Our biggest congratulations go to the winner of the 2013 e-Systems College Football Pool:
AUBrian
AUBrian finished the season with 2,286 points in the “drop two worst weeks” format. Pachyderm finished in second place with 2,258 points, and maestro was third with 2,240 points. Congratulations to all three for their great performances! All three will receive special prizes for their accomplishment.
AUBrian used big weeks to cruise to the win. He finished first in three weeks (3, 7, and 12), and tied for the lead in week 10. In addition, he finished 2nd in a week three times and in the top five two more times beyond that. During the stretch from week 6 through 12, he never finished lower than seventh. He also finished first in the total points category, with 2,425 points. Pachyderm (2,411) and maestro (2,382) were again #2 and #3 respectively in this category as well. Well done to these three players!
One more note on AUBrian before we move on. This is the fifth year I’ve been compiling statistics on our pool. In those five years, AUBrian has never placed lower than fifth overall in a year, including winning the 2010 title. That’s some impressive year-over-year picking consistency!
In the “number of games picked correctly” category, BEVO finished first, with 232 games correct. Pachyderm was second, with 229, and AUBrian, Crimson Gator, Liquid Heat, and The Tradition all had 227 games picked correctly. Great work!
The first half of the game (weeks 1-8) was won by AUBrian, and the second half (9-15) by Pachyderm. Good job!
There were several multiple-week winners this year. In addition to AUBrian’s three weekly wins, other multiple-week winners were JagRag (weeks 1, 4, and 14), BEVO (weeks 2 and 15), and War Ralphie (weeks 5 and 8). Other weekly winners were badgerTime (week 6), maestro (week 9), bamaken (week 10), BritanniaTex (week 11), and BamaHouGirl (week 13). Congratulations to all of the weekly winners!
Everyone will receive a prize for participating this year! If you aren’t sure that we have your current mailing address for shipping, please respond to my e-mail that was sent today and we will update our records.
How Did We All Do?
Picks: 4,601 / 5,611 (82.000%)
Points: 48,682 / 55,170 (88.240%)
Best Week as a Group: week 4 (442 / 456 picks – 96.930%; 4,505 / 4,560 points – 98.794%. Both are records since I’ve been keeping statistics in 2009)
Ten weeks with over 80% of picks correct
Seven weeks with over 90% of possible points gained
“Perfect” weeks: 18 (14 in week 4, 4 in week 10)
“All but 1 game right” weeks: 29
On behalf of all of us at e-Systems, thank you again for participating in our 10th annual College Football Pool. We always look forward to college football season every year, and this pool always makes watching the games a little more entertaining, as I root for my upsets and hope my big-point picks squeak out wins! I hope that all of you will join us again in 2014, when we’ll do it all again! In the meantime, we hope you will think of e-Systems for all your custom application and system needs. We’re just as much fun to work with!