2018 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, July 25 – Sunday, July 29, 2018
- William Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA
- Prelims 9 AM / Finals 6 PM (U.S. Pacific Time)
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- Meet information
- Event Order
- Full selection procedures
- Psych Sheet
- SwimSwam Previews Index
- TV Schedule
- Omega Results
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The women’s 200 fly went according to expectations. 77% of entries correctly picked Hali Flickinger to win and 40% correctly had Katie Drabot in second.
The fireworks started flying in the second event of the night. 0 people correctly picked Justin Wright to win the men’s 200 fly. Only 1 person out of 806 entries had Zach Harting in 2nd (well done Yung Thicc Boi).
The women’s 100 free went more to plan. Simone Manuel was correctly placed 1st by 81% of people. Mallory Comerford was picked 2nd by 67% and 3rd place finisher Margo Geer was picked by 24%.
The men’s 100 free was less predictable again. With consensus favorite Caeleb Dressel finishing 6th, 0 people correctly picked Blake Pieroni to win. However Nathan Adrian (84%) Townley Haas (27%), and Zach Apple (22%) were popular picks for 2-3-4.
The women’s 800 was taken easily by consensus favorite Katie Ledecky (100%). She was followed by consensus runner up Leah Smith (99%). The two were trailed by underdogs Haley Anderson (4%) and Ally McHugh (2%)
The men’s 1500 finally saw someone correctly pick a winner right. 16% had Jordan Willimovsky winning. 16% also had Robert Finke 2nd. Popular 1st place pick Zane Grothe was 3rd (8%) and Nick Norman (1%) surprised for 4th.
Standings
After 1 day the daily winner (and therefore overall leader) was Double Arm Freestyle with 68 points. For fun we entered the SwimSwam official picks into the contest and they tied for the lead, however they are ineligible to win prizes. Next were The Black Line with 66, Marklewis with 66, and busdt with 65.
| Entry | Points | |
| 1 | Double Arm Freestyle | 68 |
| 1 | SwimSwam Official Picks | 68 |
| 3 | The Black Line | 66 |
| 3 | Marklewis | 66 |
| 5 | busdt | 65 |
| 6 | JRLswim | 64 |
| 6 | RR Surge | 64 |
| 8 | nickbecker4 | 63 |
| 8 | tbland18 | 63 |
| 8 | SwimMD | 63 |
One note: to resolve the tie, any entries with Conger or Urlando were combined into a single entry. If you’re reviewing the spreadsheet and it says you picked Conger twice or you thought you picked Urlando and it says Conger, that’s why. The Urlando pick is still there it’s just hidden behind Conger’s name.
I think because you combined the conger and urlando picks into one, your equations are wrong. In my own spreadsheet (swimwild13) i have 44 points but you have me listed as 45, because the name conger appears twice. I’ve taken some random other entries and manually added up the point and have seen a similar problem, anyone who place conger in the top 4 received one extra point and anyone who had both conger and urlando received 2 extra points. The only people without inflated scores would be those didn’t pick either conger or urlando, and the only one i could find was rel76, whose score matched the value listed when I did it manually,
This is a good catch. The equation is right, but the headers were incorrect. Did not meaningfully change the order, but it should be fixed.
Out of curiosity how did you fix it, and did you get the issue of people who selected both conger and urlando getting two extra point instead of the one extra point everyone else had
There are 4 real finishers rows. You get the points for exactly correct picks by matching someone in row 3. You get the single point for swimmers in the wrong position but still in the top 4 by matching rows 4, 5, and 6. The first and second place spots had the conger/urlando entry twice so it was assigning the right swimmer wrong place points twice. I removed the second one and the problem was fixed.
Last night’s 100 Freestyle is great example why swimming needs to be a daily fantasy sport for national/international level meets.
We’ve seen Justin Wright on these boards – I guess even he didn’t pick himself to win?
There’s not an obvious entry done by Justin. I know, we were surprised too!
~651 of ~840… Above average for me. Glad I have long since resorted to the old ‘find’ tool rather than scrolling for my name. Who has that kind of time.
Please tell me Yung Thicc Boi is actually just Zach Harting himself