CFPOOL Hall Of Fame

CFPOOL Hall Of Fame

The following players won the CFPOOL. Click on the year to access more complete historical results for that year (where available). Prior to 1997 we only have the RSFC final standings postings. If you have access to any of the data from the years before 1997 please let us know.

2012 al0729
2011 BigdaddyQH
2010 Bugeater
2009 DanKorte
2008 moby
2007 *AccuRatings
2006 manwithnoname6
2005 DougWilliams
2004 Tom Walsh
2003 klobetime
2002 Aaarrrggghhh
2001 Ben Browdy
2000 Desert Man...
1999 The Wiz
1998 Desert Man...
1997 edwin
1996 Desert Man...
1995 "Buck System"
1994 Ed Kearns
1993 Edward Freeman
1992 Russ Pierce
1991 Eric Arendts
1990 Richie Hemphill
1989 Eric Arendts
1988 Greg Flint
1987 Bruce Kovalsky
1986 Chris Stassen

Note that winning the pool in its first year is not nearly as impressive as winning it now. The number of "regular" (season-long) entrants has grown from about twenty in 1986 to about a couple hundred in recent years.

The current software for scoring the CFPOOL was introduced in the 2001 season (we had used it to score an NFL office pool for several years previously). When importing the data from the years prior to this system, we corrected a couple of errors and made an additional tweak that resulted in slightly different scores than you may have seen in your archived email messages.

These changes are:

Included the Bowl Entries in the final standings for 1998.

When these results were included, Desert Man... proved to be the 1998 CFPOOL season champion.
Updated the algorithm for dropping scores from the Bowl Week.

According to the posted rules during this time frame, the Bowl Entry should be split into two separate entries when deciding which scores to drop. Previously, the Bowl Entry was not split, which resulted in people retaining a poor Bowl result and dropping a superior performance from earlier in the season. Implementing this rule as stated resulted in some shuffling of position but did not affect any final champions.
Updated the algorithm for completing incomplete entries.

According to the posted rules when an incomplete email entry is received then the home team is picked for any missing games. Under the old scoring software the visiting team was being picked. Again this resulted in some shuffling of positions but did not affect any final champions.

Tweaked the rounding of the confidence weights.

Because of accumulated rounding error when calculating the confidence weights according to the rules, the total points for a week sometimes did not total exactly 1000.00 points. The current implementation adjusts the weight of the top pick slightly so that the total is exact. This made at most a difference of 0.02 points in any one entry.

Combined some of the entrants.

We tried to match most of the names from the earlier system to the current names of the players. We undoubtedly missed some names. If you see that your moniker appears in the historical data in a different form than the current moniker, let us know if you would like to combine the entrants under a single name. We will be adding some all-time standings in the future. If you want all of your entries included in those calculations, we need to make certain all of your entries match.

If you see any problems with the historical data or can provide us with earlier data, let us know!

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