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 David Cords won the inaugural edition of Premier League Pickem by two points over Anders Nilsson thanks to Sergio Agüero's dramatic, championship-deciding, final goal of the season. Heading into stoppage time for all ten games of the final Sunday of the season, Cords led 866-865 as Man City trailed QPR 2-1 with his pick of 3-1 City and Nilsson's pick of 2-0 City both scoring zero points at the time. When Edin Džeko tied the game at 2-2 in the 91st minute, Nilsson tied Cords at 866 points each while Nilsson had the tiebreaker of most correct picks. It would prove to be a two minute cocktease as Agüero's title decider in the 93rd minute created a 3-2 final scoreline, giving them both three points for the correct result, but moving the correct score point from Nilsson to Cords in the process for an 870-868 final point total. After 379 games, the winner was determined by two goals in the final five minutes of the season. Oddly enough, both had 27 points for the week. Jay Soester (862), Nathan Susanto (859) and Mark Yothers (856) rounded out the top five. I'd like to thank everyone who participated, particularly those who neared the 380 pick mark. A special thanks goes to Nathan Susanto for helping maintain the game and providing the weekly Premier League Preview articles. He's earned 40 bonus points for his efforts (on top of his actual game points) and is guaranteed a second team in all of our draft games. Second teams are giving out in draft games based on the relevant bonus points standings at the time leagues are being filled and are only given when necessary to fill one of our individual Yahoo! leagues, unless a member has earned a guaranteed spot for his reliability and/or assistance. If anyone is interested in writing a weekly article for any other sport, feel free to let me know. David Cords also earned the most bonus points from the game with 48.18. Each pick made was worth 0.03 bonus points with any member who picked all 380 games also earning an extra 0.1 points for a total of 11.50 before performance was taken into account. Bonus Points for a member's overall rank were awarded based on the league scoring formula with a maximum of 25 points. The formula was also used to award bonus points based on the correct pick standings and the non-0 pick standings with a maximum value of six and three respectively. Points were also awarded for weekly performance as each week winner earned 0.5 points and anyone who topped 3 points per game in a week earned between 0.1 and 0.5 points depending on how far above 3 points per game they reached. The top five in each month also received between 0.1-0.5. For the full explanation of bonus points awarded, check the game's rules page. With the season now complete, take a minute to look at the standings and statistics from this season... David Cords, Nathan Susanto and Susan Gantz managed to record the most perfect games with 42, 11.05% of the games this season. David Cords managed the most non-0 picks where he had at least one team score and/or the game result correct with 290, 76.32%. Nathan Susanto managed the most correct team score picks with 256, 33.68% of all team scores this season. I'm not a betting man, but plenty of money could have been made off those three statistics. Chelsea's 2-1 win at Sunderland on September 10th was the highest scoring game of the season with each member averaging 3.51 points for their pick. Man City's 3-0 win at home to Wigan on September 9th (3.35 points), Man City's 4-0 win at home to Swansea (8/15,3.26 points), Manchester United's 2-1 win at West Brom (8/14,3.19), Chelsea's 2-1 win at home to West Brom (8/20,3.13), Chelsea's 3-1 win at home to Norwich (8/27,3.09), and Arsenal's 2-1 win at home to Sunderland (10/16,3.02) also topped the three points per pick average. At the other end, Blackburn's 3-2 win at Manchester United on New Year's Eve and Wigan's 4-0 defeat of Newcastle at home on April 28th saw the lowest points per pick average at 0.05. Arsenal's 2-1 loss at home to Wigan on 4/16 (0.08) and Arsenal's 2-1 loss at QPR on 3/31 (0.09) were the only other games to fail to top at least 0.10 points per pick while 70 failed to reach 0.50 points per pick. The home team was picked to win in 100% of picks for eight games while they were picked to win 0% of the time in 29 games. The road team was picked in 100% of picks for 11 games while they weren't selected at all on 38 occasions. West Brom's trip to Norwich (a 1-0 win) on September 11th saw 68% of picks be for the tie, the highest percentage on the season. Only Wovles trip to Bolton (a 1-1 tie on 12/31) at 67.5% was particularly close while QPR's 1-0 loss at West Brom on April 14th also topped the 60% mark at 61.2%. Twelve other games topped 50%. The tie was the favored result on 57 occasions. Manchester City's 3-1 defeat of Wolves on October 29th saw the highest predicted home score at 3.54 points with United's 3.24 predicted against Norwich October 1st coming in second. The two alternated again in third and fourth with United in fifth before City took sixth through ninth and United took tenth. The two Manchester teams took the first 18 spots before Chelsea's 2.77 average prediction against Norwich before a 3-1 win on August 27th. United then took 20th and City 21st before Arsenal and Tottenham appeared on the list. At the bottom of the list, Wolves were predicted to score just 0.44 goals at home to Manchester United on March 18th. That edged QPR's 0.45 at home to Manchester United before a 2-0 loss on December 18th and Wigan's 0.47 at home to United on April 11th, when they won 1-0. Manchester United's 5-0 win at Bolton on September 10th saw the highest predicted road score at 3.02 with Manchester City's 2-0 win at Wolves on April 22nd being the only other three goal prediction at 3.00 exactly. City took third and fourth at 2.98 and 2.95 points before Chelsea came in at fifth. City were sixth before two United showings preceded a second Chelsea trip. United and City then filled up the list from tenth to 16th before Chelsea showed up once more in front of a string of United and City games from 18th to 26th before Chelsea's fourth and fifth appearances sandwiched Arsenal's only showing in the top 33. At the low end, Wigan's trip to Manchester United on Boxing Day saw them predicted to score just 0.34 goals, barely less than Swansea's predicted 0.35 goals at Manchester City on August 15th. To be fair, both games saw the road team shut out with the home team scoring five and four goals, respectively. Wigan's trip to Liverpool on March 24th came in third at 0.37 before Wigan won 2-1. Blackburn's 3-2 win at Manchester United was the only other instance of a team failing to crack 0.40 with the Rovers predicted to score just 0.38 goals. Twelve other games saw the road team fail to be predicted for 0.50 goals. Tom Vobejda scored the most points from Arsenal picks with 76.5. At the other end of the alphabet, Susan Gantz scored the most points from Wolves games at 30. To see who scored how many points for each team, visit the Member Standings by Team Points page and use the drop down menu to see if you scored the most points for any team. Aaron Freeman scored his most points from Manchester City picks with 67.5. His lowest point total was for their final day victims, QPR, at 16. To see your points per team sorted, visit the Team Standings by Member Points page. If the Premier League standings were based on Anders Nilsson's picks, Manchester United would have won the title by five points over City, 110-105. Chelsea would have been third with 97 points and Arsenal (93) would have beat Liverpool to the final Champions League spot by a win. Wigan would have been relegated with 23 points while West Brom would have joined them on 29 points and Wolves would have been sent down via worse goal differential compared to Blackburn with both on 30 points. To see how your standings shook out, visit the Premier League Standings by Member Picks page. Check out the Game Score Grid to see the frequencies for each result this season. The most common home team vs away team-specific result this season was 1-1, at 45 of 380 games or 11.84% of all games. The most common scoreline taking home team vs road team out of the equation was 2-1, at 64 of 380 games for 16.84%. Check out the Results Grid to put those scorelines into a head-to-head listing. To see each team's results in a more direct manner, visit the Season Series Results page. Arsenal swept four teams while only being swept by Manchester United, and otherwise only losing season series to Fulham and Liverpool. While you're there, check out the other detailed Premier League Standings pages. Manchester City was the only team undefeated home this season while Manchester United made up the point difference as the best team away from home with 42. Both managed 45 points in their first 19 games and 44 in their second 19 games. You can also check out each team's performance against the top 4 teams, top half of the table, bottom half of the table and the bottom 3. And lastly, you can check out the standings for each month, and for the last 4, 6 and 10 games of the season. I'm now shifting my focus to setting up Euro 2012 Pickem as soon as possible in preparation for its June 8th start date. Keep watch of the website for more information. |
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