Regarding the ROH Pick Um's For WC

[MGH]

Seeing as we have quite a few people interested in doing this, I thought I'd leave it up to you how the game is played. I had my own idea, and then the ROH board's way of doing things. Whichever wins this poll is the way the game will be run through this year. I'll close voting at 2 on Sunday. The first game will be up Monday for people to make their picks.


Option 1 - The ROH Board Way

A more simplistic version of confidence picks. Say the show you're making your picks for is a six match card. You make your picks, and assign a number between 1-6 to each based on how confident you are in your pick. So for example, say you had Chris Hero vs. Mitch Franklin, and Rocky Romero vs. Jimmy Jacobs as two matches. I think everyone knows what's going to happen in Hero/Franklin, so you'd take Hero and assign 6 points to the pick. Jacobs/Romero is more of a toss up. If you were very unsure about the pick, you'd take your guy (I'll say Jacobs) and assign 1 point to him. If you were a little more confident in that choice you could used 2 or 3 or so on and so on. At the end your submission for the show should look like this:

Hero(6)
Pick(5)
Pick(4)
Pick(3)
Pick(2)
Jacobs(1)


Option 2 - MGH Way

Let's take the same six match card. Instead of going down the line assigning points in order, you'd be given a set amount of points to be used as you see fit. Thiese aren't the final numbers, as I have details to work out should this option win, but let's say the number of points available was 70. 20 being the maximum you could put on any match, and 5 being the minimum. So your final submission in that case should look like a variation of one of these:

Hero(20)
Pick(15)
Pick(15)
Pick(10)
Pick(5)
Jacobs(5)


Hero(15)
Pick(15)
Pick(15)
Pick(10)
Pick(10)
Jacobs(5)


Hero(20)
Pick(20)
Pick(15)
Pick(5)
Pick(5)
Jacobs(5)


Not every pick would have to be with fives, it's just how I made the examples.



So, vote away. Either Monday or Tuesday I'll have the Pick Um thread up for the Boston/Edison doubleshot complete with details!

[Overly large testicles]

Hmm. Who keeps score? If it's you, I'm totally picking option 2.

[heyguesswhatidid]

Option 2, since there is more strategy.

[MGH]

perfectsdump said:

Hmm. Who keeps score? If it's you, I'm totally picking option 2.

I'll be tallying scores and posting them a couple of days after the shows every time.

[Agent P]

I chose Option 1.

[The Scuba Guy]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not really digging it, but that's me. If the rest of you are, that's fine, I just don't like the idea

[imnotbooked]

In my opinion, I would much rather go with Option 1, but I'm in either way, so It's really MGH's call...

[Ass Dan]

I voted for number two.

[W?Y]

I gotta go simple with this one. But I do appreciate the work you put into this, MGH. You are super-great.

[MWC]

Option 1 seems better.

[DJ Peapod]

So wait, option 1 is taking the match, picking the winner...and then on a scale to 1-6 you choose how sure you know he's going to win?

I'm confused

and #2 is even worse

[Psy]

Essentially, Option 1 means you'd have to be pretty darn sure of your picks while Option 2 means you have more leeways. I voted for Option 1 while trying to scroll down :/

[The Line]

I'm cool either way, since I'll probably be newar the bottom.


And since we'll have a lot less people, could you possibly everyone's scores? That is, as long as the numbers of participants. I mean, if we only have an average of 10 people per show, then I think it would be ok. But if we ever get up to 90, it'd be a little ridiculous.

[Deleted]

I voted for Option 1 since I'm more used to that style. I'd be fine with Option 2 if that's what the majority decided to go with, though.

[MGH]

Looks like it'll be Option 1. I'll start preparing assuming it will stay that way. If it doesn't I'll switch over before Monday.

[imnotbooked]

Sounds good to me, I can't wait to start!

[MGH]

Bumped for any final votes.

[BlackHoleMark]

I'm pumped.