The World Cup finished 176th. Golf did too. Samuel Stone closed on matching duds, and the symmetry was expensive: 13 spots surrendered across the final fold, down to 23rd.
The football months had been legitimately sharp. A Seahawks title ticket banked 112 on the way to 20th in the NFL Playoffs, and his survivor entry matched that rank, his two best results wearing the same number.
October was tidy at 40th on a 63-point Dodgers position, and seven straight March picks reached Day 5 with Houston. The engine was never the problem. The 1623.5 total just stopped growing two contests before the season did.