The Strategist claims an early lead in The Seeders Cup with 3-point trifecta during Leg 1.
The rest of the field is separated by tiebreakers at 0 points.
In second, Atwork has 1 Correct Home Team Pick and 4 Seeder Points. B-Reezy and Craft Brew vie for third place with 1 Correct Home Team Pick and 2 Seeder Points.
Grouped in fifth, Wise Orangutan, Big Tuna, and Little Tuna have no Correct Home Team Picks and 2 Seeder Points.
Tied in eighth place, Kal Krome and The Bookie trot out of the gates with no Correct Home Team Pick and no Seeder Points.
Standings after Leg 1 of The Seeders Cup IV
Tiebreakers
Craft Brew holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan. Atwork holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over The Bookie.
Only B-Reezy, Atwork, and Craft Brew pick up a Correct Home Team Pick in Leg 1.
The Strategist ties Little Tuna and B-Reezy for most trifectas! Will she set a new record in the coming weeks?
At the head of the homestretch, The Strategist clinches the only trifecta in the week. She now has 7 Trifectas and 32 Correct Picks on the season.
The rest of the field now faces elimination.
Trailing by two lengths, Big Tuna keeps position of second place with 5 Trifectas and league-leading 31 Correct Picks. Behind by one head, both Craft Brew and B-Reezy contest for third with 5 Trifectas and 30 Correct Picks.
Wise Orangutan still trails the leaders in fifth with 5 Trifectas and only 25 Correct Picks.
Little Tuna remains in sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 28 Correct Picks, holding a slight lead over The Bookie in seventh place with 4 Trifectas and 27 Correct Picks.
Kal Krome and Atwork become the first Analysts eliminated from the Marathon of the Ass. With 3 Trifectas and 25 Correct Picks each on the year, neither Analyst can close the distance on The Strategist before the end of the season!
Trifectas
Standings after Week 14 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 14 for Analyst of the Year IV
Coming out of the far turn, The Strategist clings to a one length lead over four close competitors. Heading into the home stretch, she has 6 Trifectas and 29 Correct Picks.
Jockeying for the inside rail over the rest of the field, however, Big Tuna and Craft Brew have made their moves in the final turn. Big Tuna moves into second place with 5 Trifectas and league-leading 30 Correct Picks over Craft Brew in third with 5 Trifectas and 29 Correct Picks.
B-Reezy has broken stride after one year of incredible picks. He now slips into fourth place after 5 Trifectas and 28 Correct Picks. Following in spurts and lopes, Wise Orangutan trails in fifth with 5 Trifectas and a league-worst 23 Correct Picks (!!??!!).
Little Tuna smells… a potential upset victory after moving into sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 27 Correct Picks, sending The Bookie back to seventh place after she let up in her euphoria over winning the back stretch (Player Haters Preakness). She gallops behind by a head, 4 Trifectas and 26 Correct Picks.
Kal Krome escapes elimination and gains ground on the front runner with 3 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks. He runs one head ahead of Atwork with 3 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks. These two Analysts face elimination next week if The Strategist ties the record for annual Trifectas next week!
Trifectas
Standings after Week 13 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 13 for Analyst of the Year IV
After a disappointing run around the far turn, Chiefly, the front runners now find themselves challenged by the young colt, Craft Brew!
The Strategist remains in first with 6 Trifectas and 28 Correct Picks, but her attempt to tie the record for 7 Trifectas in a single season has remained elusive.
Charging from the middle of the pack, Craft Brew notches his 5th Trifecta and 27th Correct Pick to move into second place.
With one un-Saintly Correct Pick in Week 12, B-Reezy falls into third place with 5 Trifectas and 26 Correct Picks. Will the defending Analyst of the Year be able to defend his crown down the home stretch?!!?
Wise Orangutan slips into fourth place with 5 Trifectas and a paltry 23 Correct Picks.
Big Tuna drops one place, into fifth, with 4 Trifectas but also with a place-worthy 27 Correct Picks that gives him an opportunity on the outside rail. A few heads behind, The Bookie claims sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks.
At the back of the field, Little Tuna jumps Atwork to take seventh place with 3 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks–edging the young stallion’s 3 Trifectas and 22 Correct Picks.
Kal Krome–the only true rancher among the lot of us!–brings up the rear, still struggling to sell the retired Minds Blank to the stud farm so that he can focus on raising new fillies.
Trifectas
Standings after Week 12 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 12 for Analyst of the Year IV
Little Tuna and Craft Brew make their play for the lead heading into the brutal fifth leg of the Fibonacci Stakes!
Coming out of the far turn, Little Tuna successfully calls the complete Fibonacci Trifecta: 3 base points plus 3 Fibonacci bonus points. She moves into the lead with 9 total Trifecta points.
Only one length behind, Craft Brew bags the 3-point base Trifecta plus 2 Fibonacci bonus points for 5 points in the fourth leg. He holds second with 8 total Trifecta points headed into the home stretch.
Trailing the leader by five lengths, The Stategist holds at 4 total Trifecta points in third place.
Trailing the front runner by six lengths, four Analysts give chase with 3 Trifecta points. The Bookie and Big Tuna are in a dead heat for fourth place with 3 Correct Home Team Picks and 6 Fibonacci bonus points each–but The Bookie holds the advantage with a head-to-head victory. In sixth, Kal Krome follows with 2 Correct Home Team Picks and 6 Fibonacci points, plus the head-to-head advantage over Wise Orangutan in seventh.
B-Reezy trails the leader by seven lengths (2 Trifecta points total), while Atwork runs in ninth with 1 Trifecta point. Though in contention, both Analysts will need a clutch sprint down the home stretch to win the Fibonacci Stakes.
Trifecta Points
Standings after Leg 4 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Tiebreakers
Kal Krome holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan. The Bookie holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Big Tuna.
Big Tuna, The Bookie, Little Tuna, and Craft Brew have an advantage with 3 Correct Home Team Picks during the Stakes.
Tiebreakers after Leg 4 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Bye weeks for Home Teams are grayed out (Table 2).
Not so fast, Analysts! Down the back stretch, the Analysts largely hold positions after a disappointing week among the Home Teams.
The Strategist still holds a one length lead with 4 Trifecta points total.
Six Analysts trail with 3 Trifecta points. Big Tuna now holds second place based on 3 Correct Home Team Picks. The Bookie and Craft Brew vie for third place with 2 Correct Home Team Pick and 4 Fibonacci bonus points. Little Tuna in fifth with 2 Correct Home Team Picks and 3 Fibonacci points, followed by Kal Krome in sixth over Wise Orangutan in seventh place due to their head-to-head competititon.
B-Reezy trails the leader by 2 lengths (2 Trifecta points total), while Atwork runs in ninth with 1 Trifecta point.
Trifecta Points
Standings after Leg 3 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Tiebreakers
Kal Krome holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan.
Big Tuna gains an advantage with 3 Correct Home Team Picks.
Tiebreakers after Leg 3 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Bye weeks for Home Teams are grayed out (Table 2).
The Analyst’s are galloping around the far turn of the Analyst of the Year as everyone hits a trifecta in the 10th week of the season–a first in the WFTL!
The standings remain unchanged from last week, but The Strategist is now only one trifecta from tying the record (7) in a single season now held by Little Tuna (2015-16) and B-Reezy (2016-17).
The Strategist in first with 6 Trifectas and 24 Correct Picks, followed by B-Reezy in second with 5 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks and Wise Orangutan 5 Trifectas and 20 Correct Picks.
Big Tuna in fourth place with 4 Trifectas and 23 Correct Picks, Craft Brew in fifth with 4 Trifectas and 22 Correct Picks, and The Bookie in sixth place with 4 Trifectas and 20 Correct Picks.
Atwork’s continues in seventh with 3 Trifectas and 19 Correct Picks, followed by Little Tuna with 2 Trifecta and 20 Correct Picks and Kal Krome with 2 Trifecta and 17 Correct Picks.
‘Trifectas
Standings after Week 10 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 10 for Analyst of the Year IV
The Analysts are tearing up the track around the clubhouse turn!
Every Analyst earns a trifecta in Leg 2 of the Fibonacci Stakes. The Strategist clings to a one length lead with 4 Trifecta points total.
No less than six Analysts have earned 3 Trifecta points. Big Tuna and The Bookie are in a tie for second place based on 2 Correct Home Team Picks and 2 Fibonacci bonus points each. Kal Krome, Little Tuna, and Craft Brew vie for fourth place with 1 Correct Home Team Pick and 2 Fibonacci bonus points. Wise Orangutan falls into seventh place with 1 Correct Home Team Pick and 1 Fibonacci bonus point.
B-Reezy trails the leader by 2 lengths (2 Trifecta points total), while Atwork — who was forced to pick an entirely new slate of winners — runs in ninth with 1 Trifecta point.
Trifecta Points
Standings after Leg 2 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Tiebreakers
Kal Krome holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Wise Orangutan.
Tiebreakers after Leg 2 of Fibonacci Stakes IV
Bye weeks for Home Teams are grayed out (Table 2).
The Strategist brushes off B-Reezy’s challenge and again claims sole possession of first place with her 5th Trifecta and 21st Correct Pick in the Analyst of the Year competition.
B-Reezy falls into second place with 4 Trifectas and 20 Correct Picks.
Wise Orangutan shakes off his dismal backstretch run with his second Trifecta in two weeks to claim third place with 4 Trifectas and 17 Correct Home Picks.
Big Tuna slips into fourth place with 3 Trifectas and 20 Correct Picks. Craft Brew drops one place with 3 Trifectas and 19 Correct Picks, while The Bookie follows closely in sixth place with 3 Trifectas and 17 Correct Picks.
Atwork’s struggles continue into the far turn as he adds only one Correct Pick, bringing his tally to 2 Trifectas and 16 Correct Picks.
Little Tuna holds down 8th place with 1 Trifecta and 17 Correct Picks, just ahead of Kal Krome with 1 Trifecta and 14 Correct Picks.
‘Trifectas
Standings after Week 9 for Analyst of the Year IV
Correct Picks
Tiebreaker after Week 9 for Analyst of the Year IV
