Prognosticator's Predictions: Ohio State vs UConn Game 4 Winners

[MSGRET]

Congratulations to @Next 12 for having the MOV, they will receive six points. While @YKCornelius was a point off of the MOV and will receive two points. Both are first time point earners. I want to thank the moderator that closed the Prognosticator's Predictions thread for this game. Due to the heavy rains we got in Vegas yesterday and early morning my internet was out until the start of the 3rd quarter. Attached is the current standings and the next posting will be posted on the 18th between 8 and 9 P.M. Eastern due to prior commitments.

 

[DennieEddy]

Hey, do you use the boneyard predictions as a basis for any FanDuel or DraftKings spreads, or over/under?? It's a facetious question, but I guess I'm just fantasizing!

Do we know more than them?

 

[veivoli]

It would be interesting to me to see, once entries have closed, the average for, against, and margin to see how close the collective predictions are.

Pretty simple to do with built-in functions if you keep the predictions in a spreadsheet. Not wishing to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but feel free to ask if this doesn't make sense.

 

[DennieEddy]

It would be interesting to me to see, once entries have closed, the average for, against, and margin to see how close the collective predictions are.

Pretty simple to do with built-in functions if you keep the predictions in a spreadsheet. Not wishing to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but feel free to ask if this doesn't make sense.

My last exposure to mathematical programming was LOTUS 1-2-3.

My co-workers kept saying, learn Excel.
I said, "Nah, it's just a passing fad"!

 

[Zinethar]

Better than VisiCalc on the Apple 2 which did operations left to right instead of using order of operations!

 

[veivoli]

Better than VisiCalc on the Apple 2 which did operations left to right instead of using order of operations!

Excel at least understands precedence of operators but, by default, incorrectly thinks 1900 is a leap year for compatibility with an error in Lotus 1-2-3! I had huge problems persuading some programmers that 2000 (the last year of the previous millennium, not the first year of this one) was actually a leap year because everyone (except Lotus Development Corporation) knew that the last year of a century is not a leap year. Not always!

Anywho, most decent spreadsheets, including Excel allow you to get an average by, for example, =AVERAGE(<range>).

I did my first spreadsheeting with VisiCalc for DOS in the mid 80s, developing a costing model for computer servicing...

 

[The CDR-Ret]

It would be interesting to me to see, once entries have closed, the average for, against, and margin to see how close the collective predictions are.

Pretty simple to do with built-in functions if you keep the predictions in a spreadsheet. Not wishing to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but feel free to ask if this doesn't make sense.

Are you calling MSGRET your Grandmother?!? 😎 😎 😎

Sounds like a line out of Master of Disguise...

 

[WiseWillie]

Excel at least understands precedence of operators but, by default, incorrectly thinks 1900 is a leap year for compatibility with an error in Lotus 1-2-3! I had huge problems persuading some programmers that 2000 (the last year of the previous millennium, not the first year of this one) was actually a leap year because everyone (except Lotus Development Corporation) knew that the last year of a century is not a leap year. Not always!

Anywho, most decent spreadsheets, including Excel allow you to get an average by, for example, =AVERAGE(<range>).

I did my first spreadsheeting with VisiCalc for DOS in the mid 80s, developing a costing model for computer servicing...

Wow you bring back memories, some very frustrating for one not especially tech savvy who needed to master spreadsheets in a beginner level computer science course taken when there were other courses available but yours truly thought "Why not?" I know now through long experience not everyone is destined for everything because of certain limitations not the least being advanced computer skills or linear algebra and to just accept it. Now if only I could integrate Excel with Smartsheet. 😃

 

[veivoli]

Are you calling MSGRET your Grandmother?!? 😎 😎 😎

Sounds like a line out of Master of Disguise...

Are you winding me up now? 🤨

Teaching grandmother to suck eggs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Or perhaps you're another candidate for honorary grandmother? 😁

 

[Skeets]

Are you winding me up now? 🤨

Teaching grandmother to suck eggs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Or perhaps you're another candidate for honorary grandmother? 😁

Nothing made me laugh more that these posts. Sarge a grandmother? I'll bet while in service no one ever suggested that he was a grandmother. Maybe a mother, but never a grandmother 🙂

 

[MSGRET]

Nothing made me laugh more that these posts. Sarge a grandmother? I'll bet while in service no one ever suggested that he was a grandmother. Maybe a mother, but never a grandmother 🙂

There was another word after Mother most of the time from the troops and it wasn't Father, but it did start with an F. 😉

 

[jabstep]

The humor on the Boneyard, besides the great basketball discussions, keeps me coming back for more. Keep it up!!!!!