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Criteria?
Posted By: Barry Silliman In Response To: Criteria? (Chuck Bower)
Date: Monday, 4 May 2009, at 11:27 p.m.
Chuck, my definitions are purely subjective. I was not counting Las Vegas prior to it being an ABT event unless it is listed in the results page on the ABT links off of Chicago Point. I got bored one day several months ago so I went through the results pages for all of the tourneys on the ABT pages and put the winners in a spreadsheet. IIRC the ABT started in 1992, so nothing before that was tabulated.
I think there was one tournament at Towpath or something like that one year that had I think 6 people and they settled first place, so I didn't count that one. What impressed me the most was how far out in front of the field Neil is (e.g. he has won 12 open events and second place is 6, and how few people in fact have won more than two). Any luckbox can win one (spoken from experience) so that got me surmising on who the really strong current players are who haven't won one yet.
After I put this spreadsheet together I formulated an unofficial list in my head. I had Stick, Petko, MCG and Mary Hickey for sure but she gladly dropped off the list when she won Ohio recently. If this were an "official" poll I think Stick, Petko and MCG would clearly be on this list. I just put Rod on the list because for the past several months I can't read about a tournament without seeing his name in the winners list multiple times!
If for no other reason than to be a catalyst for a few wagers with Rod and Ray and others, the exercise was worthwhile. :-)
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