Six game winning streak. Just in time, too. I took on the first place team this past week (Los Angeles Highwaymen). Turned into a 925-830 victory. Even with my team grabbing more points these last few weeks, I still expected to lose. Is it just me or is victory sweeter when you have low expectations?
This coming weekend will be another important match. I will be taking on the Richmond Dragons, who currently are one place higher then my Philly Freedom. Here is the ladder:
I used to watch Formula One all the time. Made a point of getting up early on Sunday to watch the races. Over the years I have lost touch with the sport, but still keep my eye on it. Especially now that a Polish driver was slowly making waves. (My heritage is Polish so I am always rootin’ for ‘em.) That being Robert Kubica (pronounced koo-bit-zah) who drives for Sauber-BMW. Well this past Sunday, after two of the big name drivers were knocked out in a pit lane accident, Kubica pounced on the opportunity and WON the race.
My team has hit a groove. A five game winning streak. This week it was over Brian’s Jersey Shore Crushers. It has become an annual event dubbed the “War on the Shore”. Though I think it was supposed to have taken place last weekend (Memorial Day weekend). The final score was 944-866.
An amazing stat was that my 944 was only third highest score of the week. The Southern Warriors put up 990, and the Richmond Dragons put up an amazing 1107 points!
The season is now half over and my team has moved up to fourth place. The top six qualify for the playoffs, with the top two teams getting a first round bye. Here’s the current ladder:
… have you looked at the standings lately? As for this morning, guess who has the best record in baseball?
The Tampa Bay Rays!!
Here’s a team that has never won more then 70 games in a season, and they already have 31, and there’s still four months of baseball left to play!
It will be interesting to see if they can at least continue on a pace to finish the season at .500 or better (81 wins). I doubt they are a real threat to dethrone the Red Sox as the AL East Champs.
One of my son’s namesakes, Nigel Mansell, was recently feature by ESPN as one of the Top 25 Racers of all time. Mansell falls in at number 24. It was nice to see another Formula One star along with him in the first five of the series (Niki Lauda). I remember Mansell as being rather brash, but backing it up on the track. He never let down. It was great watching him compete, and very hard, against his teammate Nelson Piquet (another fave of mine) when both were driving for Williams in the mid 80’s.
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After a week off, the WAFA was in action again last week. And my team continues to improve. They have now won three straight. Lucky for me they did well, because I put no thought into the line-up. Usually I go through all the stats and use averages, sometimes making player adjustments if one player has been playing well or another has been on the downfall, even though averaging well. But given the lack of time this weekend, I just went with the same line-up as the week before. It gave me an 855-787 victory over the Milwaukee Robins.
This week I go up against the Hippo Regius Friars. Since being taken over by Will at the beginning of last season, the team has not won a game. He’s due. But hopefully he isn’t really...
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Haven’t been keeping up with this. I am sure all my usual readers have been wondering how my teams has been doing.
(OK, more then likely not, but I like to dream.)
My team has been having some issues this season, but the last two weeks have come up victorious. Hopefully it is the start of things. This week was a squeaker. The Freedom beat Glendale 898-870. The amazing thing is that Glendale’s captain scored an amazing 330 points! He was one of the first players on their team to finish their game this weekend, so I was figuring on a loss. But thankfully (for me) there were a few rather low scores on the rest of their roster, while my team came in with some very good games from most of the roster.
Last night I went to the Phillies game. It was the second time I have seen the Fightin’s since moving to Pennsylvania. I would like to go more, but living up in the Lehigh Valley makes it quite a trip. But last night it was put together by Brian, a friend and fellow Aussie Rules fantasy league player, from the sports forum that we are members of, the Chris Creamer Sports Forum. He put together the site mostly to track the different logos teams have used over the years, but the forum is more then active on other aspects of sports, as well as off-topic conversation.
It was really cool to meet Brian, Will, and Steve. (Will is also a participant in the Aussie Rules league.)...
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Marcia and I have a subscription to Entertainment Weekly magazine. There is a small section devoted to stuff that they have on their web site EW.Com. The latest edition that showed up late last week told of their list of the Top 10 Movie Baseball Players. Being a fan of those types of movies, I had to post the list.
I totally forgot about last week. Though it was easy to forget. My team lost.
This week though was a different story. I changed my line up a bit, mostly due to having two guys coming back (one from injury, one from suspension). It helped. A 938-786 victory over the Casey Power. My team had the second highest point total of the week, only one point behind Minnesota. Big point totals help, as the percentage in the column before the last tells us. It decides tie-breakers. And I could have had more. I gave Daniel Cross of the Western Bulldogs the captain mark, doubling his points, but Chad Cornes of the Port Adelaide Power outscored him. Regardless, I got my percentage over 100 which is a good thing. Now if I can just win some...
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