Author: The Clearinghouse

Analyst of the Year VII

The back stretch of the Marathon of the Ass is proving to be a heavy track. Only three Trifectas in two weeks from our field of thirteen Analysts. After 6 weeks, the Trifecta rate (Total Trifectas divided by Possible Trifectas) has fallen to 42% — the WFTL average over the first six seasons! The more things change…

Jimmy V leads by a length with 4 Trifectas and 15 Correct Picks, the only Analyst with Trifecta rate at above 50%.

Within striking distance of the lead with 3 Trifectas and (also) 15 Correct Picks, Atwork and The Strategist give no ground to the front runner, sharing second place.

At 3 Trifectas and 14 Correct Picks, Craft Brew moves up into a tie for fourth place with B-Reezy and Wise Orangutan. Big Tuna slips into seventh place at 3 Trifectas and 13 Correct Picks..

In a tie for eighth place, Sponge Mom and KateTDid gain some separation from the back of the field with 2 Trifectas and 13 Correct Picks (+2) in Week 6. Woody gallops from the back of the field to take tenth place alone with 2 Trifectas and 12 Correct Picks.

The Bookie and Little Tuna struggle to add to their Correct Pick totals, falling down the board into a tie for eleventh place 2 Trifectas and 11 Correct Picks. Roxy Trot (1 Trifecta and 10 Correct Picks) closes some of the Correct Pick deficit, but trails in thirteenth position!

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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!

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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!!!]

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