Howard Sider spent football season building a front-third case. A Seahawks title ticket returned 105 and carried the NFL Playoffs to 28th and 222.5. Indiana delivered 32nd in the College Football Playoff, and NFL Survivor added 48th.
The closing pair dismantled much of it. An 82-point World Cup pool paid only 60.5 from 191st, and golf landed 143rd. Together they pulled him 39 places in the wrong direction; a 169th in hockey had already narrowed the margin.
Sider ended on the roundest rank available, exactly 100th with 1345.5. The number looks orderly; the route through it was anything but.