{"id":3033,"date":"2024-04-06T21:17:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2024-04-06T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:17:55","slug":"quick-handicapping-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Quick Handicapping Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lunatic went from down after the first two rounds to up big in his imaginary handicapping.  So, the Lunatic is playing with imaginary house money!!!!  It is once again a reminder to me that I probably should not try to rank my bets &#8211; once I started to simply bet the max amount to catch up, I went on a charge.  With only 6 possible bets left to make, I only need to win one of them to have a winning tournament.  And of course, if things go badly tonight, I could always simply bet the lowest tier of bets to stay ahead.  Probably won&#8217;t do that &#8211; because that is no fun (and its all imaginary).  But still pleased that I ended up ahead this year.  My Final Four picks are on the Handicapping site &#8211; respect the streaks!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lunatic went from down after the first two rounds to up big in his imaginary handicapping. So, the Lunatic is playing with imaginary house money!!!! It is once again a reminder to me that I probably should not try to rank my bets &#8211; once I started to simply bet the max amount to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}