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| Interesting to see Jenny Adams in the open 200m, though I noticed there was no short hurdle race. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Drum roll please...
Final results are in for the 2003 Run-Down Fantasy T&F season!
http://run-down.com/fantasy/index.php?go=full_results
Congratulations to Pawel for a huge last meet to overtake the lead! Most unprecedented come from behind victory in Run-Down Fantasy T&F history.
Andy and Graham also managed to climb a rung or two higher, but Andrew slipped a tad. Conway, I was pulling for you, but...
Micah, one spot higher, once again fending off my late rally.
Mutola was the runaway points leader, amassing 250 more than the closest pursuer. I have no doubt she'll value that distinction much more than the $1 million she won for the GL sweep. 
Chris Phillips and Eliud Kipchoge were the big winners on overall value (points/cost ratio), ringing up some loft 0.37 and 0.35 rankings, respectively.
Interesting how much stronger the women's high jump was this year than last. Last year, there were hardly any performance points to be had, just the placing points.
Final point totals by event:
Men's 110h: 8718.10
Men's 800m: 8613.61
Men's 100m: 8293.27
Women's 100m: 7818.59
Women's 800m: 7400.34
Men's 5k: 6578.91
Men's PV: 6175.36
Women's HJ: 6017.83
Women's 1500m: 5084.52
Women's 400m: 2779.88
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Dan
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Yeah, I noticed her in the 200m and thought, "uh, she's gonna get smoked." If her top end speed seems lacking in the hurdles, wait till she hits the open sprints... Still, nothing wrong with working on your weaknesses. And the more camera time she gets, the better. 
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Paul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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A nice shot of Jenny clearing the first hurdle would make for some fine desktop wallpaper.  |
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Dan
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Good luck in your quest...
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Dan
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Nice detective work. I'd have to opt for long jumping over hurdling, myself. Brings out better expressions.
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Paul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree, the hurdling ones made me cringe, too tight. Maybe that's a reason why she gets through heats and falters in the finals, wound too tight to be graceful and fluid. |
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Dan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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I've often wondered that. Every time I see her run on TV, she looks like she's really straining.
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| I remember seeing her run in the heats in the 2001 USATF's (Eugene). All by herself, 12.6. I said, nobody's going to touch her. I don't even know if she placed in the top four! |
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Dan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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It seems she can run 12.6 to 12.8 in her sleep, but she lacks the leg speed and relaxation to hang when the 12.5's start cranking.
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Pavvka
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| Dan wrote: | Congratulations to Pawel for a huge last meet to overtake the lead! Most unprecedented come from behind victory in Run-Down Fantasy T&F history.
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Thanx, I was definitely not expecting it to happen after the first meet... I did make a couple of mistakes in picking my team, too - I guess they were just not as bad as everyone else's At least I was right on the basic principles - pick mostly major stars and stick to athletes who I expected to be competing often, which worked well in most cases. With the experience, I suppose I can potentially do better next year... but then, who knows? There's a lot of luck involved in these things anyway.
In any case, I had a lot of fun participating in this competition. Thanks to Dan for the hard work he did putting it all together. Too bad I have to wait some 9 months for the next one to start... Meanwhile, if anyone's interested, you are welcome to take part in prediction contests on www.athleticslinks.com - the next one is for the World Athletics Final next weekend (you'll be able to enter once the participants' lists are announced, which will happen on either Tuesday or Wednesday. |
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Dan
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Your strategy obviously worked well. I can take some solace in knowing my prediction that the top two after the first meet would not hold up came true, although it took much longer than expected for the final poll setter to drop.
Now that season 2 is wrapped up, I'll have to get on the ball with talking to other prediction contest hosts about setting up a annual competition schedule... A couple people have expressed interest in organizing that sort of thing.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:00 am Post subject: |
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OK ... I've been offline all week ... How did I do ????
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Dan
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I was curious where you've been... The final meet wasn't good to you, unfortunately. Dropped to 32nd place. I think Johnson and White were your only two scorers, with Wade finishing miserably.
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