[Real Quiet]

With 2017 in the books let me first say congrats to Don Guido for putting up a lot of points and winning our handicapper of the year award. Kudos to Joly also for knocking down 500 points to finish a strong second. I win a few ROI Contests and once in a blue moon I'll hit a points contest so I'm proud to add a second Gallivan Cup to my resume on our biggest contest day. Last year Ruffian won our ROI Championship and this year we have a new first time winner in Cruzan. Over the course of our 50 weeks Cruzan made $1426 virtual dollars and had a stellar 45% Return on Investment. Yours truly finished second with an $1139 profit and a 21% ROI. In addition El Prado made $711 virtual dollars and Roamin added $170 to his bankroll. 4 out of the 12 regulars making some cash is impressive. Last year we lost 20% as a group. This year it was only a little over 5%. Probably our strongest year ever and better than the track takeout. As noted earlier, NJ Stinks led the way with 8 ROI wins. Good job NJS stopping the Ruffian 3 peat. Don Guido and Joly B added 6 each. Cruzan, Real Quiet, Indian Hemp, Ruffian and Plenilune had 4 wins each. We did spread it around as everyone had a win in 2017. Nobody did a Zippy Chippy. Ruffian kids me about wearing the bridesmaid gown. I finished second 9 times this year to get the Jacque's Who award. 5 players had $1000 profit weeks. El Prado collected $1510, Roamin got $1260 (on Abel Tasman), Cruzan got $1225 (and finished second that day), the "Don" got a $1276 payout and Ron Yonker nailed it to the tune of $1055. Talk about sniffing out those bombs. Well played all. Sad to see a couple players MIA. Hopefully El Prado and Swedejxn are just taking a freshening. Digger come back. I know your out there at BOTB's. While looking back at 2016 I saw Criminal Type had a +ROI that year. He never missed a day while here and will always be missed. Everytime a law enforcement horse wins I'm sure he's smiling. Thanks to my partners in stats, Plenilune and Don Guido for tabulating the results each week and props to all who keep the lights on here by showing up each week and thanks to our host Steve Byk for providing us a home. Shortly the "lifetime" stats will be recapped. All 497 weeks of it! Congrats again to Don for the most Points and to Cruzan for the highest ROI.