April Contest: Round Four

[Fishercat]

Check the other topic for results, some I did in my head, some not, if you want verification, ask, but no tiebreakers were used. I am prone to mistakes, so ask if you are unsure. PM preferably. These should be the brackets for the next round though. The contest is upcoming and ALL CONTESTS WILL BE FOR GAMES ON APRIL 30, 2006.

1) General - 9
1) Dirtykash - 12

6) Dam8610 (Providence pulled out for his own reasons, so Dam gets the spot) - 12
1) Kingdom_of_Zito - 5

First of all, I want all entries PMed to me, and they will not be posted until the entry date is over.

This week is your basic prediction game, as seen in Round 1, I believe in the last bracket, with a twist or two

A. I want everyone to predict the loser of every game on 4/30/06. No scores, just who loses each game on that date. (+1 point for each correct prediction)
B. I want the winning, losing, and (if applicable) saving pitcher for a game of your choice on 4/29/06. (+1 point for each correct prediction)
C. I want a list of three people you believe will hit homeruns on 4/30/06 (+2 for each correct prediction, multiple HRs for a single player only count once. Meaning, if Hafner hit 3 HRs, you only get 2 points)
D. Finally, I want a prediction for your own score by the time and date of the game you select for (B). (+5 for a correct prediction)

The deadlines:
A,C: Before the first game Sunday
B,D: Before the game of your choosing on Saturday

For instance, if I made up an entry
A. Suppose I got 8 right (+8)
B. W- Clement, L- Waechter, S- No One (The W was Clement, and no one got the save, but Shawn Camp got the loss) (+2)
C. I say Hafner, Bonds, Ramirez. (Hafner hits 2 HR, Bonds hits one) (+4)
D. I say 11 points, so I am wrong (+0)
Score: 14

Highest score wins.
Tiebreaker: How many homeruns will be hit in the American League on 4/30/06?
Tiebreaker2: How many errors will be committed in the NL on 4/30/06
Tiebreaker3: Posted somewhere on the Sox board is my favorite sports movie of all time, tell me what it is. This tiebreaker opens now, so go look for it. Once you get the answer PM it to me.

Note: If hell freezes over and all four contests (original, and the three tiebreakers) don't work, there will be an emergency tiebreaker on the following Monday

[DirtyKash]

This is what sort of confused me at first when submitting my picks:

ALL CONTESTS WILL BE FOR GAMES ON APRIL 30, 2006.

B. I want the winning, losing, and (if applicable) saving pitcher for a game of your choice on 4/29/06.

The deadlines:
A,C: Before the first game Sunday
B,D: Before the game of your choosing on Saturday

oh snap.

[Fishercat]

OK, so I made you guys read and I lied a little. Nyah!

Check your PMs

[DirtyKash]

so what are everyones picks

[Fishercat]

DK's Picks

Losers of every game (in bold):

Tigers over Twins (Rogers over Lohse) (1)
Yankees over Blue Jays (Mussina over Chacin) (2)
Devil Rays over Red Sox (Kazmir over Schilling) (3)
Mariners over Orioles (Moyer over Lopez) (4)
Athletics over Royals (Blanton over Elarton) (5)
Angels over White Sox (Santana over Garland) (-)
Rangers over Indians (Padilla over Westbrook) (6)
Braves over Mets (Davies over Trachsel) (7)
Rockies over Marlins (Kim over Mitre) (8)
Reds over Astros (Ramirez over Buchholz) (-)
Pirates over Phillies (Perez over Floyd) (-)
Cardinals over Nationals (Suppan over Day) LOL (9)
Brewers over Cubs (Capuano over Zambrano) (10)
Dodgers over Padres (Lowe over Park) (-)
Diamondbacks over Giants (Webb over Cain) (11)

A: 11

Winning, Losing, Saving (if applicable) pitcher for a game of your choice on ... Saturday

Winning pitcher - Derek Lowe
Losing pitcher - Chan Ho Park
Saving pitcher - Danys Baez (12)

B: 1
Total: 12

Three players who will hit homeruns on Sunday

Magglio Ordoñez (16-for-48, 3 HR, lifetime vs Lohse) (-)
Gary Sheffield (6-for-13, 2 HR, lifetime vs Chacin) (-)
Albert Pujols (just because Zach Day sucks ass) (-)


Prediction for your own score by the time and date of the game you select for

15 Points (-)

TOTAL: 12 POINTS


Tiebreaker 1 - Homeruns in the American League on Sunday

There's 7 games ... mostly crappy pitchers on the mound ... we'll go with 14 homeruns.


Tiebreaker 2 - Errors in the National League on Sunday

8 games ... all of them afternoon games which means that players won't be fully awake yet ... we'll go with 14 errors.


Tiebreaker 3 - Favorite waruv sports movie

I haven't looked anything up, as I don't think we'll need 3 tiebreakers to settle things. I'll just throw out a random guess ... The Natural?

[Fishercat]

Dam8610's Picks

A. NY Mets(1), Toronto(2), Colorado(-), Minnesota(3), Houston(-), Boston(4), Philadelphia(-), Baltimore(5), Washington(6), Kansas City(7), CHI Cubs(8), LA Angels(9), LA Dodgers(10), Cleveland(11), San Francisco(12)

A. 12

B. W - Carpenter L- Hernandez (Washington vs. St. Louis)

B. 0 (12)

C. Albert Pujols, Johnny Gomes, Ichiro Suzuki
C. 0 (12)

D. 13
D. 0 (12)

Total: 12


TB1: 10
TB2: 12
TB3: Anchorman?

[Fishercat]

General's Picks

A.) Marlins (1) , Twins (2) , Mets (3) , Jays (4) , Devil Rays (-), Reds (5), Phillies (-), Mariners(-), Royals (6), Nats (7), Brewers (-), Angels (8), Giants (9), Padres (-), Rangers (-).
A.9

B.) Mets-Braves: WP: Davies; LP: Trachsel; S: None

B. 0 (9)

C.) Andruw Jones, Gary Sheffield, Albert Pujols.

C.0 (9)

D.) 33

D. 0 (9)

TOTAL: 9
No tiebreakers

[Fishercat]

Zito's Picks

A. I want everyone to predict the loser of every game on 4/30/06. No scores, just who loses each game on that date. (+1 point for each correct prediction)
minnesota (1), toronto (2), atlanta (-), colorado (3), tampa (-), houston (-), pittsburgh (-), seattle (-), kansas city (4), st. louis (-), milwaukee (-), white sox (-), arizona (-), san diego (-), cleveland(5)

A. 5

B. I want the winning, losing, and (if applicable) saving pitcher for a game of your choice on 4/29/06. (+1 point for each correct prediction)
st. louis v.s. washington
chris carpenter will win, livan hernandez will lose, no save

B. 0 (5)


C. I want a list of three people you believe will hit homeruns on 4/30/06 (+2 for each correct prediction, multiple HRs for a single player only count once. Meaning, if Hafner hit 3 HRs, you only get 2 points)
Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, Miguel Tejada

C. 0 (5)

D. Finally, I want a prediction for your own score by the time and date of the game you select for (B). (+5 for a correct prediction) 9

D. 0 (5)


Tiebreaker: How many homeruns will be hit in the American League on 4/30/06? 9

Tiebreaker2: How many errors will be committed in the NL on 4/30/06? 8

Tiebreaker3: Posted somewhere on the Sox board is my favorite sports movie of all time, tell me what it is. I'm sure DK will look it up, but I'm not and I'll just throw out Bull Durham as a guess. [shrug]

[Kingdom]

I've been so locked into the draft I have no idea what's happened in baseball except for paul lo duca hitting a go ahead homer against ATL. Ha

[Kingdom]

BTW, which movie was it?

[DirtyKash]

I'm sure DK will look it up, but I'm not and I'll just throw out Bull Durham as a guess. [shrug]

[Kingdom]

Just as weak as your avatar.

[Fishercat]

Movie: Field of Dreams

http://www.strike3forums.com/forums/...ghlight=Liotta

[DirtyKash]

Pending Sunday Night Baseball, I got:

Tigers over Twins
Yankees over Blue Jays
Devil Rays over Red Sox
Mariners over Orioles
Athletics over Royals
Braves over Mets
Rockies over Marlins
Cardinals over Nationals
Brewers over Cubs
Diamondbacks over Giants

I got wrong:

Dodgers over Padres (what a comeback, 5 runs in the 9th geez)
Pirates over Phillies
Reds over Astros
Angels over White Sox

so that's 10 points for part A so far


for part B, I got the saving pitcher right (Baez), and completely messed up on the pitching matchup so I missed that.

1 point for part B

for part C, none of my guys hit homeruns

for part D, I predicted 15 points, ended up with 11 points, so no points.

total: 11 points


for General

A.) Marlins, Twins, Mets, Jays, Devil Rays, Reds, Phillies, Mariners, Royals, Nats, Brewers, Angels, Giants, Padres, Rangers.

correct on Marlins, Twins, Mets, Jays, Reds, Royals, Nationals, Angels, Giants ... pending Sunday Night Baseball

so that's 9 points

B.) Mets-Braves: WP: Davies; LP: Trachsel; S: None

correct on both Davies and Trachsel, so that's 2 points

C.) Andruw Jones, Gary Sheffield, Albert Pujols.

no homeruns for Andruw, Sheffield or Pujols

D.) 33

nope


total: 11 points


wow, we're tied ... it comes down to Sunday Night Baseball, I got the Indians losing, General has the Rangers losing. Should be interesting.

[Providence A's]

Baez didn't get a save...how was he the saving pitcher? He attempted it, but blew it...correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you were to predict who got the save and in that game no one did.