The Road to the Final Four

2006 Alabama High School Soccer Playoffs Contest

       Please check just one winner in each classification.  Note that if you do not put a name on the entry form, it will be discarded.  If you choose not to pick a team in all six classifications, your entry will still be counted but any classification without a team will be counted as a miss.
 

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Results of the 2005 Final Four Pick 'Em Contest

In 2003 and 2004 no was able to pick all six champions correctly.

This year there were about 400 ballots submitted and, when 4 of the 6 favorite teams won, I expected several people to submit perfect picks. I wasn't disappointed.

Katie Murrell and Nick Davis both submitted perfect ballots. In three years they are the only two people to accomplish that feat.

Picking 5 out of 6 was easier. Sixteen people were able to do that.

Of those sixteen two people Steve Armstrong (Austin High) and Callie (capodp) got five of the six right and narrowly missed the sixth. They both picked Cullman (which lost in double overtime to Homewood).

Michael Navarro, Todd Schaefer, Alan Weldon, Andrew Riley, Brad Smith, Soufane (umftball21), Mick Murrell, Sam Collins, Cindy Wynn, Ken D Nelson, Nick Winokur, Kyle Irion, Daniel (criple008), Socacc also all got 5 out of 6 champions correctly.

Two players actually were able to have a hand in making sure their picks won.  Nick Davis (perfect ballot) and Michael Navarro (5 out of 6) both play for Holy Spirit.  Both picked Holy Spirit to win the 4A-1A Boys Championship.  More importantly both players were among the six players to shoot (after overtime) when the game went to Kicks-From-The-Mark.  Nick shot third and made his shot.  Michael converted the decisive sixth shot to decide the championship.

Thanks for playing.

Ken Gamble

 Results of the 2004 Final Four “Pick-Em” Contest

      There were over three hundred entries in this year’s contest. Yet, no one predicted all six of the state champions. In fact, no one even picked five of the six teams to win it all. The best anyone could do was four champions. Where a contestant didn’t list their full name – I included a portion of their e-mail address so they would know it was them.

     Here’s a list of those people who were able to predict four of the six champions AND who selected the runners-up in the two classifications where they failed to picked a winner – In other words they picked four first place and two second place teams. These four were the best of the best: Franky Kinyua, David Johnston, John Davis, and Rick Owens.

     The next group of five contestants picked four winners and one second place team. They were: Heidi Sizemore, John (Ladylion106), Bill Walker (from Hartselle, not the referee), Steve Butterworth, and John (BBB).

     The last group was still heads above the remaining contestants. They were able to accurately pick half of the six state champion teams. In that group were the following: Steve Buchtal, G. S. Vincent, Luzy (ljtribble), Montg Matt, Ken Gamble, Lewis E. White, G. H. (amuru), Ryan Cowart, Sam Shouse, Trey Barnes, Andrew Brower, Harding Leach, Ryne Chandler, Schuyler Redpath, Alex Hinson, Nathan Krauss, Bryon Allsup, G. F. Garflog, and David Hall.

Thanks.

Ken Gamble

      Here are the results of the 2003 Playoff Picks contest on the NASL website where you were asked to pick the champions in each of the six classifications of the recent AHSAA playoffs. I did not check any of the entries that were marked after the first games began on Friday morning. If I did the permutations correctly the odds of randomly picking all six winners was 1 in 4,096 but obviously many of the entries knew their teams and the competitors well and did much better than that. No one picked all six winners correctly but several came close. Out of about 300 total entries, a list of the best pickers is shown below. Only 5 people were able to get 5 out of the 6 winners. Nineteen more got 4 out of 6 and eighteen were able to get 3 out of six. Everyone else picked two winners or less.

      These people picked 5 out of the six winners: George Stegall (missed 5A girls only), Casey Edwards (missed 5A girls only), Scott Taylor (missed 4A boys only), John Davis (missed 5A girls only), and Bill Roberts (missed 5A girls only). Scott Taylor was the only 5/6 picker who got the 5A girls picked correctly. 

     If there had been a tie breaker it would have gone to Casey Edwards and Scott Taylor who both picked the winning team as the runner-up in the only classification where they failed to picked the winner.

      These people picked 4 out of the six winners: Ryan Hudgins, ddmd, Bujo Tew, Peter Gamble, Robert Starr, heckler15, Ryan Strachan, Fred Davey, David Chaplin, D. Hildreth, E. M. Turner, Glenn Knott, Drew Philpot, Aravind, Chris THE MAN, randy (firekid), John Carter, Dawn Moynihan, and Dean Johnson.

     These people picked 3 out of the six winners: Lisa Jones, Daniel Boone, Chip Stevens, Todd Wood, Brian Jackson, Tim Shugart, Donald Clayton, Jeff McCutcheon, NthNO, JM (birds), Julee, Michael (monkman), Annice Scott, Ben Slaughter, Tom Lewis, Bill Walker, Matt Munger, and Michael Goodman.

     Some of these people didn’t leave a full name so I have listed a partial name. I’m apologize if I made a mistake and left some of the winners off but I checked them quickly. Also several people had good picks but did not put their name down so they got no credit.

      I hope everyone enjoyed it and I’ll try to have something similar next year.

Ken