Month: October 2017

Standings | Player Haters Preakness IV | Leg 1

Player Haters Preakness IV

Trifecta Points

The Strategist and Craft Brew get a jump on the competition with perfect Player Hater Trifectas (3 points) in Leg 1 of the Preakness. The Strategist noses out Craft Brew for first place based on the third tiebreaker, turnover differentials per game (+1 vs. -4).

Trailing by one length (2 points), The Bookie and Kal Krome ride their Home Teams to their first trifectas of the year and 1 bonus point for two Player Hater picks each. Kal Krome clings to third by virtue of turnover differential in the first games (3 vs. -2).

In fifth, Atwork leads the back half (0 points) with a Head-to-Head win over Little Tuna and 1 Correct Home Team Selection.

The rest of the field struggles to dig deep within themselves to find the Hate worthy of a Preakness crown!

Standings | Player Haters Preakness IV | Leg 1
Standings after Leg 1 of Player Haters Preakness IV

Tiebreakers

Atwork nets a valuable Head-to-Head tiebreaker over Little Tuna.

Kal Krome, The Bookie, and Atwork score Correct Home Team Picks in what may shape up to be a tight race.

Kal Krome (3), Atwork (2), and The Strategist (1) earn the only positive turnover differentials in Leg 1.

Tiebreakers | Player Haters Preakness IV | Leg 1
Tiebreakers after Leg 1 of Player Haters Preakness IV

Bye weeks for Home Teams are grayed out in Correct Home Team Picks (Table 2).

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Player Haters Preakness IV | Leg 1 Picks

The Analysts’ Picks Are In:

The Bookie: Bengals/Chiefs*/Eagles*
The Big Tuna: Seahawks/Vikings*/Bills*
Little Tuna: Cowboys/Chiefs*/Eagles*
Wise Orangutan: Lions*/Rams*/Bills*
The Strategist: Chiefs*/Vikings*/Eagles*
Kal Krome: Seahawks/Chiefs*/Vikings*
B-Reezy: Steelers/Rams*/Chiefs*
Atwork: Packers/Chiefs*/Bills*
Craft Brew: Chiefs*/Vikings*/Eagles*

!!Featured Analyst of the Week!!

Atwork — PC-Fecta Derby IV Winner

Our Celebrity Analyst Roasters:

The Bookie: “BREAKING NEWS from WFTL NEWS ~ Packers football practice was delayed this morning for nearly two hours. One of the players, while on the way to the locker room happened to look down and notice a suspicious looking, unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head Coach Mike McCarthy immediately suspended practice while the FBI was called in to investigate. After a complete field analysis, the FBI determined that the white substance unknown to the players was actually the goal line. Practice resumed when FBI Special Agents decided that the team was not likely to encounter the substance again.”
” Atworks’ love of toilet paper, packing and storing it, has led him to this lowliness, the Acme Packers.”

Little Tuna: “Late one night Atwork was sitting in a basement in the “Circle” with his friends. Can’t say who because of the “haze”. Then Atwork says “Man! I need some cheese. Like a big wedge. Hey! It would look good on my head!” Followed by a fit of giggling.
And that is a common tale of how anyone could choose the Packers.”

Big Tuna: Walks up to the mike. “Runt.” Scoffs and walks away.

Wise Orangutan: “Atwork, you won the PC-Fecta Derby!
Atwork: What about Bryan?”
Wise O.: Bryan did not win…
Atwork: I shouldn’t have to win if Bryan does not have to!

The Strategist: “When he was young, I knew Atwork would be a handful when he was playing in a sandbox and the cat kept covering him up.”

Kal Krome: “When I met Matthew he was in between jobs so I suggested he finds a job he enjoys doing as he’ll be doing it for a very long time. But little did I know he’d become good as a football analysts and take my money!!!”

Craft Brew: “I said Black and Gold not Green and Gold.”

B-Reezy: “What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the Lamentations of their women.”

The Results Are In:

The Bookie: Bengals/Chiefs*/Eagles* (2 points)
The Big Tuna: Seahawks/Vikings*/Bills*
Little Tuna: Cowboys/Chiefs*/Eagles*
Wise Orangutan: Lions*/Rams*/Bills*
The Strategist: Chiefs*/Vikings*/Eagles* (3 points)
Kal Krome: Seahawks/Chiefs*/Vikings* (2 points)
B-Reezy: Steelers/Rams*/Chiefs*
Atwork: Packers/Chiefs*/Bills*
Craft Brew: Chiefs*/Vikings*/Eagles* (3 points)

Player Hater combinations:

Combination of any three: Jaguars, Eagles, Chiefs, and Vikings.

 

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World Football Trifecta Championship 2017-18

Player Haters Preakness IV Preparations

New Home Team Selection Order

One race into the season, racing officials have learned a few Analysts are frustrated with the Home Teams that are not performing as expected.

According to the rules, the order of selection for new teams is by current playoff seeding, worst to first.

The order of picks will be:

1a. B-Reezy (14th seed NFC)*
1b. The Bookie (14th seed AFC)
3. Wise Orangutan (13th seed NFC)
4. Kal Krome (11th seed NFC)
5. Little Tuna (8th seed NFC)
6a. Big Tuna (6th seed AFC)**
6b. Atwork (6th seed NFC)
8. The Strategist (4th seed NFC)
9. Craft Brew (3rd seed AFC)

* B-Reezy has the lesser conference W-L record.
** Big Tuna has the lesser W-L record.

Home Team Swaps

Only one Home Team horse threw a shoe. Raiders QB Carr is out and so is Big Tuna. Big Tuna will be saddling up the Houston Texans for his Home Team. All other Analyst have kept last race ponies (not the small beer bottles) and have rubbed them down and are ready for THE PLAYER HATERS PREAKNESS!!

Best of luck to you all!!

Aw, who needs luck with the great skill of our Analyst this next race will be another photo finish.

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Player Haters Preakness IV – Slate of Games

The Entrants

The Analysts have selected their Home Teams to start the fourth annual Player Haters Preakness. The entrants are:

Player Haters Preakness IV | Slate of Analysts
Analysts and Home Teams for the Player Haters Preakness IV

Slate of Games

Player Haters Preakness IV | Slate of Games
Slate of Games for the Player Haters Preakness IV

The slate of games for the Player Haters Preakness III will prove to be a challenging test of Analyst’s foresight. With 4 head-to-head competitions this month (first tiebreaker), most Analysts will have to navigate the Run of the Black-Eyed Analysts with moxie and sweat!

In Leg 1, Atwork travels to face Little Tuna. Leg 3 pits The Strategist against B-Reezy and The Bookie forninst  Craft Brew. In Leg 4, Big Tuna challenges Kal Krome. Player Hater Bonus Points may not be earned from the two head-to-head Analyst match-ups, so in each of these Legs the chance for bonus points narrows.

Leg 3 may prove to be the difference as only 4 games feature challengers that may earn bonus points. In Leg 4, only five games feature Home Team challengers.

Home teams owned by an Analyst are in bold. The team at the left is the visiting team; the team at the right is the host (playing at home). There are less than a handful of featured games: one Thursday night, two Sunday nights, and one Monday game.

In total, six Home Teams enjoy a bye week during the Player Haters Preakness.

Picks

Remember: Every Analyst has a bias for his or her Home Team and may not pick the sponsored team to lose. Analysts do not have to pick his or her Home Team to win a trifecta. *Bonus* trifecta points are earned for picking against other Analysts’ Home Teams in a winning trifecta. See the Preakness Rules for more.

Email three picks to The Bookie before each leg (week) of the Race. The first picks are due on Saturday, October 7.

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World Football Trifecta Championship 2017-18

Player Haters Preakness IV Preparations

The Rules for the Player Haters Preakness may be found here: http://www.roi2partners.com/wftl/the-quaternary-crown/player-haters-preakness/.

The major difference is that Trifecta bonus points are awarded for picking against other Analysts’ Home Teams.

Picks for one’s own Home Team remain the second most important tiebreaker.

Changing Home Teams Between Races

After each of the four Races in the regular season, Analysts have the option of releasing their Home Team and selecting a new team to symbolize their horse sense from those teams not currently owned by other Analysts. If more than one Analyst releases their Home Team at the end of a Race, the new selections will go in order of the former teams’ win-loss records, from worst to best, using the official tie-breaking rules for team playoff ranks in the professional football league. In other words, the Analyst with the worst former team selects first, and so forth, to the best former team.

New Home Team Selection Order

According to the rules, the order of selection for new teams is by current playoff seeding, worst to first.

The order of picks will be:

1a. B-Reezy (14th seed NFC)*
1b. The Bookie (14th seed AFC)
3. Wise Orangutan (13th seed NFC)
4. Kal Krome (11th seed NFC)
5. Little Tuna (8th seed NFC)
6a. Big Tuna (6th seed AFC)**
6b. Atwork (6th seed NFC)
8. The Strategist (4th seed NFC)
9. Craft Brew (3rd seed AFC)

* B-Reezy has the lesser conference W-L record.
** Big Tuna has the lesser W-L record.

Let The Bookie know if you are swapping Home Teams by Tuesday night!

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Standings | Analyst of the Year IV | Week 4

Analyst of the Year IV

Coming out of the clubhouse turn, the Marathon of the Ass is beginning to shape up!

B-Reezy clings to his his lead by a head (2 Trifectas and 10 Correct Picks).

Running neck-and-neck behind B-Reezy with 2 Trifectas and 9 Correct Picks, three Analysts — Atwork, The Strategist, and Wise Orangutan — give chase at the start of the back stretch.

One length behind the front runners, Big Tuna, Little Tuna, and Craft Brew (each with 1 Trifecta and 8 Correct Picks) jockey to emerge from the middle of the pack.

The Bookie and Kal Krome (0 Trifectas and 5 Correct Picks) are struggling to reach the outside rail and avoid the dust cloud kicked up by the leaders!

Trifectas

Analyst of the Year IV | Standings | Week 4
Standings after Week 4 for Analyst of the Year IV

Correct Picks

Analyst of the Year IV | Tiebreaker | Week 4
Tiebreaker after Week 4 for Analyst of the Year IV

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Standings | PC-Fecta Derby IV | Final Results

PC-Fecta Derby IV (2017-18)

Final Standings

At the finish, Atwork (5 trifecta points) sprints from the back of the field to overtake Wise Orangutan (4 trifecta point) and The Strategist (3 trifecta points) to win the 2017-18 PC-Fecta Derby!

Atwork earns his first Quaternary Crown and makes known his quest for vengeance this year after beating three other Analysts’ Home Teams during the month of September!

The Strategist (3 trifecta points) shows be virtue of picking her Home Team correctly three times. Big Tuna (3 trifecta points) falls into fourth at the finish line after his Home Team Raiders are forced to put their quarterback out to pasture for the second year in a row.

Little Tuna (2 points total) edges past B-Reezy (2 points total) with two Correct Home Team Selections for fifth place.

In seventh, Craft Brew (1 point total) sneaks by Kal Krome (0 points) and The Bookie (0 points). Despite a spirited-game in the final week by The Bookie’s Home Team, Kal Krome finishes 8th with 2 Correct Home Team Selections.

Trifecta Points

PC-Fecta Derby IV | Standings | Final Results
Final Results for PC-Fecta Derby IV

Tiebreakers

PC-Fecta Derby IV | Tiebreakers | Final Results
Tiebreakers after the Final Leg of PC-Fecta Derby IV

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