March Madness Fantasy 2016 - Round of 16 Results

There were many blowouts in the Sweet Sixteen, but yesterday had two matchups that went down to the wire. Notre Dame (one owned player) beat Wisconsin (zero owned players). And Syracuse (one owned player) beat Gonzaga (two owned players). So farewell to Domantas Sabonis and Kyle Wiltjer, who had amazing runs. Sabonis is currently the fantasy leader with 171.5 points - the next highest owned player is from Bob, Syracuse's Michael Gbinije, with 120.5.

Also having nice games were Niang for Gav, Jenkins for Brian, Gill for Bob, and Ingram for James.


TOP 7 STUDS - ROUND OF 16

	OWNER	ROUND	SELECTION	PLAYER	TEAM	SEED	GAME3_SCORE
1	Chris	3	21	Domantas Sabonis	Gonzaga	11	61.0
2	Shawn	3	30	Kyle Wiltjer	Gonzaga	11	49.5
3	Bob	6	55	Michael Gbinije	Syracuse	10	43.5
4	Gavin	3	24	Georges Niang	Iowa St.	4	38.0
5	Brian	3	23	Kris Jenkins	Villanova	2	34.0
6	Bob	2	15	Anthony Gill	Virginia	1	33.0
7	James	5	49	Brandon Ingram	Duke	4	33.0

You know who sucked, though? Devonte Graham, again. He cramped his way to a 5 point game. Svi, the final-round selection, again outscored Graham, the first-round selection.


TOP 7 DUDS - ROUND OF 16

	OWNER	ROUND	SELECTION	PLAYER	TEAM	SEED	GAME3_SCORE
1	Chuck	1	5	Devonte' Graham	Kansas	1	5
2	Stu	8	74	Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk	Kansas	1	6
3	Shawn	8	71	Abdel Nader	Iowa St.	4	11
4	Chris	6	60	Danuel House	Texas A&M	3	11
5	Luke	8	73	Marshall Plumlee	Duke	4	11
6	Dan	4	39	Tyler Dorsey	Oregon	1	13
7	Chuck	3	25	Isaiah Cousins	Oklahoma	2	14

On Sunday night, I said that Bob would want a KU or Nova loss to push him to the seat of bird-cats, and I was dead wrong, and I'll be the first person to admit it. Bob still has 6 active players, and gets yet another game from the one and only 1.5x multiplier left, his Syracuse dude. 

The scatterplot shows Sabonis' dominance so far. He's doubled what Perry Ellis has done!

Right, so let's look at this again.

	OWNER	TOTAL	ACTIVE_PLAYERS
1	Bob	590.0	2 Oregon, 1 Oklahoma, 1 Syracuse, 1 UNC, 1 Virginia = 6
2	Gavin	586.0	KU's Mason III and ND's Auguste = 2
3	James	542.0	2 UNC supporting players, 1 Nova, Virginia's Brogdon = 4
4	Shawn	539.0	Oregon's Brooks and KU's Selden = 2
5	Brian	501.0	OU's Hield, 1 UNC, 1 Nova, 1 Virginia = 4
6	Chris	480.0	KU's Lucas = 1
7	Luke	464.0	Nova white guy = 1
8	Stu	444.5	KU's bench player, 1 Nova, UNC's Paige = 3
9	Dan	379.5	1 Oregon, OU's Spangler, KU's Ellis = 3
10	Chuck	286.5	KU's Graham, OU's Cousins = 2

For Bob to fall out of favor, you need a Final Four of OU, Virginia, Notre Dame, and probably Nova. If that happens, Bob would "only" have two guys in the Final Four, while Brian would have three; if KU would advance, he could keep his two. If Nova and Notre Dame meet in the final, Brian might have a prayer, and if it's KU vs Notre Dame, Gav has a prayer. Even then, that prayer is probably "Please God, make a bunch of Bob's guys tear their knees in the layup line prior to the Elite Eight games."