The postseason awards festival has always been one of the highlights of the picks page. Originally, an attempt was made to award something to each participant, but since the expert pool has expanded, the awards have become more competitive.
| Picks Page Champion |
Pulitzer Prize |
Expert To Watch |
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Description: The Picks Page Championship is awarded to the expert that wins the Picks Contest each year. This is usually the player with
the best picking percentage, but only if that expert picked at least 80% of the games and picked all the bowl games. Nonhuman competitors are ineligible. |
Description: The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the best piece of writing during the season. That might be a commentary, a guest commentary, or a mailing list posting. |
Description: The Expert To Watch is the expert that I think everyone needs to watch out for next year. This is either an expert that came on during the end of the season, or who seemed to have a knack for making key picks. Note that my 1998 Expert To Watch won the title in 1999. |
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1996 Dan (Wine)
1997 John (Boughter)
1998 Heater14 (Chris Hansen)
1999 Kelly (Ciombor)
2000 Brent (Oz) Osland
2001 Kelly (Ciombor)
2002 Brent (Oz) Osland
2003 Kelly (Ciombor)
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1997 Webmaestro, The Penn State See-Saw [read it!]
1998 Webmaestro, Musings Of A Sore Loser [read it!]
1999 Saint Daddy, Red River Shootout [read it!]
(tie) Saint Daddy, Watching With Saint GrandDaddy [Mailing list posting, no longer available]
2000 Webmaestro, Volunteering To Be Stupid On The Internet [read it!]
2001 Kevin, for meritorious mailing list postings sparking discussion such as the baseball contraction issue
2002 Webmaestro, Believe It Or Not: Bob Hanslick [read it!]
2003 Kevin, Reporting From Happy Valley [read it!]
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1997 Webmaestro
1998 Kelly (Ciombor)
1999 Kevin (St. John)
2000 Dan
2001 schmookie
2002 BioSaint
2003 Oz
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| Fall From Grace Award |
Dale Helms Award |
Loyalty Award |
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Description: The Fall From Grace Award is given annually to the expert that has the most trouble capitalizing on the previous season's success. Often it is given to an returning-champion who falls flat. |
Description: The Dale Helms Award, named for its first winner, is given to the expert that starts out strong but peters out by mid-season. Originally named the Lawrence Phillips Award. |
Description: The Loyalty Award is given to the picker that most defies logic by picking a team they like rather than a team that should win, objectively speaking. |
1997 Dan
1998 John
1999 Webmaestro
2000 ROBERT
2001 Oz
2002 schmookie
2003 boat
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1997 Dale Helms
1998 The New H Man
2000 Saint Daddy
2001 Webmaestro
2002 SIR CHAPS
2003 the new h man
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1997 Kelly
1998 Kevin
1999 Keith (Harmon)
2000 Webmaestro
2001 CoconutHead
2002 Pony Boy
2003 Kevin
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| Midwest Region Champion |
Most Improved Expert Award |
Rookie Of The Year |
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Description: The Midwest Region Champion is given to the best picker from, or with ties to, the midwest. It was first awarded in 1998 (a retroactive 1997 winner was named by the Hall Of Fame Committee) to highlight the Oz-Matthias rivalry. |
Description: The Most Improved Expert is given to the expert that makes the most significant improvement from one year to the next. Originially given in 1998, a retroactive 1997 winner was named by the Hall Of Fame Committee. |
Description: The Rookie Of The Year is given to the best newcomer. First given in 1998, a retroactive 1997 winner was named by the Hall Of Fame Committee. |
1997 Kevin
1998 Matthias
1999 Matthias
2000 Oz
2001 Webmaestro
2002 Oz
2003 Oz
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1997 Webmaestro
1998 Kelly
1999 ROBERT
2000 Master O
2001 Keith
2002 Matthias
2003 the new h man/schmookie (tie)
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1997 Kevin/Schmookie
1998 Oz
1999 jayhusker
2000 b1llys1ms and CoconutHead
2001 Pony Boy
2002 No award given
2003 Virgin Picker
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| Freddie Favorite Certificate |
Browbeater Of The Year |
Send Me To Vegas Award |
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Description: The Freddie Favorite Cerificate is awarded annually to the expert that picks the fewest upsets and who never goes out on a limb. |
Description: The most coveted of the page's "social" awards, the Browbeater Of The Year is the one who does the most trash-talking and browbeating in person, on the page, or on the mailing list. The Browbeater Of The Year can also be awarded for excessive muckraking (i.e., 1999 winner). A 1997 winner was granted in 2000 by the Hall Of Fame Committee. |
Description: The Send Me To Vegas Award goes to the maestro of the Close and Exact Scores categories. It is the expert that most often picks games within 7 points. |
1998 Oz
1999 jayhusker
2000 heater14
2001 Kelly
2002 Oz
2003 Kelly
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1997 Schmookie
1998 ROBERT
1999 Kelly
2000 Oz and Matthias
2001 boat and Webmaestro
2002 No award given
2003 boat
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1998 ROBERT
1999 ROBERT
2000 Master O
2001 Webmaestro
2002 boat sidious
2003 Kelly
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| Misplaced Priorities Award |
Renegade Award |
Bottom Feeder |
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Description: The Misplaced Priorities Award is given to the expert that most foolishly neglected their picks research and devotion for less-important concerns (work, school, etc). The 2000 winner was nominated for her failure to engage in browbeating amidst Miami's enormous season. |
Description: A companion to the Freddie Favorite Certificate, the Renegade Award is given to the regular picker that picks upsets at the greatest frequency (i.e., highest Upset Index). |
Description: The Bottom Feeder Award is given to the regular picker who finishes worst. Fortunately for some people (Mater O?), non-human competitors are eligible. |
1998 Schmookie
1999 Matthias
2000 Kelly
2001 SIR CHAPS
2002 b1lly s1ms
2003 boat
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1998 Chuck Taylor
1999 The New H Man
2000 The New H Man
2001 Matthias
2002 The New H Man
2003 dan
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1998 Homer
1999 Homer
2000 Homer
2001 Homer
2002 Homer
2003 CoconutHead
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| Steady Freddie Award |
Limb Walker |
John Cooper Award |
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Description: The Steady Freddie Award is given in recognition of consitently strong performance from season to season. |
Description: The Limb Walker is the expert who make the most correct Out On A Limb Picks yearly. It was first granted in 2000, the first year OOL was an official statistic of the SJS Picks Contest. |
Description: The John Cooper Award is given to an expert who is noteworthy for nominations for various awards, but who is not strong enough in any category to actually win any awards. |
1999 Heater14
2000 Heater14
2001 Heater14
2002 Kelly
2003 Kelly
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2000 b1llys1ms
2001 Webmaestro
2002 Webmaestro
2003 schmookie
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2000 Keith
2001 the new h man
2002 No award given
2003 No award given
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| Army Cadet Cross |
SJS Blue Ribbon |
SJS Black Ribbon |
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Description: The Army Cadet Cross is given when warranted to a former champion that scares no one. Like Army's college football team, it denotes a dinosaur whose picking methods are outdated and ineffective, even if they once reigned supreme. |
Description: Begun in response to controversy in 2001 and awarded retroactively, the blue ribbon is awarded to the human expert who picked the most correct games during the season (as opposed to the best percentage). |
Description: Awarded to the human expert who made the most incorrect picks over the course of the season. Begun in 2001 but awarded retroactively for previous seasons. |
2000 John
2001 dan
2002 Matthias
2003 heater14
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1996 dan
1997 dan
1998 Heater14
1999 Kelly
2000 Oz
2001 Heater14
2002 Oz
2003 Kelly
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1996 Webmaestro
1997 Webmaestro
1998 the new h man
1999 Master O
2000 ROBERT
2001 Oz
2002 Webmaestro
2003 BioLeftHip
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| Properly Placed Priorities Commendation |
POW Award |
Meritorious Contributions |
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Description: Awarded as appropriate to individuals that overcome hardship to nonetheless fulfill their obligations to submit picks or otherwise contribute to the page. |
Description: POW - not as in Prisoner of War, but as in Pick Of The Week. I've long regretted not keeping a record of who won the weekly pick of the week to award a prize to the expert collecting the most picks of the week. However, the weekly POW is awarded to an out on a limb pick or an exact score, if possible, so the year end POW award goes to the expert with the most OOL Correct + Exact Scores. First awarded in 2002 and awarded retroactively back to 2000, when OOL stats were first kept. |
Description: Awarded only infrequently when an individual steps up to offer unusual service to the Hall Of Fame Committee. |
2000 Kevin
2001 Saint Daddy
2002 heater14/Kelly
2003 heater14
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2000 b1lly s1ms
2001 Master O
2002 CoconutHead
2003 scmookie/Kelly (tie)
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2003 Oz
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