GolfHos

If you want to play, go to NBA Pick N Roll (http://www.nba.com/playoffs2007/picknroll/login.jsp). If you don't have an nba.com login, you'll have to create a membership (free). Once you've done this you can "Join a League."

League Name: golfhos2007
Password: libtards

(If for some reason you have difficulty, PM me your email address and I'll email you an invite.)

I don't have a ton to put up in the way of prizes but I'll offer a brand new box (1 Dozen) of Maxfli Noodles printed with my company logo (woohoo!), I can also offer a runner up prize of one sleeve of Precept Laddie Xtremes. (I'll see what else I can come up with in the way of meager prizes. Anyone else who wants to throw in a prize is welcome to do so.)

Playoffs start Saturday at 12:30 pm (EST) so get your picks in asap. I don't know what the deadline is for submitting them so I wouldn't wait until Saturday morning.

Good luck.

Awesome!  I'm in, will enter my picks later today.

I'm in, though I haven't watched an NBA game in over 2 years.  I will also throw in a dozen balls to the prize pot...Maxfli Tour Revs I believe.

Weird, I just tried registering 3 times with firefox and keep getting "The page you attempted to access does not exist on our servers.".

Tried once with IE and got the same error.

The Internet is hard. :sad3:

So can you not create a membership, or can you not find the golfhos2007 league?

Can't create a membership. >:(

Hmm. I don't know what help I can offer with that one. Worked for me, worked for campy.  [sm_dontknow]

All right!  I'm in.  I tried my other machine and it worked.

 [sm_thumbsup]

In

So for prizes it looks like:
1st prize will be (since I assume they're not logoed) Campy's Maxfli Tour Revs
2nd prize: a dozen advertisements for world class home healthcare services in Utah (don't worry, in reality the logo is actually pretty understated)
3rd prize: a sleeve of thinly disguised girly balls for homo lib losers with slow swing speeds and low self esteem.

(As it was sort of an arbitrary decision, if 1st and 2nd place winners decide they want to swap with each other, that's fine with me too.)

I'm in too.

You suck at teh internets.

 :P

Ok sportsfans... I'm gonna have a crack at this one... seeing as it doesn't involve ice or a puck or some dude named Zamboni..

I'm not in yet.

I'm in. 8)

Well, why not?

In. 8)

That's okay, we won't feel it when  you are.

HA HA Spacey clowned Stroh ;D

Pwn3d

Not a NBA follower to much anymore but at least the game isn't played on ice so I'm in.

What is it with you people and ice?

10 teams in. Anyone else? Tick tock beyonces.

[sm_dontknow] Maybe some of it has to do with being from the south? 

They slipped on it once, so now they don't like it? [sm_dontknow] ;)

I'm planning on signing up. I'll have to try from home as I'm getting the same error message as dystopia was getting.

woohoo!  It's not just me.  I was starting to doubt my 'puter skilz. :-\

It's amazing you even have this forum up and running.  Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile.

The only thing ice is good for is vodka.

While I enjoy a good shaken martini every once in a while there are other things that ice is good for. This for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXqq95PVGLA

[sm_shock] Hehe :D

Dude. Shut up. You have mad skilz!

I'm in.

Whooooooo!

For whatever it's worth.

Without the ice it's called football.

Well, if it doesn't have ice, how good can it be? [sm_shock]

I don't know the first thing about basketball, other than the fact it was invented by a Canadian.  I'm out.

I haven't followed the NBA much at all this year - just every once-in-a-blue-moon checking in how the Timberpuppies were doing.  Your picks would be as good as mine. :)

Picks are in.  Thanks spaceage.

Picks are in.... go Zamboni ;D

lol @ chimpeach/uniters.  Is that Señor Aske's team?

I'll have to assume so. He made it in just under the wire too.  [sm_shock]

So is there a way for non-admin folks to see other people's picks in the league?

I think if you look at the "standings" page and then click on the team names it will bring up a window with their bracket. Let me know if it doesn't work. If I'm the only one who can see it, perhaps I can make some screenshots of the brackets and post them here.

Nah, it's not worth the trouble of taking the screenshots.  I was just curious to see what others had picked for the finals.

When I click on someone else's team in the standings, I get a popup with the bracket, but it says "you must be registered, please sign-in".  It might just be me, though, I had problems with nba.com before.

I think it's just you 'cause it worked fine for me. :D

If you can't say something nice ... ;)

...smite them instead?

Oh, um, you mean being candidly blunt wasn't nice? Sorry, dystopia. :D

d'oh!  [sm_oops]

Ok, I'll try another browser or another machine.

Dystopia's general sukkitude at, on, and about teh internets is renowned and well documented.

lol.  I booted to my linux partition and got the same error. >:(

Try Windows 3.1 ;)

Cool, it's working for me now. I can see other brackets. :)

This contest will be interesting if either the Spurs or Mavs end up getting upset.

(Even though i'm on the Warriors' bandwagon, I didn't pick them.  :sad3:)

Windows 3.1 did the trick huh? ;)

Standings to date (in case you're not paying attention):

1    1puttpar                 30
1    Beavermonkey         30
1    Dystopian Solutions  30
1    eagleone                30
1    go pies!!!               30
1    Torpedo                 30
1    uniters              30
1    Walfredo            30
2    E-A-G-L-E!           20
2    libtard               20
3    azs can'twinagame   10
3    CampyNeverWins        10
3    doodius             10

 [sm_disgust]

 :o

Ooooooo baby, I'm hot tonight!

I don't like my chances.

Me too...Screw them guy's, I'm taking my dozen balls and going home.

woohoo... 30

Cool. 8)

20 ain't too bad. 8)

updated standings please

Click Me (http://www.nba.com/playoffs2007/picknroll/League.jsp?leagueId=63208)

grrrrrr, requires me to remember my login

I seemed to have advanced to a lesser degree of sukkiness.

 :'(

thanks!  8)

At 50. Of course if Dallas looses I'm out.

[sm_rolling] :D

eagleone has pulled away from the pack a bit. I'm guessing he's the only one who picked GSW. (I have no idea how the scoring on this dealie works, but I hope everyone who picked Dallas to win it all isn't automatically out of the running now.) The way GSW has been playing I wouldn't at all be surprised to see them in the Western Conference Championship round.

It's looking like the Utah/Houston series is going to go to the team that wants to lose it the least. Very uninspired series. Jazz finally turned on some juice in the final 2:00 last night, but for the most part they're playing very boring "slow it down" half court offense. (Old-school Jerry Sloan snooze fest basketball.) As seen in games 3 & 4, the way to beat T-Mac and Yao is to make them run. (BTW, T-Mac can suck it.) The Jazz (Jerry Sloan) have never appeared to figure out that you gotta dance with them what brung ya. They play "run and gun" all year, it gets them into the playoffs and then they start playing a slow "play to not lose" style offense.

Good riddance to Kobe and AI. Spurs/Suns should be a brawl. The bruised & battered winner might very well be met with a well rested GSW team. Could be interesting. Honestly I don't believe GSW (or Utah or Houston) can beat either of them, so I think Suns/Spurs series is for the title.

Is anyone actually paying attention to the East?  [sm_sleepy1]

eagleone running away with it. Lots of clumping in all the other positions.

eagleone still on the move. 2i takes a distant 2nd. No one else moves. (Glad this time to be wrong though.)

woohoo...

Well, I'm officially out of it. eagleone still holds a fairly convincing lead. A surprise surge from the Mozilla twins carries them to a tie for 2nd place. At this point, I'm rooting for 2i to win. 8)

lol @ the third team listed.   Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  ;D

lol 8)

How did I jump to second? ??? [sm_shock]

lol, indeed. 8) :D

Now that the Jazz are out of it, I almost forgot this thing was still going on.

eagleone running away with it. Three way tie for 2nd.

once the spurs beat the cavs in the finals, i'll be somewhere near the top at least
 :o 8)

Tied for 2nd?  With as much attention as I gave to this season, I thought I'd be dead last by now.

Well, it's pretty much over at this point. Game 4 probably being just a formality, it looks like the Spurs are your 2007 NBA champions.

The only people in the pool who picked the Spurs to win are eagleone, Aske, and dystopia, who are conveniently enough ranked numbers one, two, and three respectively. I don't know how the finals are weighted, and I suppose we'll have to wait until the results are in, but I'm assuming dystopia will get more than 30 points for picking the Spurs, and will knock E-A-G-L-E! out of the top 3. (If not, and there ends up being a tie for 3rd at 170 pts, I'm going to propose that the tiebreaker goes to dystopia, since he chose the winner. If anyone thinks this is unfair, let me know and we can figure out another way to break the tie, if there ends up being one.)

The original plan was to let the winner choose between my dozen logoed Noodles and Campy's dozen Maxfli Tour Revs and have the runner up take the other. The problem being that we don't really know when eagleone will be back online, so we either need to wait for him to get back to dole out the prizes or someone can flip a coin. (Unless someone wants to attempt to make a strong case for a specific reason why one should be 1st prize over the other, in which case I'm happy to listen.)

At any rate, I'm kind of putting the cart before the horse here, since it's not over 'til it's over, but I think we're pretty safe in assuming it's Spurs in 4 or 5. Dyst, PM me your mailing address so I can get your sleeve of Laddies out once this thing goes in the books.

Final results. As earlier predicted your 2007 NBA Playoff Bracket Contest winners are:

3. Dystopia
2. Aske
1. eagleone

Congratulations to all the winners, and everyone who played. Hey, we're all winners! Well, except for Campy.

Now the problem of how to determine which dozen balls is 1st or 2nd prize since eagleone isn't around to decide. My gut feeling is that the Maxfli Tour Revs are probably more worthy of 1st place than the Noodles with my work logo on them, but it's a completely unscientific theory. Anyone have input?