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almadenmike by: almadenmike
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It was often a not terribly risky way to amass a substantial number of points -- especially early in the season -- on games that were unlikely to be competitive.

It's gone the way of the Dodo in recent years, however, because the narrow "range" of points now required for lock wins is rarely worth the risk, even with expected blowouts. Perhaps no game shows this better than UAB's 52-0 annihilation of Savannah State on Thursday evening.

blazer74 had our costentants' highest-margin lock at 38 ... which gave him a range of 30-46 points ... which left him 6 points short. (I'll bet he wishes James Noble III hadn't made that final score with 3:23 left in the game.) MT DieHard was next @36 (28-44) and then blazinrunner @35 (28-42). A number of others had lower-point locks, which of course had no hope of victory. Minus 25 points to all.

While most of us will get a token 10 points for having meekly picked UAB to win, dhart020 will get 26 for his 48-point pick (without a lock) ... and several others will get 20 or more points for picking the Blazers' winning margin to be 46, 45 or 42.

Good luck to all this week ... and the rest of the season.



Posted: 8/31/2018 6:29:07 PM