Week 17 Player Points (out of 136) -------------------------------------- tararichte 121 paul 116 seanse 114 ajpetrosino 113 bruce.irvin 113 jdavis 113 maclinte2 113 nick-street 113 WIstvanick 113 rmaclin 111 jeff 108 matty 108 allenj1 91 jluttine 90 rjolsonjr 90 prophet 88 jim_pruyne 83 faber 79 olson.brad 72 lewandow 68 otero 67 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points (out of 2284) --------------------------------------- seanse 1724 ajpetrosino 1705 matty 1693 tararichte 1688 rmaclin 1681 jdavis 1672 allenj1 1660 nick-street 1653 paul 1651 bruce.irvin 1650 prophet 1648 maclinte2 1643 olson.brad 1635 lewandow 1616 jluttine 1612 rjolsonjr 1609 WIstvanick 1602 jim_pruyne 1598 faber 1595 jeff 1566 otero 1559 Congratulations to Sean "the Ohio State of Rich's football pool" Selitrenikoff for a dominating season, building a big lead and then holding on to it for his first win in the pool. Now on to the rest of our awards show: Tony "So Close" Petrosino, who finished second in points but easily picked the most games correctly, so he wins our first honorable mention. The overall results for everyone were somewhat better than last year, but Tony and Sean put up great numbers. Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- ajpetrosino 186 seanse 181 jdavis 178 allenj1 177 rmaclin 177 tararichte 176 lewandow 174 matty 174 jluttine 173 paul 173 prophet 173 nick-street 172 bruce.irvin 171 faber 171 maclinte2 171 rjolsonjr 171 otero 170 jim_pruyne 168 jeff 167 WIstvanick 166 olson.brad 162 A second honorable mention goes to Ted "Vivo ex Machina" Faber for his stellar week 1, getting the highest score. The best and worst weeks were dominated by certain weeks, but Ted pulled off his high score outside of those weeks. Player Points (week) -------------------------------- faber 131 (1) ajpetrosino 128 (12) jdavis 125 (12) jim_pruyne 125 (4) jluttine 125 (12) . . bruce.irvin 63 (6) jim_pruyne 63 (2) nick-street 63 (2) ajpetrosino 62 (2) lewandow 59 (2) prophet 59 (2) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to Jonah "Not George" Allen and Subrata "Prophetable" Sircar for being the most consistent and least consistent at their picks based on the standard deviation of each person's picks. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ allenj1 12.18 otero 13.51 jluttine 13.69 faber 13.78 maclinte2 14.54 paul 15.35 seanse 15.41 matty 15.45 olson.brad 15.63 rjolsonjr 15.66 nick-street 15.72 tararichte 15.76 jdavis 15.86 jim_pruyne 15.98 WIstvanick 16.26 ajpetrosino 16.59 rmaclin 16.65 jeff 17.34 bruce.irvin 17.46 lewandow 17.46 prophet 17.55 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Tom "Brother, Can You Spare a Mime" Maclin and Ron "Not a Twin" Olson as the most average and least average pickers (measured by measuring the standard deviation of the other pickers based on using each person in turn as the "mean"). They both won these same awards last year, so I am seeing a trend. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------- maclinte2 10.95 matty 11.00 seanse 11.70 allenj1 11.71 tararichte 11.75 nick-street 12.02 jdavis 12.14 bruce.irvin 12.22 ajpetrosino 12.31 rmaclin 12.36 paul 12.46 jluttine 13.04 WIstvanick 13.28 prophet 13.61 jeff 13.93 jim_pruyne 14.17 olson.brad 14.24 faber 15.38 otero 15.56 lewandow 15.90 rjolsonjr 18.52 Our seventh honorable mention goes to Brad "Don't Call Me Lute" Olson for being the most effective at weighting his picks (measured as the marginal gain in points compared to simply randomly weighting picks). Player Marginal Gain (pts per pick) ------------------------------------------------------ olson.brad 1.171 matty 0.808 WIstvanick 0.729 bruce.irvin 0.727 nick-street 0.689 maclinte2 0.686 tararichte 0.669 paul 0.621 prophet 0.604 seanse 0.603 jim_pruyne 0.590 rmaclin 0.575 rjolsonjr 0.487 jdavis 0.471 allenj1 0.457 jeff 0.455 faber 0.406 jluttine 0.396 lewandow 0.365 otero 0.249 ajpetrosino 0.245 Our last honorable mention awards go to Ron "Rich, I Want a Molson" Olson (ok, that was pretty lame but I ran out of ideas) for the biggest gain over last year's score (these totals are measured only for those who participated in every week last year and every week this year). Most people improved this year, in part because last year was a bit of a tough year. Player 2009 2008 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- rjolsonjr 1609 1372 237 ajpetrosino 1705 1558 147 lewandow 1616 1469 147 prophet 1648 1516 132 allenj1 1660 1530 130 tararichte 1688 1583 105 matty 1693 1604 89 paul 1651 1570 81 jluttine 1612 1532 80 rmaclin 1681 1605 76 maclinte2 1643 1570 73 nick-street 1653 1582 71 jdavis 1672 1607 65 olson.brad 1635 1576 59 bruce.irvin 1650 1602 48 faber 1595 1547 48 otero 1559 1523 36 jeff 1566 1551 15 jim_pruyne 1598 1607 -9 Congratulations again to our big winner Sean Selitrenikoff as well as our honorable mention winners (Tony Petrosino, Ted Faber, Jonah Allen, Subrata Sircar, Tom Maclin, Ron Olson, Brad Olson and Ron again). I would also like to give a special recognition to my beautiful wife Tara, who rode the top score in the last week to beat me by 7 points, thus becoming the Queen of our house. Congratulations Tara. You can all collect your rewards next time you see me. ;-) Look for the return of the pool later in August next year. Happy New Year! Rich