The basketball read was flawless. Michael van Bronkhorst went 5-of-5 on NBA win totals, banked 241.5 placement points, and tied for 10th. Perfection visited once, and he made it count.
There was craft elsewhere. Georgia returned 75 inside a 45th-place NCAAF card, and Iowa kept him alive through 9 March Madness calls, into Day 7, and ultimately a tied 19th.
The misses were quieter but persistent. A big Wild Card round salvaged only 53 on an NFL Playoffs ticket that fell to 172nd, while the World Cup and Golf closed at 121st and 129th. Those last cards cost him 10 places.
At exactly 1508 points, van Bronkhorst owns a share of 54th. The line contains a little of everything, but only one immaculate basketball receipt, and that makes the season unmistakably his.