Playoff pool 2010

The playoff pool is almost ready – once I switch it over to playoff mode, you will be able to pick your playoff teams. Sorry, you won't have much time, since the first playoff games are all on Saturday, so you have until I leave for the ACC on Saturday evening to pick your teams. However, I'm enjoying the "The winner is Graeme" thing right now, and if I switch it over to playoff mode, that will go away, so I'm going to leave that up for another day.

FYI, the playoff matchups are: Boston vs. Orlando and Buffalo vs. Toronto in the East, and Edmonton vs. Calgary and Minnesota vs. Washington in the West. The winners of those games play each other (in each division), and then the division winners face off for the whole enchilada. You shouldn't see any Rochester, Philly, or Colorado players listed anywhere, but if you do, I would advise you not to pick them as their point totals will likely not contribute much.

We had a record 11 people in the pool this year. At $20 each, that's a prize pool of $220. Subtract the four quarterly prizes ($80), and we have $140. Since I came in first, I get to not pay anyone 75% of that ($105), while second place (Jeff) wins $35.

As for the playoff pool, the four quarterly winners (me, Steve, Faisal, and Jeff) are all paid, as is Lynda, our regular season consolation winner. I need $20 from everyone else who joins.

Weeks 5 and 6 stats are up

The NLL added shots to their stats list (shots on net were already there), so my stats parsing code was wrong. I've fixed it, but because two weeks went by, I had to play with it a little. Basically, week 5 consists of all changes after week 4, and week 6 consists of nothing. Luckily, there were no quarter ends in the meantime, so nothing is affected there. So we're all caught up now.

And the good guy is still in the lead.

Week 1 stats are up!

OK, the week 1 stats are finally up. Because the NLL is using a different stats provider this season, a few changes had to be made, probably permanently. Only one of them actually affects anything:

1. Game-winning goals are not available. These used to be worth 8 points.
2. Shots are not available. They were displayed on some pages but weren't worth any points. Shots on goal are worth 2, and they're available.
3. Goalies times are all in integer values of minutes – no seconds. Again, they weren't worth points anyway.

Garrett Billings baby!

Week 1 completed

The games of week 1 are done, but the stats are not up yet, and won't likely be for at least a few days. The NLL is using a new stats provider this year, so all of my scripts to retrieve and parse the stats are no good anymore. Nothing will be updated until I get them rewritten.

Update: The scripts to download and parse the stats are now working, and all new players have been added to the database (I made that process a lot easier too, though you guys won't care about that). If all goes well, I'm hoping to have the stats for week 1 available tomorrow night.

Money status for 2010

Here is the money status for the 2010 pool. I will be updating this page as the status changes.

Incoming

Name	Overall	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Playoff
Graeme	Paid	Paid (playoffs)				Paid
Steve	Paid			Paid (playoffs)		Paid
Faisal	Paid				Paid (playoffs)	Paid
Jeff	Paid		Paid (playoffs)			Paid
Kerri	Paid					Paid
Mike	Paid					Paid
Liam	Paid					N/A
Lynda	Paid					Paid (last in regular season)
Jerry	Paid					Paid
Todd	Paid					N/A
Nicole	Paid					N/A
Jacob	N/A					Paid

 

Outgoing

• I owe Kerri $45 for 2nd place in the playoff pool

2010 NLL Pool

The pool site is ready! No major changes to the pool this year, at least for now. The NLL is switching statistics providers this year, so I may have to rewrite my scripts that retrieve the stats and update my database, so it's possible that the first week's stats may take longer than the rest. Hopefully it won't be a big problem but I have no way to know until the season has started and they start updating their stats.

My annual NLL season preview is here, and it contains all of the player changes for each team as well as my predictions.

The season starts on Friday, January 8 at 7:35pm, so make sure you get your team picked before then!