Field narrowed to 8 teams left:
As expected with the
predicted positions, Dennis Hammer has taken the lead and has 6
draft picks remaining going to the Sat and Sun Elite 8 matchups that
will ultimately determine the Final 4.
Mark Noffke
and Rob Stenzel dropped a notch in the standings. With so
many of the high seeded teams still in the tournament this year, we'll
have to see what happens in the Elite 8 games before any possible
prediction might even be attempted!
What happened
to Claude??
Claude Childers,
who only lost 1 player after the first set of games looked to still be
the man in this draft game after the opening weekend as he had 19
players still playing. As detailed in the Game 2 tab, Claude had 4
big games in the Sweet 16, against Dennis Hammer and his picks.
Hammer's teams and his players prevailed in 3 out of the 4 and that
spelled the end for Claude's chances of winning this game this year.
Not only did the
teams he was rooting for lose, his draft picks way underperformed in
those games. We expected after the Thursday and Friday Sweet 16
games that Hammer would lead with 714 points and Claude would be right
behind with 692. In actuality, Hammer did lead with 712 points but
Claude's total was only 644 points. His 19 players didn't pick up
the expected 162 points, they managed 50 points less than that!
There were too many of his picks that underperformed in game 3 to list
them all, but Travon Hughes of Wisconsin, averaging 16.5 points through
1st two games, got him 0 points. That was the biggie.
Leading
Drafters:
Look at how close the
scoring has been this year compared to last. These are the 3 game
totals.
Through 3rd round games -
top 4 drafters (1-3 pay):
1st: Dennis Hammer 712 -> last year -
704
2nd: Mark Noffke - 678
-> last year - 670
3rd:
Rob Stenzel - 664
-> last year - 669
4th: Bob
Glinke - 658
-> last year 641
Leading Scorers:
Leading Scorers in the
tournament
Dennis Hammer's -
Stephen Curry (Davidson) - 103 pts
Kevin Keuper's - Tyrone
Brazelton (W KY) - 79 pts (out)
Mark Noffke's -
Kevin Love (UCLA) - 68 pts
Rob Stenzel's -
Chris D-Roberts (Memphis) 65 pts
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