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Just wanted to expand a little on the 'blogging for points' that Bill Dozer briefly touched on in a previous thread (linked above). This little exercise is actually where the idea of points originated months ago, And like the rest of the points process, we will no doubt be changing this as we go and tweak it to make it better.15 points for blogging your Handicapper view/pick on MySBRforum.com. Your submission must be at least 500 words and present insight and/or opinion on a matchup. Points will also be given for using the "Blog Back" feature.
http://forum.sbrforum.com/sbr-points...-get-them.html
We're about to get into that really busy portion of the sports calendar with baseball heading towards the playoffs, football kicking off at the collegiate and professional levels, the NHL season cranking up a month from now, the NBA season a few weeks after that and finally college hoops in early November. Whew! The condensed version of what I just said is there's a lot of sports action for everyone to write about on the horizon.
1) You can blog all you want, but we will only award points for one blog per day per poster.
2) We will take the best of the daily entries and republish them on our front page site (www.sbrforum.com) either in the ‘article boxes’ or in the ‘blog roll.’ In the case of those for the article boxes, a title and blurb will be added by the editor on duty that day (more times than not, that is me).
3) In the case of EXCEPTIONAL pieces, more than 15 points may be rewarded. By exceptional, the pieces will have to be well-written with proper grammar and spelling (they’re, there, their) in addition to providing solid and unique content.
4) If you’re wondering about just exactly how much is 500 words, open a blank MS Word page, set your margins to 1-inch on all four sides, set your font to Arial 12-pt, and once you get to the bottom of one page you should have roughly 500 words. The system notifies us when a new blog has been added that exceeds a certain character limit; this doesn’t always mean they are 500 words in length.
5) No blogs that are simple cut-n-paste entries from another writer/author will be considered. Bloggers should ALWAYS credit their sources. Any plagiarism whatsoever will remove that blogger from future points rewards.
If anyone needs a few pointers on exactly how to credit sources or with your writing in general, feel free to hit me up via PM or e-mail (willie[at]sbrnewsdesk[dot]com).
FYI: For a good idea of what 500 words looks like, this post is 466 words in length, counting the bit in the quote box at the beginning and discounting the URL. Best of luck and happy blogging.
EDIT1, Sep 14, 2009: We're changing up how the points are going to be awarded from this time on. If your blog is picked to appear in our Blog Roll or as a Poster's Picks on our front page site (www.sbrforum.com), you will get 15 points. Get them in early as it's impossible for us to get a blog loaded at 6:00 p.m. for an 8:00 p.m. game up in time. Thanks.
EDIT2, Sep 25, 2009: Any blog chosen to be a headline piece at www.sbrforum.com will be worth 50 points (600+ words minimum).
EDIT3, Nov 4, 2009: To be eligible for points awards, blogs for specific games need to be submitted at least one hour before the listed start time of the contest.
EDIT4, Sept. 27, 2010: Points will not be given to blog authors whose blogs are not hand-picked to be featured on SBRforum.com.
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Originally Posted by Squirrel
They don't all have to be about (American) football, baseball, basketball...how 'non-mainstream' do you mean?
