Hopski 1st Round Update

 

Yeah - this indeed is a day late and for that reason it will focus on some shout-outs rather than pure entertainment!!!  Deal with it!!!

Congrats to both Domer (Chris Hevezi, Hoosier residing in New Orleans now and younger brother of high school best friend Lou, famous previously for dropping 5 3s (I think) in final 2 minutes of Kokomo sectional final only to fall short of knocking off fkn Kokomo Wildcats and his McD career flippin’ burgers) and Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive & Dunk (Justin Lockhart, New Yorker that runs a 2 conference fantasy pool that I have yet to win in 5 years – fix is in!) as these two entries were most accurate of the 1st round, picking 29 of 32 winners, landing them in 1st and 9th place, respectively (not that this will matter in a week!).  The Hopski All-Time 1st round record holder for accuracy is Pitino Is A Weiner (David E Miller) back in 2013 with 30 winners picked!

At the other end of the Leaderboard is Dreaming of a Three-Peat #2 (Don King), our first toilet bowl leader who picked a pool low 18 of 32 winners and worse – just one upset!!  Yippie Ki-Yah MotherDunker (Darin “The King” Townsend, IU roommate from Anderson, IN and devoted fan of about half a dozen teams in every pro league as well as another 5 colleges!) managed to avoid the Day 1 Toilet Bowl, but picked a pool low 17 out of 32 winners – applying the anything for the Dawg Points strategy!  

Also of note is Mercantilism:  Economy of the Future from John Springer (early Warsaw expat and ISU Cyclone grad – now in Minnesota or somewhere cold from memory) who pulled a 1st round Blutarsky – “0.0” Dawg Points!  UGH!

The Hopski has 149 entries this year, with 1st Round Average correct picks was 23, with 15 Dawg Points and 38 total points.  Hopski History:

As the pool moves forward (and for those not familiar with Run Your Pool), take note that RYP does have some reports of interest available on the website or you can download their app, so click on “Reports” and please note the following:

1. Leaderboard: which is actually just full pool standings.  If you click any header, it will sort by the header, unfortunately we are missing the day to day + / - moves in the standings, entrant names and underdawg points….  Drat!

2. Semi-Final Pick Summary:  Shows # of times each team picked for the Final Four, the Finals and as Champion;

3. Team by Team Pick Summary:  Shows by region how many times each team picked to win in each round;

4. Who to Root For:  Cool listing of the teams that your entry REALLY neds to have win to compete relative to the Hopski competition;

5. Scenario Generator:  Predict the future finishes and RYP will generate the Leaderboard;

6. Group Results Summary:  Created a few groups (Hopski family, EURO expats, Indiana alums, met me, never met me, rookies, Bay Area) and you can see internal group standings for each here;

7. Pool History:  See Hopski results since 2022 (when we started using RYP);

GET THOSE PAYMENTS IN - AS I WILL BE UPDATING THE ACCOUNTS IN A COUPLE OF DAYS (THOUGH I PRESUME ANY OF YOU SO AIMLESS AS TO NOT HAVE ALREADY MADE PAYMENT WOULD NOT HAVE READ THIS FAR!!!).  

OF SPECIAL PAYMENT NOTE – LORD VOLDEMORT / MARK IANTOSCA (OUR DEFENDING CHAMPION THAT WAS SUSPENDED 48HRS FOR LATE PAYMENT) HAS ACTUALLY PAID ON TIME THIS YEAR!!

THE COMMISH!

*VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ENTRY NAME (WINNER GETS FREE ENTRY NEXT YEAR) BY EMAILING ME OR USING THE MESSAGE BOARD.  NOTE THE SUSAN ESLICK RULE - ONE CANNOT VOTE FOR THEIR OWN ENTRY.

*ALSO GET YOUR PICKS IN FOR THE 2ND CHANCE DANCE STARTING SUNDAY NIGHT / MONDAY MORNING!!!