Elimination contest-play here

[Doc]

Going to try a NEW game. For those who have played NFL elimination pools, its the same game only we are using college basketball. Here is how its played.

Each 1/2 week I'll list the SEC game (APPLIES TO SEC vs SEC only). Your job is to pick one winner of any of the games. There are no spreads, just winner/loser. Once you pick a team you can not pick that team in any of the following weeks. For example, if you pick UK to win over Vandy you can not pick UK in week 2, 3, 4 etc. If the second week you pick FL to win then you can not pick them or UK in week 3, 4, 5, etc..... So as time goes it gets harder and harder. If you make an incorrect pick you get a strike (and you can not use the team you picked). 2 strikes and you are out. If you miss a week it counts as a strike. As we get to the end of the season, if we have multiple players then we well figure out a tie breaker system

So for week 1 the games are:


Alabama at Missouri
Georgia at Florida
South Carolina at Mississippi St.
Ole Miss at Tennessee
LSU at Auburn
Arkansas at Texas A&M
Kentucky at Vanderbilt

[Doc]

Doc's pick for week 1 is

TENNESSEE

[Darrell KSR]

I have never played this game before, but I love the concept.

[UKFlounder]

OK - hopefully I last more than 2 weeks at this. I probably should look at future weeks to see which teams I may eventually want to pick then instead of now, but what's the fun in that?

I'll go with Missouri

[Darrell KSR]

Texas A&M

[Darrell KSR]

I just hope to make it to February.

[jandpsdad]

Missouri

- a long three from NW Indiana on that one!
Hope it does better than Hulls against Iowa...

[WoodstockCat]

My pick for week 1 is South Carolina.

[Rock Hard Ten]

South Carolina

[Catfan73]

So if I'm understanding this correctly Doc, one strategy would be to pick the bad teams as early as possible, right? Otherwise when you get toward the end of the game, you'd only have bad teams left from which to pick. Of course, picking bad teams is risky no matter when you do it. With that in mind, let's try

Mississippi State.

[Doc]

after the game I will list
1) number of strikes you have
2) teams you can not use

[Doc]

So if I'm understanding this correctly Doc, one strategy would be to pick the bad teams as early as possible, right? Otherwise when you get toward the end of the game, you'd only have bad teams left from which to pick. Of course, picking bad teams is risky no matter when you do it. With that in mind, let's try

Mississippi State.

That is one strategy, or if you pick bad teams and they lose you last a shorter period of time. After about 4 weeks it gets tough Realistically, I look for the worst team that I'm sure will win.

NOTE: I'll be going 2 games a week. We have our midweek games as one contest and weekend games as the other. Considering there are 19 in conference games, after 14 games (which is 7 weeks)-assuming we still have players, we will be able to repick a team.

[catmanjack]

Auburn

[Doc]

So far I've got:

Doc-Tennessee
UKFlounder -Missouri
Darrell KSR -Texas A&M
jandpsdad -Missouri
WoodstockCat - South Carolina.
Rock Hard Ten -South Carolina
Catfan73 -Mississippi State.
catmanjack -Auburn
Krank - Auburn
DanISSELisdaman - Missouri
blueboss - Auburn
Blue 2 the Bone - Tennessee

[Krank]

Auburn

[DanISSELisdaman]

Missouri.

[blueboss]

Auburn

[Blue 2 the Bone]

tennessee

[Doc]

So far the players/picks are:

Doc-Tennessee
UKFlounder -Missouri
Darrell KSR -Texas A&M
jandpsdad -Missouri
WoodstockCat - South Carolina.
Rock Hard Ten -South Carolina
Catfan73 -Mississippi State.
catmanjack -Auburn
Krank - Auburn
DanISSELisdaman - Missouri
blueboss - Auburn
Blue 2 the Bone - Tennessee
Bnelli77 -Mississippi St
truecatsfan- Missouri
bigronhahn1011 - LSU
lfbj00 - LSU

[Bnelli77]

Mississippi St.

[truecatsfan]

Mizz.

[bigronhahn1011]

Lsu

[Doc]

Here are round 2 games (Sat Jan 12)--remember, don't pick the same team you did week 1. I'll post that and your strike count on Thur or Friday

Tennessee at Alabama
Auburn at South Carolina
Mississippi St. at Georgia
Texas A&M at Kentucky
Florida at LSU
Vanderbilt at Arkansas
Missouri at Ole Miss

[Doc]

My round 2 pick is

Missouri

[blueboss]

Round 2 Arkansas

[DanISSELisdaman]

Round 2...Florida

[Catfan73]

Round 2: Georgia.

[Lfbj00]

Round 1-LSU

[Lfbj00]

Round 2-South Carolina

[Doc]

Last chance to get in. Games tonight. If you don't get your pick in you also can go with the UK Vandy (and you better pick UK)


Doc-Tennessee
UKFlounder -Missouri
Darrell KSR -Texas A&M
jandpsdad -Missouri
WoodstockCat - South Carolina.
Rock Hard Ten -South Carolina
Catfan73 -Mississippi State.
catmanjack -Auburn
Krank - Auburn
DanISSELisdaman - Missouri
blueboss - Auburn
Blue 2 the Bone - Tennessee
Bnelli77 -Mississippi St
truecatsfan- Missouri
bigronhahn1011 - LSU
lfbj00 - LSU