2023 Picks Panel Rules

Hey gang, it’s time for the 2023 Picks Panel !

AKA

The 12th Annual “You-Don’t-Know-As-Much-About-College-Football-Wagering-As-You-Think-You-Do” Learning Experience!

Here are the rules this year, which are identical to last year…

1. The 2023 Picks Panel will consist of 15 weeks, the 13-week SEC regular season, conference championships and one “week” consisting of the bowl games.

2. Each panelist will start the season with 1000 points.

3. Each week there will be ten games to choose from. The schedule will consist of SEC games with published point spreads. If there are not ten such games available in a given week, then games involving top-25 teams from other conferences will be included.

4. Each week, each panelist must bet a combined minimum of 100 points on any combination of games they wish. The combined total of a panelist’s bets may not exceed their current point total. It is not necessary to place a bet on every game of that week’s schedule.

5. If a panelist has less than 100 points, they must bet their entire total.

6. A successful wager against the spread will be paid out 9 points for every 10 points bet.

7. If a panelist’s point total reaches zero, THEY ARE FINISHED FOR THE SEASON.

8. All picks will be due SATURDAY NOON EASTERN TIME each week unless stated otherwise. The time stamp will determine when picks are submitted. 12:00pm is on time. 12:01 or later will not be accepted.

9. A panelist who fails to make any bets in a given week will lose 100 points that week. If a panelist fails to make any bets for two consecutive weeks they will be removed from the panel.

10. The panelist with the most points at the end of the fifteen weeks will be crowned champion.


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A huge thank you to @GatorFanCF and @gator_n_sc for agreeing to once again be my assistants in this endeavor as they did last year. This enables me to have NO LIMIT on the number of people who participate this year and allows me to keep doing this . Because "pre-registration" is no longer necessary in this thread, all you have to do is post picks in the Week 1 thread which will be posted TUESDAY, August 29th. It will have a deadline of Thursday 8/31 at 8pm ET.


HALL OF CHAMPIONS

2022 ApexNC
2021 Gatorrick22
2020 coach
2019 gatorwilly
2018 igabradley
2017 theplayer
2016 gatordavisl
2015 theplayer
2014 RealtyGator
2013 ????
2012 RealtyGator

 

If you are betting on more than one game, the best thing to do is:

1. Copy and paste the schedule into a new post.
2. Delete the games you aren't interested in.
3. Bold the team you want to bet on in each game.
4. Put the amount of the bet at the end of each game.

This will make @GatorFanCF 's life much easier as he helps me by entering everyone's bets into the spreadsheet. Follow the procedure above and errors will be minimized...