LOL! This game is pretty much a crapshoot. For what it's worth, I'll consider you the winner no matter what. With everyone betting so much this game kinda makes it so the previous 81 didn't matter very much.
There are no prizes this season so it's purely for fun. Next season KOR and I have talked about putting together a prize pool for the Blazer maniac, so you probably shouldn't expect something like this last game next year. I agree though, River is the winner in my book. Even though technically I'm more of a winner than him!
I would be open to changing the points that can be risked in the last game. Only can bet 80? Only can bet half your points? I do want to keep it so anyone in (say) the top 10 can win though. Anyone lower than that has probably dropped out long ago anyways. Anyone have thoughts on this?
kind of puts the odds against the #1 though cause he has to bet the bank and win in order to keep the other 9 away.
Only if he is betting on the same player (or result) of those around him. If the top 5 or 10 have no shot of winning the season standings in the last game then they would have no reason to play at some point. Many would drop out of the game with something like 5 games left in the season.
So another option would be to do an elimination game. After game 60 we drop the lowest scoring person (or lowest 2 or 3 even) in the standings. At game 82 twenty or more people would be gone. I really like this idea. Game it starts on could be tweaked for next year. I think we will try a test on this idea for the Playoffs. Does that work for everyone? Drop lowest score(s) after game 2 (if you are tied with lowest score you are all dropped) then drop another after each game.
You kids adjust the rules all you like. At the end of the day, wily old farts like Riverman and I are going to win the day. And I'll be proud to have Riv as my runner up......
The Final Results are in! Question: Between Allen Crabbe, Maurice Harkless and Gerald Henderson who will have the best Plus/Minus in the last game of the season? Answer: Allen Crabbe Congrats to @UncleCliffy'sDaddy for winning this year! @riverman also deserves props for being in the lead for at least half the season. And finally thanks to @Fonzthecpt1 for covering for me a few times this year. Those who got it correct: UncleCliffy'sDaddy Fonzthecpt1 Those who weren't so lucky this time: Orion Bailey SlyPokerDog HomerLovesKoolAid theprunetang SIeepwalker Chris Craig PHXBlazer1 BlazerCaravan e_blazer BlazerWookee BoBoBREWSKI VanillaGorilla KeepOnRollin Standings: UncleCliffy'sDaddy - 508 Fonzthecpt1 - 390 BoBoBREWSKI - 129 Shaboid - 73 chzbrgr - 65 dviss1 - 52 rasheedfan2005 - 51 HomerLovesKoolAid - 27 SlyPokerDog - 26 Strenuus - 23 PtldPlatypus - 17 kjironman1 - 16 Daweez04 - 16 ripcityboy - 11 Reep - 11 stampedehero - 10 Nikolokolus - 5 trailblazer18 - 5 clemdawg - 5 BlazerBeav - 5 BonesJones - 2 BigGameDamian - 2 KeepOnRollin - 1 riverman - 0 e_blazer - 0 BlazerWookee - 0 Chris Craig - 0 theprunetang - 0 Orion Bailey - 0 BlazerCarvan - 0 PHXBlazer1 - 0 SIeepwalker - 0 We will do a playoff version of this game to test out the possibility of doing this over/under game next year with an elimination twist.
I ended up in 5th and I didn't start playing until the very end of the season. Glad I was traveling for the last game and wasn't able to post. Bring on the playoffs!
Kudos to KOR (and Fonz) for a genuinely great job! It couldn't have been easy to find a different yet interesting over/under question for 82 freakin' games. I might be the champ this year but you guys are Lifetime Achievement Stat Geeks (that's a compliment btw). This was a very, very fun game and I look forward to the new twists coming up in the playoffs and next year. Nice job guys. Now......................are you SURE there isn't some kinda swag connected to the win.....?? Though I'm enjoying having a years worth of bragging rights over Riverman.........it's an old guy thing......
I think Fonz mentioned it but we will be doing some kind of prize for next year. But at least you aren't still waiting on a Batum game worn warmup from 2 years ago from @SlyPokerDog
P.S. I actually have no idea who won 2 years ago. It was a clusterf*ck but I hope someone got the prize at least.
Man, I must have finished below zero. I know I went all in on Harkless, but I didn't even make the final list. No participation trophy for e_bazer. Sniff.
