Greg takes home $63 for his first place finish. Finishing in second was the Davin Bull Dogs, coached by Brent Gessner, who receives $18 in prize money. Leaping into third in the final week was Kerri’s Kool Kats, holding off Playoff Picks and PlayoffJunkie. Kool Kats coach Kerri Hysuick takes home $9.

Account balances are up to date. Winners can contact me about paying out prize money. Overtime Central congratulates all the winners and thanks all participants. See you next year!

2007 Overtime Central CFL Pool

Most Predictions Accurate Within 2 Points of Both Home and Visiting Team Scores

Davin Bulldogs (3)

Most Perfect Predictions

Tie: Davin Bulldogs and Victorious Secret (1)

Most Fantasy Point Games Over 10

Victorious Secret (7)
Honourable Mention: Davin Buldogs (6)

Most Two Fantasy Point Games

Tie: KimchiPower and Ottawa’09orBust (10)
Honourable Mention: BigMc_is_back (9)

Most One Fantasy Point Games

PowerEdge (14)
Honourable Mention: Davin Bulldogs (13)

Most Zero Fantasy Point Games

Tie: PowerEdge and KimchiPower (3)

Biggest Month Award

Victorious Secret (132 points in October)

Smallest Month Award

KimchiPower (45 points in July)

Biggest Week Award

BigMc_is_back (34 points in Week 5)
Honourable Mention: PoolJunkie (33 points in Week 10)

Smallest Week Award

PowerEdge (1 point in Week 8)
Honourable Mention: KimchiPower (3 points in Week 8)

Biggest Game Award

Davin Bulldogs (16 points)

Most Uses of Default Picks of 21-20 No Overtime Home Team Victory

A sign, but not a certainty, that the deadline was missed and the default picks were used.
PromisedLand (7)
Honourable Mention: Davin Bulldogs (6)

Best Team Name

Victorious Secret

Most Predictions That the ‘Riders Would Lose

Tie: KimchiPower and PowerEdge (6)
Honourable Mention: PoolJunkie (5)

Least Predictions That the ‘Riders Would Lose

Tie: Victorious Secret, BigMc_is_back and Davin Bulldogs (1)

Most Correct Predictions That the ‘Riders Would Lose

Pool Junkie (3)
Honourable Mentions: KimchiPower and Ottawa’09orBust (2)

Most Predictions That the ‘Riders Would Tie

PowerEdge (3)

Most Correct Predictions That the ‘Riders Would Win

Tie: Ottawa’09orBust, BigMc_is_back and Davin Bulldogs (12)
Honourable Mention: Victorious Secret (11)

2007 Overtime Central CFL Hi-Lo Challenge

Most Perfect Prediction Weeks

Tie: Hi’n'Lois and HiLoJunkie (2)

Most 10 or Over Fantasy Point Weeks

HiLoJunkie (10)
Honourable Mentions: Davin Bulldogs and Hi’n'Lois (8)

Most Zero Fantasy Point Weeks

It’s Off to Work We Go (12)
Honourable Mention: PowerEdge (10) [Ed. Note: What a couple!]

Biggest Month Award

Kerri’s Kool Kats (74 points in October)
Honourable Mentions: HiLoJunkie (73 points in October) and Vote Quimby! (72 points in July)

Smallest Month Award

It’s Off to Work We Go (0 points in September)

Biggest Week Award

Tie: Hi’n'Lois and CFL4ever (33 points in Week 14)
Honourable Mentions: HiLounkie (29 points in Week 17), Hi’n'Lois (28 points in Week 17) and Vote Quimby! (27 points in Week 5)

Best Team Name

Tie: Vote Quimby! and Hi’n'Lois (its so punny!)

Best Retro Team Name

Kerri’s Kool Kats

The Scratch Your Head Team Name Award

It’s Off to Work We Go

The Diamond Dave Award

In honour of Diamond Dave, who finished so far back in a contest one year, we could not find him afterwards.
It’s Off to Work We Go

2007 Overtime Central CFL Start ‘em, Sit ‘em Draft

Biggest Month Award

SitemJunkie (3608 points in September)
Honourable Mention: CFL4ever (3604 points in July)

Smallest Month Award

Power Edge finished last each month, the smallest total being 1050 in August. [Ed. Note: Believed that rumour about a booby prize, eh?]

Biggest Week Award

g’s_guesses (1108 points in Week 16)

Best Team Name

Not awarded. They were all pretty bad.

The Diamond Dave Award

In honour of Diamond Dave, who finished so far back in a contest one year, we could not find him afterwards.
PowerEdge (Everyone thanks you for the donation.)

That wraps up another award show. Please keep your acceptance speeches short.

2007 Overtime Central CFL Pool

PoolJunkie, coached by Gord Hanson, finished with 386 points to take first place, eight points ahead of Victorious Secret. Secret, coached by Jim Fedyk, finished strong with a first place October finish, but fell short of first place overall in the last week. Fedyk was able to leap from third to second to cap the season, finishing with 378 points, four ahead of the Davin Bulldogs who finish third for the third year in a row. A last week finish by PoolJunkie of three points over Victorious Secret helped Junkie hang on to his first place position, which he held since Week 11. The Bulldogs and Secret jockeyed for the second and third place positions the final four weeks of the season after early season contender BigMc_is_back fell off the pace.

PoolJunkie takes home $56 for hist first place finish, while Victorious Secret is awarded $16 and the Davin Bulldogs $8 for their second and third place finishes respectively.

The complete official results are as follows:

1 PoolJunkie - 386 – $56 (coach: Gord Hanson)
2 Victorious Secret – 378 – $16 (coach: Jim Fedyk)
3 Davin Bulldogs - 374 – $8 (coach: Brent Gessner)
4 BigMc_is_back - 367
5 PromisedLand - 354
6 KimchiPower - 332
7 Ottawa’09orBust - 328
8 PowerEdge - 279

Special recognition to KimchiPower who as a Korean national out picked yours truly in one of my most humbling defeats ever.

Winners, please contract us at Overtime Central to specify your wishes regarding your winnings. We prefer that any winnings be paid out after any outstanding balances are paid.

Thanks to all participants for making this another exciting Overtime Central contest. Be sure to sign up for the 2007 CFL Playoffs Pick ‘em Pool and check back next year for more CFL contests.

2007 Overtime Central CFL Hi-Lo Challenge

In one of the most impressive second half comebacks since the 1963 Western Semi-Final “Miracle of Taylor Field” where the Saskatchewan Roughriders overcame a 35 – 9 deficit in a two game, total point series to defeat Calgary 48 – 47, HiLoJunkie rebounded from a poor start to jump into a share of first place in Week 11 and powered to a strong lead, only relinquishing it temporarily in Week 16. Gord Hanson, HiLoJunkie coach and professional prognosticator, guided his team to first place overall with 204 points. Finishing a distant second was Kerri’s Kool Kats, coached by Kerri Hysuick, with 172 points, proving that Gord has taught his sister almost everything he knows. Making a late charge and settling for third was Hi’n'Lois, coached by Jon Fedyk, who finished one point behind the Kats. Contending for spots earlier in the season only to fall off when the picks got tougher were Vote Quimby!, CFL4ever and the Davin Bull Dogs.

Fedyk boasted that he would have overcome both the Kats and Junkie eventually had there been more weeks in the season. Confident now in his strategy for this new contest, he predicted doom for the Hanson/Hysiuck duo next season.

HiLoJunkie takes home $56 for hist first place finish, while Kerri’s Kool Kats is awarded $16 and the Hi’n'Lois $8 for their second and third place finishes respectively.

The complete official results are as follows:

1 HiLoJunkie - 204 – $56 (coach: Gord Hanson)
2 Kerri’s Kool Kats – 172 – $16 (coach: Kerri Hysuick)
3 Hi’n'Lois – 171 – $8 (coach: Jon Fedyk)
4 CFL4ever – 168
5 Vote Quimby! – 147
6 Davin Bulldogs – 144
7 PowerEdge – 86
8 It’s Off to Work We Go – 61

Winners, please contract us at Overtime Central to specify your wishes regarding your winnings. We prefer that any winnings be paid out after any outstanding balances are paid.

Thanks to all participants for making this new CFL contest a success. Be sure to sign up for the 2007 CFL Playoffs Pick ‘em Pool and check back next year for more CFL contests.

2007 Overtime Central CFL Start ‘em, Sit ‘em Draft

Displaying B.C. Lion dominance, CFL4ever led the way for every week except one from Week 5 to the finish. Coached by Bill Maguire, CFL4ever finished in first place with 13,306 points and takes home $56. Keeping things close in second place was the Davin Bulldogs, coached by Brent Gessner, with 13,122 points. Brent takes home $16 for his respectable results. Coming in third is SitemJunkie, coached by the venerable Gord Hanson, with 12,676 points. Gord adds to his retirement fund with an $8 payday.

Producing respectable results with a severe handicap was RosterIncomplete in fourth place. RosterIncomplete’s team was in disarray from day 1 when he failed to get his picks changed prior to the deadline and was left with his picks from testing. This severely hampered his ability to employ his game plan and once injuries hit, his team was devastated. Still, had he not flubbed the last week and not expected Winnipeg to lose to Montreal, and therefore Toronto be resting their players, he could have finished with 887 points in Week 19, placing him 157 points behind Junkie, and perhaps made him look over his shoulder. True story.

The complete official results are as follows:

1 CFL4ever - 13,306 – $56 (coach: Bill Maguire)
2 Davin Bulldogs – 13,122 – $16 (coach: Brent Gessner)
3 SitemJunkie – 12,676 – $8 (coach: Gord Hanson)
4 RosterIncomplete – 11,978
5 g’s_guesses – 11,580
6 Jim’s Jihad – 11,266
7 Start Your Engines – 10,335
8 PowerEdge -6,406

Winners, please contract us at Overtime Central to specify your wishes regarding your winnings. We prefer that any winnings be paid out after any outstanding balances are paid.

Thanks to all participants for making this new CFL contest a success. Be sure to sign up for the 2007 CFL Playoffs Pick ‘em Pool and check back next year for more CFL contests.

Bonus Prize

You are still reading? Good. As a special thank you to participants this year, I have selected from those contestants who did not receive any final prizes one contestant randomly to receive our bonus prize. And the winner is: Greg Kreutzer! Greg wins a $20 gift certificate of his choice (iTunes, Chapters, Home Depot are some possibilities) or a $20 Overtime Central credit.

Stats

The 24 entries to the three contests this year came from ten individuals. There was $240 in entry fees received and prize money paid out, in addition to $80 in monthly and bonus prizes. If you want these numbers to increase, tell your friends and make sure they enter a contest, not just create an account. It is appreciated if you help collect entry fees from anyone you sign up. Account balances will be updated in the next few days.

Overtime Central would like to thank all participants and supporters. This site is for you.

• The October segment winner of the 2007 CFL Pool is Victorious Secret, coached by Jim Fedyk, with 132 points.
• The October segment winner of the 2007 CFL Hi-Lo Challenge is HiLoJunkie, coached by Gord Hanson, with 81 points.
• The October segment winner of the 2007 CFL Start ‘em, Sit ‘em Draft is g’s_guesses, coached by Grant McKinnon, with 3467 points.

Prizes this month will be $5 Blockbuster Video gift cards. Winners should get in touch with me to claim their prize. Thanks to all participants and remember to sign up for the 2007 Playoff Pick ‘em Pool.

This year’s playoff contest has some slightly different scoring rules than past pick-the-score contests. One major change is adding an over/under prediction for each game. The over/under line values have been calculated by taking the average total score in each of the CFL playoff games the last 10 years. Over/under predictions can be made independent of the actual score you predict for the game. See the contest rules for full details.

A quick note on future contests at Overtime Central; I am planning to get some kind of hockey contest going in January, but that will be dependent on me finding the time to create, test and verify the contest. One motivating factor for me is how much interest there is for such a contest. Leave a comment here or send me an email if you are dying for an Overtime Central NHL contest this winter.

Good luck to everyone in the 2007 CFL Playoffs Pick ‘em Pool!

• The August segment winner of the 2007 CFL Pool is Davin Bulldogs, coached by Brent Gessner, with 59 points.
• The August segment winner of the 2007 CFL Hi-Lo Challenge is Davin Bulldogs (no relation), coached by Brent Gessner (same guy), with 38 points.
• The August segment winner of the 2007 CFL Start ‘em, Sit ‘em Draft is CFL4ever, coached by Bill Maguire, with 3341 points. (Three monthly wins in a row and you are banned for a year, Bill.)

Prizes this month will be announced shortly (see update below). Winners should get in touch with me to claim their prize. Thanks to all participants and good luck the rest of the way.

Update: August winners will receive $5 Blockbuster Video gift cards.

• If you have not signed up as of yet, check out the contest rules and consider giving one of them a go.
• If you have signed up and made all your picks already, consider posting on one of the contest forums.
• At the bottom of your contest page, there is an entry preferences section. You can sign up for emailed reminders, pick confirmations and status updates.
• I have noted roster moves in this forum post and have updated the draft list with some missing players now that rosters have been set. Please let me know if I am missing anyone you wish to draft.
• Pick reminder emails are being sent out tonight, a little late the first time as I was waiting for additional entries.
• There will not be any Overtime Central season or week previews this year as my time will be spent on other things.