Plus Minus Leader

Roburt Sallie - Memphis

Stanley Robinson - Connecticut

James Harden - Arizona State

The reasoning for this payout:

For a $50 payout, this is a very underrated part of our game but obviously totally uncontrollable. This payout portion was instituted a number of years ago to "reward" or payback if you will, the guy who got shafted the most out of his draft picks. There is a +/- column now added to the printouts that calculates how many points your draft pick scored over or <under> his regular season average during the NCAA tournament. It's a simple calculation of multiplying the number of games played times the reg season average less the total points scored thus far in the tournament. This becomes the +/- number for each draft pick.

Before the tournament starts, we can only go on what our draft picks scored per game during the regular season. We have no control over how they are asked to perform by the coaching staff or actually perform in pressure situations during the NCAA tournament, so their tournament scoring may or may not be affected negatively.

Ken Kremer, for the second year in a row takes the +/- payout. His <64> points accumulated the most negative amounts from his draft selections and his final outcome in the game was affected by his draft pick performance. If every pick averaged what they averaged during the regular season, Kenny would have finished this year in 2nd place and in the money and Claude Childers would have finished in 3rd place, also in the money.

It is noted that our expert panel from draft night had Rob Stenzel winning again this year. We did not have Ron Seymour up that high as we had him finishing in last. So much for giving the 12 seeds one game only!

Plus / Minus Calculation Totals

Final Actual Position				Plus / Minus Recalc

Final		Final			Recalc	Recalc
Position		Score	+/- total		Total	Position
1	Rob Stenzel	930	44	Rob	886	1
2	SID	760	19	Ken	797	2
3	Ron Seymour	749	26	Claude	770	3
4	Claude Childers	746	-24	SID	741	4
5	Ken Kremer	733	-64 *	Kraut	731	5
6	Krautstrunk	708	-23	Seymour	723	6
7	Matt K	669	-33	Hammer	710	7
8	Dennis Hammer	668	-42	Noffke	703	8
9	Mark Noffke	656	-47	Matt K	703	8
10	Kevin Keuper	633	2	Keuper	631	10
		7252	-142		7395

* denotes highest total and 50% return of entry fee

note: the player averages used are from ESPN.com's website after the regular season is over and before they play in any post season game. The only exception to this would be from those teams who came out of nowhere to qualify which almost always happens and then we use whatever their end of the year (including post season tournament) average per game

Best Player(s) : Roburt Sallie (Memphis) ended up + 46 & Stanley Robinson (U Conn) ended up at + 45 points during the tournament for Claude Childers (Sallie) and Rob Stenzel (Robinson)
Worst Player(s) : many all within a few points. Graves did not play in the tournament

Total Pts																	Trny	+/-
Rank	Rnd	Num	Drafter	Player Name	Team	Seed	Rgn	Avg	Gm 1	Gm 2	Gm 3	Gm 4	Gm 5	Gm 6	Ttl	GP	Avg	Ttl
53	2	16	Keuper	Deon Thompson	UNC	1	S	11.2	6	6	5	10	6	9	42	6	7.0	(25)
280	28	278	Hammer	Will Graves	UNC	1	S	4.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	(24)
253	23	221	Kremer	Antonio Pena	VILLANOVA	3	E	5.8	0	2	4	0	0	out	6	5	1.2	(23)
147	4	34	Matt K	James Harden	AZ STATE	6	S	20.8	9	10	out	out	out	out	19	2	9.5	(23)
169	5	48	Claude	Paul Harris	SYRACUSE	3	S	12.8	6	4	6	out	out	out	16	3	5.3	(22)
40	6	53	Claude	Raymar Morgan	MI STATE	2	MW	11.2	16	3	4	0	18	4	45	6	7.5	(22)
177	4	35	Noffke	Jermaine Dixon	PITTSBURGH	1	E	9.2	0	6	4	5	out	out	15	4	3.8	(22)
3	1	1	Kremer	Tyler Hansbrough	UNC	1	S	21.1	22	15	24	8	18	18	105	6	17.5	(22)
224	6	56	Keuper	Justin Dentmon	WASHINGTON	4	W	15.3	4	5	out	out	out	out	9	2	4.5	(22)
87	12	112	Rob	Chris Allen	MI STATE	2	MW	8.8	10	8	7	2	2	3	32	6	5.3	(21)

Click on this link for the final plus minus scoring file.....................