i was daydreaming and had a fun idea: MLB playoff brackets, anyone?
how about this: predict the winner of each series, and win the points. double points if you correctly guess the amount of wins for both winning and losing team.
ALDS/NLDS 1 pt. (best of 5)
ALCS/NLCS 3 pts.
world series 5 pts.
ALDS
DET v. NYY (1)
TB v. TEX (2)
NLDS
STL v. PHI (1)
ARI v. MIL (2)
whoever has the most points wins. pretty simple, huh?
if anyone has any suggestions to tweek the rules, let me know. otherwise, post your guesses below. i'll compile them on a spreadsheet and make it available to everyone.
copy and paste the below part:
ALDS(1):
ALDS(2):
NLDS(1):
NLDS(2):
ALCS:
NLCS:
World Series:
DEADLINE: friday, 30 september 2011 3:00PM CT
Should we wrap them in a spoiler?
Edit: Yes. If you forget,
-1 point, we can clean it up later.You know how you think maybe an upset is a good idea in this series, and then you end up with no good options to advance in the next round? Yeah, I'm not winning this.
Not that I'm trying to help you, cheaptoy, but if the TB and MIL division series go as long as you have them going, I will truly be amazed by your predicting prowess.
Just taking a risk for a bigger reward.
Alright, now that I've had time to rethink my incredibly dumb post above, here are my real answers:
Tie games! That would be awesome.
Allan would never allow that. He'd just suspend them.
I'm definitely gonna wing this one
full disclosure, i opened DW's but around one second to see if the answering style was correct, but it was brief enough to not see the answers. i will give my vote (which is good for somewhere in the bottom 3), and then crack everyone's seals...
His ain't gonna help you any. Shoulda looked at mine.
funny enough, my answers turned out to be the same as DWs (with different totals)
I mindlessly looked at all of them above you, and didn't think until here why people were putting them in spoilers.
DQ me if you all must, but I really didn't remember what people had picked, though. I just tried to fit my narrative.
Also, I'm not a werewolf.
vote: AMR
Hungry Joe's the wolf. He made a spreadsheet!
I agree. Also, he's just voted without posting reasons.
Lastly, he just voted for an obvious villager (me).
OK, I'm stupid and I was thinking they were all best of seven series. Since that's not true, I have to rework one of these-
Hey man, you're not alone there, only I had to re-work two of them.
Well, that's eerily close.
Get your entries in, so you can read mine. I also predicted the narrative of each series.
I did forget to mention that every game that Detroit loses, they had the lead, but Valverde blows the save. Especially in Game 2 of the ALDS.
I like it for the most part--the Colby Rasmus thing might be tough to pull off though.
That's what I get for just seeing who had the most starts in CF. I mean
didn't you mean Game ii of the Texas-Tampa ALDS series?
I'm not seeing an "ii" in there anywhere, so you must have spelled it wrong.
I don't know what ii would be doing manning 1B for the Yanks.
Also, I spell Tieixieiria that way because I know there's an "i" or two in there, and this way I'm sure not to miss one.
I hope no one chose NYY to win it all
Seven teams have been picked to win the World Series so far.
...and I love that fact.
I had them winning it all until I remembered that the NL won the ASG this year and had HFA.
Oops,
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I don't think I'm going to win.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained:
I doubt your world series matchup.
Oops. Let me fix that. What I meant was:
Why not?
alright, everyone can take a look at the spreadsheet here. i would highly recommend double checking your entry as my thermostat is on the fritz and i cannot guarantee the level of baked-ness.
one thing i found interesting so far is
The link to the spreadsheet should replace the race to the bottom on the sidebar.
i've pinned this post to the top of the page for now (i'll unpin it after the deadline), but any sidebar work is beyond me.
Right, I wasn't necessarily asking you to do it.
some summary statistics:
I will leave the path analysis as an exercise for GH and The Nation Has Problems 🙂
That's just because the Twins won the first game of the 2002 ALCS.
Wolves win in 7.
Mini-Ditka goes for 50 with 35 boards.