Overview
Through three weeks of NACCL play, the team that led after week one, Jane Street Capital, has retaken sole possession of first place! Entering this past round of play one point behind Capital One, Jane Street scored ten points out of a possible twelve this week to jump back to the top of the standings.
Team Standings
Jane Street’s resurgence was due to several individual star performances. In addition to FM Jacob Furfine (more on him below), Jane Street also benefited from the great results of FM David Peng and WIM Emily Nguyen, who combined for five wins in the six games this past week. With 30 points on the season, Jane Street has three points up on the rest of the field, as Google and IBM are currently tied for second place with 27 points each.
NACCL Team standings are calculated by combining the scores of the top four players on a given team. Players who miss a week are credited with three half-point byes for their total, which may or may not remove them from the top four of their team’s roster. For instance, Capital One entered this past round with a narrow lead over Jane Street, thanks in part to a perfect score last week by IM Craig Hilby and a perfect overall score by Marco Flores. With both Hilby and Flores absent this week, each player only added 1.5 out of a possible three points to his respective total, with each remaining within the team’s top four. As a result, Capital One fell to fourth place with a still-impressive 26.5 points on the season.
Jump Trading ranks fifth with 26 points, while Susquehanna and Stripe are tied for sixth at 25.5. DRW Holdings, headlined by NM Andrew Lu (8/9 individually) is currently in clear eighth with 24.5, and three teams are tied for ninth at 24: Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, and Accenture Federal Services.
Individual Standings
FM Jacob Furfine is the only player in the entire field with a perfect score, having won all nine rounds of the NACCL thus far. Meanwhile, the aforementioned NM Andrew Lu has 8/9, with a loss to Furfine last week but wins in all eight of his other games, including one annotated in the Game Analysis section below.
Marco Flores of Capital One was on 6/6 entering the week, but did not participate in Thursday’s games and credited with three half-point byes. Still, Flores has 7.5/9 individually, tied with FM Richard Chen of Databricks and Vladimir Gramigin of Jump Trading for third. The latter has also gone 6/6 in games played, receiving half-point byes in week two. Eleven other players currently have seven points, tying for sixth-through-sixteenth in the individual standings.
Game Analysis
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