Australian Football Association of North America

Ross Mair, reporting for AFANA from Boston

Greetings AFANA Tipsters,

This is the weekly update on the AFANA Members Tipping Competition for Round 24.

Round 24 - our final week of the competition for 2011 - saw Jeff and Karl come out on top with the best scores of the week, each tipping 7 winners. Scores of 6 and 5 were much more common, as most members did not forsee Geelong's big upset over Collingwood, nor Port Adelaide's win over Melbourne. In a season of bonus points, none were handed out this final week.

AFANA Chairman Emeritus, Rob De Santos, maintained his impressive 9-point lead through the final round, leaving Bruce in his wake in outright second. Steven and myself tied for third, one point behind Bruce, and one in front of Alan in fourth. So, congrats to Rob on an amazing season of tipping, and possibly the largest ever winning margin for this comp!

So that brings our comp for 2011 to a close - we do not run through the finals series. 16 members took part thought the entire season. Through 23 rounds, our top three members had all tipped more winners than any of the experts at www.theage.com.au/afl/tipping.  You managed a perfect eight winners out of eight games in a round 13 times (Rob managed this feat himself three times during the season), with twelve more instances of perfect scores in 7-game rounds. Clearly, AFANA members know their football!

Let me wrap up with a big thank-you once more to all who took part, and for the good-humored, informative and enjoyable tidbits that often accompanied your tipping entries each week. Although I could rarely respond individually, they were much appreciated. For now, enjoy the finals!

For the last time in 2011, to the details:

The weekly match results are here:  AFL Scores.
The AFL Ladder is here:  AFL Ladder.

* AFANA Members Tipping Results, Round 24

Round 24               1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  Tps Bns Scr Total
Home Team             COL GCS BUL SYD CAR WCE POR RIC  4       4   94
Away Team             GEE HAW FRE BRI STK ADE MEL NOR  4       4   74
Winning Team          GEE HAW BUL SYD STK WCE POR NOR     

Ron Abrahams          GEE HAW BUL SYD CAR ADE MEL NOR  5  0.0  5  130
Lisa Albergo          COL HAW FRE SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  4  0.0  4  139
Jason Allsop          COL HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE POR NOR  6  0.0  6  135
Brian Bay             COL HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  5  0.0  5  137
Glenn Brownstein      COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE MEL RIC  5  0.0  5  134
Steven Carty          COL GCS BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  4  0.0  4  144
Alan Croome           COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE MEL NOR  6  0.0  6  143
Gerry Daley           COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE POR RIC  6  0.0  6  139
Rob De Santos         COL HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  5  0.0  5  154
M Dittman             COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE POR RIC  6  0.0  6  133
Brody Finney          GEE HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  6  0.0  6  135
Bruce Gerhardt        COL HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL NOR  5  0.0  5  145
Jeff Hemelt           GEE HAW BUL SYD STK WCE POR RIC  7  0.0  7  126
Ross Mair             COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE MEL NOR  6  0.0  6  144
Fred Schwinghammer  * GEE HAW FRE BRI STK ADE MEL NOR  4  0.0  4  140
Karl Wall             COL HAW BUL SYD STK WCE POR NOR  7  0.0  7  134
TheAge: M. Gleeson    COL HAW BUL SYD CAR WCE MEL RIC  4  0.0  4  143

Correct Picks          3  15  15  16   7  15   5  11        
Home Team Picks       13   1  15  16   9  15   5   5        
Away Team Picks        4  16   2   1   8   2  12  12        
* denotes tips not received - default (away teams) awarded

* AFANA Tipping Standings after Round 24
 
Rob De Santos        154
Bruce Gerhardt       145
Steven Carty         144
Ross Mair            144
Alan Croome          143
Fred Schwinghammer   140
Lisa Albergo         139
Gerry Daley          139
Brian Bay            137
Jason Allsop         135
Glenn Brownstein     135
Brody Finney         135
Karl Wall            134
M Dittman            133
Ron Abrahams         130
Jeff Hemelt          126

Ross Mair

AFANA Weekly Tipping Comp Coordinator