------
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 16:
Thursday, Dec. 17
cancelled - TROY 26 Louisiana-Monroe
Friday, Dec. 18
MARSHALL 5½ UAB
SUNY-BUFFALO 12 Ball State
SOUTHERN CAL 7 Washington
Nebraska 5 RUTGERS
INDIANA 10½ Purdue
Saturday, Dec. 19
WAKE FOREST 7½ Florida State
Air Force 2 ARMY
WISCONSIN 11 Minnesota
PENN STATE 14½ Illinois
cancelled - IOWA 14 Michigan
cancelled - MARYLAND 2 Michigan State
UTAH 10½ Washington State
UCLA 7 Stanford
cancelled - Oregon 8½ COLORADO
Arizona State 7 OREGON STATE
cancelled - CALIFORNIA 14½ Arizona
OHIO STATE 20½ Northwestern
Oklahoma 6 IOWA STATE
COASTAL CAROLINA 3½ Louisiana-Lafayette
Clemson 10½ NOTRE DAME
CINCINNATI 15 Tulsa
Alabama 17 FLORIDA
Boise State 6½ SAN JOSE STATE
Texas AM 14 TENNESSEE
cancelled - GEORGIA 38½ Vanderbilt
LSU 1½ Mississippi
Missouri 1½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO 8 Southern Methodist
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Underdog Winners - Week #15:
LSU : 24.0 points
NEW MEXICO : 11.0 points
Minnesota : 10.5 points
North Texas : 10.0 points
SOUTHERN MISS : 8.5 points
Rutgers : 8.0 points
MEMPHIS : 4.0 points
North Carolina : 3.5 points
Utah : 2.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #15:
LSU: CGblue
North Texas: On_track_4_8
Rutgers: RocknRollCats, *CatinIL*
MEMPHIS: AsianPICat, SWVA WildcatFan, Old_Red, pappy52
North Carolina: Blueisbest
Nobody picked: NEW MEXICO, Minnesota, SOUTHERN MISS, Utah
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #15:
71.5 : RocknRollCats
64.5 : CGblue
63.0 : Cat4life_
52.0 : Nuke99m
46.0 : LeWiz
43.5 : On_track_4_8
39.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
37.0 : Corbin_Creeper
37.0 : WildcatDJ
35.5 : jwcat30
34.5 : AsianPICat
34.0 : pappy52
32.0 : no_neutrality
30.0 : *CatinIL*
30.0 : dvillecatfan
29.5 : Roe07
28.5 : Blueaz
28.5 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
26.0 : jrburt
25.5 : ashlandcatfan600
25.5 : Mash 2.4
23.5 : Ken Cat
23.5 : Maxwell41
19.0 : jsyeag
19.0 : maysvilleky
19.0 : wildcatbd21
18.5 : blubud
18.0 : Gabewcat
16.0 : MAYHOO22
16.0 : TOMCATS1990
15.0 : Blueisbest
13.0 : crosbycatfan3745
12.5 : spartacat
11.0 : Old_Red
10.5 : btodd0224
10.5 : Owen68
10.5 : ThreeHogNight
10.5 : warrior_SW
9.5 : Hang_Time_2
8.0 : JSgorocks
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : ukmonty2001
7.0 : bigbluemist
7.0 : BigTyrone
7.0 : pumpedupcats
6.5 : howercat
6.0 : GoBigBlue712
5.5 : number8please
5.5 : TreyGoggles
2.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #15:
9 : AsianPICat
8 : On_track_4_8
7 : RocknRollCats
7 : SWVA WildcatFan
6 : CGblue
5 : Cat4life_
5 : jwcat30
5 : LeWiz
5 : pappy52
5 : WildcatDJ
4 : *CatinIL*
4 : ashlandcatfan600
4 : Blueaz
4 : jsyeag
4 : Ken Cat
4 : Mash 2.4
4 : no_neutrality
4 : Nuke99m
4 : Old_Red
3 : blubud
3 : Blueisbest
3 : dvillecatfan
3 : jrburt
3 : Maxwell41
3 : MAYHOO22
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Roe07
3 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
2 : Corbin_Creeper
2 : crosbycatfan3745
2 : JSgorocks
2 : number8please
2 : Owen68
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 2: 4
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 4
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 7
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 10
Week 10: 10
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 14
Week 14: 11
Week 15: 9
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.3
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 2: 18
Week 3: 16
Week 4: 5
Week 5: 20
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 10
Week 9: 5
Week 10: 12
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 7
Week 13: 10
Week 14: 2
Week 15: 9
Season Average for Correct Picks: 10.3
Total Picks Made:
Week 2: 40
Week 3: 40
Week 4: 58
Week 5: 51
Week 6: 46
Week 7: 47
Week 8: 45
Week 9: 43
Week 10: 38
Week 11: 43
Week 12: 39
Week 13: 34
Week 14: 35
Week 15: 30
Season Average for Total Picks: 42.1
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