Month: October 2020

Player Haters Preakness VII | Slate of Games (REVISED)

The Entrants

The Analysts have submitted their papers and claimed their Home Teams. The Claim Box for Player Haters Preakness VII is:

Player Haters Preakness VII | Entrants
Entrants for Player Haters Preakness VII

Slate of Games

Player Haters Preakness VII | Slate of Games (Revised)
Revised Slate of Games for Player Haters Preakness VII

The Slate of Games for Player Haters Preakness VII includes ten (10!) eleven (11!) head-to-head competitions during the month (the first tiebreaker in the race). Leg 1 and Leg 3 (both have 10 games) may prove to be key for the Player Haters! And, Leg 2 has only 7 Games as three Home Teams take a bye and 6 Home Teams play each other. After rescheduling, Leg 1 features 9 games and Leg 2 only 8 games. Leg 3 offers 10 games to choose from, while Leg 4 again features 9 games with four head-to-head match-ups!

Leg 1, the clubhouse turn, features 8 7 un-Claimed teams on the road against Home Teams. The back stretch look challenging: Leg 2 presents only 5 un-Claimed teams against Home Teams. 3 of which are on the road. The most promising Player Haters opportunities appear to be in the near turn: Leg 3 has 8 un-Claimed Home Teams, seven of which host the game (at home). Leg 4 then again has only 5 un-Claimed teams facing Home Teams.

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 several featured games: two one Thursday nights (TNF), three Sunday nights (SNF), and three four Monday nights (MNF), and a Tuesday night (rescheduled).

Seven Five Home Teams are on a bye-week during Player Haters Preakness VII!

Picks

Remember: Every Analyst has a bias for his or her Home Team and may NOT pick their Claimed team to lose. Analysts do not have to pick his or her Home Team to win, but *bonus* trifecta points are won only if Analysts include the Home Team in a *base* or *lame* Trifecta. See the Preakness Rules for more.

Email picks in private to The Bookie before each Leg (week) of the Race. Thursday Picks are due at 5pm EST / 2pm PST on Thursdays. All Sunday and Monday Picks are due on Saturdays at 5pm EST / 2pm PST. No Picks for games after kickoffs are accepted.

No revisions (Re-Picks) are possible after the Picks have been released to all Analysts by The Bookie.

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Standings | PC-Fecta Derby VII | Final Results

PC-Fecta Derby VII

After seven seasons, the WFTL has its first two-time Crown Champion of the PC-Fecta Derby. Was it Big Tuna (the man who put the PC in PC-Fecta!)? Jimmy V (the only colt or filly to Win since Season I)? Little Tuna (winning-est Analyst in WFTL history)? Craft Brew (Defending Champion)? Kal Krome (from out of retirement)? No. No. No. No. And. No.

Atwork led PC-Fecta Derby VII wire-to-wire on his green-and-yellow-hot thoroughbred rode by the “I-am-as-old-as-my-Wonderlic-score (35)” jock(ey)! With 25 Trifecta points and 24 Bonus points, he Wins with 49 points — and over one-quarter length of the track (+17 points) ahead of second place!!!

Wise Orangutan–who has asked The Clearinghouse to point out that he did not change any Derby rules this season!–started slow but closed strong with the offense bonus points. He Browns out the competition to Place with 31 points at the finish.

Big Tuna Shows with 27 points, oh so close to the Purse (and wondering how it is that Wise O. always snatches away his payouts!).

KateTDid, Craft Brew, The Stategist and Jimmy V can only ponder what might have been if not for The Equine Plague.

Jimmy V (26) finishes in fourth place on base Trifecta points. Craft Brew (24) edges out Little Tuna (24) for fifth place based on third tiebreaker (7.3 point differential per game [pdpg] vs. 7.0 pdpg).

The Strategist (23) trots to the line on a Monday in seventh place. In eighth place, The Bookie (22) on the inside rail handily pushes B-Reezy (22) to the outside rail for ninth place on second tiebreaker (4 Correct Home Team Picks to his 1 Correct Home Team Pick).

KateTDid (21) ends in tenth place, ahead of Sponge Mom in eleventh (20). Roxy Trot‘s (16) nag, plagued by injuries, drags her down to twelfth place. Woody (10) cowpokes to the finish in last place.

Trifecta Points

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Standings | Final Results
Final Results for Standings of PC-Fecta Derby VII

Tiebreakers

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Tiebreakers | Final Results
Tiebreakers after Final Results of PC-Fecta Derby VII

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PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 4 Picks

The Analysts’ Picks are in:

Atwork: Packers*/Ravens/Bears
Jimmy V: Ravens/Buccaneers/Packers
Craft Brew:  Ravens/Buccaneers/Saints
B-Reezy: Bears*/Ravens/Packers
Roxy Trot: 49ers*/Bears/Buccaneers
Sponge Mom: Saints*/Buccaneers/Ravens
The Bookie: Bills*/49ers/Ravens
Big Tuna: Ravens*/Buccaneers/Browns
Woody: Cowboys*/Packers/49ers
The Strategist: Ravens/Buccaneers/Packers
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Ravens/Packers
KateTDid: Bears/Buccaneers/Saints
Little Tuna: Buccaneers*/Saints/Ravens
* Denotes home team

Spit Box

1.  Let’s go four in a row!!!
2. Let’s Go trifecta please  ?  needs it.
3. Let’s see if I can get a trifecta!!
4. Best of luck. 
5. Can’t take the Chiefs…..boo
6. Four teams on COVID byes or postponements…Dammit, I have to Pick the Browns for a chance at Purse!

The Results Are (Coming) In:

Atwork: Packers*/Ravens/Bears (7 points**)
Jimmy V: Ravens/Buccaneers/Packers (6 points)
Craft Brew: Ravens/Buccaneers/Saints (6 points)
B-Reezy: Bears*/Ravens/Packers (3 points)
Roxy Trot: 49ers*/Bears/Buccaneers (0 points)
Sponge Mom: Saints*/Buccaneers/Ravens (7 points)
The Bookie: Bills*/49ers/Ravens (4 points)
Big Tuna: Ravens*/Buccaneers/Browns (7 points)
Woody: Cowboys*/Packers/49ers (0 points)
The Strategist: Ravens/Buccaneers/Packers (6 points)
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Ravens/Packers (14 points**)
KateTDid: Bears/Buccaneers/Saints (3 points)
Little Tuna: Buccaneers*/Saints/Ravens (7 points)
* Denotes home team (+1)

** Bonus points:

Best offense (+7): Browns (49)

Best defense (+3): Packers (16)

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Standings | Analyst of the Year VII | Leg 4

Analyst of the Year VII

Coming around the clubhouse turn of the Marathon of the Ass, the field begins to separate!

With a record-breaking four Trifectas to start a season, Jimmy V holds onto first place by a length over a gaggle of contenders. He maintains a one length lead over his closest challengers. His path to victory is not yet clear, however, as…

Former Analysts of the Year, Big Tuna and The Strategist, three-time Winner’s Circle stalwart, Craft Brew, and the perennial also-ran, Wise Orangutan, trail in a tie for second place with 3 Trifectas and 11 Correct Picks. One step by Jimmy V and any of these four can close the distance for the lead.

Analyst-in-spirit Sir Dog (RIP) rolled over in his grave when Atwork made an un-Bearable Pick in Week 4 (faintly from underground: “What kind of Packers fan are you!”).

Defending Analyst of the Year Atwork falls into a tie for sixth place with B-Reezy, Sponge Mom, The Bookie, KateTDid, and Little Tuna — each at 2 Trifectas and 10 Correct Picks.

(Sidebar from below: “The other five are Bears fans, Atwork…I can’t intercede with my dark forces on your behalf when you side with Les Bêtes Noires*!”).

At the back of the field, Roxy Trot (1 Trifecta, 8 Correct Picks) hobbles in twelfth place and Woody (1 Trifecta, 7 Correct Picks) spits the bit in Allas**!!!

*”The Black Beasts”!

**Note: a joke I plagiarize from social media…there is no D in Dallas!

Trifectas

Analyst of the Year VII | Standings | Week 4
Standings after Week 4 of Analyst of the Year VII

Correct Picks

Analyst of the Year VII | Tiebreakers | Week 4
Tiebreakers after Week 4 of Analyst of the Year VII

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Standings | Analyst of the Year VII | Leg 3

Analyst of the Year VII

With three Trifectas in three weeks, we have our first front runner of the season! Jimmy V moves one length ahead of his closest challengers in the past week.

Much of the field is bunched up with 2 Trifectas and 8 Correct Picks. Atwork, Craft Brew, B-Reezy, The Bookie, Big Tuna, The Strategist, Wise Orangutan, and KateTDid vie for second place.

Roxy Trot, Sponge Mom, Little Tuna and Woody trail with 1 Trifecta each, with unexpected poor starts by Home Teams (1-2 records) and player injuries (SF) and best-days-behind-me-ism (TB) largely to blame…[Double entendre: note that TB can mean Tom Brady or Tampa Bay. Ha ha!!!]

Trifectas

Analyst of the Year VII | Standings | Week 2
Standings after Week 3 of Analyst of the Year VII

Correct Picks

Analyst of the Year VII | T3iebreakers | Week 2
Tiebreakers after Week 3 of Analyst of the Year VII

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PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 3 Picks

The Analysts’ Picks are in:

Atwork: Packers*/49ers/Ravens
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Buccaneers/Browns
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Buccaneers/Browns
B-Reezy: 49ers/Browns/Buccaneers 
Roxy Trot: Buccaneers/Patriots/Falcons
Sponge Mom:Saints*/Patriots/Titans
The Bookie: Bills*/Browns/49ers
Big Tuna: Ravens*/Steelers/Browns
Woody: Cowboys*/Buccaneers/Titans
The Strategist: Buccaneers/Steelers/Falcons
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Seahawks/Steelers
KateTDid: Titans*/Buccaneers/Seahawks 
Little Tuna: Buccaneers*/Patriots/Steelers
* Denotes home team

Spit Box

1.  Even a blind dog can find a win!!!
2. Tuff week for picks!!! Hopefully I get at least a couple right. But really hoping for another trifecta 🏉
3. Have to pick my home team!!!  We shall see!!
4. Forgive me Chicago!
5. Don’t break my heart Brady. 
6. Miss Bookie, How did you talk me into this game? So stressful. 
7. No easy games this week :/

The Results Are (Coming) In:

Atwork: Packers*/49ers/Ravens (11 points)
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Buccaneers/Browns (7 points)
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Buccaneers/Browns (7 points)
B-Reezy: 49ers/Browns/Buccaneers (6 points)
Roxy Trot: Buccaneers/Patriots/Falcons (3 points)
Sponge Mom: Saints*/Patriots/Titans (3 points)
The Bookie: Bills*/Browns/49ers (7 points)
Big Tuna: Ravens*/Steelers/Browns (3 points)
Woody: Cowboys*/Buccaneers/Titans (3 points)
The Strategist: Buccaneers/Steelers/Falcons (3 points)
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Seahawks/Steelers (7 points)
KateTDid: Titans*/Buccaneers/Seahawks (7 points)
Little Tuna: Buccaneers*/Patriots/Steelers (10 points)

* Denotes home team

Best offenses: Packers (37)

Best defense: Buccaneers (10)

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Standings | PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 3

PC-Fecta Derby VII

With offense bonus points in three straight legs, Atwork (39 points) builds an insurmountable lead down the home stretch! He leads his closest challengers by 19 points–two more points than any Analyst can earn in a single week (17).

All other Analysts remain in contention for Place ($) and Show.

Big Tuna and Jimmy V (both 20 points) currently share second place, with Big Tuna holding the edge with an 11.7 point differential per game (pdpg) by the Ravens vs. 7.0 pdpg by the Patriots. B-Reezy controls fourth place with 19 points.

At 18 points, Craft Brew, The Bookie, and KateTDid remain in strong position. All three have 3 Correct Home Team Picks and are separated only by pdpg (in order of mentions) for fifth, sixth, and seventh places.

At 17 points, The Strategist, Little Tuna, and Wise Orangutan seek a path out of eighth, ninth, and tenth place. These three Analysts each have 2 Correct Home Team Picks, and are separated (again) by pdpg in the order listed.

Roxy Trot holds eleventh place with 16 points, trailed by Sponge Mom (13) in twelfth and Woody (10) bringing up the rear. All three can come from the back of the field to take second place with 11 or more points in the final Leg!

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Trifecta Points

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Standings | Leg 3
Standings after Leg 3 of PC-Fecta Derby VII

Tiebreakers

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Tiebreakers | Leg 3
Tiebreakers after Leg 3 of PC-Fecta Derby VII

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