I’m pleased to announce the first-ever contest on the site. This is the chance for an existing subscriber to win a lifetime subscription to the kenpom.com. If I live 50 more years and continue to run the site, and you also live 50 years, this will have a value of at least $1,000.

We are deep into March and I never did get the Power to the People feature off the ground. The people never had the power and I deeply regret that. But I shall resurrect this concept for the MW tournament since I’ll be in Vegas covering all seven games of the event and I figure I need a gimmick. So we’ll use Power to the People to mine a prediction of something interesting for each game and also give someone a chance to win something and be famous.

Here are the rules:

– The contest is open only to existing subscribers.

– There will be one question associated with each of the seven games. The questions will be posted on the main ratings page (kenpom.com). These will only be visible to subscribers that are logged in. You can also see questions on your very own Power to the People page

– Subscribers will have until approximately five minutes before the originally scheduled tip-time of each game to provide a response to the question for that game. Subscribers can continue to provide a guess until the question closes, however only the latest response will be accepted.

– Subscribers must respond to all seven questions to be eligible for the prize.

– The winner will be determined by summing the absolute value of the differences between the observed value and the subscriber’s response for each of the seven questions.

– In the case of a tie, the absolute error in the question regarding the title game will be used as a tie-breaker. If subscribers are still tied, the tie-break will be applied to the question regarding the next most-recent game until the tie is broken.

– The winner will receive an extension on their current subscription until December 31, 2099. This prize is not transferrable.

– Understand? Good. Don’t sue me or try any shenanigans.

I’ll post the batch of questions for Thursday’s games before daybreak tomorrow. The first game, San Diego State vs. Boise State tips off at 3 PM EST. The remaining schedule of games is here.