Once again, we’ve made it to the end of the college football season, and it’s time to announce the winners of the 2018 e-Systems College Football Pool! It was a tight race at the top, but congratulations to the overall winner:
AllySun
AllySun finished the season with 2,494 points. Just two points behind, JagRag was second with 2,492 points, and Paul Herron was third, with 2,477 points. Congratulations to each of these players for their spectacular performances! Each will receive a special prize for their accomplishment.
AllySun put on a dominant performance throughout the season. In fact, she nearly pulled off a wire-to-wire win! After tying for the week 1 win, a second-place finish in week 2 took her out to a solo lead she would only relinquish for one week before taking it back for good in week 8. Despite not winning an individual week, she tied for first three times (weeks 1, 3, and 14), never finished outside of the top 10 in any week, and only finished outside of the top six four weeks all season. Now that’s impressive! AllySun has always been a very consistent performer in our pools over the years, with many top-5 finishes, and this is her second overall win! Congratulations again to AllySun!
In the first half of the game (weeks 1-7), the top three performers were Crimson Gator (1,387 points), AllySun (1,384), and Paul Herron (1,377). In the second half of the game (weeks 8-14), the top three were JagRag (1,123), AllySun (1,110), and Paul Herron (1,100). Well done!
The players who picked the most games correctly (216 out of 269 –80.297% correct) were AllySun and Crimson Gator. JagRag was next with 214, and bamaken and Paul Herron followed with 213. Great job to each of these consistent pickers!
There were three multiple-week winners this year, including two three-week winners! In weeks 2, 6, and 9, bamaken won. JagRag won weeks 3, 11, and 14. WarTiger91 won both weeks 8 and 12. Other weekly winners included: JagAL (1), El Dude-arino (4), Bamarock (5), CrimsonWhite (7), verntroyer (10), and Crimson Gator (13). 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 bamaken, who was off by only 156 points total over all 14 weeks! In second was JagRag (175), and AllySun and Jeff4Bama (196) tied for third. Good job!
How did we all do?
Picks: 4,176 / 5,429 (76.920%)
Points: 48,250 / 57,220 (84.324%)
Best week as a group, by picks: week 2 (473 / 529 – 89.414%)
Best week as a group, by points: week 12 (4,578 / 4,807 – 95.236%)
Seven weeks with 80+% of picks correct
Four weeks with 90+% of possible points gained
There were no perfect weeks this year, attesting to the difficulty of this year’s picks. Since my records began in 2009, this was the second-hardest season in terms of picking games correctly and the third-hardest in terms of percentage of possible points gained. Aside from ten 1-miss weeks in the abbreviated week 14 slate, there were five 1-miss weeks throughout the season: AllySun and bamaken in week 2, Bamarock and Crimson Gator in week 5, and Paul Herron in week 7.
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 15th 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 fun and excitement to your college football experience over the season! I hope that all of you will join us in 2019, 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!