Down the backstretch, Big Tuna (4 points) extends his lead to two lengths over Wise O. (2 points).
Craft Brew and Roxy Trot move into a neck-and-neck race for third place with The Strategist. Each with 1 Trifecta point, Craft Brew holds third place by a head due to 2 Correct Home Team Picks. The Strategist noses out Roxy Trot for fourth place on third tiebreakers (1.5 forced turnover per game vs. 1 forced turnover per game).
The rest of the field trail with 0 Trifecta points, with Jimmy V is alone in sixth place with 1 Correct Home Team Pick.
The remainder of the Analysts are only separated by third tiebreaker (forced turnovers) entering the backstretch.
Standings after Leg 2 of Player Haters Preakness V
Tiebreakers
Tiebreakers after Leg 2 of Player Haters Preakness V
Atwork: Ravens**/Broncos**/Buccaneers**
B-Reezy: Jaguars*/Bears/Rams
Big Tuna: Rams/Packers/Seahawks
Little Tuna: Titans*/Dolphins**/Chiefs**
Craft Brew: Rams*/Packers/Ravens**
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Rams/Packers
Jimmy V: Packers/Ravens**/Raiders**
Sponge Mom: Bears*/Chiefs**/Ravens**
Wise Orangutan: Packers/Ravens**/Chiefs**
The Strategist: Panthers* /Bears/Packers
The Bookie: Packers/Chiefs**/Ravens**
* denotes home team
** denotes Players Haters
More of the Interview with Jimmy V. Winner of the PC-Fecta Derby V
The Bookie: This is your first year in the WFTL. You’ve had a remarkable start. What was your strategy in this race? Jimmy V: Well Bookie I just wanted to set back and see the pace at first. After leg one I knew that running up front was the way to go. It helped when wise O held up the field with his disinformation strategy. Although I have to come from behind in this race, I have confidence that the other horses will falter down the stretch. To my fellow runners good luck!!! You’ll need it!!!
Spit Box:
(1) Roxy’s got Moxie
(2) Life is like a Box of Chocolate!!! You never know whatcha going to Get!
(3) Shenanigans! I know the NFL referees will do what they must to get the Patriots a win in this game.
(4) Going to spit in the box this week and roll the dice
(5) Let’s see if I can finally get a trifecta this week. Would be nice to get at least one.
(6) You’d think it would be easy to pick three teams!!!
(7) i burst outta of the gate and ya’ll are eating my dust!!
(8) Not a lock amongst them.
The Results Are In:
Atwork: Ravens**/Broncos**/Buccaneers**
B-Reezy: Jaguars*/Bears/Rams
Big Tuna: Rams/Packers/Seahawks (1 point)
Little Tuna: Titans*/Dolphins**/Chiefs**
Craft Brew: Rams*/Packers/Ravens** (1 point)
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Rams/Packers (1 point)
Jimmy V: Packers/Ravens**/Raiders**
Sponge Mom: Bears*/Chiefs**/Ravens**
Wise Orangutan: Packers/Ravens**/Chiefs**
The Strategist: Panthers* /Bears/Packers
The Bookie: Packers/Chiefs**/Ravens**
Perfect Player Hater Pick:
A combination of Turkeys, Dolphins, Cowboys, and Ravens…
The Strategist builds on her early lead with a 3rd Trifecta in five weeks! With 12 Correct Picks overall, she leads the rest of the field by more than 2 lengths in the clubhouse turn.
With 1 Trifecta and 9 Correct Picks, Big Tuna and Jimmy V are running neck-and-neck in second place.
B-Reezy and Little Tuna are contesting fourth place with 1 Trifecta and 8 Correct Picks, trailed by Wise Orangutan lumbering alone in sixth place ( 1 Trifecta and 6 Correct Picks).
Roxy Trot continues her string of 2 Correct Picks to hold seventh place (9 Correct Picks).
Craft Brew, Atwork, and Sponge Mom play for eighth place with 7 Correct Picks.
Bringing up the rear, The Bookie has 6 Correct Picks — just at little more than one Correct Pick per week!
Big Tuna gets a jump on the field out of the gate with perfect Player Haters Trifecta (3 points) down the front stretch and around the clubhouse turn. Wise O. shakes off his Derby disaster to score a 2-point Player Hater Trifecta. In third, The Strategist rides her Home Team to a Trifecta (1 point).
The back of the field is feeling the hate but not doling enough out in return!
Craft Brew nonetheless gains a first tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan. He and Jimmy V also net valuable second tiebreakers with Correct Home Team picks (1).
The remainder of the Analysts are only separated by third tiebreaker (forced turnovers) entering the backstretch.
Standings after Leg 1 of Player Haters Preakness V
Tiebreakers
Tiebreakers after Leg 1 of Player Haters Preakness V
Atwork: Packers*/Seahawks/Vikings**
B-Reezy: Vikings**/Redskins**/Rams
Big Tuna: Bills**/Vikings**/Chiefs**
Little Tuna: Redskins**/Chiefs**/Steelers**
Craft Brew: Rams*/Saints/Titans
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Rams/Saints
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Rams/Packers
Sponge Mom: Packers/Rams/Titan
Wise Orangutan: Panthers/Steelers**/Chiefs**
The Strategist: Panthers*/Rams/Saints
The Bookie: Packers/Saints/Chiefs**
* denotes home team
** denotes player hater
Interview with Jimmy V. Winner of the PC-Fecta Derby V
The Bookie: This is your first year in the WFTL. You’ve had a remarkable start. What was your strategy in this race?
Jimmy V.: JimmyV definitely has his eye on winning it all!!!!
Spit Box:
(1) I’m in for the long game.
(2) Hopefully this week I’ll get a trifecta.
(3) Lets go trifecta!
(4) What’s a trifecta?
The Results Are In:
Atwork: Packers*/Seahawks/Vikings**
B-Reezy: Vikings**/Redskins**/Rams
Big Tuna: Bills**/Vikings**/Chiefs** (3 points)
Little Tuna: Redskins**/Chiefs**/Steelers**
Craft Brew: Rams*/Saints/Titans
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Rams/Saints
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Rams/Packers
Sponge Mom: Packers/Rams/Titans
Wise Orangutan: Panthers/Steelers**/Chiefs**(2 points)
The Strategist: Panthers*/Rams/Saints (1 point)
The Bookie: Packers/Saints/Chiefs**
Perfect Player Hater Pick:
A combination of Lions, Chiefs, Steelers, Bills, or Vikings.
The Analysts have submitted their papers and claimed their Home Teams to start the race. The Claim Box for Player Haters Preakness V is:
Claim Box for Player Haters Preakness V
Slate of Games
Slate of Games for Player Haters Preakness V
Superscript 1 next to Home Team means the game is played internationally.
The slate of games for Player Haters Preakness V includes five head-to-head competitions this month (the first tiebreaker in the race). Head-to-head games do not count toward Player Haters Picks (i.e., Picks of un-owned teams).
In Leg 1, through the clubhouse turn, we kick off the Crown with a test of horse sense by Analysts with new mounts: Craft Brew versus Wise Orangutan. In Leg 3, The Strategist will try to contain the upstart Roxy Trot, while Kentucky burns as Jimmy V takes his Derby champion to Sponge Mom’s (un-)Bearable field! In Leg 4, Roxy Trot flies like an Eagle overseas to race against B-Reezy riding the London Jaguars and Atwork seeks to down a Craft Brew in Los Angeles.
Home teams owned by an Analyst are in bold. The team at the left is the visiting team; the team at the right is the host (playing at home). There are a record number of featured games: two Thursday nights, four Sunday nights, and four Monday nights.
Seven different teams earn a bye week during the month, robbing Analysts of precious opportunities for Player Hater Picks.
Picks
Remember: Every Analyst has a bias for his or her Home Team and may NOT pick their Claimed team to lose. Analysts do not have to pick his or her Home Team to win, but Correct Home Team Picks remains the second tiebreaker. See the complete Player Haters Preakness rules for more detail.
Email picks in private to The Bookie before each leg (week) of the Race. Thursday games are due by 2pm local times on Thursdays (flexible per The Bookie’s time in special circumstances). All three Picks are due on Saturdays at 2pm local times. No Picks for games after kickoffs are accepted.
An astonishing finish to the Fastest Four Weeks in Football!
Heading into the homestretch, Little Tuna had an estimated 96% likelihood to win the PC-Fecta Derby. Not only did one Analyst have to Pick Three Correctly (12.5% chance), that one Analyst had to best all other Analysts for the best offense AND the best defense (30% chance with a Trifecta) to force a photo finish on tiebreakers.
In the early games, Little Tuna lost her opportunity to secure victory when the Falcons lost. Jimmy V notched a Trifecta with the typical display of AFC East dominance. But, Sponge Mom and Atwork owned the PC-Fecta bonus points if the Eagles won in overtime. Little Tuna’s chances suddenly rose or fell with Sponge Mom.
After the Packers (0 defense points) and Bears won (48 offense points), Sponge Mom and Atwork had a 92% chance to take Place and Show when the Eagles had 1st and 10 on the Titans’ 17 yard line. A victory by the Eagles also would have sent Little Tuna to the finish line with the Win. And, that is why we Pick the games….
Sponge Mom’s Trifecta Probability
The winner of PC-Fecta Derby V is:
Jimmy V! The first yearling in WFTL history to win a Crown (since the first year). When the Eagles fell to the Titans, his Home Team’s blow out reaped all three bonus points to draw into a Trifecta point tie with Little Tuna. By virtue of 2 Correct Home Team Picks, he edges her by a head for the Win in PC-Fecta Derby V!
Little takes Place. Hobbled down the homestretch by a Home Team bye week, The Strategist nonetheless takes the Show with a Trifecta. Honorable mention goes to B-Reezy in fourth place with the only other Trifecta point in the PC-Fecta Derby.
The rest of the field struggled to find their first Trifecta (0 Trifectas) on the unforgiving Derby track.
Sponge Mom (3 Correct Home Team Picks and +11.5 point differential) and Big Tuna (3 Correct Home Team Picks and +4.0 point differential) nevertheless delivered stand out performances. Atwork finishes with 2 Correct Home Team Picks (+2.3 point differential) and the first tiebreaker over Sponge Mom. Fifth through seventh places end in a dead heat (Sponge Mom best Big Tuna, Big Tuna bests Atwork, and Atwork bests Sponge Mom).
At the back of the field with 1 Correct Home Team Pick separated by first tiebreaker or point differentials (see final table), Roxy Trot finishes 8th, The Bookie struggles to 9th, Craft Brew waves the yellow flag for 10th and Wise O. gets a one way ticket back to fourth grade for his last place effort.
Trifecta Points
Final Results in PC-Fecta Derby V
Tiebreakers
Tiebreakers for PC-Fecta Derby V at the Finish Line
The Analysts have cleared the front stretch and are entering into the clubhouse turn!
Defending her title early, The Strategist opens a one length lead (2 Trifectas and 9 Correct Picks) over the nearest competition.
Three Analysts are contesting second position with 1 Trifecta heading into the first turn. In second by a head, Jimmy V takes the inside track with 7 Correct Picks. Little Tuna slides to third in a dead heat with B-Reezy (both 6 Correct Picks).
In fifth, Roxy Trot is poised to add her name to the leader board as she leads the back of the field with 7 Correct Picks.
Trailing by a head, Big Tuna, Atwork, and Sponge Mom run nose-to-nose for sixth place with 6 Correct Picks.
Craft Brew feels the steel-hurtin’ in ninth place with 5 Correct Picks. The Bookie trails in tenth with 4 Correct Picks and Wise Orangutan wheezes on the dust in last with 3 Correct Picks.
Atwork: Packers*/Eagles/Bears
B-Reezy: Jaguars*/Saints/Bears
Big Tuna: Saints*/Steelers/Jaguars
Little Tuna: Falcons/Saints/Jaguars
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Patriots/Eagles
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Packers/Jaguars
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Packers/Jaguars
Sponge Mom: Bears*/Packers/Eagles
Wise Orangutan: Raiders*/Rams/Eagles
The Strategist: Packers/Saints/Jaguars
The Bookie: Falcons*/Saints/Jaguars
Spit Box:
(1) My picks are better when I’m drinking.
(2) I considered myself intelligent until this game came along. Why is 3 picks right so hard?!?!??
(3) It’s been a crazy 3 weeks of picks. I feel a Trifecta.
(4) Ugh! What a week!!! I’ve talked myself in and out of all my picks and finally just went back to my gut. Ugh!!!
(5) Even a blind dog stumbled across a bone once in a while.
(6) I need this trifecta! Hopefully I’ll have better luck this week.
(7) I’ve been Boxed Out!!!!!!!
* denotes home team
The Results Are In:
Atwork: Packers*/Eagles/Bears
B-Reezy: Jaguars*/Saints/Bears (1-point Trifecta)
Big Tuna: Saints*/Steelers/Jaguars
Little Tuna: Falcons/Saints/Jaguars
Craft Brew: Steelers*/Patriots/Eagles
Roxy Trot: Eagles*/Packers/Jaguars
Jimmy V: Patriots*/Packers/Jaguars (4-point Trifecta)
Sponge Mom: Bears*/Packers/Eagles
Wise Orangutan: Raiders*/Rams/Eagles
The Strategist: Packers/Saints/Jaguars (1-point Trifecta)
The Bookie: Falcons*/Saints/Jaguars
Entering the backstretch, Little Tuna has eliminated The Strategist and leads all other Analysts by four points for the win. The Strategist currently holds place, but can only earn one more Trifecta point this week because her Home Team is on a bye week.
Scenarios
More than one Analyst can earn bonus points if two or more Home Teams have exactly the same offensive or defensive performance (scores). Scenarios are much messier than the following can account for in the case of ties for bonus points!
For the Place:
The Strategist’s Home Team is on a bye. She can finish with at best 2 Trifecta points, 2 Correct Home Team Picks, and +3.7 point differential per game. She can be outrun by any of the trailing Analysts who earns a 3-point Trifecta.
If Little Tuna takes the offensive bonus, other Analysts are competing for the defensive bonus to overtake or force a photo finish with The Strategist for place. If The Strategist does not get a Trifecta, the 2-point defensive bonus is enough to place.
In the event of a tie with The Strategist for place, The Bookie moves ahead due to the head-to-head tiebreaker. If tied, Big Tuna and Sponge Mom move ahead with a Trifecta that includes their Home Team.
All other Analysts need a second Correct Home Team Pick in the event of a tie with The Strategist. If multiple Analysts tie for place, Big Tuna and Sponge Mom have the advantage for Correct Home Team Picks, while other Analysts have head-to-head competitions that take first priority in specific photo finishes.
For the Win:
Little Tuna can only be beaten on tiebreakers and only if she does not earn any Trifecta points.
She currently has 1 Correct Home Team Pick and a -4.3 point differential per game–it is possible should an Analyst win all 4 points this week.
Big Tuna and Sponge Mom are in the strongest position with 2 Correct Home Team Picks (and will thus have 3 Correct Home Team Picks if either earns all 4 points this week).
All other Analysts currently with 1 Correct Home Team Pick must 1) equal Little Tuna in Trifecta points [4] AND b) best her in Correct Home Team Picks (1 or 2 depending on this week’s results) OR by point differential per game (currently -4.3). Atwork and Jimmy V are at a disadvantage for point differential at the moment but can overtake her with a Home Team win AND if Little Tuna’s Home Team loses by a touchdown or more.
Wise O. needs a) all 4 Trifecta points, b) Little Tuna’s Home Team to lose or not be picked, and c) a Home Team win by at least 20 points!
Box Out
See Leg 3 Scenarios. Analysts trailing in Trifecta points or Tiebreakers may be boxed out by an Analyst who enters the final Leg with a better position.
