Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest: April Results

by Eric Simon on May 8, 2009 8:00 AM EDT Comment 7 comments

Congratulations to englishgrey, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for April!

For winning the April contest, englishgrey claimed the New York Mets 1986 Collector's Edition DVD Set, which is a nine-disc collection featuring Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS and all seven World Series games in their entirety.

Having won a month, englishgrey is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. If the Mets are fortunate enough to make the postseason we will have some sort of playoff contest, so he would be eligible for any prizes there. Also, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest.

Here are the top ten scores for the month of April:

Num	#	User	Score	# Games	Avg.	High
1	1	englishgrey	701	21	33.4	70
2	2	beelzebot	697	21	33.2	67
3	3	RIPShea	680	21	32.4	65
4	4	sireric	667	20	33.4	67
5	5	DevonEdwards	646	18	35.9	88
6	6	cjmulrain	642	15	42.8	68
7	7	LOUtheMETSfan	618	19	32.5	64
8	8	IanB in MD	611	18	33.9	70
9	9	kingcritical	608	19	32	76
10	10	Endys Game	607	20	30.4	70

The full April scoreboard can be found here. As a reminder, the scores for the month are aggregated by username and e-mail, so make sure you use the same ones every day. Also, make sure the e-mail address you use matches the one you signed up with here on AA; if you signed up at SB Nation with a junk email address, now is your chance to update that to your real one.

Thanks again to everyone who participated this month. I think we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully it made the games and the game chatters here a little more interesting. Here's to more fun and even more participation in May.

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I met my goal...

…of placing ahead of Putz-Rod!.

My 33.5 avg ain’t too shabby, but only 8 games. Weak.

"It's Father's Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday." -- Ralph Kiner

by dissento on May 8, 2009 9:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

damn

if I’d just participated in 2 more April games at or above my average, I’d have won. So far my May has been much worse than my April. Oh well…

"This is the beauty of baseball. In basketball, at the end of the game, you want to put the ball in your best scorer's hands. But in baseball, it's up to a rookie like McGlinchy and a journeyman like Franco with the entire season on the line. Baseball history is dotted with names like Al Weis and Brian Doyle, men who have taken their name out of the agate type and placed it into the headlines, because it was simply their time."

by cjmulrain on May 8, 2009 11:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh, crap.

Same here, cjmulrain. You really should’ve won, though.

by DevonEdwards on May 8, 2009 11:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

bittersweet

i was 30 points behind the leader on the last game of april. i knew my only shot at getting the lead was to pick the mets to lose since johan was on the mound for the last game, figuring everyone else would pick the mets to win. the gambit worked because the marlins beat johan that day, but i would have preferred to see the mets win that game.

the mets have won 5 of 6 since that game though, so things have worked. and i get to enjoy the 1986 world series for the first time. win-win.

by englishgrey on May 8, 2009 11:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs