MB Week In Review – July 26

The 2014 MegaBracket campaign kicked off just over a week ago with the beginning of the British Open on Thursday, July 18. The first tee shot was struck at 12:30 am CDT, marking the start of the 5th MB season.

British Open

Fifteen different users joined the fun for the season-opening event including first timers bscheffler, thall5 and cmonahan. tonewil was the first day leader with a scorching -3. Chris and Jimmy were tied for the lead at the end of the second round, but each had one golfer miss the cut (Tom Watson for Chris, Justin Rose for Jimmy) and would have to each take the worst score of the day on Saturday and Sunday as the penalty for those missed cuts. The missed cut penalty places a premium on having a full team for the weekend and Danny, bscheffler and Greg were the only users to have all 5 picks make the weekend. Danny and bscheffler took advantage, moving into the top 2 spots after Saturday’s play with Danny sitting at +18, bscheffler +23 and Jimmy and tonewil (also 1 missed cut in Rose) tied for 3rd at +26. Behind the strength of Phil Mickelson’s winning 66 (-5), Danny extended his lead to a winning margin of 10 strokes. tonewil finished 2nd and after an atrocious Saturday that dropped him into a tie for 10th, Chris rallied behind Mickelson and Ian Poulter (-4) to put up Sunday’s best team score of +3 to finish 3rd.

Final Standings

* – 32 points earned for picking the champion, Phil Mickelson

July-August Week 1 Picks

The first week of the first weekly picks also began on Thursday, July 18th and completed Wednesday, July 24th. The first week’s picks combined games from the Canadian Football League, the Arena Football League, the National Women’s Soccer League, the Western Lacrosse Association, World Team Tennis and 3-game series from Major League Baseball. Week 1 was very competitive with 6 of the 15 users scoring at least 35 of a possible 60 points. tonewil put up an impressive 43 points to claim the weekly crown and the 10 bonus points that go along with the weekly victory. Ryan finished a close second with 40 points. Newcomers bscheffler and cmonahan tied for 3rd with 39 points. A new winner will be crowned each week while the points also add up throughout the weeks (there are 7 in the July-August event) and event-long points are handed out at the conclusion of the event in a manner similar to the golf event – points for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., down to 10th place.

Block 1 Standings

(heading into the weekend)