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Fantasy Football is about numbers – understanding them and valuing them. So no surprise that the winner of the defenses portion of the Fantasy Index Open is a math teacher – Ty Tietjen of Brandon, South Dakota. He outscored the other 92 competitors in this category.
Ranking the Chicago Bears 2nd appears to have been Tietjen’s best pick. Using the scoring system of 6 points for touchdowns, 2 for takeaways and 1 for each sack, the Bears were the top-scoring defense in 2012. Tietjen ranked them 2nd, while much of the field had them as more of just a top-10 defense.
A reminder on how we score these things. You get a multiplier number ranging from 11 to 30 (depending on how high you rank the player), and that gets multiplied times the actual production. In this case, Tietjen got 5,481 points for the Bears (29 x 189). Somebody who ranked the Bears only 10th would 3,780 points (20 x 189). It’s complicated, but it’s a way of sifting through all the picks and labeling a winner.
The rest of the top 5 were also techies. Adam Thygeson is also a teacher, from Portland. Jim Bukowski took 3rd; he’s an accountant from Chicago. Jason Spann from St. Louis took 4th; he’s a software engineer. And Michael McAninch from Naperville, Ill., took 5th. He’s a network engineer.
Moishe Steigmann of Milwaukee is the overall leader after two positions have been scored.
The Fantasy Index Open is just like the Experts Poll that appears in the magazine, but it’s open to everyone. Anybody who wants can send in their picks (with a July 1 deadline, I believe), and then we score them and name a winner.
The champion will earn a spot in the Experts Poll in the 2013 edition of Fantasy Football Index magazine.
The winner will also earn a huge and really cool trophy from the team at Affordable Trophies. They joined on as a sponsor of this competition.
FANTASY INDEX OPEN – Defense & Special Teams
Points
49,212 Ty Tietjen (Brandon, S.D.) teacher (math)
49,129 Adam Thygeson (Portland, Ore.) teacher
49,095 Jim Bukowski (Chicago, Ill.) accountant
48,961 Jason Spann (St. Louis, Mo.) software engineer
48,909 Michael McAninch (Naperville, Ill.) network engineer
48,803 Joshua Smith (Olympia, Wash.) staffing scheduler
48,778 Sam Hendricks (Lynchburg, Va.) football writer
48,635 Todd Weigel (Milwaukee, Wis.) blackjack dealer
48,634 Kevin Cuozzo (Boston, Mass.) payroll
48,551 Moishe Steigmann (Milwaukee, Wis.) rabbi
48,504 Chris Hertzberg (Austin, Tex.) attorney
48,497 Steve Simon (Waterloo, Iowa) dental technician
48,491 Dana Duffield (Rochester, Minn.) software engineer
48,477 Zach Leavitt (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) accountant
48,419 Maurile Tremblay (San Diego, Calif.) attorney
48,411 Ed Weiss (Parsippany, N.J.) accountant
48,408 Brian Laskiewicz (Randolph, N.J.) attorney
48,404 Dish Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.) football writer
48,384 TC Cannon (Oklahoma City, Okla.) sales
48,307 Manny De Jesus Sr. (Gilbert, Ariz.) insurance agent
48,302 Anthony Borbely (Taylor, Mich.) college student
48,251 Kirk Kennedy (Pink Hill, N.C.) teacher
48,144 Bill Rehor (Culver City, Calif.) screenwriter
48,107 Michael O'Brien (Brighton, Colo.) fingerprint examiner
48,095 Ralph Traino (Youngstown, Ohio) accountant
48,091 Jim DiLorenzo (Grayslake, Ill.) production planner
48,066 Michael Crow (Orion, Ill.) systems engineer
48,045 Adam Locke (Lynnwood, Wash.) teacher
48,027 Bob Adelman (St. Louis, Mo.) sales
47,976 Mark Burns (Runnemede, N.J.) sales manager
47,965 Stephen McKenzie (Red Wing, Minn.) business owner
47,963 Tod Denison (Bakersfield, Calif.) materials manager
47,903 Justin Colver (Draper, Utah) Medicare sales
47,851 Russell Ditnes (Jamison, Pa.) attorney
47,805 John Moore (Sea Isle City, N.J.) real estate agent
47,789 Ed Borcky (Wallingford, Pa.) operator
47,659 Marc Price (Kelowna, B.C.) law firm administrator
47,654 Chris Rito (Martinsville, Ind.) chemist
47,607 Bradley Wolfrum (Alpharetta, Ga.) business owner
47,604 Scott Anderson (Lakewood, Colo.) professional desk driver
47,590 Ian Allan (Seattle, Wash.) football writer
47,571 Patty Saderholm (Elko, Nev.) graphic artist
47,555 Nathan Priest (Hagerstown, Md.) teacher (substitute)
47,538 John D. Smith (Mount Laurel, N.J.) warehouse supervisor
47,537 Miguel Tames (Miami, Fla.) sales
47,495 Scott Kopischke (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) sales engineer
47,435 Adam Holtz (Rochester, Minn.) football writer
47,413 Keith Mason (Sumter, S.C.) buyer
47,409 Daniel Williams (Murrieta, Calif.) appraiser
47,375 Cole Houchens (Carrollton, Tex.) sales
47,364 Ken Yuen (Arlington Heights, Ill.) attorney
47,362 Mike McIlraith (Fort Worth, Tex.) mechanical engineer
47,359 Jamie Alberts (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) banker
47,270 Joe Russo (San Diego, Calif.) biochemist
47,249 Manny De Jesus Jr. (Gilbert, Ariz.) student
47,241 Michael Stanco (Clermont, Fla.) pro wrestler
47,145 David Erickson (Los Angeles, Calif.) camera assistant
47,040 Shane Scott (Toronto, Ont.) teacher
47,016 Rob Carraher (Lincoln, Neb.) student
47,013 Kevin E. Smith (Philadelphia, Pa.) student
46,993 Richard Meyers (Huntsville, Ala.) quality engineer
46,986 Jim Nienaber (Georgetown, Ohio) wholesaler
46,949 Mike Nease (West Chicago, Ill.) football writer
46,939 Paul Kuchar (Schaumburg, Ill.) teacher
46,938 Bill Mason (Huntersville, N.C.) operator
46,877 David Di Gregorio (Norristown, Pa.) retired clerk
46,871 Robert Honaker (Baltimore , Md.) Education
46,859 Sean Chi (San Jose, Calif.) attorney
46,832 Steve Tortora (Wallingford, Conn.) management
46,771 Pete Meyer (Merrill, Wis.) sales
46,537 Mike Sarmento (San Jose, Calif.) sales manager
46,502 Jason Pilon (Blaine, Minn.) office grunt
46,428 Eric Huber (Milwaukee, Wis.) football writer
46,415 John Lanfranca (Kansas City, Mo.) firefighter
46,385 Treavor Phipps (Salem, Ind.) steamfitter
46,379 Isaac McNally (Billings, Mont.) car salesman
46,370 Rob Dammers (Ringwood, N.J.) senior tech analyst
46,356 Daniel Bowman (Liberty, Mo.) government employee
46,334 Scott Sachs (Huron, Ohio) headhunter
46,197 Jared Smola (Rochester, N.Y.) football writer
46,180 David Dorey (McKinney, Tex.) football writer
46,170 Brian Staines (Gibsonia, Pa.) teacher
46,129 Mike Craig (Kokomo, Ind.) electrician
46,055 Craig Smith (Ozark, Mo.) attorney
45,910 Andy Gough (Dallas, Tex.) IT project manager
45,721 Rustin Paul (New York, N.Y.) attorney
45,583 Jeff Tefertiller (Oklahoma City, Okla.) IT
45,440 Richard Jackson (Berkeley, Calif.) attorney
45,437 Kevin Weakland (Tracy, Calif.) DBA
45,432 Geoff Maleman (Redondo Beach, Calif.) public relations
43,840 Brian George (Billings, Mont.) sales
42,907 Bob Tecca (Minneapolis, Minn.) IT manager
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