It's not a big deal, and I'm not complaining (maybe a little), but if I understand things correctly:
Since picks must be entered before the start of the first game on Sat.
and plays are graded based on the closing line, most picks are completely at the mercy of any line moves (sometimes these can be several points).
It's a free contest so like I mentioned, no big deal. Just an observation.
Since picks must be entered before the start of the first game on Sat.
and plays are graded based on the closing line, most picks are completely at the mercy of any line moves (sometimes these can be several points).
It's a free contest so like I mentioned, no big deal. Just an observation.
That is correct.....And all you have to do is put your plays in Prior to kick-off and I will do all the other work...And Please let me know of a contest that you can put your plays in right up until game time. The Hilton contest wich is one of the biggest, you have to have all your plays in I believe the night before..........G.
G. MONEY said:
There most certainly are contests (in other forums and such) where you can put picks in up until the first game goes. That's not the really the point of my observation.
The Hilton contest is a good counter example to what I'm trying to illustrate. In the Hilton contest, each game has a predtermined pointspread that picks are based on. They don't use the closing line. In this contest, when picks are submitted, most of the pointspreads that will be used for grading are unknown at the time. As I mentioned yesterday, many picks will be completely at the mercy of any line moves that occur between the time the picks are entered and the time the line closes.
I want to stress that this is just an observation and not meant to be seen as a complaint. It was just something that struck me as a little odd.
GMONEY, I played a bunch of games this week that had lines at books such as 5dimes, pinnacle, betcris and so forth. But it is possible that skybook did not offer lines on all of these games. Of course I went 6-0 in those games. Some of those games were TV games as well. Hopefully, skybook had a line on those game
