First off - thank you all for playing.
Week 17 is mercifully over, (from a Rams perspective), and the final results are in.
There weren't too many upsets and there were a lot of very similar selections. Those that gambled generally came unstuck.
The best possible score was 234
Dav*** 202
Dod*** 167
Flo*** 154
Old*** 152
Bri*** 141
TK4*** 141
cvr*** 139
Tro* 135
Dag*** 132
Rho***130
Lum*** 126
TonOdanK 126lostabroad2 120Riv*** 106
LAC*** 80
Ram*** 71
Auto-pick scores:
Roland (every road team) 84
Hobart (every home team) 150
Fanny (every favourite) 186
Undra (every underdog) 48
Max (maximum system theory) 121
Minnie (minimum system theory) 113
*** Bookie (Thursday ML) 141
Cumulative scores:
The best possible score was 3918.5
Flo*** 2202
TK42-RAM 2130.5
cvr*** 2126.5
Rho*** 2111.5
Riv*** 2101.5
Tro* 2089
Dav*** 2069.5
Lum*** 2061.5
TonOdanK 2026.5Old*** 1979.5
Ram*** 1977.5
Dag*** 1968.5
Dod*** 1963.5
lostabroad2 1890.5dol*** 1776
LAC*** 1760
Bri*** 1502.5
Jor*** 1177
Ken 1094
Ath** 775
Auto-pick scores:
Roland (every road team) 1932.5
Hobart (every home team) 2002.5
Fanny (every favourite) 2024.5
Undra (every underdog) 1910.5
Max (maximum system theory) 2022.5
Minnie (minimum system theory) 1912.5
*** Bookie (Thursday ML) 2022
The overall leader had a good week so his 50 point lead didn't come under threat. 2nd through 5th was ridiculously tight to the point where 2nd could have dropped to 5th if the Lions had won the last game of the season. As it was only 1 of those 4 players had the Lions which resulted in 4th and 5th swapping places. At the bottom most of those around the 50% mark had decent weeks so only the 2 no-hopers finished below the blind squirrel line
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There was a 3-way battle for the alternative leaderboard. It didn't quite come down to the last game so TonOdanK wouldn't have won that title if the Lions had won. However with the other 2 picking the Packers it did cause him to drop to 3rd place. If the Lions had won he would have been 2nd, just 0.2% behind the leader. That would equate to about 8 points. If TonOdank had made picks in Week 14 he would have needed 176 points to win the Overall title, (which was unlikely), or 104 points to match 2nd, (which I think he would have exceeded even on a poor week).
Generally there was a good turnout. 1 player missed 2 weeks, (including the final week when he was in mid-table), 2 other players missed 1 week each, 1 player missed the Saturday Night game, and 2 players missed an early Sunday kickoff. The player who finished 2nd in the alternative leaderboard didn't join until after the 1st 4 weeks. 3 players abandoned during the tournament. 1 of those abandonments was due to the player being removed from the forum.
The overall scoring was better than my pre-season projections. I thought 51.25% would be an average score. The 56.25% winning score was slightly lower than my 57% projection. 1% works out to 39 points and 1 winning pick averages out at about 16.25 points.