Well, having had the wisdom of a good night's sleep, let me add to my teammate that, yes, Penn Bowl was quite an enjoyable experience. I will not begrudge Samer and the University of Pennsylvania staff all the excellence they are due just because I'm bitter over some minor glitches that may show up. I mean, I sure don't expect perfection out of my tournaments (yet), and if I started to do silly things like make my payment of the team contingent on whether I enjoyed it, that would be my signal to retire. But I digress. I also want to say that I had a wonderful time playing against the best that the (Eastern half of the) country has to offer. Such players as Jeff Hoppes, Zeke Berdichevsky, Kevin Comer, Erik Nielsen, and David Rosenblum are certainly deserving of the All-Stars they were given, and our team's combined 1-4 record against them attests to their (and their teams') great skill. Also, I wish to acknowledge Candace Benefiel and David Thorsley, who were both among the next five highest scores that missed out on All-Stars (Honorable Mentions, if you will). But, just in case there are those who didn't check stats and just read this list, there's one name above all that should be there and isn't. Grayson Holmes (UNC) should have received an award, arguably, and not just because he's ten miles away from me. His outstanding 2.47 P/TH (the official all-star stat) would have qualified him for an award in any bracket but the one he played in, and it was good enough for 14th overall (as you know, 20 people were honored). While I'm not asking Samer to send a book to ICT for him to collect (although...), I am saying that there's more than stats to be considered. Enough statistical rambling here. You can contact me privately if you wish to hear where your players stood in terms of the all-star stat overall in the tournament (238 players!). Oh, and because people who knew I was a math major asked, "Average" at this tournament was: Mean: 13 Gms, 3/27/6, 287 pts/299 TUH (18.80 P/20) Median: 14 Gms, 2/22/5, 212.5 pts/308.5 TUH (14.75 P/20) These don't add up because (a) each number in "Mean" is rounded to the nearest whole number and (b) these numbers are a representation of their individual categories. So, while the mean number of p/20 was 18.80, the statistical middle was 14.75 p/20. Make sense? Yay. Andy Goss Still with too much time on his hands
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