Oh8ch;1426387; said:
Of those listed Mackey is the only one with 16 dogs.
I used to think that mattered, but in tracking this race closely over the past decade, the number of dogs has rarely meant much. Sometimes the winner only has 8 or 9 dogs at the end of the race, and they're still making a good speed.
It's important to take out the dogs that aren't pulling their weight. If a team was down to 10 or 11 dogs at this point of the race, it might be a concern. But being down 1 to 3 dogs isn't anything to worry about, so I didn't bother to list the number of dogs.
Piney, there's an 'Insider' feature that lets you track the mushers by GPS. Last year, it was available for some of them as an experiment, This year, everybody has one. But I do NOT have that feature, you have to sign up in order to have access to that.
I just watch the standings pretty closely - you can go back to look at previous standings if you want to, but that takes a lot of time to accumulate the meaningfuil info. I'm going to try to provide that from this point on, since the pack has been shaken out somewhat.
It should allow those who have placed bets to casually track the progess of the racers, without having to interpret things like bib number. Comparing the net deficit' with the 'previous net deficit' will show if somebody is gaining on the leader. But because they take rest stops at different points, including their '24-hour' stop, it will still get a little confusing over the next couple of days. For instance, the speed column will sometimes be hard to fathom, since some mushers will be resting on the trail, which obviously lowers their speed between checkpoints, so it can be apples and oranges.
The person you should really mirror is BB, especially in bets like this he creates. 
