2005 Predictions Contest Discussion

[Fred Hornkohl]

See, you all should listen to me more often.

 

You are familiar with the old adage about acorns and blind squirrels, no? :wink:

You just can't handle the fact that I obviously have better foresight and knowledge of this team than you do. :P

 

OK, OK, you win. I acknowledge that you are a veritable legend in your own mind. :wink:

That's fine. I understand that you are just bitter over your whipping. I know you don't mean what you are saying. :D

 

Hey..... I'm not any farther out of 1st place than the CUBS are !!! and besides, you're gonna get your clock cleaned four and out when you go to the playoffs !! :wink:

[treebird]

wtg burnt

[Fred Hornkohl]

Well, there's only a week left in the season, and I've got too much time on my hands, so I ran the numbers one more time.........

 

1. Cub wins: 80
2. Cub wins vs Cardinals: 10
3. Number of runs scored: 712
4. Number of earned runs allowed: 681

Player Stats & Scoring 

1. Number of Lee HRs: 47
2. Number of Patterson BBs: 23
3. Nomar Batting Average: .272
4. Aramis RBIs: 93
5. Maddux Wins: 14
6. Zambrano ERA: 3.33
7. Wood Ks: 77
8. Mark Prior Starts: 28 

Tiebreaker: Barrett OPS: .826

 

 

Disclaimer: As before, these are just my numbers.... not to be confused with anything official from Serena !!!

 

Player                  Score
Dr. Cub                   740
Treebeard                 605
TB_11                     535
Bob's Keeper              535
UMFan83                   510
burnt out cubbie fan      500
Notorius                  460
Bull-Rino-Bowa-Penquin    450
Tinkers2Evers             445
Chief_Cardinal            400
cubs dane                 395
vance_the_cubs_fan        385
Fred Hornkohl             375
DJAXXFAN                  370
USSoccer                  365
Outshined_one             345
Sweetpeteman              345
sherwood921               340
TrueBlueCubFan            340
JC                        335
NCCubbieFan               325
Sandberg23                320
CT Cubs Fan               310
Sabremetrician            295
Knyption                  285
Fortybelow16              285
Brinoch                   275
rawaction                 270
Tim                       270
It Mikght Be!             270
Rocket Sauce              260
CubsInNC                  255
coldsteel                 255
BigbadB                   250
sethuel1                  245
Mark Prior's Calves       235
10man                     215
RoastTheD___Goat          210
CPatterson20              200
mhuber92211               190
Knightlife_in_Lubbock     175
Mizzou                    165
Coach C                   165
Gracie's Girl             145

[NCCubFan]

Woo-hoo! 21st place! \:D/ (At least that's in the top half, which is more than we can say about the Cubs in the NL Central at the moment.)

[Laura]

Barring unforeseen circumstances, final results will be posted Oct. 3. :)

[burnt out cubbie fan]

NOOOOOO.... I'm the White Sox version of this contest.

[Laura]

NOOOOOO.... I'm the White Sox version of this contest.

 

So we should root against you?

[Jon]

NOOOOOO.... I'm the White Sox version of this contest.

 

So we should root against you?

Weren't we supposed to be doing that from the beginning?

[sethuel1]

Wow, i drank WAAAAYYYYYYY too much Kool-Aid before I came up with my entry.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Haha, burnt's a choker.

[Laura]

The final standings:

 

Dr. Cub                    720
Treebeard                  580
Bob's Keeper               535
TB_11                      515
UMFan83                    470
Notorious                  460
cubs dane                  455
Chief_Cardinal             450
burnt out cubbie fan       440
USSoccer                   430
Tinkers2evers              415
vance_the_cubs_fan         400
Fred Hornkohl              375  .815
Bull-Rino-Bowa-Penguin     375  .815
TrueBlueCubFan             365
DJAXXFAN                   355
sandberg23                 335  .789
sweetpeteman               335  .913
CT Cubs Fan                325
NCCubbieFan                320  .825
Sabermetrician             320  .803
sherwood921                315
Outshined_One              310
CubsInNC                   295
brinoch                    290  .810
Tim                        290  .790
coldsteel                  290  .780
IMB!                       275
rawaction                  260
Knyption                   255  .820
sethuel1                   255  .848
Mark Prior's Calves        250  .812
Rocket Sauce               250  .800
fortybelow16               250  .797
BigbadB                    245
JC                         240
Coach_C                    220
CPatterson20               190  .825
RoastTheD---Goat           190  .839
10man                      185
Knightlife_in_Lubbock      170  .818
mhuber92211                170  .877
Mizzou                     150
Gracie's Girl              135

 

Michael Barrett's OPS is listed for tie scores. Fred Hornkohl and Bull-Rino-Bowa-Penguin managed to tie both in the score and in the OPS tiebreaker. #-o I edited in the individual scoring in each person's entry in the locked thread.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Cub, the overall winner with the amazingly coincidental score of 720! =D>

 

Congratulations to TB_11, who wins 3 months of premium membership!

 

Congratulations to the following members who have won prizes:

 

Dr. Cub                    720
Treebeard                  580
Bob's Keeper               535
UMFan83                    470
burnt out cubbie fan       440
USSoccer                   430
Tinkers2evers              415
vance_the_cubs_fan         400
Fred Hornkohl              375
TrueBlueCubFan             365
DJAXXFAN                   355

 

They'll get to choose from the prize packages in the same order that they placed.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I made it into the prize grouping and that's all that matters. It means I won more than the Cubs did this year.

[Laura]

I made it into the prize grouping and that's all that matters. It means I won more than the Cubs did this year.

 

I should have added congrats to you and DJAXX for winning back some of the prizes you donated! :lol:

[UMFan83]

I can't believe I won something....I remember thinking that I was being pessimistic when I made my predictions, but it turns out I was being very optimistic. Wow, thanks for making this happen, and to the people ahead of me, hurry up and choose so I can make my choice! :)

[USSoccer]

I can't believe I won something....I remember thinking that I was being pessimistic when I made my predictions, but it turns out I was being very optimistic. Wow, thanks for making this happen, and to the people ahead of me, hurry up and choose so I can make my choice! :)

 

Hmm...you're ahead of me, too...what are you eyeing? :D

[Chris]

I made it into the prize grouping and that's all that matters. It means I won more than the Cubs did this year.

 

I should have added congrats to you and DJAXX for winning back some of the prizes you donated! :lol:

 

:lol:

[mhuber92211]

wow, I suck. No wonder no one pays attention to me :D

[Mizzou]

Wow, I REALLY suck at predicting things! :oops:

[Chief_Cardinal]

Hey 8th place for the non-cubs fan....not to bad. Of course in a contest like that, it might be an advantage to not be a Cubs fan