Hi all, Well, here are the final results. Hope everyone had a great New Year. Rich On to the results: Week 17 Player Points -------------------------------------- jeff.horvath 109 bruce.irvin 89 je.mappelle.wendyi 88 jessejdavis 87 paul.bradley 86 faber 83 lewandow 82 ajpetrosino 81 matty 80 prophet 78 allenj1 77 olson.brad 76 madtownmoochie 75 otero 74 seanse 74 rmaclin 68 pruyne 65 rjolsonjr 61 jluttine 59 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points --------------------------------------- jessejdavis 1662 rmaclin 1658 paul.bradley 1652 matty 1646 pruyne 1623 prophet 1619 allenj1 1617 otero 1609 seanse 1598 lewandow 1588 jluttine 1580 jeff.horvath 1576 bruce.irvin 1575 faber 1568 olson.brad 1568 je.mappelle.wendyi 1564 madtownmoochie 1563 ajpetrosino 1535 rjolsonjr 1472 Congratulations to Jesse "James" Davis who steals the lead in the last week and resigns me to second place. Well done Jesse. Now on to the rest of our awards show: Despite an impressive overall total, Jesse finished tied for third to Dan "Hurricane" Otero who racks up an impressive total of games picked, and wins our first honorable mention. Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- otero 178 pruyne 175 jessejdavis 173 matty 173 prophet 173 paul.bradley 170 allenj1 169 rmaclin 169 madtownmoochie 168 jluttine 167 jeff.horvath 165 bruce.irvin 164 seanse 164 lewandow 162 je.mappelle.wendyi 161 olson.brad 161 ajpetrosino 160 rjolsonjr 160 faber 159 A second honorable mention goes to Jim "Perfect" Pruyne who had the highest score for the second year in a row (and was perfect) in Week 10. Ted "Double Perfect" Faber and Gary "Triple Perfect" Lewandowski who were also perfect in Week 8 but in a week with one less game (so a lower score): Player Points (week) -------------------------------- pruyne 133 (10) faber 130 (8) lewandow 130 (8) rjolsonjr 128 (10) olson.brad 126 (15) paul.bradley 126 (16) . . . allenj1 45 (6) olson.brad 44 (5) lewandow 43 (6) ajpetrosino 39 (6) rjolsonjr 34 (6) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to "Steady" Subrata Sircar and Ted "No Really, *I'm* Picking" Faber for being the most consistent and least consistent at their picks based on the standard deviation of each person's picks. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ prophet 15.54 madtownmoochie 17.18 je.mappelle.wendyi 18.15 jeff.horvath 19.60 otero 19.88 seanse 20.36 bruce.irvin 20.41 allenj1 21.23 paul.bradley 21.36 matty 21.45 rmaclin 21.50 ajpetrosino 21.68 jessejdavis 22.02 olson.brad 22.46 pruyne 23.02 rjolsonjr 23.19 jluttine 23.37 lewandow 23.71 faber 25.99 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Sean "Steady2" Selitrenikoff and Michael "Madtown Moochie" Horvath 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"). Sean ends Paul B's four year strangle hold on the fifth honorable mention. Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ seanse 11.51 matty 11.62 paul.bradley 11.64 bruce.irvin 12.41 jluttine 12.57 jessejdavis 12.84 allenj1 12.95 ajpetrosino 13.11 lewandow 13.21 rmaclin 13.24 pruyne 13.25 prophet 13.29 otero 13.30 je.mappelle.wendyi 13.38 jeff.horvath 14.61 faber 14.87 rjolsonjr 16.22 olson.brad 16.83 madtownmoochie 18.09 Our seventh honorable mention goes to Ted "YES! *I* Picked" 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) ------------------------------------------------------ faber 0.932 rmaclin 0.881 lewandow 0.873 seanse 0.814 olson.brad 0.809 paul.bradley 0.788 je.mappelle.wendyi 0.785 jessejdavis 0.677 bruce.irvin 0.674 ajpetrosino 0.664 allenj1 0.638 jeff.horvath 0.622 matty 0.585 jluttine 0.531 prophet 0.429 madtownmoochie 0.374 pruyne 0.345 rjolsonjr 0.270 otero 0.110 Our last honorable mention awards go to Ted "Threepeat" Faber for having the largest 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 2017 2016 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- faber 1568 1359 +209 ajpetrosino 1535 1343 +192 prophet 1619 1475 +144 jessejdavis 1662 1534 +128 jeff.horvath 1576 1465 +111 je.mappelle.wendyi 1564 1458 +106 madtownmoochie 1563 1458 +105 otero 1609 1526 +83 jluttine 1580 1508 +72 rmaclin 1658 1587 +71 olson.brad 1568 1497 +71 paul.bradley 1652 1588 +64 matty 1646 1584 +62 seanse 1598 1562 +36 pruyne 1623 1605 +18 lewandow 1588 1575 +13 bruce.irvin 1575 1572 +3 allenj1 1617 1625 -8 rjolsonjr 1472 1492 -20 Congratulations again to our big winner Jesse, as well as our honorable mention winners (Dan, Jim P, Subrata, Ted -- three times, Sean and Mooch). 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