2016 Olympic Trials Pick ‘Em: Night 3 Scores

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS

• Sunday June 26th-Sunday July 3rd, 2016
• Century Link Center – Omaha, Nebraska
• Friday-Sunday – Prelims – 11:00 am EDT   Finals – 7:45 pm EDT
• SwimSwam Preview Links & Schedule
• NBC Televison Coverage Schedule
• Psych Sheets
• Live results

Night Three Top Scorers:

T-1. Kmaas3 – 50 points
T-1. covenc – 50
3. grrr – 49
T-4. Duke Kahanamoku – 44
T-4. THEO – 44
T-4. Stay Human – 44

Overall Current Leaders:

1. Shane McK – 113 points
2. Presidential – 111
3. Kmaas3 – 104
4. That Guy – 101
5. aambutterfly – 99

For the second night in a row, two contestants have tied for the night’s top scorer: Kyle Maas (kmaas3) and covenc (who chose to remain anonymous) each scored 50 points.  Both nailed the correct 1-2 finish in the men’s 200 free, as well as the correct 1-2-3 finish in the 100 back.  The overall leaderboard is starting to shape up, with Shane McK and Presidential separating themselves a bit from the field.

Note: Maas is an incoming freshman at Alabama, and will not be accepting prizes (per NCAA rules).  He can, however, accept bragging rights for the day

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Day 3 stats/notes:

• Average score: 19.8 points
• Median score: 20 points
• Standard deviation: 10.2 points
  • ~66% of readers scored between 9.5 and 30.0 points
  • ~95% of readers scored between 0 and 40.2 points
• The “Ledecky effect” was again present.  Without Katie Ledecky (a virtual shoe-in champion) in a final this evening, 22 readers failed to score a point this evening
• Just 27 readers picked Townley Haas to win the 200 free; 423 readers selected Conor Dwyer, and 128 had Ryan Lochte winning the event
• Not a single reader had Gunnar Bentz in their top six in the 200 free (he finished 5th)
• Missy Franklin, who finished a disappointing 7th in the 100 back, was a heavy favorite in the event, with 352 first-place votes
• 542 readers had Ryan Murphy, David Plummer, and Matt Grevers in some particular order as their top 3 finishers in the 100 backstroke
• A whopping 400 readers correctly picked Jacob Pebley to finish fourth.  That’s more than double the next-highest number of correct picks for a third or fourth place finisher (spots that are normally more up for grabs than the 1st or 2nd spots) at Trials.