The Scruple-based football score-guessing challenge
AKA “an imaginary journey through credit-based football score-guessing”
Here is the premise: each week, I update you with the number of credits currently available in the imaginary bank accounts of three imaginary individuals. I will also update you with any imaginary guesses made with aforementioned credits, and keep you posted on how we would be doing if we actually were spending money.
I will be playing the part of Player T, Cam will be Player C, and Jonny will be Player J.
Summary as of 4:15 PM on Sunday
Player T started the weekend with 53 scruples ($ = Scruples, the official currency of the credit-based football score-guessing extravaganza). He made the following guesses:
$5 LSU -16.5 WIN (+9.55 scruples)
$5 UGA -3 WIN (+9.55 scruples)
$5 big underdog college football parlay (OSU+3, Min+9, AFA+20, UCF+23) LOSS
$9.10 Falcons +190 - WIN (+26.39 scruples)
$5 Patriots -9 LOSS
$5 Bengals +110 WIN (+10.50 scruples)
$5 Saints +3 WIN (+9.76 scruples)
$10.50 Colts -3 WIN (+)
$15 free guess: Marvin Harrison NO touchdown on sunday night WIN (+30)
$8.40 chargers -3 WIN(+)
Started with $53, finished with 112.60, profit of 59.60 which is a 110.86% increase.
Player J
Player J started the weekend with $200 scruples, and made the following guesses:
$5 parlay (Clemson -2.5, Central Florida +23) - LOSS
$5 underdog money line parlay (South Carolina +130, Ohio State +110, Penn State +300) - LOSS
$10 Texas Tech -7.5 - LOSS
$10 Ohio State +110 - WIN (+$21.00 scruples)
$30 UGA -3 - WIN (+$56.09 scruples)
$20 Florida State -27.5 - LOSS
$20 Central Florida +23 - LOSS
$10 parlay (Bengals -1.5, Eagles -6) - WIN (+35.69 scruples)
$7.09 Falcons +175 - WIN (+$19.50 scruples)
$10 parlay (Colts -3, Eagles -6) WIN (+
$15 Bengals -1.5 - WIN (+$28.64 scruples)
$15 Eagles -6 - WIN (+$28.04 scruples)
$15 Colts -3 - WIN (+)
$5 underdog money line parlay (Falcons +175, Rams +170, Ravens +125) - WIN (+$83.53 scruples)
$10 Falcons/Panthers over 39 points - LOSS
$10 Bengals/Chiefs over 49.5 points - LOSS
$10 Falcons +4.5 - WIN (+$19.09 scruples)
$15 free guess: Marvin Harrison YES touchdown on Sunday night LOSS(+15 back)
Started with 200, ended with 350, profit of 150 or 75%.
Player C
(finally, I’m getting around to the winner)
Started with $50 scruples
$10.00 Minnesota +175 WIN (+27.50)
$10.00 Parlay Chargers -3, Colts -3 WIN (+38.18)
$10.00 Virginia Tech -13 WIN (+19.09)
$10.00 Parlay UGA -3, Ohio St +2 WIN (+35.69)
$10.00 FSU +145 WIN (+24.50) — caveat, this bet was for the monday night FSU/Miami game which was the previous week I believe — we’ll still count it
$10.00 Seahawks -4 Loss
Ended with 134.96 scruples, a gain of $84.96 or 170%, crushing the competition.
So that’s the final tally. Cam wins the ARRIBES GRANDES for this past weekend. Coming soon, next weekend’s results (starting with West Virginia/Maryland tonight)
-tw
