June 22, 2015

SpoFi NBA Pick 'Em final results: congratulations to grum@work and ic23b who tied for first place. (more inside)

posted by Ufez Jones to basketball at 04:59 PM - 3 comments

Correct final round picks:
Which team will win? - (2 pts) - Golden State
How many games will it take? - (2 pts - must choose correct team to get these points) - Six
Who will win MVP of the series? (2 pts) - Andre Iguodala (nobody picked correctly)

Bonus points -
Choose the player that will have the most total:
- Rebounds (1 point) - LeBron James
- Assists (1 point) - LeBron James
- Free throws attempted (1 point) - LeBron James
- Steals (1 point) - Draymond Green
- Blocks (1 point) - Timofey Mozgov
- Personal fouls (1 point) - Draymond Green
- Turnovers (1 point) - Stephen Curry
and
- which player will have the highest 3-point Percentage (min. 8 taken) (1 point) - Harrison Barnes (nobody picked correctly)

Also:

- How many total technical fouls will be called? (2 points, must get exact) - 2
- What will be the largest margin of victory in a single game be? (come within +/- 3 of the actual number - 2 points) - 21 (accepted range: 18-24)
- How many total triple-doubles will be scored? (must get exact - 3 points) - 3 (LeBron James 2, Draymond Green)
- How many total points will the leading scorer score (come within +/- 10)? (3 points - I like this one because it also takes into account how many games you think there will be) - 215 (accepted range: 205-225. Nobody predicted correctly)

Final Standings:
grum@work - 45 points (7 in final round)
ic23b - 45 (7)
bender - 38 (5)
dfleming - 37 (5)
tron7 - 34 (9)
holden - 31 (8)
rcade - 30 (7)
ufez - 27 (4)
HowardT* - 30 (10)
GoYouColts* - 19 (9)
NoMich* - 13 (5)

*ineligible for Costanza, which means I "won" the damn thing in my own pool. Hooray.

Thanks to all who played and to rcade for letting me take the reins on this. It was fun!

posted by Ufez Jones at 05:00 PM on June 22, 2015

Yay, me (and ic23b)!

posted by grum@work at 05:20 PM on June 22, 2015

A tie for the win is a lot better then where I usually end up in these things. I think because the Pistons weren't in the playoffs there were no wishful thinking in my picks. Thanks to Ufez Jones for doing this.

Did I miss the Hockey Results? Been looking for them.

posted by ic23b at 08:45 PM on June 22, 2015

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