BEAT THE BOOK, 2015-16 FOOTBALL SEASON

BEAT THE BOOK, 2015-16 EDITION
Beat The Book is back for season 2 and our defending champion, Piglet, is ready to embarrass the adults again this year. This is your opportunity to show your greatness at picking winners against the point spread. The rules are essentially what you would find if you were betting in Vegas. You make plays at the prevailing current lines.

THE SEASON
The season-long contest will run from the first college football game on Sept. 3 through the NFL Conference championships on January 24. It will include all lined college bowl games. During the season, most of our plays will be for 1 unit. You will be able to make up to 10 plays for two units and up to 3 plays for three units. New this year also: you may bet one game during the season for 5 units. (This could make the last week interesting if contenders save their five banger for the last week).

DETERMINING THE LINE
You may bet the favorite or underdog with the point spread or the over/under. The line you get at the time you bet will be the latest line posted on the thread. I will update the lines on the thread periodically during the week. Note: Not all games or possible bets may be available every week. The first lines for Week 0 of the college season will be posted Monday, August 31.

For score-keeping simplicity, please do not edit a post once you have posted your picks. Every new update you make must be a new post. This will be necessary this year because there will be deadlines for picks and I can’t police people who go back into their threads to update records, note Ws and Ls, add plays, etc.

PRIZES
There will be a weekly prize of $25 each week of the 17 weeks of the NFL regular season ending Jan. 3. (There will be college football games, including bowl games in those weeks). The weekly prize will go to the person with the highest profit for the week who picks at least 6 games in a week and also beats my profit for that week. You may pick as many games as you like. Each week, I will make at least 6 plays, as well, but most weeks, I likely will make more than that. My plays will be posted at or right after games kick off that I have selected. If more than one player ties for a week for highest profit, then nobody will get paid that week. Tying for first in a week will get you a nice attaboy, but no cash.

For a pick to count, it must be submitted by these times: Weeknight games: 5 pm Central time. Saturday & Sunday games: 10 am Central time. All picks must be posted on the thread by these times. Late picks will not count for anything.

All picks for games after Jan. 3 will need to be made in accordance with the same deadline times, but there won’t be weekly prizes.

There will be a season prize of $200 for the person with the highest profit for the season, who picks at least 50 games during the season. You need not participate or qualify with 6 picks every week to contend for the season prize.

All prize money will be sent out after the NFL Conference Championship games in late January.