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Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 13

Analyst of the Year III

Heading into the homestretch of the annual race, B-Reezy leads comfortably after picking up his fourth trifecta in five weeks. With 7 Trifectas and 29 Correct Picks, he can lock up the most prestigious award in sports analysis in the fourteenth week of the season!

The rest of the field is playing for the honor of a mention in The Winners’ Circle.

Big Tuna holds onto second with 3 Trifectas and 26 Correct Picks, followed closely by Wise Orangutan (3 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks) and Atwork (3 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks).

Kal Krome narrowly holds onto fifth with 2 Trifecta Points and 24 Correct Picks with  The Bookie (2 Trifecta Points and 23 Correct Picks) and Little Tuna (2 Trifecta Points and 22 Correct Picks)  trailing by a 1 and 2 heads, respectively.

The Strategist’s Home Team, if not the Analyst herself, seems to be ready for the pasture this year (1 Trifecta and 20 Correct Picks).

Trifectas

Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 13
Standings after Leg 13 for the Analyst of the Year III

Correct Picks

Tiebreakers | Analyst of the Year III | Week 13
Tiebreakers after Leg 13 for the Analyst of the Year III

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Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Final Results

Fibonacci Stakes, 2016-17

Final Standings

The Test of the Computations reveals a first-time winner!

B-Reezy romps to an easy victory after earning four trifectas in five weeks, including the last three legs of the Fibonacci Stakes. His 14 points bests his next closest contender by 7 points. The second-year Analyst breaks maiden* in the WFTL!

Little Tuna (7 points) dusts off her Analyst of the Year trophy and regains her form from last season to spring into second place down the homestretch. The Bookie (5 points) edges out Atwork (5 points) with her solid tiebreaker resume.

In fifth, Big Tuna (4 points) bests Wise Orangutan by a length (3 points).

At the back, Kal Krome Atwork takes seventh over The Strategist.

Trifecta Points

Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Final Results
Final Standings of Fibonacci Stakes III

Tiebreakers

Tiebreakers | Fibonacci Stakes III | Final Results
Final Results of the Tiebreakers of Fibonacci Stakes III

 

*Breaks Maiden: When a horse or rider wins for the first time.

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Fibonacci Stakes III | Week 13 Picks

The Analysts picks are in:

The Bookie: Dolphins*/Cowboys/*Patriots
Big Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Rams*
Little Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Raiders
Wise Orangutan: Chargers*/Seahawks*/Patriots
The Strategist: Rams*/Seahawks/Bears
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Cowboys*/49ers*
B-Reezy: Cowboys*/Seahawks/Raiders
Atwork: Vikings*/Seahawks*/Bears

Base trifecta is worth 5 points in the final leg of the Fibonacci Stakes.

* Denotes Fibonacci bonus picks (none possible in Leg 1).

Race Day Notes:

For the next 8 weeks I will ask each of you to reflect on your strategies and how they are working.

Our third muse will be from B-Reezy.

B-Reezy: “Hmmm. Each week I witness my lead grow stronger and the taste of near victory becomes more and more sweet, as it becomes evident that I will be crowned Analyst of the Year. An event long prophesied in the annals of fantasy lore. Your attempts at upheaval have been, at best, minuscule and they show to be ever more pathetic as the end draws nigh. Learn your hymn’s of praise for your new master, for they shall soon be warranted.”

The Results Are In!

The Bookie: Dolphins*/Cowboys/*Patriots
Big Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Rams*
Little Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Raiders (7 points)
Wise Orangutan: Chargers*/Seahawks*/Patriots
The Strategist: Rams*/Seahawks/Bears
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Cowboys*/49ers*
B-Reezy: Cowboys*/Seahawks/Raiders (6 points)
Atwork: Vikings*/Seahawks*/Bears

Down the homestretch, B-Reezy finishes at a blazing gallop and distances himself from his followers. Little Tuna adeptly trails the frontrunner to notch her first trifecta of the Fibonacci.

The rest of the field stumbles on a bad trip over the unique picks designed to avoid the Box Out by B-Reezy.

** Trip: The course followed by a horse and rider during the running of a race and describes the “trouble” encountered. A horse that had a “good trip” did not encounter any unusual difficulty. A “bad trip” might involve racing wide, or being boxed in by other horses.

Mathematically speaking…

In the end, there was no way for any other Analyst to overtake B-Reezy as he scored a 6-point trifecta to add to his 3 point lead (8 points was the maximum possible in leg 5 of the Fibonacci Stakes).

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Press Release | December 1, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:
Joe Wycoff
ROI2 Partners | World Football Trifecta Leagues
425-891-3665
orders@roi2partners.com

ROI2 Partners Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Introduce the “World Football Trifecta Leagues” to the Fantasy Football Market

Chicago, Illinois – December 1, 2016 – ROI2 Partners, a company that developed a new template for fantasy sports leagues, announced today the first edition of its rules and league management tools for World Football Trifecta Leagues. The company also announced its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with a goal to raise $50,000 and support the start of 1,000+ leagues during the upcoming postseason in professional football.

Using the tagline, “professional football analysis for the horse race enthusiast,” the first edition of the rules for the World Football Trifecta Leagues simulates horse racing. Each league pits six to ten players, called “Analysts,” against each other in weekly “pick three” contests to predict the outcomes of professional football games. The players adopt thoroughbred names and “home teams” that determine the games from which to pick three winners in the week. A league then divides a professional football league’s regular season into four races, dubbed “The Quaternary Crown,” each lasting four to five weeks. The four Crown races utilize different point systems to reward players whose picks are correct, but that also meet the specific race criteria for extra points. The points then translate into “horse lengths” that determine who is the winning analyst.

In addition the Crowns, there are two season-ending competitions to hold players’ interests over the entire season: an Analyst of the Year award for the most accurate prognosticator during the regular season and a postseason World Football Analyst Championship for the most accurate picks in the postseason. Each race is distinct so that players are not eliminated by mid-season and all analyst-players remain engaged in the competitions of sports analysis until season-end.

The company developed and published its fantasy football league rules online during the past three years (see: http://www.roi2partners.com/wftl/). “The standard office and pick ’em pools have not seen the kind of innovation and technological support that player-based fantasy football has witnessed in the past twenty years,” said Joe Wycoff, head of the family-owned business. “The pools, however, have limited appeal because participants are required to study and pick every game in every week of the entire season regardless of their familiarity with football in general or the individual teams.”

To address this barrier to adoption for pick ’em leagues, the home teams of the Analysts determine the games from which players pick winners each week. This is the most significant departure from standard fantasy football leagues in which participants draft players for fantasy teams. Mr. Wycoff added, “We believe there is a segment of the market for fantasy football that wants to get back to watching football games and rooting for home teams rather than reading individual player stats, injury reports and data from predictive models.”

Consequently, ROI2 Partners envisions the first edition of its league rules as a template for additional versions of its concept for fantasy sports leagues. For instance, an international professional football league such as a premier soccer league with thirty-eight matches may be divided into three “grand tour” cycling races among the analyst-players. The company is already developing a “Football Game of the Year” edition of its rules to simulate a professional football game, rather than horse racing. The “Football Game of the Year” edition will be a fantasy game in which the pick-three competitions take place over four weeks of the regular season as if each week is one of four quarters in a football game.

To contribute to the Kickstarter campaign to launch the first edition of its rules and technology for league management, please visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1838362977/world-football-trifecta-leagues.

“We hope other families, friends, and coworkers will enjoy a true novelization of the standard office pool pick ’em format for professional football games,” Mr. Wycoff shared. “We have found that the general rules allow hard core and casual professional football fans to gather information for picks in their own way and to adopt different strategies suited to their interests in the select games of the week. In the Winners’ Circle we maintain for our league, eight of nine Analysts have won at least one race in the past two and a half years.”

ROI2 Partners is a family-owned business operating in Chicago, Illinois. The company has developed the World Football Trifecta Leagues over the past three years and manages the distribution of league rules and tools. The rules and information necessary to start new leagues are freely available at http://www.roi2partners.com/wftl/. The company can be contacted by phone at 425.891.3665 or by email at orders@roi2partners.com.

Media contact:
Joe Wycoff
ROI2 Partners | World Football Trifecta Leagues
425-891-3665
Email: orders@roi2partners.com
Website: http://www.roi2partners.com/wftl/

Disclaimer: ROI2 Partners does not take bets, award prizes, or approve the use of its fantasy league format for the purposes of gambling.

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Scenarios | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 5

Fibonacci Stakes Leg 5 Scenarios:

Current Standings

Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 4
Standings after Leg 4 of Fibonacci Stakes III

Visitors: Rules for the Fibonacci Stakes can be found in the menu under Quaternary Crown.

In the final calculations of the Fibonacci Stakes, all all but one Analyst (see #7 below) remains in contention for The Winner’s Circle. With 5 base trifecta points and 3 bonus trifecta points at stake in Leg 5, an Analyst can come from behind to win with 8 points and as few as 5 points.

B-Reezy has positioned himself for the homestretch, but needs a trifecta with at least one Fibonacci bonus to cross the finish line unchallenged.

Beware the Box Out! If an Analyst with more points has the same three picks, there is no way to overtake the Analyst in the lead to start the homestretch!

Below are the most likely scenarios for the final leg of the Fibonacci Stakes:

  1. B-Reezy (8 points) shows the lead with three full lengths between him and his closest challengers. He needs only 6 points (one same pick from Leg 4) to put the rest of the field out of reach. He has the weakest Tiebreakers, however, and will lose in every head-to-head tie with the other Analysts.
  2. The Bookie (5 points) has the strongest Tiebreaker portfolio and will beat nearly every other Analyst in a tie (she cannot tie with Little Tuna). She can run for 8 points (same three picks as Leg 4) and race only B-Reezy or Atwork at the finish line. If she runs for 5 points (no Fibonacci bonuses), she could let Wise Orangutan slip past on the outside rail.
  3. Atwork (5 points) has a weak Tiebreaker set, so his best chance is for B-Reezy and The Bookie to falter while picking up a trifecta of 7 points in value. Big Tuna chases one length behind, but the fish has a weaker Tiebreaker set at the moment.
  4. Big Tuna (4 points) is the first of the Analysts who can win only if B-Reezy fails to get a trifecta. In addition, he has a weak Tiebreaker portfolio and may need to put clear distance between himself and the last challengers.
  5. Wise Orangutan (3 points) has a modest Tiebreaker resume and can beat Big Tuna and Atwork at the line. He needs B-Reezy and The Bookie to spit the bit in the homestretch if he hopes to stand in the winners’ circle.
  6. Little Tuna, Kal Krome, and The Strategist (0 points) need all of the above Analysts to fail to Pick Three and then also to Let ‘Em Ride (take the same three teams as last week) in order to win. If one or more end in a tie with B-Reezy, the strength of Tiebreakers as they stand currently comes in this order: Little Tuna, Kal Krome, The Strategist, and B-Reezy.
  7. Three Analysts had both the Cowboys and Vikings last week. Those Analysts have to choose between the two teams or two other teams. That limits their point totals for this week to 7 points — effectively eliminating The Strategist. The Bookie and Atwork, currently contesting second place, are also limited to 7 points this week and 12 points total in the Fibonacci Stakes.

Will B-Reezy’s “good trip” come to a sudden halt or will the wily long-strider claim a Crown with his season-long strategy?!!?

***** SCENARIO UPDATE AFTER PICKS AND TNF *****

  1. The Strategist was eliminated before the homestretch as she could not Let ‘ Em Ride (pick the same three teams) out of the far turn (Leg 4).
  2. B-Reezy boxes out Little Tuna and eliminates her from the Fibonacci Stakes. Both Analysts have the same Picks, so they advance or fall back together.
  3. After another dramatic ending that is ill-measured by the W-L column, Atwork fails to advance on B-Reezy down the homestretch after the Norsemen struggle to plunder the Texas Marshals. He has been eliminated.
  4. Five Analysts remain in contention heading into the early games on Sunday….

***** SUNDAY EARLY GAME SCENARIOS *****

Game of the Day: Bills at Raiders
All of the Analysts not named B-Reezy who picked the Seahawks need the Bills to beat the Raiders. If the Raiders win, B-Reezy boxes out the field with the exception of The Bookie.B-Reezy’s (and Little Tuna’s) homestretch run of course hinges on the Raiders win and/or Seahawks loss. The Bookie right now has the open lane since she did not take the Seahawks, but her Dolphins must beat the Ravens at home.

 

***** SUNDAY LATE GAME SCENARIOS *****

 

1. Big Tuna’s and The Strategist’s last ditch Ram-ming down the homestretch is gunned down by the Patriots.
2. The Bookie faces mortality as the Ravens deal a deathblow to the Dolphins in the final push.

 

Only one Analyst appears to be within Charg(er)-ing distance of the frontrunner B-Reezy. B-Reezy can box out Wise Orangutan with a win by the Raiders, or he can trot across the finish line with a loss by the Chragers or the Seahawks. Wise O. needs a good trip down the homestretch with wins by the Chargers, Bills, and Seahawks if he hopes to close the distance!
***** SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL GAME SCENARIOS *****

 

B-Reezy continues his sprint to the finish line of the Fibonacci Stakes. The Raiders secured his quote, dominance, unquote, over the league in Year 3 after the Wise Orangutan trips over his Home Team selection from the 1978-79 professional football season (!).

Heading into the SNF, B-Reezy wins with a Seahawks victory or loss, while Little Tuna shows legs and may come from behind to place in the Fibonacci Stakes if the Seahawks win.

All marvel as B-Reezy wins his first Crown!

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Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 12

Analyst of the Year III

Round the final arc of the the second turn, B-Reezy presses the field into sudden death after adding his 6th Trifecta and 26th Correct Pick for the season. Analysts face elimination in the Analyst of the Year competition beginning next week!

Big Tuna holds onto second with 3 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks, followed closely by Wise Orangutan (3 Trifectas and 22 Correct Picks) and Atwork (3 Trifectas and 21 Correct Picks).

Kal Krome falters as his effort stalls with 2 Trifecta Points and 22 Correct Picks. The Bookie closes by one head 21st Correct Pick (2 Trifecta Points).

Little Tuna (1 Trifecta, 19 Correct Picks) and The Strategist (1 Trifecta, 18 Correct Picks) may have to be fitted with blinkers to hold focus and come from behind in the final five legs of the Analyst of the Year.

Trifectas

Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 12
Standings after Leg 12 for the Analyst of the Year III

Correct Picks

Tiebreakers | Analyst of the Year III | Week 12
Tiebreakers after Leg 12 for the Analyst of the Year III

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Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 4

Fibonacci Stakes III

Trifecta Points

In the far turn, B-Reezy re-establishes his dominance over the field. With the sole trifecta of the week, he gains 4 lengths with 3 base trifecta points and 1 bonus trifecta point.

The Bookie and Atwork (each 5 trifecta points) slip into 2nd and 3rd respectively as the Norsemen’s assault rounds aground the shores of the Detroit River.

Big Tuna controls 4th with 4 trifecta points, followed closely by Wise Orangutan in 5th (3 trifecta points).

Little Tuna, Kal Krome, and The Strategist now look to be long shots to finish the Fibonacci Stakes in the Winners’ Circle…

Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 4
Standings after Leg 4 of Fibonacci Stakes III

Tiebreakers

The Bookie continues to control inside rail on most Analysts. She claims the head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan and The Strategist. With 4 Correct Home Team Selections and 6 Correct Fibonacci Bonus Picks, she leads all other Analysts but one by a head or more with tiebreakers.

Little Tuna gains her fourth Correct Home Teams Selection and 6th Fibonacci Bonus Pick. Kal Krome pulls up around the second turn as his Seahawks stumble, but still has 3 Correct Home Team Selections and 5 Fibonacci Bonus Picks.

Wise Orangutan adds to his Correct Home Team Selections (2) and distances himself every so slightly from former-front runner Atwork (1) and the qb hand-riding Strategist (1).

Big Tuna and B-Reezy must take the outside rail to win as neither has a Correct Home Team Selection headed into the homestretch.

Tiebreakers | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 4
Tiebreakers after Leg 4 of Fibonacci Stakes III

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Fibonacci Stakes III | Week 12 Picks

The Analysts picks are in:

The Bookie: Dolphins*/Cowboys*/Vikings*
Big Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Rams*
Little Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Bears*
Wise Orangutan: Chargers/Seahawks*/Cowboys*
The Strategist: Rams*/Cowboys*/Vikings*
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Cowboys*/49ers
B-Reezy: Cowboys*/Dolphins/Lions
Atwork: *Vikings/Cowboys*/Seahawks*

Base trifecta is worth 3 points in this leg of the Fibonacci Stakes.

* Denotes Fibonacci bonus picks (none possible in Leg 1).

Race Day Notes:

Thank you all for the privilege I have had to interview each and everyone of you. Your candidness has been appreciated.

For the next 8 weeks I will ask each of you to reflect on your strategies and how they are working.

Our second muse will be from Little Tuna!

Little Tuna: Ahhh. Little Tuna. As I take this time to reflect on this years football season, I am not sad. Not sad about the stupid Bears. Not sad about the damn Vikings. Not sad about the pathetic Panthers. I feel only joy. Joy because even if Romo were to return, God help us, I am the only one who has won BOTH TROPHIES and 120 DOLLARS!!

The Clearinghouse: “120 DOLLARS” is a euphemism for 3 regular season races and implies no actual exchange of monies.

The Results Are In!

The Bookie: Dolphins*/Cowboys*/Vikings*
Big Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Rams*
Little Tuna: Cowboys*/Seahawks*/Bears*
Wise Orangutan: Chargers/Seahawks*/Cowboys*
The Strategist: Rams*/Cowboys*/Vikings*
Kal Krome: Seahawks*/Cowboys*/49ers
B-Reezy: Cowboys*/Dolphins/Lions (4 points)
Atwork: *Vikings/Cowboys*/Seahawks*

Around the final turn, B-Reezy once again show the lead with the sole trifecta of the week for 4 points.

Wise Orangutan and The Bookie stumble on their third pick in the far turn.

The rest of the field notches only a single correct pick after the Seahawks and Vikings encounter a “bad trip” just before entering the home stretch to determine the pretenders and contenders of November.

** Trip: The course followed by a horse and rider during the running of a race and describes the “trouble” encountered. A horse that had a “good trip” did not encounter any unusual difficulty. A “bad trip” might involve racing wide, or being boxed in by other horses.

Mathematically speaking…

The Cowboys, Dolphins, and Raiders offered the only option to maximize Fibonacci bonus points in the 4th leg of the Fibonacci Stakes. Three picks two weeks in a row with a selection of those teams would have yielded 3 *base* trifecta points and 3 *bonus* trifecta points, for a total of 6 trifecta points and the lead.

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Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 11

Analyst of the Year III

Heading into the second turn, B-Reezy commands the lead for the Analyst of the Year after adding his 5th Trifecta and 23rd Correct Pick for the season.

Big Tuna holds onto second with 3 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks, followed closely by Atwork and Wise Orangutan (each with 3 Trifectas and 20 Correct Picks).

Kal Krome is in position to close quickly despite having only 2 Trifecta Points as he has the third highest total of Correct Picks (21).

The Bookie begins to shows sign of her late season form after picking up her 2nd Trifecta and 19th Correct Pick.

Little Tuna (1 Trifecta, 18 Correct Picks) and The Strategist (1 Trifecta, 15 Correct Picks) reach the far turn far off the pace of the frontrunner.

Trifectas

Standings | Analyst of the Year III | Week 11
Standings after Leg 11 for the Analyst of the Year III

Correct Picks

Tiebreakers | Analyst of the Year III | Week 11
Tiebreakers after Leg 11 for the Analyst of the Year III

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Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 3

Fibonacci Stakes III

Trifecta Points

In the backstretch, The Bookie and Atwork rush into the lead with a Fibonacci trifecta (5 points). Big Tuna (4 points) clings to 3rd place as B-Reezy (4 points) closes to within nose.

Wise Orangutan follows B-Reezy on the outside to move into 5th.

Little Tuna and Kal Krome trail, but are testing the inside rail with 3 straight Correct Home Team picks.

The Strategist eases her rookie QB into last place…

Standings | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 3
Standings after Leg 3 of Fibonacci Stakes III

Tiebreakers

The Bookie gains the inside rail on most Analysts. She claims the head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan and The Strategist. With 3 Correct Home Team Selections and 5 Correct Fibonacci Bonus Picks, she leads all other Analysts by a head or more with tiebreakers.

Little Tuna and Kal Krome add their third Correct Home Teams Selections, still poised to sprint from behind to take the lead from the backstretch leaders.

Frontrunner Atwork needs to finish strong since he has only one 1 Correct Home Team Selection.  Likewise The Strategist and Wise Orangutan look to make a clear sprint to the front to overcome their losses to The Bookie and single Correct Home Team Selections.

Sharing third place, Big Tuna and B-Reezy hug the outside rail with 0 Correct Home Team Selections.

Tiebreakers | Fibonacci Stakes III | Leg 3
Tiebreakers after Leg 3 of Fibonacci Stakes III

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