Stacey Orlick

Winner...

She kept meticulous notes in her little black notebook. She poured over the scores, the individual stats, team records... baseball in the spring and summer, football in the fall and winter, pro basketball and hockey - she tracked them all. She even liked college basketball, but that one changed more frequently. She followed sports analysts on CBS Sportsline, ESPN and all the other major experts, was in a few groups on social media and dabbled in a few of the free fantasy leagues. But she still liked the feel of the little black notebook, where she could jot down notes and analysis of the players, teams, coaches and even fans; following her gut feelings, seeing things in a way that only her mind could. The pages looked like a coach’s clipboard during a game, with lines connecting points across and around. Circles and asterisks, sideways commentary that she couldn’t recreate on one of the prepackaged spreadsheet tools that so many of the others relied on.