Santa Anita Showvivor

ranger5830 · #1 06-01-2015, 08:14 PM

So the contest goes on, and we are now down to 16 racing days left. Unfortunately I fell another win behind sgtennis and am now down by two, 46-44. Hardly insurmountable but certainly can't fall any further behind. I am very limited in what I can say due to the unique nature of playing basically against one person instead of 4500+, I'll just say that I'm trying to pick as many winners as I can.

I've decided just to play it out and not seek a split due to all the uncertainties involved, tax reasons, etc. plus while significant, the amount involved is not really life-changing. But I hope to use it to fund a trip to Saratoga for Travers week, I'm going either way but I'll have a lot more fun if I have an extra 5k to spend.

ranger5830 · #2 07-02-2015, 04:32 PM

So the Showvivor contest has come to an end, and I just wanted to congratulate sgtennis for winning the longest show streak and the associated $5000 prize, as he got very hot at the end and I did not, as he won the total wins tiebreak by a final count of 53-48. It was such a different style of play at the end, especially being behind, I felt like it was as much a game of rock-paper-scissors as it was a game of trying to pick winners, as any time we picked the same horse I could not make up any ground. Anyway, I basically tried to pick the second most likely winner on any given card, and even though many of them were short priced favorites, very few won, and it seemed like almost every horse that he picked won, even if it wasn't the big favorite of the day.

There is some good news, I received an email from Santa Anita informing me that they were offering me $100 as a consolation prize. Of course it's not $5k but it is something, and I wanted to publicly thank them for that as they were not obligated to do that.

Thanks to everyone for following along, and I already can't wait for the Autumn meeting so we can give it another shot. It's about time someone from DT took down the big one in this contest.

casp0555 · #3 07-02-2015, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ranger5830

So the Showvivor contest has come to an end, and I just wanted to congratulate sgtennis for winning the longest show streak and the associated $5000 prize, as he got very hot at the end and I did not, as he won the total wins tiebreak by a final count of 53-48. It was such a different style of play at the end, especially being behind, I felt like it was as much a game of rock-paper-scissors as it was a game of trying to pick winners, as any time we picked the same horse I could not make up any ground. Anyway, I basically tried to pick the second most likely winner on any given card, and even though many of them were short priced favorites, very few won, and it seemed like almost every horse that he picked won, even if it wasn't the big favorite of the day.

There is some good news, I received an email from Santa Anita informing me that they were offering me $100 as a consolation prize. Of course it's not $5k but it is something, and I wanted to publicly thank them for that as they were not obligated to do that.

Thanks to everyone for following along, and I already can't wait for the Autumn meeting so we can give it another shot. It's about time someone from DT took down the big one in this contest.

you gave it a hellofa shot ranger....great job

Dunbar · #4 07-02-2015, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by casp0555

you gave it a hellofa shot ranger....great job

ditto that!

And I agree it was classy of Santa Anita to send you the $100.

bigrun · #5 07-03-2015, 12:46 PM

Great run ranger..any other time you would have been a clear winner..

sgtennis. wonder if that could be Sgt. Ennis, a military guy..

knickslions2 · #6 07-02-2015, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ranger5830

So the Showvivor contest has come to an end, and I just wanted to congratulate sgtennis for winning the longest show streak and the associated $5000 prize, as he got very hot at the end and I did not, as he won the total wins tiebreak by a final count of 53-48. It was such a different style of play at the end, especially being behind, I felt like it was as much a game of rock-paper-scissors as it was a game of trying to pick winners, as any time we picked the same horse I could not make up any ground. Anyway, I basically tried to pick the second most likely winner on any given card, and even though many of them were short priced favorites, very few won, and it seemed like almost every horse that he picked won, even if it wasn't the big favorite of the day.

There is some good news, I received an email from Santa Anita informing me that they were offering me $100 as a consolation prize. Of course it's not $5k but it is something, and I wanted to publicly thank them for that as they were not obligated to do that.

Thanks to everyone for following along, and I already can't wait for the Autumn meeting so we can give it another shot. It's about time someone from DT took down the big one in this contest.

Well done Ranger!! Hell of an effort.