I can't remember if I did this earlier in the week, so I went ahead anyway. If I did do it twice, just use my first response please.

Yeah, I don't know. I guess the upside is, this reply worked. And their are so few messages, that I can easily find it.

Thanks running this.

Noob question about Lemmy. Are mentions like the one in this post supposed to notify me? I thought that was the case, but I'm not getting anything. I'm just wondering if I have the wrong name listed.

How would you pick the games? I bring this question up, because my initial thought, if I were in charge, would be to just pick the highest ranked games, or the prime time ones. That is fine, but it would lead to repeats of teams, and heavily focus on the SEC and Big10.

I think that if we are doing picks, we should put guardrails in to ensure things are more spread. Maybe that is limit one per conference per week, or let a team in a pick'em only once a season (outside of post season games). I'm not sure, but lets discuss it. I want to have to study MAC games to win this.

Also, if we only do 3 games a week, that only gives 8 permutations. That is fine, but if you do a championship every week kind of thing, it puts a lot of emphasis on getting the tie breaker right. I think a cumulative score would be more fun week to week, but the weakness there is people that miss the first few weeks probably have no shot.

So it is a question of what is the goal. If it is just general engagement, the week to week champion is the best (but I would argue we should have more games so you are not relying on the tie breaker as much). Or if you want an overarching story, I think the cumulative points is better. I would favor the second option.

Anyway, those are my thoughts after thinking about it for 3 minutes.