No time to write anything of substance tonight- the second half of the Sweet 16 preview will be up tomorrow. For now, a couple updates on the
MLB Totals Contest. If you have not yet entered, you should probably get on that.
- We are up to 76 entries. This is fantastic- I haven't even filled out mine yet. I have realized that, even in a free contest, it would be quite devastating to, after 6 months, come in 2nd out of 76 people and walk away with nothing. Thanks to RotoWire president Peter Schoenke, the second and third place finishers will now get a free 1-month trial over there. I'd still like to add a couple more prizes- if you have any ideas, you know .
- If you thought you were being clever by using the Indians' over/under to calculate your tiebreaker, I'd like to inform you that you were, in fact, wrong. An absurd 15 people have entered tiebreakers between .555 and .557. I can't wait until two of the seven people at exactly .556 end up tied for first. A much better tiebreaker would've been Travis Hafner's OPS (that would've been a great one, actually), but it is obviously far, far too late now. Oh well.
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3 comments:
I wouldn't call it so much "clever" as a "lack of effort."
Yeah, well.......shut up. Baseball isn't my sport, and I thought I was only being slightly clever when I picked .555.
Baseball isn't really my sport and I fully expect to finish in the bottom half anyways. I wouldn't have paid to enter if the cost were $1. Maybe just being in a contest will make me pay more attention though. Gotta do something over the summer.
I didn't think I was being clever... I think they're a 90-win team, so that's what I put in for my tiebreaker. But say you only had 20 people in the contest... did you really expect to get 20 different answers ranging from 81 wins to 100 wins? Would 4 out of 20 been absurd? You're bound to get multiple people guessing in that range regardless of the total set by the books.
I think the Hafner tiebreaker would have been more suitable. Then, you could have accused those who used his PECOTA OPS as "clever".
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