Hi all, Well, here are the final results. Hope everyone has had a good New Year. Two years in a row and I am sad about the Badgers in the Rose Bowl. Still it was a pretty great year, so I can't really complain. Happy New Year! Rich On to the results: Week 17 Player Points -------------------------------------- ajpetrosino 131 seanse 130 wlistvan 123 tararichte 120 paul 119 prophet 115 jeff.horvath 114 jim_pruyne 114 matty 114 faber 112 olson.brad 112 rmaclin 112 jesse.davis 110 allenj1 106 bruce.irvin 105 lewandow 102 otero 95 rjolsonjr 95 bpodemski 90 jluttine 73 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points --------------------------------------- jesse.davis 1703 tararichte 1689 seanse 1683 bruce.irvin 1677 matty 1673 rmaclin 1671 paul 1662 bpodemski 1648 wlistvan 1637 otero 1630 rjolsonjr 1603 ajpetrosino 1598 jim_pruyne 1586 jeff.horvath 1578 prophet 1573 olson.brad 1572 faber 1569 allenj1 1554 lewandow 1548 jluttine 1481 Congratulations to Jesse "Bachelor Party 3D: Nerds in the Netherlands" Davis who won the pool while participating from Europe and after getting engaged. People seem to do well when they are distracted. Not sure what that says about us all. Now on to the rest of our awards show: Despite an impressive overall total, Jesse only finished third to Sean "Big Daddy" Selitrenikoff in picking the most games correctly, so Sean wins our first honorable mention. Results were pretty much better across the board this year (last year was a bear for picking). Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- seanse 179 matty 176 jesse.davis 175 rjolsonjr 173 bruce.irvin 172 faber 171 rmaclin 171 otero 170 paul 170 tararichte 170 bpodemski 169 ajpetrosino 165 wlistvan 165 jim_pruyne 164 prophet 164 jeff.horvath 163 allenj1 162 olson.brad 159 jluttine 157 lewandow 157 A second honorable mention goes to Tony Petrosino "A New Yorker in Texas, Really?" for getting the highest score in the final week, normally a very tough week. Congratulations Tony. Player Points (week) -------------------------------- ajpetrosino 131 (17) jim_pruyne 130 (12) seanse 130 (17) prophet 129 (12) rmaclin 126 (2) . . bruce.irvin 55 (10) jim_pruyne 55 (15) jeff.horvath 51 (10) olson.brad 45 (10) jluttine 32 (10) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to Dan "The Other Man" Otero and Jim "I'd Rather be Curling" Luttinen for being the most consistent and least consistent at their picks based on the standard deviation of each person's picks. It is especially interesting to me, as Dan won the least consistent award last year and now wins the most consistent award. What changed?? Player Standard Deviation ------------------------------------------ otero 13.28 lewandow 13.30 tararichte 14.75 allenj1 15.95 rjolsonjr 16.36 jesse.davis 16.37 paul 16.53 wlistvan 16.55 bpodemski 16.87 faber 16.90 rmaclin 17.00 bruce.irvin 17.70 seanse 17.92 jeff.horvath 19.23 prophet 19.51 matty 19.66 olson.brad 20.30 jim_pruyne 20.61 ajpetrosino 20.71 jluttine 22.25 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Wendy "World Traveler" Istvanick and Jim "Not me Again" Luttinen 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 ------------------------------------- wlistvan 10.61 paul 11.13 rmaclin 11.66 matty 11.76 otero 11.91 tararichte 11.93 bruce.irvin 11.98 bpodemski 12.57 seanse 12.68 jim_pruyne 12.72 jesse.davis 12.84 allenj1 12.88 ajpetrosino 13.05 jeff.horvath 13.38 faber 13.93 prophet 14.58 rjolsonjr 15.00 olson.brad 15.18 lewandow 15.42 jluttine 17.84 Our seventh honorable mention goes to my lovely wife Tara "2nd Overall Two Years, Running, Really?" Richter for being the most effective at weighting her picks (measured as the marginal gain in points compared to simply randomly weighting picks). Player Marginal Gain (pts per pick) ------------------------------------------------------ tararichte 1.021 wlistvan 1.007 olson.brad 0.973 lewandow 0.946 paul 0.862 rmaclin 0.858 bpodemski 0.837 bruce.irvin 0.836 jesse.davis 0.817 ajpetrosino 0.771 jeff.horvath 0.767 jim_pruyne 0.757 allenj1 0.679 prophet 0.677 otero 0.674 matty 0.592 jluttine 0.519 seanse 0.488 rjolsonjr 0.352 faber 0.261 Our last honorable mention awards go to Ron "Packers!!" Olson 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). Last year, everyone did worse from the year before, this year, almost everyone did better than the year before. Player 2011 2010 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- rjolsonjr 1603 1344 259 seanse 1683 1460 223 bruce.irvin 1677 1462 215 matty 1673 1490 183 jesse.davis 1703 1566 137 wlistvan 1637 1506 131 tararichte 1689 1575 114 otero 1630 1518 112 prophet 1573 1471 102 rmaclin 1671 1572 99 lewandow 1548 1450 98 paul 1662 1572 90 jim_pruyne 1586 1512 74 bpodemski 1648 1583 65 faber 1569 1516 53 allenj1 1554 1503 51 olson.brad 1572 1525 47 ajpetrosino 1598 1554 44 jeff.horvath 1578 1548 30 jluttine 1481 1482 -1 Congratulations again to our big winner Jesse Davis as well as our honorable mention winners (Sean Selitrenikoff, Tony Petrosino, Dan Otero, Jim Luttinen, Wendy Istvanick, Jim L again, Tara Richter and Ron Olson). I would also like to (yet) again (grudgingly) congratulate my wife Tara who again beat me in the overall score again this year, so she remains 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