Final points and standings

Sheehan/Bell: 232.33
Aaron 2: 197
Bunting: 195.67
Jill Love: 195.33

...Like I said: brutal. Kinsler was the difference there, and he did the literal minimum required to elbow Jill out of the money. Ouch.

Ben: 172.67
Aaron 1: 167
John: 142
Joe: 122.33

With 28 total entries, that's $196 for the first-place finishers, $56 for Aaron 2, and a modest $28 for yours truly. I'll be spending mine on a squirrel hat. Juuuuust kidding.


What have we learned? Well, we've learned that it's obviously a stroke of against-the-grain genius to pick St. Louis in the BPP (2006, 2011), unless it's a stupidly horrible idea (all the other years), and when it's a stupidly horrible idea, it's all Pujols's fault, unless he's awesome. Repeat that five times fast.

We've learned that previous champs do pretty well (Aaron and I have both won before; Ben and John stayed on the board until the end, at least; Broomfield/Romine racked up a respectable 164) -- but don't repeat (6 years, 6 different winners).

Broomfield made some suggestions last year for tweaking the picking/points process, which I'll spend the long, dark night of the boring soul known as "the off season" mulling over. As always, please feel free to check my arithmetic and point out any errors -- and as always, thanks so much for playing. It makes the postseason even more exciting.

I'll see you all back here in 2012, if not sooner.