ANNOUNCEMENT - The Quarterly Report

Since this is the second season in which I run a full-fledged prediction league, I thought it would be a neat idea to do a few year over year comparisons. All the data is obviously taken from my spreadsheets, the 2012 edition can be viewed here for anyone who is interested.

1. Last year we had 25 players, this year we have 24. While that is a decline at a first glance, the truth is that we had a bunch of early quitters last season. After week 4, only 19 people were still eligible to enter the playoffs, this year the number is 23.

2. In 2012 only one player had reached or eclipsed the 40 wins mark, this year we have nine to do the same. Now whether that is because we simply got better at predicting games or because we didn't have to deal with replacement referees through the first three weeks is up for debate. My belief is that it's the former.

3. Out of the 17 returning players, 15 are flat or up year over year. Only Kenology and ljigga are doing worse. In Kenology's defense, he was the clear leader at this point of the season in 2012, so he faced the toughest comparison. As for ljigga, it must have been a fluke that he won the mini-prediction league in 2011. His 2012 performance wasn't hard to match, but he still managed to fall short by one game in 2013.

4. In 2012 Kenology claimed the top spot in week 2 and remained there for six weeks straight. This year we had a new leader in every single week, but as already mentioned in the previous post with this year's week 4 results, noname2200 sat at the top at two different times.

5. In 2012 only 15 out of 25 players had managed to earn at least one prediction point through week 4. This time around it's 19 out of 24. However, this statistic is a bit misleading, because in 2013 there were two new ways to earn PP integrated: For one, the top 5 worthy record for people tied in #6, and two, the perfect result for MNF.

I hope you enjoyed reading this little feature and I plan to do another one like this after week 9.