Day 11: Singing a New Song

The big mover today was singing and dancing up the standings - and it's been a long time coming. Kara-oke gained 35 points today leaping into 6th place and within range of medal contention - Three golds - Elaine Thompson-Herah in the 200m, Uzbekistan in Weightlifting, and ROC in Wrestling, and a silver for Wang Zongyuan in Diving, 

Fire Dragons also scored a diving gold from Xie Siyi and a wrestling gold from the US women, along with a Cycling bronze from Chloe Dygert, US to retake second place.

SamuRyan flew high with Armand Duplantis securing the expected gold in the pole vault, and a gold in gymnastics from Zou Jingyuan to try and stay on pace with the flame lizards.

Ra-men+women sped to a cycling gold from Harrie Lavreysen, a bronze from Nagorny in gymnastics, and a pair of wrestling bronze medals for Iran and Japan to jump ahead of Pokemon.

League of Pokemon celebrated Hungarian wrestling gold, as well as a bronze in diving from Jack Laugher. 

Wasabi Warriors spun a silver from Jack Carlin of GB in cycling.

And finally TokYoMama received a bronze from Gabby Thomas of the US in the 200m final, and of course a bronze from Simone Biles - while she couldn't do her best on balance beam, it's amazing as a competitor to be able to make adjustments and find a way to still be on the podium.  A great bit of redemption for what most assuredly will always be one of the great Olympic disappointments - for Simone...and for us as viewers not getting to see the amazing talent that was possible from her.

For a bit of analysis as some sports have wrapped up, I thought I'd take a look at the top performers for our teams so far - these sports have wrapped (with the exception of Rhythmic Gymnastics but only Wasabi Warriors and Kara-oke are in play there): Archery, Badminton, Fencing, Swimming, Surfing, Rugby Sevens, Rowing, Artistic Gymnastics, and Tennis.  

In this chart (sorry for low res), I have it sorted by the top performers - those that earned the most points.  On the far right you can see their "net impact," which is really just their comparison of actual points received to the projected points we had assigned to them on draft night.  Basically dark blue was a great pick, and dark red was bad news.

We'll see how the picks turn out when all is said and done!

And some further analysis, here's a cross reference of net impact from picks by team and sport - Gymnastics really hurt us all, but none more than TokYoMama - if Biles delivered to expectations TokYoMama would have the best overall impact score right now.