Hi all, Well, here are the final results. Hope everyone has had a good New Year. I am a bit sad about the Badgers but they played fairly well and it could have been worse I suppose (like what happened to Michigan State). Plus the Packers won, so there is something to be happy about. Happy New Year! Rich On to the results: Week 17 Player Points -------------------------------------- otero 116 olson.brad 115 bpodemski 114 ajpetrosino 110 jdavis 110 paul 110 allenj1 108 matty 107 rmaclin 107 tararichte 107 seanse 106 jim_pruyne 104 bruce.irvin 103 faber 103 rjolsonjr 101 jeff.horvath 99 prophet 99 ed.rybak 98 jluttine 96 wlistvan 94 lewandow 90 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points --------------------------------------- bpodemski 1583 tararichte 1575 paul 1572 rmaclin 1572 jdavis 1566 ajpetrosino 1554 jeff.horvath 1548 olson.brad 1525 otero 1518 faber 1516 jim_pruyne 1512 ed.rybak 1508 wlistvan 1506 allenj1 1503 matty 1490 jluttine 1482 prophet 1471 bruce.irvin 1462 seanse 1460 lewandow 1450 rjolsonjr 1344 Congratulations to Brenda "Starr" Podemski who joined the pool and in her first year won it all. Ted, thanks for bringing us a ringer. Brenda secured her victory with a smart pick of Oakland to win this last week, which locked up the championship for her. Now on to the rest of our awards show: Brenda also won in picking the most games correctly, so she also wins our first honorable mention. The overall results for everyone were worse than last year across the board, though Brenda put up a very impressive number of games picked correctly. Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- bpodemski 173 paul 169 olson.brad 166 rmaclin 166 ajpetrosino 165 faber 165 otero 162 tararichte 162 jdavis 161 jim_pruyne 160 wlistvan 159 bruce.irvin 158 jeff.horvath 158 prophet 158 seanse 157 allenj1 156 jluttine 156 matty 156 lewandow 154 ed.rybak 152 rjolsonjr 149 A second honorable mention goes to Ted Faber "College" for his stellar week 11, getting the highest score. This is the second year in a row Ted has won this award, and in both years he put up a 131 score. Impressive. Player Points (week) -------------------------------- faber 131 (11) prophet 129 (13) tararichte 122 (9) paul 121 (9) otero 120 (9) . . otero 52 (5) tararichte 52 (5) matty 50 (5) ed.rybak 45 (5) allenj1 42 (10) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to Gary "not Indiana" Lewandowski and Dan "The Man" Otero for being the most consistent and least consistent at their picks based on the standard deviation of each person's picks. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ lewandow 12.23 rjolsonjr 12.43 ajpetrosino 13.31 jim_pruyne 14.16 wlistvan 14.20 jeff.horvath 14.52 faber 14.91 seanse 14.95 rmaclin 15.64 olson.brad 15.93 bruce.irvin 16.33 jdavis 16.35 paul 16.45 ed.rybak 16.54 tararichte 16.83 prophet 17.11 matty 17.32 jluttine 17.65 allenj1 18.63 bpodemski 19.14 otero 19.60 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Jim "but call me Tim" Pruyne and Ron "Threepeat" 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"). This is the third year in a row for Ron to win this award, so extra congratulations to Ron. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------- jim_pruyne 11.06 bruce.irvin 11.79 jdavis 11.87 matty 12.20 jeff.horvath 12.24 rmaclin 12.44 wlistvan 12.53 seanse 12.70 ajpetrosino 12.92 lewandow 13.25 tararichte 13.27 bpodemski 13.51 allenj1 13.77 olson.brad 13.98 paul 14.31 jluttine 14.47 faber 14.90 ed.rybak 15.13 otero 15.26 prophet 17.13 rjolsonjr 19.45 Our seventh honorable mention goes to Ed "Make em work" Rybak 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) ------------------------------------------------------ ed.rybak 0.995 jeff.horvath 0.872 jdavis 0.801 tararichte 0.796 allenj1 0.709 matty 0.626 jluttine 0.574 wlistvan 0.546 rmaclin 0.544 jim_pruyne 0.524 ajpetrosino 0.492 lewandow 0.490 otero 0.445 prophet 0.384 paul 0.376 seanse 0.374 bruce.irvin 0.327 faber 0.262 olson.brad 0.261 bpodemski 0.225 rjolsonjr 0.094 Our last honorable mention awards go to Jeff "Back from the Bottom" Horvath for the biggest gain (well, smallest loss) over last year's score (these totals are measured only for those who participated in every week last year and every week this year). Everyone did worse this year, but it was a very tough year. Player 2010 2009 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- jeff.horvath 1548 1566 -18 otero 1518 1559 -41 faber 1516 1595 -79 paul 1572 1651 -79 jim_pruyne 1512 1598 -86 wlistvan 1506 1602 -96 jdavis 1566 1672 -106 rmaclin 1572 1681 -109 olson.brad 1525 1635 -110 tararichte 1575 1688 -113 jluttine 1482 1612 -130 ajpetrosino 1554 1705 -151 allenj1 1503 1660 -157 lewandow 1450 1616 -166 prophet 1471 1648 -177 bruce.irvin 1462 1650 -188 matty 1490 1695 -205 seanse 1460 1724 -264 rjolsonjr 1344 1609 -265 Congratulations again to our big winner Brenda Podemski as well as our honorable mention winners (Brenda again, Ted Faber, Gary Lewandowski, Dan Otero, Jim Pruyne, Ron Olson, Ed Rybak and Jeff Horvath). I would also like to again congratulate my wife Tara who beat me in the overall score again this year, so she is again champion of our house. 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