Ok, everybody! This season's college football bowl pool files are now ready! I'm sorry I didn't get it out last night per usual, but I was feeling a touch under the weather.
Some noteworthy items:
- Navy has made a bowl game again, and I'm again not waiting until after the (now traditional, "final week") Army-Navy game, so I don't know Army's final record, so I've simply listed them as "[23] Army (10-2 or 9-3)". I've found this to be simpler than leaving that cell unprotected, allowing you all to edit it, and then dealing with the possibility that you do that AFTER picks are entered and thereby cause the picks for those game to no longer match.
- The bowl line-up is essentially the same as last year -- no new bowls and no eliminated bowls.
- We do have one or two sponsor/name changes: The Dollar General Bowl is now the LendingTree Bowl, and the bowl I had listed as the Taxslayer Bowl, which I guess was actually officially called the Taxslayer Gator Bowl starting last year, I've now just listed as the Gator Bowl, matching how I shorten most other sponsor-name-included bowl game names -- at least those bowl games whose names don't ONLY include a sponsor name.
- Like I started doing last year, in addition to including the teams' records, I've included their rankings (for those in the top 25).
- I've updated the sheets with opening betting lines for your convenience, but you should probably update these as we get closer to the games, as the lines are constantly being updated until game time. I use the "VI Consensus" lines from Vegas Insider.
- Finally, I did choose to keep the FCS-level Celebration Bowl as part of the line-up. Feel free to have your participants make picks for that game or not, as you like.
For those unfamiliar with the two-file system, the idea is that pool managers can distribute the simple, single person Entry Form version to those in their pool to make their picks and assign confidence points. The participants them email back that file, and the manager can simply copy, paste special... values those picks and points into the Summary file, which is where they manage everything.
As always, the file is protected, but not with a password, so feel free to unprotect the workbook and then unhide some of the sheets running this stuff behind the scenes to see how it works. And if you add some cool hacks/additions, pass them along, so we can all enjoy them.
Finally, as also always happens each year, several folks, as they were pinging, pestering, checking-in with me offered to pay me or donate to me for the sheets. This, like the NFL pick 'em sheet I do, I do for free as a labor of love. That said, if you are so compelled, feel free to PayPal me whatever you like, and I'll put these donations towards website hosting fees:
$5.00 $10.00 $25.00 $50.00
Really you just have to change that dollar amount in the URL -- https://paypal.me/excelgeek/5.
Enjoy, everyone!
10 comments:
If I only wanted to select about 25 games. Do you have any suggestions on the best approach. For my try. I selected 25 games, and made the other games all winners with the same confidence number. That said, if I had 50 entries, how could you easily tell the winner? The summary shows points but no list in order. I simulated all games and selected "recalculate" and it failed to show the "winner." Is it me ?
@Anonymous RE: Only 25 Games...
I think I'm following what you want to do, and yeah, the sheet should be able to handle it. Just have your participants select winners and allocate confidence points to the 25 games you're interested in. When you add their picks to the Summary sheet, just don't make picks for the other games or allocate points. As the 25 games you've picked are played, select the winners and your participants should get points for their correct picks.
Hello @Excel_Geek
Thank you so much for this every year. It truly is incredible. I am sure this has been asked many times, but I was curious about Participant management. Is there an appropriate way to eliminate participants so not to screw up any formulas or the behind the scenes work? For instance, I only have 10 participants, and each year I like to "eliminate the clutter" if you will. So that for each summary page I don't see 30 "Participant #X" in each graph/display. Thank you so much!
@Anonymous RE: eliminating participants...
Actually, I can't recall being asked this! You should just be able to go in, show row/column headings on each sheet and hide the participants you don't want to do. I'd not delete anything, but hiding it should work. You'd have to actually edit the Group Summary Chart if that's a big deal, but that shouldn't be that hard either. Unprotect that sheet and edit the source data for the chart. You might need to unhide the sheet it's referencing...I can't remember. Good luck!
Hello, thank you for putting this together!
How would I be able to increase this to 60 participants?
@Anonymous RE: 60 participants...
Unfortunately, given how I laid out the spreadsheet (participants across the columns and now as rows), it's not really possible to add more participants without a major redesign. You might have to have a couple copies of the file going.
Is there a way to sort the current standings after each game? Like sort the participants by most points to least points, in order to update everyone as to where they stand in the rankings vs everyone else.
@Unknown RE: sorting by standings...
This isn't something you could do easily right now, but I can look into adding this feature for next season.
Excel_Geek - you rock! Any chance we get the 2020-21 College Bowl Pool soon? Thanks in advance.
@TreDog... yep! I plan to get that posted sometime tomorrow.
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