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Week 20 Tweetstorm
Item 1. The loss by the
Vikings saved $2,280 from spilling out of the pot. There
would have been 63 perfect weeks for $3,600, instead
there were just 24 for a total of $1,320. Follow this
thread for analysis of the season’s perfect weeks...
Item 2. It’s been a
historic year for perfect weeks. As mentioned in an
earlier Tweetstorm, first place will pay less than
$3,000 for the first time since 2011 when there were
only 316 players and the winner took home $2,425…
Item 3. Analyzing why so
many perfect weeks, we found the pool as a whole has
killed it in NFL games. The pool went into the season
with an all-time NFL winning percentage of .490. This
year it’s .541. That amounts to just over 2,700 more
wins in NFL games than if the pool had maintained its
.490 win pct…
Item 4. We calculate the
difference in perfect weeks from season to season by the
number of perfect weeks per player. Through Week 20,
there have been 0.69 perfect weeks per player. The
highest previous rate in the modern era (more than 500
players) is 0.58…
Item 5. We hope you don’t
need to be told but this is the final week of the pool.
There are only five games to pick from so if you’ve been
holding out and staying away from the Pigskin Special,
you have no choice this week. It’s Monday’s CFP
championship game, Ohio St. vs. Notre Dame. The early
line is Buckeyes -8.5...
Item 6. Going into the
final week, there are nine players within three points
of the lead held by Tpoole329 with 75 points. To avoid
any potential gaming, the picks will not be posted until
after the start of the second NFL playoff game on
Saturday…
Item 7. Finally, the pool
reached an amazing milestone with more than 100,000
picks made this season, the first time we crossed that
plateau. That puts us at more than 1.14 million picks in
the history of the pool, a lot to keep track of from
week to week if we do say so ourselves…
Good luck to everyone trying to
get in the money this weekend. And for those who aren't
close, we hope you've still had fun. One more week to
hit that elusive perfect week.
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