GTS Week 12 - UCLA - FINAL STANDINGS

dbcraig · Nov 19, 2023

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.

Week 12 Results

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

dbcraig · Nov 19, 2023