For those who participate in the predictions game, you are probably aware that edited posts have been ignored; I am making a slight change to that rule. Edited posts will be allowed and counted - up until the time that I put the prediction into my program. Once you are in the program, I am not going to go back and check everyone's posts to see if they edited or not. Therefore, it will be somewhat arbitrary as to whether your edited prediction will be used or if the original (or which edited prediction if you edit more than once) as sometimes I gradually gather predictions leading up to a game (such as today's game) and other times I gather all the predictions after the game has started or after the game has completed. To accompany this rule change, there is a potential penalty: If I am recording predictions either during or after a game and notice a prediction that was edited either during or after the game, you will be counted as having predicted but I will edit the prediction so that you come in last and last by a very large margin (i.e., you predict the Blazers to win but they lose - I will edit your prediction such that it is something like opponent 190, Blazers 60 which, in case of tie-breakers blows your total differential, pick differential and margin differential out of the water) That's it folks, thanks for playing and good luck! Gramps...
What if you edit the rules after you load the program? Thanks for running this game. I enjoy playing, even though I suck at it so badly.
Gramps, when you did the game on the ESPN board, edited posts had a signature saying that they had been edited. ESPN kept changing the board. Later, it became possible to just delete that line (it said "Edit:" with the new edited-in line after it), so that no one could tell the post was edited. By the time the moderator forced you out and I took the game, the line saying "Edit:" never appeared anymore. There was nothing to delete anymore. There was no longer any way to tell whether a post had been edited. Meanwhile, I worked from 2 pm to 8 pm. I recorded predictions before 2 pm, to preclude them from being edited. But any predictions made between about 2 pm to game time, I didn't pick up until I got home, which was generally just as the game was ending. So anyone could cheat. I never told them, and I hoped that few would think of it. But I bet that it occurred to most of them.
Thanks for running the game! It's why I registered on this site... and unlike jlprk's signature, that's the truth.
