NUpredicts
There will be several iterations of the game throughout this academic year, and it will always be accessible at http://nupredicts.northwestern.edu via your smart phone or computer. NUpredicts will predict 5 Northwestern athletics events: football, basketball (men's and women's), women's lacrosse, and baseball. In addition to sports, we will host NUpredicts: The Election and The Oscars.
Events
NUpredicts: Women's Basketball
January 27 - February 1, 2017
7:00 PM; Welsh-Ryan Arena
Come cheer on the 'Cats at the Northwestern v. Wisconsin game. Prizes for the winners!
Pregame predictions will close one hour before tip-off.
NUpredicts: The Oscars
February 18 - 26, 2017
Join the Northwestern community in predicting the 89th Academy Awards. Prizes to the top winners!
Predictions close Sunday at 5:00 pm before the awards ceremony. The app will be updated "real-time" with the award winners during the show. Check the leaderboard during the show to track your results! $20 gift certificates to the top winners and One Book swag.
NUpredicts: Men's Basketball
February 28 - March 1, 2017
6:00 PM; Welsh-Ryan Arena
Come cheer on the 'Cats at the Northwestern v. Michigan game. Prizes for the winners!
Pregame predictions will close one hour before tip-off.
NUpredicts: Baseball
March 27 - April 1, 2017
11:00 AM; Rocky and Berenice Miller Park
Come cheer on the 'Cats at the Northwestern v. Air Force game. Prizes for the winners!
Pregame predictions will close one hour before first pitch.
NUpredicts: Lacrosse
April 10 - 15, 2017
3:30 PM; Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium
Come cheer on the 'Cats at the Northwestern v. Duke game. Prizes for the winners!
Pregame predictions will close one hour before the opening faceoff.
To keep up with updates and rules for the game, follow the One Book One Northwestern twitter feed at @OneBookNU or go to the One Book website www.northwestern.edu/onebook.
This online prediction game was developed to accompany this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.
**NUpredicts requires a valid NetID to play**
News
Thank you all for playing NUpredicts: Lacrosse! Northwestern won an exciting 12-10 game against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday afternoon, a big win for the Wildcats against No. 20 Duke. Everyone who played made some great predictions, but the five best predictors are below. Congrats to them and thanks to everyone for participating!
2011 |
Blake Kolesa |
1864 |
Grace Alger |
1820 |
Olivia Shay |
1695 |
Henry Chopp |
1693 |
Hannah Lee |
Thank you all for playing NUpredicts: Baseball! While Northwestern wasn't able to win the first game of a Saturday doubleheader, the Wildcats won the second game and on Sunday to win the series against Air Force. Everyone did great with their predictions, but the top five predictors are below. Congrats to them and thanks to everyone for participating!
2059 |
Henry Hayashi Chopp |
2059 |
Daniel Robert Weiss |
1991 |
Rachelle D. Price |
1955 |
Andrew Michael Brown |
1858 |
Joshua Adam Burton |
221 people played NUpredicts: Men's basketball for the awesome Northwestern win over Michigan on Wednesday. Everyone did great with their predictions, but the top 12 predictors are below. Congrats to them and thanks to everyone for participating!
1186 |
Maggie Hays |
1077 |
Molly F. Sheridan |
1077 |
Renee Yihong Zha |
1077 |
Lukas Gross |
1077 |
Zack Becker |
901 |
Vinayak Bhatia |
899 |
Zhewei Yin |
885 |
Samuel Benjamin Rubin |
816 |
David L. Chopp |
799 |
Melissa Keiko Calica |
799 |
Angelo S. Bastas |
799 |
Jeremy Joseph Piech |
A total of 736 members of the Northwestern community, including undergraduate and graduate students from each school as well as faculty and staff, made their best predictions on NUpredicts for how this year's Academy Awards would turn out. And while no one could have predicted the announcement mishap with Best Picture, 25 predictors stood out above the rest and earned $20 Chipotle gift certificates, a copy of The Signal and the Noise and a One Book shirt.
3606.00 |
Carissa Marie Heath |
3508.00 |
Shiwei Wang |
3486.00 |
Marcie B Weiss |
3439.00 |
Raeed Hasan Chowdhury |
3429.00 |
Bonnie Joy Etherington |
3429.00 |
Nikki Piech |
3408.00 |
Macray Wendell Poidomani |
3404.00 |
Zoe Lena Avila |
3388.00 |
Zhaoxu Meng |
3363.00 |
Jonathan Edward Pfluger |
3336.00 |
Michelle Anne Guittar |
3334.00 |
Simone Cruikshank Rivera |
3310.00 |
Marzena M Pedzinska |
3298.00 |
Hamed Valizadehhaghi |
3289.00 |
Jo Ann Yablonka |
3256.00 |
Noah J Karpinski |
3249.00 |
Jesse Danielle Rudnick |
3237.00 |
Karl Alexander Hujsak |
3219.00 |
Maggie Hays |
3204.00 |
Johann H Lee |
3197.00 |
Coby Spolin Parker |
3185.00 |
Marcella A Oliver |
3185.00 |
Laura WimbiscusYoon |
3184.00 |
Adam Bernard Becker |
3177.00 |
Erkan Kilic |
The presidential election has now passed, which means this year's third NUpredicts event is now over. While most people didn't expect Donald Trump would win the presidency, many Northwestern students did a pretty good job with their own predictions. Below are the top 25 predictors, who each earned a $20 gift card for their impressive, Nate Silver-like forecast. Congrats to our winners and to everyone who played!
8992 |
Ryan Michael Stork |
8716 |
Ari Joshua Levin |
8087 |
Tristan Ralph Rix |
8003 |
James Timothy Schuller |
7731 |
Suning Wang |
7632 |
Michael Lawrence Kundid |
7493 |
Christian J Surtz |
7408 |
Matthew Adam Pilecki |
7284 |
Kevin Liu Xu |
7257 |
Dylan Jeronimo Kennedy |
7237 |
Eric Aaron Lau |
7115 |
Thomas Spencer Key |
7075 |
Aydin Yousefzadehfard |
6850 |
Haokun Ma |
6799 |
Joseph Stephen Eligon |
6772 |
Ryan Matthew Hall |
6759 |
Kevin Webb |
6740 |
Nicholas John Leonardi |
6710 |
Yixi Chen |
6671 |
Sam A Fisher |
6653 |
Liu Liu |
6519 |
Rachel Hannah Jacobs |
6483 |
Daylan Tyler Sheppard |
6455 |
Yaxiong Zeng |
Past Games
NUpredicts: Football
September 17, 2016
Wildcat Welcome participants came to cheer the 'Cats at the Duke vs. NU game.
Congrats to our winners!
#1 Deborah Turetsky - 2733 points
#2 Virginia Arguelles - 2281 points
#3 Lauren Bagshaw - 2231 points
#4 Samuel Rubin - 2215 points
#5 Tyler Rodgers - 2125 pts
The winning peer advisory team was: Group 129 with 802 average points.
Thanks to everyone who played!
**NUpredicts Football is a Wildcat Welcome event, and only open to First-Year and transfer students**
NUpredicts: Nate Silver
September 28-October 5, 2016
NUpreditcs asked Nate Silver two questions about the future, and we asked you the same questions! See if your predictions match what he predicted. Check back here fore outcomes and results as they become available in October and November!
Here's how NU voted: