It just keeps getting easier for the Analysts… Not!
After a week of upsets, none of the Analysts scores a trifecta in the tenth leg of the annual competition.
Little Tuna and The Strategist retain first and second place. Big Tuna scrambles his picks, giving The Bookie an opportunity to move into a tie for 3rd place.
At the back, Wise Orangutan, Minds Blank, B-Reezy, and Kal Krome are trotting to the finish line.
After a wipe out in Leg 2 of the Fibonacci Stakes, The Bookie and Little Tuna hold their early lead. B-Reezy gains a tiebreaker advantage over The Strategist and leads the rest of the Analysts in third place with 2 Home Team selections.
Little Tuna stretches her lead over The Strategist to a full length, notching her fifth trifecta of the year. The Strategist holds onto second place by a length.
The Bookie is making her move with a new Home Team to reach 3 trifectas and fourth place, trailing Big Tuna in third place by a head (19 vs. 17 correct picks).
Wise Orangutan has fallen to the back of the pack, winded after two trifectas in the first month of the race. Minds Blank and B-Reezy continue to run stride-for stride in sixth place with one trifecta.
Has anyone seen Kal Krome? Kal? Kal?
The Bookie and Little Tuna take an early lead out of the gates in the Fibonacci Stakes. The Bookie also gains the tiebreaker advantage over Minds Blank after the Panthers hold off the Packers.
No movement on the leader board during week 8 of the second Analyst of the Year Award, but the current leaders separate themselves further from the pack.
The Strategist and Little Tuna continue to run nose-to-nose for first place (4 trifectas). Behind by a length (3 trifectas), Big Tuna is poised to overtake the leaders with one solid week.
Wise Orangutan and The Bookie are contesting fourth place (2 trifectas). Early reports are that the two Analysts are sending their Home Teams out to graze for the rest of the racing season.
In competition with newcomer, B-Reezy, for sixth place, Minds Blank will be shining and shipping the Analyst of the Year Trophy to its new owner by mid-December at her current trifecta pace. To add to Blank’s misery, Kal Krome is snake-bitten in 2015-16 and she may have to put him down.
Despite a brutal week for trifecta predictions, The Strategist moves into a first place tie with Little Tuna after picking two teams correctly to reach her 15th correct pick of the year. In third place, with one less trifecta, Big Tuna shows and moves into position to overtake the leaders with his 15th correct.
Wise Orangutan and The Bookie are contesting fourth place. Minds Blank and B-Reezy continue to run neck and neck. Kal Krome still trails the pack.
No Analyst correctly picked a trifecta in Leg 3. The Strategist holds her lead over Little Tuna and The Bookie. The rest of the Analysts have yet to leave the starting gate of the Preakness, although tiebreakers give Minds Blank a slight edge over the rest of the nags. Wise Orangutan has butchered his Home Team to recover value from the glue and tiger meat.
Little Tuna recaptures her lead after safely riding three undefeated teams to a third trifecta. The Strategist, however, follows by a nose with three trifectas and only one fewer correct pick after 6 weeks of the competition.
In a tie for third place with two trifectas, Big Tuna (13 correct picks) holds the inside position over Wise Orangutan (12) and The Bookie (11). In sixth, Minds Blank and B-Reezy are running neck and neck with one trifecta and 11 correct picks. Kal Krome remains in holdout by his Home Team.
If the season ended after Week 6, only four of eight Analysts would have demonstrated the horse sense to sponsor a playoff worthy steed!
In Leg 2 of the Preakness, The Strategist and Little Tuna overtake The Bookie for first and second place, respectively. The correct player hater pick was Lions, Panthers, and Patriots/Packers/Broncos, as four of the seven active Home Teams loss in head-to-head competition or hate.
The Strategist played the player hater trifecta to perfection in Leg 2, earning two trifecta points and sole lead after Leg 2 of the Preakness. Little Tuna, who played it safe with two Home Teams and the Panthers, moves into second place as her Patriots defeat The Bookie’s Colts in head-to-head competition.
At the back of the pack, five Analysts have yet to register a trifecta in the Preakness. Minds Blank, however, is building a body of tiebreaker advantages with two head-to-head wins over The Strategist and Orangutan) and two correct Home Team picks. The Big Tuna has one correct Home Team selection and the turnovers per game lead.
The other Analysts better get-to-step-step-steppin’ in Leg 3 of the Preakness!
The Bookie and Big Tuna make their moves to shake up the race for the Analyst of the Year award. Bookie earns her second trifecta of the year to join the leader board in a five-way tie.
By picks, Big Tuna moves into a first place tie with Little Tuna with 11 picks. Tied for second, The Strategist, The Bookie, and Wise Orangutan have 10 picks. In a tie for sixth, Minds Blank and B-Reezy have 1 trifecta and 9 correct picks. Kal Krome is still confounded by his Seahawks.
