Fantasy Fishing 2020 - Official Thread

[Jrob78]

I chose poorly ?‍♂️

[scaleface]

I had Pauliniuk . He went from 5th to 1st and I went down in both the standings  and  percentage  , 

[fishballer06]

BP with the come from behind! What an event. 

 

I have Feider and Hartman. I was really thinking Feider was going to do it but once Palaniuk found that school of 4 pounders late in the afternoon, it was game over. 

 

16 days until Lake St. Clair, so start doing your research now boys. 

[scaleface]

Bonus points are a stupid idea . Jamie Hartman had the most points ,345 ,this tourney and he came in 3rd .Feider had 335 and the winner Paulinuik only 305 . 

[fishballer06]

11 hours ago, scaleface said:

Bonus points are a stupid idea . Jamie Hartman had the most points ,345 ,this tourney and he came in 3rd .Feider had 335 and the winner Paulinuik only 305 . 

Ssshhhh. Those bonus points helped me out a ton. 

 

Biggest bags and lunker should definitely get some sort of reward. Just like they do for AOY points. 

[FishinBuck07]

I am going with Feider again, I think and hope he finishes this next tournament out strong.  

[Tom D]

New guy here, very late to the game, I joined up to give it a whirl and have some fun if that's ok

[fishballer06]

10 hours ago, Tom D said:

New guy here, very late to the game, I joined up to give it a whirl and have some fun if that's ok

Glad to have ya. You can learn the ropes through the remainder of the season. 

[FishinBuck07]

12 hours ago, Tom D said:

New guy here, very late to the game, I joined up to give it a whirl and have some fun if that's ok

Don't worry about being very late to the game!  If you look at some of our scores you would think some of us were also late to the game!  ?

[MIbassyaker]

And, you always have a chance to win prizes each individual event, so being a late-comer only disadvantages you for the overall season standings.

 

 

[Tom D]

Thanks guys,

[fishballer06]

5 days to get your picks in. Who is everyone taking?

[fishballer06]

Rosters lock tomorrow night. 

[MIbassyaker]

A. Mueller

B. Zaldain

C. Paquette

D. Crews

E. Lowen

[Finessegenics]

A. Pipkens

B. Zaldain

C. Pirch

D. DeMarion

E. Preuett

[scaleface]

Feider 

Johnston

Johnston

Hamilton

Livesay

[FishinBuck07]

Feider

Shryock

Paquette

Crews

Lowen

[Tom D]

A		Seth Feider Bloomington, MN	46.14%
B		Cory Johnston Cavan, ON	37.10%
C		Brandon Cobb Greenwood, SC	1.66%
D		John Crews Salem, VA	26.77%
E		Bill Lowen Brookville, IN	39.76%

[fishballer06]

The weights looked pretty stacked at the top right now. This is going to be a shootout. 

[OCdockskipper]

Bill Weidler seems like a great guy, I am happy he won the St. Clair event.  He has never made a cut at the Great Lake events and last month came in 78th and 80th at the NY events.  So who were the folks prescient enough to choose him in Bucket E?

 

He had .3% of the vote, which out of the 35,000 some players comes out to 105 people choosing him.  However, there is some percentage of players who are dead wood, they signed up, but are no longer playing.  For example, there are 75 people in our group, but only 50 or so that are playing, so we have a 33% deadwood figure.  Using that as the whole contest number would knock it down to 70 people who chose him.

 

However, I think our group has higher participation than the contest as a whole.  For example, I have sucked this year and am in 16th place in our group, which puts me at the 79th percentile if you count our dead wood.  However, in the overall contest, they have me at the 90th percentile.  So based on that, the overall contest probably has another 9% more dead wood than our group, or 42% deadwood.  Applying that to the 35,000 number of official players means there are only 20,300 active players, of which 61 chose Weidler.

 

Great longshot to hit, especially in the E bucket.  Was anyone in our group part of the 61 players who chose him?

 

Also, for the total weight (now a 40 point bonus), I chose 86-6.  Missed it by one ounce.  Crap.

[scaleface]

They have the entry for Santee Cooper up now . Has Guntersville been cancelled ?

[fishballer06]

15 hours ago, OCdockskipper said:

Bill Weidler seems like a great guy, I am happy he won the St. Clair event.  He has never made a cut at the Great Lake events and last month came in 78th and 80th at the NY events.  So who were the folks prescient enough to choose him in Bucket E?

 

He had .3% of the vote, which out of the 35,000 some players comes out to 105 people choosing him.  However, there is some percentage of players who are dead wood, they signed up, but are no longer playing.  For example, there are 75 people in our group, but only 50 or so that are playing, so we have a 33% deadwood figure.  Using that as the whole contest number would knock it down to 70 people who chose him.

 

However, I think our group has higher participation than the contest as a whole.  For example, I have sucked this year and am in 16th place in our group, which puts me at the 79th percentile if you count our dead wood.  However, in the overall contest, they have me at the 90th percentile.  So based on that, the overall contest probably has another 9% more dead wood than our group, or 42% deadwood.  Applying that to the 35,000 number of official players means there are only 20,300 active players, of which 61 chose Weidler.

 

Great longshot to hit, especially in the E bucket.  Was anyone in our group part of the 61 players who chose him?

 

Also, for the total weight (now a 40 point bonus), I chose 86-6.  Missed it by one ounce.  Crap.

 

 

[OCdockskipper]

Here is something else that will make your head hurt ?

 

I went back and looked at the scoring for Fantasy Fishing for St Clair & who won.  The person who came in 3rd (Buickparkave) had not played the entire year, this was his first entry.  He went with favorites in the top buckets (Mueller, & both Johnstons) but then switched it up and went with the longest of long-shots by choosing Weidler in bucket E.

 

I know this sounds like a conspiracy theorist, but how does a first time player who is choosing favorites decide to switch it up on a guy who has never cashed on the Great Lakes and was at the bottom of the AOY standings, only to have that dark horse win?

 

I really wonder if there is a glitch in the Fantasy Fishing programming that allows late entries to slide in...

[fishballer06]

1 hour ago, OCdockskipper said:

I really wonder if there is a glitch in the Fantasy Fishing programming that allows late entries to slide in...

I could always remove the group name/password from the first post of this thread, but I'd rather have as many people playing along here as possible. After all, this group is entirely for fun and it gets people talking on the forum. 

 

All that aside, I absolutely tanked this event. I fell from the 98.9 percentile, to the 96.9 percentile and my picks for this event only landed me in the 71st percentile. I racked up 925 points, while our group leader Logan (who was in the 99.9th percentile) only managed to land himself 855 points total. Lots of popular picks at this tournament who didn't fair well. 

 

I personally took Seth Feider (who finished 25th) and I debated not taking him since his wife just had a baby a week and a half before the event and I felt like his head just wouldn't be on the water. And from the looks of it, it wasn't, but the guy knows enough about that lake and smallmouths to still land himself in the top 25. I should have trusted my gut and went with a Johnston brother. Oh well, live and learn. 

[OCdockskipper]

1 hour ago, fishballer06 said:

I could always remove the group name/password from the first post of this thread, but I'd rather have as many people playing along here as possible. After all, this group is entirely for fun and it gets people talking on the forum. ..

 

Oh, I agree, and I wasn't talking about our group.  I was talking about the contests website & software, the parts BASS & Rapala are responsible for.

 

Every event, there are at least a couple of entries who have played zero events up until the current event and after the first day, they are in the top 20.  Now they don't always stay there, by the time day 4 rolls around, they often can slide a little.  It just seems odd how often people who have not played the entire year can be in the top 20 over the other 20,000 plus participants.

 

My semi-educated hunch is that someone figured out a way that new entries, people playing for the first time, can submit their choices AFTER the event is underway.  Maybe it gives new entries a way to submit their choices 6 or 7 hours into the event.  What one could do then is create new entrants for each event, and as the first day is wrapping up, choose anglers based off of Basstrak or TV coverage.  It wouldn't guarantee you a win, but could give a major edge by eliminating those anglers who are struggling and giving you a heads up that a low percentage angler, such as Weidler, is doing good.

 

I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it reminds me of some of the hacks people found (or were given) in online poker when the first few sites were operating a decade plus ago.