Re:Yahoo College Pick 'Em League, Anyone?
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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:37 PM
Heres the rules of the point spread and confidence because this is where you could get confused an F yourself in week 1. At first i thought the spreads were just listed for some games to help with a pick.. but then i read the rules. So don't forget to take the spread into consideration!
A point spread is the predicted scoring difference between a game's two opponents. If you choose the team that's favored, they must win by more than the spread number in order for you to get credit for a correct pick. If you choose the underdog team, they have to lose by less than the spread number in order for you to get credit for the correct pick.
So, if you pick Penn State and they're favored to beat Notre Dame by five points (Penn State -5.0), they must win the game by six or more points in order for you to get credit for the win. Otherwise, if Notre Dame loses by less than five, you wouldn't get credit for the win. If Penn State wins by exactly five points, the game is a push, and no users get credit for a victory.
If a point spread is listed as "off," this indicates that there is no official point spread for the game. This is most common when a Div. I school plays a Div. II school. When the line is "off," you're simply picking which team will win the game.
Yahoo! Sports uses the point spreads provided by the Associated Press. These spreads will be updated each day, with Thursday's lines serving as the game's official spread.
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Confidence points are used to give different weight to each of the games during a given week. You'll assign a point value (from 1 to 15 if there are 15 games, 1 to 14 if there are 14 games, etc.) to each game based on how strongly you feel about the accuracy of your pick. If your pick is on the money, you'll receive points equal to the confidence point value you associated with that game.
So, if you pick Penn State to beat Notre Dame and assign the game a confidence point value of 15, you'd get 15 points for a correct pick, but no points if Notre Dame wins. You don't lose points for an incorrect selection.
Each week's points will be tallied, and the player finishing with the highest total at the end of the year will be the winner of the group.
Each confidence point value may be used only once per week. So, during a 15-game week, after you've assigned 15 points to a game, your next highest available value is 14 points.