From: maillist@pram.cs.ucla.edu (Generic Mailing List ID (Guest))
Subject: Final results - Point Total Pool
Summary: It's madness, I tell you, madness!
Keywords: Madness
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date:  7 Apr 92 20:47:26 GMT

Final Notes & Results: NCAA Point Pool

The big winner in this year's point total pool is...

Phileas Fogg (a.k.a. Greg Barnes)

Greg's entry was the first ever "Theme" entry to actually win the pool.
Here's his list, along with his explanation.

  Kentucky
  Georgia Tech
  Memphis State
  Indiana
  UCLA
  Ohio State
  New Mexico State
  Duke

  Starting in Kent, England (KENTucky), we proceed east to the republic of
  Georgia, and then south to Memphis, Egypt.  Stopping off at the jewel in
  the crown (INDIAna), we next proceed to the city of Angeles in the
  Phillipines, and from there to sunny Hawaii (oHIo state).  Taking the
  southerly route across North America, through Mexico, we cross the
  Atlantic and end up back in the UK (dUKe).

  Note that I could have included South America with Los Angeles, Chile,
  but I couldn't find an Australian or Antarctic locale to round out the
  'eight teams from 7 continents' theme.

Nice job, Greg.  Maybe you'll get a prize, some day - maybe.

The highest score possible was:

512 [452/60 ]   Michigan
504 [494/10 ] * Duke
472 [452/20 ]   Indiana
431 [391/40 ]   Cincinnati
404 [384/20 ]   Kentucky
362 [302/60 ]   Memphis State
360 [240/120]   New Mexico State
332 [322/10 ]   UCLA

3377 [3037/340]

Phileas' score was over 90%, which is very nice, though nowhere near the
record set last year.

James Armstrong, speaking from 180th place, wants me to point out that this
year his family seems to have managed to squeak out a victory over the 
extended Merzbacher clan.  In response, I must point out that at least my
family had the originality to submit different picks (see 41st/45th place).

On an unrelated note - check out the low sixties, where Scott Turner and
I have demonstrated how to achieve the same score via radically different
paths.

Congratulations to "Super" Dave Chen, who was the highest entrant to have 
the guts to *not* pick Duke.  Take that, Charlie R.

Here are the final standings.  A person picking Duke will be highlighted by
having a 1 in the 'T' category.  You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Until next year...

 Score  Raw/Bonus   T   Name		T = 1: Chose Duke
 3377 [3037/340 ] ( 1 ) Theoretical Maximum
 3339 [3109/230 ] ( 1 ) Elite Eight
 3049 [2729/320 ] ( 1 ) Phileas Fogg
 2945 [2705/240 ] ( 1 ) Phil "Let's Go Orange!" Kesten
 2921 [2711/210 ] ( 1 ) Peter Ko
 2821 [2631/190 ] ( 1 ) Lorene Bradley
 2776 [2526/250 ] ( 1 ) Tony "Fish" Stargel
 2771 [2481/290 ] ( 1 ) Steve "Wrong Way" Chapin (g)
 2751 [2481/270 ] ( 1 ) Kevin "Go Bucks!" Metz
 2742 [2452/290 ] ( 1 ) Mike Berman

10th place

 2731 [2391/340 ] ( 1 ) Ed Kearns
 2719 [2489/230 ] ( 1 ) Ellie Cutler
 2700 [2480/220 ] ( 1 ) Carl Gritter
 2694 [2514/180 ] ( 1 ) Scott Kister
 2694 [2514/180 ] ( 1 ) Greg Paul
 2694 [2484/210 ] ( 1 ) Brett Barksdale
 2692 [2332/360 ] ( 1 ) Travis Pape
 2677 [2457/220 ] ( 1 ) Dave Schultz
 2673 [2543/130 ] ( 1 ) Russ Pierce
 2665 [2545/120 ] ( 1 ) The Weenie Picks (top 8 seeds)

20th place

 2665 [2545/120 ] ( 1 ) David Bradley
 2664 [2384/280 ] ( 1 ) Curtis "UNC-Chapel" Hill (g)
 2662 [2272/390 ] ( 1 ) Rob Sadowski
 2660 [2400/260 ] ( 1 ) Mark Mitchell (g)
 2654 [2514/140 ] ( 1 ) Jane Usenet (most picked teams)
 2610 [2200/410 ] ( 1 ) Peter Bereolos (g)
 2587 [2327/260 ] ( 1 ) Jim McNulty
 2560 [2320/240 ] ( 1 ) Kevin Ankoviak
 2560 [2310/250 ] ( 1 ) Kris Kukla
 2559 [2369/190 ] ( 1 ) George Harris (g)

30th place

 2557 [2337/220 ] ( 1 ) Dave Reed
 2557 [2337/220 ] ( 1 ) Dave "Big Suit" O'Hara (g)
 2556 [2346/210 ] ( 1 ) Brian Gara
 2552 [2322/230 ] ( 1 ) Nancy Kedzierski
 2543 [2333/210 ] ( 1 ) Amy Lesnick
 2540 [2280/260 ] ( 1 ) Albert Loper
 2538 [2398/140 ] ( 1 ) Shih-Lien Lu
 2538 [2398/140 ] ( 1 ) Eric Williford
 2537 [2117/420 ] ( 0 ) Super Dave Chen
 2509 [2249/260 ] ( 1 ) Bucky Ransdell (g)

40th place

 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Vincent (VINMAN) Tino
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Valentine M. Armstrong
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Rob Buchner
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Rex Fowler
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Kevin "Bunsen" Price
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) James C. Armstrong, Sr.
 2504 [2364/140 ] ( 1 ) Jack Choquette
 2497 [2137/360 ] ( 0 ) Rick Grubin
 2496 [2256/240 ] ( 1 ) Ram Vemuri
 2493 [2213/280 ] ( 0 ) Scott Sampson

50th place

 2491 [2211/280 ] ( 1 ) Alex Nitbacher
 2485 [2275/210 ] ( 1 ) Bill Reeves
 2471 [2281/190 ] ( 1 ) Young J. Koh
 2465 [2285/180 ] ( 1 ) Mitch Sweeney
 2464 [2304/160 ] ( 1 ) Yuguang Wu
 2464 [2294/170 ] ( 1 ) Cyrus Wood
 2461 [2321/140 ] ( 1 ) Randy Jones
 2461 [2321/140 ] ( 1 ) Bryan Morse
 2453 [2173/280 ] ( 1 ) Scott Lewis
 2452 [2162/290 ] ( 1 ) Kevin Thompson

60th place

 2438 [2148/290 ] ( 1 ) Sascha Linn
 2435 [1935/500 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Roberts
 2434 [2284/150 ] ( 1 ) Mark Nash
 2431 [2231/200 ] ( 1 ) Gary "ZIP" Zipfel
 2430 [2020/410 ] ( 0 ) Beat Da Boilers
 2428 [2188/240 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Shaw
 2427 [2257/170 ] ( 1 ) Matthew Merzbacher (g)
 2427 [2127/300 ] ( 1 ) Scott "Guaranteed to Win *This* Year" Turner (g)
 2421 [2041/380 ] ( 1 ) Doug Ingram
 2420 [2140/280 ] ( 1 ) Bob English

70th place

 2419 [2269/150 ] ( 1 ) delarocq@eos.ncsu.edu
 2417 [2147/270 ] ( 1 ) Arthur Goldstein
 2409 [2149/260 ] ( 1 ) Mike Lewis (Duke '91)
 2408 [2168/240 ] ( 1 ) Scott Evan Decatur
 2404 [2164/240 ] ( 1 ) Thomas Cole
 2403 [2143/260 ] ( 1 ) Mustafa Patwa
 2402 [2202/200 ] ( 1 ) Eugen "The Turk" Merzbacher
 2399 [2179/220 ] ( 1 ) Jay Legenhausen
 2399 [2159/240 ] ( 0 ) Charlie "didn't pick Duke" Richter (g)
 2394 [1844/550 ] ( 1 ) Chris Campo

80th place

 2391 [1871/520 ] ( 0 ) Kurt Zielenbach
 2390 [2140/250 ] ( 1 ) Susan Garbarino
 2387 [2147/240 ] ( 1 ) Glen Williams
 2385 [2105/280 ] ( 1 ) Christopher M. Feulner
 2384 [2164/220 ] ( 1 ) Mike (the Magnificent) Bretherton
 2370 [2000/370 ] ( 1 ) Michael K.
 2367 [2187/180 ] ( 1 ) Mark Lent
 2361 [2031/330 ] ( 1 ) Thomas Boehm
 2357 [2047/310 ] ( 1 ) Ben Tsai
 2348 [2098/250 ] ( 1 ) Chris Tuerk

90th place

 2344 [2024/320 ] ( 1 ) Jason "Weasel-Boy" Snell
 2339 [2039/300 ] ( 1 ) Len "Paddy" Brown
 2335 [2075/260 ] ( 1 ) Marc Reider
 2330 [2010/320 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Wu
 2329 [1999/330 ] ( 0 ) Wes Morgan (g)
 2328 [2088/240 ] ( 1 ) Brian Lance
 2327 [2127/200 ] ( 1 ) Eugene Wallingford (g)
 2327 [2057/270 ] ( 1 ) Todd Singletary
 2324 [2144/180 ] ( 1 ) Mark Schnaible
 2322 [2052/270 ] ( 1 ) Clint Ruoho

100th place

 2322 [1962/360 ] ( 1 ) Jason Lahti
 2311 [1741/570 ] ( 0 ) Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
 2309 [2119/190 ] ( 1 ) Rajesh Prabhu
 2308 [2128/180 ] ( 1 ) Kevin Rodgers
 2307 [2117/190 ] ( 1 ) Kerry McNicholas
 2304 [1894/410 ] ( 0 ) Joe Sosa
 2301 [1981/320 ] ( 0 ) Kevin V. Martin
 2295 [2125/170 ] ( 1 ) David Sleight
 2295 [1815/480 ] ( 1 ) Jim Plank
 2292 [2142/150 ] ( 1 ) Steven Rein

110th place

 2292 [2142/150 ] ( 1 ) Marcus Louie
 2284 [2144/140 ] ( 1 ) Dave Hyndman
 2283 [2003/280 ] ( 0 ) Harvey Hou
 2280 [1990/290 ] ( 1 ) Joe Sterbenc (g)
 2279 [1919/360 ] ( 0 ) Ken Bowers
 2279 [1749/530 ] ( 1 ) Daina Pettit
 2252 [2082/170 ] ( 1 ) Derc Yamasaki
 2247 [2067/180 ] ( 1 ) Doug Mraz (g)
 2242 [1712/530 ] ( 0 ) Sven Pride
 2241 [2071/170 ] ( 1 ) Danny Carlson

120th place

 2237 [1837/400 ] ( 1 ) Jeff "The Messianic One" Sterbenc
 2235 [2035/200 ] ( 1 ) Archie "ace man" Holmes
 2235 [1975/260 ] ( 1 ) Arnie
 2231 [1691/540 ] ( 0 ) Kevin Krom (g)
 2218 [2018/200 ] ( 1 ) Philip Hubbard
 2209 [1949/260 ] ( 1 ) Tom Hancock
 2205 [1995/210 ] ( 1 ) Gordon Chaffee
 2203 [1663/540 ] ( 1 ) Mark Lyttle
 2200 [1940/260 ] ( 1 ) Bob Mohorek
 2196 [1826/370 ] ( 1 ) Doug Dolven

130th place

 2195 [1815/380 ] ( 1 ) Fred Widman
 2192 [1972/220 ] ( 1 ) Randy "Big Ten" Peppler (g)
 2191 [1951/240 ] ( 1 ) Dave Reed
 2186 [1836/350 ] ( 1 ) Charlie Hendrix
 2185 [1955/230 ] ( 1 ) Jonathan Betts
 2184 [1914/270 ] ( 1 ) Lillian Armstrong
 2182 [1892/290 ] ( 1 ) Bob Hill
 2176 [1656/520 ] ( 1 ) Jed "Jazzy J" Tai
 2173 [1963/210 ] ( 1 ) Dane Dwyer
 2172 [1872/300 ] ( 1 ) Anne Rappaport

140th place

 2167 [1947/220 ] ( 1 ) Brad Isenhour
 2167 [1757/410 ] ( 1 ) Ed Aboufadel
 2166 [1926/240 ] ( 1 ) Sekhar Darbha
 2164 [1694/470 ] ( 0 ) Mike Zylich
 2162 [1772/390 ] ( 1 ) Fred Basas
 2158 [1948/210 ] ( 1 ) Suri Varma Brahmaroutu
 2158 [1948/210 ] ( 1 ) James Florance
 2158 [1918/240 ] ( 1 ) Dr. J(effrey Neil Burch)  (g)
 2155 [1965/190 ] ( 1 ) Mike Kain (g)
 2152 [1732/420 ] ( 1 ) Ann "Big Mama" Merzbacher

150th place

 2147 [1857/290 ] ( 1 ) T-Bone Burton (g)
 2146 [1736/410 ] ( 1 ) Jeff McKenzie
 2145 [1925/220 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Sweeney
 2140 [1880/260 ] ( 1 ) Mike Sager
 2139 [1619/520 ] ( 0 ) Desert Man...
 2138 [1908/230 ] ( 1 ) Boyd Nation
 2136 [1766/370 ] ( 1 ) Eric Torng
 2134 [1684/450 ] ( 1 ) Roy Navarre
 2132 [1722/410 ] ( 1 ) Dick Harkness
 2131 [1841/290 ] ( 0 ) Mike Connelly

160th place

 2128 [1778/350 ] ( 1 ) GaRy THE BbaLl GOd NEwelL (g)
 2116 [1826/290 ] ( 1 ) Thomas Oligino
 2115 [1795/320 ] ( 1 ) Jimmy Black
 2109 [1799/310 ] ( 0 ) Brian Utesch
 2108 [1798/310 ] ( 1 ) Chengi Jimmy Kuo
 2108 [1768/340 ] ( 1 ) William Hsu
 2105 [1865/240 ] ( 1 ) Scott McDowell
 2103 [1723/380 ] ( 1 ) Mic Bowman
 2100 [1910/190 ] ( 1 ) Greg Flint
 2100 [1880/220 ] ( 1 ) Tallis Blalack

170th place

 2100 [1880/220 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Wallace
 2097 [1907/190 ] ( 1 ) Timothy Tsai
 2089 [1869/220 ] ( 1 ) Marc J. Stephenson
 2085 [1825/260 ] ( 1 ) Jim "Jugs" Sarne
 2085 [1785/300 ] ( 0 ) Arun Sathyagal
 2083 [1903/180 ] ( 1 ) Kelly J Deyoe
 2077 [1807/270 ] ( 1 ) Lynn Gurske
 2076 [1816/260 ] ( 1 ) Bill Jones
 2075 [1905/170 ] ( 1 ) Dale J. Stephenson
 2075 [1875/200 ] ( 1 ) Kevin Denelsbeck

180th place

 2075 [1875/200 ] ( 1 ) James "Grizzly" Armstrong (g)
 2073 [1863/210 ] ( 1 ) Jayant Rajgopal
 2072 [1732/340 ] ( 0 ) Grace Chang
 2063 [1883/180 ] ( 0 ) Matt Nelson
 2056 [1776/280 ] ( 1 ) Captain Chaos
 2055 [1655/400 ] ( 1 ) Chris Herndon
 2044 [1544/500 ] ( 1 ) Carl Kalbfleisch
 2039 [1669/370 ] ( 1 ) Rob Mangiarelli
 2035 [1825/210 ] ( 0 ) J. Lance Porter
 2033 [1783/250 ] ( 1 ) Toni Morgan

190th place

 2030 [1660/370 ] ( 0 ) Pete "Mario Ginzinucci" Anamasi
 2028 [1618/410 ] ( 1 ) Darren Reiniger
 2023 [1763/260 ] ( 1 ) ze moose eez loose
 2016 [1746/270 ] ( 1 ) Michael Fath
 2015 [1805/210 ] ( 1 ) Adam Bonin
 2012 [1742/270 ] ( 1 ) Alex Henstrom
 2012 [1682/330 ] ( 1 ) Gidi Avrahami (g)
 2010 [1350/660 ] ( 1 ) Louisiana and NC
 2003 [1513/490 ] ( 1 ) Joe Sheehan (g)
 2002 [1482/520 ] ( 1 ) Adger Memorial Entry

200th place

 1998 [1638/360 ] ( 1 ) Joe Miro-Julia (g)
 1996 [1816/180 ] ( 1 ) Henry Lowood
 1996 [1476/520 ] ( 0 ) C. "UWGB could beat half the NCAA field" Greatens
 1980 [1760/220 ] ( 1 ) Mark Ehlers
 1967 [1497/470 ] ( 1 ) Ken Ritchie
 1963 [1663/300 ] ( 1 ) Ken Kaufman
 1963 [1663/300 ] ( 1 ) Greg "The K" Barnes
 1963 [1543/420 ] ( 0 ) Steve McNatton's Namesakes
 1962 [1602/360 ] ( 0 ) Jim "Woof Ticket Scalper" Oliver (g)
 1958 [1608/350 ] ( 1 ) Dan Devine

210th place

 1957 [1527/430 ] ( 0 ) John DeHart
 1955 [1725/230 ] ( 1 ) Aparajit J. Mahajan
 1945 [1585/360 ] ( 1 ) Ramana Kolluri
 1940 [1560/380 ] ( 1 ) Ken Kubey
 1939 [1669/270 ] ( 1 ) Tommy-O O'Connor
 1930 [1350/580 ] ( 1 ) Cliff Slaughterbeck
 1928 [1618/310 ] ( 1 ) Eric Arendts (g)
 1924 [1464/460 ] ( 0 ) Davis Ruth
 1920 [1540/380 ] ( 0 ) Kent Neier
 1898 [1578/320 ] ( 1 ) Damian Bless

220th place

 1897 [1507/390 ] ( 1 ) Trent "Elbows" Lange (g)
 1883 [1363/520 ] ( 0 ) Stanley Eng
 1869 [1089/780 ] ( 0 ) Bob "Go to ... Carolina" Slobarino
 1863 [1513/350 ] ( 0 ) Scott "Mr Big8" Davis (g)
 1862 [1502/360 ] ( 1 ) E. David Ternes (Loser Chooser)
 1861 [1221/640 ] ( 0 ) Forrest Smith
 1854 [1464/390 ] ( 1 ) Michael S Miller
 1853 [1453/400 ] ( 1 ) Celia Nitbacher
 1853 [1313/540 ] ( 1 ) Ronnie Smith (g)
 1844 [1584/260 ] ( 1 ) Jeff Fitzgerald

230th place

 1843 [1473/370 ] ( 0 ) Stephen Roberts
 1838 [1408/430 ] ( 1 ) Pete Tortorici
 1837 [1457/380 ] ( 0 ) Bartman
 1833 [1623/210 ] ( 0 ) Prashanth K
 1813 [1353/460 ] ( 0 ) Tom Berry
 1813 [1183/630 ] ( 1 ) David L. Genne'
 1809 [1429/380 ] ( 1 ) Jack Hsu
 1804 [1434/370 ] ( 1 ) scoop@athena
 1804 [1084/720 ] ( 1 ) Heather Berry
 1803 [ 843/960 ] ( 0 ) John Trussell (All Direction)

240th place

 1788 [1488/300 ] ( 0 ) Adam Levin
 1785 [1305/480 ] ( 1 ) Darryl Marsee
 1775 [1135/640 ] ( 1 ) Barry "Crazy Eights" Pangrle
 1769 [1429/340 ] ( 0 ) Dan "Go Cyclones" Birkestrand
 1761 [1301/460 ] ( 1 ) Dilip "The Simulator"
 1754 [1484/270 ] ( 1 ) Ken Yao
 1744 [1424/320 ] ( 1 ) NorAAzizam MohdAAsif
 1738 [1058/680 ] ( 0 ) David "UCAT" Moore
 1717 [1207/510 ] ( 0 ) Kevin Brown
 1717 [1187/530 ] ( 0 ) Mike Chernesky

250th place

 1713 [ 483/1230] ( 0 ) The Anti-Weenies (bottom 8 seeds)
 1700 [1320/380 ] ( 0 ) Randy Weiche
 1700 [1250/450 ] ( 0 ) Eric Rosentel
 1652 [1012/640 ] ( 0 ) Jeff Bandle
 1650 [1040/610 ] ( 0 ) Mark Taranto
 1642 [ 502/1140] ( 0 ) Joe Anti-Usenet (least picked teams)
 1623 [1293/330 ] ( 0 ) Mike "The Kiwi" Tuohy
 1584 [ 874/710 ] ( 0 ) CLUELESS GOMER
 1583 [1033/550 ] ( 0 ) David "Riothamus" Ingham
 1569 [1029/540 ] ( 0 ) George "Bleacher Creature" Fink

260th place

 1549 [1019/530 ] ( 0 ) Dennis Linse
 1532 [1042/490 ] ( 0 ) David Willard
 1525 [1235/290 ] ( 0 ) The Crossjammer -- ASPC (g)
 1484 [ 884/600 ] ( 0 ) All 7s and 8s
 1469 [ 989/480 ] ( 0 ) Timothy C. Pitts
 1438 [ 758/680 ] ( 0 ) All Catholic
 1383 [ 833/550 ] ( 0 ) Chris Cerrone
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