Point Total Pool FINAL RESULTS (NCAA)
mat...@lynn.cs.ucla.edu
The big winner in this year's point total pool is...
Bucky Ransdell
Bucky scored 2921 points and received his UCLA squeeze bottle in a private
ceremony attended by my wife and Curtis "War is" Hill. There will be a
seperate article detailing the "Meeting of the Gods" in a bit.
Bucky chose all 4 final teams and lost no teams until the third round.
That's how to win the pool. Here are his selections:
North Carolina
Duke
Kansas
UNLV
Arizona
St. John's
Oklahoma State
Arkansas
The highest score possible was:
497 * Duke
452 Kansas
426 North Carolina
398 UNLV
388 Arkansas
311 St. John's
301 Temple
298 Seton Hall
Total = 3071
Previous year's totals were:
1990 3336
1989 3087
1988 2981
Bucky's score was 95%, which is historically quite high.
Second place went to Mannie Lowe, another net.god. This just proves that
my pool is a better judge of talent than ChaZ'. Third place was held by
Jeff Sagarin's rankings. Maybe he knows something after all.
Win Strickland wins the "Richard 'T-Bone' Burton prize" of a Colorado Buffalo
squeeze bottle for the highest entry that did NOT include UNLV (I came in
second). I'll be sending Win's e-mail address to Richard so that they can
work out the transfer of the prize.
The "Gary Newell" something from Arizona that's not a cactus prize for being
closest to Gary's score without improving on it goes to Matt Nelson. Both
players scored 2244 points. They did not, however, have the same entry.
Again, I'll send Matt's address to Gary to coordinate the transfer.
I still haven't factored in the bonus points. That'll have to be done in
a seperate posting. I'll have some comments on that as well.
Here are the final standings. A person picking Duke will be highlighted by
having a 1 in the 'T' category.
Score T Name T = 1: Chose Duke
3071 ( 1 ) THEORETICAL MAXIMUM
2921 ( 1 ) Bucky Ransdell
2898 ( 1 ) Mannie Lowe
2836 ( 1 ) Sagarin's Top Eight
2787 ( 1 ) Darryl Gamble
2764 ( 1 ) Jay Kesterson
2733 ( 1 ) Joe "jones" Thumann
2722 ( 1 ) Tim B
2722 ( 1 ) Shaun "Magic" O'Hong
2722 ( 1 ) Jerry Wieber
10th place
2712 ( 1 ) george willett
2677 ( 1 ) Ralph Herkert
2672 ( 1 ) Mark Lent
2672 ( 1 ) Jon Lyons
2672 ( 1 ) James Landay
2672 ( 1 ) Chris Feulner
2647 ( 1 ) Kevin Ankoviak
2625 ( 1 ) Jimmy Kuo
2624 ( 1 ) Gautam Mehrotra
2620 ( 1 ) Rex Fowler
20th place
2620 ( 1 ) Nor Azizam Mohd Asif
2620 ( 1 ) Jack Alexander
2620 ( 1 ) Carl Gritter
2613 ( 1 ) ed humphrey
2613 ( 1 ) Jeff Wallace
2613 ( 1 ) Bryan Morse
2595 ( 1 ) Scott Evan Decatur
2595 ( 1 ) Pete "The Sesh Dawg" Sessions
2586 ( 1 ) Sekhar Darbha
2585 ( 1 ) Scott Burleson
30th place
2585 ( 1 ) Saint of Sagarin and net.god
2584 ( 1 ) Carlos E. Montero Luque
2560 ( 1 ) Philip DiDio
2560 ( 1 ) David Griboff
2560 ( 1 ) Chris Craig
2548 ( 1 ) Jane UseNet
2538 ( 1 ) Scott Kitchen
2538 ( 1 ) Joe Liu
2510 ( 1 ) Win Strickland
2508 ( 1 ) Gregory Paul
40th place
2507 ( 1 ) Aparajit J. Mahajan
2500 ( 1 ) Bill Sherman
2486 ( 1 ) The Weenie (top 8 seeds)
2486 ( 1 ) Rob Buchner
2486 ( 1 ) Matt "no-nickname" Laswell
2486 ( 1 ) Dan "The Weenie" Adams
2485 ( 1 ) Nick Christenson
2480 ( 1 ) Timothy C. Pitts
2463 ( 0 ) Richard Huang
2461 ( 1 ) Surajit Chakravarti
50th place
2460 ( 1 ) Matthew Merzbacher
2454 ( 1 ) Joe Sterbenc
2452 ( 1 ) Super Dave Chen
2451 ( 1 ) dindigal
2451 ( 1 ) Rick Ward
2451 ( 1 ) Lorene Bradley
2451 ( 1 ) Gene Shen
2451 ( 1 ) Cyrus Wood
2451 ( 1 ) Chuck Garrett (ch...@cmc.com)
2442 ( 1 ) Mark Mitchell
60th place
2441 ( 1 ) Mike Redmond
2432 ( 1 ) Ronnie Smith
2428 ( 1 ) Lillian Armstrong
2427 ( 1 ) Adam Gordon
2422 ( 1 ) Alex Nitbacher
2418 ( 1 ) Bob Russell
2416 ( 1 ) Steven W. Mendel
2408 ( 1 ) Ron McBay
2408 ( 1 ) Mike Chernesky
2407 ( 1 ) TedL
70th place
2404 ( 0 ) Michael Szypula
2399 ( 1 ) Arthur Goldstein
2380 ( 1 ) Jim Laredo
2367 ( 1 ) Mark "snake in the" Grassl
2361 ( 1 ) Jeff Shaw
2355 ( 1 ) Randy Jones
2352 ( 1 ) Malik Audeh
2333 ( 1 ) Erik Anderson
2324 ( 1 ) Gidi "G.D." Avrahami
2320 ( 1 ) Noom the Scrumpdillicious
80th place
2320 ( 1 ) Meisters of NRL
2318 ( 1 ) Philip Hubbard
2318 ( 0 ) Derc Yamasaki
2315 ( 1 ) Prashanth K
2313 ( 0 ) Ram Vemuri
2302 ( 1 ) Ken Yao
2299 ( 0 ) Andy Knipp
2282 ( 0 ) Ken McLean
2280 ( 0 ) Tom "UConn eight times" Hancock
2278 ( 1 ) Greg Barnes
90th place
2268 ( 1 ) Phil Beineke
2257 ( 1 ) Jim McNulty
2255 ( 1 ) Mic Bowman
2255 ( 0 ) Ganesh Rangarajan
2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
2244 ( 0 ) Matt Nelson
2242 ( 1 ) C. Nitbacher (my sister)
2237 ( 0 ) Frank "The Big Z" Zabaly
2234 ( 1 ) Gene Schwartzman
2203 ( 1 ) Bradley White
100th place
2193 ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Woof" Oliver
2187 ( 1 ) Bob "3-pts man" Wu
2177 ( 1 ) Leroy
2176 ( 1 ) Ken "Qubester" Kubey
2172 ( 0 ) Paul Kornreich
2172 ( 0 ) Mark Rieker
2169 ( 1 ) Valentine Armstrong
2167 ( 0 ) Mike Ward
2164 ( 0 ) Russ Pierce
2163 ( 0 ) Jayant Rajgopal
110th place
2158 ( 1 ) Marcus J. Louie
2157 ( 1 ) Doug Burke
2157 ( 1 ) Adam Bonin (Amherst College)
2152 ( 1 ) Ann "the Ogre" Merzbacher
2122 ( 0 ) Bartman
2117 ( 0 ) John "Jones" O'Connell
2106 ( 1 ) Randy "NetMaster (tm)" Peppler
2105 ( 0 ) Desert Man...
2102 ( 1 ) Bryan "That was a three!" Jones
2094 ( 1 ) Marc Reider
120th place
2086 ( 0 ) Christoph Lell
2085 ( 1 ) Mike Kersenbrock
2080 ( 1 ) Gordon Mohr
2067 ( 1 ) Curtis "Chapel" Hill
2064 ( 0 ) Steve Dantzer
2048 ( 1 ) Uresh "Orangemania" Vahalia
2038 ( 1 ) CHAz
2038 ( 0 ) Paul Matthews
2035 ( 1 ) James C. Armstrong, Sr.
2027 ( 1 ) Kristie Carlson
130th place
2023 ( 1 ) William Hsu
2022 ( 0 ) Barry "Mr.Yutz" Ripple
2014 ( 0 ) Alex Michalczyk
2008 ( 0 ) Eugen "Dad" Merzbacher
2008 ( 0 ) Ellie Cutler
2007 ( 0 ) Charlie Murphy
1999 ( 0 ) Roy W. Black
1997 ( 1 ) John Walsh
1995 ( 0 ) Big Daddy
1992 ( 0 ) J.J. Lehett
140th place
1989 ( 0 ) John "JD" Dye
1975 ( 1 ) David Bradley
1970 ( 0 ) Thomas A. Fine
1967 ( 0 ) Dave Reed
1964 ( 0 ) John McGinn
1964 ( 0 ) John Estell
1961 ( 0 ) Brad Isenhour
1958 ( 1 ) Robert Sadowski
1920 ( 0 ) Renee Griboff
1884 ( 0 ) B8 Guru
150th place
1880 ( 0 ) Mong Lin
1876 ( 0 ) James C. Armstrong, Jr.
1870 ( 1 ) Jeff Wallace "bonus attempt"
1862 ( 0 ) John DeHart
1859 ( 0 ) Jim Barnes
1855 ( 0 ) Nabeel Bitar
1834 ( 1 ) Scott "TCB" Turner
1827 ( 0 ) Brian Ringer
1826 ( 1 ) An Acc Dream
1820 ( 1 ) steve rein
160th place
1819 ( 0 ) Eric J. Arendts
1812 ( 0 ) Marcus S. Yoo
1808 ( 1 ) Richard "T-Bone" Burton
1792 ( 1 ) Last Years Final Eight
1785 ( 0 ) Sal Gonzalez
1779 ( 0 ) Tony "Fish" Stargel
1777 ( 0 ) Trent Lange
1763 ( 0 ) David Dobrikin
1753 ( 1 ) 4 letter names
1731 ( 1 ) Overrated Smashers
170th place
1716 ( 0 ) Mike Northam
1715 ( 0 ) Suresh Rajgopal
1697 ( 1 ) Carolina-Indiana-Kentucky
1684 ( 0 ) Dipankar Ghosh
1660 ( 1 ) Dave Chary
1658 ( 0 ) Joe Miro
1647 ( 0 ) Steve McNatton
1624 ( 1 ) Susan "My Wife" Garbarino
1621 ( 1 ) Adger Williams
1610 ( 1 ) "Magic" Mark Sanders
180th place
1605 ( 0 ) Wes Morgan
1595 ( 1 ) Darren "3-D" Reiniger
1585 ( 0 ) mark chewning
1578 ( 1 ) Carl Kalbfleisch
1548 ( 1 ) TedUMD
1548 ( 0 ) Boyd Nation
1538 ( 1 ) The Crossjammer
1523 ( 1 ) Craig Burley (bur...@ug.cs.dal.ca)
1509 ( 1 ) Louisana-North Carolina
1483 ( 0 ) Bill Jones
190th place
1481 ( 0 ) David Joffe
1479 ( 0 ) Mary Scroggs
1409 ( 0 ) Ken Kaufman
1402 ( 1 ) Bruce "Cheesemaker" Irvin
1398 ( 1 ) White Stiffs
1389 ( 0 ) Bradley Wellons
1354 ( 0 ) Tom Finholt
1351 ( 0 ) Big East Bandit
1321 ( 0 ) Douglas Noble
1307 ( 0 ) Sagebrush Eric
200th place
1307 ( 0 ) Allen Cowen
1302 ( 0 ) Kevin J. Podsiadlik
1283 ( 0 ) TedW
1273 ( 0 ) States Entry
1261 ( 0 ) Joseph Lum
1221 ( 0 ) Babemaster(tm)-in-training Grubin
1219 ( 0 ) Greg Wohletz
1213 ( 0 ) Team Desert Storm
1206 ( 0 ) All Catholic
1191 ( 0 ) Deleware River (NJ & PA)
210th place
1170 ( 0 ) Jonathan Betts
1142 ( 0 ) Gary "ZIP" Zipfel Bubby lives!!!!
1097 ( 0 ) All Probates
1092 ( 0 ) Thomas Boehm
1089 ( 0 ) All State
1080 ( 0 ) Dean Barker
991 ( 0 ) Lions and Tigers and Bears
690 ( 0 ) Bomb Squad
676 ( 0 ) Brick Clangers
651 ( 0 ) MYY NMAE IS BIFF WAHTS YYOORS
220th place
651 ( 0 ) Anti-weenie
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GaRY NEweLl
> Final Notes & Results: NCAA Point Pool
> closest to Gary's score without improving on it goes to Matt Nelson. Both
It will be an official "Tucson Skyline" T-shirt - assuming the guy wants
it - all I need is the size...
Now then - for the important stuff....
> 2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
> 2193 ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Woof" Oliver
> 2106 ( 1 ) Randy "NetMaster (tm)" Peppler
> 2067 ( 1 ) Curtis "Chapel" Hill
> 2038 ( 1 ) CHAz
> 1834 ( 1 ) Scott "TCB" Turner
> 1808 ( 1 ) Richard "T-Bone" Burton
> 1777 ( 0 ) Trent Lange
> 1321 ( 0 ) Douglas Noble
Need I say more?
gln
James D. Oliver III
> Now then - for the important stuff....
>
>> 2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
>> 2193 ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Woof" Oliver
GaRy, you dolt, I was trying to win *your* stupid prize. What other reason
could I have had for picking Arizona in my final eight? Who knew that
there would be someone out there who could be *exactly* as screwed up as
you?
> Need I say more?
Well, I wasn't going to do this, but . . . if anyone wants a good chuckle,
mosey over to talk.politics.misc and catch gARy's enlightened opinions on
getting your net access yanked by system administrators. He left out all
the good stuff, of course.
Anyway, does this mean that for the next year, all sigs must include the
ranking in the NCAA pool, so that the opinions can be properly weighed?
--
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Scott TCB Turner
>Now then - for the important stuff....
>
>> 2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
>> 2193 ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Woof" Oliver
>> 2106 ( 1 ) Randy "NetMaster (tm)" Peppler
>> 2067 ( 1 ) Curtis "Chapel" Hill
>> 2038 ( 1 ) CHAz
>> 1834 ( 1 ) Scott "TCB" Turner
>> 1808 ( 1 ) Richard "T-Bone" Burton
>> 1777 ( 0 ) Trent Lange
>> 1321 ( 0 ) Douglas Noble
>
> Need I say more?
Like why you left off everyone ahead of you? No. But you probably will.
From private mail, I know that T-Bone and I are spending our precious
bodily energies on more productive pursuits. And I know Trent was
just trying to make the last three digits of his score match. I have
no explanation for the performance of CHAz, Hill, et al.
-- Scott "TCB" Turner
Matthew Merzbacher
>In article <1991Apr9.1...@cs.ucla.edu>, mat...@lynn.cs.ucla.edu writes:
>Now then - for the important stuff....
>> 2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
>> [ obscure names deleted ]
> Need I say more?
How about...
2460 ( 1 ) Matthew Merzbacher
And I even eschewed UNLV.
GaRY NEweLl
> Well, I wasn't going to do this, but . . . if anyone wants a good chuckle,
> mosey over to talk.politics.misc and catch gARy's enlightened opinions on
> getting your net access yanked by system administrators. He left out all
> the good stuff, of course.
What did you expect? "My Story by Gary Newell"?? I just find the topic to be
near and dear to my heart....
> Anyway, does this mean that for the next year, all sigs must include the
> ranking in the NCAA pool, so that the opinions can be properly weighed?
oooooooh - did I hit a sore spot James? calm down now - I beat you and
your fellow UCLA fans to a pulp in front of the entire world - now go away.
Next year, when I take this thing serious I *will* end up in the top
20 - bet on it.....
gln
GaRY NEweLl
> >> 2244 ( 1 ) Gary Newell
> >> 2193 ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Woof" Oliver
> >> 2106 ( 1 ) Randy "NetMaster (tm)" Peppler
> >> 2067 ( 1 ) Curtis "Chapel" Hill
> >> 2038 ( 1 ) CHAz
> >> 1834 ( 1 ) Scott "TCB" Turner
> >> 1808 ( 1 ) Richard "T-Bone" Burton
> >> 1777 ( 0 ) Trent Lange
> >> 1321 ( 0 ) Douglas Noble
> bodily energies on more productive pursuits. And I know Trent was
> just trying to make the last three digits of his score match. I have
> no explanation for the performance of CHAz, Hill, et al.
My God what a pathetic display of whining you guys are giving! So I
made you look like fools - so what? Come on guys - it was all in good
fun - I mean you don't really think I enjoyed seeing your names
listed way way way way down from mine do ya? Geez.....
gln
James D. Oliver III
> oooooooh - did I hit a sore spot James? calm down now - I beat you and
> your fellow UCLA fans to a pulp in front of the entire world - now go away.
And so we are given an interesting insight into the source code of GArY
NewEll: everyone except him == 'UCLA fan'.
For the record, the only good Bruin is a dead Bruin, except for an
occassional one carrying pom-poms. I might be able to say the same thing
about the Wildcats if someone will ever introduce Nair to Tuscon. (At this
point, gaRy's pattern recognition algorithm will spit out something about
"immaturity" and "get a life".)
> Next year, when I take this thing serious I *will* end up in the top
> 20 - bet on it.....
That must be the state motto of Arizona. Either that or "Stiffness is next
to Godliness".
Mark A. Mitchell
}
}Next year, when I take this thing serious I *will* end up in the top
}20 - bet on it.....
But I can't bet on it, gArY. I put down all my extra cash on your
"guaranteed" Arizona win over UNLV.
--
"If you use more than 5% of your brain, | Mark A. Mitchell Georgia Tech
you don't want to live on earth - | mmit...@msd.gatech.edu
believe me!" |
GaRY NEweLl
> And so we are given an interesting insight into the source code of GArY
> NewEll: everyone except him == 'UCLA fan'.
> For the record, the only good Bruin is a dead Bruin, except for an
I really have to make a public apology to James - having given him what is
probably the biggest insult that one can give (calling him a Ruins fan). I
was wrong - he is not a Bruins fan and I should never have tarnished his
reputation with such an attack....
gln
Charlie Richter
> ranking in the NCAA pool, so that the opinions can be properly weighed?
Yes, and if you selected the Texas Longhorns as one of your Final
Four teams, your sig must include that fact, too, Jim. That's a
valuable bit of information when you're trying to guage someone's
thought process. (No, I didn't do that, but I know someone who did.
What's worse, he exhibited the questionable presence of mind to
actually admit, after Texas was eliminated, that he'd done this!)
--
Charlie Richter MCC Austin, Texas
uucp: ric...@milano.uucp arpa: ric...@mcc.com
"The panic ... was not due to anything fundamentally weak in either business
or finance. It was confined to the market itself." - WSJ, Oct. 31, 1929
Richard Burton
I don't know, I think the pursuit of loose women is a wee bit more
productive. (Or reproductive, at least.) Besides, I've got to get
ready to go to DC so's that yours truly can get some blurry pictures
from the Troubled Space Telescope...or do you think $75,000 in grant
money isn't that important?
By the way, when I get back, I'll give you my review of where to go when
you are looking for that four-scar DC crackhouse.
> gln
Richard `T-Bone' Burton (BURTON%EL...@VAXF.Colorado.EDU)
Center for Blurry Astrophysics and Space Nymphs
University of Colorado at Boulder
"#5: It's cold out there!"
CHAz
>Final Notes & Results: NCAA Point Pool
>
>my pool is a better judge of talent than ChaZ'.
No, that is incorrect. It should be CHAz'z.
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