Hi all, Well, here are the final results. Hope everyone has a great New Year. Looking back, the last two years I have been sad about the Rose Bowl and the Badgers when I sent out this email. Hope this year is different. Tara and I had tickets to the Packers-Vikings game which was amazing (though the result was a bit disappointing). Have to see if the Packers can actually stop AP in the rubber match. Happy New Year! Rich On to the results: Week 17 Player Points -------------------------------------- rmaclin 116 bruce.irvin 115 je.mappelle.wendyi 115 olson.brad 115 seanse 110 aljones 108 jeff.horvath 108 jluttine 107 gnotation 105 paul 105 tararichte 104 jim_pruyne 103 faber 100 matty 100 otero 100 jessejdavis 99 prophet 97 rjolsonjr 96 lewandow 95 allenj1 92 ajpetrosino 84 Which gives us final totals of ... Totals Player Points --------------------------------------- jeff.horvath 1644 rmaclin 1641 jessejdavis 1637 paul 1636 matty 1633 jim_pruyne 1632 allenj1 1627 tararichte 1617 aljones 1598 faber 1581 otero 1575 bruce.irvin 1574 jluttine 1574 seanse 1569 prophet 1561 rjolsonjr 1554 lewandow 1548 olson.brad 1540 gnotation 1536 je.mappelle.wendyi 1492 ajpetrosino 1456 Congratulations to Jeffy "Soon to be Known as Father of OT Michael" Horvath who won the pool with a solid last week. Now on to the rest of our awards show: Despite an impressive overall total, Jeffy only finished second to Rich "Always the Bridesmaid" Maclin in picking the most games correctly, so I win our first honorable mention. Results were down a bit from last year (this was another bear year). Player #Games Correct (out of 256) ---------------------------------------------- rmaclin 172 jeff.horvath 170 jluttine 170 aljones 169 faber 169 matty 169 jim_pruyne 168 jessejdavis 167 allenj1 166 otero 166 paul 166 rjolsonjr 166 tararichte 166 bruce.irvin 164 olson.brad 164 seanse 163 prophet 160 lewandow 159 gnotation 158 je.mappelle.wendyi 157 ajpetrosino 153 A second honorable mention goes to Paul "14 for 14" Bradley for getting the highest of our three perfect scores this year. Jonah Allen and Ted Faber drawn the runners up to this honorable mention for their perfect scores in week 7. Player Points (week) -------------------------------- paul 133 (11) aljones 131 (16) allenj1 130 (7) faber 130 (7) gnotation 130 (11) . . tararichte 43 (3) ajpetrosino 40 (3) gnotation 40 (3) faber 38 (3) je.mappelle.wendyi 25 (3) Our third and fourth honorable mentions go to Ron "Packers for 16, Alex" Olson and "World Wanderer" Wendy Istvanick 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 16.71 prophet 18.32 matty 18.43 olson.brad 18.53 rmaclin 19.30 aljones 19.61 jessejdavis 19.61 jim_pruyne 19.69 bruce.irvin 19.82 paul 19.91 jeff.horvath 19.95 tararichte 20.09 jluttine 20.17 seanse 20.76 lewandow 21.85 ajpetrosino 22.54 otero 22.94 gnotation 23.20 allenj1 23.97 faber 26.28 je.mappelle.wendyi 26.52 Our fifth and sixth honorable mention goes to Jesse "The Balanced Belgian" Davis and Al "Trying to Make up Ground" Jones 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 ------------------------------------- jessejdavis 13.04 tararichte 13.15 bruce.irvin 13.17 jluttine 13.20 lewandow 13.24 seanse 13.48 matty 13.50 paul 13.51 jeff.horvath 13.70 otero 14.63 rmaclin 14.66 jim_pruyne 14.82 olson.brad 15.04 faber 15.82 prophet 16.42 gnotation 16.64 allenj1 16.99 rjolsonjr 17.66 je.mappelle.wendyi 18.05 ajpetrosino 18.24 aljones 20.86 Our seventh honorable mention goes to Paul "Double Score" Bradley 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) ------------------------------------------------------ paul 0.922 jessejdavis 0.869 allenj1 0.868 prophet 0.823 tararichte 0.807 lewandow 0.802 gnotation 0.788 jim_pruyne 0.781 jeff.horvath 0.737 matty 0.729 seanse 0.692 bruce.irvin 0.664 rmaclin 0.607 ajpetrosino 0.583 je.mappelle.wendyi 0.570 otero 0.554 aljones 0.522 olson.brad 0.457 rjolsonjr 0.428 faber 0.421 jluttine 0.325 Our last honorable mention awards go to Jim "And the Last Shall be First" Luttinen 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). Jim finished last in this category last year, guess he zigs when the rest of us zag. Player 2012 2011 Gain/Loss ----------------------------------------- jluttine 1574 1481 93 allenj1 1627 1554 73 jeff.horvath 1644 1578 66 jim_pruyne 1632 1586 46 faber 1581 1569 12 lewandow 1548 1548 0 prophet 1561 1573 -12 paul 1636 1662 -26 rmaclin 1641 1671 -30 olson.brad 1540 1572 -32 matty 1633 1673 -40 rjolsonjr 1554 1603 -49 otero 1575 1630 -55 jessejdavis 1637 1703 -66 tararichte 1617 1689 -72 bruce.irvin 1574 1677 -103 seanse 1569 1683 -114 ajpetrosino 1456 1598 -142 je.mappelle.wendyi 1492 1637 -145 Congratulations again to our big winner Jeff Horvath as well as our honorable mention winners (me, Paul Bradley, Ron Olson, Wendy Istvanick, Jesse Davis, Al Jones, Paul again, Jim Luttinen). My beautiful (busy) wife let me surge ahead this year while she has been concentrating on her thesis, so I guess I am champion of the house this year, but we will see what happens next year. 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