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Re: HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em!
I'm with Scriv on this one...like I mentioned in a previous post to this thread, I do not look at the picks of others. It's strictly a random event should I replicate another players pick for pick; it is not something done intentionally.
With only 14 to 16 games to pick per week, there is bound to be pick replication among players. So many of the games of a given week are games in which there are overwhelming favorites. For example, let's say that the current Houston Texans are visiting the current New England Patriots on a Sunday Night game...the Texans would be huge underdogs in this game. I am not going to pick Houston to win the game just to be different and assuage the feelings of somebody who thinks I'm intentionally replicating their picks. I'm picking the Pats to win it, even if every other player who has made his/her picks known prior to mine, has also picked the Pats to win. Yeah, it's just a game, but if one is going to play a game, one may as well play it to win it.
The one "problem" I see with this game as it stands now is that players are picking straight-up wins and losses. There is no "line" incorporated into the game. There is no incentive to pick an underdog. As such, most players are going to pick (logically so) the obvious favorites and not stick their necks out and pick a underdog in hope of an upset.
I think if players were to be awarded a win point only if they satisfied "covering the spread", id est, "The Line", whatever official line were to be used, be it one published in the Advertiser or Star-Bulletin, we'd see a whole lot more diversity in our overall picks.
I'm with Scriv on this one...like I mentioned in a previous post to this thread, I do not look at the picks of others. It's strictly a random event should I replicate another players pick for pick; it is not something done intentionally.
With only 14 to 16 games to pick per week, there is bound to be pick replication among players. So many of the games of a given week are games in which there are overwhelming favorites. For example, let's say that the current Houston Texans are visiting the current New England Patriots on a Sunday Night game...the Texans would be huge underdogs in this game. I am not going to pick Houston to win the game just to be different and assuage the feelings of somebody who thinks I'm intentionally replicating their picks. I'm picking the Pats to win it, even if every other player who has made his/her picks known prior to mine, has also picked the Pats to win. Yeah, it's just a game, but if one is going to play a game, one may as well play it to win it.
The one "problem" I see with this game as it stands now is that players are picking straight-up wins and losses. There is no "line" incorporated into the game. There is no incentive to pick an underdog. As such, most players are going to pick (logically so) the obvious favorites and not stick their necks out and pick a underdog in hope of an upset.
I think if players were to be awarded a win point only if they satisfied "covering the spread", id est, "The Line", whatever official line were to be used, be it one published in the Advertiser or Star-Bulletin, we'd see a whole lot more diversity in our overall picks.
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