It’s hard to believe, but the college football regular season (minus Army/Navy) is complete, and now it’s time to announce the winners of the 2017 e-Systems College Football Pool! In the closest finish in pool history, congratulations to the overall winner:
Crimson Gator
Crimson Gator finished the season with 2,599 points. Just one point behind, Paul Herron finished In second place with 2,598 points, and AUBrian and AllySun were one more point behind in third, with 2,597 points. Congratulations to each of these players for their tremendous performances! Each will receive a special prize for their accomplishment.
Crimson Gator started a little slowly, but after week two they only finished outside of the top eight in a week twice. They won week 9, and have the unique distinction this year of picking perfectly in two separate weeks (8 and 14); strangely enough, due to tie-breakers, they were not the weekly winner either time. In another first, and a testament to how tight this year’s competition was, they never held the overall lead until the very end. Starting with week 9 they were in second place consistently behind various other players, until a perfect 7-0 performance in week 14 allowed them to eke out a win by the slimmest of margins. But a win is a win, and it is in fact their second overall win since I’ve kept records (they also won in 2011). Congratulations again to Crimson Gator!
In the first half of the game (weeks 1-7), the top three performers were AllySun (1,468 points), Bamarock (1,465), and Paul Herron (1,464). In the second half of the game (weeks 8-14), the top three were Crimson Gator (1,144), Jeff4Bama (1,141), and AUBrian (1,140). Congratulations!
The player who picked the most games correctly (228 out of 273 –83.516% correct) was AllySun. Crimson Gator was second with 227 games correct, and AUBrian, JagRag, and WarTiger91 were next with 226 games. Great job to each of these consistent pickers!
There were three multiple-week winners this year. WarTiger91 won in both weeks 3 and 7, Bamarock won weeks 6 and 8, and pachyderm won back-to-back in weeks 10 and 11. Well done! In addition to Crimson Gator’s week 9 win, other weekly winners included: Paul Herron (1), JagRag (2), G8rBamaLvr (4), BoomBoomTX (5), Jeff4Bama (12), JagAL (13), and AllySun (14). Congrats to all of the weekly winners!
The tie-breaker award, which goes to the player who did the best overall in picking tie-breaker amounts over the season, was won by Publius, who was off by only 156 points total over all 14 weeks! In second was AUBrian (170), and AllySun (179) was third. Good job!
There were ten perfectly-picked weeks this year! In addition to the aforementioned two perfect weeks by Crimson Gator, others with perfect weeks were JagRag (week 2), Bamarock, Paul Herron, G8rBamaLvr, Ralphie, Jeff4Bama, pachyderm (all in week 8), and AllySun (week 14). Props to all the perfect pickers!
How did we all do?
Picks: 4,659 / 5,779 (80.619%)
Points: 53,829 / 61,869 (87.005%)
Best week as a group, by picks: week 8 (314 / 340 – 92.353%)
Best week as a group, by points: week 8 (2,980 / 3,060 – 97.386%)
Six weeks with 80+% of picks correct
Five weeks with 90+% of possible points gained
Ten perfect weeks
Twenty-seven weeks with all but one pick correct
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 this e-mail and we will update our records.
On behalf of all of us at e-Systems, thank you again for participating in our 14th annual College Football Pool. We love the college football season, as I’m sure you all do, and we hope that this pool continues to add another level of interest and excitement as you watch games and talk about the results with your friends and co-workers! As I mentioned before, this was the closest race in pool history, coming down to the last few games on Championship Saturday; it was a lot of fun to watch it all unfold. I hope that all of you will join us in 2018, 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!