Official Motorgen NBA Finals Prediction Game
 

Final bracket has been updated and attached. First game starts Saturday. Get your submission in!

Here it is ladies and gentlemen. The official Motorgen NBA Finals Prediction Contest.



The scoring goes as follows:

For every correct prediction of a series winner you earn points. For examples, if Round 1 in the West you predict the Lakers beat the Nuggets... and they do, you earn points.

Round 1 correct predictions earn you 1 point each (possible 8 points total - 4 in the West, 4 in the East)
Round 2 - 3 points (12 possible)
Conference Finals - 7 points (14 possible)
NBA Champions - 15 points

Obviously, the person with the most points at the end wins.

All the information you need is attached in the Microsoft Excel file. Once you have made your predictions. Attach/Post a screen shot or your bracket and let the games begin. All submissions must be in before the first game is played. No revisions.

Mods, can we get a sticky on this thread? And possibly think of some type of prize? Perhaps an icon of a basketball next to their name.

Important notes:

- Do not mess with the statistics. The bracket populates via cell references and you could mess up your bracket. If you do... just download it again.

- For those that aren't savvy with Excel, to fill in your bracket, simply select the cell where the winner would go, hit the = button, click on the winner and hit enter. It will advance that team for you.

Final bracket has been updated and attached. First game starts Saturday. Get your submission in!

You may have to revise this after tonight's games, but I'll be putting mine up for sure. Great idea.:bigthumbsup:

Sounds awesome, we'll have to see how things finish out tonight and then we'll start filling in.

Yes, this will be updated tomorrow morning and reposted. It's gonna be a good time.

Just a thought, is the first round Best of 5 rather than 7 like the other rounds?

No, all rounds are best of 7 now.

Here's mine. Go Lakers...

Lakers FTW!

No way Phoenix is making it that far. They won't beat San Antonio.

Not according to the guys on ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...?series=phosas

I picked Phoenix before looking at that for the record.

Dallas could easily beat Phoenix in the 2nd round though...

Oh, and New Orleans is going to lose to Dallas :judge:

I know jack sh*t about basketball. Who's the underdog? I'll pull for them.

Anyone but the Lakers. ;)

But seriously, seeds 3-8 in the East have no chance... pick one of them.

The Bears.

I'm looking forward to this:


Lakers all the way!

Damn it Steve...Why do you have to be so gosh damn computer smart and make trying to put Scotts bracket up so hard? Jk

Sean......we need help!!!!

I don't like Hockey that much . . .

We'll make one for baseball come World Series time. Maybe they'll actually be more than 5 people on this site to play it too.

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Where's BGN8711's submission? I thought he'd be all over this.

His car broke down and he can't get to a computer.

You guys are harsh. I would say stop... but he dishes it out too. ;)

HAHAHAHA, as Brian would say - "ZING!" Oh, and Keith, you're a bastard for copying my brackets.

Actually, I did notice that they were similar. Except that I have Houston over Utah. I mean, the East is pretty easy and I believe everybody's is identical. As far as the West goes, everyone has the Lakers winning and most have Dallas over NO. So does I guess everyone else copied yours too, huh?

Damn, my picks already aren't looking so good and it's only been 1 day :(

Mine are doing awesome. Everyone except fucking Detroit is on track to win their first round. Detroit can get it back though.

When do they announce MVP?

HAHA, worse by the day. Phoenix and Dallas FTL.

Kobe Bryant is GOD. 49 points on 18 of 27 shooting and 10 assists :hail: MVP!!

The Lakers look great so far :judge:

And the Suns choke again.

I guessed lots of things wrong, but it looks like my Celtics-Lakers prediction might come true :sm_laughing:

Oh, and this one is for Steve and Brian:

I never liked him on the T-Wolves, Clippers or Boston now. :laugh:

I guessed everything right except the Pistons over Boston.

Lakers in 6 for the record :judge:

I'm going to second that. I can't wait to shut up Boston fans.... just like when the Patriots lost.

Yeah...I don't know about the lakers winning 4 in a row.....I hope Boston wins just so Sean will stop bending over for Kobe ala that chick from Colorado :sm_laughing:

Well, the Lakers won, but it was ugly. After hearing about the refs fixing games though, maybe who wins is already a forgone conclusion :confused:

Can you please be more detailed....I'm lost. Are they calling shots in favor of the pistons?

The Pistons are out, it's the Celtics. What the Ref. has said is that the league was telling refs to call fouls more often, or for certain players, etc. This might explain the HUGE free throw differences in home and away games. It makes sense - the more games it goes, the more money the NBA makes. I'm not a big conspiracy theory guy though, so I'm really not sure how much of this is true, and how much is B.S.

Yeah, like you, I'm pretty skeptical. I did like what Van Gundy was saying at halftime though.

He basically said that he league needs to be more transparent with claims brought on from teams about unfair reffing or accusations against certain players and teams. The accused team needs to be made aware of the accusation, whether or not the league agrees with the accusation and what the next step will be in the remedy (or if it will be forgotten). It just seems like there's a rather large infrastructure problem for a key element to the game.