Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Play in the PH4H pick-em league for the NCAA tournament!

So, here's the very early invitation to play in the free PH4H pick-em league for the NCAA tournament. The group id is "20268" and the password is "reverse."

Alas, there are no changes to the scoring, but, in true PH4H fashion, both the highest- and lowest- scoring players will be the winners, and other than pride, you will likely win a blog posting about how great you are.

Because of the way Yahoo!'s scoring works, there's really no way to have reverse scoring -- if there is truly reverse or negative scoring, smart people will just pick fifteen and sixteen seeds and score as close to zero as possible. This way, there is ABSOLUTELY no incentive to do that. So, do your best, and either win or lose badly despite your best efforts.

If we can figure it out, there may eventually be some sort of off-book alternative scoring system where people get bonus points for really random picks, lose or gain points for blowouts, and things of that nature. Let us know if you have any ideas on how to set that up.

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