The season is complete, and now it\u2019s time for the awards!\u00a0 First off, congratulations to the overall winner of the 2015 e-Systems College Football Pool:<\/p>\n
\u00a0AUBrian<\/strong> finished the season with 2,318 points in the \u201cdrop two lowest weeks\u201d format.\u00a0 In second place was Jeff4Bama<\/strong>, who scored 2,312 points, and AllySun<\/strong> was third, with 2,307 points.\u00a0 Congratulations to each of the top three for their awesome performances!\u00a0 Each will receive a special prize for their accomplishment.<\/p>\n AUBrian<\/strong> pulled off the win with consistent high scoring, especially in the second half of the season, where he only finished out of the top five once (week 14\u2019s abbreviated schedule).\u00a0 By doing this, he also won the second half championship with 1,080 points.\u00a0 The first half champion was AllySun<\/strong>, with 1,409 points.\u00a0 Congratulations!<\/p>\n AUBrian<\/strong>, AllySun<\/strong>, and Jeff4Bama<\/strong> finished as the top 3 in the \u201call weeks\u201d category, with 2,460, 2,452, and 2,445 points respectively.\u00a0 Congratulations!<\/p>\n The player who picked the most games correctly (217 out of 265 \u201381.2% correct) was Mrshamie2<\/strong>.\u00a0 AUBrian<\/strong> was second with 214 games, and Crimson Gator<\/strong>, Eric G<\/strong>, and Jeff4Bama<\/strong> tied for third with 213 games. Great job to each of these accurate pickers!<\/p>\n There were two multiple-week winners this year: rocky tide<\/strong> (weeks 6 and 7), and pachyderm<\/strong> (weeks 11 and 14).\u00a0 Good job!\u00a0 Other weekly winners were JagAL<\/strong> (1), Jeff4Bama<\/strong> (2), Corn <\/strong>(3), Maestro <\/strong>(4), AllySun<\/strong> (5), \u00a0Jhutto<\/strong> (8), bamaken <\/strong>(9), verntroyer<\/strong> (10), \u00a0BrittaniaTex<\/strong> (12), and Mrshamie2<\/strong> (13).\u00a0 Congratulations to all of the weekly winners!<\/p>\n The tie-breaker award, which goes to the player who did the best overall in picking tie-breaker amounts over the season, goes to BrittaniaTex<\/strong>, who was only off by 149 points total over all 14 weeks!\u00a0 In second was bamaken<\/strong> (174) and bevo<\/strong> (189) was third.\u00a0 Good job!<\/p>\n The \u201cagainst the grain\u201d award goes to the picker who picked winners in games most pickers missed.\u00a0 This year, the award goes to \u00a0verntroyer<\/strong> for picking five such games correctly! BrittaniaTex<\/strong>, Crimson White<\/strong>, and JustGuess<\/strong> each had three such picks. \u00a0Nicely done!<\/p>\n No one had a perfect week this year, but there were 21 \u201calmost perfect\u201d (1-miss) weeks, including 10 the last week. AllySun<\/strong>, AUBrian<\/strong>, AUsomeTiger<\/strong>, bamaken<\/strong>, JagAL<\/strong>, and Jeff4Bama<\/strong> had multiple 1-miss weeks!<\/p>\n Picks: 5,110 \/ 6,463 (79.065%) Everyone will receive a prize for participating this year! If you aren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n On behalf of all of us at e-Systems, thank you again for participating in our 12th<\/sup> annual College Football Pool. We love college football season, as I\u2019m sure that you all do, and we hope that this pool adds even more enjoyment to your season! \u00a0I hope that all of you will join us in 2016, when we\u2019ll do it all again! In the meantime, we hope you will think of e-Systems for all your custom application and system needs. \u00a0We\u2019re just as much fun to work with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The season is complete, and now it\u2019s time for the awards!\u00a0 First off, congratulations to the overall winner of the 2015 e-Systems College Football Pool: AUBrian \u00a0AUBrian finished the season with 2,318 points in the \u201cdrop two lowest weeks\u201d format.\u00a0 In second place was Jeff4Bama, who scored 2,312 points, and AllySun was third, with 2,307 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did we all do?<\/h1>\n
\nPoints: 57,849 \/ 67,858 (85.250%)
\nBest week as a group, by picks: week 2 (538\/616 \u2013 87.338%)
\nBest week as a group, by points: week 1 (8,068 \/ 8,700 \u2013 92.736%)
\nSix weeks with 80+% of picks correct
\nFour weeks with 90+% of possible points gained<\/p>\n