Just another reminder that, through the good graces of Adam, we are should have the hockey pool which I have run for the now eight years (first via email, then through Fritz's excel sheet wizardry and last year through friend Adam's site) available for logging into here. With all six Canadian teams getting in for the first time in a long time or perhaps ever, it should be an interesting year. The Don Cherry thread has been a great and continuing conversation so hopefully we can transfer some interest over to the pool.
Warning. The pool rules are not simple - you will have to pick ten scorers, one goon, the teams that will advance to the second third and fourth rounds, a darkhorse team (which is the lowest season points to go furthest in the rounds) as well as the goalie with the best save percentage. I may add a rule or two more - who knows. Warning two - the prize for winning is a Bill Root card, somewhat as illustrated, which sometimes gets mailed out mid-summer. I used to have an optional money pool but that got unmanageable and - for some reason - folks are more uppity about late cash than late Bill Root cards.
Any suggestions for other dream rules or prizes will be entertained but, especially as I am relying on the good graces of Adam, in whose debt I am entirely, they have to pass the convenience test. I am not too worried if they are silly or not.
Comments
Alan - March 25, 2004 7:15 AM
It sounds nutty but there usually is a winner who guesses the real surprise of the playoffs.
Alan - March 25, 2004 1:43 PM
Big news is that the server has to be rejigged but will be in time apparently. Interesting, Adam, sys admin to the pool (the guy doing all the work) was out of touch due to the server being needing rejiggery. I contacted his brother in law in Singapore, my old roomie, who gave me his sister's email in T.O. who pulled Adam's head out of the server box just long enough for an update. The funny thing is I am sure I have never met Adam. Awfully nice to lend the hand. I will have to fire up the old box and pull some pool stats off it. <p>If you look here you can see the seminal notion of the pool being raised in an email in 1997 by Colin MacLean, of Halifax whose mom went to school with Adam's (Toronto) wife's (Toronto) brother's (Singapore) wife's (Singapore) mom (Calgary). Colin's Dad (Halifax) was president to a board my Dad (PEI) sat on in the 25 year ago or so range. I think I am freakin' out just thinking of this....well...not really but isn't life just nutty?
Alan - March 26, 2004 12:04 PM
Fugue.net is up again! Hoo-rah!
Here is the 2003 pool page, by the way, so you can all congratulate my brother Dave...err...Doug McLeod with his victory. Here is the 2003 results:
d_mcleod: 160
v_ivanov: 158
Marcia: 155
C_Macpherson: 144
a_mckeating: 143
a_ronthal: 142
h_lecter: 138
Wildpack: 136
j_grabell: 129
Alans_Dream_Team: 128
a_patel: 126
Jake_the_Snake: 119
j_gritsiuk: 102
M_MacIsaac: 96
Alan - March 26, 2004 12:05 PM
Here is the link to my own picks to give you a sense of what is involved.
Adam - March 29, 2004 10:15 AM
As Al mentioned, the server has been rejiggered and is almost ready.
Registration will open as soon as the final division spots are clinched...
Pool website is http://www.fugue.net/nhl
Enjoy...
-A.