Boasters League round
5 ~~
We all expect the usual suspects to be the ones floating
around the top of the standings. Over the past couple of seasons, it has been
the “Winky-Dinks”, “Butter Nutz”, Patrick Petz’ team that changes name every year… But when another
team suddenly starts to make waves, we all wonder what’s going on.
“Foss-Nation”
haven’t been ‘lighting the lamp’ so to speak, but are definitely the quiet
achievers with their second place standing. In fact, their bonus point totals
are tied for 5th best (with “The
Kampai Warriors” who sit last) which – if that trend continues – would
break the bonus point theory of relativity. They still have 4 more rounds to
endure, one of which is a ‘bye’, so we’ll see if they can stay relevant in
spite of not turning up on Wednesday! (Bonus
point theory of relativity: Measurements of point quantities are directly
relative to the presence of its team players… Einstein proved this, as do the
“Winky-Dinks”!)
One of the main reason “Foss-Nation”
are defying the odds, is not because they are playing a lot more matches than
other teams (they aren’t), but because they have only lost 6 matches this
season 3-0. Continually picking up at least one game in 87% of contests goes a
long way.
Here is a small cross section of interesting results of
round 5: Al Iafrate (“Busting Rails”) remains undefeated
after taking care of business against Chris
Van Tol (“Foss-Nation”) with his
4th in a row 2-1 win. Sticking with “Busting Rails”, Joe Paglino picked
up his first victory with a 2-1 win over Tom
Delaney (“Foss-Nation”); as did Andrew Tignanelli when he beat Anthony Kalogeridis 2-1.
Women’s power continued with Cathy Lysack (“Butter Nutz”)
when she handed the hard hitting Jay
Poplawski (“Wardogs”) his first
loss, and Julie VandeVusse (“Butter Nutz”) taking the 2-1 win over Jim Miller (“Wardogs”).
