Here's how it works, everyone gets 100 chips to wager on the below propositions. Max wager of 25, minimum of 5. The object is to end up with the most chips. Over/under bets are even odds. The deadline is Dec. 10.

1) How many Dylan and Springsteen albums will be in the top 10? (over/under: 1.5)
2) How many White Stripes albums will be in the top 100? (over/under: 2.5)
3) How many Radiohead albums will be in the top 100?
(over/under: 3.5)
4) The Rolling Stones' "Bigger Bang" will place ... (over/under: 25)
5) Which U2 album will place the highest, "All That You Can't Leave Behind," "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" or "No Line on the Horizon"? (3-1 odds on all three.)
6) How many Brittany Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and Beyonce albums combined will be in the top 100? (over/under: 0.5)
7) "Return to Cookie Mountain" will be the highest placing TV on the Radio album (even odds)
8) How many albums from 2009 will make the list? (over/under: 7)
9) The highest rap album will be: "Stankonia" 2-1; "The Marshall Mathers LP" 3-1; "The College Dropout" 4-1; "Late Registration" 4-1; "Speakerboxx/the Love Below" 5-1; other 6-1.
10) The combined placing of M.I.A.'s "Kala" and LCD Soundsystem's "Sound of Silver" will add up to ... (over/under: 80) If one or the other doesn't place in the top 100, over wins.


My betting sheet.
1) Over: 10 chips
2) Over: 5 chips
3) Under: 15 chips
4) Over: 5 chips
5) "All That You Can't Leave Behind": 5 chips
6) Under: 20 chips
7) Yes: 5 chips
8) Under: 10 chips
9) "Stankonia" 2-1: 15 chips
10) Under: 10 chips

This is a hilarious idea for a game.

1) Over: 10 chips
2) Over: 10 chips
3) Under: 23 chips (Over is saying that all their albums this decade make their top 100; I don't think even Pitchfork did that.)
4) Under: 10 chips
5) "All That You Can't Leave Behind": 7 chips
6) Over: 10 chips
7) Yes: 5 chips
Under: 5 chips
9) "The Marshall Mathers LP" 3-1: 10 chips
10) Under: 10 chips

My betting sheet.
1) Over: 10 chips
2) Under: 5 chips
3) Under: 25 chips
4) Over: 5 chips
5) "All That You Can't Leave Behind": 15 chips
6) Over: 5 chips
7) No: 5 chips
8) Under: 5 chips
9) "The Marshall Mathers LP" 2-1: 15 chips
10) Under: 10 chips

Awesome game! We should have done something like this for pitchfork and NME. Maybe a Tiny Mix Tapes or Drowned in Sound guess thread.

Great game! The line on the first one was too easy, but I have no clue about some of these--especially the highest placing rap album.

1) Over, 25 chips
2) Over, 10 chips
3) Under, 10 chips
4) Under, 6 chips
5) "All That You Can't Leave Behind," 6
6) Over, 8 chips
7) No, 8 chips
8) Under, 12 chips
9) "The College Dropout" 4-1, 5 chips
10) Under, 10 chips

1) Over: 25 chips
2) Under: 5 chips
3) Under: 25 chips
4) Over: 10 chips
5) "All That You Can't Leave Behind": 10 chips
6) Under: 5 chips
7) Yes: 5 chips
8) Under: 5 chips
9) "The Marshall Mathers LP" 3-1: 5 chips
10) Over: 5 chips

1. Over: 10 chips
2. Over: 5 chips
3. Under: 25 chips
4. Under: 15 chips
5.  "All That You Can't Leave Behind," : 5 chips
6. Over: 5 chips
7. Yes: 5 chips
8. Under: 5 chips
9. "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" 5-1: 20 chips
10. Over: 5 chips

100 chips on "All That You Can't Leave Behind"..

and i'm kficing high on fkcing Joe Pesci medullaz, so you better don't gnfincgk mess around with me..

and it's NOT my pen after all

1. Over, 5 chips
2. Over, 5 chips
3. Under, 25 chips
4. Over, 5 chips
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind, 25 chips
6. Over, 5 chips
7. Yes, 5 chips
8. Under, 5 chips
9. College Dropout, 15 chips
10. Under, 5 chips

1) Over: 20
2) Over: 5
3) Under: 5
4) Over (which means 26 or above right?) 10
5) All That You Can't Leave Behind 25
6) Over: 10
7) No: 5
8) Under: 10
9) The Marshall Mathers LP" 3-1: 5
10) Under: 5

Three days left to play.

1) Over : 10 chips
2) Over : 10 chips
3) Over (Yes, they will dare): 5 chips
4) Under : 5 Chips
5) All That You Can't Leave Behind : 10 Chips
6) Over : 25 Chips
7) No (what if no TV on the Radio album is ranked ?): 10 Chips
8) Under : 5 Chips
9) Speakerboxx : 10 Chips
10) Over : 10 Chips

1) under, 5 chips
2) under, 10 chips
3) under, 10 chips
4) over (i.e. outside the top 25), 20 chips
5) All That You Can't Leave Behind, 5 chips
6) over, 5 chips
7) yes, 5 chips
8) under, 25 chips
9) other, 10 chips
10) over, 5 chips

1. Over (15 chips)
2. Under (5)
3. Over (10)
4. Out of the top 25 (10)
5. ATYCLB (15)
6. Over (10)
7. Yes (15)
8. Under (5)
9. Speakerboxxx (5)
10. Under (10)

to group Alicia Keys and Beyonce with Britney Spears, Christian Aguilera and Mariah Carey, as their albums generally fare a little better than theirs.

1. Over (15)
2. Over (5)
3. Under (15)
4. Over (outside the top 25) (15)
5. All You Can't Leave Behind (25)
6. Over (5)
7. Over (5)
8. Under (5)
9. The College Dropout (5)
10. Over (5)

1. Over (25)
2. Over (10)
3. Under (10)
4. Over (5) assuming this means worse than 25.
5. All that you cant....(25)
6. Over (5)
7. Yes (5)
8. Under (5)
9. College Dropout (5)
10. Under (5)

4) The Rolling Stones' "Bigger Bang" will place ... (over/under: 25)

It probably wont place as high as other "classics" that they gave 5 stars like Goddess In The Doorway
Mick Jagger or the "masterpiece" To The 5 Boroughs
by the Beastie Boys ;-)

1. Over: 25 chips
2. Under: 5 chips
3. Under: 10 chips
4. Over: 5 chips
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind: 5 chips
6. Over: 5 chips
7. Yes: 10 chips
8. Under: 5 chips
9. The College Dropout 4-1: 20 chips
10. Over: 10 chips

Anybody up for a side bet on whether an R.E.M. album gets in?

I would guess yes. If any outlet is going to plump for a band almost two decades past its peak, this is it. I think Accelerate is the likeliest candidate, with Reveal as a possible dark horse.

(Neither album really deserves it--even I know that.)

1) Over (1 each) (5 chips)

2) Under (They'll be happy with WBC and Elephant) (5 chips)

3) Under (Kid A + In Rainbows are locks, I don't see Amnesiac getting in) (25 chips)

4) Under (It'll factor in top 100, but I think even Rolling Stone will have gotten over it) (5 chips)

5) All That You Can't Leave Behind (25 chips)

6) Over. No way Songs In A Minor is not on their list. (15 chips)

7) False. DS is fresher in their memories. (5 chips)

8) Under. Not more than 5. (5 chips)

9) College Dropout (It's totally Stankonia, but I'm not confident enough in that to wager more than 5, so I'm going for the higher payoff.) (5 chips)

10) Over. Those don't seem like Rolling Stone-ish albums. (5 chips)

We should have done this for Pitchfork!

Betting is officially closed due to the list already being available. Results to come.

Good thing nobody took that R.E.M. bet.

(I would have been kind of embarrassed if I was right, so really, it's a win-win for me.)

Well, I got a bunch wrong but at least I put my chips on the right spots. I can't believe I didn't take the 6:1 odds on the Blueprint. I always forget that was released in '01... I don't know how seeing it was released on a day everyone should remember.