My plan was to do one post each-week but at the start of the season it is too vanilla. It woudl take me days to pour over everything and quite frankly I was working on my thesis so my time was limited. As you probably guessed or hoped my thesis is not in English, literature and any discipline close to any of them. I am still working on it, almost done. So between that, getting engaged and work something had to go and this blog was cut for a while. Now that the season is past the quarter pole and the survivor pool has gone to shit I figured I'd chime in. Unlike last season there will be no post blog Nomar final words, I think you now understand why he is the greatest SS in Red Sox history so no need to drive the point home any more.
Speaking of the team formally known as the Red Sox. On the day they were knocked out of the playoffs I received my playoff tickets in the mail. One could argue they were knocked out of the playoffs on September 1st but lets keep it official here.
I am playing this season under two user-names "05" and "-Fenway617" why the -(dash) in front of the user-name? With "05" being at the top of the list I was hoping the added - woudl make "Fenway617" up there as well. The hope was on Sunday's when I print my pick sheet I just had to pring one page but that plan failed. -Fenway617 is on page two! Ed made a foolish bet with me this baseball season, we each took 4 players and the person with the most total HR's won so he is now covering 25% of my entry fee so why not play two spots. By the way I won the bet 100 - 58. He was doomed from the get-go when I saw he took JD Drew.
I am not faithful to this NFL pool, I do play in another survivor only pool as well. That one is single elimination. I was knocked out of that pool this week with the shitty Giants screwing me. I wasn't alone. The ironic part is in that pool only 8 players remain, in our survivor pool only 8 players have no losses! How succinct. 42 people took the NY Giants this week! Crazy! 44 players remain, 8 have no losses. I got a feeling this isn't lasting to the playoffs this season. We also continued the streak going of at least one player no making a pick thus getting a loss.
The odd fact I uncovered is last season's survivor pool winner
Boston Rob - "Angry Mike" who took home a cool $1,070 was eliminated in week two. And to add to the more bizarre part he was eliminated after he failed to make a pick in week two! So his title defense lasted two-weeks!
While trying to come up with content for the regular pool I thought it woudl be a good time to look at last years final money winners and the spot they finished and the spot they are in after week 5.
So I present in order how the top 15 finished last season with their current stand on the left. Note that there are 126 people playing this season!
1st : Ghastly 96th Place
2nd: EdO 23rd Place
3rd: The Dirty 712 106th Place
4th: The Highlanders 24th Place
5th: Clay Davis 95th Place
6th: WVU PETE 26th Place
7th: Drew 68th Place
8th: Emmado (not playing or under a new username)
9th: Bob W 70th Place
10th: Mike S 29th Place
11th: Gravy Train 42nd Place
12th: dflogue 126th Place (DEAD LAST) but he is in a money spot at least.
13th: gigi 37th Place
14th: Bolt Fever 98th place
15th: Darby 51th Place
Not one player in the top 20, only player in the "money" is the last place "dflogue". Last years final dead last spot went to "Tabaccy" who claimed last year he was "trying" to lose, now this season he sits in 10th place. Guess he is now "trying" to win.
My point? I don't have one, it is early still. But there is a 24 win spread between the #1 spot and the last spot and with the NFL in the bye week part of the schedule there are less games each week so no time like the present to start collecting wins and moving up. Now please let me be, it is beer, chicken and video game time - Terry said it was OK!
As far as today's random fact ....
Green Bay lost 6 games last season but they never trailed by more than 7 points in any of the 20 games they played!
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