Money status for 2009

Here is the money status for the 2009 pool. I will be updating this page as the status changes.

Incoming

Name	Overall	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Playoff
Graeme	Paid					Paid
Steve	Paid		Paid (playoffs)			Paid
Faisal	Paid
Jeff	Paid			Paid (playoffs)		Paid
Kerri	Paid	Paid
Mike	Paid
Liam	Paid				Paid (playoffs)	Paid
Lynda	Paid					Paid
Jerry	Paid					Paid (reg. season "victory")
Todd	N/A

Outgoing

Steve	$75
Liam	$25

The 2009 pool is ready to go!

Hi everyone... the pool website is ready to go, so feel free to pick your teams now. Please note: The team rosters have not yet been announced, so the teams listed for each player may be wrong. I tried to update the teams when trades happened in the off-season, but I'm sure I missed some. Once the rosters are released, I will update the site and I'll post to the blog if anything unusual happens (i.e. someone in a group is released or retires or whatever).

I have already removed players that have retired or are out for the season, so if you don't see John Grant listed anywhere, don't worry about it. Feel free to pick him as a wild card if you wish, but don't be surprised if his points total drops from previous years.

Thanks to the new schedule, opening day isn't until Jan 3 so you have almost three weeks to make your picks. If you don't want to make them until then, that's fine, but I'll be shutting down the site at game time (7:30pm) on the 3rd.

Good luck!

Playoff pool winner

Lynda is the winner of the playoff pool! Despite her picking Calgary and Colorado to meet in the final, a Buffalo-Portland final seemed to work out just fine, allowing Lynda to win by 170 points. Lynda wins 75% of the pool of $140, or $105. I managed to finish second, so I don't have to pay anyone $35.

Lynda, now that you have won, you are no longer allowed to complain about being last or tell people you suck at the pool. Sorry, it's the rules.

Hope everyone enjoyed the pool again this year!

2008 Pool results

Faisal is the big winner! Fais takes home $105 for the victory, and Mike gets $35 for second place. Faisal also won Q4, but since he was the Q3 winner, Jeff takes the Q4 prize. Kerri is the lucky recipient of free entry into the playoff pool. I've updated the money status page as of now.

I will put together the groups for the playoff pool later today (so that Fais can enjoy the big "The winner is Faisal!" message a little longer), and then you can pick your teams this week.

Stats for week 1 are up... again

Sorry for the delay and false start, but the stats for Week 1 are finally up. There were actually two problems:

1. The stats for the New York / Portland game weren't posted when I did the update the last time
2. My stats calculation script still had Arizona in the teams list, and there was still an Arizona file there from last year, so former Arizona players had their playoff stats from last year added in as well. This is why Rob Blasdell was listed as having played four games already this year, and Peter Lough six.

The NY/Portland stats are now available, and I fixed the bug and cleared out all the old stats files, so we're all good again. Liam is still in the lead, though I moved from second or third down to eighth. Shoulda left the bug there.

Blatant blog plug: Rock coach Glenn Clark is in some trouble, and I wrote about it here.