[Mudcat]

Sweet little $2500 bonus. Great job. Great season. From a group of very sharp players, SC is the sharpest.

SexyMit has second place clinched after an amazing 4-0 for +5 to come out of the pack on the last day. $1500. Clutch performance.

Gerry and jake38 are still watching tonight's game to determine the $1000 3rd prize. Gerry looking for the Ravens cover.

[HAPPY BOY]

Its been great this year as always. im happy with the few bucks i made.

[pokernut9999]

Congrats to the big winners !!!!


Made a few bucks each year myself.

[Dark Horse]

Congrats to SC.

And big thanks to SBR for the BTP contest. Most fun contest on the web. Your generosity is appreciated.

Prick, you do suck. But in a good way.

[Sinister Cat]

Thanks!

Hope you had your picks hedged today MudCat or at least a little less on them than usual. Great season by you, I really thought you would win it today if you made picks.

Not sure that I'm the sharpest player but I think the game that clinched it for me proved that I was a lucky one.

[bmw530i]

Great job fellas...

[SexyMit]

Thanks

I had to go 4-0 this week to even have a shot at anything. Pressure on and I went 4-0 well and needed a little help from the guys on top of me, and I got it so thanks guys. I look forward to this contest every yr and look forward to it next yr and the other contests to come.

[InTheHole]

Good Job Guys!

[Mudcat]

Originally Posted by Sinister Cat

Thanks!

Hope you had your picks hedged today MudCat or at least a little less on them than usual. Great season by you, I really thought you would win it today if you made picks.

Not sure that I'm the sharpest player but I think the game that clinched it for me proved that I was a lucky one.

I did some hedging today. I made ~$1050 on the day. If I had to have such a godawful week, I at least picked the right one. If I had've had the 0-5 previously, I would have been down in the standings and I wouldn't have had the same opportunity.

Make no mistake though, I would rather have lost those hedges and taken the BTP Grand Prize away from you.

[MoneySportsGuy]

Great job everybody goodluck in the next contest

[Hoja Verdes]

When is the last payout of accrued winnings? Sometime this week?

For the record, this is one really cool contest. I netted over $800 this year with a little luck on the weeks I went 3-1 or 4-0, and might have topped 1000 had I not gotten busy a couple weeks and forgot to punch in my plays. I was amazed that some weeks I went 2-2 and still made $50 or so, talk about 'free money.' Another great year of BTP, thanks SBR!

[tomcast]

I knew this moment would come. Time for me to turn over my BTP crown.

All thanks to SBR for this excellent contest which provides a lot of thrills and some nice scratch to boot.

All hail the new champ, Sinister Cat!

[laxdjock]

Great fun guys....I'll see ya'll around BTP next year.

[Mudcat]

Honorable mention should be made of poster aakj. He actually ended up with the best overall record but wasn't eligible for prize money. Not sure if he is an SBR employee or what the story is there.

Hopefully he was backing his plays with some healthy coin because his picks did great to say the least.

[gerry]

This is quite a dramatic contest. Thanks Mudcat for putting things together, otherwise I won't realize I placed 3rd. I thought there is no chance for me to be placed after the Cowboys screwed up dramatically in the 4th quarter - and SC is actually on the Steelers, both are for best bets!

[contest teams]

Congrats Sinister Cat and everyone else who took home something this year!

[bmw530i]

They should do a "Beat Willie Bee" college baskets contest....
I have seen some of his writeups on CB, and these kinds of contests are great for the site and seem to be alot of fun.

[jackpot269]

Congrats to all the winners!!!!!!!!!!

[mr. leisure]

Congrats to all the winners and thanks for a great contest sbr !

[aca]

Far the best contest around!

Congrats to all!

[Poker_Beast]

Congrats and thanks SBR!

[seaborneq]

Is BTP over?

[Mudcat]

yessir

[losturmarbles]

congrats guys, so many weeks i wasnt taking btp as serious as i shouldve. especially earlier on. and the 1 week i finish with 4-0, so does the prick.

congrats to the winners

[pats3peat]

Congratulations SINISTER!!

Losturmarbles, I feel for you! The one week I went 4-0, the prick went 4-0 too! rofl

[Mudcat]

Too bad the contest is ending so early with the NFL just getting interesting. But I guess in past BTP's, this time of year becomes disadvantageous to college players.

[Dark Horse]

Religious right would get a fit if the Prick was not comatose for Christmas.

[konck]

Great Job SBR best contest EVER!!!!! Never seen one with so many happy winners.

Congrats to Sinister Cat n Sexy Mit

Can't wait to pound the Prick again next year.

[Sinister Cat]

Originally Posted by Mudcat

Too bad the contest is ending so early with the NFL just getting interesting. But I guess in past BTP's, this time of year becomes disadvantageous to college players.

Mudcat, do you continue to bet NFL past (approximately) this point in the season? I find that motivation questions throw me off for the last few weeks of the regular season, and then in the playoffs, there are too few games to bet on.. so I pretty much shut it down at this point.

[Mudcat]

I become much more selective at this time of season. For example, I basically bet all double-digit dogs blind from week 3 up to about week 12 - but towards the end, they become much more iffy. (I was very glad I passed on Detroit and Seattle on Thanksgiving to say the least.)

But really, I am more tentative across-the-board. I didn't have a single bet on a side this past weekend. Just a couple totals.

This is fairly new for me. Just in the last couple years I have been getting more and more aware of the virtue of "just saying no" in later weeks. I don't know if it's me changing and actually learning something, or maybe the industry is changing. In any case, I find a lot less mistake lines later in the season so I just pass.

Those motivation questions you raise could be the main factor. The disappearance of such a large number of Americans from offshore books has also been a recent factor affecting lines (or so I theorize).

I don't seriously bet on the playoffs at all - in any sport. My betting is based on long-term statistical trends and I will never have enough playoff data to satisfy my criteria for a playoff game to become a live bet.

Smaller recreational bets, sure. But not the real thing.

[fiveteamer]

You could have at least had Miami last week.

[Mudcat]

In hindsight, yes.

In reality, it is hard to think of a game I had less statistical basis for.

Regular season home and away games, I understand.

Regular season kinda-sorta-semi-home-games-that-are-really-basically-neutral-site-games, not so much.

Games like that or games in bloody London England, I just leave alone.

[biggamer3]

Congrats on some winnings, awesome contest!