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2018-19 CFB Season: Mid-season grades!

Posted on October 29, 2018 by gamedaycole

Welcome back everyone. We just completed week 9 of our 2018-19 college football season and that’s probably about halfway through the year. I’m not really sure. With a week 0, a single Army-Navy game in week 14, conference championship weekend, and bowl games, it is hard to tell. So yeah, I’m calling it halfway.

Every year I like to stop down halfway through the season and post the season grades and standings. The pressure is on down the home stretch to make big moves picking games since I assume all of these people read my blog. Here’s the mid-season grades. Enjoy.

Straight up records:

	percent.correct	n.correct	n.wrong	n.games.predicted
Charles.Arbuckle	100%	2	0	2
Brad.Edwards	100%	4	0	4
Mel.Kiper.Jr	100%	1	0	1
Matt.Leinart	85.71%	6	1	7
Tim.Cowlishaw	77.78%	14	4	18
Rece.Davis	76.92%	10	3	13
Les.Miles	75.76%	25	8	33
Brian.Jones	75%	9	3	12
Brett.McMurphy	75%	12	4	16
Chris.Doering	74.47%	35	12	47
Steve.Coughlin	73.91%	34	12	46
Joey.Galloway	73.08%	19	7	26
Andrea.Adelson	71.96%	77	30	107
Tim.Tebow	71.79%	28	11	39
Paul.Finebaum	71.62%	53	21	74
Chris.Fallica	70.59%	48	20	68
Lou.Holtz	70.59%	60	25	85
Marcus.Spears	70%	28	12	40
Phil.Steele	70%	77	33	110
Jennifer	68.28%	99	46	145
David.Pollack	67.65%	23	11	34
Heather.Dinich	66.67%	24	12	36
Dusty.Dvoracek	66.67%	20	10	30
Adam.Rittenberg	66.67%	8	4	12
Robert.Smith	66.67%	4	2	6
Scott.Van.Pelt	66.67%	2	1	3
Joel.Klatt	64%	16	9	25
Bruce.Feldman	63.37%	64	37	101
Celebrity.Guest	62.50%	75	45	120
Colin.Cowherd	62.50%	10	6	16
Trevor.Matich	62.50%	5	3	8
Lee.Corso	62.20%	79	48	127
Kirk.Herbstreit	61.48%	75	47	122
Dari.Nowkhah	61.11%	11	7	18
Jesse.Palmer	60.87%	14	9	23
Stewart.Mandel	60.61%	20	13	33
Mack.Brown	60%	3	2	5
Dave.Wannstedt	60%	3	2	5
Pat.Forde	59.52%	25	17	42
Desmond.Howard	59.42%	82	56	138
Mark.Schlabach	59.38%	19	13	32
Danny.Kanell	51.52%	17	16	33
Mark.May	51.16%	44	42	86
Gene.Chizik	50%	5	5	10
Chris.Low	50%	6	6	12
Ivan.Maisel	50%	18	18	36
Ryan.McGee	50%	18	18	36
Houston.Nutt	50%	4	4	8
Jonathan.Vilma	50%	1	1	2
Corso.Headgear	44.44%	4	5	9
Pete.Thamel	42.86%	3	4	7
Skip.Bayless	0%	0	1	1

ATS Records:

	percent.correct.ats	n.correct	n.wrong	n.tie
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade	71.88%	34	13	1
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade	65.22%	30	16	0
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade	61.11%	71	45	1
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade	57.76%	33	24	1
Tim.Cowlishaw.ATS.Grade	57.58%	18	13	2
Stewart.Mandel.ATS.Grade	57.58%	19	14	0
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade	55.56%	15	12	0
Brett.McMurphy.ATS.Grade	53.70%	14	12	1
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade	52.88%	27	24	1
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade	52.03%	38	35	1
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade	50%	20	20	0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade	50%	20	20	0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade	49.11%	27	28	1
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade	44.50%	44	55	1
Dari.Nowkhah.ATS.Grade	40%	6	9	0
Colin.Cowherd.ATS.Grade	33.33%	1	2	0
Pete.Thamel.ATS.Grade	33.33%	4	8	0

Week 1 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

Posted on September 4, 2018 by gamedaycole

Welcome back everyone for the week 1 results. Starting today this is where you are going to notice some big differences from last year. You’ll have to reference the weekly pick posts if you want to see the picks themselves, because this is the new grading format. Thanks to Chuck the Stat Guy we are running automated grading on our experts to bring you faster results and total accuracy. We’re working on the grades against the spread but I’ve added the manual tallies below. Now let’s get to the results.

Big winners this week include Paul Finebaum, Chris Fallica, and Andrea Adelson. However our undisputed co-champions this week are Dr. Lou Holtz and special celebrity guest Luke Bryan. If you had Lou Holtz and Luke Bryan splitting a weekly title at some point this year in your pool let me know so I can tell you how to collect your prize. I’m actually very pleased with Lou Holtz because he came out of retirement and won the first week straight out of the gate. Congratulations to both.

Losers this week include Desmond Howard, Danny Kanell and Mark May. However our undisputed loss this week gets credited to Kirk Herbstreit with a disastrous 2-9 record this week. Its ok Kirk, we’ve got a long season ahead of us.

Coach Corso got off to a good start with a win on his first headgear selection this week (Notre Dame). As mentioned, special celebrity guest Luke Bryan went 9-3 on the week, and this trend needs to stop before it ever gets off to a start. The man with no ties to Notre Dame or Michigan was invited onto College Gameday for no other reason than the fact that he was playing a concert in town Saturday night. If ESPN is telling me they couldn’t get a single notable alumni of Michigan or Notre Dame to pick this thing then they must really think I’m a fool. I digress…

ATS grades: Dusty Dvoracek (3-2), Chris Fallica (2-3), Pat Forde (1-4), Bruce Feldman (3-8), Danny Kanell (1-2), Scott Spreitzer (0-3), Phil Steele (6-3), Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS (2-3). The newly rebranded Bear’s Board went 1-2 on the week.

Everyone else finished the week somewhere in between all of this, so check out the grades below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

person.name	percent.correct	n.correct	n.wrong	n.games.predicted
Tim.Cowlishaw	100%	1	0	1
Chris.Doering	100%	4	0	4
Paul.Finebaum	100%	5	0	5
Trevor.Matich	100%	3	0	3
Marcus.Spears	100%	4	0	4
Celebrity.Guest	75%	9	3	12
Dusty.Dvoracek	75%	3	1	4
Lou.Holtz	75%	9	3	12
Tim.Tebow	75%	3	1	4
Chris.Fallica	71.43%	5	2	7
Andrea.Adelson	69.23%	9	4	13
Steve.Coughlin	66.67%	4	2	6
Joey.Galloway	66.67%	2	1	3
Phil.Steele	66.67%	8	4	12
Jennifer	60%	9	6	15
Dari.Nowkhah	60%	3	2	5
Lee.Corso	53.85%	7	6	13
David.Pollack	50%	2	2	4
Mack.Brown	50%	1	1	2
Bruce.Feldman	50%	6	6	12
Jesse.Palmer	50%	1	1	2
Jonathan.Vilma	50%	1	1	2
Mark.May	45.45%	5	6	11
Danny.Kanell	40%	2	3	5
Colin.Cowherd	33.33%	1	2	3
Desmond.Howard	30.77%	4	9	13
Kirk.Herbstreit	18.18%	2	9	11
Skip.Bayless	0%	0	1	1
Pat.Forde	0%	0	4	4
Joel.Klatt	0%	0	1	1