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Saturday, February 16, 2013

DiploBall IV, Final Recap

Happy President’s Day weekend everyone!  The BBQ is on and I’m ready to rock the weekend Asmara style!  However, I owe you a final recap!  Like always I’ll announce the winners for both Points and Picks… and break them into Overall, NCAA, and NFL.  So, here we go!

Points

Overall Winner:  VJSchutz
Second Place: SchutzJP
Third Place: Jim Schutz

This is VJ’s second DiploBall Championship in a row!  Although it got a tad dicey at the end, he pulled off the win like the pro his is… although; I’m pretty sure the foundation for his dominance is the fact he doesn’t want to pay for the postage necessary to mail the Golden DiploBall to someone else.

And for the fourth season in a row all the Schutz’s take the top spots keeping the dynasty alive.  I’m just glad I was able to finally overtake Jim!  Dad!  I’m going for you next year!

NCAA Winner:  Badger
Second Place: VJSchutz
Third Place: Jim Schutz

Badger started out the season like a bat out of hell, mathematically, the Schutz’s thought it would be impossible to catch him, however, he just couldn’t seem to maintain through the second half of his season.  Perhaps it was karma getting him back for all the smack talk?  That said, Badger managed to hold on to the NCAA victory!

NFL Winner:  Steak n Potatoes
Second Place:  EricC
Third Place:  BigCat

The NFL standings support one of my biggest DiploBall concerns.  The NFL games just don’t enough weight… the numbers are terrible skewed in favor of the NCAA games.  There are only about 31 more NCAA games in the season, however, the amount of points on the table during NCAA weeks are a lot more… especially when we get down to weeks with only NFL.  We need to figure out a way to make it more even.

Well… I know what I will be spending my off season doing.

Here are the complete standings for Points:

Rank
Overall Standings
NCAA Standings
NFL Standings
1st
VJSchutz
Badger
Steak n Potatoes
2nd
SchutzJP
VJSchutz
EricC
3rd
Jim Schutz
Jim Schutz
BigCat
4th
BigCat
SchutzJP
SchutzJP
5th
Badger
BigCat
Jim Schutz
6th
The Great Usurper
The Great Usurper
VJSchutz
7th
EricC
Ryan
Pac12Bear
8th
Ryan
Ted
Badger
9th
Ted
VNIbarger
The Great Usurper
10th
Pac12Bear
RollTide1
Rada
11th
Steak & Potatoes
SEC#1
Red Craig
12th
RollTide1
EricC
Ryan
13th
SEC#1
Pac12Bear
RollTide1
14th
Vnibarger
Jeff
Robbins
15th
BeachBums505
Irishman
Irishman
16th
Irishman
BeachBums505
Renegade
17th
Jeff
Steak & potatoes
BeachBums505
18th
Arose
Robbins
Jeff
19th
Robbins
Renegade
SEC#1
20th
Renegade
Arose
Arose
21st
Rada
Rada
VNIbarger


Picks

Overall Winner:  VJSchutz & Badger
Second Place: Jim Schutz
Third Place: SchutzJP & The Great Usurper


NCAA Winner:  Badger
Second Place: VJSchutz
Third Place: SchutzJP


NFL Winner:  Jim Schutz
Second Place:  The Great Usurper
Third Place:  VJSchutz

I can’t say there are many big surprises here, however, the fact that The Great Usurper ranked in two of these categories, however, he only placed 6th overall in points.  Interesting!

Here are the complete standings for Picks:

Rank
Overall Standings
NCAA Standings
NFL Standings
1st
VJSchutz & Badger
Badger
Jim Schutz
2nd
Jim Schutz
VJSchutz
The Great Usurper
3rd
SchutzJP & The Great Usurper
SchutzJP
VJSchutz
4th
BigCat
Jim Schutz
BigCat
5th
Ryan
BigCat, Jeff, & Ryan
Steak n Potatoes
6th
Jeff
The Great Usurper
SchutzJP
7th
Steak n Potatoes
VNIbarger
Badger
8th
Pac12Bear
Pack12Bear
Ryan
9th
VNIBarger
Steak n Potatoes
Pac12Bear
10th
EricC & Robbins
EricC
Robbins
11th
Rada
Robbins
Jeff
12th
Ted
Rada
EricC
13th
RollTide1
RollTide1
Rada
14th
Renegade
Ted
VNIbarger
15th
Irishman
SEC#1
Ted
16th
SEC#1
Irishman
RollTide1
17th
BeachBums505
BeachBums505 & Renegade
Renegade
18th
ARose
Arose
Irishman
19th


BeachBums505
20th


SEC#1
21st


Arose


Tuesday, February 05, 2013

DiploBall IV, Week 22

Happy Post-Super Bowl everyone!  What a game… or at least what I saw of it.  After spending all day cooped up in a hotel room in Munich watching ESPN American’s endless loop of Sunday NFL Countdown the game finally started at midnight… and well… I promptly fell asleep just after the Ravens scored their first touchdown... which made me happy... because I thought I picked the Ravens to win... but... ummm... apparently I had data entry issues this week...

Alas!

Not much to report except for our final week winners, all of whom have earned a Perfect Week Bonus.  So, if you see your name below please send me the pick you would like to reverse.  Any game of the season is eligible.  You have one week to send in your pick reversals!  At which time I will send out the final standings.

VJSchutz
VNIBarger
Robbins
Jim
The Great Usurper
Renegade
Jeff

RollTide1 (You still haven’t cashed in your perfection from Week 1)

Peace!