Friends in fast breaks,

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This is it, our season finale! And as expected, the pre-playoffs rest-a-thon strikes. Strategically, I hope you didn't wait until this final week to uncork your ultimate star. There's a decent shot they'll be riding the pine to get some DNP-goodness with a locked up seed.

WEEK 23 PICKS

• Walking Bucket Wilt OAD
  • Summary | Overall Standings | Golden Spreadsheet
• Glove Playoff Pick'em
  • COMING SOON!

PICK STATS

Walking Bucket Wilt OAD

• This is it, we'll have a champion after this weekend
• I'm so proud of you all, you crafted an interesting race through the entire season
• B. Ingram jumps to the top of our pick board, with an astonishing 49 picks
  • Until last week, he'd never been picked more than 5 times in a week
  • Last week, he got 23 picks
  • A glorious glow-up for the slender man
• With Ingram hogging the top, our other "big" picks were: K. Durant (20 picks), L. Doncic (18), L. James (18), Z. Lavine (18), and K. Leonard (17)
• What does the Golden Spreadsheet show, now that we're wrapped?
  • J. Tatum was our most picked player with 86.6% of us taking him
  • Close behind are L. Doncic (84.6%), S. Gilgeous (84.2%), S. Curry (83.8%), J. Embiid (83.3%), and G. Antetokounmpo (81.6%)
  • On the other end, we had six players only picked twice all season
    • And to be fair, C. Cunningham and K. Middleton were both dealing with extensive injury time, so I think the other 4 are the legitimate champions of "least picked" 
• Interesting low volume picks: T. Young (1 pick), D. Bane (1), K. Towns (1), D. Russell (1)

PICK COMMENTS

@StatCzar (B. Ingram): "Over the season I've shared numerous stories about my grandmother, and The GM and Commish have responded by telling me, get her in the pool! I recently explained to my grandmother I have been sharing stories about her and that leadership would like her to join in the picking. I asked her if she had any stories to share and if we could count on her joining us next season. She told me to tell everyone she considers her father to have been merely a sperm donor who left the family because he loved horse races and baseball more and as a result she hates sports. Sooooo I wouldn't count on her joining us. "
GM says: Granny. Does. Not. MISS!

@LeviLeo (J. Brown): "I didn't do this competition correctly lol"
GM says: Hush hush hush, shhhhh 🤫 You were wonderful darling ❤️

@kbanaian (L. James): "Baaaaah! Baaaaah! "
GM says: You hear that? It's the sound of a vintage Lebron performance to try and steal the Warriors seeding

@Mr_Rodgers_Neighborhood (D. DeRozan): "It's all poop at this point..."
GM says: If DeRozan is poop, I don't want to know what you think of the hundreds of players in the league worse than him

@YikesVikes (K. Durant): "Oklahoma City fans continue to boo Durant, who left the Thunder in July 2016 to sign with the Golden State Warriors. He showed them, those boos only created points, and without boos he scores too, like he will this week, Kevin's back. "
GM says: The bus is fueled by booing. They're only making him stronger!

@pheezy42 (S. Curry): "well, lessons were learned. better luck next year?"
GM says: Share the lessons with the class, there's lots of us pondering where it all went south!

@Merlinmei383 (B. Ingram): "Crying at how many big names I left on the board cause I didn’t bother counting how many weeks were left "
GM says: Oh that's like the inverse of our Golden Spreadsheet - How many people NEVER picked our top players?

@Logan2273 (B. Ingram): "As I make my final pick to try to stay in the top 50 I can’t help but think back to the week where I missed a pick and wonder what could have been"
GM says: How about Ingram goes off and we don't worry about that week?

@MONSTERXXX (B. Ingram): "Maybe next year WOOOOOOH !"
GM says: WOOOOOOOOOOOOH to Year 2!

Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM