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Doughball Found to be Under-inflated

During a routine pre-game inspection the Official Football of the Doughnut Party, colloquially known as the Doughball, was found to be under-inflated. Way, way under-inflated. It was softer than a pillow.

Given the Doughnut Party Equipment Maintenance Protocols currently in effect, it is possible that the ball has been in this condition for the entire playoffs, and maybe for the whole NFL season.

What impact has this had on Doughnut Party competition? There is no way to know for sure. But fortunately the issue was discovered by league officials in time to correct it for the Superbowl. Nik B, head coach of Ominousunshine, personally re-inflated the ball to meet league specifications, to the extent that those are known or exist.

Nik B and the Doughball
Nik B carefully restores the Doughball to game-ready condition, just in time for the Superbowl.
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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!

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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…