Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 12 weeks in a row, shame on me.
Our loyal GTSers finished out the season in exactly the manner we should have expected, heavily over-estimating this team's performance. In a pitiful, pathetic end to the Caleb Williams era, the Trojans got stomped, manhandled and kicked all over the field by dreaded fUCLA. And our dwindling GTS field mostly failed to get close once again. The exceptions were three realists, who all picked UCLA to win outright and grabbed the top three spots. Congrats (??) to
@jcbraam for having enough sense to pick against the Trojans and win his second week of the year with a 10. He was followed by
@Kylerkeener - who I think we can pretty much all blame the entire season on for his far too accurate negative prognostications and
@trojan_a_1 who was generally dialed in all year as well - both of whom posted a 15 by guessing a UCLA victory. It got ugly from there for the rest of us sunshine pumpers.
Weekly winners this year were
@jcbraam ,
@cramwetzel and
@Kylerkeener with 2 wins each, and then
@Bed-NASH ,
@highnoon2 ,
@PanamaSteve ,
@Trojan Ace ,
@dbcraig ,
@Bigtrojan78 ,
@usc7137 and
@FreeReggieBush with one weekly win. That's 14 total thanks to a 3 way tie in week 2 between
@cramwetzel ,
@usc7137 and
@FreeReggieBush . I was the only one on the season to hit a score dead on. We had quite a few within 5, but not many in the second half of the season.
For season standings,
@Larr212121 continued to make it a pretty boring race for the win with yet another solid posting. Congrats to
@Larr212121 for a solid wire to wire win this year. We did have some movement below the top, with my terrible dumb guess this week dropping me 3 spots down to 4th, with the anti-trojans, errr, realists,
@trojan_a_1 and
@jcbraam bumping up to take 2nd and 3rd respectively, while
@cramwetzel held on to 4th.
@Kylerkeener ,
@Darcy Bug ,
@CRDUSC93 ,
@tentm and then
@187Bruins rounded out the top 10.
It was a crappy season for the Trojans, but a highly entertaining season of GTS with every late game garbage score swinging outcomes and snatching victory in painful fashion from more than a few GTSers.
I'm absolutely not doing this for whatever horrendous bowl we end up in, so
@Ryan Young, you're on your own if you want a GTS for that game. I will, of course, put in a wildly overly optimistic guess with the rest of the crew if you decide to hold a one off Shifty Ron's Pleather Emporium Bowl GTS though.
Until next season. Fight on!
PS Here is the link to the final spreadsheet. Some quality control is probably needed, although I think I got everything right.
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Week 12 Results | | | | |
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Place | Subscriber | USC | ucLAME | Delta |
1 | jcbraam | 28 | 36 | 10 |
2 | trojan_a_1 | 28 | 31 | 15 |
3 | Kylerkeener | 31 | 42 | 15 |
4 | CRDUSC93 | 31 | 30 | 19 |
5 | Darcy Bug | 31 | 28 | 21 |
6 | RudyTheTrojan | 34 | 31 | 21 |
7 | Sc-raza | 38 | 35 | 21 |
8 | seattledoc | 38 | 35 | 21 |
9 | AlpineTrojan1 | 42 | 38 | 22 |
10 | tim4usc | 35 | 31 | 22 |
11 | Larr212121 | 34 | 27 | 25 |
12 | cramwetzel | 45 | 38 | 25 |
13 | tentm | 35 | 28 | 25 |
14 | SC55OU19 | 36 | 29 | 25 |
15 | SCtrojan2k2 | 38 | 31 | 25 |
16 | TJW4SC | 35 | 28 | 25 |
17 | Trojan Ace | 41 | 33 | 26 |
18 | Ayedoc | 42 | 34 | 26 |
19 | Jack53 | 38 | 28 | 28 |
20 | prime88 | 30 | 20 | 28 |
21 | remc | 45 | 41 | 28 |
22 | mstrlingrundy | 34 | 24 | 28 |
23 | MikeAce00 | 45 | 35 | 28 |
24 | ericsanford | 42 | 31 | 29 |
25 | NoBull1 | 35 | 24 | 29 |
26 | MrSC | 34 | 21 | 31 |
27 | FreeReggieBush | 38 | 24 | 32 |
28 | uclowns | 38 | 24 | 32 |
29 | Eight three | 42 | 28 | 32 |
30 | cj | 31 | 17 | 32 |
31 | Wizard of Illium | 35 | 20 | 33 |
32 | JetLaggMatt | 33 | 17 | 34 |
33 | charmac | 48 | 31 | 35 |
34 | Bigtrojan78 | 45 | 28 | 35 |
35 | HI50trojan | 35 | 18 | 35 |
36 | sdthomas | 44 | 27 | 35 |
37 | Kdub8791 | 35 | 17 | 36 |
38 | Erndog21 | 48 | 28 | 38 |
39 | 187Bruins | 42 | 21 | 39 |
40 | 555heiden | 42 | 21 | 39 |
41 | uscdelt81 | 43 | 20 | 41 |
42 | Alex3000 | 37 | 13 | 42 |
43 | dbcraig | 49 | 24 | 43 |
44 | blown55 | 54 | 20 | 52 |
45 | tlevyn | 59 | 21 | 56 |