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MTZehvor on 18 October 2019
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RolStoppable said:
MTZehvor said:

Here are the converted responses for Week 7. Everyone else submitted on either the 9th or 10th (Wednesday or Thursday of that week). According to Google, anyway, your response was submitted on October 13th (Sunday), at 9:47 Eastern, well beyond what any time zone discrepancy could explain if you submitted them on Thursday.

That's week 6, so get your facts straight. The timestamp you have is correct because I changed my pick for SEA@CLE on Sunday and your spreadsheet gives me a point for that game. Likewise, my initial submission on Thursday of that week was also registered, so your sheet gives me a point for my NE pick. Your sheet tallies up my score for week 6 to 8, but your table for week 6 gives me only 7 points.

I take it, you have a manual process to put the scores from the spreadsheet into a table and you looked at the wrong line for my week 6 score. You owe me a correct pick in the standings.

Not quite sure what you're referring to when you say "sheet."

If it's the sheet I linked in my latest post, that was exclusively for week 6. These are the results that are automatically generated by Google at the end of every week. The only difference is I tell Google to translate teams to 1 or 0 depending on whether they won the game or not (e.g. replace all instances of Patriots with 1, and Giants with 0). I use a simple sum formula to get the total correct number of predictions and order them into a table. I then go through and check for edits or late entries that would otherwise indicate a late prediction or an attempt to cheat, and make adjustments accordingly (hence why your score is 8 on the sheet I linked, and 7 on the scoreboard).

There was no wrong line here. This all entirely centers around whether you got your NYG/NE prediction in on time (where the difference of 1 game comes in). When you edit your predictions, it should not only update the timestamp, but also show up like this, with little markers on the top right of the box, that say "responder has updated this value" when hovered over. There's been a couple of edited predictions so far this season that have all returned the same way. Yours does not, and instead simply updates the timestamp.

I'm willing to believe you and just chalk it up to Google being wonky, because, quite honestly, if anyone cares enough to cheat on an online sports prediction league, then whatever. I'll probably just ask people to post edits in here, and remove changing picks on the sheets if Google's being inconsistent for whatever reason.