Choo choo! Slammo!!! This week we answer the question: who does best in a trainwreck? The guy who's late for the train. Greywacke takes over the league lead at the top but is ineligible for weekly rewards. Taking home the Weekly Cup is the man who utilizes logic from alternate dimensions, DamonEsquire. He found the BMO magic the rest of us missed, while also firmly backing the road Rapids on 3 days rest. Now that's a worthy Play of the Week. Just edged out in second is Crewbasher who jumps 4 spots by keeping bets low, picking TOR at home and NER on the road. Good show! Third goes to themrs. who wins promotion to div 1 with safe play in KC and backing the road Revs. In fourth is Petezuke17 who avoided irrational exhuberance. Rounding out the top 5 is matzek73 who hops 2 spots to #4. Be aware of the wednesday game. *FAQ and your remaining bets are available on the WPL status page.* ____________________________________________________________ Play Of The Week: DamonEsquire, for the bet of 115 on COL over NYR Weekly Cup: 1 DamonEsquire -89.60385 2 Crewbasher -92.20462 3 themrs. -159.2154 4 petezuke17 -168.0477 5 matzek73 -169.4715 Code: [b]Division 1[/b] [b][i]Rank Prev Name Perf/yr Perf/wk Bet Won[/i][/b] 1 9 Greywacke 236.17 -19.92 39 0 2 2 Qdog 186.68 -329.85 668 143 3 1 IASocFan 179.26 -375.94 696 133.5 4 6 matzek73 129.40 -169.47 411 109.75 5 4 BenC1357 16.95 -348.65 616 79.5 6 3 jlo -3.50 -497.58 865 137.5 7 11 tab5g -16.42 -234.60 541 142.5 8 7 dredgfan -37.38 -319.70 675 147.5 9 12 Shaydee -49.02 -189.99 490 128.5 10 10 NoSix -82.44 -320.88 646 145 11 8 dred -112.33 -380.43 709 124 12 17 themrs. -154.36 -159.22 445 125 13 5 firefan2001 -175.70 -498.74 1107 369 [b]Division 2[/b] [b][i]Rank Prev Name Perf/yr Perf/wk Bet Won[/i][/b] 14 13 AMERICANS SC -190.56 -240.58 425 51.75 15 19 burnfan00 -198.19 -84.28 156 0 16 14 Quango -257.40 -298.42 592 119 17 15 PCrsl -274.32 -303.42 573 99 18 21 revolutionfan -284.92 -104.90 191 0 19 16 CubanApex -317.17 -341.20 581 63 20 24 Novaflow10 -334.86 -106.69 194 0 21 25 rpi-fan -356.24 -104.90 191 0 22 26 Crewbasher -368.89 -92.20 444 196.5 23 20 BulaJacket -381.53 -245.13 509 101.75 24 27 soccertom -399.76 -118.16 213 0 25 28 Jc1231 -418.43 -96.56 177 0 26 18 alf -460.34 -415.64 668 71 [b]Division 3[/b] [b][i]Rank Prev Name Perf/yr Perf/wk Bet Won[/i][/b] 27 29 petezuke17 -551.98 -168.05 472 143.5 28 22 Saeyddthe -611.78 -414.67 633 39 29 30 DamonEsquire -636.15 -89.60 675 364.75 30 23 FlashMan -639.51 -427.86 718 84 [b]Rate of Return:[/b] [b][i]Rank Name Percent[/i][/b] 1 Greywacke 74.96% 2 IASocFan 74.21% 3 Qdog 73.65% 4 firefan2001 70.33% 5 matzek73 69.95% 6 BenC1357 67.68% 7 tab5g 67.67% 8 jlo 67.16% 9 NoSix 66.59% 10 dredgfan 65.91% 11 dred 64.75% 12 AMERICANS SC 64.35% 13 Shaydee 62.90% 14 PCrsl 60.26% 15 BulaJacket 57.83% 16 Quango 56.70% 17 CubanApex 55.02% 18 themrs. 53.43% 19 Crewbasher 52.52% 20 DamonEsquire 51.80% 21 petezuke17 47.76% 22 alf 47.39% 23 FlashMan 46.87% 24 Saeyddthe 45.23% 25 burnfan00 40.14% 26 Jc1231 29.54% 27 revolutionfan 24.97% 28 rpi-fan 11.01% 29 Novaflow10 10.46% 30 soccertom 0.00% [b]Points:[/b] [b][i]Rank Name Won Bet[/i][/b] 1 IASocFan 2755.5 3713 2 NoSix 2528.25 3797 3 Qdog 2525.5 3429 4 tab5g 2327 3439 5 dred 2183.5 3372 6 BulaJacket 2152.25 3722 7 firefan2001 2067 2939 8 PCrsl 2050.5 3403 9 jlo 2021.5 3010 10 DamonEsquire 1946.75 3758 11 BenC1357 1799 2658 12 matzek73 1772.5 2534 13 AMERICANS SC 1665.5 2588 14 Quango 1641.5 2895 15 Shaydee 1503.25 2390 16 Greywacke 1490.25 1988 17 dredgfan 1463.75 2221 18 Crewbasher 1422.25 2708 19 FlashMan 1410.25 3009 20 CubanApex 1376.5 2502 21 petezuke17 1355 2837 22 Saeyddthe 1276.5 2822 23 themrs. 1216.5 2277 24 alf 1127.5 2379 25 burnfan00 432.75 1078 26 Jc1231 361.25 1223 27 revolutionfan 220.25 882 28 rpi-fan 89 808 29 Novaflow10 80 765 30 soccertom 0 741 ____________________________________________________________ Next weeks action: <amount home away> 39 TOR HOU 40 CHI DAL 41 TOR DCU 42 NYR CLB 43 HOU NER 44 COL KCW 45 CVS LAG 46 DAL RSL
1st division was fun while it lasted (1 whole week! ). So, I have to ask myself : Do you feel lucky punk? 39 TOR HOU 37 CHI DAL 187 DCU TOR 104 NYR CLB 98 NER HOU 41 COL KCW 104 LAG CVS 186 DAL RSL
Is this the first time everyone ended up with negative perf for the week? 16 TOR HOU 56 CHI DAL 36 DCU TOR 126 NYR CLB 76 NER HOU 106 KCW COL 176 LAG CVS 146 DAL RSL
97 TOR HOU 96 DAL CHI 95 DCU TOR 94 CLB NYR 93 HOU NER 92 COL KCW 91 CVS LAG 90 DAL RSL I'll take my time with that one. I got a Weekly Cup and 2 Play Of The Week. That goes nicely with an Inverse Karma Award and two Fat Bastard Awards are in there. I'm still second from last. The feeling is goodness but the points bet is off the mark.
Oh. Em. Eff. Gee. Typically, in a trainwreck week, you can expect a lot of people to have inverse karma, but this was colossal. I can't remember another week where everyone ended up with negative perf. As it was, people made some big jumps in the table even while they were getting smacked around by FCD and Colorado (and New England. Oh, TFC, too). So the IK scores this week are off the map, particularly in the reshuffled First Division. This week's winner of the "Seat cushions are the new streamers" edition of the Inverse Karma Award is tab5g, who let everyone else do the faceplanting for him, thus moving up 4 spots with a phenomenal (and possibly a new record) IK score of 938.4! Bravo, buddy! Runners-up: themrs. 796.1 (almost had her 3rd win, but is running away with the Spectre Memorial Award after just the 5th week of the IKA) Shaydee 569.97 Novaflow10 426.76 Crewbasher 368.8 Also in the running were matzek73 (338.94), petezuke17 (336.1), our new top dog Greywacke (159.36), and last but certainly not least, this week's Weekly Cup winner - by a hair - and WPL Poet Laureate, DamonEsquire (89.6). Best of luck to everyone this week. Seriously, after a week like this, looks like we all need it.
well, i've hit rock bottom. no place else to go but up... ...or keep the bottom spot warm. only 1000 or so perf points behind the lead. last time i decide to bet big on the home teams...
Wednesday's game: 25 HOU TOR Thursday's game: 26 CHI FCD Saturday's games: 27 DC TOR 28 CLB NY 29 NE HOU 30 KC COL Sunday's games: 31 LA CVS 181 FCD RSL
A couple years back there was a week with two games that were both draws, so it's happened at least once. Not sure if it's happened with a week of 5 or more games though. All the history is available on the status page.
I'm a little gunshy after the trainwreck. HOWEVER, life goes on: 47 Tor Hou 147 Chi Dal 17 Tor DC 187 RB Clb 97 Hou NE 117 Col KC 87 Cvs LA 167 Dal RSL
The Fat Bastard award for this week was two-horse race. The winner is firefan2001, narrowly preventing DamonEsquire from winning his third award of the week. 1. firefan2001 369 2. DamonEsquire 364.5 3. Crewbasher 196.5 4. dredgfan 147.5 5. NoSix 145 Sometimes less is more. The Drunken Sailor award was a runaway victory for firefan2001. Unfortunately, with virtually every point wagered this week by any poster being a point lost, it was a pyrrhic victory. Appearance on this list this week is a sign of shockingly bad performance scores and, in every case, falling down the table. 1. firefan2001 1107 2. jlo 865 3. Flashman 718 4. dred 709 5. IASocFan 696
I am posting this on behalf of themrs. She's out buying groceries and called me with her pick. 40 HOU TOR
Just grilled some chicken myself. Anyhow I have a correction with week by week break downs. My cummulative weekly awards in there although year end matters. I have 2 Play of the Week and one Weekly Cup. I have a Inverse Karma Award and 2 Drunken Sailor Awards not Fat Bastard. Shame on me. Here is week bye week break down: Week 1- 2-1 West with three ties. Week 2- 3-2 East with two ties. Week 3- 2-2 with a tie. Week 4- 6-2 East with no ties. Week 5- 3-1 East with two ties. Week 6- 2-2 with two ties. The East carriers a +6 win margin. That is alittle misleading but I keep think'in Toronto FC is in the West. I think. That is next year or next expansion. Its been about a year since I saw that. That is memory you know. Lets see another Tronoto FC Victory. Also a NASA train carry rocket boosters for shuttle and it wrecked in Alabama (around there) about ten to fourteen days ago. That might have something to do with it.