FOFC's Greatest Athlete III (interactive)

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump

6' 2"

Ketola – miss – terrible jump – probably wouldn’t have cleared 5’ 8”

Rambis – clear – nice jump gets him over 6’ 2”

Babson – Pass

Honcho - pass

Ketola – clear – gets over it easily this time.

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6’ 3”


Ginsberg – misses – hits the bar on the way up

Ketola – miss – first attempt is sloppy, arms and legs failing knock bar off

Rambis Jr - Pass

Babson – Miss – Just can’t quite get his calves over the bar

Honcho – clears – again easily over this height

Ginsberg – misses – fails to get his hips over

Ketola – miss – almost a rerun of his first attempt

Babson – Clears – brushes his calves again, but the bar just wobbles it doesn’t fall…

Ginsberg – clears – adrenalin pushes him to clear by half a foot

Ketola - Pass

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6' 4"

Ginsberg – Pass

Ketola – Pass

Nielsen – Miss – just slightly off, clips the bar and it bounce off the stand

Rambis Jr – miss – not quite high enough…need just a touch more spring.

Babson – miss – too far from the bar at takeoff

Honcho - pass

Nielsen– clear – gets over the second time with a couple inches to spare

Rambis Jr – miss – injury appears to be hampering him, as again he just doesn’t get enough lift.

Babson – clears – nice jump just clears the bar with about an inch to spare.

Rambis Jr – miss – tries for the 3rd time at this height and much like the last two…just not enough spring


Rambis Jr finishes with a height of 6’ 2”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6' 5"


Ginsberg – Pass

Ketola – miss – coming off two misses at 6' 3", Ketola crowds the bar on the approach and hits it on the way up.

Bafou – clear – textbook jump

Palmeiro – clear – clears it by a mile…was probably good for 7’

Nielsen – pass

Mighty – miss – was clearly not going to make it early in this one. Too far from the bar at takeoff.

Babson – miss – not even close, hits the bar with his shoulders

Honcho – miss – chopped feet on approach so no chance to get the lift needed. A shame because both of him previous jumps were probably above this height

Mighty – Clears – easily up and over…

Babson – miss – even worse, this jump might not have cleared 6’

Babson - announces he’s finished

Honcho – pass


Ketola finishes with a height of 6’ 2”

Babson finishes with a height of 6’ 4”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6' 6"


Schaplowsky – Clears – easily over his opening height

Ginsberg – Pass

Bafou - Pass

Palmeiro – Pass

Nielsen – miss – steps are off on approach, no shot

Path – Clears – he’s up and over…first attempt is good.

Mighty – Pass

Honcho – Pass

Jordan – Clears – had several inches to spare

Nielsen – miss – so close…just barely ticks the bar on the way down

Nielsen - pass

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6' 7"


Ginsberg – Pass

Schaplowsky – miss – heal clips the bar, it wobbles and falls

Bafou – Clears – again a text book approach

Palmiero – Miss – needed only about 1 more inch to clear

Nielsen – Pass

Path – miss - bumps the bar hard with hips

Mighty – miss – something was off on the jump - never really got into position

Honcho – Pass

Jordan – Clears – this time it’s close, but he still gets over the bar

Schaplowsky – clears – nice jump clears the bar

Palmiero – Miss – came up that same inch short

Peltonen – Clears – might have gotten over the bar a 7’ with that effort

Mighty – Pass

Path – Clears – better lift on the second attempt gets him over the bar

Palmiero – Miss – approach was off so the jump never had a chance - and that's his 3rd straight miss



Palmiero fininshes with a height of 6’ 5”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6’ 8”


Ginsberg – Pass

Schaplowsky – miss – hits the bar on the way down

Nielsen – miss – really goes after this one…jumps and he’s crowded the bar and hits it on the way up.

Mighty – Pass

Honcho – Pass

Path - Pass

Jordan – Miss – to far from the bar at take off

Schaplowsky – miss – crowds the bar too much and hits it on the way up

Jordan – miss – terrible effort approach was so bad he probably shouldn’t even have tried to jump

Peltonen – clear – again might have been good with a 7’ jump

Schaplowsky – miss – he’s up, over and hits the bar on the way down, bringing it with him.

Bafou – Pass

Jordan – Miss – another bad effort


Nielsen finishes with a height of 6’ 4”

Schaplowsky finishes with a height of 6’ 7”

Jordan finishes with a height of 6’ 7”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6’ 9”


Ginsberg – miss – bumps bar with his shoulders

Bafou – miss - nice form but heal just clips the bar on the decent

Mighty – Clears – whatever the problem was on the 6’ 7” miss, he got it worked out here, easily clears

Honcho – miss – really crowds the bar, almost goes under it he gets so close. Knocks if off going up.

Peltonen – clear – he’s on fire right now, easily clearing the height

Path – miss – hits bar with shoulder

Ginsberg – miss – poor attempt, timing appeared off and he was nowhere close to clearing

Bafou – miss – a rerun of the previous jump…heat just nicks the bar causing it to vibrate off

Honcho – miss – again hits the bar going up.

Path - miss - goes after it, but is too aggressive and hits bar on the way up

Ginsberg – miss – again timing looked off…steps got truncated on approach and he knew it wasn’t in the cards. He hits the bar on the way up.

Bafou – miss – a 3rd straight heal clip…

Path – Clears – on the third chance at this height he clears with room to spare.


Ginsberg finishes with a height of 6’ 3”

Honcho finishes with a height of 6’ 3”

Bafou finishes with a height of 6’ 7”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6’ 10”


Mighty – Pass

Peltonen – miss – first miss, hits bar with heal going over

Chilton – clears – oh my! He was way over the bar…that was a monster jump

Path waves off his chance he's resigning the rest of his chances

Peltonen – clear – back to his solid technique…


Path finishes with a height of 6’ 9”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


6’ 11”


Mighty – clears – seems to have gotten his grove back as he’s up and over this height as well.

Peltonen – miss – looks like he pressed a bit, not smooth effort

Chilton – miss – not the same form as the previous jump

Peltonen – miss – too far from the bar at take off

Chilton – miss – another sloppy effort results in a second miss

Peltonen – waves off his 3rd chance

Chilton – clear – bumps the bar, it bounces but stays on the stand…


Peltonen finishes with a height of 6' 10"

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


7'


Llyw – miss – must be feeling the pressure of defending as Llyw decides to start at 7’…and he just misses…

Chilton – miss – back to the sloppy form

Mighty waves off his chance

Llyw – miss – a carbon copy of the last one…now the pressure is really on…going into a 3rd jump at 7’ with 2 misses and no score on record…

Chilton – clears – just barely slips over the bar

Llyw – clear – adrenalin must have been flowing…he cleared by nearly 6”


Mighty finishes with a height of 6’ 11”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


7’ 1”


Llyw – Pass

Chilton – miss – just nudges the bar off, almost got it

Chilton waves off his turn and he’s finished


Chilton finishes with a height of 7’

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


7' 2"

Llyw – clear – easily over

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


7' 3"

Llyw - Pass

[collegesportsfanms]

Damn, and I thought I was doing good at 6'7''. No way in hell do I have a chance of winning this decathlon.

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump


7' 4"


Llyw – miss – just barely nicks the bar, probably was good for 7' 3"

Llyw – miss – brushes the bar on the way down and it bounces a couple times before falling, again he probably clears at 7' 3", he was that close

Llyw – miss – really went after it on the last one and crowded the bar on the approach knocking it off on the way up.


Llyw finishes with a height of 7’ 2”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump - Standings

Llyw 		7’ 2”
Chilton		7’
Mighty		6’ 11”
Peltonen	6’ 10”
Path		6’  9”
Jordan		6’ 7”
Schaplowsky	6’ 7”
Bafou		6’ 7”
Palmiero	6’ 5”
Babson		6’ 4”
Nielsen		6’ 4”
Ginsberg	6’ 3”
Honcho		6’ 3”
Ketola		6’ 2”
Rambis		6’ 2”

[Breeze]

Event 4 - High Jump - Scores

	

Llyw 		1051
Chilton		 992
Mighty		 963
Peltonen	 934
Path		 906
Jordan		 850
Schaplowsky	 850
Bafou		 850
Palmiero	 794
Babson		 767
Nielsen		 767
Ginsberg	 740
Honcho		 740
Ketola		 714
Rambis		 714

[Breeze]

Event 4 – High Jump – Recap

Winners

Llyw – Needed a big event and got it…could have done better but benefits from the fact that overall the results were off
Chilton – See Llyw
Babson – Not that his result was great, but outperformed expectation and the poor overall results of the field help his status

Losers

Schaplowsky – was capable of going much higher, missed opportunity
Palmiero – unfortunate rolls kills chances here…three misses at 6’ 7” is bad luck with that card
Ginsberg – jumped from 6’ 3” to 6’ 9” in attempts…risk didn’t pay off

[Breeze]

Overall Standings - After 4 Events

	

Babson		4013
Ketola		3933
Nielsen		3880
Jordan		3871
Chilton		3865
Peltonen	3802
Mighty		3744
Llyw		3664
Path		3662
Palmiero	3633
Rambis Jr	3614
Ginsberg	3526
Bafou		3482
Schalowsky	3457
Honcho		2590

[Breeze]

Overall Standings Analysis

The top of the standings remain the same with Babson, Ketola, and Nielsen holding on to the medal spots and Jordan right on their heals, but after that, there has been some significant shuffling.

Rambis Jr. falls from 5th to 11th, and with his injury I don't expect to see him climb back into contention. Mighty's effort in the high jump allowed him to pass several people as he climbs from 10th to 7th, and the defending champion Llyw moves from 13th to 8th in 1 event.

Lots of events left so I'm sure there will be plenty more changes before this thing is over.

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Preview

Favorites

Honcho


Underdogs

Ketola
Jordan
Mighty

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Result Specifics

Safe
Injury - 0%
False Start - 0%

Average
Injury - .47%
False Start - 0%

Allout
Injury - .94%
False Start - 8.31%

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Game Mechanics

The 400 Meters is made up of four 100 Meter segments, where a dice is rolled for each segment. We can do this a couple of different ways...

1. You announce your effort level up front for all 4 segments and I roll it and post the complete results
2. You announce your effort level for the first segment, I roll it post results, and you announce your effort level for the second attempt, I roll it post results, etc. (this theoretically allows you to adjust based on how the event is playing out).

Please let me know how you'd like to proceed.

Just so you know...if I don't hear from you, all rolls will be done in the average column.

Also if I don't get responses on how to run this event, I'll choose option one because it is easier and faster.

I'd like to run this event tomorrow afternoon, so get your vote in along with your effort levels (in order if possible)

[Breeze]

Game Mechanics Clarification

I wanted to take a second to clarifiy something. The effort points allotted were designed to be split between days...

from the initial write up, complete with typos and poor grammar "Another new twist with this version is - You'll only get to use All Out a set numnber of times for the each day."

So if you had 10 effort points, 5 could be used each day...that means those don't carry over. However, if you received a PM from me regarding Effort/Rest and you chose to get an Effort Point over keeping your rest...that one does carry over.

[Coffee Warlord]

Option 2 is better, but I think that may cause the race to last about a week in real time.

[collegesportsfanms]

I agree. I'm lucky that I'm in front of a computer most of the day, so option 2 would be no problem for me, I can pm you my effort level for each segment sometime tonight or tomorrow morning

[JAG]

Will you be posting predictions on how players will do?

I would prefer option 1 for sake of ease.

[britrock88]

Open to either. Also a desk jockey, so I could work Option 2, but don't have to have it.

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Card Preview

Ketola
Safe – each segment in this column is between 12.89 (rare) and 13.55 (rare) – average is around 13.2
Ave – 12.55 (ave) to 13.2 (rare) – average is around 12.9
Allout – 12.4 (extremely rare) to 13.25 (ave) –average is around 12.85
Prediction – 51.9

Babson
Safe – 12.45 (rare) to 13.1 (ave) – average is around 12.85
Ave – 12.1 (ave) to 12.9 (rare) – average is around 12.55
Allout – 11.9 (rare) to 12.8 (ave) – average is around 12.45
Prediction – 50.95

Nielsen
Safe – 12.35 (ave) to 13.05 (good) – average is around 12.8
Ave – 12.1 (very good) to 12.85 (rare) – average is around 12.45
Allout – 11.85 (ave) to 12.85 (rare) – average is around 12.45
Prediction – 50.2

Honcho
Safe – 11.75 (good) to 12.4 (very good) – average is around – 12.15
Ave – 11.6 (ave) to 12.2 (fair) – average is around 11.9
Allout – 11.3 (rare) to 12.25 (ave) – average is around 11.9
Prediction – 48.1

Jordan
Safe – 12.85 (fair) to 13.55 (extremely rare) – average is around 13.2
Ave – 12.85 (fair) to 13.55 (fair) – average is around 12.95
Allout – 12.4 (rare) to 13.25 (fair) – average is around 12.9
Prediction – 52.05

Mighty
Safe – 12.85 (Good) to 13.5 (extremely rare) – average is around 13.25
Ave – 12.55 (ave) to 13.4 (rare) – average is around 12.95
Allout – 12.4 (fair) to 13.25 (good) – average is around 12.9
Prediction – 51.95

Rambis (no injury impact included in calculations below – is included in prediction)
Safe – 12.4 (fair) to 13.15 (ave) – average is around 12.8
Ave – 12.2 (good) to 12.85 (fair) – average is 12.5
Allout – 11.95 (fair) to 12.65 (excellent) – average is 12.45
Prediction 50.7

Schaplowsky
Safe – 12.1 (good) to 12.85 (fair) – average is 12.45
Ave – 11.7 (ave) to 12.55 (extremely rare) – average is 12.2
Allout – 11.55 (rare) to 12.4 (rare) – average is 12.1
Prediction - 49

Path
Safe – 12.1 (very good) to 12.65 (excellent) – average is 12.45
Ave – 11.75 (rare) to 12.75 (fair) – average is 12.15
Allout – 11.6 (fair) to 12.55 (good) – average is 12.15
Prediction – 49.3

Palmiero
Safe – 12.4 (fair) to 13.05 (fair) – average is 12.75
Ave – 12.1 (good) to 12.85 (extremely rare) – average is 12.5
Allout – 11.85 (extremely rare) to 12.8 (ave) – average is 12.45
Prediction – 50.3

Ginsberg
Safe – 12.35 (fair) to 13.15 (fair) – average is 12.75
Ave – 12.05 (rare) to 12.8 (ave) – average is 12.5
Allout – 12 (fair) to 12.75 (ave) – average is 12.45
Prediction – 50.3

Peltonen
Safe – 12.1 (ave) to 12.8 (extremely rare) – average is 12.45
Ave – 11.7 (fair) to 12.45 (good) – average is around 12.1
Allout – 11.6 (rare) to 12.55 (rare) – average is around 12.15
Prediction – 50.75

Bafou
Safe – 12.1 (fair) to 12.7 (extremely rare) – average is around 12.4
Ave – 11.7 (extremely rare) to 12.65 (ave) – average is around 12.2
Allout – 11.55 (rare) to 12.4 (ave) – average is around 12.1
Prediction – 49.2

Llyw
Safe – 12.05 (fair) to 12.8 (ave) – average is 12.4
Ave – 11.75 (ave) to 12.55 (rare) – average is around 12.2
Allout – 11.6 (ave) to 12.55 (excellent) – average is around 12.15
Prediction – 49

Chilton
Safe – 12.35 (rare) to 13.05 (fair) – average is 12.7
Ave – 12.15 (rare) to 12.8 (rair) – average is 12.5
Allout – 11.9 (rare) to 12.75 (ave) – average is 12.45
Prediction – 51.1

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Effort Announcement

I'm going to proceed with option 2 above...so at this point I need to get each player to submit their 4 effort levels in order, please.

[collegesportsfanms]

For Schaplowsky, let's go average, safe, average, all-out. I've got an all-out left to use so might as well use it, I've got a lot of ground to make up.

[Coffee Warlord]

Nielsen -

1) Avg
2) Avg
3) All Out
4) Avg

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Status

Complete

Nielsen
Path
Schaplowsky
Bafou
Ginsberg
Babson

[DavidCorperial]

Average through out for Ginsberg.

[JAG]

Average for all for Babson.

[Breeze]

Given the response for this event has been slow, I will wait until tomorrow at 1 EDT to post results. If I don't get instructions all 4 rolls will be from the average column...

[cmp]

1. All Out
2. Average
3. Average
4. Average

[ntndeacon]

1. Ave
2. All Out
3. Ave
4. All Out

[PilotMan]

1. Avg
2. All Out
3. All Out
4. All Out

This is assuming that, by my count, I've got that much energy left. Othewise, just downgrade the first parts, finish strong.

[thealmighty]

1. Avg.
2. Avg.
3. Avg.
4. All Out

[Greyfriars Bobby]

Peltonen:

1. Avg
2. Avg
3. Avg
4. All Out

[BYU 14]

Chilton
1. Avg
2. All Out
3. Avg
4. All Out

[Simbo Klice]

Rambis- avg, avg, avg, all out

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meters - Status

Complete

Nielsen
Path
Schaplowsky
Bafou
Ginsberg
Babson
Ketola
Palmiero

Honcho
Mighty
Peltonen
Chilton
Rambis

Still waiting on

Jordan
Llyw

[Breeze]

Event 5 – 400 Meters – Heat 1

In the first heat we have:

Lane 2 – Path
Lane 3 – Schaplowsky
Lane 4 – Nielsen
Lane 5 – Bafou
Lane 6 – Ginsberg
Lane 7 – Babson
Lane 8 – Ketola
Lane 9 – Palmiero

This could be a really good heat. Schaplowky, Path, and Bafou consistently run similar times, so I expect them to get out early and basically run away from the field.

The runners, go through their routines, they get in the blocks, the gun sounds and…my word, Schaplowsky was slow out of the blocks…so slow that Path has already really eaten into his stagger. Path appears to have the early lead, but Bafou and Palmiero also look good early.

As the they exit the corner it looks like Palmiero actually has a slight lead on Path, Bafou and Ginsberg – who ran the corner especially well. As they head into the third hundred it looks like Palmiero, Path, Bafou, Ginsberg, Nielsen, Babson, Schaplowsky and Ketola, who is already over a full second behind 7th place.

The final corner sees Palmiero continuing to push, I wonder if he’ll be able to hold on for the last 100. Path seems to be starting to separate from Bafou a little. Ginsberg and Nielsen appear to have had bad splits, which has allowed Babson and Schaplowsky, who really poured it on that last split, to pull into contention with them.

Coming down the straightaway, it’s Palmiero and Path…Path is closing while Palmiero tries to hold onto his slight lead…Bafou is also making a charge on this final leg…as he begins to close on the two leaders.

Schaplowsky continues his charge as well, blowing by Nielsen and Babson like they’re standing still. He’s closing on Ginsberg too…it’ll be close at the line.

At the line…it’s a photo finish…between all 3 lead runners. I couldn’t tell who got there first, Palmiero, Path or Bafou…

Schaplowsky continues to close on Ginsberg…at the line and I can’t tell…I think Schaplowsky ran out of room and didn’t quite catch Ginsberg, but I’ll have to wait and see.

Babson crosses in 6th place with a time of 50 seconds, which is probably better than he expected. Nielsen is 7th crossing the line at 50.15…and Ketola strolls across at 52.05.

As we wait on the ruling from the officials on the photo finishes…

The second group results are announced and Ginsberg did hold off Schaplowsky as they finished with a time of 49.15 and 49.2 respectively.

As for the winner…Path’s lean at the line earns him the victory in the heat with a time of 48.5. Palmiero and Bafou tie at 48.55

[Breeze]

Event 5 – 400 Meters – Heat 2

The second heat breaks down like this:

Lane 2 – Honcho
Lane 3 – Mighty
Lane 4 – Peltonen
Lane 5 – Chilton
Lane 6 – Rambis
Lane 7 – Jordan
Lane 8 – Llyw

This one should be all about Honcho…in fact because he’s in lane 2 it’ll be entertaining to see him quickly chew into the stagger of the other runners.

The runners take their mark, the gun sounds and Honcho does immediately eat up the stagger on Mighty, but Peltonen appears to be holding his own, and Llyw may actually be a bit quicker in the opening stage, but it is hard to tell with him all the way on the outside and with Jordan looking like he’s in slow motion.

Coming out of the corner, it looks like Peltonen, Llyw and Honcho are all neck and neck, but Peltonen and Llyw appear to have more momentum…

Down the far straight…it is Peltonen and Llyw edging in front of Honcho, then there is a big drop back to Chilton, followed by Rambis, who is really hobbled, and then Jordan and Mighty are bringing up the rear.

Half way through the second turn, Honcho has picked it up a bunch, and I think he’ll exit the turn in first. Llyw appears to have slipped in front of Peltonen. The rest of the field is status quo.

Coming down the final straight…Peltonen is trying to match the charge from Honcho on the corner and he's really making a move. He definitely going to get by Llyw and he’s really tracking down Honcho. They approach the line and Peltonen runs out of room…Honcho holds on to win the heat with a time of 47.8, Peltonen right on his heals at 47.9. Llyw posts a strong 48.2.

Chilton comes in 4th at 49.3, Rambis gets across in 50 flat. Jordan finishes in 52 and Mighty brings up the rear at 52.35

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meter - Standings

Honcho		47.8
Peltonen	47.9
Llyw		48.2
Path		48.5
Bafou		48.55
Palmiero	48.55
Ginsberg	49.15
Schaplowsky	49.2
Chilton		49.3
Babson		50
Rambis		50
Nielsen		50.15
Jordan		52
Ketola		52.05
Mighty		52.35

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meter - Points

Honcho		919
Peltonen	914
Llyw		899
Path		885
Bafou		883
Palmiero	883
Ginsberg	854
Schaplowsky	852
Chilton		847
Babson		815
Rambis		815
Nielsen		808
Jordan		725
Ketola		723
Mighty		710

[Breeze]

Event 5 - 400 Meter - Recap

Winners

Peltonen - way outperformed his expected result
Palmiero - also out performed what was expected


Losers

No one performed extremely poorly based on expectation but if I have to name losers in this event it would be:

Jordan
Ketola
Mighty

because their times were so much slower than the field that they earned almost 100 points less than the rest of the bottom of the standings.