WOV 2023 NFL Playoff Picks Game

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Congrats to Mission, IndyJeffery (a most impressive feat, simultaneously bagging 2nd place and hitting "Mr. Average" right on the nose!), and VegasBrent!

Many thanks to Mission for putting this on, EdCollins for his scoring, and those who donated to the prize pool.

You're very welcome!

I think that I am going to keep this format, but next Playoff Picks game, there will be $100 bet caps on all Game Prop and Player Prop type bets. Someone who wants to take a huge shot at something would need multiple of these types of bets to come in.

I will also probably restrict the Game Prop and Player Prop lines to +300, or shorter.

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Very noble of you!

Not at all, but thank you for saying so! Even when I participate in the WoV Picks Game, I do so with the verbiage that I am, "Defending." Other participants' money is not mine to defend, so by taking first place, I successfully defended what that prize would have been had there been no donations.

I don't plan on participating in the WoV Picks Games (Regular Season) anymore***, so what I can say now is that I would not have taken the Entry Fees from anyone even if I had won; I would simply just not pay whatever would have otherwise went to First Place. I would ask for Second Place to accept the Entry Fee contributions, and if Second Place declined, then I would simply have messaged anyone (who owed Entry Fee to the winner) that I was flatly refusing their Entry Fee.

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I think it would have been even nobler to include Fourth Place as well! ;)
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Well played! LOL

***I'm still running the contest! I mean as a player.

Fun contest. Thanks for running it, Mission. And thanks for scoring most of it Ed.

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With that, the Top Three Standings, had there been overtime, would have been:

Mukke: $2,180
Mission146: $1,980
InduJeffrey: $1,100
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Thanks for rubbing it in :)

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Fun contest. Thanks for running it, Mission. And thanks for scoring most of it Ed.
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Yep, HUGE SHOUT-OUT to M146 and EdC.

Any word about the Women's Bracket contest Mission mentioned?

Quote: Vegasbrent

Any word about the Women's Bracket contest Mission mentioned?
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That started already, or the tournament proper is starting Friday? I'll get a thread up on it tomorrow and PM everyone accordingly.

Going to have to get on this tonight, so everybody be ready. Problem is we don't even know who is in the tournament yet. I'd call the 16's a wash, but the 11's could be relevant.

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Going to have to get on this tonight, so everybody be ready. Problem is we don't even know who is in the tournament yet. I'd call the 16's a wash, but the 11's could be relevant.
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I think this idea simply isn't going to work because of the stupid way this is scheduled. We now know the other teams who are in the actual tournament (as of last night), but then the first game of the real tournament tips off less than two hours from now.

Fear not; there will be a replacement game. I'm going to do an NHL Playoff game instead. In general terms, the rules will be picking the teams who advance in each round, but you will also have to pick how many games that team advances in for maximum points. In general, players will start with four base points for a team successfully advancing (the amount of base points will increase as we enter into later rounds) but will lose one of those points (if they get the right team to advance) for each game they are off in terms of how many games needed to be played.

The rules will be structured to try to keep people in it as long as possible. I'll either make the semi-finals and finals worth a large amount of points for getting the right teams, or alternatively, we will add puck lines to be picked against for each individual game for those rounds.

This should enable players to gain an advantage for picking the right teams until then, but unless someone absolutely dominates, everyone should still be in contention at least for the first few games of the semi-finals.