Forty-three podiums, six victories, and tenth place in the state. His profile is the clearest argument that a championship series rewards turning up and finishing well over anything else.
Twenty counted events, one of them won. The rest were finishes good enough to bank 196 points, which is what a state championship series rewards when you never have a disaster.
The hottest form reading in the state belongs to No. 7, who also holds a winning lifetime record against the No. 1 and has played 489 games against the man one place below him.
213 of his 222 tracked tournaments happened at Blainbrook, and 38 straight months have gone by without him missing one. The result is a set of rivalry records deep enough to be statistically boring, which is the point.
No single result on his sheet would turn a head. Twenty of them stacked together put him fifth in the state, ahead of players with four times his trophy count.
Five career tournament wins, three of them this summer, and one of those was a 68-player open at LITT. The newest name in Minnesota's top five is also the one with the least history behind him.
No. 3 in the state, nine straight months of entries, and a last-ten-games win rate of 90% against a career baseline of 69%. He took the August open at LITT out of a 49-player field.