Remind me again why in April you think a pool that lasts in to summer is a good idea? Noteworthy notes:
- #1 – People that picked Staal and Stillman did well in the Stanley Cup Finals did very well. Rob wins the NHL portion and a drastically undervalued hockey card for 159 points. Recount allegations will be accepted but any hope of overturning the fine accounting job I did in preparing the scores will be judged solely on the quality of your haiku.
- #2 – The Hershey Bears won the Calder Cup. No one picked them so there are no more points to be had. Ranald picks up the card of questionable value for this category.
- #3 – The World Cup section of the pool is still up in the air and won’t be determined until next Sunday when I am on the road and may not get around to totalling the points…again giving rise to the question of what I was thinking in April when I wrote these questions. There is one question which is answerable:
Which team goes farther: Togo or Trinidad and Tobago? Ten points. Total goals breaks the tie.
Both teams came last in their first round groups, both had a -4 goal difference, Trinidad got one point for its 0-0 tie with Sweden. Trinidad scored no goals. Togo scored one goal. As the rule was “total goals breaks the tie” Togo wins. Only Matt picked Togo.
- #4 – The final question in the other sports section was this:
Who is the top scorer in the NBA playoffs. Twenty points.
I did not think that there would be a controversy over such a simple calculation. Yet there is. The NBA is the only league of note that uses a nutty nutty system of point calculation based on average per game. As a result, Dwayne Wade got a total of 654 points in the playoffs, leading Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas by 34 points. On the more common standard of points per game, however, Wade was in fourth with only 28.4 points on avaerage for the 23 games he played. Vince Carter, by comparison, was third with 29.6 for the 11 games he played. I am going to ignore the average as averaging was not mentioned. As a result, the winning answer is Dwayne Wade. Don and Matt picked him and both got 40 points for the “Other Sports” category. Again, plead your case if you like on the methodology.
So here are the scores to date. Rob is in the lead at 240 but Matt appears to be only 6 points behind due to a superior ability to pick up points in the less hockey oriented areas.
Correction!!! I did not consider the Togo v. T+T question until after I wrote the above and Matt’s uncanny ability to pick the obscure ones right led him and no other to pick Togo so he roars ahead and is not four points in the lead at 244.
So, as there are 20 points still to go in the World Cup category, it is all up in the air based on the winner of the golden boot and the World Cup Finals.
Further Correction!!! And on further review…Rob can’t win. Both picked Ronaldo for the golden boot and Rob picked Brazil which is already out. Whatever happens, then, Matt is the only one who can win as no one else is within the available 20 points. Matt wins the book Man Walks Into A Pub!!!
Playoffs |
Hockey |
Cup |
Fitba |
Sport |
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| Hans | 112 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 152 | Alan | 88 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 30 | 173 | Rob | 159 | 11 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 10 | 240 | Scott | 120 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 166 | Ranald | 128 | 23 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 196 | CM | N/P | 14 | 0 | 20 | N/P | 20 | 54 | Don | 125 | 14 | 0 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 194 | Mike | 141 | 8 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 199 | Matt | 107 | 17 | 10 | 30 | 40 | 40 | 244!!! | Marcia | 45 | N/P | N/P | N/P | N/P | N/P | 45 |