Contest Basketball Prediction Contest: Bulls vs. Florida College

[Brad]

Welcome to the 2020-21

TheBullsPen.com

 Basketball Prediction Contest

The race for the mildly prestigious Bulliever's Cup is on!

Game 1
 

South Florida Bulls vs. Florida College

      at      

Wednesday, November 25     11:30 a.m. EST
Yuengling Center       Tampa, FL
ESPN+

 

The Contest: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to select winners and leading contributors in each Bulls hoops game this season. Prizes await, as does the respect and admiration of Bulls fans around the globe. The contest is a season-long chase so don't miss a game.

 

Next...the rules:

1) You must be a registered member of this message board.
2) You must completely answer the contest questions.
3) There can be no modifications to your post after scheduled game start time
4) Your prediction must be part of this original thread
5) Post must be submitted prior to game's published start time.
6) Ties will be decided by Bulliever starting with accuracy on first - last prediction.

PLEASE READ ABOVE CAREFULLY - If a rule is broken, your entry will not count. You may appeal any ruling, if you choose, but only Bulliever or his designee will hear appeal.

For additional contest rules, please read the small print below.

 

And now, the contest:

For the Bulls game vs. Florida College on Wednesday, November 25 (11:30 am ET, TV ESPN+), please select the following:

1) The winner
2) The margin of victory by your predicted winner
3) Bulls leading scorer and point total
4) Bulls leading rebounder and rebound total
5) Team Free Throw percentage (i.e. 72.9%)

Please try to keep in the above format so that it will be easier to manage. Sample response would be:

1) South Florida
2) 22
3) Collins - 21
4) Yetna - 11
5) 80%


The contest winner will be chosen based on a points system as follows:

1) Correct on winning team - 10 points

2) Correct on Margin of victory - 15 points (subtract one point for each variance in actual and predicted margin - 0 points awarded if actual winner not predicted.)

3a) Correct Leading Scorer - 5 points
3b) Leading Scorer's correct point total -10 points (subtract one point for each variance in actual and predicted total - 0 points awarded if correct leading scorer not predicted.)

4a) Correct Leading Rebounder - 5 points
4b) Leading Rebounder's correct rebound total - 10 points (subtract one point for each variance in actual and predicted total - 0 points awarded if correct leading rebounder not predicted.)

5) Free throw percentage - within 3 percentage points of actual - 10 points; 5 percentage points of actual - 5 points; 10 percentage points -1 point

 

 Games will be decided and winners announced.  There will be a Grand Prize for those with the overall greatest point, "smaller" prizes for each game winner and prizes for other category wins: tracking of game averages, wins and total points scored for the season!  The key is to be mindful of the game schedule and enter each game!

 

 This game winner receives:  

 

 

 

 

Have Fun and follow the Bulls throughout the 2020-21 season!

 

(Mildly prestigious Bulliever's Cup)

 

Stats Updates (Coming soon!)

Edited November 27, 2020 by MikeG

[Brad]

Last season's results:

On 3/14/2020 at 8:12 AM, &rew Bull said:

The prediction contest turned into a tight race for the last couple months with @BrassBulls12 and @DELdaBull battling for the top spot. In the end, the two of them tied for first place with 829 points on the year. The next closest contestant was a distant 49 points off.

While consistency kept this a two-person race, @Friscobull had the best prediction in 26% of the contests he participated in. He had the highest average score and most single-game wins but missed four games throughout the year.

The highest single-game score of the year? That goes to @NJBull  who received 64 of a possible 65 points for last month's game against ECU.

Here's our final stats on the year:

 

Game-by-Game Results				Most Points in a Win (Top 10)			Most Wins
Game	User	Points		User	Points		User	Wins
Arkansas Pine Bluff	ScorpionBull	40		NJBull	64		Friscobull	7
Boston College	Friscobull	46		Friscobull	55		ScorpionBull	4
IUPUI	Fold FB Invest in BB	12		Friscobull	52		brybull1970	3
Wofford	ScorpionBull	35		cophbulls	52		DELdaBull	3
Loyola Illinois	206BULL	41		Friscobull	51		Fold FB Invest in BB	2
New Mexico State	flsportsfan83	26		Friscobull	48		flsportsfan83	2
Nebraska	Friscobull	51		DELdaBull	48		NJBull	2
Furman	Friscobull	46		flsportsfan83	48		206BULL	1
Dartmouth	JJZbulls	42		East lake bull	47		JJZbulls	1
Drexel	79 Bull	41		DELdaBull	47		79 Bull	1
Utah State	Friscobull	48					cophbulls	1
Florida State	DELdaBull	48					NewEnglandBull	1
Florida Atlantic	DELdaBull	36					bcgruber	1
SMU	Friscobull	52					East lake bull	1
UConn	Fold FB Invest in BB	42					BrassBulls12	1
ECU	brybull1970	33
Memphis	cophbulls	52		Total Points			Average Points (min 7 games played)
UCF	brybull1970	30		DELdaBull	829		Friscobull	28.6	27
Wichita State	NewEnglandBull	41		BrassBulls12	829		DELdaBull	27.6	30
Houston	brybull1970	44		NewEnglandBull	778		BrassBulls12	26.7	31
Tulane	Friscobull	55		Friscobull	772		brybull1970	26.7	20
UCF	bcgruber	29		NJBull	709		smazza	25.7	16
Memphis	ScorpionBull	38		flsportsfan83	703		NJBull	25.3	28
Houston	East lake bull	47		&rew Bull	693		NewEnglandBull	25.1	31
Tulsa	BrassBulls12	33		bcgruber	677		cophbulls	24.9	23
Wichita State	flsportsfan83	48		79 Bull	670		206BULL	24.1	12
UConn	Friscobull	25		ScorpionBull	626		flsportsfan83	23.4	30
ECU	NJBull	64		cophbulls	572		&rew Bull	23.1	30
Temple	NJBull	42		brybull1970	533		MikeG	22.9	9
Cincinnati	DELdaBull	47		East lake bull	452		East lake bull	22.6	20
SMU	ScorpionBull	44		Fold FB Invest in BB	424		79 Bull	22.3	30
				smazza	411		bcgruber	21.83870968	31.0
				206BULL	289		ScorpionBull	21.5862069	29.0
				JJZbulls	244		JJZbulls	20.33333333	12.0
				MikeG	206		Fold FB Invest in BB	16.96	25.0
				MSBulls	70
				Gat-Rat Bull	65
				CountryBull	49
				bullstampede9922	37
				El_Toro_86	13

 

[79 Bull]

I'll go first.  I really have no clue who's injured, who's playing, who might start, etc. but here goes...

BULLS WIN!

24

Collins - 18

Yetna - 9

71%

[&rew Bull]

USF

30

Oduro 16

Oduro 9

75%

Edited November 25, 2020 by &rew Bull
Made a change after looking at the box score from last time we played Florida College

[CousinRicky]

2 hours ago, 79 Bull said:

I'll go first.  I really have no clue who's injured, who's playing, who might start, etc. but here goes...

BULLS WIN!

24

Collins - 18

Yetna - 9

71%

 

34 minutes ago, &rew Bull said:

USF

16

Collins 20

Oduro 9

75%

If Collins plays enough to be our leading scorer the game will be much closer than you guys are predicting.

[bcgruber]

1) South Florida
2) 23
3) Prince - 16
4) Chewy - 10
5) 70%

[Friscobull]

USF

32

Brown 18

Oduro

68%

 

[NewEnglandBull]

Bulls

27

Collins

Oduro

67%

[Peatearpan]

USF

21

Collins 20

Oduro 7

78%

 

Also, @NewEnglandBull I think you forgot leading scorer points and number of rebounds.

[NewEnglandBull]

3 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

USF

21

Collins 20

Oduro 7

78%

 

Also, @NewEnglandBull I think you forgot leading scorer points and number of rebounds.

Thanks!