I have seen a lot of hate spewed in recent days about a man who is a constant winner and overachiever, but those traits are exactly what the people who support him like about him. Yes, he’s been caught in some lies, he has twisted the truth, and he has even attested to his own “facts.” Yet he is still out there proving his haters wrong time after time.
Some people are just jealous of someone who is successful and has tons of money. Throw in a hot foreign exotic model by his side and they hate even more. You may not have wanted him in his role, but he’s there now and there’s nothing any of us can do about it.
I know it will just get worse over the next several days, but like it or not, Tom Brady is in the Super Bowl.
Now that we’ve licked our wounds it’s time to crown the 2016 winner of the Steel Ball Trophy. After a satisfying run as reigning champion, copanut must step aside for this year’s winner: Army01. Army01 correctly predicted the Steelers’ wins in both regular season and postseason (11 and 2 respectively and was close enough in divisional predictions to hold the title.
Others are deserving of honorable mention. Abennihana and Tuskeegee_Brown both correctly predicted 11 wins for the Steelers. Tuskeegee_Brown and Malsor both correctly predicted two playoff wins, and malsor even correctly predicted a loss to the Patriots, and along with steelerfan58, correctly predicted the Rats would crawl to the finish with only 8 wins. Nobody foresaw the collapse of the Bengals, although copanut and kalel1199 were closest, while Army01 and mwalsh26 came closest in predicting the near perfect record of the Browns.
Rounding out the bottom were tompaulbillybob and chicosteelersfan, but to be fair it’s not because they are not good predictors. They lost a lot of points for areas where they failed to provide predictions and so got the lowest value by default. Lesson for next year: make sure you cover each category that is being measured.
Here are the results for posterity.
Raw data:
| Name |
Steelers Rec |
Ravens Rec |
Bengals Rec |
Browns Rec |
Steelers Div |
Ravens Div |
Bengals Div |
Browns Div |
Playoff Wins |
| copanut |
12 |
10 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
| tompaulbillybob |
12 |
|
|
|
1 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
| steelerfan58 |
12 |
8 |
11 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
| kalel1199 |
13 |
10 |
9 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
| army01 |
11 |
9 |
10 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
| tobiathan |
12 |
10 |
10 |
9 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
| malsor |
10 |
8 |
10 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
| mwalsh26 |
10 |
9 |
11 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
| abennihana |
11 |
9 |
10 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
| tuskegee_brown |
11 |
9 |
11 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
| estimatedprophet |
9 |
7 |
10 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
| chicosteelersfan |
12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ACTUAL |
11 |
8 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
Scored and sorted results. Scores are the absolute difference between
predicted and actual results.
| Name |
Steelers Rec |
Ravens Rec |
Bengals Rec |
Browns Rec |
Steelers Div |
Ravens Div |
Bengals Div |
Browns Div |
Playoff Wins |
Total |
| army01 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
| copanut |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
| malsor |
1 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
| abennihana |
0 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
10 |
| kalel1199 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
11 |
| steelerfan58 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
13 |
| mwalsh26 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
13 |
| tuskegee_brown |
0 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
| estimatedprophet |
2 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
| tobiathan |
1 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
| tompaulbillybob |
1 |
8 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
21 |
| chicosteelersfan |
1 |
8 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
27 |
The actual interview of Martavis Bryant comes across much better than the media summary we read earlier today. Much more humble. Hope!!
https://www.facebook.com/jdotcdoublee/videos/1926081967619093/
