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Look at the current one that is simply 2017-18.

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Assuming Penn State and Ohio State win this weekend, the vast majority of the country will be with one team. Then moving forward if anyone beats the winner of that game, they take over all the territory that team has. It almost certainly wouldn't become a one-team map this season, but heading into next season there would only be a few random areas left. Consider that Louisiana Tech plays LSU tomorrow. So all that random land that La Tech has will likely enter the SEC schedule. So there is a decent chance that is all combined with the SEC by the end of the season. Same logic for the current UCF and USF land, and the OU and Oklahoma State land.

A few seasons of that, one key matchup, and suddenly the entire map is owned by one team. And that's when it becomes the same concept as the title belt.

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Week 4

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Through week 4, starting at the first week of the 2017 season.

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On 9/21/2018 at 12:02 PM, Huckleberry said:

Assuming Penn State and Ohio State win this weekend, the vast majority of the country will be with one team. Then moving forward if anyone beats the winner of that game, they take over all the territory that team has. It almost certainly wouldn't become a one-team map this season, but heading into next season there would only be a few random areas left. Consider that Louisiana Tech plays LSU tomorrow. So all that random land that La Tech has will likely enter the SEC schedule. So there is a decent chance that is all combined with the SEC by the end of the season. Same logic for the current UCF and USF land, and the OU and Oklahoma State land.

A few seasons of that, one key matchup, and suddenly the entire map is owned by one team. And that's when it becomes the same concept as the title belt.

I could be wrong, but I was thinking of cases where the loser jumps into the playoffs because of inherently non-knockoff nature of college football. For example, let's say PSU beats OSU this week (retains belt and takes over vast tracks of land), but loses in conference championship allowing OSU to be the sole representative in the playoff. The belt and land will stay in the Big 10 assuming conference champion (Wisconsin?) retains the land and belt it got for PSU by winning its bowl game. Alabama may beat OSU to win national title, but sans belt and land.

As long as the path to national championship is open to teams that can avoid knock-off games (conference championships), they can be empty handed while parking the belt and land with their conference winner brethren.

 

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Bamamachine, I couldn't see the images in your post. I am posting them again.

We hang on to our Oklahoma territory by denying the landless frogs. We have to do the same this week against Wildcats. The mercurial nature is visible here where USC, whom we beat and gained nothing from, owns a big chunk of northwest now.

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The game of the landlords this week when OSU and PSU face off.

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2 minutes ago, AeroHorn said:

Bamamachine, I couldn't see the images in your post. I am posting them again.

We hang on to our Oklahoma territory by denying the landless frogs. We have to do the same this week against Wildcats. The mercurial nature is visible here where USC, whom we beat and gained nothing from, owns a big chunk of northwest now.

Labette, Montgomery, Chautauqua, Wilson and Elk Counties in Kansas are there too - despite K-State being landless we do have a bit of their state.

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8 minutes ago, AeroHorn said:

I could be wrong, but I was thinking of cases where the loser jumps into the playoffs because of inherently non-knockoff nature of college football. For example, let's say PSU beats OSU this week (retains belt and takes over vast tracks of land), but loses in conference championship allowing OSU to be the sole representative in the playoff. The belt and land will stay in the Big 10 assuming conference champion (Wisconsin?) retains the land and belt it got for PSU by winning its bowl game. Alabama may beat OSU to win national title, but sans belt and land.

As long as the path to national championship is open to teams that can avoid knock-off games (conference championships), they can be empty handed while parking the belt and land with their conference winner brethren.

 

You guys are talking about two different things, man.  Huck is saying that the long-term map (if continued from here out) will eventually converge with the college football "title belt." And it definitely will.  But I think you're talking about the map that starts over every year and saying that, since that map begins anew, the season won't end with someone owning "all the land" and the title belt at the same time--which is also true.

Also, OU owns Baltimore County. After what it did to the recruiting board it's only right we take it for our own.

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I am also talking about long-term map. I am saying that as long as a team can avoid a path through conference championship on its way to playoffs, the belt and land can stay away from the national champion, and hence never merge. For example, the belt can remain in Big 10, the land in Pac 12 and national championship can be anywhere, as long as Big 10 and/or Pac 12 (in this case) go to playoffs without winning their conference championships.

4 minutes ago, AeroHorn said:

I am also talking about long-term map. I am saying that as long as a team can avoid a path through conference championship on its way to playoffs, the belt and land can stay away from the national champion, and hence never merge. For example, the belt can remain in Big 10, the land in Pac 12 and national championship can be anywhere, as long as Big 10 and/or Pac 12 (in this case) go to playoffs without winning their conference championships.

That might happen a few times.  But they'll eventually converge.  Just look at the map with what's about to happen between tOSU and PSU.  The number of distinct owners of the map will necessarily decrease by one this week.  That will continue to happen in the future until the entire map is owned by one time.  After the entire map is owned by one team, it's merely a waiting game for the map and the belt to be held by the same owner.  It might take several years.  But it will eventually happen.

The singular land owner will always own the belt.

It's impossible for a belt-holder to not own land.

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20 minutes ago, JBJ said:

The singular land owner will always own the belt.

It's impossible for a belt-holder to not own land.

That's not true in the short term.  But it will be true in the long term.

1 minute ago, Katfid54 said:

That's not true in the short term.  But it will be true in the long term.

Yes it is.  Whenever you set the map, the belt holder owns land.  The belt and that chunk of land are permanently tied together.  Any land added to that chunk likewise becomes permanently joined to the belt.  The belt can never lose land, but it'll continue adding chunks until only it owns the land.

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3 minutes ago, JBJ said:

Yes it is.  Whenever you set the map, the belt holder owns land.  The belt and that chunk of land are permanently tied together.  Any land added to that chunk likewise becomes permanently joined to the belt.  The belt can never lose land.

Good point.

I just looked and PSU currently holds the belt, so it's not hard to see that all land eventually converge and be coterminously owned with the belt.

On 9/19/2018 at 8:59 AM, Sgt Hulk said:

Anyone have a link to how this is supposed To work?

It's like Game of Thrones. You just go with it to fit in, even though you have no idea WTF is going on or who the character's names are.

Anyone other than Aero having issues seeing the ones I posted?

Where's aggy on the map?  Best 2-2 team on the planet should be there somewhere.  Right?

 

edit,  I can't see yours bama.

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1 hour ago, Moby Ric said:

Where's aggy on the map?  Best 2-2 team on the planet should be there somewhere.  Right?

 

edit,  I can't see yours bama.

Thanks, guess I will not use that site anymore.

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Our win against TCU put our endowment in the black for the first time. We have an 11% profit for a total of $11.6B. We made a $4.7B profit on a $3.5B bet (half of $7B we had) on TCU game. 

Reddit thread and the spreadsheet.

Stanford has the highest endowment at $45B (started at $25B) and BYU has the most percentage gain (9.3x). Aggy has lost 3/4th of their endowment ($1.1B now after starting with $4.5B)

 

17 minutes ago, AeroHorn said:

Our win against TCU put our endowment in the black for the first time. We have an 11% profit for a total of $11.6B. We made a $4.7B profit on a $3.5B bet (half of $7B we had) on TCU game. 

Reddit thread and the spreadsheet.

Stanford has the highest endowment at $45B (started at $25B) and BYU has the most percentage gain (9.3x). Aggy has lost 3/4th of their endowment ($1.1B now after starting with $4.5B)

 

This is a fun idea.

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One twist to this idea is if the bet is between the teams where the loser hands the money to the winning team. Right now, the money goes to the betting house.

Gives new meaning to scheduling patsies. Not only do you have to pay them a million bucks to play, but you will have to pay them billions if you lose.

 

1 minute ago, AeroHorn said:

One twist to this idea is if the bet is between the teams where the loser hands the money to the winning team. Right now, the money goes to the betting house.

Gives new meaning to scheduling patsies. Not only do you have to pay them a million bucks to play, but you will have to pay them billions if you lose.

 

I don't think any sane school administration would take that bet... It sounds really fun though...

36 minutes ago, AeroHorn said:

Our win against TCU put our endowment in the black for the first time. We have an 11% profit for a total of $11.6B. We made a $4.7B profit on a $3.5B bet (half of $7B we had) on TCU game. 

Reddit thread and the spreadsheet.

Stanford has the highest endowment at $45B (started at $25B) and BYU has the most percentage gain (9.3x). Aggy has lost 3/4th of their endowment ($1.1B now after starting with $4.5B)

 

What in the absolute fuck are you nerds talking about. 

3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

What in the absolute fuck are you nerds talking about. 

“What if schools gambled their endowment on football games”

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weekly update on the imperialism map. We didn't gain any land by beating KSU, but there is a nice chunk of land spread across to gain from OU.

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In the continuation map,  OSU now owns most of the USA, besides also taking the belt from PSU.

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On endowment betting front, we made $1.76B profit by beating KSU. We can potentially more than double our current $13.34B endowment by beating OU. Stanford fell from the top spot when it lost half of its $45B endowment by losing to ND. 

On 9/24/2018 at 4:14 PM, Moby Ric said:

Where's aggy on the map?  Best 2-2 team on the planet should be there somewhere.  Right?

 

edit,  I can't see yours bama.

They traded the A&M logo for the SEC branding, so we can't see it on the map...

We finally have land! We now own most of Oklahoma, along with Hawai'i, Delaware, and parts of South Florida.

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We have conquered Wilbarger County, Texas! Huzzah!

Gata Land mass champions!   Put it on the stadium!

 

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Gata Land mass champions!   Put it on the stadium!

 

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Nice get with alaska. Thats almost like getting Australia in risk

 

2 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

I don’t understand this thread and I don’t want to either.

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it's for the Venn Diagram of idiots / nerds 

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And out endowment has more than doubled to nearly $30B, with a $16B profit from the OU game. Only ND is ahead of us with $35B endowment. Since we are heavy favorites against Baylor, the potential profit is relatively small ($2.5B), though potential loss would be huge (half of $30B).

 

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They are there. They own their own land in Ohio and also TCU land, PSU land, OrSU land, etc.

You may be confusing the 2018 map with the 2017 continuation map, which treats 2018 games as a continuation of 2017 season. It is below. We also show up in this map courtesy of OU.

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Week 7 update. We didn't gain any land. Big change is ISU taking over WVU land. Our endowments have increased to 32B, but still second to ND.

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1 hour ago, AeroHorn said:

Our endowments have increased to 32B, but still second to ND.

Your mom's endowments have increased to 32B.

58 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Your mom's endowments have increased to 32B.

Well played, but I may need to audit those to be sure. 

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2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Your mom's endowments have increased to 32B.

😀 My mom is a frail, barely 5 feet, ~80lb lady. Nothing of her approaches 32B.

On 9/18/2018 at 1:13 PM, kopp0e said:

I know this doesn't directly tie in, but here is a map of the XII recruiting areas:

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And this is the reason that no matter how much the fans want or how nutty Boren was, OU is NOT looking to bolt from the B12.  The Texas pipeline has always been their bread and butter. 

We are all missing out on the fertile recruiting ground in New York and New England.

Wait not one player from Kentucky or Virginia? Odd.

Sure I want us to dominate in the USA but where is the map for Kamchatka and Irkutsk ? 

That’s what I care about.

On 9/18/2018 at 8:32 AM, kopp0e said:

Alaska is never "conquered"..!

 

Ok, I missed this originally, but I am not sure how I've lived without this in my life.   This video has everything, but porn.  Which, now that I reflect on that, may be why I never saw it.

On 9/18/2018 at 3:13 PM, kopp0e said:

I know this doesn't directly tie in, but here is a map of the XII recruiting areas:

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1) this map is terrible

2) It clearly shows how the Big 12 lost out out the fertile Nebraska recruiting grounds when they left.  

26 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:

Ok, I missed this originally, but I am not sure how I've lived without this in my life.   This video has everything, but porn.  Which, now that I reflect on that, may be why I never saw it.

I didn't see any lead filled snowshoes but I'm blaming that on myself. I'm betting it's in there and I just missed it.

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