Melt Your Face Off has the answers.
My favourites were Malkin as Scottie Pippen and Jarome Iginla as Chris Mullin.
5/25/2008
5/22/2008
5/21/2008
Play Off Pool version 1.0 stats after round #3
Just as the Shadow predicted a Pens vs. Red Wings final. We are going to go with Pens in 6 and Crosby as MVP. Throughout the playoffs my record has been 12 and 2 only the Flyers have screwed us up in 2 rounds before being ousted by the Pens ( for the first time ever the Pens eliminated the Flyers!)
The totals going into round #3 (only including the players involved in round #3) have:
(these totals do not include eliminated players from round #1 and #2 only the players in round #3 and their totals)
The Shadow at 176
Bladerunners at 174
Doug at 125
Rob at 119
Bob 1 at 106
Collin at 61
Richard at 59
Lets see who wins the finals and despite the fact that the Bladrunners are 2 points behind the Shadow, that includes only scores of their active players in round 3. We'll see if they can beat at least Shadow in the Stanley Cup Finals. But they are far away from actually winning the entire pool.
Any thoughts from anyone about predictions on the finals and who the MVP will be? I am putting a coke bet on my predictions lets see if anyone will challenge...
The totals going into round #3 (only including the players involved in round #3) have:
(these totals do not include eliminated players from round #1 and #2 only the players in round #3 and their totals)
The Shadow at 176
Bladerunners at 174
Doug at 125
Rob at 119
Bob 1 at 106
Collin at 61
Richard at 59
Lets see who wins the finals and despite the fact that the Bladrunners are 2 points behind the Shadow, that includes only scores of their active players in round 3. We'll see if they can beat at least Shadow in the Stanley Cup Finals. But they are far away from actually winning the entire pool.
Any thoughts from anyone about predictions on the finals and who the MVP will be? I am putting a coke bet on my predictions lets see if anyone will challenge...
5/06/2008
Playoff Pool Ver1.0 Stats After 2 Rounds
So far I have three teams left in the final 4....Damn Flyers beat my Canadians...oh well. Here are the numbers however, for each team...
Team Bob1 158
Shadow 153
Rob 146
Doug 140
Bladerunners and Collin tied at 134
Richard 119
Team Bob1 players remain: Datsyuk, Crosby, Malkin, B Richards, Robidas, Gonchar and Lidstrom
Shadow: Fleury, Crosby, Malkin, Sykora, Hossa, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, B Richards, Lidstron, Robidas, Gonchar and Whitney
Rob: Crosby, Malkin, Sykora, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Gonchar, Lidstrom, Rafalski
Doug: Crosby, Malkin, Hossa, Sykora, Zetterberg, Gonchar, Whitney, Rafalski, Lidstrom
Bladerunners: Hasek, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Hudler, Malkin, Crosby, Hossa, Sykora, Gonchar, Whitney, Rafalski, Lidstrom
Collin: Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Gonchar, Lidstrom
Richard: Crosby, Malkin, Whitney, Gonchar
Right now the total pool is worth $70. Winner takes all. And good luck to all in rounds 3 and 4. But now I hope to be more up-to-date on the stats.
Team Bob1 158
Shadow 153
Rob 146
Doug 140
Bladerunners and Collin tied at 134
Richard 119
Team Bob1 players remain: Datsyuk, Crosby, Malkin, B Richards, Robidas, Gonchar and Lidstrom
Shadow: Fleury, Crosby, Malkin, Sykora, Hossa, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, B Richards, Lidstron, Robidas, Gonchar and Whitney
Rob: Crosby, Malkin, Sykora, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Gonchar, Lidstrom, Rafalski
Doug: Crosby, Malkin, Hossa, Sykora, Zetterberg, Gonchar, Whitney, Rafalski, Lidstrom
Bladerunners: Hasek, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Hudler, Malkin, Crosby, Hossa, Sykora, Gonchar, Whitney, Rafalski, Lidstrom
Collin: Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Gonchar, Lidstrom
Richard: Crosby, Malkin, Whitney, Gonchar
Right now the total pool is worth $70. Winner takes all. And good luck to all in rounds 3 and 4. But now I hope to be more up-to-date on the stats.
5/05/2008
World Hockey Championships
As Caroline and I were watching Canada totally dominate Slovenia and then the US struggle with Latvia, Caroline became totally enthralled with the Latvian fans. Here were 1000 plus fans who flew all the way to Canada to watch their team for the most part get totally dominated for most of the games the team will play. Even the Slovenians had a couple hundred fans for their game. American fans were almost non-existant. The thing with the Latvians were that they were vocal through out the game cheering their squad on or good hockey in the Canada Slovenian game. They banged their drums, cheer, chanted and jeered the ref on bad calls. The question that Caroline then asked was "why is it that a group of us who have followed hockey for years have never done a pigrimage to the World Championships?" Some of the jerseys that the Latvian or Slovian fans wore showed the location and year for each of the championships they went to.
As for the hockey, Canada totally outclassed the Slovenian on every aspect of the game. The Heatley, Nash, Getzlaf line were a joy to watch. Kopitar had a couple of nice moments and scored on the five on three powerplay. Kopitar also played the penatly kill quite effectively going down and blocking shots. The saving grace for the Slovenians was their goaltender. He stopped 60 of 65 shots and was by far the star of the game. Everybody in the crowd and in the bar afterwards was talking about the continual brilliant saves that he made. There were at least 5 how did that not go in and numerous other saves that showed excellent positioning and skill. By the way the goalie still used the old leather pads as equipment. You give him the new lightweight high tech pads and he would be even quicker.
Latvia held the US to 4 powerplay goals. 5 on 5 and the americans struggled to break throught the Latvian Defence. Latvia brought a large defensive team that frustrated the Americans. This chippy affair gave the Americans at least 10 power plays but the americans gave up a few and except for a few timely saves by Thomas the Latvians should have and deserved a goal. Unfortunately the Latvians have no offensive ability and it showed on the poor passing on the powerplay and could not sustain pressure in the offensive zone.
GO CANADA GO
As for the hockey, Canada totally outclassed the Slovenian on every aspect of the game. The Heatley, Nash, Getzlaf line were a joy to watch. Kopitar had a couple of nice moments and scored on the five on three powerplay. Kopitar also played the penatly kill quite effectively going down and blocking shots. The saving grace for the Slovenians was their goaltender. He stopped 60 of 65 shots and was by far the star of the game. Everybody in the crowd and in the bar afterwards was talking about the continual brilliant saves that he made. There were at least 5 how did that not go in and numerous other saves that showed excellent positioning and skill. By the way the goalie still used the old leather pads as equipment. You give him the new lightweight high tech pads and he would be even quicker.
Latvia held the US to 4 powerplay goals. 5 on 5 and the americans struggled to break throught the Latvian Defence. Latvia brought a large defensive team that frustrated the Americans. This chippy affair gave the Americans at least 10 power plays but the americans gave up a few and except for a few timely saves by Thomas the Latvians should have and deserved a goal. Unfortunately the Latvians have no offensive ability and it showed on the poor passing on the powerplay and could not sustain pressure in the offensive zone.
GO CANADA GO
5/02/2008
Hello all and congratulations on the season.
Having been nudged by Bob to post a post-season line up, not getting to it, and then seeing all my would-be picks get swiftly eliminated (I always underestimate Detroit and Pittsburgh it seems) I feel okay.
Special thanks also to Bob for getting my picks up after WD2. I hit a busy stretch, and being in last of top 8 was extra incentive to trade it all away. I am both psyched and intimidated to be going into a PrD with good picks, and having to pay attention to it this year. Shame not to see you make it Brian. Cam, congratulations on hosing me in the Nabokov trade.
I look forward to seeing you all again in September for the main event, and the Lost Boys first FP draft.
Until then, I'd be curious if those of you with magic-8 balls who were prognosticating about who the top 12 picks would be and post it in August 2008, would be good enough to review your picks at the time and compare with who actually got picked, and how they fared. (Cause that would be good reading material).
Ciao,
Richard
GM Lost Boys
Having been nudged by Bob to post a post-season line up, not getting to it, and then seeing all my would-be picks get swiftly eliminated (I always underestimate Detroit and Pittsburgh it seems) I feel okay.
Special thanks also to Bob for getting my picks up after WD2. I hit a busy stretch, and being in last of top 8 was extra incentive to trade it all away. I am both psyched and intimidated to be going into a PrD with good picks, and having to pay attention to it this year. Shame not to see you make it Brian. Cam, congratulations on hosing me in the Nabokov trade.
I look forward to seeing you all again in September for the main event, and the Lost Boys first FP draft.
Until then, I'd be curious if those of you with magic-8 balls who were prognosticating about who the top 12 picks would be and post it in August 2008, would be good enough to review your picks at the time and compare with who actually got picked, and how they fared. (Cause that would be good reading material).
Ciao,
Richard
GM Lost Boys
4/29/2008
4/24/2008
Offseason Topics
Hi Gang,
Congrats again to the Severed Heads on their 3rd Predator Cup.
Still with the Flames now extinguished, the task of pre-draft preparation is now before us. First issue for the DC to address is goalie stats. This is always an annual event to look at the numbers and see if they are completely out of whack or not. Last year we held pat at 4 after moving there post-lockout from 3.5 and there was certainly an arguement last season to make the switch but now I really can't muster much of a defense to the current 4.0 standard - it really is too high.
14 of the top 24 FunHL point-getters are goaltenders. Of the 9 FunHL players to garner a 100 or more pts this season (not including TG pts) 7 of them were goaltenders including the top 4 point-getters. Nabokov and Brodeur both had 29 more pts than Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin and while I will conceed that both Nabokov and Brodeur had good seasons - no body is suggesting (outside of our FunHL stats system) that their play this year outshone Alex the Great by almost 30pts!
Goalies are over-valued at present but I'm not sure that the 3.5 standard is the only solution here. While the 3.5 option reduces the goaltending union to having only two 100pt players (Nabokov and Brodeur are both about 102pts) I'm not sure that it really gives us what we want.
The DC's job is to work on a recalculation of the figured stats, such as the goalie shutout standard of 4 or 3.5 or some other number, but I am wondering if it might not be time for the pool to look at whether we want to look at other ways of calculating goalie stats in a more radical manner - wins, saves, save %, etc? I throw it out there.
Congrats again to the Severed Heads on their 3rd Predator Cup.
Still with the Flames now extinguished, the task of pre-draft preparation is now before us. First issue for the DC to address is goalie stats. This is always an annual event to look at the numbers and see if they are completely out of whack or not. Last year we held pat at 4 after moving there post-lockout from 3.5 and there was certainly an arguement last season to make the switch but now I really can't muster much of a defense to the current 4.0 standard - it really is too high.
14 of the top 24 FunHL point-getters are goaltenders. Of the 9 FunHL players to garner a 100 or more pts this season (not including TG pts) 7 of them were goaltenders including the top 4 point-getters. Nabokov and Brodeur both had 29 more pts than Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin and while I will conceed that both Nabokov and Brodeur had good seasons - no body is suggesting (outside of our FunHL stats system) that their play this year outshone Alex the Great by almost 30pts!
Goalies are over-valued at present but I'm not sure that the 3.5 standard is the only solution here. While the 3.5 option reduces the goaltending union to having only two 100pt players (Nabokov and Brodeur are both about 102pts) I'm not sure that it really gives us what we want.
The DC's job is to work on a recalculation of the figured stats, such as the goalie shutout standard of 4 or 3.5 or some other number, but I am wondering if it might not be time for the pool to look at whether we want to look at other ways of calculating goalie stats in a more radical manner - wins, saves, save %, etc? I throw it out there.
4/10/2008
The ultimate hockey girlfriend
Found this exerpt in an article in the Globe
Little-known fact: Although he's Canadian, Jason Reitman's interest in hockey came from his wife, Michele Lee, who is from Vancouver and is a rabid hockey fan. Reitman has said that the only way he could get her to date him was to become interested in hockey, and the first gift he gave her was a white board like hockey coaches use, and she showed him the different plays while they watched the game on TV.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/mingram
Although is your wife knowing more about hockey than yourself good or bad? Certainly cannot be too bad as you get to watch lots of hockey. Might be hard to explain to the guys though if she always does better in the pools or bar room bets.
Little-known fact: Although he's Canadian, Jason Reitman's interest in hockey came from his wife, Michele Lee, who is from Vancouver and is a rabid hockey fan. Reitman has said that the only way he could get her to date him was to become interested in hockey, and the first gift he gave her was a white board like hockey coaches use, and she showed him the different plays while they watched the game on TV.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/mingram
Although is your wife knowing more about hockey than yourself good or bad? Certainly cannot be too bad as you get to watch lots of hockey. Might be hard to explain to the guys though if she always does better in the pools or bar room bets.
4/08/2008
Playoff Pool v1.0
Hi guys,
This year's playoff pool will be structured in the following manner; $10 per team, you can have as many teams as you wish. The playoffs begin on Wednesday, however, the first game of each series isn't over until Friday, so let's make the deadline Friday noon MST.
Each team will be composed of 9 forwards, 6 defencemen and 1 goaltender for a total of 16 players per team. Please enter your team on this forum so everyone knows who is picking what etc.. Once you have posted a team please in all fairness to the rest of us, do not delete it after you have sent it out on the blog in response to this posting.
Depending on the number of teams and guys taking part in this playoff pool, it will be most likely winner takes all in terms of prize money, or there will be a first and second prize.
I will now post Bob Team #1 as an example:
f-Datsyuk(DET), Crosby(PIT), Malkin(PIT), Kovalev(MTL), Iginla(CAL), Ovechkin(WSH), Sakic(COL), Jagr(NYR) and Richards(DAL)
d-Lidstrom(DET), Gonchar(PIT), Markov(MTL), Phaneuf(CAL), Green(WSH) and Robidas(DAL)
g-Price(MTL)
Points will be distributed as follows:
for players: 1 goal = 1pt; 1 assist = 1pt;
for goalies: 1 win = 2pts; 1 loss = 0pts, however 1 OTL = 1pt & 1 OTW = 3pts; 1 SO = 3pts
: it is possible to get 6pts for a OTW + SO
Good Luck to all, and I expect to see many teams posted by Friday, or hopefully earlier!
Thanks.
This year's playoff pool will be structured in the following manner; $10 per team, you can have as many teams as you wish. The playoffs begin on Wednesday, however, the first game of each series isn't over until Friday, so let's make the deadline Friday noon MST.
Each team will be composed of 9 forwards, 6 defencemen and 1 goaltender for a total of 16 players per team. Please enter your team on this forum so everyone knows who is picking what etc.. Once you have posted a team please in all fairness to the rest of us, do not delete it after you have sent it out on the blog in response to this posting.
Depending on the number of teams and guys taking part in this playoff pool, it will be most likely winner takes all in terms of prize money, or there will be a first and second prize.
I will now post Bob Team #1 as an example:
f-Datsyuk(DET), Crosby(PIT), Malkin(PIT), Kovalev(MTL), Iginla(CAL), Ovechkin(WSH), Sakic(COL), Jagr(NYR) and Richards(DAL)
d-Lidstrom(DET), Gonchar(PIT), Markov(MTL), Phaneuf(CAL), Green(WSH) and Robidas(DAL)
g-Price(MTL)
Points will be distributed as follows:
for players: 1 goal = 1pt; 1 assist = 1pt;
for goalies: 1 win = 2pts; 1 loss = 0pts, however 1 OTL = 1pt & 1 OTW = 3pts; 1 SO = 3pts
: it is possible to get 6pts for a OTW + SO
Good Luck to all, and I expect to see many teams posted by Friday, or hopefully earlier!
Thanks.
4/07/2008
Playoff Pool?
Eager to put the taste of Crosby's Repeat-crushing injury behind me, I thought I should ask what we are doing for the playoffs?
Gentlemen?
Gentlemen?
Severed Heads victorious!
Wow - I think I spent the whole of Sunday evening exhaling.
The first cup I won I was almost 100pts ahead of the pack by X-mas, and I knew with certainty that I was going to win. The second cup (the following year) saw my collection of Penguins explode offensively (Jagr and Kovalev) and when I picked up the un-retiring Mario for the stretch drive I knew my team was good enough to win it all - I just needed enough time to catch those ahead of me.
This season though, was nothing like either of those before. This year I never ever felt like the Heads were unbeatable. I never felt like I had patched all the holes in the roster, or even that I had a distinct edge over my competition. I didn't have any monster weeks that launched me into contention, and I don't think I even broke 50 pts for a week.
It was Jagr's worst year, maybe ever. Heatley missed time with injury and fell short of the 60 goal pace he started the season on. My goaltending as drafted was merely mediocre (not to mention still playing in his 40's), and while I had some talent on the farm, it was limited to one prospect who could safely be dressed, and that was the case only after the 25 game mark was passed.
All in all, I never felt like I was in the middle of a winning season.
It wasn't until Sunday afternoon when Jagr scored on Brodeur turning a 3pt Brodeur performance into just 2, and even more importantly, reducing the +2 Oduya to merely +1 (for a total 4pt swing on that one goal), that I really, really knew it was going to happen.
Lots of people deserve to be recognized for their efforts this year;
Thanks to Brian for his work keeping our spreadsheets updated and accurate.
Thanks to Doug for his work keeping us updated on all the stats.
Thanks to Bob, Rob and Dan for working the RC in an efficient (more or less ;-) manner, and for organizing and maintaining the WD's and ED.
You guys are all key to keeping the pool functioning at such a high level - and we couldn't do it without you.
I'd also like to thank everyone in the pool for making this year so special. We have the best pool in the world, and the best people in it.
Thanks to you all!
Finally, here's a warning to you all for next season;
Fear My Wingspan
The first cup I won I was almost 100pts ahead of the pack by X-mas, and I knew with certainty that I was going to win. The second cup (the following year) saw my collection of Penguins explode offensively (Jagr and Kovalev) and when I picked up the un-retiring Mario for the stretch drive I knew my team was good enough to win it all - I just needed enough time to catch those ahead of me.
This season though, was nothing like either of those before. This year I never ever felt like the Heads were unbeatable. I never felt like I had patched all the holes in the roster, or even that I had a distinct edge over my competition. I didn't have any monster weeks that launched me into contention, and I don't think I even broke 50 pts for a week.
It was Jagr's worst year, maybe ever. Heatley missed time with injury and fell short of the 60 goal pace he started the season on. My goaltending as drafted was merely mediocre (not to mention still playing in his 40's), and while I had some talent on the farm, it was limited to one prospect who could safely be dressed, and that was the case only after the 25 game mark was passed.
All in all, I never felt like I was in the middle of a winning season.
It wasn't until Sunday afternoon when Jagr scored on Brodeur turning a 3pt Brodeur performance into just 2, and even more importantly, reducing the +2 Oduya to merely +1 (for a total 4pt swing on that one goal), that I really, really knew it was going to happen.
Lots of people deserve to be recognized for their efforts this year;
Thanks to Brian for his work keeping our spreadsheets updated and accurate.
Thanks to Doug for his work keeping us updated on all the stats.
Thanks to Bob, Rob and Dan for working the RC in an efficient (more or less ;-) manner, and for organizing and maintaining the WD's and ED.
You guys are all key to keeping the pool functioning at such a high level - and we couldn't do it without you.
I'd also like to thank everyone in the pool for making this year so special. We have the best pool in the world, and the best people in it.
Thanks to you all!
Finally, here's a warning to you all for next season;
Fear My Wingspan
4/06/2008
4/05/2008
VERY Unofficial stats
Curiosity getting the better of me...
Based on ESPN-reported stats, here are the numbers for Saturday night for the Leaders, and the standings going into the last day (unofficially):
The Severed Heads
L: Nash-Clb - 0
C: Sundin-Tor - 0
R: Selanne-Ana – 2
D: Schneider-Ana - 0, Kaberle-Tor - 0
TG: Nash - 0
Total Players – 5
Total Points – 2
Total going into last night of play: 1009.27
The Wolves
LW Naslund VAN - 0, Huselius Cal - 1, D Sedin VAN – 0
C Plekanec MON - 1
RW Kovalev RFA MON - 1
D Phanuef Cal P3 - 0, Markov MON - 1
TG Phanuef CAL - 0, Markov Mon - 0
Total Players – 7
Total Points – 4
Total going into last night of play : 1005.63
Gap – 3.64 points
Hold your breath...
Based on ESPN-reported stats, here are the numbers for Saturday night for the Leaders, and the standings going into the last day (unofficially):
The Severed Heads
L: Nash-Clb - 0
C: Sundin-Tor - 0
R: Selanne-Ana – 2
D: Schneider-Ana - 0, Kaberle-Tor - 0
TG: Nash - 0
Total Players – 5
Total Points – 2
Total going into last night of play: 1009.27
The Wolves
LW Naslund VAN - 0, Huselius Cal - 1, D Sedin VAN – 0
C Plekanec MON - 1
RW Kovalev RFA MON - 1
D Phanuef Cal P3 - 0, Markov MON - 1
TG Phanuef CAL - 0, Markov Mon - 0
Total Players – 7
Total Points – 4
Total going into last night of play : 1005.63
Gap – 3.64 points
Hold your breath...
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