The Strategist ties Little Tuna and B-Reezy for most trifectas! Will she set a new record in the coming weeks?
At the head of the homestretch, The Strategist clinches the only trifecta in the week. She now has 7 Trifectas and 32 Correct Picks on the season.
The rest of the field now faces elimination.
Trailing by two lengths, Big Tuna keeps position of second place with 5 Trifectas and league-leading 31 Correct Picks. Behind by one head, both Craft Brew and B-Reezy contest for third with 5 Trifectas and 30 Correct Picks.
Wise Orangutan still trails the leaders in fifth with 5 Trifectas and only 25 Correct Picks.
Little Tuna remains in sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 28 Correct Picks, holding a slight lead over The Bookie in seventh place with 4 Trifectas and 27 Correct Picks.
Kal Krome and Atwork become the first Analysts eliminated from the Marathon of the Ass. With 3 Trifectas and 25 Correct Picks each on the year, neither Analyst can close the distance on The Strategist before the end of the season!
Trifectas
Standings after Week 14 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 14 for Analyst of the Year IV
“OR” in capital letters indicates start of a new scenario to clinch.
New England clinches AFC East division (2 points) with win or tie OR BUF loss or tie
Pittsburgh clinches AFC North division (2 points) with win or tie. Pittsburgh clinches a playoff berth (1 points) with BUF loss or tie.
Jacksonville clinches a playoff berth (1 pooint) with JAX win + BUF loss + MIA loss or tie + NYJ loss or tie + LAC loss or tie + OAK-KC game does not end in a tie.
Philadelphia clinches NFC East division (2 points) with win or tie OR DAL loss or tie.
Minnesota clinches NFC North division (2 points) with win or tie OR DET loss or tie + GB loss or tie
Los Angeles Rams clinch a playoff berth (1 point) with LAR win + DET loss or tie + GB loss or tie + DAL loss or tie + CAR loss + ATL loss
New Orleans clinches a playoff berth (1 point) with NO win + CAR loss or tie + DAL loss or tie OR NO win + CAR loss + DET loss or tie OR NO win + DET loss or tie + GB loss or tie OR NO win + CAR loss + NO clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over DAL OR NO win + CAR tie + NO clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over DAL and GB OR NO win + CAR tie + GB loss or tie + NO clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over DAL.
See Week 14 clinching scenarios here: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000888855/article/nfl-playoffclinching-scenarios-for-week-14.
Patriots clinch the AFC East with a win over the Dolphins OR if Bills lose to Colts on Sunday (Value = 2 Seeder Points).
Eagles clinch the NFC East title with a win over the Rams OR if Cowboys lose to the Giants (Value = 2 Seeder Points).
Vikings clinch NFC North with a win over the Panthers OR if both a) Lions lose to the Buccaneers AND b) Packers lose to Browns (Value = 2 Seeder Points).
The Analysts have selected their Home Teams to start the fourth annual Seeders’ Cup.
Wise Orangutan has dropped the redbirds and selects….. the Baltimore Ravens.
The entrants are:
Slate of Analysts for the Seeders’ Cup IV
Slate of Games
Slate of Games for Seeders’ Cup IV
The slate of games for The Seeders’ Cup IV will test the playoff-worthiness of the Analysts’ Home Teams in the final stretch as Analysts compete for Seeder bonus points in winning trifectas.
We have four head-to-head clashes between the Analysts’ Home Teams in the first two legs of the Cup: in Leg 1, conference upstarts Eagles and Rams face each other while division rivals Ravens and Steelers will destroy their hopes for a championship with needlessly brutal blows to the head that will eventually aid the Patriots; in Leg 2, division rivals Rams and Seahawks spar for supremacy in the NFC West as the Patriots visit the tattered remains of the Steelers after the prior week’s Ravens game.
During the month, a few un-owned teams will be competing for playoff seeds: Vikings (1), Falcons (3 and 4), Cowboys (3 and 4), and Titans (3), being the most likely. These un-owned teams, or others as the season unfolds, may be worth “seed” scores to the Analysts.
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 a half dozen or more featured games, including one Thursday night games, two Sunday night games of the week (subject to flexing), two Saturday games, one Monday night games, and two Xmas day games.
Picks
Reminder: 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 or to earn the Seeder bonus points.
Additional points in a winning trifecta are scored for picking teams that clinch spots during the week according to the following: playoff spot/wildcard (1 point), division title (2 points), first round bye (3 points), and homefield advantage (4 points).
The Clearinghouse will start the Picks thread with a link and notes regarding which teams have an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot during the upcoming week.
Email three picks to The Bookie before each leg (week) of the Race. The first picks are due Thursday, December 7, before kickoff.
Coming out of the far turn, The Strategist clings to a one length lead over four close competitors. Heading into the home stretch, she has 6 Trifectas and 29 Correct Picks.
Jockeying for the inside rail over the rest of the field, however, Big Tuna and Craft Brew have made their moves in the final turn. Big Tuna moves into second place with 5 Trifectas and league-leading 30 Correct Picks over Craft Brew in third with 5 Trifectas and 29 Correct Picks.
B-Reezy has broken stride after one year of incredible picks. He now slips into fourth place after 5 Trifectas and 28 Correct Picks. Following in spurts and lopes, Wise Orangutan trails in fifth with 5 Trifectas and a league-worst 23 Correct Picks (!!??!!).
Little Tuna smells… a potential upset victory after moving into sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 27 Correct Picks, sending The Bookie back to seventh place after she let up in her euphoria over winning the back stretch (Player Haters Preakness). She gallops behind by a head, 4 Trifectas and 26 Correct Picks.
Kal Krome escapes elimination and gains ground on the front runner with 3 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks. He runs one head ahead of Atwork with 3 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks. These two Analysts face elimination next week if The Strategist ties the record for annual Trifectas next week!
Trifectas
Standings after Week 13 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 13 for Analyst of the Year IV
With a blistering 14 points in the final two legs of the Fibonacci Stakes, Little Tuna takes home her first purse of the season. With winning trifectas in three of five legs, she sets the record for the most points scored in a Fibonacci in league history!
From the middle of the pack, Big Tuna and Kal Krome surge for place and show. Big Tuna’s halos netted him 4 Correct Home Team Picks to edge Kal Krome by a beak (3 Correct Home Team Picks).
Little Tuna would have remained out of reach no matter what he chose to do, but Craft Brew finishes in fourth with 8 Trifecta points after making what most other Analysts agree was, chiefly, a unwise swap in the home stretch.
Speaking of, chiefly, bad decisions, The Strategist finishes in fifth (4 Trifecta points), one length ahead of The Bookie (3 Trifecta points, 6th) and Wise Orangutan (3 Trifecta points, 7th).
B-Reezy, who chiefly is responsible for the poor showing of the former front runners in the AoY competition, edges out Atwork in ninth, who chiefly gets a consolation prize for fooling B-Reezy into making a bad choice, chiefly, in Home Team.
The name of the game is to spot the contenders over the pretenders, so kudos to the Analysts with 3+ Correct Home Team Picks!
Trifecta Points
Standings after Final Results of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Tiebreakers
Tiebreakers after Final Results of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Bye weeks for Home Teams are grayed out (Table 2).
The Bookie: Rams*/Steelers*/Chiefs*
The Big Tuna: Saints*/Seahawks*/Patriots*
Little Tuna: Patriots*/Rams*/Seahawks*
Wise Orangutan: Chiefs*/Eagles*/Bills
The Strategist: Steelers*/Chiefs*/Eagles*
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Saints*/Steelers*
B-Reezy: Chiefs*/Saints*/Steelers*
Atwork: Eagles*/Chiefs*/Rams*
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Patriots*/Chiefs
Analyst of the Week
Kal Krome
Our Celebrity Analyst Roasters:
The Bookie: Kal Krome grew up in Alaska where hockey is the favored sport. So when moving to Washington and watching the Seahawks he was known to yell at the refs “That was icing!” Eventually he learned the penalties and watched the Seahawks commit many of them. When he joined the WFTL he felt he was ready to make educated picks. He occasionally has stumbled onto a correct trifecta but hastily picks himself up, brushes himself off and follows the next week with “what was he thinking?” Because of this he began to exaggerate about himself. So he changed his dog Jake’s name to Five Miles so he could tell everyone he walked Five Miles today.
Big Tuna: Umm. No. I believe that man would frighten Chuck Norris.
Little Tuna: Kal Krome mottos are: First Aide kit? “You mean duct tape!”
Decaffeinated coffee? “You mean bitch tea!”
The Wise Orangutan: I have had plenty of opportunities to roast Kal Krome over the past two years, so I will just wish him happy holidays and thank him for the past two years. Besides, who knows when I will need to find a funny farm to pasture The Bookie and Little Tuna.
The Strategist: Kal has taken this derby thing wayyy too seriously. He even has the best horse name! But he needs to stop getting his picks from his actual horses…yes, it’s a “horse” race but…umm…it’s football (with people).
Craft Brew: Bookie (in drivers seat). “Kal krome. Check to see if my rear blinkers are working?”
Kal krome ( behind car). “Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. ”
B-Reezy: You sure know how to pick them!!!
Atwork: You’re such a nice guy to have faith in the Hawks these last years Kal Krome but I think it’s time to pick one of the superior birds as shown by this season!
The Results Are (Coming) In:
The Bookie: Rams*/Steelers*/Chiefs*
The Big Tuna: Saints*/Seahawks*/Patriots* (8 points)
Little Tuna: Patriots*/Rams*/Seahawks* (8 points)
Wise Orangutan: Chiefs*/Eagles*/Bills
The Strategist: Steelers*/Chiefs*/Eagles*
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Saints*/Steelers* (8 points)
B-Reezy: Chiefs*/Saints*/Steelers*
Atwork: Eagles*/Chiefs*/Rams*
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Patriots*/Chiefs*
