Pick em for College Hockey???

[solbes]

Last year we had our WCHA pick em and it was kinda fun. It was manual and slow though. I've been looking through some options for an automated one

http://collegehockeygame.com/rules.php

I see it's Facebook based. I must be the LAST person on earth not on Facebook. Plus it's blocked at work. But I see it has a WCHA option as preferred league, so that would mean we could make picks for all games, but crown our champ based on WCHA results only. Because honestly who really cares about Canisius playing Sacred Heart? Unless you could make it worth 0.000001 point.

Anyway looking to gage interest. And see if this is a good way to run it. Or we could track them manually if we only have 5-8 people again. Or if there are better systems out there, lets see them. Puck drops this weekend, so we gotta get a move on!!

[scsavre]

I'm game, ill check that facebook one out and see what else is out there. I used to do the inch hockey one but I don't know if you can have groups rather then everyone

[solbes]

I did the inch one year also. The problem was if you missed a week's picks you were screwed. Maybe they changed it so you can put them in advance.

Also no leauge preference, so we were back to the Sacred Heart curse.

[Shorelunch]

I'd be in - especially for a WCHA schedule. Also, has anyone ever done WCHA fantasy hockey?

[cbrooks]

Count me in .

[scsavre]

So I just signed up and made my picks. Real easy to do. I m not sure how many users there are etc. Should work though. You can invite people to join but I dont think it puts them in a group with you or anything.

[cbrooks]

I don't know. It would be nice to have something that group us together and kept track of everybody's record during the season.

[cbrooks]

, has anyone ever done WCHA fantasy hockey?

I never heard of somebody doing a fantasy college league. I suppose it can be done.

[solbes]

So did you sign up for the one I cut and pasted? If so I'll try to sign up. We can still post weekly results of everyone interested.

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Fantasy college hockey would be awesome. But I don't know if there are any autoamated systems that track stats, like Yahoo for FF. Brings me back to the days of grabbing the Monday Sports section during lunch with the guys and figuring out who won FF for the week.

Also why no college hockey video games? They've been "talking" about adding a college component to the NHL series for years. Of course there are probably only 10 people in this country who would buy it, but I could increase their sales by 50% just based on friends who are interested. Come on EA Sports!

[scsavre]

I just signed up through that link. I don't know if you need facebook to join either. I suppose we will have to just let the site keep track and then post just our results. Maybe we need to make sure we use our names from here. I better see what mine is on there.

I did see a college fantasy hockey site. I googled wcha fantas hockey and there was one for the league. It id done by volunteers and it stated its not always kept up to dateor something.

Bear, where are u. And arhery stud, pier, brian 32, I know there are more hockeys dudes here that would play

[solbes]

Bear's probably hunting them...bears? Or deer, more likely. You can see I'm confused by the whole antlers on a bear thing. But I'm fully assuming he's in.

We do need at least 3-5 others to make this fun. We've got representation from St Cloud, BSU, MSU, and Bucky that are currently not signed up.

[scsavre]

Brooks, you dont have me fooled. Loaning out some muskie stuff to shorelunch and his kid. I was really believing your good deed for a second. But then I re read the post, He owns a cabin on the canadian side of LOTW. well played Brooks, well played.

Just kidding, nice move, nice story, gotta love helping someone get their fist muskie.

I submitted my picks for the first 2 weeks. I think it worked, I went under the WCHA area.

[cbrooks]

]Brooks, you dont have me fooled. Loaning out some muskie stuff to shorelunch and his kid. I was really believing your good deed for a second. But then I re read the post, He owns a cabin on the canadian side of LOTW. well played Brooks, well played.

Just kidding, nice move, nice story, gotta love helping someone get their fist muskie.

I submitted my picks for the first 2 weeks. I think it worked, I went under the WCHA area.

Haha, I didn't know that Shore fished LOW until after the fact Scott, besides he goes out of Morson area and I only fish out of the NW angle. If everything pans out I might have a place there next year. If not next year for sure the following year. I shoudn't get any credit, Shore did me a favor in a way... but it is cool that there putting it to use and catching fish.

I'm still in huinting mode but I will sign in when I get some time later this week.

[scsavre]

I think you can have a group on this pickem thing.

I went to my account and there was my buddy matt Beer fish in a group with me. Matt how did you get in my group. we need everyone to do that. So far its just us 2.

[scsavre]

I just noticed something else cool, it gives bonous points if you pick up sets. It kind of temps you. OK, Im ready to win.

[cbrooks]

Ok, I like the link on facebook but can't find where I make my picks on there. It just comes up saying I need to log to facebook but I'm already log in on another window, what the heck . I will keep trying. Darn computers

[solbes]

I just entered my picks. It took 2 tries to get through. It had to verify my login through my yahoo email account? Weird. Anyway not sure exactly how it will work. The main thing is to select WCHA as your preferred league in User Settings.

If we get this going, we'll have to exchange email accts somehow to see each other on the leader board.

I noticed the upset bonus as well, kinda cool.

[archerystud]

I'll sign up.

To the link you posted at the start?

[scsavre]

Yah solbes link, choas pick em hockey or something.

[archerystud]

Okay I made my pics although I picked All the games since the link to the WCHA ones failed when I clicked it the first time.

Since it's under my facebook name it's Mike Almquist.

[PierBridge]

I don't Facebook! I'll see if I can use somebody else's.

How about a weekly pick the WCHA winners contest?

[scsavre]

Here is who I found on the results.

Overall WCHA rank

6. Scott Savre 34 points

26. Mike Archery Stud 30 points

52. Matt Beer Fish 27 points

Thats all I could find.

[Bran32]

I am actually on there at #31 with 29 points (Brandon Shannon) not a very good start!!

[solbes]

#53 on leader board, Scott Solberg, 27 pts

Something mustve been wrong. I picked Sacred Heart and no pick for the UND series. Oh well, I'll have to be more careful next time.

[cbrooks]

Oh sure, now I'm able to log on. I'll need to catch up now since I missed the first weekend. Stp facebook