{"id":3489,"date":"2026-03-18T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:19:09","slug":"handicapping-page-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Handicapping Page is Live!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, I went 1-1 in both games &#8211; if I got the totals right, I missed the spread.  If I got the spread correct, I missed the totals.  So, that seems about right for my handicapping.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I did get all the formatting cleaned up so that I could have the nicer view of the Handicapping page (and so that 32 First Round games don&#8217;t suddenly start flooding the blog).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I have only tonight&#8217;s games and yesterday&#8217;s results in the page (I have Lehigh and Miami OH to cover the spreads).  I am really excited to see the Miami vs. SMU game.  I want to see if Miami can prove all the critics wrong and beat a power conference team.  I want to see if with BJ Edwards back, will the Mustangs turn into the dangerous team that could make a run in the tournament.  It should be a fantastic game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as the Lunatic goes through his check-list (that only exists in his head which probably explains why he is so far behind).  He needs to pick all the games (and at least get Thursday&#8217;s games by the spreads &#8211; which is a lot harder than simply picking that the #1 seed will beat the #16 seed).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I use sound analysis to pick my brackets this year?  Or will I get paralyzed with so much data to analyze that I will run out of time and pick wildly around midnight so that I at least have a bracket to root for?  I like to believe it will be the first &#8211; but something tells me it will be the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy tonight&#8217;s games!  And don&#8217;t forget to make your picks to Stomp the Lunatic!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I went 1-1 in both games &#8211; if I got the totals right, I missed the spread. If I got the spread correct, I missed the totals. So, that seems about right for my handicapping. But I did get all the formatting cleaned up so that I could have the nicer view of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}