Before the last two scores landed, Alex Brunstrom had built a sturdy case: 29th in MLB behind a 115-point Dodgers ticket, 39th in the CFP, a tied 35th in the NBA, with March Madness also ending in a tied 32nd.
Then the last two contests scored him. The World Cup squeezed 74 points from his pool and dropped him to a tied 213th. Golf managed 239 across the majors and finished 221st. Back-to-back basement trips arrived exactly when the table was hardening.
Those two closing cards are why 1455 points now mean 63rd after a 50-place fall. Brunstrom did not have a bad season so much as a disastrous ending, the only version the standings remember.