How the top 'dog pickers did it
Baseball will be here soon, but we miss football. As promised, we have taken a look back at our charity pro football underdog pool to see how the five players who took the prizes accomplished this feat. Did they do it by picking big-point underdogs, or did slow and steady win the race?
Well, they didn't get where they did with just a few correct choices. These gentlemen could really sniff out the upsets. They had between 8 and 11 winners in the 20 weeks of the game, with their average winner being between 4.5 and 6.5 points:
Pete Rozelle: Total 51.5; 10 winners, average winner 5.15
John Ch.: Total 50.5; 11 winners, average winner 4.59
Michael K.: Total 50.5; 8 winners, average winner 6.31
Usual Kevin: Total 50; 8 winners, average winner 6.25
PDXileinOmaha: Total 48.5; 9 winners, average winner 5.39
Here were their winners week by week:
Pete Rozelle: 0 - 5.5 - 8.5 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 3.5 - 0 - 7 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 3.5 - 0 - 5.5 - 3.5 - 8.5 - 3.5 - 2.5
John Ch.: 6.5 - 0 - 2.5 - 0 - 3 - 4.5 - 0 - 3.5 - 8 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 3 - 0 - 5.5 - 3.5 - 0 - 8 - 2.5
Michael K.: 0 - 0 - 8.5 - 0 - 9.5 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 8 - 3 - 0 - 0 - 2.5 - 0 - 0 - 0- 0 - 8.5 - 8- 2.5
Usual Kevin: 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 6 - 0 - 8 - 0 - 8 - 6.5 - 0 - 0 - 4.5 - 0 - 0 - 6.5 - 0 - 0 - 8 - 2.5
PDXileinOmaha: 0 - 0 - 9 - 0 - 6 - 4.5 - 3.5 - 3.5 - 8 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 3.5 - 0 - 8 - 2.5
The biggest winner any of them had was 9.5 points. They all scored in the last two weeks, and Pete Rozelle finished the season with five in a row.
Taking their losing picks into account, here are the players' choices for the season:
Pete Rozelle: 6.025 average, largest pick 9.5
John Ch.: 4.6 average, largest pick 10
Michael K.: 6.8 average, largest pick 10
Usual Kevin: 6.425 average, largest pick 9.5
PDXileinOmaha: 5.325 average, largest pick 9
And so it appears that one can have success in our game by adopting either the slow-and-steady program (John Ch.'s 4.6 average) or the more aggressive plan (Michael K.'s 6.8 average). Roll this important information around in your mind, and we'll see you back here for a new game starting in the heat of late August.
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Comments (4)
How did the highest home dog do?
Posted by snowdog | February 12, 2012 2:10 PM
A highest-home-dog strategy would have earned 46.5 points on 7 wins -- just out of the money.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 12, 2012 4:27 PM
This was my first year in the game, and it ended up being one of the best ways I have ever found to waste a Sunday watching football. It's not just your game you are worried about...it's all of the picks the other contestants made that gives relevance to games you would otherwise care nothing about. You suddenly find yourself rooting for teams that you wanted to lose the week before, and the more teams you pay attention to the more you learn about them. Tebow was a true wild card this year and he went from dud to stud and back to dud again, and he made some big time points for 2 of the top 5 in that Wild Card Weekend win over Piitsburgh. The one and only time I went with him he laid an egg in KC. I didn't score a single point until week 5, and if I remember correctly, there were some close opportunities in there during the dry spell that I chalked up to bad luck more than anything.
Posted by Usual Kevin | February 12, 2012 6:15 PM
It was all true fun. Thanks again, Jack. Just wait 'til next year!
Posted by Mojo | February 12, 2012 8:19 PM