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HornFans Football Prediction Contest
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What are the different contests?

There are three basic contests: Longhorn Football, Big XII Football, and Bowl Season. Both the Longhorn Football and Big XII Football contests include a weekly contest as well as a cumulative season-long contest. Both contests will include the Big XII Championship and any Bowl games played by Big XII teams. The Bowl Season contest will basically be a prediction contest for all bowl games (might make that Humanitarian Bowl a bit more interesting to watch).

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How's it going?

Check how you are doing versus all the other HornFans Contest entries. I'll try to update these as often as possible.

What do I win?

Weekly contest winners will receive a mousepad. Season contest winners will receive a HornFans tshirt.

How does the scoring work?

Higher scores are better. 200 is a perfect score. Points are deducted off of 200 as such:

-10 for not picking the correct winner of the game
-difference between actual total and predicted total score (i.e., the sum of both scores)
-2 times the difference between actual margin of victory and predicted margin of victory (i.e, the difference between scores)
You cannot score "negative" points in the contest. Minimum score is 0.

Its Huckleberry's formula, and this is his reasoning:
The 10 points for not picking the correct winner is a failsafe for close games where it's possible to pick the wrong winner and get a better score than those who picked the right winner in a close game.

The other two scoring mechanisms just made sense to me. It's more important to say who will win and by how much, but there is also incentive to correctly guess how many points will be scored. It's my way of taking into account both the "point spread" and the "over/under".

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