With the Super Bowl over, here are the final standings for picks for this season. The scores here are for correct picks during the regular season and playoffs.
| Rank | Name | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mattorix | 140 |
| 2 | Mike | 130 |
| 3 | evan05 | 105 |
| 4 | Ahad | 85 |
| 5 | beast235 | 73 |
Olympic Pickem, if that’s what you want to call it, is here and ready for you to make your picks.
I’d wanted to do something for the last Olympics but I couldn’t wrap my head around a decent idea. The Winter Games has a lot fewer events. So I started with something simple. Just pick a country in each of the 86 events. If that country wins a medal, you get points. Simple enough. No dealing with individual athletes, that would get confusing in half a second.
Olympics Picks Site – Go here to sign-up or create your own group. If you have your own group, you can set the point values for different medals. Maybe to you, silver is just one of the losers.
Make Your ICH Picks – Open to everyone, just need an ICH account.
If you have suggestions for next time around, leave them in the comments.
Some things I thought of that I’d like feedback on …
I didn’t include any sort of wager or confidence points.
The country list is the same for every event. I didn’t have time to research what countries had participants in each event.
Perhaps a subset of the most popular events would be a better option.
Maybe each country can only be selected once (or a set number of times). I’d imagine some people would just pick the USA in every event.
Deadlines before each event. This year all picks have to be in before the 1st event starts on the morning of February 12th.
Remember, for Bowl Picks, picks were not made against the spread and each game was ranked 1-34 based on confidence.
We’re a week away from tip-off of the NBA season. Once again this year you can play NBA Pickem on Ice Cream Helmet. Just like last year you can make your picks on the Top 10 rated games each week or create your own group and customize how many you wish for your group to pick. Making picks on the Top 10 will add to your ICH Score.
Last year I had the highest ICH Score for Basketball Picks with 23. Yea, 23. That topped the second place person by 23. Yea, I guess no one else made any picks.
The NHL season starts in 2 weeks. 2 weeks! I put together this years pickem for hockey. Similar to last year, you can either do the ICH Picks for the Top 10 rated games each week or create your own group and add wager points and more or less games each week.
College Football Picks
NFL Picks
Now that the AP Poll is out for College Football both games are now all set to go.
Most of the features available in both games are pretty similar. In both, the ICH Picks are based on the spread. For created groups there are options for using the spread, wager points, weeks dropped, and pick deadline (before 1st game or each game).
College Football offers a bunch of additional options for which games are picked. You can choose to include any combination of Top 25 games, individual conferences, or individual teams. You can also choose if games against FCS teams should be included.
Changed for this year to make things easier, all your picks are the same across groups based on if the group uses the spread or not. Any picks in groups that use the spread will automatically be registered as your ICH Picks. That should help people compete with me, I won both last year. Wager Points will need to be set for each group. On my to-do list is a single page to make all your picks and Wager Points.
Baseball Pickem is all set to go. Some changes for this year. Picking every series was a bit overwhelming. Instead I am going to come up with 10 series to pick each week. If you create a custom group, you can adjust that number. Also for custom groups you can select to use wager points as in all the other pickem games. Get over there and make your picks!
Here are the 10 top rated series for the first week:
| Top 10 Rated Series for Week 1 | |
|---|---|
| Indians @ Rangers | Mon Apr 6 |
| Twins @ White Sox | Fri Apr 10 |
| Giants @ Padres | Fri Apr 10 |
| Cubs @ Brewers | Fri Apr 10 |
| Mets @ Marlins | Fri Apr 10 |
| Dodgers @ Diamondbacks | Fri Apr 10 |
| Red Sox @ Angels | Fri Apr 10 |
| Rangers @ Tigers | Fri Apr 10 |
| Blue Jays @ Indians | Fri Apr 10 |
| Astros @ Cardinals | Fri Apr 10 |
I originally created Ice Cream Helmet two years ago for Baseball Picks. I had some extra time and decided to do the Tourney. I’d been disappointed by the options to customize the experience and I wanted to make it more social.
It hasn’t been as easy or successful as I had hoped. Although I’m pretty sure the other sites have more resources to throw at the game than I do. From what I have seen, the other sites have improved over the past two years.
Now that Ice Cream Helmet has so many different games, the competition can run throughout all of them. The only issue is making sure that people do their ICH Picks. At first, that required making a different set of picks. I’m simplified that over time. If the group has the same type of settings as the ICH settings, then the picked will carry over. Situations where the settings are different are things like football groups choosing to not use spreads.
Using the ICH Picks can spread into all sorts of rankings. You could compare yourself against your ICH Friends. Compare with other fans of a particular team or school. Compare against members of ‘teams’ (sort of like groups but they aren’t tied to one specific game). Really, rankings could be made based on any sort of information a member provided. Not much of this has been implemented. My hope was to slowly work out these features as membership grew. If the only people playing are in my group, then there isn’t much use in these additional features.
So sign up and make your picks for the Tourny on ICH.
Today I added the pick distribution so you can get an idea of what people are picking. Right now only Pitt, UNC, and UConn are getting any love to win it all.
Back for its 2nd year. Oscar Picks on ICH! Just like last year, make your picks in all the categories. You can create a group and have your friends join. If you create a group you can choose the point values for each category. Maybe you want to heavily weight the art direction and costume categories. Or maybe you don’t want them to count at all.
The Daily Pick went on a bit of an unexpected hiatus. Looks like prior to this weekend the last one was on September 4th. I made some changes so that hopefully I can keep up.
It will take a while to catch up to my 159 correct picks but the rankings are based on the past month or so of results. So you can climb the rankings quickly if you keep up.
Today’s Matchup: Texas @ Oklahoma (College Basketball)