As some of you know one of my least favorite phrases during this time of year is "In my other league..." however I had a chance to read an update from that "other league" and now you do too. Pretty funny stuff.
League Manager's Note
And then there was 'huh'? A couple 13-14 Thanksgiving Playoff Scenarios
This week many of us will find ourselves breaking from our usual routines and spending time being thankful for friends and family, new and old, near and far... then we'll forget all that and dig in to a deep dish of "what the heck is gonna happen???" So many potential playoff matchups, so much cranberry sauce shaped like a can, and it all starts on Thursday!!! HOT WOW! I'm going to drop you in directly to Journeyman Jonny's mailbag, where he breaks down the several possible scenarios for the next two weeks:
*Jon needs 1 win OR 1 loss from any of Joe, Ted, or Tom *Ted needs 1 win OR A loss from both Jon and Tom *Tom needs 2 wins or 1 win+2 losses for Jon and Ted OR 1 loss from Joe *Joe needs 2 wins and a loss from Ted and Tom OR 2 wins and 2 losses from Jon *Amy needs to win out (Heidi wk 12 Tom wk 13) + Tom lose to Jon in wk 12 + Ted lose out (Mike wk 12 aavandy wk 13) + Joe lose out (Vandy wk 12, Eiad wk 13) + Eiad to lose to Andy in wk 12 + Mike losing to Heidi wk 13 This results in a 7-6 record for Amy and 6-7's for Eiad, Joe, Heidi and Mike *Mike needs to win out with the following wk 12 results: Heidi beats Amy, Jon beats Tom, Andy beats Eiad, Vndy beats Joe. In wk 13 he'll need Eiad to beat Joe, Heidi to beat Mike and Amy to beat Heidi. Once again this results in 7-6 for MVM and 6-7's for Joe, Heidi, Eiad, and Amy *Eiad needs to win out with Joe, Mike and Tom losing out, and a wk 12 loss for Heidi 7-6 for E, 6-7's for A, H, M, and J *Finally Heidi simply needs to win out (Amy in wk12 Mike in wk13), have Tom lose out (Jon wk12, Amy wk13), Joe lose out (Vandy wk12, Eiad wk13), have Ted beat Mike in wk12, and finally if Andy beats Eiad in wk12 , and then loses to Jon in wk13 we'll have 5 players with 6-7 records and assuming Heidi holds on to her point league she'll own the final tiebreaker.
This is assuming that all the head to head matchups cancel each other out, which may or may not be true. So, pretty crazy, right? I mean I think a solid 2 or 3 parts of that made sense! I tried to prove he was off on a couple of these today and couldn't do it. Pretty nuts.
One name you didn't see up there is Vander, our first to clinch a spot. He got back to his high scoring ways this week while securing the right to wear to the crown of the Cosa Nostra Division Champ 2012, with all of its attendant duties and privileges. Congratulations to Vander! Alright, bye weeks are over and big games are all over the place, including traditional and bonus Thanksgiving action. A veritable football FEAST (see what I did there?) DON'T MISS IT!
Ben first of all thanks so much for the publicity, we're definitely the smaller web presence and therefore derive the greater benefit from this Resolution/Super Awesome Thanksgiving crossover event!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to keep our whole league involved this year beyond the first 4 weeks where someone inevitably is down by 4 games and quits updating their roster. I've tried to highlight story lines both real and imagined. Some of it comes naturally as a lot of us see each other on a regular basis, but I personally have fun imagining our wide spread ranks of internet time wasters all meeting in virtual smoke filled rooms to pull the strings of an increasingly convoluted universe of football stats and imaginary economies (and real ones when you think about it....)
Also due credit to our brother Jon who has done yeoman's work as our chief stat and situation guy, this year in general and in the entry you've published especially.
Anyway thanks again for all the blog love last week, during holiday traffic and everything, and right back at you. I'm like a lot of people in that I'm thankful to know you and your family as an adult, but I'm the only person who can be thankful to know you as cheerful, mischievous, and loyal little brother, too.