Once again, we\u2019ve made it to the end of the college football season, and it\u2019s time to announce the winners of the 2018 e-Systems College Football Pool!\u00a0 It was a tight race at the top, but congratulations to the overall winner:<\/p>\n
AllySun<\/strong>\u00a0finished the season with 2,494 points.\u00a0 Just two points behind, JagRag<\/strong> was second with 2,492 points, and Paul Herron<\/strong> was third, with 2,477 points.\u00a0 Congratulations to each of these players for their spectacular performances!\u00a0 Each will receive a special prize for their accomplishment.<\/p>\n AllySun <\/strong>put on a dominant performance throughout the season. In fact, she nearly pulled off a wire-to-wire win!\u00a0 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\u2019s impressive! AllySun<\/strong> 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<\/strong>!<\/p>\n In the first half of the game (weeks 1-7), the top three performers were Crimson Gator<\/strong> (1,387 points), AllySun<\/strong> (1,384), and Paul Herron<\/strong> (1,377).\u00a0 In the second half of the game (weeks 8-14), the top three were JagRag<\/strong> (1,123), AllySun<\/strong> (1,110), and Paul Herron<\/strong> (1,100). Well done!<\/p>\n The players who picked the most games correctly (216 out of 269 \u201380.297% correct) were AllySun<\/strong> and Crimson Gator<\/strong>. JagRag<\/strong> was next with 214, and bamaken<\/strong> and Paul Herron<\/strong> followed with 213. Great job to each of these consistent pickers!<\/p>\n There were three multiple-week winners this year, including two three-week winners! In weeks 2, 6, and 9, bamaken<\/strong> won. JagRag<\/strong> won weeks 3, 11, and 14. WarTiger91<\/strong> won both weeks 8 and 12.\u00a0 Other weekly winners included: JagAL<\/strong> (1), El Dude-arino<\/strong> (4), Bamarock<\/strong> (5), CrimsonWhite<\/strong> (7), verntroyer<\/strong> (10), and Crimson Gator<\/strong> (13). Congrats 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, was won by bamaken<\/strong>, who was off by only 156 points total over all 14 weeks!\u00a0 In second was JagRag<\/strong> (175), and AllySun<\/strong> and Jeff4Bama<\/strong> (196) tied for third.\u00a0 Good job!<\/p>\n Picks: 4,176 \/ 5,429 (76.920%) There were no perfect weeks this year, attesting to the difficulty of this year\u2019s picks.\u00a0 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<\/strong> and bamaken<\/strong> in week 2, Bamarock<\/strong> and Crimson Gator<\/strong> in week 5, and Paul Herron<\/strong> in week 7.<\/p>\n 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 this e-mail and we will update our records.<\/p>\n On behalf of all of us at e-Systems, thank you again for participating in our 15th<\/sup> annual College Football Pool. We love the\u00a0 college football season, as I\u2019m 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\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":" Once again, we\u2019ve made it to the end of the college football season, and it\u2019s time to announce the winners of the 2018 e-Systems College Football Pool!\u00a0 It was a tight race at the top, but congratulations to the overall winner: AllySun AllySun\u00a0finished the season with 2,494 points.\u00a0 Just two points behind, JagRag was second […]<\/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-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did we all do?<\/h2>\n
\nPoints: 48,250 \/ 57,220 (84.324%)
\nBest week as a group, by picks: week 2 (473 \/ 529 \u2013 89.414%)
\nBest week as a group, by points: week 12 (4,578 \/ 4,807 \u2013 95.236%)
\nSeven weeks with 80+% of picks correct
\nFour weeks with 90+% of possible points gained<\/p>\n