Dolphin Times
Issue 3, Season 2017
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Analytics 101
Bannockburn Undefeated, But Holds Second in Division
By Adele the Dog
Dolphin Analytics Expert
The Dolphins and Old Farm Face off Saturday morning as a match up of the two undefeated teams in Division H.
Despite having identical A meet records, Old Farm holds a five point lead over Bannockburn in Division H. This is because relay carnival counts in the overall standings.
How’s that?
MCSL awards six points for winning an A meet. It then awards 10 points for winning relay carnival, which was last Sunday. But unlike an A meet, there are points awarded to other teams based on how they finished. So second gets eight points, third gets six points, fourth gets four points and fifth gets two points. The last place team gets no points.
In a big break for Bannockburn, Old Farm did not win relay carnival outright. It tied with Manchester Farm. As a result, those teams split the combined points for first and second. This means each gets nine points.
Because Bannockburn finished fourth, it got four points. That means it is now five points behind Old Farm. And it is one point ahead of Manchester Farm. This means a Bannockburn win this weekend over Old Farm will give the Dolphins six points. That would then put the Dolphins one point ahead of Old Farm in the standings.
It also means that Manchester Farms would be unable to pass Bannockburn even if it wins next week because it would still be a point behind if the Dolphins are able to beat Old Farm.
This then sets the stage for the final A meet on July 15 when Bannockburn travels to Manchester Farm.
What this means is that the Dolphins control their own fate.
If the Dolphins win both of their remaining meets, Bannockburn will hold the lead going into divisionals. It likely would be one point ahead of Old Farm and seven points ahead of Manchester Farm assuming Manchester Farm wins this weekend and Old Farm wins in week five.
This then sets the stage for Divisionals, which is a meet where the Dolphins tend to perform better than at relay carnival.
Divisionals is worth a lot of points. The first place team gets 20 points, which is four points above the second place team and eight points better than third place. Fourth place gets eight points and fifth gets four points. There are no points for sixth.
What this means is that if Bannockburn wins out so it is the only undefeated team, then it would clinch the division trophy by winning divisionals or finishing at least two places ahead of Old Farm.
If Old Farm finishes ahead of Bannockburn at Divisionals even if the Dolphins beat them on Saturday, then Old Farm likely wins the division. The only reason this would not happen would be if Bannockburn beats Manchester Farm in the final week and Old Farm loses. If that is the case, the Dolphins enter Divisionals with a seven point lead. This means it could finish one place behind Old Farm and still win. But it could not finish two spots behind.
In short, if the Dolphins keep winning then no one can top them.
So Go Dolphins!!
Dolphins Guarantee Winning Season by Beating Kenmont
By Doll Finn
Senior Dolphin Correspondent
Bannockburn Dolphins assured themselves Saturday of a winning season with an 81-point victory over Kenmont.
This meet was only close at the start. It is not that the Dolphins won every event. Kenmont has strong swimmers and scored its fair share of first places. It is that the Dolphins were too deep for Kenmont.
Even when the Dolphins did not win the event, Bannockburn swimmers took most of the other point-generating positions.
And what was especially impressive was how the Dolphins finished the meet. With a big halftime lead, Bannockburn swimmers could have taken the pedal off the gas. Instead, they never let Kenmont back into the meet and finished by winning both of the 175 relays.
Given the limits of the Dolphin Times staff, we will not provide our typical exhaustive coverage of the meet. We will highlight some great swims such as Meyer Eskin winning the 100 IM for the boys and Darby LeFaivre taking first for the girls in 100 IM.
The 15/18 boys relay of Jack MacIsaac, Owen Wassiliew, Jeffrey Su and Jake Winter took first as did the 15/18 girls relay of Maya Fawaz, Shifra Eskin, Katya Damskey and Danielle Lair Ferrari.
This is when the Dolphin Times began to get confident about the results of the meet.
In under 8 boys 25 free, all of the points went to Bannockburn with a 1 to 5 sweep with Emil Bartolomeo in first, Alex Watkins in second, Kiichi Funatsu in third, Brody Ulrich in fourth and Charlie McCarthy in fifth.
Nadia Lall and Madilynn Ulrich were second and third in under 8 girls 25 free.
James LeFaivre won 9/10 50 free and took 1.38 seconds off to score an All Star time. Oliver Bartolomeo shaved 1.24 seconds off for second in an All Star time as well. Gideon Helf won for the 13/14 boys in 50 free while Valerie Mello, Sophie Duncan and Maya Fawaz went first to third in the girls 13/14 50 free. Valerie and Sophie dropped time and scored All Star times.
Boys 15/18 100 free was all Dolphin at the top with Jake Winter in first, Jeffrey Su in second and Ray Crist in third.
This winning theme continued throughout the meet, which is why the Dolphins were up by about 70 points at half. And it meant the meet was over from a points perspective before the 175 relays at the end.
Full results are on the Bannockburn Swim Team website.
Auto Correct Production Nightmare for Dolphin Times
By Tucker the Dog
Dolphin Editor in Chief
The Dolphin Times transition to a new production software has been a nightmare thanks to auto correct.
Even after names were manually un-auto-corrected, the software seemed to strike back whenever the cursor returned to the paragraph that contained the names. This produced some interesting name changes.
Rest assured, this dog will not sit for that. I might sit for some roast beef, but not for faulty software. So we have disabled this feature until we figure out exactly how it works.
On behalf of the four dogs, one dolphin and one person who make up the Dolphin Times staff, our apologies.
B Meet Shows Off Some Strong Dolphin Swims
By Walter Tu Kold
Dolphin Correspondent
Bannockburn swimmers continue to shine in the B meets.
Last week’s contest against Palisades was no exception. We saw swimmers in all ages dropping time and swimming hard. We also managed to finish the meet before it got dark.
Durke Anderson improved 8 and under 25 free by 6.03% while Ray Crist bested his 100 back by 6.09%. Charlie Edlavitch improved under 8 25 free by 12.02%.
Then there was Catherine Faulkender who improved under 8 25 back by 5.77% while Lauren Faulkender improved 9/10 25 breast by 7.33%. Talia Green improved 25 back by 12.55% and Logan Kline bested 25 free time by 5.4%. Blair LeFaivre took an impressive 14.56% off her 25 breast.
Joseph Lewis improved 25 back by 12.53% while Henry McCarthy improved 25 bac by 13.97%. Noah Nigri improved 25 back by 7.71%, Celia Noya bested 25 breast time by 8.71% and Gabriela Noya took 16.06% off 25 free.
Aarav Rajani improved 25 back by 11.9%, Kavya Rajani bested 25 back by 12.44% and Andrew Selfridge improved 50 free by 7.29%. Eleanor Snyder improved her 25 back by 9.09%.
Julia Ulrich took 8.72% off 50 free while Madilynn Ulrich improved 25 back by 8.22%. Zoe Verhoeven took 5.4% off 25 fly. Max Watson improved 50 free by 9.76%. Eliza White improved 25 free by 7.26%.
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