The 2023 playoff pick 'em is live and ready for picks!
I've got a lot to say about this so, please, bear with me.
Let me start by apologizing to the folks who follow private schools. Once again, I'm not able to have y'all's teams listed in this and I truly am sorry about that.
The main goal, as far as the pick 'em was concerned, last off-season was to have the pick 'em be a year long thing, then kinda "reset" during the playoffs. However, I wanted it to work in such a way that we could have "winners" in each conference (UIL, TAPPS, TAIAO, etc). So, work began early in the off-season on that and I ended up hitting a snag trying to figure out how to get the system to distinguish between conferences to score them differently for each member in a way that makes sense and is easy to re-access that data when needed (for displaying picks, standings, etc). I worked on it off and on, and thought about it, for months and never really came up with a solution that I liked. When I finally did was a few weeks, or so, ago. By then I figured it was too late in the season to try to get it all coded up and implemented. Seriously...who wants to play a pick 'em game for one week?
Fast forward to a few days ago when I realized that what I'd coded for the regular season won't work for the playoffs. The playoff pick 'em is much more simplified, but the distinction between conferences would still need to be made for it to work. Well, I simply don't have the time to get those changes made to this year's playoff pick 'em either. So, unfortunately, the only options I had were to run it with the UIL schools only, or simply don't do it at all. I'm sure some would've wanted me to choose the latter but I thought otherwise. So, here we are.
On that note, though, my single-most priority going into this off-season is to completely re-write the pick 'em so that it's ready to go for next season. I may not get another single new feature added to the site before next season, but we will absolutely have a regular season (and playoff) weekly pick 'em next year (private schools included).
Again, private school folks, I'm sorry I didn't get y'all included again this year.
This year the pick 'em is pretty much exactly like last year. You'll have up until the time that the first playoff game is scheduled to start during any given week to submit your picks for the entire week. Please, make sure all your picks are submitted correctly BEFORE the deadline. It's easy to check. Just scroll down the pick selection page and make sure there are no blank boxes on your page after you submit your picks.
Good luck everyone!
I've got a lot to say about this so, please, bear with me.
Let me start by apologizing to the folks who follow private schools. Once again, I'm not able to have y'all's teams listed in this and I truly am sorry about that.
The main goal, as far as the pick 'em was concerned, last off-season was to have the pick 'em be a year long thing, then kinda "reset" during the playoffs. However, I wanted it to work in such a way that we could have "winners" in each conference (UIL, TAPPS, TAIAO, etc). So, work began early in the off-season on that and I ended up hitting a snag trying to figure out how to get the system to distinguish between conferences to score them differently for each member in a way that makes sense and is easy to re-access that data when needed (for displaying picks, standings, etc). I worked on it off and on, and thought about it, for months and never really came up with a solution that I liked. When I finally did was a few weeks, or so, ago. By then I figured it was too late in the season to try to get it all coded up and implemented. Seriously...who wants to play a pick 'em game for one week?
Fast forward to a few days ago when I realized that what I'd coded for the regular season won't work for the playoffs. The playoff pick 'em is much more simplified, but the distinction between conferences would still need to be made for it to work. Well, I simply don't have the time to get those changes made to this year's playoff pick 'em either. So, unfortunately, the only options I had were to run it with the UIL schools only, or simply don't do it at all. I'm sure some would've wanted me to choose the latter but I thought otherwise. So, here we are.
On that note, though, my single-most priority going into this off-season is to completely re-write the pick 'em so that it's ready to go for next season. I may not get another single new feature added to the site before next season, but we will absolutely have a regular season (and playoff) weekly pick 'em next year (private schools included).
Again, private school folks, I'm sorry I didn't get y'all included again this year.
This year the pick 'em is pretty much exactly like last year. You'll have up until the time that the first playoff game is scheduled to start during any given week to submit your picks for the entire week. Please, make sure all your picks are submitted correctly BEFORE the deadline. It's easy to check. Just scroll down the pick selection page and make sure there are no blank boxes on your page after you submit your picks.
Good luck everyone!
