The season is complete, and now it’s time to recognize the winners of the 2016 e-Systems College Football Pool! First off, congratulations to the overall winner:
maestro
maestro finished the season with 2,396 points. In second place was AUBrian, who scored 2,385 points, and AllySun was third, with 2,378 points. Congratulations to each of the top three for their tremendous performances! Each will receive a special prize for their accomplishment.
maestro lived up to their name with consistent picking. They only finished outside the top five of a week five times, and outside of the top eight twice. They jumped into the lead in week five and never let go after that to secure their third overall win since I have kept records (they also won in 2010 and 2012). Congratulations again to maestro!
The same three players (maestro, AUBrian, and AllySun) also finished 1-2-3 in the “drop two worst weeks” category. Great job!
In the first half of the game (weeks 1-7), the top three were maestro (1,354 points), with Crimson Gator and AllySun tied for second (1,337). In the second half of the game, the top three were AUBrian (1,057), maestro (1,042), and AllySun (1,041). Congratulations!
The player who picked the most games correctly (213 out of 268 –79.478% correct) was Shame! Shame! With 212 games, maestro was second, and Crimson Gator was third with 209 games. Great job to each of these accurate pickers!
There were several multiple-week winners this year: In Accord (weeks 2 and 8), AllySun (weeks 6 and 11), G8RbamaLover (weeks 7 and 14), and AUBrian (weeks 9, 10, and 13). Good job! Other weekly winners were TheColombian (1), Tex Duck (3), GuidestoneRocks (4), JagAL (5), and the deflator (12). Congratulations 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, goes to AUBrian, who was only off by 151 points total over all 14 weeks! In second was TheColombian (195), and Pachyderm (198) was third. Good job!
No one had a perfect week this year, but there were 14 “almost perfect” (1-miss) weeks, including 8 the last week. Shame! Shame! had two 1-miss weeks! Oklahoma State (or should I say, Central Michigan? Or maybe the refs?) in week 2 and Navy in week 14 caused the most havoc in disrupting “perfect” weeks.
How did we all do?
Picks: 4,585 / 6,032 (76.011%)
Points: 51,818 / 63218 (81.967%)
Best week as a group, by picks: week 2 (563/621 – 90.660%)
Best week as a group, by points: week 2 (7,006 / 7,452 – 94.015%)
Four weeks with 80+% of picks correct
Two weeks with 90+% of possible points gained
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 13th annual College Football Pool. The college football season is a special time of year, and we hope that this pool is another way to add excitement as you watch the games! I hope that all of you will join us in 2017, 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!