Afer Holiday Bowl

Good evening.  Today could have gone either way.  If Nebraska converts on 4th down, we may have had a bad day as a group.  Since they didn't, we largely had a good day.  There were 2 upsets, but they were on the two games that were the closest to toss ups anyway, so someone was bound to lose some points on those games anyway.

As a group, we wound up getting 2.84 games correct out of 5.  The average points gained today was 63.32, and the average points lost was 36.96.  That means that we averaged a net of 26.36 points on the day.

Two people managed to go 5/5 today, and both of them were featured in yesterday's post.  The first was Jim W., who managed to go winless yesterday.  He picked up 96 points by going 5/5 today.  That was good enough to bring him back from yesterday's winless debacle going from 46th at the start of the day to 30th.  The second person to go 5/5 today was my Mom.  I looked it up, and my Mom has gone 9/9 in the last 9 bowl games.  The main downside of that is that she is only averaging 13 points per win over that stretch.  After the last loss (Hawaii Bowl), she was in 55th place.  9 straight wins later, she has moved all the way up to 48th place.  Ouch.....

Everyone managed to get at least one victory today, although it was pretty touchy there for a while as Presley J. was 0/4 going into the USC game.  Good thing for him that USC won, as he is also one of the biggest USC fans I know.  It salvaged 37 points for him and he gets to enjoy his off season with a victory.  Sadly, he lost 100 points the rest of the day, garnering him the prize for most points lost on the day.  Despite that, he didn't really move much in the standings.  He started the day in 52nd place and ended in 53rd. 

It seems like moving has been hard to come by this late in the game.   I think that lends credence to my theory that in order to win, you have to predict some upsets and actually have them come through.  That would separate you from the field.  The other option is to nail as many winners as possible, but that seems a lot harder to do.

Speaking of which, we aren't even half way done with this pool.  We are 18 games in, and there is a 4-way tie for wins with 13:

CBS Hinnen (1st overall, 1st in net points)

Hal R. #2 (10th overall, 10th in net points)

Scott H. #2 (19th overall, 8th in net points)

Carl B. (23rd in points, 5th in net points)

Here are the pure points rankings:

1. CBS Hinnen: 271 (-59)

2. Brett W.: 265 (-197)

3. Mark N. #2: 260 (-58)

4. Hal R. #3: 251 (-88)

5. Ray R.: 249 (-106)

6. Mike W.: 245 (-126)

7. Andrew D.: 242 (-152)

8. CBS Fornelli: 241 (-74)

9. Bruce G.: 236 (-142)

10. Hal R. #2: 229 (-93)

11. Mike S.: 226 (-61)

12. Daniel D.: 225 (-110)

13. Ryan W.: 221 (-120)

14. Adam E.: 218 (-67)

15. Mark N. #1: 217 (-94)

17. Hutch H. #1: 212 (-112)

16. Ryan G.: 212 (-80)

18. Brent E. #1: 209 (-80)

19. Scott H. #2: 207 (-60)

20. Ben W.: 203 (-161)

21. Sarah G.: 202 (-83)

22. Hutch H. #2: 202 (-88)

23. Carl B.: 201 (-37)

24. Dustin B.: 199 (-68)

25. Andrew O.: 197 (-157)

26. Ally H.: 197 (-202)

28. Chad L.: 195 (-124)

29. Hal R. #1: 195 (-127)

27. Tim N.: 195 (-114)

30. Jim W.: 195 (-157)

31. Brent E. #2: 192 (-80)

32. Marc R.: 192 (-125)

33. Brent S. #2: 191 (-97)

34. Amos W.: 188 (-149)

35. Brent S. #1: 186 (-125)

36. Matt N.: 184 (-109)

37. Pete J. #2: 183 (-151)

38. Damien R. #2: 182 (-169)

39. Klei R.: 182 (-185)

41. Pete J. #1: 172 (-162)

40. Michelle L. #1: 172 (-100)

42. Scott H. #1: 171 (-114)

43. Michelle L. #2: 171 (-118)

44. Dave M.: 160 (-95)

45. Brad R.: 156 (-201)

46. Lance L.: 154 (-89)

47. Kevin W.: 153 (-59)

48. Sally R.: 150 (-161)

49. Damien R. #1: 137 (-111)

50. Becky H.: 127 (-242)

51. Chad C.: 124 (-47)

52. Jay H. #2: 120 (-71)

53. Presley J.: 113 (-193)

54. Mandi A.: 107 (-203)

55. Dylan B.: 98 (-140)

56. Jay H. #1: 63 (-108)

...and the net points standings:

1. CBS Hinnen: 212

2. Mark N. #2: 202

3. CBS Fornelli: 167

4. Mike S.: 165

5. Carl B.: 164

6. Hal R. #3: 163

7. Adam E.: 151

8. Scott H. #2: 147

9. Ray R.: 143

10. Hal R. #2: 136

11. Ryan G.: 132

12. Dustin B.: 131

13. Brent E. #1: 129

14. Mark N. #1: 123

15. Mike W.: 119

15. Sarah G.: 119

17. Daniel D.: 115

18. Hutch H. #2: 114

19. Brent E. #2: 112

20. Ryan W.: 101

21. Hutch H. #1: 100

22. Bruce G.: 94

22. Brent S. #2: 94

22. Kevin W.: 94

25. Andrew D.: 90

26. Tim N.: 81

27. Chad C.: 77

28. Matt N.: 75

29. Michelle L. #1: 72

30. Chad L.: 71

31. Brett W.: 68

31. Hal R. #1: 68

33. Marc R.: 67

34. Dave M.: 65

34. Lance L.: 65

36. Brent S. #1: 61

37. Scott H. #1: 57

38. Michelle L. #2: 53

39. Jay H. #2: 49

40. Ben W.: 42

41. Andrew O.: 40

42. Amos W.: 39

43. Jim W.: 38

44. Pete J. #2: 32

45. Damien R. #1: 26

46. Damien R. #2: 13

47. Pete J. #1: 10

48. Klei R.: -3

49. Ally H.: -5

50. Sally R.: -11

51. Dylan B.: -42

52. Brad R.: -45

52. Jay H. #1: -45

54. Presley J.: -80

55. Mandi A.: -96

56. Becky H.: -115

There are no games tomorrow, since the NFL reigns supreme on Sundays.  I'll be back tomorrow night to go over the games for Monday, where there'll be another 3 games on the schedule, and we'll go past the 1/2 way point in the pool.

Good luck to everyone!!!!!