Welcome to the new members today (a whole bunch of you joined after I posted the other welcome post yesterday), I know I'm missing one name because my numbers don't line up, but hello to eternalfacepalm  , kal_ella  , quackaquacka  , rajkumari905  , sweetpealuvsbob  , theotherqueen  , undonebeauty  ,  zabexelith   and i_just_want_to...

Without further adieu... Well, there you have it. Kris Allen wins. Before I start ranting on how no one thought Kris would win, let's talk about Adam. We were pretty dang close on Adam, giving him the highest predicted finishing spot at 2.62. In fact, an amazing 19 people correctly predicted he would finish in second. Six were off by one in predicting he'd win, and another 10 were off by one in...

Today on "Two Worship Leaders and a Gay Guy", Adam promised to cook his date dinner - but he can't cook! Will Kris and Danny bail him out? Thanks in no small part to my 3600 votes last night, we bid farewell to Danny. The group was off by only one with Danny - his average predicted finish was 2.81, which was the second-highest ranking behind Adam at 2.62. Kris had the 10th-best ranking at 9.15...

Coming down to the wire... well, kind of. Aloha, Allison. Doesn't aloha mean both hello and goodbye in Hawaiian? Not that Allison's Hawaiian, but I thought she was until about three weeks ago. Anyway, Allison finished right on schedule - she was predicted to finish fourth, and so she did. She did, however, have the second-highest number of first-place votes, after Adam. 11 people predicted Allison...

Wherein Paula wears a freakin' Christmas bow for a dress. Oh wait, that was last night. Bye, Matt. You'd outlasted your welcome. Well, at least as far as Fantasy predictions are concerned. According to the group, Matt should've come in 8th (or 7th, or 6th depending on how you look at it). He did have the highest standard deviation, though, and he was the only contestant to be predicted by someone...

Newflash! All 7 contestants will perform every week for the rest of the season, then the vote totals will be summed to figure out the winner! So it's Anoop and Lil heading home. Another pretty good job by the group - Anoop had an average predicted finishing spot of 5.43, pretty close to his "actual" finish of 6th. Not quite so good on Lil - three of the top five were predicted (by the group's averages...

Could I just do my dissertation on Fantasy American Idol? Please? This group is really good at this. Scott carried an average predicted elimination spot of 7.28, which ranked him 8th. His median predicted location was 8th, and more people predicted he'd finish 8th than any other position. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. This elimination also leaves Kris as the only remaining contestant that...

Another week, another elimination-unless-the-Judges-step-in-holy-heck-can-we-mention-the-Judge's-save-any-more-often? The community as a whole was nearly perfect about Megan's elimination - the group average predicted placement for her was 9.87 (median 10), although tabulating it all that would've put her in 11th place compared to the others. Megan was also one of only 5 contestants that no one...

Pretend like I said something really witty right here. After two weeks of screwing up, I finally got the placement rankings right. Michael Sarver lasted a bit longer than predicted - the group average for his placement was 11.17 (median 12), and he was ranked 12th. Most participants had him predicted around there, so there wasn't very much movement at all this week. Lots of people correctly predicted...

And it took only two weeks to get to the point of no perfect entries. Someone was really, really close though. You might notice in the below standings that some people actually have less points now than they did last week - that's a product of the judge's save. If someone used their judge's save in a way that bumped Jorge and/or Jasmine back a spot, they'd have less points now. There were a couple...