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I play a game on my phone called Resources. It’s a hybrid of Pokemon Go and a business tycoon game. A recent update to it had this explanation:

Due to regulations of some national age rating systems, real money currency/symbols may not be used as currency for virtual play money.

I did not know that. I occasionally use the dollar sign when talking about the fake money in this game, so I may violating internet law somewhere. Not that I’m worried, especially because I don’t think it’s a US law, but it gives me an excuse to do something I’ve always wanted to do: create a currency symbol for PYU. Here’s my proposal:

Ų

That is “Latin capital letter U with ogonek.” It is used in Lithuanian, and several Native American languages. I like it because it incorporates “U” for “units,” a hook (slang term for the ¹⁄₂ point you can get caught on, which we’ll see in a minute), and looks like a football goalpost. You can type it, in Windows at least, by holding the Alt key and typing 0370 on the numeric keypad. 0371 for lower case. Plain old letter U may be used instead. Let me know what you think, or if you have any ideas for something better.

Friday night’s Tulane-Tulsa game was one of the best of the year. After 40 scoreless minutes, Tulane took a 14-0 lead. E-dogg42 had a parlay including the over 54, which looked like a sure loser even if Tulsa did somehow get the game into overtime. Enter Tulsa third-string QB Davis Brin:

You can skip to 1:54 for the good bits, but the whole highlight is worth watching. Tulsa won 30-24 in overtime, saving E-dogg42 from a 15Ų loss. But not AnthonyVito:

And this next one is gonna leave a mark. Coastal Carolina led Appalachian State by 4 on the last play of the game, which would have made these bets a winner:

That’s $480 in parlay wins for jrjs, currently near the bottom of the table. But this happened:

Coastal Carolina pulls a miracle cover, jrjs loses, and this parlay bet suddenly become a winner instead:

Brutal beat. jrjs is down to 175.13, and can put it all on one bet in Week 13, if desired.

On the other end of the table, the clash of the titans between bullsonparade96 and speruche continues. After the 3:30 games, the former’s lead had shrunk to less than 25 dollars. But bullsonparade96 locked down this $900 parlay win:

Later in the day, both players had large parlays undone by San Diego State’s loss to Nevada. The Aztecs got the ball to the four yard line late, but couldn’t score. This result actually benefitted speruche, who had would have won less than BOP and fallen even further behind. With little other action the rest of the day, the standings are now:

E-Dogg42, beneficiary of the Coastal Carolina win, netted 452.81 total and jumps from 6th to 4th. It’s still a long way to the top, though. Other than that, no major changes.

Finally, here’s a list of all the other bets than won more than $50:

There are 60 games scheduled for Week 13.

As is now custom, any game on that list that is not played this week will count towards the cancellations bet. The house has been taking a beating on that bet, so this week I will more aggressively set the over/under. It will be released with the first batch of lines this week.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving week, and as always, be safe out there.