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 and this is that "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 of the day.
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 17:
Tuesday, Dec. 22
Tulane 2½ NEVADA
BYU 6½ Central Florida
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Georgia Southern 5½ LOUISIANA TECH
MEMPHIS 8 Florida Atlantic
Thursday, Dec. 24
HOUSTON 12½ Hawaii
Friday, Dec. 25
SUNY-BUFFALO 3½ Marshall
Saturday, Dec. 26
cancelled - UAB 6 South Carolina
COASTAL CAROLINA 6 Liberty
Louisiana-Lafayette 13 TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
GEORGIA STATE 4½ Western Kentucky
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Oklahoma State 2 MIAMI (FL)
TEXAS 12 Colorado
Wednesday, Dec. 30
Wisconsin 6½ WAKE FOREST
cancelled - IOWA 15 Missouri
Florida 3 OKLAHOMA
Thursday, Dec. 31
TULSA 2½ Mississippi State
West Virginia 7½ ARMY
SAN JOSE STATE 7½ Ball State
cancelled - TEXAS CHRISTIAN 5½ Arkansas
Friday, Jan. 1
GEORGIA 7 Cincinnati
NORTHWESTERN 3½ Auburn
ALABAMA 19½ Notre Dame
CLEMSON 7½ Ohio State
Saturday, Jan. 2
Kentucky 2½ NORTH CAROLINA STATE
INDIANA 6½ Mississippi
IOWA STATE 4½ Oregon
TEXAS AM 7 North Carolina
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Underdog Winners - Week #16:
Ball State : 12.0 points
Stanford : 7.0 points
SAN JOSE STATE : 6.5 points
UAB : 5.5 points
ARMY : 2.0 points
MISSISSIPPI STATE : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #16:
ARMY: AsianPICat
Nobody picked: Ball State, Stanford, SAN JOSE STATE, UAB, MISSISSIPPI STATE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #16:
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
36.5 : AsianPICat
35.5 : jwcat30
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 #16:
10: 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
Week 16: 6
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.1
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
Week 16: 1
Season Average for Correct Picks: 9.8
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
Week 16: 26
Season Average for Total Picks: 41.0
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 of the day.
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 17:
Tuesday, Dec. 22
Tulane 2½ NEVADA
BYU 6½ Central Florida
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Georgia Southern 5½ LOUISIANA TECH
MEMPHIS 8 Florida Atlantic
Thursday, Dec. 24
HOUSTON 12½ Hawaii
Friday, Dec. 25
SUNY-BUFFALO 3½ Marshall
Saturday, Dec. 26
cancelled - UAB 6 South Carolina
COASTAL CAROLINA 6 Liberty
Louisiana-Lafayette 13 TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
GEORGIA STATE 4½ Western Kentucky
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Oklahoma State 2 MIAMI (FL)
TEXAS 12 Colorado
Wednesday, Dec. 30
Wisconsin 6½ WAKE FOREST
cancelled - IOWA 15 Missouri
Florida 3 OKLAHOMA
Thursday, Dec. 31
TULSA 2½ Mississippi State
West Virginia 7½ ARMY
SAN JOSE STATE 7½ Ball State
cancelled - TEXAS CHRISTIAN 5½ Arkansas
Friday, Jan. 1
GEORGIA 7 Cincinnati
NORTHWESTERN 3½ Auburn
ALABAMA 19½ Notre Dame
CLEMSON 7½ Ohio State
Saturday, Jan. 2
Kentucky 2½ NORTH CAROLINA STATE
INDIANA 6½ Mississippi
IOWA STATE 4½ Oregon
TEXAS AM 7 North Carolina
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Underdog Winners - Week #16:
Ball State : 12.0 points
Stanford : 7.0 points
SAN JOSE STATE : 6.5 points
UAB : 5.5 points
ARMY : 2.0 points
MISSISSIPPI STATE : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #16:
ARMY: AsianPICat
Nobody picked: Ball State, Stanford, SAN JOSE STATE, UAB, MISSISSIPPI STATE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #16:
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
36.5 : AsianPICat
35.5 : jwcat30
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 #16:
10: 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
Week 16: 6
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.1
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
Week 16: 1
Season Average for Correct Picks: 9.8
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
Week 16: 26
Season Average for Total Picks: 41.0
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