*** Official Kentucky @ South Carolina SEC Football Prediction Contest ***

Welcome to the Official Kentucky @ South Carolina Prediction Contest!

Sorry about not realizing I hadn't set it up. I had it all ready so it was easy to post but that doesn't help. I only found out when I got on tonight to post my prediction. The latest version of Firefox works much better with ON3 so I shouldn't have as many problems in the future. Game days on ON3 were torture especially when you have a cyclospora infection. Seems to be running much better. I'll try to pick up predictions from the thread started by someone else.

Follow the rules below and make your prediction. I'll publish the results after the game. You can put any comment you would like below your score prediction (put '***' after your prediction to make it easier to separate the comments) but try not to put anything above your prediction as my scripts may not be able to find your prediction.

The rules are simple. Whoever predicts the correct winner with the score closest to the actual score wins. The method of determining your score is to take the absolute value of the difference of your guess of the Kentucky score and the actual plus the absolute value of the difference of your guess of the opponent score and the actual. You now don't have to have the correct winner to make the list but you incur a penalty of the worst score of those who picked the correct winner. In case of a tie, the tiebreaker is used. In case of a tie in the tiebreaker, we have more than one winner.

I will be awarding points for the first 10 places and including a bonus of 3 additional points for making a perfect prediction. I will track cumulative point totals and the number of games you make the top 10. This contest will end after the bowl season.

Your post should look something really close to what is between the lines below. Remember the ":"s and the word "Tiebreaker:"! Do not!! use a "-" as a separator because some of our tiebreakers can be negative.

This week's tiebreaker is Kentucky Passing Yards.

Kentucky @ South Carolina game:

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Kentucky: 23
South Carolina: 27

Tiebreaker: 203
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Just cut and paste everything between the lines above into your reply and then modify the scores and tiebreaker as you see fit. If you don't know how to do that, type very carefully. Remember to type in the word "Tiebreaker:" so that I can find it. Anything my scripts can't figure out will not count.

Don't edit your post or try to post a score after the game has started.

BTW I really would prefer exact names for the teams, but whenever we play Louisville, I'll make an effort to accept any name you can think of that is not obscene.
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Football Prediction Scores - Kentucky vs South Alabama (tiebreaker was 266 South Alabama Passing Yards):

10 1 . wildcatbd21 : 4 points, tiebreaker=226
9 2 . kywildcat1021979 : 4 points, tiebreaker=190
8 3 . TheBlueCat : 4 points, tiebreaker=185
7 4 . BlueRocker777 : 4 points, tiebreaker=181
6 5 . CatinIL : 5 points, tiebreaker=170
5 6 . Yardeth : 7 points, tiebreaker=248
4 7 . Jazzycat : 7 points, tiebreaker=221
3 8 . BlueWorldOrder74 : 7 points, tiebreaker=200
2 9 . Artlaibesghost : 7 points, tiebreaker=185
1 10 . c-a-t-s-f-a-n : 7 points, tiebreaker=180
.. 11 . SenseMaker_Cats : 7 points, tiebreaker=175
.. 12 . RocknRollCats : 8 points, tiebreaker=243
.. 13 . cat tat2 : 8 points, tiebreaker=210
.. 14 . ORCAT : 8 points, tiebreaker=195
.. 15 . Mad Max : 8 points, tiebreaker=175
.. 16 . LordEgg : 8 points, tiebreaker=165
.. 17 . entropy13 : 8 points, tiebreaker=144
.. 18 . Runt#1969 : 9 points, tiebreaker=175
.. 19 . StuBlue270_uk : 10 points, tiebreaker=200
.. 20 . Eagles_Ball_69 : 10 points, tiebreaker=175
.. 21 . darkshadesofblue : 10 points, tiebreaker=153
.. 22 . cat888 : 11 points, tiebreaker=199
.. 23 . Hang_Time_2 : 11 points, tiebreaker=190
.. 24 . BigBlueGuru : 11 points, tiebreaker=187
.. 25 . GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone: 11 points, tiebreaker=185
.. 25 . warrior-cat : 11 points, tiebreaker=185
.. 27 . 3 Putts : 11 points, tiebreaker=170
.. 28 . Im The Village Idiot: 11 points, tiebreaker=165
.. 29 . TrueBluePhil : 11 points, tiebreaker=9
.. 30 . Nuke99m. : 12 points, tiebreaker=208
.. 31 . megablue : 12 points, tiebreaker=198
.. 32 . OldRed : 12 points, tiebreaker=195
.. 33 . MidseasonTweak : 12 points, tiebreaker=178
.. 34 . OldSmoky : 12 points, tiebreaker=175
.. 35 . BigBluePap : 12 points, tiebreaker=162
.. 36 . AJBlue : 12 points, tiebreaker=152
.. 37 . RiverRatt : 12 points, tiebreaker=145
.. 38 . rivercatinfl : 13 points, tiebreaker=176
.. 39 . TNCatfanforever : 14 points, tiebreaker=200
.. 40 . ukalum1988 : 14 points, tiebreaker=195
.. 41 . Jtf2217 : 14 points, tiebreaker=178
.. 42 . 73Card : 14 points, tiebreaker=170
.. 43 . Zannman : 14 points, tiebreaker=150
.. 44 . BurgLife : 15 points, tiebreaker=215
.. 45 . Number8pleasee : 15 points, tiebreaker=201
.. 46 . L.O.D. : 15 points, tiebreaker=160
.. 47 . SpeedisEverything : 17 points, tiebreaker=99
.. 48 . Chadrock : 18 points, tiebreaker=184
.. 49 . coalBucket : 18 points, tiebreaker=160
.. 50 . UKCowboys : 19 points, tiebreaker=194
.. 51 . *Fox2Monk* : 19 points, tiebreaker=167
.. 52 . Kattonik : 19 points, tiebreaker=149
.. 53 . Doc4UK! : 24 points, tiebreaker=179
.. 54 . kyjeff1 : 25 points, tiebreaker=190

I couldn't figure out the following people's picks.
Did you follow the rules? 'DelkBowl' 'jeffky' 'Henogee1975'

Football Prediction Contest Leader Board:

17 : wildcatbd21
12 : BurgLife
11 : kywildcat1021979
10 : Anon1739778738
10 : OldSmoky
10 : RiverRatt
9 : Doc4UK!
9 : gobigblue812_rivals29381
9 : luv2hit63
9 : Yardeth
8 : Jtf2217
8 : sk73
8 : TheBlueCat
7 : BigBlueGuru
7 : BigBluePap
7 : BlueRocker777
6 : CatinIL
6 : TheBestThereEverWas
6 : TNCatfanforever
6 : UKWidget
5 : BeardedCatFan
5 : cat tat2
5 : Eagles_Ball_69
5 : RocknRollCats
4 : Jazzycat
4 : SpeedisEverything
3 : BlueWorldOrder74
3 : bpsteve1972
3 : cat888
2 : Anon520599
2 : Artlaibesghost
2 : ORCAT
1 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
1 : darkshadesofblue
1 : entropy13
1 : GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone


Players Who've Made the Top Ten at Least Once:

2 : BurgLife
2 : cat tat2
2 : kywildcat1021979
2 : wildcatbd21
2 : Yardeth
1 : Anon1739778738
1 : Anon520599
1 : Artlaibesghost
1 : BeardedCatFan
1 : BigBlueGuru
1 : BigBluePap
1 : BlueRocker777
1 : BlueWorldOrder74
1 : bpsteve1972
1 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
1 : cat888
1 : CatinIL
1 : darkshadesofblue
1 : Doc4UK!
1 : Eagles_Ball_69
1 : entropy13
1 : GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone
1 : gobigblue812_rivals29381
1 : Jazzycat
1 : Jtf2217
1 : luv2hit63
1 : OldSmoky
1 : ORCAT
1 : RiverRatt
1 : RocknRollCats
1 : sk73
1 : SpeedisEverything
1 : TheBestThereEverWas
1 : TheBlueCat
1 : TNCatfanforever
1 : UKWidget


Total Players:
Kentucky vs Youngstown State : 56
Kentucky vs Alabama : 68
Kentucky @ Texas A&M : 64
Kentucky vs South Alabama : 54

Season Average for Players: 60.5


Football Prediction Champs:
Kentucky vs Youngstown State : OldSmoky: 1
Kentucky vs Alabama : Anon1739778738: 3
Kentucky @ Texas A&M : RiverRatt: 6
Kentucky vs South Alabama : wildcatbd21: 4

*** Two fixups included in the scoring of the last game.

Kentucky: 27
South Carolina: 24

Tiebreaker: 203

@Mad Max and @BigBluePap I have your predictions corrected for the last game. To everyone else, sorry about not getting this contest posted sooner. I really thought I had it posted. This week will be just as much fun since I haven't bothered coding a fix for contests that span the end of a month. If I wait a few days, the prediction post times are listed as the real day as opposed to one I have to calculate from today's date. My wife has already committed me to spending my Sunday running my granddaughter around so no programming time then. I'll get it scored though and try to do better getting the next contest up sooner. Let's hope LSU is a really big game for us after we wallop South Carolina.

Thanks for being patient with me. Please double check the results and let me know in this thread if you see any errors. I tried picking up the predictions from the other thread so I hope I got it right. Congrats to @BigBlueFanGA who had our best prediction, actually won with the tiebreaker. @BigBluePap managed to move into 2nd place on the leader board. Now what will the tiebreaker be for next week?
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Football Prediction Scores - Kentucky @ South Carolina (tiebreaker was 272 Kentucky Passing Yards):

10 1 . @BigBlueFanGA : 8 points, tiebreaker=252
9 2 . BlueWorldOrder74 : 8 points, tiebreaker=245
8 3 . darkshadesofblue : 9 points, tiebreaker=177
7 4 . BigBluePap : 10 points, tiebreaker=261
6 5 . 3 Putts : 10 points, tiebreaker=230
5 6 . Hang_Time_2 : 10 points, tiebreaker=213
4 7 . bpsteve1972 : 10 points, tiebreaker=210
3 8 . kywildcat1021979 : 10 points, tiebreaker=205
2 9 . StuBlue270_uk : 11 points, tiebreaker=225
1 10 . Jazzycat : 11 points, tiebreaker=201
.. 11 . BlueRocker777 : 11 points, tiebreaker=197
.. 12 . CatinIL : 11 points, tiebreaker=190
.. 13 . ORCAT : 11 points, tiebreaker=186
.. 14 . Kattonik : 11 points, tiebreaker=178
.. 15 . RiverRatt : 11 points, tiebreaker=147
.. 16 . Doc4UK! : 13 points, tiebreaker=223
.. 17 . OldSmoky : 14 points, tiebreaker=210
.. 18 . SenseMaker_Cats : 15 points, tiebreaker=220
.. 19 . Yardeth : 15 points, tiebreaker=193
.. 20 . Chadrock : 15 points, tiebreaker=189
.. 21 . TheBlueCat : 17 points, tiebreaker=255
.. 22 . MidseasonTweak : 17 points, tiebreaker=226
.. 23 . cat tat2 : 17 points, tiebreaker=200
.. 24 . BurgLife : 17 points, tiebreaker=196
.. 25 . MaysviileKY : 17 points, tiebreaker=168
.. 26 . Joerupp1 : 18 points, tiebreaker=224
.. 27 . OldRed : 18 points, tiebreaker=203
.. 28 . jeffky : 20 points, tiebreaker=257
.. 29 . jrm693 : 21 points, tiebreaker=259
.. 30 . truckbrandon : 21 points, tiebreaker=245
.. 31 . Battle_Cat : 22 points, tiebreaker=322
.. 32 . entropy13 : 24 points, tiebreaker=199
.. 33 . ukalum1988 : 24 points, tiebreaker=185
.. 34 . Eagles_Ball_69 : 24 points, tiebreaker=179
.. 35 . TheBestThereEverWas: 28 points, tiebreaker=231
.. 36 . Mad Max : 31 points, tiebreaker=35
.. 37 . kyjeff1 : 41 points, tiebreaker=251
.. 38 . BigBlueGuru : 45 points, tiebreaker=50000
.. 39 . UKCowboys : 47 points, tiebreaker=194
.. 40 . Number8pleasee : 48 points, tiebreaker=209
.. 41 . Nuke99m. : 62 points, tiebreaker=183

Those who picked the wrong winner: BigBlueGuru, kyjeff1, Nuke99m., UKCowboys, Number8pleasee
I couldn't figure out the following people's picks.
Did you follow the rules? 'gbl97' 'Johnny_Jeepers'

Football Prediction Contest Leader Board:

17 : wildcatbd21
14 : BigBluePap
14 : kywildcat1021979
12 : BlueWorldOrder74
12 : BurgLife
10 : @BigBlueFanGA
10 : Anon1739778738
10 : OldSmoky
10 : RiverRatt
9 : darkshadesofblue
9 : Doc4UK!
9 : gobigblue812_rivals29381
9 : luv2hit63
9 : Yardeth
8 : Jtf2217
8 : sk73
8 : TheBlueCat
7 : BigBlueGuru
7 : BlueRocker777
7 : bpsteve1972
6 : 3 Putts
6 : CatinIL
6 : TheBestThereEverWas
6 : TNCatfanforever
6 : UKWidget
5 : BeardedCatFan
5 : cat tat2
5 : Eagles_Ball_69
5 : Hang_Time_2
5 : Jazzycat
5 : RocknRollCats
4 : SpeedisEverything
3 : cat888
2 : Anon520599
2 : Artlaibesghost
2 : ORCAT
2 : StuBlue270_uk
1 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
1 : entropy13
1 : GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone


Players Who've Made the Top Ten at Least Once:

3 : kywildcat1021979
2 : BigBluePap
2 : BlueWorldOrder74
2 : bpsteve1972
2 : BurgLife
2 : cat tat2
2 : darkshadesofblue
2 : Jazzycat
2 : wildcatbd21
2 : Yardeth
1 : 3 Putts
1 : @BigBlueFanGA
1 : Anon1739778738
1 : Anon520599
1 : Artlaibesghost
1 : BeardedCatFan
1 : BigBlueGuru
1 : BlueRocker777
1 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
1 : cat888
1 : CatinIL
1 : Doc4UK!
1 : Eagles_Ball_69
1 : entropy13
1 : GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone
1 : gobigblue812_rivals29381
1 : Hang_Time_2
1 : Jtf2217
1 : luv2hit63
1 : OldSmoky
1 : ORCAT
1 : RiverRatt
1 : RocknRollCats
1 : sk73
1 : SpeedisEverything
1 : StuBlue270_uk
1 : TheBestThereEverWas
1 : TheBlueCat
1 : TNCatfanforever
1 : UKWidget


Total Players:
Kentucky vs Youngstown State : 56
Kentucky vs Alabama : 68
Kentucky @ Texas A&M : 64
Kentucky vs South Alabama : 54
Kentucky @ South Carolina : 41

Season Average for Players: 56.6


Football Prediction Champs:
Kentucky vs Youngstown State : OldSmoky: 1
Kentucky vs Alabama : Anon1739778738: 3
Kentucky @ Texas A&M : RiverRatt: 6
Kentucky vs South Alabama : wildcatbd21: 4
Kentucky @ South Carolina : @BigBlueFanGA: 8