2016 Olympic Trials Pick ‘Em Contest: Night 1 Results

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
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Current Leaders / Day 1 winner:

1. Drodriqu29 – 53 points
T-2. Karl Ortegon SWIMSWAM – 46
T-2. Lisa84 – 46
T-2. Nat – 46
5. Presidential – 43

Congratulations to David Rodriguez (Drodriqu29), our opening day champion of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Pick ‘Em contest.  Only the top four contestants (including SwimSwam’s own Karl Ortegon!) managed to select the top two finishers in all three of last night’s finals races, with Drodriqu29 also correctly picking third and fourth place in the men’s 400 free and 400 IM.  A seven-point lead after the opening day is sizable, but with just three finals races in the books, the Pick ‘Em contest is still in its very early stages.

The unique scoring system of the contest, which does not reward contestants with partial credit for selecting a top four finisher in the wrong order, left >5% of entrants (35 people) with a goose egg total after day one.  For example, 284 readers picked Elizabeth Beisel and Maya Dirado to finish first and second, respectively, in the women’s 400 IM.  In many of our past contests, readers would have earned a point for having both Beisel and Dirado in their top four, even though they selected the incorrect order.  However, in this contest, they have been awarded no points (and may God have mercy on their souls).

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Day 1 stats/notes:

• Average score: 18.3 points
• Median score: 17 points
• Standard deviation: 10.0 points
  • ~66% of readers scored between 8.3 and 28.3 points
  • ~95% of readers scored between 0 and 38.3 points
• The men’s 400 IM winner prediction was nearly a dead-even split between Chase Kalisz (249 first place picks) and Ryan Lochte (265)
• 398 contestants correctly selected Connor Jaeger to win the men’s 400 free. 266 of those also correctly predicted Conor Dwyer would grab second place
• Outside of the top two spots, our contestants were way off on the women’s 400 IM. Not a single reader picked Bethany Galat to finish in the top four of the women’s 400 IM (Galat was third tonight), and just one had Madisyn Cox in their top four (Cox finished fourth)
• 171 readers had Katie Ledecky (who scratched before prelims) in their top four of the women’s 400 IM