NCAA 6th Fan Awards

[Boogeyman24]

BisoNation,

NCAA is looking for the best fan bases in the country! Winning school gets $100,000 and $10,000 for a Top 15 finish!

Vote for NDSU!

Vote Here:
http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[ndsubison1]

Who = NCAA
What= 6th fans awards. Whatever that means?
Where?
When?
Why= Winning school gets $$$
How?

[roadwarrior]

6th fan would imply basketball I would think.

[BisonTeacher]

6th fan would imply basketball I would think.

Id still nominate you Road....even if you've missed a few of the last 387 basketball games. :biggrin:

[SamsRams]

Who = NCAA
What= 6th fans awards. Whatever that means?
Where?
When?
Why= Winning school gets $$$
How?

haha yeah tough to vote with no linky http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[HerdBot]

haha yeah tough to vote with no linky http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

Were on the biggest movers list. If UNI and Poly can be in the top 10 we sure as heck should move. John you should tweet this and Bville should sticky this

[unbison]

Were on the biggest movers list. If UNI and Poly can be in the top 10 we sure as heck should move. John you should tweet this and Bville should sticky this
so whats gabe gonna do then?
get batshit crazy

[bisonfan08]

You can vote by going to the website as well as by tweeting with hashtags #NDST #6thfan

This means every fan that has a twitter account can vote twice a day (once on website, once on twitter), it's set up like an NCAA March Madness bracket the first round has 24 days left then it narrows down to the "Sweet 16" then "Elite 8" and so on. NDSU is listed as todays leader so let's keep it going and win this thing!

[bisonboone11]

You can vote by going to the website as well as by tweeting with hashtags #NDST #6thfan

This means every fan that has a twitter account can vote twice a day (once on website, once on twitter), it's set up like an NCAA March Madness bracket the first round has 24 days left then it narrows down to the "Sweet 16" then "Elite 8" and so on. NDSU is listed as todays leader so let's keep it going and win this thing!

How do you know if your vote goes through? I have voted three times on the website and it keeps saying thank you for your vote.

[bri-dog]

NDSU is "today's leader" right now...

[imabison]

NDSU is "today's leader" right now...

NDSU 44th overall at this time vote once a day

[bisonboone11]

NDSU 44th overall at this time vote once a day
Are we sure that our votes only count once a day? I have voted several times today on the website, and it hasn't stopped me from voting yet. It keeps saying thank you for your vote.

[imabison]

Are we sure that our votes only count once a day? I have voted several times today on the website, and it hasn't stopped me from voting yet. It keeps saying thank you for your vote.

Saw it somewhere that you could only vote once a day, but it lets you multivote go for it...

[Boogeyman24]

haha yeah tough to vote with no linky http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

Thanks for the link. My bad

[BisonNation11]

I've also voted multiple times and I've seen no where that it says you can only vote once

[bisonboone11]

I've also voted multiple times and I've seen no where that it says you can only vote once

It does say "You can vote once per day per voting method" above the graph that shows our ranking the past 10 days, but there hasn't been anything to stop me from voting multiple times.

[bisonboone11]

NDSU 44th overall at this time vote once a day
Up to 41st.

[tjamz]

39th As of about 2 minutes ago

[1998braves64]

38th just now.

[bisonboone11]

37th now, but Western Illinois is now the leader for the day.

[Hammersmith]

I think we need to make the top 32 to advance to the next round.

[870XPRS]

I think we need to make the top 32 to advance to the next round.

Top 16 teams advance to the "Sweet 16"

[Tatanka]

I just voted for Mossman. What do I win?

[NDSU92]

I assume it allows you to vote more than once per day, how the hell would U Texas Pan American be up at #2 if it didn't? Unless I'm mistaken there was something like this for football last year? It said you could only vote once a day but allowed you to vote more than once. They had this leaderboard all set up and then like two days before the deadline they disqualified like tens of thousands of votes from each of the leading schools because the votes all came from the same IP address.

[KSBisonFan]

up to 32 and on the leaderboard!

[Kermit]

I just voted for Mossman. What do I win?

A new spell checker?

http://saspellingbee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/i-lean.gif

[Loud and Proud Bison fan]

WE are now in 29th place :D

[MNLonghorn10]

Voted.


























For WIU

[HerdBot]

100k to the athletic department would be huge. We have to win this. Nice donation

[Tatanka]

A new spell checker?

http://saspellingbee.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/i-lean.gif




:facepalm: stupid autocorrect :rofl:





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[HerdBot]

we are up to #27
you can also vote by tweeting #NDST #6thFan with any text

[Hammersmith]

For the record, I believe you can vote far more than twice a day. There are four ways to vote. You can log on to the NCAA.com website and vote. You can log on to Facebook and vote. You can log on to Twitter and vote. You can anonymously enter the captcha code and vote. The first three methods link the vote to an account of some type and only allow a single vote per day(they also enter you into a sweepstakes and get you attached to mailing lists or other advertising). The last method takes a bit longer with the captcha code, but allows you to vote as many times as you want. It's possible for them to do an IP check, but a couple dozen votes probably won't trigger anything. Write an automated program to vote a couple million times and you might set off some warning bells.

[imabison]

we are up to #27
you can also vote by tweeting #NDST #6thFan with any text

A good target to get above is Western Illinois, at currently 11. They have jumped a lot, and them might have someone using an autovote script.

[1998braves64]

WIU up to #8 now, they were yesterdays leaders also something funky is going on there, didn't know they had more than 8 fans.

[SDbison]

Is this the basketball topic area or football?

[bisonboone11]

Is this the basketball topic area or football?
Obviously the competition is geared towards basketball fans, but $100,000 for NDSU would be awesome, and I think there are far more people that visit the football page than the basketball page.

[imabison]

WIU up to #8 now, they were yesterdays leaders also something funky is going on there, didn't know they had more than 8 fans.

WIU down to 13th NDSU 26

[bisonboone11]

WIU down to 13th NDSU 26
It shows WIU is at 6th for me.

[HerdBot]

It shows WIU is at 6th for me.
Me too but we're closing the gap. Marathon not sprint

[HerdBot]

Some of these schools have to be cheating. Western Illinois at #4? Serious. Maybe they have some sort of system in place for retweeting
The smart way to play this is just get into the next round and then step on the gas

[Loud and Proud Bison fan]

We are at 24, last vote :)

[BisonFan02]

Still #24...gotta get it going!!!!

[HerdBot]

Ipfw passed us. Serious? Were now 25

[Binford30]

Any chance we could sticky this thread?

[IzzyFlexion]

Any chance we could sticky this thread?

Answer Guy could do his own but that doesn't really help you now does it?

[Rixen]

I think John or another Bison faithful politely called out NCAA on Twitter for setting our voting hashtag as #NDST instead of #NDSU. We would have FAR more votes right now if they took every #NDSU tweet as a vote. Pretty unfortunate but hopefully we can at least sneak into the top 16 and get the school an extra $10000.

Keep voting!

[Hammersmith]

I think John or another Bison faithful politely called out NCAA on Twitter for setting our voting hashtag as #NDST instead of #NDSU. We would have FAR more votes right now if they took every #NDSU tweet as a vote. Pretty unfortunate but hopefully we can at least sneak into the top 16 and get the school an extra $10000.

Keep voting!

You have to have both #6THFAN and your school's hashtag for the vote to be counted. #NDSU vs. #NDST probably doesn't have any advantage in this case. I was wondering the same thing since WIU's hashtag of #WILL could have easily been miscounted. But it looks like just a better job by their athletic department in getting the word out, and probably a handful of fans doing nothing but spamming the voting. Maybe we should take up a collection and pay for some third world workers to do the same. Surprisingly cheap. A couple bucks per thousand votes.

[Rixen]

Ahh. Good call, Hammersmith. I didn't notice it needed both hashtags.

I feel like Sam Houston State should be winning this thing since they have such a large 3rd world country fanbase. What with all of them wearing their runner-up shirts.

[KSBisonFan]

Still at #25. We need to hammer this thing!

[HerdBot]

back up to #24 keep voting

[KSBisonFan]

Up to 21.....Vote on this, people!

[Rixen]

20 Keep it moving!

[bisonboone11]

Up to 19 now. Looks like Xavier and Iowa are dropping pretty fast, so hopefully we can catch them today.

[tjamz]

Currently in 19th

Vote vote vote

[tjamz]

18th place as a type this

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[bisonboone11]

17th. One more spot to get into the next round.

Edit: moved to 16th right after I posted. Just need to hold (or move up) to move on to the next round.

[HerdBot]

We're at #16. Top 15 wins a 10K. Next round starts in 17 days need to move on

[bisonboone11]

Up to #15.

[Bison Chief]

14

ten char

[BFKasper14]

Up to 12

Almost in the top 10. Keep on votin!

[bisonboone11]

Up to #11.

[Rixen]

Quite the jump recently. Hope it is all legit voting.

Keep it up, Bison!

[bisonboone11]

Made it into the top 10.

[tjbison]

Quite the jump recently. Hope it is all legit voting.

Keep it up, Bison!

what would illegal voting be??

[gotts]

Just voted and NDSU is in 9th.

[tjamz]

I'm guessing we got started on voting later than other fan bases so the hard part was catching the top 16... after we caught up it became easier to pick them off

[tjbison]

how in the hell is Western Illinois that high??

[BYZEN]

Could it be we caught them because we have "gabebot" on our team??? purple hiding now

3 Pete!!!

[bisonboone11]

how in the hell is Western Illinois that high??

I just looked up their forum quick, and it looks like they have had a thread on this since January 9th. Not sure how long the school has been promoting it, but they may have had a couple week headstart on us.

[KSBisonFan]

Still at #9 and listed as today's leader. Keep it going!

[Mr Meaty]

Still at #9 and listed as today's leader. Keep it going!

Bison Nation is responding. Still holding in at #9 and today leader. We got this. :cheers:

[bri-dog]

#8 now........

[tjamz]

Still in 8th. Daily leader so far as well.

[IBleedYellow]

Daily Leader still. Keep it going. Gotta beat WIU

[gotts]

Just voted 3 times.

[KSBisonFan]

Still at 8 behind WIU but have momentum. We are listed as Friday's leader, yesterday's leader and today's leader!

[Hammersmith]

Just passed WIU for 1st in Summit, 7th overall.

[Bison 4 Life]

I voted for about a half hour straight. Took us from 31% down from yesterday to 26%. Maybe voted 100 times. Not a lot going on this morning. :D

[MAKBison]

Just pasted Western, chasing UNI......SU at #7

[mklein5409]

We are now at 6th!! No one has more determination than Bison Nation!!

[Rynomite]

Totally nailed it. Reminds me of some of my first posts

[Mr Meaty]

Three straight days we have finished first and are leading today. Keep voting number 6 right now.

[SamsRams]

If i understand the rules the top 16 win 10k for scholarships. How they finish will decide the seed and then its head to head from there on out. Ndsu has a real chance in this.

[bisonboone11]

From Northern Iowa's fan forum:


The inbreds to the north just figured out how to use their computers and are making a mad charge

We're #6 and they're #5.

[Bison 4 Life]

From Northern Iowa's fan forum:



We're #6 and they're #5.

That's amusing. Cedar Falls redefines dickwater. They make Wahpeton look cosmopolitan.

[aces1180]

From Northern Iowa's fan forum:



We're #6 and they're #5.


11>0......

[BisonNation11]

From Northern Iowa's fan forum:



We're #6 and they're #5.

They mad because we're about to take away another banner... I mean painting away from their garage door.

[StL Bison Fan]

They can buy a lot of paint if they win.

[Hammersmith]

Keep up the pressure. NDSU is #1 voting for the day and UNI is #2. Going to be tough to catch them if we're only gaining a bit.

[SamsRams]

Keep up the pressure. NDSU is #1 voting for the day and UNI is #2. Going to be tough to catch them if we're only gaining a bit.

Only about seeding at this point, still important, but not as important as it will be in 13 days when the head to head competitions start

[imabison]

Only about seeding at this point, still important, but not as important as it will be in 13 days when the head to head competitions start
Consider them CAUGHT. NDSU 5 UNI 6

[Tatanka]

Consider them CAUGHT. NDSU 5 UNI 6

UNI can continue to suck my balls.

[IBleedYellow]

Man, it must suck to be UNI.

[Swaghook]

Should be able to get to #1 by Friday at the pace NDSU has been moving up.

[Mr Meaty]

NDSU was the daily leader the last four days and is today leaders as well. Ahead of UNI now. Making a strong push for #1.

[TransAmBison]

UNI can continue to suck my balls.That explains why the have been too preoccupied to keep voting.

[MNLonghorn10]

I don't care about this thing one bit..but does uni win at anything?

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[tjamz]

I figured all the "time to move to fbs" fans would be all over this. Potential to help NDSU earn up to $100,000 and all you have to do is click a mouse a few times. Now, I know $100,000 is a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, but it's $100,000 that most of us don't have laying around to donate either.

[runtheoption]

Voted about 50 times yesterday. Will do so again today.

[Hammersmith]

Next up: Ashville.

They're getting nervous too; currently 2nd in daily voting after us.


(I know it really doesn't matter much as long as we're in the top-16, but bragging rights, man, bragging right.)

[KSBisonFan]

Haha...still at #5 but look at the daily leaders: 5 Bison logos! Complete sweep.

[bisonboone11]

Next up: Ashville.

They're getting nervous too; currently 2nd in daily voting after us.


(I know it really doesn't matter much as long as we're in the top-16, but bragging rights, man, bragging right.)

Got that one taken care of. In 4th now.

Next up: New Mexico. They're 6th in voting for today.

[Hammersmith]

Got that one taken care of. In 4th now.

Next up: New Mexico. They're 6th in voting for today.

Wow, that was quick. New Mexico should go down quick, too. They've had some bad voting days over the past week and are only in 7th place for the day.

[Hammersmith]

For the record, we do all recognize the irony of us voting dozens or hundreds of times each when members of our football team got in trouble for signing fake names on petitions, yes? Not that I'm going to stop stuffing the ballot box, just that I'll have a sheepish grin on my face as I do.

[MNLonghorn10]

I figured all the "time to move to fbs" fans would be all over this. Potential to help NDSU earn up to $100,000 and all you have to do is click a mouse a few times. Now, I know $100,000 is a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, but it's $100,000 that most of us don't have laying around to donate either.

Well you know when I think of big time basketball environments..I think of Arkansas state.

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[KSBisonFan]

For the record, we do all recognize the irony of us voting dozens or hundreds of times each when members of our football team got in trouble for signing fake names on petitions, yes? Not that I'm going to stop stuffing the ballot box, just that I'll have a sheepish grin on my face as I do.

Fire Hammersmith, save $100,000!

[BisonNation11]

For the record, we do all recognize the irony of us voting dozens or hundreds of times each when members of our football team got in trouble for signing fake names on petitions, yes? Not that I'm going to stop stuffing the ballot box, just that I'll have a sheepish grin on my face as I do.

Thanks to this post, I will now pretend I'm looking in the phone book for different names for each time I vote.

[HerdBoy]

For the record, we do all recognize the irony of us voting dozens or hundreds of times each when members of our football team got in trouble for signing fake names on petitions, yes? Not that I'm going to stop stuffing the ballot box, just that I'll have a sheepish grin on my face as I do.

Name: Hillary Rodham
Address: White House
LOL

[BadlandsBison]

For the record, we do all recognize the irony of us voting dozens or hundreds of times each when members of our football team got in trouble for signing fake names on petitions, yes? Not that I'm going to stop stuffing the ballot box, just that I'll have a sheepish grin on my face as I do.

Calling R. Porterhouse? Seriously, this would he in his wheel house

[Hammersmith]

Has anyone noticed the daily number ever going down over the course of the day? I was trying to figure out if the daily number is for the previous day or the previous 24 hours. If it's for the previous day(say midnight to midnight), then the number could never go down over the course of the day, only up. If it's over the last 24 hours, then it could jump down a bit at the top of the each hour. It doesn't make any real difference, I was just curious which way they did it.

[Mr Meaty]

Has anyone noticed the daily number ever going down over the course of the day? I was trying to figure out if the daily number is for the previous day or the previous 24 hours. If it's for the previous day(say midnight to midnight), then the number could never go down over the course of the day, only up. If it's over the last 24 hours, then it could jump down a bit at the top of the each hour. It doesn't make any real difference, I was just curious which way they did it.

They basically do it in 2 hour cycles. So the current hour is compared to the previous hour. It will be fluid all day long. Not sure if the time frame is Midnight to midnight but that would be the most logical time frame.

[Hammersmith]

They basically do it in 2 hour cycles. So the current hour is compared to the previous hour. It will be fluid all day long. Not sure if the time frame is Midnight to midnight but that would be the most logical time frame.

I'm not sure if we've got a miscommunication or not. At the bottom of the page there's a category called "Greatest Movers". Those are hour to hour. The current hour is compared to the previous hour. As I type this, NDSU is at -7% in that category. But there's another percentage given when you click to vote. In that one, NDSU is at +5%. This is the daily number I was asking about. The first number changes quite often, both up and down. The second number seems to only go up except for when it resets each day. But I haven't actually seen the reset happen, so I was wondering if someone else had. There's either one big reset that happens once a day, or 24 smaller resets; once an hour.

[BisonNation11]

I'm not sure if we've got a miscommunication or not. At the bottom of the page there's a category called "Greatest Movers". Those are hour to hour. The current hour is compared to the previous hour. As I type this, NDSU is at -7% in that category. But there's another percentage given when you click to vote. In that one, NDSU is at +5%. This is the daily number I was asking about. The first number changes quite often, both up and down. The second number seems to only go up except for when it resets each day. But I haven't actually seen the reset happen, so I was wondering if someone else had. There's either one big reset that happens once a day, or 24 smaller resets; once an hour.

Without going back to look at what you're looking at, I believe there are 24 resets set for every hour. I voted around 8 am this morning and again just after it was announced we were now in 4th place. At 8 am, it said we were down something like 46% and when I voted for the 2nd time of the day, it said we were down around 20%.

[donnbryantNDSU]

Without going back to look at what you're looking at, I believe there are 24 resets set for every hour. I voted around 8 am this morning and again just after it was announced we were now in 4th place. At 8 am, it said we were down something like 46% and when I voted for the 2nd time of the day, it said we were down around 20%.

I think you guys are looking way too far into this, keep it simple stupid.

[Hammersmith]

Without going back to look at what you're looking at, I believe there are 24 resets set for every hour. I voted around 8 am this morning and again just after it was announced we were now in 4th place. At 8 am, it said we were down something like 46% and when I voted for the 2nd time of the day, it said we were down around 20%.

Nope, that pretty much confirms that there's a single reset sometime in the middle of the night. Say we got 1000 votes at the end of the 24 hour period yesterday. As soon as the reset happens, everyone drops to whatever the max is(probably -999%). At 100 votes, we'd be at -90%. At 500 votes, we'd be at -50%. Once we hit 1000 votes, we'd flip to +0%. At 1250 votes, we'd be at +25%. What I'm saying is that the percentage can never go down over the course of the day, it can only go up. Right now, it's at +10%. If I come back in an hour, it could stay at +10% or be higher, but it could never be +9% or lower.

Why should we even care? No real reason. It just shows that we are really pushing things. Yesterday, we were the votes leader. Today, we have 10% more votes by 2pm as we did all of yesterday. We're only going to add to that throughout the rest of today. It's going to take one heck of an effort to pass us as long as we don't slack off.



As of 2:30pm:

1. Arkansas St - #3 in daily voting today; #9 yesterday; +40% over yesterday's vote total
2. UTPA - #2 in daily voting today; #5 yesterday; +30% over yesterday's vote total
3. New Mexico - #6 in daily voting today; #12 yesterday; +32% over yesterday's total
4. NDSU - #1 in daily voting today; #1 yesterday; +11% over yesterday's total

[bisonboone11]

Nope, that pretty much confirms that there's a single reset sometime in the middle of the night. Say we got 1000 votes at the end of the 24 hour period yesterday. As soon as the reset happens, everyone drops to whatever the max is(probably -999%). At 100 votes, we'd be at -90%. At 500 votes, we'd be at -50%. Once we hit 1000 votes, we'd flip to +0%. At 1250 votes, we'd be at +25%. What I'm saying is that the percentage can never go down over the course of the day, it can only go up. Right now, it's at +10%. If I come back in an hour, it could stay at +10% or be higher, but it could never be +9% or lower.
That is my understanding of it. I have checked in the morning the past few days and when I check throughout the day, it has always increased. Then when I check again in the morning, it has dropped back down. I would assume that it resets at midnight eastern time because the clock showing how much time is left until the next round matches up with midnight eastern time, but I haven't actually checked at that time to verify it.

As you mentioned, we have 10% more votes by 2pm today as we did yesterday. I believe this has been the trend for about a week now, where we have more votes than the previous day, which is a good sign. Seems like we are still getting more people to vote (or getting people to vote more often).

[bisonboone11]

Looks like Texas - Pan American is making a push to be today's leader in votes. They are up 83% over yesterday's vote total.

[Hammersmith]

Looks like Texas - Pan American is making a push to be today's leader in votes. They are up 83% over yesterday's vote total.

It's fun to look at the pattern before and after we pass a school. When we're within a couple spots, they start voting to prevent us from passing them. After we pass them, they give up and drop way down. We're breaking their spirits as well as our football team does to their opponents. :)

[Answer Guy]

I'll have a sheepish grin on my face

I've seen that look on Tranny before.


Then he usually asks for a cigarette.

[CAS4127]

I've seen that look on Tranny before.


Then he usually asks for a cigarette.

So this is after you guys "do your thing"?!


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[MAKBison]

Just a refresher


BisoNation,

NCAA is looking for the best fan bases in the country! Winning school gets $100,000 and $10,000 for a Top 15 finish!

Vote for NDSU!

Vote Here:
http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[tjamz]

Still in 4th place this morning. BYU is the current daily leader after NDSU has held this spot for the past 5 consecutive days.

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[bisonboone11]

Still in 4th place this morning. BYU is the current daily leader after NDSU has held this spot for the past 5 consecutive days.

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Back into the lead for today's voting. Still 4th place overall.

[1998braves64]

considering NM has been down the last 5 days we should be catching up to them soon? Need to have NDSU facebook post or email to get all the students involved to make the last push through these 11 days.

[Bison 4 Life]

considering NM has been down the last 5 days we should be catching up to them soon? Need to have NDSU facebook post or email to get all the students involved to make the last push through these 11 days.

and we've caught New Mexico! 3rd place at present!

[bri-dog]

We have passed New Mexico -- now in 3rd place...

[bisonboone11]

We have passed New Mexico -- now in 3rd place...

I just looked up their forum, and they have a thread on there that mentions NDSU passing them. Here are a couple of their comments on it:


Wow, we're really in some elite company there. (Seems like a little sarcasm there.)


When schools like that are overtaking us, you know they've got to be doing some major computer rigging.

[marenlee]

I just looked up their forum, and they have a thread on there that mentions NDSU passing them. Here are a couple of their comments on it:

(Seems like a little sarcasm there.)

Too bad we'd wipe the floor with them in Football and Basketball.

[abc123]

Too bad we'd wipe the floor with them in Football and Basketball.
You might want to double check the basketball part of that.

[marenlee]

You might want to double check the basketball part of that.

Check buttSDSU, check not even in 1st place in the WAC. Yes... The WAC...

[abc123]

Check buttSDSU, check not even in 1st place in the WAC. Yes... The WAC...
Would be tough to do since they play in the Mountain West.

[marenlee]

Upon further review... I may be giving them too much credit. They lost to UMKC this year... Ouch...
In all seriousness, they're a good mid-major. Not as good as NDSU this year.

[marenlee]

Would be tough to do since they play in the Mountain West.

Hah! NMSU... Forgot abou them Lobos... :hide:

Got a little tunnel vision with the NMSU/Idaho Sunbelt discussion

[KSBisonFan]

Still in 3rd....Daily leader again yesterday!

[bisonboone11]

Still in 3rd....Daily leader again yesterday!

Looks like Texas Pan-American is making a push to be the daily leader.

As of 10:00am:

1. Arkansas State - #8 daily voting today; #7 yesterday; 65% under yesterday's vote total.
2. Texas Pan-American - #2 daily voting today; #3 yesterday; 35% under yesterday's vote total.
3. NDSU - #1 in daily voting; #1 yesterday; 63% under yesterday's vote total.
4. New Mexico - #11 in daily voting; #5 yesterday; 76% under yesterday's vote total.

(Stole Hammersmith's format on this.)

[bisonboone11]

Down to #3 in daily voting. UCF and Texas Pan American are #1 and #2 for the day.

[Hammersmith]

Come on people. Don't let us fall from the top spot. It takes only 3 minutes to vote 20 times once you've got the rhythm down. Try to get at least 100 votes a day(only 15 min worth). More if you can. Just 3 min per hour is over 250 votes per day(assuming you plan to sleep at some point).

A way to do it is to vote until you move the needle at least 2 percentage points. In the last half hour, it's moved from around -52% to -48%. Since we had the most votes yesterday, one percentage point for us is worth more than any other school.

[bisonboone11]

Come on people. Don't let us fall from the top spot. It takes only 3 minutes to vote 20 times once you've got the rhythm down. Try to get at least 100 votes a day(only 15 min worth). More if you can. Just 3 min per hour is over 250 votes per day(assuming you plan to sleep at some point).

A way to do it is to vote until you move the needle at least 2 percentage points. In the last half hour, it's moved from around -52% to -48%. Since we had the most votes yesterday, one percentage point for us is worth more than any other school.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since we were still ahead of Tex-Pan American when we were at 63% under and they were 35% under yesterday's vote totals (almost double), that would mean that we had nearly twice as many votes as they did yesterday. That means every 1 percentage point for us, they would need 2 points to match us.

Edit: I feel like I explained this poorly. We were still ahead when we had about 1/3 of our vote total from yesterday (63% under) and they had about 2/3 of their vote total from yesterday (35% under). That would mean every 1% for us would be 2% for them.

[Hammersmith]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since we were still ahead of Tex-Pan American when we were at 63% under and they were 35% under yesterday's vote totals (almost double), that would mean that we had nearly twice as many votes as they did yesterday. That means every 1 percentage point for us, they would need 2 points to match us.

Edit: I feel like I explained this poorly. We were still ahead when we had about 1/3 of our vote total from yesterday (63% under) and they had about 2/3 of their vote total from yesterday (35% under). That would mean every 1% for us would be 2% for them.

Probably in that neighborhood. One thing to consider is the starting point. I was voting when the system reset last night. Everyone started at about -80% to - 85%. I don't know how that affects things.


Also: Good job people. In the time it took me to switch schools and grab lunch on the way, we got the #2 spot back and moved to -38%. But don't slack off. If we want to break UTPA's spirit, we can't let them get the top daily vote today.

I know it might not mean all that much to get #1 or #2 overall versus the current #3 once the head to head matchups begin in 10 days, but it's good practice to see what we can do when challenged.

[1998braves64]

UT Pan Am is definitely putting on a push.. they're up 45% today (we're at -28% for the day) and if you look at daily leaders their circle is already larger than what ours was on Sunday. It will take a lot by NDSU to recapture the daily leader.. I think with us it's just a matter of daily reminding people to vote as some of these larger schools will not endure day in and day out of asking people to vote. Keeping votes going in steady will be the key from here on out.

[Hammersmith]

UT Pan Am is definitely putting on a push.. they're up 45% today (we're at -28% for the day) and if you look at daily leaders their circle is already larger than what ours was on Sunday. It will take a lot by NDSU to recapture the daily leader.. I think with us it's just a matter of daily reminding people to vote as some of these larger schools will not endure day in and day out of asking people to vote. Keeping votes going in steady will be the key from here on out.

I think that circle is based on school's vote total compared to yesterday. Our circle yesterday was small because we were -7% for the day. (IOW, we only had 93% of the votes on Wednesday as we did on Tuesday). UTPA circle is so large because they had an off day yesterday and only finished 5th in daily voting.

I could be wrong about the circles, though. I thought they meant the same you think, but the circle size didn't seem to match up correctly for that.

I actually have to go and work for a couple hours. I expect we will be in 1st place when I come back. RIGHT?

[bisonboone11]

I think that circle is based on school's vote total compared to yesterday. Our circle yesterday was small because we were -7% for the day. (IOW, we only had 93% of the votes on Wednesday as we did on Tuesday). UTPA circle is so large because they had an off day yesterday and only finished 5th in daily voting.

I could be wrong about the circles, though. I thought they meant the same you think, but the circle size didn't seem to match up correctly for that.

I actually have to go and work for a couple hours. I expect we will be in 1st place when I come back. RIGHT?

Yep. Says we're in 1st now.

[1998braves64]

I think that circle is based on school's vote total compared to yesterday. Our circle yesterday was small because we were -7% for the day. (IOW, we only had 93% of the votes on Wednesday as we did on Tuesday). UTPA circle is so large because they had an off day yesterday and only finished 5th in daily voting.

I could be wrong about the circles, though. I thought they meant the same you think, but the circle size didn't seem to match up correctly for that.

I actually have to go and work for a couple hours. I expect we will be in 1st place when I come back. RIGHT?

We're still down 14% and circle is still big so we must both be wrong?? The way they're tracking/reporting this voting is super weird if you ask me.

[bisonboone11]

We're still down 14% and circle is still big so we must both be wrong?? The way they're tracking/reporting this voting is super weird if you ask me.

Maybe it's big because it's projecting how many votes we will end up with today?

[Bison 4 Life]

We're still down 14% and circle is still big so we must both be wrong?? The way they're tracking/reporting this voting is super weird if you ask me.

I think that circle only gets so big. It seems to max out at that size and grey.

[bisonboone11]

Looks like Texas-Pan Am. is making another push for first. Need to keep voting.

[Hammersmith]

Need another push. UTPA passed us again.

[Hammersmith]

We're currently at +29% on the day. If we can get to +50%, I think that could clinch it for today.

[Rixen]

Tried to do my part there for a little while. Hopefully we can snag it back.

[MAKBison]

Vote Here:
http://6thfan.ncaa.com/


Tried to do my part there for a little while. Hopefully we can snag it back.

[tjamz]

Voted for about 10 minutes straight. Will do more later

[Hammersmith]

Well, we may have not gotten yesterday's top total, but whoever the crew is that voted after 11pm and through the night has done a great job. It's not even 9am and we've got 40% of yesterday's vote total. The UTPA students must be still asleep as they've only got 4%. After yesterday's fight, we both must have shrunk the lead Arkansas State has. They're #3 at the moment for the daily tally, but I can't see who's currently #2. Must be someone outside the top 16.

Get votes in as you can today and let's try to move up one spot(and lock UTPA out of the daily leader slot).

[Bisonator98]

Is there some way to see the vote totals?

[Hammersmith]

Is there some way to see the vote totals?

Not that I've been able to find.

[CivilBison96]

Has anyone been able to confirm that the multiple votes people are putting in count? The first line in the box that pops up when you click the vote says "You can vote once per day per voting method".

[bisonboone11]

Well, we may have not gotten yesterday's top total, but whoever the crew is that voted after 11pm and through the night has done a great job. It's not even 9am and we've got 40% of yesterday's vote total. The UTPA students must be still asleep as they've only got 4%. After yesterday's fight, we both must have shrunk the lead Arkansas State has. They're #3 at the moment for the daily tally, but I can't see who's currently #2. Must be someone outside the top 16.

Get votes in as you can today and let's try to move up one spot(and lock UTPA out of the daily leader slot).
I read on the Arkansas State forum that there is a "dead period" from 6:00pm to 11:00pm, where those votes actually count towards the next day. I'm not sure if it's true, but that might help explain how we already have 40% of yesterday's vote total.

[Hammersmith]

Has anyone been able to confirm that the multiple votes people are putting in count? The first line in the box that pops up when you click the vote says "You can vote once per day per voting method".

That's for the Facebook and Twitter methods of voting. Earlier in the process, you could immediately see your multiple voting work(too many votes/voters now). If you want to prove it for yourself, pick a school near the bottom of the list and experiment. The dial seems to update either every 5 or 10 minutes, so your voting may not show up immediately. Find out how much it takes to move up the dial one tick. Then vote twice as many times. The dial should move up two ticks.

[Hammersmith]

I read on the Arkansas State forum that there is a "dead period" from 6:00pm to 11:00pm, where those votes actually count towards the next day. I'm not sure if it's true, but that might help explain how we already have 40% of yesterday's vote total.

That would make sense. I'm not sure if the "dead period" is as long as they think, but it would explain why most of the top schools already had 10-20% of their vote totals right after the reset at 11pm a couple days ago.

[Mr Meaty]

Looks like by the Biggest movers of the day that the "BIG" schools are voting now. NDSU still has the top spot for today. Lets show them who is BOSS.

[Hammersmith]

Looks like by the Biggest movers of the day that the "BIG" schools are voting now. NDSU still has the top spot for today. Lets show them who is BOSS.

Those are biggest movers over the last 60 minutes. When you only had a couple votes the previous hour, it's easy to get on that list for awhile. Maintaining it on the other hand...

[1998braves64]

Those are biggest movers over the last 60 minutes. When you only had a couple votes the previous hour, it's easy to get on that list for awhile. Maintaining it on the other hand...

Speaking of: SDSU is in the biggest movers currently... 13000% (still ~37 in daily voting though after being in the 100s for the past week). Must have gotten the other 8 fans voting for them. :biggrin:

That circle thing is still bothering me, as now all NDSUs are the same size but UTPA has a slightly bigger one yesterday? must be some correlation on # of votes and circle size (UTPA isn't as big as the one NDSU had last Sunday though).

[bisonboone11]

As of 12:30pm:

1. Arkansas State - #3 daily voting today; #8 yesterday; 10% over yesterday's vote total.
2. Texas Pan-American - #7 daily voting today; #1 yesterday; 82% under yesterday's vote total.
3. NDSU - #1 in daily voting today; #2 yesterday; 29% under yesterday's vote total.
4. New Mexico - #14 in daily voting today; #16 yesterday; 35% under yesterday's vote total.

It's interesting that Texas Pan American only has 18% of yesterday's vote total so far, but they are still in 7th for today's voting.

[Hammersmith]

Speaking of: SDSU is in the biggest movers currently... 13000% (still ~37 in daily voting though after being in the 100s for the past week). Must have gotten the other 8 fans voting for them. :biggrin:

That circle thing is still bothering me, as now all NDSUs are the same size but UTPA has a slightly bigger one yesterday? must be some correlation on # of votes and circle size (UTPA isn't as big as the one NDSU had last Sunday though).

I told their board about the contest this morning. I wouldn't mind most of the Summit getting in on the $10k action for the top-16. Didn't want to give them enough time to challenge us, however. Figured 10 days before cutoff was about right.

[bisonboone11]

Does anyone know how the twitter voting works? Someone on the New Mexico board said that you can search for tweets with the hashtag for your school and retweet every post and they all count. I don't have twitter, so I don't know how easy that would be or if it actually works that way for the competition, but that seems like it would be way easier than entering the captcha code for each vote.

[1998braves64]

As of 12:30pm:

1. Arkansas State - #3 daily voting today; #8 yesterday; 10% over yesterday's vote total.
2. Texas Pan-American - #7 daily voting today; #1 yesterday; 82% under yesterday's vote total.
3. NDSU - #1 in daily voting today; #2 yesterday; 29% under yesterday's vote total.
4. New Mexico - #14 in daily voting today; #16 yesterday; 35% under yesterday's vote total.

It's interesting that Texas Pan American only has 18% of yesterday's vote total so far, but they are still in 7th for today's voting.

Means less people over all the teams are voting today would be my guess.

[Hammersmith]

Does anyone know how the twitter voting works? Someone on the New Mexico board said that you can search for tweets with the hashtag for your school and retweet every post and they all count. I don't have twitter, so I don't know how easy that would be or if it actually works that way for the competition, but that seems like it would be way easier than entering the captcha code for each vote.

I don't have twitter either. I've assumed that only one vote a day would count per twitter account since they would be able to track that info. But maybe not. Those of you guys that use it want to give it a shot(assuming you don't mind pissing off your twitter friends with a flood of retweets)?

[Hammersmith]

Means less people over all the teams are voting today would be my guess.
Yep, I think that's correct. I bet if we could see the raw data, those of us at the top would have a volume of voting that absolutely dwarfs that of 90% of the schools.

[1998braves64]

I don't have twitter either. I've assumed that only one vote a day would count per twitter account since they would be able to track that info. But maybe not. Those of you guys that use it want to give it a shot(assuming you don't mind pissing off your twitter friends with a flood of retweets)?

I have twitter but how would you know if it actually works? Not to mention weirding out people you retweet wondering why you're retweeting their status! It states on their standard messages retweet to vote, but I would assume that means by someone who hasn't already tweeted a vote. I've done 3-4 a day just to make sure it goes through though. :)

[bisonboone11]

I have twitter but how would you know if it actually works? Not to mention weirding out people you retweet wondering why you're retweeting their status! It states on their standard messages retweet to vote, but I would assume that means by someone who hasn't already tweeted a vote. I've done 3-4 a day just to make sure it goes through though. :)
The only way that I can think of to know if it actually works would be to pick a school that is way lower than us and retweet a few of them to see if it changes their percentage significantly.

[bisonboone11]

I don't have twitter either. I've assumed that only one vote a day would count per twitter account since they would be able to track that info. But maybe not. Those of you guys that use it want to give it a shot(assuming you don't mind pissing off your twitter friends with a flood of retweets)?

On the website it does say you can only tweet or retweet once per day and have it count, so there is no use in retweeting every tweet.

[tjamz]

On the website it does say you can only tweet or retweet once per day and have it count, so there is no use in retweeting every tweet.

But the question is does that mean that you only get one entry into the drawings (they are giving away an iPad Air and a few other prizes) but the overall count of hashtags still gets tallied by the NCAA for the schools competition? I honestly don't know.

[Hammersmith]

Just had the best CAPTCHA code ever:

4peat



(Okay, technically it was 4peay, but they aren't using t's and it's right next to y on the keyboard so there.)

[SamsRams]

On the website it does say you can only tweet or retweet once per day and have it count, so there is no use in retweeting every tweet.
Question i have is say i tweet it out 7 times. I get that only counts as one vote fir me but if i get 20 retweets per tweet do they all count or just the retweets from the tweet that counts as my vote?

[bisonboone11]

#2. Passed Texas Pan Am...

Next up: Arkansas State

[1998braves64]

Question i have is say i tweet it out 7 times. I get that only counts as one vote fir me but if i get 20 retweets per tweet do they all count or just the retweets from the tweet that counts as my vote?




I would say the first tweet/retweet of the day is counted as they are counting by #NDST (once a day per an account). So even if someone retweets your 7th one but it is their first one it will count.





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[SamsRams]

I would say the first tweet/retweet of the day is counted as they are counting by #NDST (once a day per an account). So even if someone retweets your 7th one but it is their first one it will count.

That is what I am hoping. funny NDSU is on the verge of the top seed and I dont think we are even going balls to the wall on this. My promotion of this will pick up ten fold once the sweet 16 starts. I just hope the official NDSU pages get a little more involved

@ndsumbb @ndsuequipment and @ndsutrackfield havent tweeted out NDST 6thFan once (just to name a few) These pages have dedicated fans who will follow their lead but they dont seem to care. I really hope once the sweet 16 starts that someone puts the screws to them and they incorporate #NDST and #6thFan in as many of their tweets in the future

[BisonNation11]

Just voted until I moved it a percentage. Took maybe 10 minutes. Daily leader so far. Jacks are trying to make a late go of it as they are up 13700%, but I'm sure that was all of 5 votes and I didn't even bother to look at what place they're in.

[bisonboone11]

Just voted until I moved it a percentage. Took maybe 10 minutes. Daily leader so far. Jacks are trying to make a late go of it as they are up 13700%, but I'm sure that was all of 5 votes and I didn't even bother to look at what place they're in.

They made a big push yesterday. They were somewhere in the 100's and now they're up to 54, and they're 2nd in daily voting. Yesterday, their voting percentage was up somewhere around 180,000% over the previous day.

[SamsRams]

Just voted until I moved it a percentage. Took maybe 10 minutes. Daily leader so far. Jacks are trying to make a late go of it as they are up 13700%, but I'm sure that was all of 5 votes and I didn't even bother to look at what place they're in.
Sorry if you explained earlier, but how did you vote more than once?


Looking at the list and the few outside the top 16. I cant lie there is only one team that worries me and that is Kentucky. Other than that it will take NDSU falling asleep at the wheel and these her schools creating amazing ad campaigns to beat NDSU

[BisonNation11]

Sorry if you explained earlier, but how did you vote more than once?


Looking at the list and the few outside the top 16. I cant lie there is only one team that worries me and that is Kentucky. Other than that it will take NDSU falling asleep at the wheel and these her schools creating amazing ad campaigns to beat NDSU

Just went to the link, clicked on vote for NDSU, clicked vote again, entered the 5-digit password, and clicked submit. Close the mini window saying you voted and repeat the process. I've never entered my info into the fields for the drawings so other than my IP, they really can't track that it's me every time. For all they know, from the same computer, 200 people are voting at a rapid rate.

[1998braves64]

Just went to the link, clicked on vote for NDSU, clicked vote again, entered the 5-digit password, and clicked submit. Close the mini window saying you voted and repeat the process. I've never entered my info into the fields for the drawings so other than my IP, they really can't track that it's me every time. For all they know, from the same computer, 200 people are voting at a rapid rate.




you don't have to enter a email address? Dang I've been wasting 1 second every time voting entering an email !





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[Hammersmith]

The email address is only for the sweepstakes. One iPad given away per round and an all expense paid trip to the Final Four awarded at the end of the contest. One entry to the sweepstakes allowed per day and only if you vote using your NCAA account. If you want to go for the sweepstakes and still help stuff the ballot, use the NCAA login the first time you vote each day, then logout of the account and stuff away.

[bisonboone11]

Today's results:

1. Arkansas State - #2 daily voting today; #3 yesterday; 114% over yesterday's vote total.
2. NDSU - #1 daily voting today; #1 yesterday; 6% over yesterday's vote total.
3. Texas Pan-American - #9 in daily voting today; #7 yesterday; 19% under yesterday's vote total.
4. New Mexico - #8 in daily voting today; #15 yesterday; 32% over yesterday's vote total.

Crazy that today Arkansas State more than doubled their 3rd place effort yesterday, and we barely beat yesterday's total today, but they still ended up behind us today. That means we had more than twice as many votes yesterday as the #3 team in daily voting. Makes me wonder how many more votes we are getting than the rest of the top 16.

[stevdock]

Arkansas St is today's leader. People get out of bed and start voting already ;)

[Hammersmith]

Took the lead back for now. If I did my math right, yesterday ASU had 88% of our total. If we vote the same amount today as yesterday(0%), ASU will need around +14% to match. But I'm still half asleep so my math could be funky.

(-50% NDSU = -44% ASU -- that's where we passed them)

[bisonboone11]

Took the lead back for now. If I did my math right, yesterday ASU had 88% of our total. If we vote the same amount today as yesterday(0%), ASU will need around +14% to match. But I'm still half asleep so my math could be funky.

(-50% NDSU = -44% ASU -- that's where we passed them)

Arkansas State is back in the lead for today. I'm going to put some time in voting to see what I can do about it.

[Hammersmith]

Arkansas State is back in the lead for today. I'm going to put some time in voting to see what I can do about it.

Ditto. We must be running neck and neck.

[bisonboone11]

Took the lead back for now. If I did my math right, yesterday ASU had 88% of our total. If we vote the same amount today as yesterday(0%), ASU will need around +14% to match. But I'm still half asleep so my math could be funky.

(-50% NDSU = -44% ASU -- that's where we passed them)
NDSU is back in the lead... Must be pretty close with your math, because we passed them again at -40% and they were -33%

[1998braves64]

Took us from 5% down for the day to even just now. Probably 25-30 mins of voting? Ark St is 5% up but we're #1 in daily voting, they are #2. UTPA is dropping down to 7th been on downward trend since we overtook them.

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[sambini]

Vote bison fans

[bisonboone11]

Vote bison fans

Arkansas State is making a push before the voting ends at 6:00. Just need to hold them off for another 20 minutes.

[Hammersmith]

Arkansas State is making a push before the voting ends at 6:00. Just need to hold them off for another 20 minutes.

Looks like we'll end the day in first, but we didn't gain any appreciable ground on ArSU for #1 overall. Voting was extremely even.

In other news, looks like SDSU should make the next round if they keep things up. They've risen about 110 spots in 3 days. 3rd place in daily voting after us and ArSU. I'd love to see $150k+ of the $260k go to the Summit League, but I don't think any fanbase except us, SDSU, and WIU can pull it off. IPFW gave a good show for awhile, but they're dead now.

A thought: Is there any interest in "adopting" a Summit fanbase or five and trying to get them into the next round? I can see two benefits: 1. More prestige to the Summit. 2. If we face them in a later round, it will be that much easier to advance. It's almost too late to make it work, but I just thought of it. Thoughts?

[bisonboone11]

Looks like we'll end the day in first, but we didn't gain any appreciable ground on ArSU for #1 overall. Voting was extremely even.

In other news, looks like SDSU should make the next round if they keep things up. They've risen about 110 spots in 3 days. 3rd place in daily voting after us and ArSU. I'd love to see $150k+ of the $260k go to the Summit League, but I don't think any fanbase except us, SDSU, and WIU can pull it off. IPFW gave a good show for awhile, but they're dead now.

A thought: Is there any interest in "adopting" a Summit fanbase or five and trying to get them into the next round? I can see two benefits: 1. More prestige to the Summit. 2. If we face them in a later round, it will be that much easier to advance. It's almost too late to make it work, but I just thought of it. Thoughts?
I think that could be a good idea. It couldn't hurt to have a little more support if one school goes out before the other in later round too.

[Hammersmith]

Just to elaborate on my previous post, here's what I'm thinking.

We're in the next round. Total lock.
WIU is in; currently #7. Not going to fall below 16 at this late date.
IPFW needs a little help at 23. It wouldn't be hard for us to give them a nudge.
SDSU should make it in on their own, but we could give them a tiny nudge at the end if needed.

At that point, 4 of the 7 eligible Summit schools would make the next round. If we take the grand prize, that's either $130k of $250k or $140k of $260k to the Summit.

If we commit to this plan as a group, we might also be able to get one of Denver, IUPUI, or USD in as well. Maybe two of them if we really push it.

Here's where we could get really devious. In the last hours of voting this week, we could try to rig things so that we face dummy Summit schools in the second and third rounds. Say we get #1, we put Denver as #13, and get IPFW at either #8 or #9. Since whoever would be at 16 would not be much of a challenge for us, we could vote for Denver and IPFW as much as we vote for ourselves. If all three of us win, that would put NDSU vs. Denver in the second round and IPFW versus some other school. Then we don't have to worry about Denver since it was us voting for them in the first place, and we put our votes behind IPFW. If IPFW wins the second round, that would make them our opponent in the third round and another easy win. All we'd have to worry about at that point would be the final.

Is it dirty? Yep. Is it underhanded? You betcha. Is it worth the effort? That I don't know.

[Tatanka]

Just to elaborate on my previous post, here's what I'm thinking.

We're in the next round. Total lock.
WIU is in; currently #7. Not going to fall below 16 at this late date.
IPFW needs a little help at 23. It wouldn't be hard for us to give them a nudge.
SDSU should make it in on their own, but we could give them a tiny nudge at the end if needed.

At that point, 4 of the 7 eligible Summit schools would make the next round. If we take the grand prize, that's either $130k of $250k or $140k of $260k to the Summit.

If we commit to this plan as a group, we might also be able to get one of Denver, IUPUI, or USD in as well. Maybe two of them if we really push it.

Here's where we could get really devious. In the last hours of voting this week, we could try to rig things so that we face dummy Summit schools in the second and third rounds. Say we get #1, we put Denver as #13, and get IPFW at either #8 or #9. Since whoever would be at 16 would not be much of a challenge for us, we could vote for Denver and IPFW as much as we vote for ourselves. If all three of us win, that would put NDSU vs. Denver in the second round and IPFW versus some other school. Then we don't have to worry about Denver since it was us voting for them in the first place, and we put our votes behind IPFW. If IPFW wins the second round, that would make them our opponent in the third round and another easy win. All we'd have to worry about at that point would be the final.

Is it dirty? Yep. Is it underhanded? You betcha. Is it worth the effort? That I don't know.

Richard M Daley could have learned a thing or three from Bisonville.

[TransAmBison]

All I know is TAB put in a lot of hours putting in votes over the weekend. I sure hope Gene Taylor doesn't have to have a press conference about my voting activities.

[MAKBison]

looks like we are way down this morning.

Funny how Arkansas state has the local media pimping this in their paper.

Vote Here:
http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[1998braves64]

Dropped 2% points of voting just now.

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[KSBisonFan]

looks like we are way down this morning.

Funny how Arkansas state has the local media pimping this in their paper.

Vote Here:
http://6thfan.ncaa.com/
Good news is most of them can't read down there.

[BisonNation11]

Voted for 10 minutes and the percentage dropped 2%.

[Bison 4 Life]

I'm convinced if we keep up our efforts we have more people/stamina than Arkansas State. We should stay the daily leader every day.

[DakotaKid]

I'm convinced if we keep up our efforts we have more people/stamina than Arkansas State. We should stay the daily leader every day.

That would be awesome! It looks like we have some work to do today, but it's early. I voted for about 15 minutes this morning. Still down 52%.

[BisonNation11]

Just took a quick peek at how the day is going and both Ark. St and NDSU are down 14% for the day and NDSU is the leader so far. Still in 2nd place but I'm betting we have many, many more votes than they do. I'm sure Hammer could do some quick math for us all. I know they had quite the head start in voting, but we have to be getting close to taking the lead.

[Mr Meaty]

I can not imagine we are behind by that much now. Our average rank the last 10 days is #1 and they are #5. We have to have more total votes each day. We will catch them by Friday.

[bisonboone11]

Just took a quick peek at how the day is going and both Ark. St and NDSU are down 14% for the day and NDSU is the leader so far. Still in 2nd place but I'm betting we have many, many more votes than they do. I'm sure Hammer could do some quick math for us all. I know they had quite the head start in voting, but we have to be getting close to taking the lead.
I don't think we have many more votes than them today. I didn't see what the percentages were when we passed them, but yesterday, they only needed +14% if we got +0%. Since they ended with a higher percentage than us yesterday, they wouldn't even need to be +14% if we get 0%. I'm guessing they would need to be somewhere between +5-10% if we end the day +0%.

[Bison 4 Life]

they're voting pretty hard. now 1% up and we're 3% down.

[Kermit]

they're voting pretty hard. now 1% up and we're 3% down.
We are now +2%. ASU +3%.

[Green1]

We are up to +3%. Come on Bison fans, let's do this!

[BisonNation11]

Both at +5%

[bisonboone11]

SDSU might catch us today. They are in 2nd now.

[CAS4127]

A link to voting site every 4-6 posts would be helpful to those that need easy access!

Jussayin'!!


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[Green1]

Ask, and ye shall receive:

http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[IBleedYellow]

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=334&f=4551&t=12566849&p=9

[bisonboone11]

South Dakota State is moving up fast. I have a feeling they might test us tomorrow for the top spot. It would be nice to get a big chunk of votes put in tonight.

[marenlee]

It will be hard to hold off NDSU for the next 8 days. Hopefully our lead when they started was large enough. I'm sure we will at least be in the top 2.

Somebody way down made a big run, we dropped to 3rd place in the daily.

It's South Dakota State at #24. Apparently it's too cold in the Dakotas and there's nothing better to do all day than to sit at a computer and repetitively click and type captcha sequences all day.

Prove them right!!!

[Swaghook]

SDSU is currently the daily leader. Can't let them hold that title.

[bisonboone11]

SDSU is currently the daily leader. Can't let them hold that title.

I highly doubt we'll be able to catch them. They ended in second place yesterday (ahead of Arkansas State who was right on our heels), so they couldn't have been much behind us yesterday. They already have 74% of the votes that they had yesterday, and we only have 32%.

Is NDSU advertising this at all?

Vote here: http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[BisonNation11]

I highly doubt we'll be able to catch them. They ended in second place yesterday (ahead of Arkansas State who was right on our heels), so they couldn't have been much behind us yesterday. They already have 74% of the votes that they had yesterday, and we only have 32%.

Is NDSU advertising this at all?

Vote here: http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

Yes. NDSU has it on their Facebook page at least once a day. Someone isn't making Hammer's idea come true are they???

[bisonboone11]

Yes. NDSU has it on their Facebook page at least once a day. Someone isn't making Hammer's idea come true are they???

I hope that's the case, because if they're doing this on their own, we have some real competition.

[bisonboone11]

Looks like we passed Arkansas State when they were at -56% and we were -59%, which would mean that they had about 93% of the votes that we had yesterday, and SDSU was ahead of them. Assuming SDSU was only 1% better than that (94% of the votes we had yesterday), they would have to end at +7% today to beat us if we match our total from yesterday. Considering they are already at -20% for the day (we are -58%), I think it's safe to say they will easily get to +7%.

Vote here: http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[TransAmBison]

I just sent out an email to my friends who are not on Bisonville and might not know about this. Hopefully some of them catch the bug! Any of you guys know people you can send a personal message to? I know it is on Facebook, but I know how little I pay attention to what is written there...too many boring lives have numbed me to the written word on Facebook.

[bisonboone11]

SDSU is destroying us today. They are +3% and we are -41%. If my math is correct, they are within a couple % of having as many votes as we had all day yesterday.

Vote here: http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[Mr Meaty]

I have voted for about an hour so far today since 6:00 this morning. Bunnies have moved up to the top 16 now. They are pushing hard to make the next round. Come on Bison fans let hold off the bunnies from being today's leader.

[Bison 4 Life]

over the day, we generally catch up. Let's not let it go people.

[bisonboone11]

over the day, we generally catch up. Let's not let it go people.

It's not going to be easy. Based on the percentages, assuming we had 10,000 votes yesterday (not sure how many we actually had), right now we would be about 4,000 votes behind for the day and SDSU would already have more than 10,000 votes.

[1998braves64]

Dang hammer you needed to wait a few more days... Bunnies are breeding votes like bunnies!!

Sent from my HTC8x Windows Phone.

[bisonboone11]

It's not going to be easy. Based on the percentages, assuming we had 10,000 votes yesterday (not sure how many we actually had), right now we would be about 4,000 votes behind for the day and SDSU would already have more than 10,000 votes.
Assuming the same thing as above, SDSU would be about 5,000 votes ahead for the day now. Losing ground fast. SDSU is looking really impressive.

Vote here: http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[1998braves64]

Did they get NDSU students aware of this through email or something of that sort? If you could get 5000 students to vote at least once (two or three times would be better!) that's 5000 votes! :)

[bisonboone11]

Did they get NDSU students aware of this through email or something of that sort? If you could get 5000 students to vote at least once (two or three times would be better!) that's 5000 votes! :)
All I have heard is that they had it at the bottom of an email that was for upcoming sporting events. I don't think they've had an email specifically for this. I would think this would be important enough to them to take the time to write an email for this though.

[BisonNation11]

Did they get NDSU students aware of this through email or something of that sort? If you could get 5000 students to vote at least once (two or three times would be better!) that's 5000 votes! :)

It's been put on Overheard at NDSU on Facebook multiple times. It has over 11,000 followers. Mainly students. 5 votes from each of them would be highly impressive.

[Professor Chaos]

Put a laptop at the bar at Rooters, Sports Bar, etc that has http://6thfan.ncaa.com/ up on it and give anyone who wants to try 60 seconds to vote as many times as possible. X amount of votes in 60 seconds gets them X% off their tab. Simple!

[tjamz]

Just voted non-stop for about 5 minutes... went from being down 11% to down 7% from yesterdays totals

[tjamz]

now down to 6%

[TransAmBison]

I got on at -3 until it was +2. Now for a li'l work break.

[LikeMothers]

Voted until it went from 4 to 5

http://veroniquepalmer.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/you-can-make-a-difference.jpg

[TransAmBison]

Voted until it went from 4 to 5

http://veroniquepalmer.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/you-can-make-a-difference.jpgHow many minutes did it take you to enter in the 5 letters? Or better yet, did you vote for the correct team? :)

[DakotaKid]

Put a laptop at the bar at Rooters, Sports Bar, etc that has http://6thfan.ncaa.com/ up on it and give anyone who wants to try 60 seconds to vote as many times as possible. X amount of votes in 60 seconds gets them X% off their tab. Simple!

I like the way you think!

[TransAmBison]

11% up.......

[bisonboone11]

Well, the good news is that we are gaining pretty significantly on Arkansas State. They have about 1/3 less votes than us today. The bad news is that we have about 1/3 less votes than SDSU.

I'm guessing the number of votes SDSU has put up today is already more than our best day, and there are still a few hours left until voting ends.

[BisonNation11]

Well, the good news is that we are gaining pretty significantly on Arkansas State. They have about 1/3 less votes than us today. The bad news is that we have about 1/3 less votes than SDSU.

I'm guessing the number of votes SDSU has put up today is already more than our best day, and there are still a few hours left until voting ends.

Well if we keep going over our previous day, we continue to improve everyday, making our best day, each day. We've been doing this for 2 weeks now??? That's a two week head start on them. They're running out of days to catch us and each day for them will look less impressive as they will have to top their previous day.

[HerdBot]

i voted for an hour straight no joke. SDSU is doing well today

[CAS4127]

A link to voting site every 4-6 posts would be helpful to those that need easy access!

Jussayin'!!


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You AssHats are forgeting to make this simple for us!!

[BisonNation11]

You AssHats are forgeting to make this simple for us!!

Ye hat of ass just go back to the first page! :biggrin::biggrin:

[HerdBot]

Well, the good news is that we are gaining pretty significantly on Arkansas State. They have about 1/3 less votes than us today. The bad news is that we have about 1/3 less votes than SDSU.

I'm guessing the number of votes SDSU has put up today is already more than our best day, and there are still a few hours left until voting ends.

how do you figure out how many votes each team had?

[IBleedYellow]

Fixed for CAS.

http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[Hammersmith]

how do you figure out how many votes each team had?
We don't know exactly how many votes each team has, but some logical suppositions can be made. For a day or two, Arkansas State and NDSU were trading the lead. By noting the percentages each school had when the lead changed hands, we were finally able to get a benchmark, but only for those two teams. I'm guessing the same thing happened with SDSU.

Sorry for not helping the last couple days, but I'm sick and rebuilding my computer. Just reinstalled windows and am getting my drivers up to date. Next I have to get my software up and running before work tomorrow morning.

Also sorry for getting SDSU involved too early. I figured they'd make the top-16, but the run they've put together has been pretty impressive. Good practice for us when things get serious next week.

[bisonboone11]

how do you figure out how many votes each team had?
I don't think there is a way to find out how many votes each team has, but I made an estimate based on when we jumped ahead of Arkansas State. We went ahead of ASU today in daily voting when we were at -59% of our yesterday vote total, and they were at -56% of their vote total (we were still behind them when we were -60% and they were -56%). Based on that, I calculated that they would have had approximately 93% of our vote total yesterday. Since SDSU was ahead of them at the end of the day yesterday, they had to have a higher percentage of our vote total than ASU. Just as a comparison point, I guessed that they were 1% better, putting them at 94% of our vote total yesterday.

If we assume that we had 10,000 votes yesterday, ASU would have had 9,300, and SDSU would have had 9,400. (The 10,000 vote assumption could be way off, but the percentage difference would stay the same). At this point, SDSU is 104% over their vote total from yesterday, and we are 25% over our vote total from yesterday. Again, assuming the 10,000 votes for us yesterday and SDSU's 9,400 votes, they would be at 19,176 votes (9,400 x (1+1.04)) and we would be at 12,500 votes (10,000 x (1+0.25)).

12,500/19,176 = 0.65 (which is about a third less votes for us)

[GRAFTONBISON]

I don't think there is a way to find out how many votes each team has, but I made an estimate based on when we jumped ahead of Arkansas State. We went ahead of ASU today in daily voting when we were at -59% of our yesterday vote total, and they were at -56% of their vote total (we were still behind them when we were -60% and they were -56%). Based on that, I calculated that they would have had approximately 93% of our vote total yesterday. Since SDSU was ahead of them at the end of the day yesterday, they had to have a higher percentage of our vote total than ASU. Just as a comparison point, I guessed that they were 1% better, putting them at 94% of our vote total yesterday.

If we assume that we had 10,000 votes yesterday, ASU would have had 9,300, and SDSU would have had 9,400. (The 10,000 vote assumption could be way off, but the percentage difference would stay the same). At this point, SDSU is 104% over their vote total from yesterday, and we are 25% over our vote total from yesterday. Again, assuming the 10,000 votes for us yesterday and SDSU's 9,400 votes, they would be at 19,176 votes (9,400 x (1+1.04)) and we would be at 12,500 votes (10,000 x (1+0.25)).

12,500/19,176 = 0.65 (which is about a third less votes for us)

CAS is telling you guys what to type again, isn't he??

[MAKBison]

............................................
Fixed for CAS.

http://6thfan.ncaa.com/

[MAKBison]

up to 30% now. I think we get it up to 50% we would take the leader back over

http://6thfan.ncaa.com/