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Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:43 am

Thomas Olownia of Canaan, Connecticut won the 2021 NFBC Draft Champions National Championship and the record $30,000 grand prize after topping a record field of 4,545 teams. Thomas led the competition over the last seven weeks of the season and he also had another team finish 6th overall in what turned out to be a fantastic season for him.

Thomas began playing in the NFBC in 2016 with one Draft Champions team and that has become his favorite format. He won two NFBC $150 Draft Champions leagues and he also won a FREE 2022 Main Event entry in a $125 Qualifier league. He also won a $125 Draft Champions Online Auction League, so he's definitely joining the Main Event for the first time next year and he may be joining a few more leagues!!

Thomas won his league title with 142 points (94.67%) and he won the overall title with 42,655.5 points (93.86%). He finished 1,261 points ahead of Steven Weimer, who finished second overall for the second straight year in this national competition. Allan Quis, Seth Trachtman and Devin Kelly rounded out the Top 5. We paid the Top 47 overall this year and the Top 3 in each league.

Here's the final standings:

2021 NFBC Draft Champions National Championship Top 100 Teams:
1 Thomas Olownia Olownia $150 Draft Champions #1423 42,655.50
2 Steven Weimer Colitwo $150 Draft Champions #500 41,394.50
3 Allan Quis Up to Lexington 125 $400 Draft Champions #357 41,177.50
4 Seth Trachtman Trachtman DC1 $150 Draft Champions #219 40,911.50
5 Devin Kelly Kelly $150 Draft Champions #389 40,616.50
6 Thomas Olownia Olownia $150 Draft Champions #640 40,108.50
7 Brian Rudd Rudd DC 2 $150 Draft Champions #116 40,073.00
8 mark margolin YabaDab BADOOs 2 $150 Draft Champions #876 39,920.50
9 Keith Willingham Willingham DC1 $150 Draft Champions #607 39,837.00
10 Joe Anthony HARRY CRUMB $150 Draft Champions #200 39,779.50
11 Brian Slack Do Not Trust Marwin Gonzalez $150 Draft Champions #248 39,776.00
12 James Gabal 400DC8 $400 Draft Champions #90 39,644.50
13 Robert DiPietro PULL HITTER DC3 $150 Draft Champions #221 39,635.50
14 Brian Kurtz Voltron150-08 $150 Draft Champions #992 39,622.50
15 Vlad Sedler Gut DC $150 Draft Champions #251 39,602.00
16 Leonard Ringle Draughtsman 7 $150 Draft Champions #202 39,410.00
17 Tyler Jung ChaoticSocks $400 Draft Champions #228 39,357.00
18 Art Ham Ham $150 Draft Champions #802 39,208.50
19 joseph roper roper $400 Draft Champions #1316 38,889.50
20 Kristopher Reed Fresh Ripe Peaches $150 Draft Champions #1265 38,711.00
21 Matthew Tantillo Basic Intergluteal Numismatics $150 Draft Champions #642 38,695.00
22 Alexander Rabassa NY Knights $400 Draft Champions #1126 38,694.50
23 kc cha deadmoneyRR $150 Draft Champions #1297 38,535.50
24 Matthew Anderson The Northsiders $150 Draft Champions #159 38,479.00
25 Ralph Ehrman What Was I Thinking $150 Draft Champions #645 38,445.50
26 kc cha deadmoneyDD $150 Draft Champions #798 38,431.50
27 Philippe Dussault The Robot DC3 $2,500 Standalone DC #517 38,348.00
28 kc cha deadmoneySS $400 Draft Champions #1316 38,298.50
29 scott masel Royal Pain $150 Draft Champions #651 38,264.50
30 Robert Klein Klein DC5 $150 Draft Champions #1191 38,234.50
31 Tyler Jung FarSocks $150 Draft Champions #21 38,188.00
32 Dustin Wagner Team Never Lucky $150 Draft Champions #158 38,160.00
33 Tyler Jung CorduroySocks $150 Draft Champions #18 38,158.50
34 Nicholas Church Alls Fair in Melvin Mora $150 Draft Champions #1152 38,119.50
35 Marc Winokur Le Grand Orange OD $150 Draft Champions #1738 38,086.00
36 Tyler Jung GiantSocks $400 Draft Champions #843 38,055.50
37 John Fish Pile of Dial DC 15 $150 Draft Champions #432 38,018.50
38 Matt Hurley Hurley-Glaser DC $150 Draft Champions #1032 37,974.50
39 Peter Rencsko FH Mikes over Treys $150 Draft Champions #1254 37,953.50
40 GARY LEHNHART Dead Poets 1 $150 Draft Champions #809 37,919.00
41 Lindy Hinkelman Baby You Can Drive My Car $150 Draft Champions #285 37,867.00
42 Michael Nolan Haddies Hippos $150 Draft Champions #346 37,837.00
43 kc cha deadmoneyJJ $150 Draft Champions #926 37,809.50
44 kc cha deadmoneyVV $400 Draft Champions #1514 37,773.50
45 Jason Weir Ocular DC14 $150 Draft Champions #409 37,760.50
46 Jason Weir Ocular DC4 $150 Draft Champions #39 37,726.00
47 James Tomony The Steps $150 Draft Champions #213 37,724.00
48 Todd Hoppe TulsaHop_Turner_Bauer $150 Draft Champions #193 37,656.00
49 Tyler Jung LowSocks $400 Draft Champions #14 37,633.50
50 MATTHEW MARTINGALE Grapefruit All-Stars $400 Draft Champions #1514 37,579.50
51 Carolina League Propects Michael Schneider $150 Draft Champions #1344 37,569.00
52 Daniel Hodges Hodges $150 Draft Champions #1324 37,537.00
53 Robert Klein Klein DC4 $150 Draft Champions #540 37,531.50
54 Philippe Dussault The Robot DC1 $1,000 Draft Champions #220 37,472.00
55 Mary Ann Lonigro FOLEY-DC8 $150 Draft Champions #1203 37,401.00
56 Ned Donohue Donohue $150 Draft Champions #1186 37,389.00
57 Aaron Bistrin gtp_beisbol10 $150 Draft Champions #185 37,343.00
58 Robert DiPietro Pull Hitter DC1 $150 Draft Champions #24 37,332.00
59 Kevin Price Quantified Price $150 Draft Champions #1465 37,277.00
60 Joshua Shugart Shugart $150 Draft Champions #590 37,266.00
61 Steven Metzler Letz Go Metz DC3 $150 Draft Champions #41 37,211.00
62 Matt Petrich Petrich - Juan Soto $150 Draft Champions #315 37,101.50
63 Rian Lange Duke Yipkowski DC $150 Draft Champions #804 37,090.00
64 Matthew Davis mattywood $150 Draft Champions #72 37,080.00
65 Daniel Iverson Prestige Worldwide $150 Draft Champions #417 37,054.00
66 James Maples Maples $150 Draft Champions #65 36,922.50
67 Michael Nichol Nichol $150 Draft Champions #1254 36,852.00
68 Daniel Prepas Puce DC2 $150 Draft Champions #126 36,847.00
69 Robert Lester Sandy DC3 $150 Draft Champions #1344 36,829.00
70 David McColl McColl $150 Draft Champions #768 36,783.50
71 Kristopher Reed Fresh Ripe Peaches $150 Draft Champions #440 36,686.50
72 Christiaan Zaluzec CSZ $150 Draft Champions #615 36,684.50
73 Aaron Bistrin gtp_beisbol4 $150 Draft Champions #242 36,629.50
74 Aaron Bistrin gtp_beisbol2 $400 Draft Champions #262 36,629.00
75 ANDREW OBERG OBERG $150 Draft Champions #879 36,598.00
76 Scott Edwards Edwards $150 Draft Champions #798 36,573.50
77 Aaron Jones Jones $150 Draft Champions #330 36,555.00
78 Robert Ashmen Sports Memories3 $150 Draft Champions #1722 36,539.50
79 kc cha deadmoneyEE $400 Draft Champions #843 36,510.50
80 Tyler Jung SquareSocks $400 Draft Champions #55 36,498.50
81 Robert DiPietro VEGAN MOOH-TADEL dc5 $150 Draft Champions #947 36,470.50
82 Barry Hutter Hutter $150 Draft Champions #607 36,465.00
83 Michael Smirlock Aquatica Avengers $150 Draft Champions #1310 36,446.00
84 Tyler Jung SuperlativeSocks $400 Draft Champions #386 36,429.50
85 kc cha deadmoneyY $150 Draft Champions #615 36,417.50
86 geoffrey stein Stein11 $150 Draft Champions #1186 36,413.50
87 Brian Slack Bounty Law $150 Draft Champions #44 36,404.00
88 Tyler Jung MarbleSocks $400 Draft Champions #262 36,356.50
89 Andrew Nolan Stevieland Muscle III $150 Draft Champions #638 36,324.50
90 Steven Weimer deGrola $150 Draft Champions #23 36,318.50
91 Robert DiPietro Pull Hitter DC4 $150 Draft Champions #537 36,278.00
92 Ryan Beck Beck $150 Draft Champions #77 36,262.00
93 Matthew Mattingly ZULETA DC-6 $150 Draft Champions #1270 36,139.50
94 Samuel Horton Horton $150 Draft Champions #219 36,135.50
95 Michael Edelman Tax is due $150 Draft Champions #628 36,119.50
96 Michael Caputo Caputo DC1 $150 Draft Champions #346 36,091.00
97 kc cha deadmoneyTT $150 Draft Champions #1344 36,055.00
98 Paul Weber PACO THYME $150 Draft Champions #107 36,033.50
99 Marc Winokur Bronx Win 400 DC $400 Draft Champions #1154 35,965.00
100 KEVIN KIRVES AMZN $150 Draft Champions #202 35,957.50
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Re: Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:49 am

Thomas drafted from the 1st spot in this March 21st slow draft league. Here is Thomas's winning draft:

Olownia
Acuna Jr., Ronald 1 1 OF Olownia
Woodruff, Brandon 2 30 P Olownia
Robert, Luis 3 31 OF Olownia
Iglesias, Raisel 4 60 P Olownia
Castellanos, Nick 5 61 OF Olownia
Olson, Matt 6 90 1B Olownia
Bohm, Alec 7 91 CI Olownia
Hand, Brad 8 120 P Olownia
Musgrove, Joe 9 121 P Olownia
Smith, Will 10 150 P Olownia
Happ, Ian 11 151 OF Olownia
Wong, Kolten 12 180 2B Olownia
France, Ty 13 181 MI Olownia
McCann, James 14 210 C Olownia
Stroman, Marcus 15 211 P Olownia
Hays, Austin 16 240 OF Olownia
Anderson, Brian 17 241 3B Olownia
Peralta, Freddy 18 270 P Olownia
Ray, Robbie 19 271 P Olownia
Javier, Cristian 20 300 P Olownia
Votto, Joey 21 301 UT Olownia
Kiner-Falefa, Isiah 22 330 SS Olownia
Hernandez, Enrique 23 331 2B Olownia
Cease, Dylan 24 360 P Olownia
Mullins, Cedric 25 361 OF Olownia
O'Neill, Tyler 26 390 OF Olownia
Nunez, Renato 27 391 1B Olownia
Quintana, Jose 28 420 P Olownia
Galvis, Freddy 29 421 2B Olownia
Gray, Jon 30 450 P Olownia
Bush, Matt 31 451 P Olownia
Lorenzen, Michael 32 480 P Olownia
Arcia, Orlando 33 481 SS Olownia
Britton, Zack 34 510 P Olownia
Huff, Sam 35 511 C Olownia
Zunino, Mike 36 540 C Olownia
Ponce de Leon, Daniel 37 541 P Olownia
Dunn, Justin 38 570 P Olownia
Brown, Seth 39 571 1B Olownia
Stewart, DJ 40 600 OF Olownia
Barnes, Austin 41 601 C Olownia
Encarnacion, Edwin 42 630 UT Olownia
Allen, Logan 43 631 P Olownia
Inciarte, Ender 44 660 OF Olownia
Zimmerman, Ryan 45 661 1B Olownia
Nelson, Jimmy 46 690 P Olownia
Foster, Matt 47 691 P Olownia
Misiewicz, Anthony 48 720 P Olownia
Naquin, Tyler 49 721 OF Olownia
Stratton, Chris 50 750 P Olownia
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Re: Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:51 am

We paid the Top 47 overall this year in the NFBC Draft Champions National Championship. Here's the prize pool:

2021 NFBC Draft Champions National Championship
Overall Prizes:
1 $30,000
2 $7,500
3 $6,500
4 $5,500
5 $5,000
6 $4,000
7 $3,000
8 $2,500
9 $2,000
10 $1,750
11 $1,500
12 $1,400
13 $1,300
14 $1,250
15 $1,200
16 $1,150
17 $1,100
18 $1,050
19 $1,000
20 $950
21 $900
22 $850
23 $800
24 $750
25 $700
26 $650
27 $600
28 $550
29 $500
30 $450
31 $400
32 $375
33 $350
34 $325
35 $300
36 $275
37 $250
38 $240
39 $230
40 $220
41 $210
42 $200
43 $190
44 $180
45 $170
46 $160
47 $150

League Prizes
$150 League:
1 $1,000
2 $350
3 $150

$400 DC:
1 $3,000
2 $1,100
3 $400

$1,000 DC:
1 $8,000
2 $3,000
3 $1,000

$2,500 DC:
1 $20,000
2 $7,500
3 $5,000
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Re: Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:53 am

Thomas Olownia becomes our 11th different champion of the NFBC Draft Champions National Championship since we started this in 2011. No one has ever won this national championship twice, which tells you how hard this draft 'n hold format really is.

Here's a look at the overall champions in the Draft Champions National Championship:

2011 - Terry Passalacqua
2012 - Steve Wells
2013 - Richard Van Fleet
2014 - Bill Cook
2015 - Eric Sorenson
2016 - Yoram Banter
2017 - Mark Hesters/Dave Vidaver
2018 - Dorian Kinman
2019 - Lindy Hinkelman
2020 - Rob DiPietro
2021 - Thomas Olownia
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Re: Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:57 am

The first nine teams in the final overall standings all drafted from a different spot in the draft order. Ten different draft spots are represented in the Top 20. Looking at the Top 20 overall teams, here's where they drafted in 2021:

No. 1 - 3 teams
No. 2 - 2 teams
No. 3 - 2 teams
No. 4 - 1 team
No. 5 - 3 teams
No. 6 - 0 teams
No. 7 - 2 teams
No. 8 - 4 teams
No. 9 - 1 team
No. 10 - 0 teams
No. 11 - 1 team
No. 12 - 0 teams
No. 13 - 0 teams
No. 14 - 0 teams
No. 15 - 1 team

Thirteen teams drafted in the Top 7 spots, while pick 8 led the way with four teams in the Top 20. However, only two teams from picks 10 through 15 finished in the Top 20. Interesting mix.
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Re: Thomas Olownia Wins 2021 Draft Champions & $30,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:15 am

This is the first year that we hosted $2,500 NFBC Draft Champions leagues and both were organized by Mike Massotto. These were fun, rather quick slow drafts that started on Zoom with many of the participants and they were great competition. We hosted two of these this year, so let's honor the winners of these $20,000 league prizes.

NFBC Hall of Famer KC Cha of Redondo Beach, California won the first league title and the $20,000. He finished 4 points ahead of Philippe Dussault with Clark Olson earning third place money. Here were those results:

NFBC $2,500 Draft Champions League 1:
1 kc cha deadmoneyLL 111.5
2 Philippe Dussault The Robot DC2 107.5
3 Clark Olson Hell Bent For Leather 97
4 Jody Ryan Ryans double aces 95
5 robert cramutola MMDC-2500-1 92
6 Chris Plouffe NoStatic@All 91

Philippe won the second $2,500 Draft Champions league and the $20,000 prize as he finished 19.5 points ahead of Robert Cramutola. John Fish finished third. Here were those results:

NFBC $2,500 Draft Champions League 2:
1 Philippe Dussault The Robot DC3 129.5
2 robert cramutola MMDC-2500-2 110
3 John Fish Pile of Dial Super DC 109
4 Mike Massotto Baseball Furies 106.5
5 Eric Albright EA Sports 97
6 Samuel Horton SRWH - DC 91.5
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