Once again I am posting the standings for those participants previously “above the line”. I was going to include those “below the line” in these standings, some of whom have been doing well. Unfortunately I need a printer to do that and mine is not cooperating today. I therefore expect to post the rest of the standings tomorrow evening with any luck after I have access to a printer.
Two of you (Grover and AYC) had a perfect week. They are both currently below the line so their record will have to wait a day or two, but congrats.
I have spent some time reviewing the participants that were below both lines and have come up with their totals, more or less. There may be some slightly out of whack in the loss column but I am confident the win column is correct. It would take too much time to review the loss columns for everyone involved both above and below the lines. Some people have played less weeks and therefore have less total games. Some have dropped out or have only picked once or twice and I am not including those scores either.
As there are only two weeks left I plan to include everyone that is still participating. I will mesh these with the other standings next week.
Although we often seem to have the same picks I didn’t pick Hamilton last week, along with most others. The majority also picked Winnipeg, which you and I didn’t. It’s hard to pick games that involve at least one team playing mostly their backups. There will be a few more of those over the last couple of weeks.
Sometimes, but not always. Most got it wrong last week by picking Winnipeg when based on recent past history it was reasonable to assume they would be resting half their team and not starting Collaros. I find it hard to predict how backups on a superior team will perform. Next week will probably be similar in that Calgary will likely rest players vs Saskatchewan as I expect that they will be locked into third place by the time their game starts. Arguably picking Edmonton and their wildly varying roster is that way every week. The final week may involve games where neither team has anything to play for, which I think will be even more difficult.
Thanks Jon. That's very considerate of you to include everyone still playing. I wonder if there's an easy way to enter the picks once they're made onto a spreadsheet or some sort of program. And when the results are in, the picks can count themselves? It'd make it easier to keep running totals if this were possible.
