Hi all, Well, here are the final results. Hope everyone has a great New Year. Another year and another disappointing Badger bowl game. I like Anderson, but what is with not running on first down when in the red zone?? We had a high of -16 yesterday. Today I was really excited that it was 8 degrees when I went out. Living in Minnesota has really begun to affect me. ;-) Anyways, Happy New Year! Rich On to the results: Week 17 Player Points -------------------------------------- je.mappelle.wendyi 134 tararichte 131 paul 130 seanse 130 jessejdavis 128 rjolsonjr 128 jeff.horvath 126 olson.brad 126 allenj1 125 faber 122 gnotation 122 jim_pruyne 122 prophet 120 rmaclin 118 lewandow 115 bruce.irvin 112 matty 110 ajpetrosino 101 jluttine 98 otero 98 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points --------------------------------------- tararichte 1656 je.mappelle.wendyi 1651 seanse 1647 paul 1642 jessejdavis 1635 matty 1617 jeff.horvath 1588 olson.brad 1576 bruce.irvin 1568 rmaclin 1553 otero 1538 lewandow 1534 ajpetrosino 1526 gnotation 1515 allenj1 1514 faber 1504 jluttine 1499 jim_pruyne 1495 prophet 1467 rjolsonjr 1435 Congratulations to Tara "My Beautiful Wife" Richter who held off Wendy in the last week (each of them only missed one game). Now on to the rest of our awards show: Despite an impressive overall total, Tara only finished second to Bruce "I outpicked the experts on Fox" Irvin in picking the most games correctly, so Bruce wins our first honorable mention. Results were about the same as last year: Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- bruce.irvin 174 tararichte 173 seanse 171 je.mappelle.wendyi 170 matty 170 paul 170 gnotation 167 otero 166 jessejdavis 165 olson.brad 164 jeff.horvath 162 rjolsonjr 162 rmaclin 162 faber 161 ajpetrosino 157 allenj1 156 jim_pruyne 156 lewandow 156 jluttine 155 prophet 155 A second honorable mention goes to Wendy "15 of 16" Istvanick for her impressive last week score, missing only her 2 point pick. Player Points (week) -------------------------------- je.mappelle.wendyi 134 (17) tararichte 131 (17) paul 130 (17) seanse 130 (17) jessejdavis 128 (17) rjolsonjr 128 (17) . . ajpetrosino 125 (16) . . bruce.irvin 48 (12) jim_pruyne 48 (12) rmaclin 47 (10) faber 42 (10) lewandow 40 (10) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to Ron "Repeat" Olson and Brad "Not a Twin" Olson" for being the most consistent and least consistent at their picks based on the standard deviation of each person's picks. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ rjolsonjr 18.19 jessejdavis 18.49 allenj1 18.65 jluttine 18.67 gnotation 18.79 jim_pruyne 19.06 tararichte 19.08 ajpetrosino 19.22 otero 19.27 matty 19.34 seanse 19.50 jeff.horvath 19.65 je.mappelle.wendyi 19.89 prophet 20.09 paul 20.11 bruce.irvin 20.71 rmaclin 20.88 lewandow 22.49 faber 22.66 olson.brad 23.18 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Paul "As Consistent as Ed" Bradley and Ron "Most Consistent AND Least Average??" 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"). Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ paul 12.94 seanse 13.07 je.mappelle.wendyi 13.17 jim_pruyne 13.17 tararichte 13.24 jeff.horvath 13.31 jessejdavis 13.37 rmaclin 13.98 allenj1 14.73 otero 14.80 matty 14.81 jluttine 14.82 lewandow 15.19 bruce.irvin 15.58 olson.brad 16.76 gnotation 16.84 faber 17.07 prophet 17.93 ajpetrosino 18.53 rjolsonjr 19.03 Our seventh honorable mention goes to Jesse "New Dad" Davis 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) ------------------------------------------------------ jessejdavis 0.975 lewandow 0.900 jeff.horvath 0.869 ajpetrosino 0.786 je.mappelle.wendyi 0.778 allenj1 0.772 jluttine 0.737 paul 0.725 seanse 0.698 olson.brad 0.676 rmaclin 0.653 jim_pruyne 0.650 tararichte 0.639 matty 0.578 prophet 0.531 faber 0.408 otero 0.331 gnotation 0.138 bruce.irvin 0.078 rjolsonjr -0.076 Our last honorable mention awards go to Wendy "Monster Jump" Istvanick 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). Player 2013 2012 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- je.mappelle.wendyi 1651 1492 159 seanse 1647 1569 78 ajpetrosino 1526 1456 70 tararichte 1656 1617 39 olson.brad 1576 1540 36 paul 1642 1636 6 jessejdavis 1635 1637 -2 bruce.irvin 1568 1574 -6 lewandow 1534 1548 -14 matty 1617 1633 -16 gnotation 1515 1536 -21 otero 1538 1575 -37 jeff.horvath 1588 1644 -56 jluttine 1499 1574 -75 faber 1504 1581 -77 rmaclin 1553 1641 -88 prophet 1467 1561 -94 allenj1 1514 1627 -113 rjolsonjr 1435 1554 -119 jim_pruyne 1495 1632 -137 Congratulations again to our big winner Tara "My Lovely Wife" Richter as well as our honorable mention winners (Bruce Irvin, Wendy Istvanick, Ron Olson, Brad Olson, Paul Bradley, Ron again, Jesse Davis, and Wendy again). My beautiful (and busy) wife gave birth this year and did her picks while commuting back and forth to St Cloud. Quite a feat. 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