Week 1 2021: CFB Picks are graded; results are in!
With week 1 in the books I already posted the results of the gambling picks for the week. As part of my new experiment to implement a weighted grading system on straight-up picks, I will be separating the gambling results and straight-up results in their own weekly posts. The new weighted grading system is what I will refer to as “GDC Value” for Game Day Cole Value. It is an aggregate computer rating applied to each team, where relative values are compared to apply a value to specific wins or losses.
Back to the grades, we had a lot of upsets this week. Lee Corso won his headgear pick of Georgia over Clemson, going 12-5 overall. Celebrity guest Kane Brown went 11-6 on the week. @GamedayJen went 10-7 on the week. However this week’s undisputed winner was Desmond Howard, who went 14-3 on the week with a GDC value of 8.851. I don’t know what that actually means because its the first week we’ve ever used GDC value, but he had the highest value on the week. Congratulations to Desmond Howard and all competitors.
Check out the full slate of results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.
| Name | Pct | Win | Loss | GDC.Value |
| Corso.Headgear | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0.97 |
| David.Pollack | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0.97 |
| Reggie.Bush | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.661 |
| Dusty.Dvoracek | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.708 |
| Chris.Fallica | 100 | 4 | 0 | 3.433 |
| Joey.Galloway | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0.782 |
| Matt.Leinart | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.669 |
| Trevor.Matich | 100 | 4 | 0 | 2.836 |
| Ryan.McGee | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.245 |
| Brett.McMurphy | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.723 |
| Bob.Stoops | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1.532 |
| Rick.Neuheisel | 88.89 | 8 | 1 | 6.385 |
| Brady.Quinn | 88.89 | 8 | 1 | 5.38 |
| Desmond.Howard | 82.35 | 14 | 3 | 8.851 |
| Paul.Finebaum | 80 | 4 | 1 | 1.987 |
| Pat.Forde | 80 | 4 | 1 | 2.565 |
| Roman.Harper | 80 | 4 | 1 | 1.921 |
| Pete.Thamel | 80 | 4 | 1 | 2.277 |
| Randy.Cross | 77.78 | 7 | 2 | 4.396 |
| Andrea.Adelson | 75 | 9 | 3 | 3.363 |
| Kevin.Carter | 75 | 3 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Steve.Coughlin | 75 | 3 | 1 | 1.511 |
| Mark.Richt | 75 | 9 | 3 | 3.286 |
| Jordan.Rodgers | 75 | 3 | 1 | 1.483 |
| David.Hale | 71.43 | 10 | 4 | 3.361 |
| Lee.Corso | 70.59 | 12 | 5 | 5.485 |
| Bruce.Feldman | 70 | 7 | 3 | 2.873 |
| Kirk.Herbstreit | 66.67 | 10 | 5 | 3.858 |
| Brian.Jones | 66.67 | 6 | 3 | 2.477 |
| Aaron.Taylor | 66.67 | 6 | 3 | 2.313 |
| Dan.Wetzel | 66.67 | 2 | 1 | 0.657 |
| Celebrity.Guest | 64.71 | 11 | 6 | 4.381 |
| Colin.Cowherd | 60 | 3 | 2 | 0.579 |
| Phil.Steele | 60 | 3 | 2 | 0.26 |
| Tim.Tebow | 60 | 3 | 2 | 0.047 |
| Jennifer | 58.82 | 10 | 7 | 1.649 |
| EJ.Manuel | 58.33 | 7 | 5 | -0.358 |
| Mark.May | 55.56 | 5 | 4 | 0.515 |
| Houston.Nutt | 50 | 2 | 2 | -0.212 |
| Eric.Mac.Lain | 46.15 | 6 | 7 | -2.983 |
| Stewart.Mandel | 45.45 | 5 | 6 | -0.986 |
| Lou.Holtz | 33.33 | 3 | 6 | -3.035 |
| Danny.Kanell | 33.33 | 1 | 2 | -1.196 |
| Greg.McElroy | 0 | 0 | 1 | -0.97 |
