2015 Conference Championship Results

The Seahawk’s miracle comeback last Sunday was good news for one Doughnut Party team in particular.

But before we dig into the details, let’s just look at the standings. Here’s the leaderboard following the Conference Championship games:

2015 conference bar chart

Son of Sanford and Son is in the top spot. The Benchmark teams have fallen to the middle of the pack, proving that the DP Head Coaches are smarter that some dumb algorithm. (More about algorithms later.)

But as we have all learned through brilliant insight or painful experience, or both, points are not as important as multipliers in this league. Here’s how the multipliers look going into the Superbowl:

2015 Superbowl Multiplier

Once again, paulplaceholder is on top with the All-Seahawks team. He has a perfect multiplier score of 32: 8 players at 4x. Om-shine is next with 28, followed by Awkwardo at 26 and Son of Son of Sanford and Son with a 25 multiplier.

So like we did last week, let’s look at the leaderboard sorted by multiplier:

2015 Conference Bar Chart by MultiplierHmmm.

The Dr. of Footballology has devised an algorithm for predicting the final scores for each team in the league. I’m sure he’ll explain how it works in the next podcast. Suffice it to say, it is an calculation based on a team’s past performance and current multiplier, and it predicts the outcomes for the next game. Since the next game is the final game, it predicts the overall winner in this case.

Based on the Dr. of Footballology’s new algorithm, here is the predicted final leaderboard:

2015 Conference Predicted Final ScoreOh no!  Ominousunshine again?

So that you can see what would have to happen for the predicted runner-ups to prove the Dr. wrong and take the title, here are the Conference rosters for the top 5 teams:

3-peat?Anything can happen!

Divisional Weekend Results 2015

The competition is heating up. Here’s what the leaderboard looks like now:

2015 DP Divisional Bar Chart by Score

 

Here’s how teams stand in terms of player multipliers headed into the Conference Championship games. The highest possible multiplier is 24; that is, 8 players at 3x each.  Only one team in our league has that – it’s PaulPlaceholder with his All-Seahawks team.

2015 Conference Multiplier

 

So if you look at the standings but sort by multiplier, here’s what you get:

2015 DP Divisional Bar Chart by MultiplierAwkwardo, Ominousunshine, and TitleIXforce are tied for second place at the moment, but Awkwardo also has a very high multiplier. Interesting! We will have to wait for the next podcast to find out what the Dr. thinks of all this…

Doughnut Party Champion XLVIII: Ominousunshine! Head Coach Nik B.

The Doughnut party has its first repeat!  I’m hearing whispers about a “dynasty.”  After a terrible Wildcard Weekend showing and a rather lackluster Divisional performance, Ominousunhine turned on the jets and there was no holding him back.  His team was liberally sprinkled with 4X players in the Superbowl, and despite bold  moves by many other Doughnut Party head coaches he held on to prevail.

Impressive, Ominousunshine.  Are you predicting a 3-peat?

2014 suberbowl line chart

2014 suberbowl bar chart
A decisive victory. But check out the excellent finishes by former champion Fireball IPA and rookie head coach lenaisawesome!

Doughnut Party Podcast #11

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Mostly NonGraduateAlumni has questions, and the Dr. of Footballology has answers!  Tune in to learn what the Dr. thinks about adding referees to the fantasy sports mix, which of the two Superbowl teams is truly “old school,” and who’s got the edge to take home the Doughball.

Originally published on January 27, 2014.