Author: The Clearinghouse

Standings | Analyst of the Year VII | Leg 2

Two weeks into the new season and all but four Analysts have a busted Trifecta!

Atwork, Jimmy V, Big Tuna and The Strategist lead with perfect 2-0 records. Will any tie last year’s opening pace of three Trifectas in a row???

All but one Analyst trail with a 1 Trifecta. A big group are bunched up at 5 Correct Picks each , with Woody trailing by a head with 4 Correct Picks.

Little Tuna brings up the rear, struggling to determine when it’s best to Pick the Brady-neers or the Beli-triots.

Trifectas

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

Correct Picks

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

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PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 2 Picks

The Analysts’ Picks are in:

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

* Denotes home team

Spit Box

1.  "Oh, yeah, who are the Clowns now???" 
2. No go for the Dogs and the Bungals!! I hope it ends in a tie! LoL. 
3. I mean with the Packers it's kinda hard to lose Haha
4. How the hell did the Browns win?!?!?
5. The most important thing you do-Pick your teams!
6. Those Bungals sure did make a game of it!
7. Hopefully Cowboys won't disappoint two weeks in a row!
8. Keeping my fingers crossed for a trifecta this week!🏉
9. Good Luck!
10. "First opportunity of the year to spite the Patriots. Looking forward to seven more!"

The Results Are (Coming) In:

Atwork: Packers*/Ravens/Chiefs (14 points)
 Jimmy V: Chiefs/Ravens/Buccaneers(6 points)
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Seahawks/Ravens (7 points)
B-Reezy: Bears*/Packers/49ers(10 points)
Roxy Trot: 49ers*/Chiefs/Titans (10 points)
Sponge Mom: Saints*/Ravens/Chiefs (3 points)
The Bookie: Bills*/Titans/Ravens (7 points)

Big Tuna: Ravens*/Buccaneers/Titans (7 points)
Woody: Cowboys*/Buccaneers/Chiefs (7 points)
The Strategist: Chiefs*/Ravens/Titans (7 points)
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Packers/Seahawks (7 points)
KateTDid: Titans*/Buccaneers/Bills (7 points)
Little Tuna: Buccaneers*/Patriots/Titans (4 points)

* Denotes Home Team (+1 point)

Best offense: Packers, 42: (+7 points Atwork)

Best defense: 49ers and Bears, 13: (+3 points Roxy Trot and B-Reezy)

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Standings | Analyst of the Year VII | Leg 1

Analyst of the Year VII

Atwork and Jimmy V put the Analysts on notice that the sixth season of Analyst of the Year was no fluke!

To start Season VII, the top two Analysts are joined by Sponge Mom, Big Tuna, and The Strategist as the Analysts to start Season VII with a Trifecta. 

Seven Analysts sputter out of the gates with 2 Correct Picks in a tie for sixth place, while Woody trails after her Cowboys spit the McCarthy bit on a questionable fourth down decision. 

As the Analysts enter the near turn, nine Claimed winners to begin the year, three had competitors in the opening stretch, and only one Analyst stained his good (ok, mediocre) reputation with a glue mule.

Trifectas

Analyst of the Year VII | Standings | Week 1
Standings after Week 1 of Analyst of the Year VII

Tiebreakers

Analyst of the Year VII | Tiebreakers | Week 1
Tiebreakers after Week 1 of Analyst of the Year VII

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Standings | PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 1

PC-Fecta Derby VII

Atwork (14 points) sprints out of the gates and takes an early lead around the clubhouse turn! With a *base* Trifecta, *extra* point, and the best Home Team Offense (scored 43), he hits the backstretch with a 4 point lead.

Big Tuna (10 points) chases in second place with a *base* Trifecta, *extra* point, and best Home Team Defense (allowed 6) round the first turn. 

With 7 points each, Jimmy V, Sponge Mom, and The Strategist contest third place. On third tiebreaker (point differential per game), the Strategist (14 point differential) edges out Sponge Mom (11 point differential) in fourth and Jimmy V in fifth place. 

Craft Brew, The Bookie, and KateTDid compete for sixth place. Again separated only by third tiebreaker, Craft Brew (10) and The Bookie (10) are in a dead heat for sixth, while KateDid (2) trails in eighth place.

Four Analysts seek to separate from the back of the field with 3 points each. B-Reezy holds ninth place with +4 point differential, Roxy Trot ekes out tenth place with a -4 point differential over Little Tuna in eleventh with -11 point differential. Wise Orangutan trails in twelfth with -32 point differential after Leg 1. Woody (0 points) struggles to clear the gates in Leg 1.

Trifecta Points

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Standings | Leg 1
Standings after Leg 1 of PC-Fecta Derby VII

Tiebreakers

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Tiebreakers | Leg 1
Tiebreakers after Leg 1 of PC-Fecta Derby VII

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PC-Fecta Derby VII | Leg 1 Picks

The Analysts’ Picks are in:

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

*Denotes Home Team

Spit Box:

  1. “What the hell? Bill O’Brien kept his job!??! This will be the easiest Pick of the season!”
  2. Taking a big risk with the Vikes!
  3. Let’s go trifecta🏉
  4. best of luck
  5. AKA the foundation!!!

The Results Are (Coming) In:

Atwork:   Packers*/Ravens/Patriots (14 points**)
Jimmy V:  Patriots*/Chiefs/Ravens (7 points)
Craft Brew:  Steelers*/Chiefs/Vikings (4 points)
B-Reezy: Chiefs/Ravens/49ers (3 points)
Roxy Trot:  49ers*/Ravens/Titans (3 points)
Sponge Mom: Saints*/Chiefs/Patriots(7 points)
The Bookie:  Bills*/Chiefs/49ers(4 points)
Big Tuna: Ravens*/Bills/Patriots (10 points***)
Woody: Cowboys*/49ers/Bills (0 points)
The Strategist: Chiefs*/Bills/Ravens (7 points)
Wise Orangutan: Browns*/Chiefs/Bills (3 points)
KateTDid: Titans*/Buccaneers/Patriots (4 points)
Little Tuna:  Buccaneers*/Titans/Patriots (3 points)

* Denotes home team (+1 extra point for Correct Pick)

Bonus Points (Final):

**Best Offense: Atwork, Packers (43 points)

***Best Defense: Big Tuna, Ravens (6 points)

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PC-Fecta Derby VII | Slate of Games

The Entrants

The Analysts have submitted their papers and claimed their Home Teams to start the new season. The Claim Box for PC-Fecta Derby VII is:

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Home Teams
Home Teams for PC-Fecta Derby VII

Slate of Games

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Slate of Games
Slate of Games for PC-Fecta Derby VII

The Slate of Games for PC-Fecta Derby VII includes seven head-to-head competitions during the month (the first tiebreaker in the race), but Leg 2 may prove to be key as an open sprint with 13 games and no head-to-head competitions!

In Leg 1, the clubhouse turn, we kick off the season with Wise Orangutan’s Blotches visiting the Rav-ing Big Tuna in Baltimore and the pirate who stole the Bucs, Little Tuna, challenging the fleur-de-lis, Sponge Mom. In Leg 3, the near turn, Atwork Packs-up for the Big Easy to contest Saints-ly Sponge Mom, while The Strategist leads her First Nation against Big Tuna’s Nevermores. Down the home stretch, Leg 4, the competition heats up as Wise O. attempts to expose the Brown-stain on the chaps of Woody’s Cowboys, Craft Brew tries to Steel-ers a win from Kate-TDid’s Buccaneers Titanic-disappointment, and Jimmy V marches Patriot-ically against The Strategist’s Custer-Busters.

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 many featured games: two Thursday nights (TNF), all four Sunday nights (SNF), and all five Monday nights (MNF – a first!).

None of the Home Teams are on a bye-week during PC-Fecta Derby 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 Derby Rules for more.

Email picks in private to The Bookie before each Leg (week) of the Race. Thursday games are due by 2pm on Thursdays (flexible per The Bookie’s time in special circumstances). All Sunday and Monday Picks are due on Saturdays at 2pm. 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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WFTL Season VII (2020-21) | Home Team Claims

Season VII Welcome

A reminder that we adopted a Rule for Home Team trades last season: here.

Season VII begins in uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage parts of America. The Analysts have chosen not to adopt special rules for canceled games or convalescing Home Teams. Claimers beware!

Season VII | Starting Home Team Claims

A second reminder that the order of the Standing during Season VII reflects the final rankings for Analyst of the Year VI…a bitter third reminder for Wise Orangutan that he is the only member of his immediate family who has not won the most illustrious or the most prestigious trophy in sports analysis!

The Claims are:

PC-Fecta Derby VII | Home Teams
Home Teams for PC-Fecta Derby VII

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World Football Trifecta Championship 2020-21

WFTL Season VII Preparations

The General Rules for the World Football Trifecta League have been updated such that Analysts must relinquish Claims to Home Teams to start the season and the Analysts Claim new Home Teams in reverse of the Standings for the prior season’s Analyst of the Year. Every third year, Claims Order is determined by a random drawing.

No Analysts went to pasture and no new Analysts joined the WFTL. The Claims Order for the 13 returning Analysts is then:

  1. Little Tuna
  2. KateTDid
  3. Wise Orangutan
  4. The Strategist
  5. Woody
  6. Big Tuna
  7. The Bookie
  8. Sponge Mom
  9. Roxy Trot
  10. B-Reezy
  11. Craft Brew
  12. Jimmy V
  13. Atwork

Key Dates for Season VII:

September 6 – Select Home Teams.
September 20 – Send The Bookie your share of the Purse for the year.

Improved Season VII Rules

1) To start the new Season, Analysts must relinquish Claims to Home Teams from the prior season. New Claims will be made in reverse order of the Standings for the prior season’s Analyst of the Year. Every third year, the Claims Order will be determined by random drawing.

2) With the expanded playoff field to 14 teams in the professional football league, all but the last Analyst in the Claims Order will have a Claim for the Super Trifecta Bowl. This means 12 of 13 Analysts will have a Claim to one of the 14 playoff teams, while the Analyst with No Claim will have 2 playoff Teams to play the spoiler.

3) The Analysts determined that NO new rules for the COVID-19 crisis will be adopted. If games are canceled after Picks are in or if a Home Team is sent to pasture due to an outbreak, the Analysts will have no recourse other than what is provided in the Standard Rules.

Riders Up!

The PC-Fecta Derby kicks off the new season. There is no revision to the rules from Season VI. Review the rules and points system for the PC-Fecta Derby here.

Which Analyst will add his or her Thoroughbred’s name to the most illustrious trophy in sports analysis at the end of the year?

WFTL Championship Trophy
WFTL Championship Trophy

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Super Trifecta Bowl VI | Final Results

Super Trifecta Bowl VI

Headed down the homestretch, Sponge Mom seemed unstoppable. Her Home Team 49ers had shut down Craft Brew‘s Home Team Chiefs for three quarters. Half way through the fourth quarter, victory was almost certain…Unless her steed spit the bit!

49ers Win Probability | 7:26 Left in 4th Quarter | Game Which Shall Not Be Named
49ers Win Probability | 7:26 Left in 4th Quarter | Game Which Shall Not Be Named

Then Pat-demonium (or Pat-Mahomes-ium) break lose, and the Chiefs closed the final leg like the great Secretariat! But, would it be enough to lift Craft Brew, or was the fix in?

The Winner of Super Trifecta Bowl VI is…The Bookie!

Based on the Titanic run of an Un-Claimed dark horse and one *lame* Trifecta, The Bookie at 21 points crosses the finish line 2 lengths ahead of Craft Brew at 19 points. Craft Brew had the only – only – *base* Trifecta of the postseason and 8 points from his Home Team, but he took only 3 of the 6 possible Reverse PC-Fecta points in the Division and Championship Round.

Sponge Mom, for the second time this season, lost her advantage in the final leg of a race. She nonetheless makes The Winner’s Circle with a Show at 17 points (on first tiebreaker, Trifecta points).

Also at 17 points, Big Tuna moves past Little Tuna for fourth place. The early leader, Wise Orangutan finishes in sixth place at 15 points.

At 10 points each, Atwork edges out KateTDid on the second tiebreaker (Playoff Victory points) for seventh place. B-Reezy finishes in ninth place at 9 points, followed by Woody in tenth place with 7 points.

The three Analysts whose Home Teams failed to get a win in the playoffs bring up the rear. Jimmy V the martyred Saint ends in eleventh place (6 points), Roxy Trot Patriotically finishes in twelfth place (5 points), and The Strategist is still Raven-mad about her Home Team swoon in last place (4 points).

Trifecta Points

Final Results | Super Trifecta Bowl VI
Final Results of Super Trifecta Bowl VI

Tiebreakers

Final Results | Tiebreakers | Super Trifecta Bowl VI
Final Results of Tiebreakers for Super Trifecta Bowl VI

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Year-in-Review Rules Review | WFTL 2019-20

Improved Season VI Rules

Usually we do a Rules Review to start the season, but The Clearinghouse wanted to share some thoughts (as its alter ego) and to start an open channel for Rules Revisions for Season VII since it came up in Snapchat last week. We had three revisions adopted to start Season VI:

1) Every three years (3rd season, 6th season, etc., forward), all Analysts must release their Home Teams and The Clearinghouse will conduct a lottery to determine the order of Claims for Home Teams for the upcoming season.

2) In a single Leg of a Quaternary Crown Race, three Correct Picks will be a “base Trifecta” worth 6 points, while two Correct Picks (out of three) will be a “lame Trifecta” worth 3 points. “Bonus Trifecta” points for base and lame Trifectas will be awarded per Track Rules of the Crown Races.

3) Analysts are required to have a Snapchat account name on record with The Bookie.

Rules Review| WFTL 2019-20 |Season VI in Hindsight (by Wise Orangutan)

WFTL adopted a new system of Claims to start the season (#1), a new system of scoring (#2), and a new system of communicating on game days (#3). In reverse order, Wise Orangutan thinks…

#3 | Thanks to the new WFTL Director of Communications, Woody, revision #3 went like a charm.

We think every Analyst chatted a snap during the season (Note: B-Reezy may have avoided his duties, but Atwork took time off to join the fray at least once!). We communicated on holidays, kicked up our feet, photo’ed game day food porn, etc., etc. We also discovered that it is possible to have a video meeting with all Analysts present for future Rules Reviews!

#2 | Any season in which Wise Orangutan wins is a good season for the Rules!

All kidding aside (except to the Crimson Tide that has taken my money during the first five seasons!)…After Super Trifecta Bowl VI we will have had 5 different Analysts win one of the 6 Races and 8 or 9 different Analysts take home Purse from 12 opportunities. That is at least 60% of the 13 Analysts (and at least one of us had to lose Purse).

There is skill in the contest: Big Tuna finished in the top half of the Analyst of the Year in the first five seasons. He did not in Season VI (missing by only 2 Correct Picks!), so that now sets a record that can be broken. Only B-Reezy (four years in a row) can tie him next year and Craft Brew follows (three years in a row — in the Winner’s Circle no less, a record he can extend next season!). On the other hand, several Analysts have up-or-down years. Four Analysts now have gone from worst to first in the Analyst of the Year (Little Tuna, B-Reezy, The Strategist, and Atwork). When these Analysts are in the zone, they are unstoppable: Little Tuna holds the record for most Wins (7) and The Strategist has the most entries (15) in The Winner’s Circle. Lastly, The Bookie has a 50/50 chance to become a three-time winner of the Super Trifecta Bowl on Sunday — or, if not, Sponge Mom becomes the fifth Analyst in six seasons to etch her name into the most illustrious trophy in sports analysis!

We also had new records set, including three straight Trifectas to start the season by several Analysts. Jimmy V had a tremendous run mid-season to tie Kal Krome‘s record of 4 straight Trifectas. And his string of 7 Trifectas in 8 Weeks will not be broken until an Analyst gets 8 Trifectas in 9 Weeks in a single season! Atwork‘s Analyst of the Year records for 10 Trifectas and 41 Correct Picks (solo record holder) seems to me impossible to break . Then again, Jimmy V set the record for 10 Trifectas first and was only 3 seconds from hitting his 11th in Week 15 before Atlanta defeated San Francisco. In addition, Craft Brew tied the former record of 9 Trifectas held by The Strategist and had the second-most Correct Picks (40) ever — but that was only good enough to Show!

Plus, after B-Reezy created the strategy that focuses on Pick Threes for the Analyst of the Year (a strategy that The Strategist and Jimmy V have adopted with success), Analysts have the choice to focus on the individual Crowns or the Marathon of the Ass. I (Wise O.) am satisfied that there is a good mix of streakiness (not luck because that would be gambling…) and consistency to make each race competitive based on the strategies and prescience of the Analysts. For all these reasons, I am not inclined to alter the Crowns’ point system again or revert to the all-or-nothing Trifecta system from the first five seasons.

#3 | How to start the season in order to maintain parity is still the open question.

The random drawing helped Roxy Trot start strong (3 Trifectas in a row) and take home some Purse, but the Patriots late-season swoon was unfortunate for her. With the first Claim, KateTDid was distracted by the shiny bauble: Duh Bears! (to be fair, they were a good pick to make the playoffs at the start of the season, but only B-Reezy has ever figured out how to ride that steed). Atwork, from the twelfth starting position (Claim), rode the Packers to become Analyst of the Year in Season VI. Nobody had the Ravens or the 49ers to start the season. The Home Team Release and Claims rule still had a purpose mid-season, helping Wise O., The Strategist, and Sponge Mom remain competitive in an otherwise challenging season. On the other hand, when KateTDid tired of her shiny bauble, Woody could not resist the opportunity to claim it as her own mid-season…

Woody will be happy to know she gets to keep the Chicago Fetish to start Season VII! Because…The Rules we adopted specify that the random drawing to start the season happens only once every three years. We now revert back to the original rules in which Analysts have a Claim to the Home Team they held in Week 17 of previous regular season. Each Analyst gets to decide whether to release his or her Claim, and then the new Claims order goes in reverse order of Analyst of the Year standings (worst to first like the professional football league’s draft). New Analysts have the first Claims determined by random drawing.

The Claims rule (#3) will again be up for Rules Review next year, so this is not the final word. If any Analyst wants to suggest new tweaks, revisions, or an entirely new system of Claims to start the season — or any Rule — go ahead and give us ideas in email (Snapchats go poof) so that we have a record of the revisions requested to start Season VII. The Bookie accepts suggestions for “anonymous” group shares if you prefer.

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