SluSignGuy

>She even let me push back our wedding from January to June >so as not to interfere with basketball season. Wow.

I tried to tinker with the poll file with this poll. So far 3 people have voted, but only one has registered. Grumble... I may just diable polls since this polling ain't working too well. Sorry, Steve

I was wondering why he was listed as a Junior, thought it was a typo... Yup, the SignGuy's mind is wurkin real gud toonight.. Big City here i COME! Yup Yup. Steve

What are the rules concerning this situation? Can he enroll in his HS for the first semister, get the class he needs done then join SLU second semister or what? Steve

(In homestarrunner voice): This does not look good for Brads's Billikens. Steve

Sorry!

Hey Charlotte is playing my mighty Colonials!!! Boy are we in for a beating... Also, I am going to love see you some of you guys who are tied down that you want to spend your Valentines Day at the Savvis Center watching Billikens vs. 49ers. Steve

As much as I am enjoying the Tigers having the thin ice below them start to crack... The amount of tiger talk has reached an extreme. I am getting a little sick of it, so I decided to cure my sickness by adding some temporary humor. Check out the title of the Message Board Steve

Donations are absolutely voluntary, no one should feel any pressure or obligation to donate. If you want to donate, great, if not, no problem. I extremely apprecitiate it if you do. But definitely don't feel obligated or anything. Just wanted to make that clear. Steve

Everyone- We are up to $250! Woo! You guys rock! I took down the option to donate by check temporarily. I will leave for Washington DC Tuesday, and I just want to play it safe with checks. I don't want to have checks arrive at my house when I am at GW. If needed, I will put up my Dorm address either the 28th or 29th. You can still donate by PayPal if you wish. But I just wanted to let you guys know. Steve

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I know others have had voting problems, but now even the Webmaster is!!! HA! I find that funny. Steve I just checked the script writer's message board for support. And he doesn't know how to fix it either. He had the same problems. Hopefully in a year or two when I upgrade the board (to a new script) it will fix itself. Sorry guys. Steve

I think Taj's last name is how he got the Nickname Taj... His name is Greg Mahall (it is in his profile) So Greg "Taj" Mahall. I didn't get the reference either until him and I e-mailed each other a bit. Steve

I never thought of the extortion being good for Mizzou, but it makes a lot of sense. If Clemons sings, Mizzou will have some explaining to do. But if Clemons sings after he is painted even worse than he is (like he is JUST singing to get Money), then Mizzou can say "How can you EVER believe him! He is just after money!". Mizzou had to of cheated somewhere. You can't make THIS much stuff up. Steve

That is fine. My concern was the weight of the margin. hehe, in my programming classes I took in HS, I was the king of the Nested ifs. I used them for EVERYTHING. My programs always worked, but they were poorly coded, as in no one else could really follow them well. My brain works in wierd ways (all my math teachers say I am one of their most mind boggling students because of the way I register things). Now for those bonuses... Should we simplify it and just nix em you think? Steve

I am okay nixing the Bonus thing all together, but I think it is doable. I thought I had it okay in my last example (http://www.billikens.com/testpool/test3.xls). You just have: =IF(K3=H3,3,0) K3 and H3 can be anything, from a players name to a number. Just as long as the two are = then we are fine. Tell me if you disagree. As for the spread. I just don't like the spread being worth quite that much. How about a compromise? 5 points for 0-1, 4 for 2-3, 3 for 4-5, 2 for 6-7, 1 for 7-9, none for 10? Just my thoughts, we can do a poll (although some people can't vote in polls for some reason (I am working on that, well by working I mean I asked the script writer)). Steve

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Nark- From the way things are going over there, I don't think I will ask Nick for content control things. I have been pretty much in this mindset since a debate he got into on the Politics board (basically from what I recall, he was very upset with a very valid opinion (and quotes) opposing his religious beliefs (although the post was not directed at him)). I did not think this was fair at all, because the opinion presented was a very valid view. But anyway, the intent of my previous post is that Nick seems to be getting pressure from the university and he is be criticized strongly on his own board. So it is a lose lose situation, and I feel sorry that he is in that situation. But don't worry, I doubt I will ever have to do what Nick has done. I think the moderation that has been done on this board is very fair, and have heard no complaints to my knowledge. And it will hopefully stay that way. If Thicks or I do something that is considered unfair, I am sure we will hear about it. And I think both of us are very open to listening to others opinions about the issue, and taking those opinions into consideration. Steve

Grr... I would much prefer the old Division schedueling. Marquette twice, Cincy Twice, Louisville Twice, Depaul Twice... Louisville better be coming to Saint Louis if WE are going to Cincy. Steve

The Bonus question would be some random question every week (at least that is what I was thinking). Like: How many free throw attempts will SLU get in todays game? Who will be the Billikens 2nd Leading Rebounder? Who will be the first SLU player to foul out? Who will log the 3rd most minutes? Random junk like that, it wouldn't take an extreme amount of knowledge to get it right, but it would take some, plus a lot of luck. But also it could be much more simple for the poster and you if you are compiling the data if it is just margin, and then win loss. I am not extremely attached to the idea, i just sort of based of off other Message Board pickem games I have seen. But what do you think of the way I did margin? You think that works well, 1 for 6-10, 2, for 1-5, and 3 for perfect? Steve

Found it, never knew about that, thanks thicks.. hehehe, we are dominating the board with some geekdom tonight. Steve

Thicks- I love your layout, it works much better, my only worry is that it may be hard to input data quickly. But I made some changes. To make life simpler, for the margin part I did this If you are exact, you get 3 points, if you are 1-5 off, you get 2 points, 6-10, 1 point. Above 10 no points. Also for the bonus question I made it worth 3 points if you got the answer perfect. Take a look and tell me what you think, I also changed some abbreviations so check your key. http://www.billikens.com/testpool/test3.xls Steve

Thicks- I know that having my e-mail on Billikens.com everywhere makes it easy pickin's. The @billikens.com domain causes for so much spam (I basically filter it all out). But how do you encode an e-mail address? Steve

While I thank you for your props with running the board (I think I have a lot easier job considering this board doesn't have nearly the amount of Traffic of Tigerboard, I bet he has about 10 moderators, when we have 2, and one of us COULD handle the job, but 2 makes it easier and better). But while I disagree with him not allowing Clemons/Bunge stuff, I also think that he is between a rock and a hard place. I am betting the University may be pressuring him a little to try to keep the rumors down or something. I personally thought the mob rule was a good idea considering some of the bogus posters they were having, but it also has its bad parts, such as it keeps away posters of maybe an unpopular opinion. But I must admit, when making a couple past significant board decisions, I asked for Nick's opinion, since he has done it longer than me, he was a 3rd non included party, and then there seemed to be no problems with Tigerboard. I personally would hate to be in Nick's shoes. I would though love his programming skills. Steve PS I have honestly considered asking him if he would want to go on a local Sports show (like Sportsplus or a Radio show) to promote Billikens.com and Tigerboard some. Since I bet a lot of people don't know about either that would. I may ask him in a month or so. (Your guys' thoughts?)

Hmm, I am struggling with that too. Excel has a Min value thing. With that you can find the person who is CLOSEST to the actual spread. 3 was just a number that I threw out there, we could just reward a point to the person (people) who were closest to make it simpler. Then we just use the Min value thing. What I did was made a column of the spreads (using + and - with + being the Bills winning). Then I had a column full of the actual. Then I took that abs of the actual - predicted. Then take the Min value of that by doing =MIN(D2:D10). Then you could do an IF for the points rewarded. See what I have here. http://www.billikens.com/testpool/test2.xls Steve