YOU HAVE UNTIL DECEMBER 9

Boasters League round 8~~

Everyone enjoy Turkey Day? Everyone enjoy their families, no matter how functional or dysfunctional they may be? Everyone enjoy watching the Detroit Lions showcase why they are the laughing stock of the NFL since forever? Everyone enjoy watching Ohio State throw the Wolverines down the stairs for the 7^th time in a row? Ooooh… too soon?

And I imagine everyone enjoyed having a week off from the league so they could get some much needed make up matches in. Right? At least some of you did, and we are whittling down the number of players who still haven’t reached the magical number of 5. That’s FIVE matches you need in order to secure your second half position in the league. If you don’t, you do risk removal. We still have 52 players yet to achieve the milestone, but from those 52, 35 only need 1 more result with another 9 needing 2 results. The rest need more than that. You have (as of today – November 29) 10 days to do that. So in reality – no excuse. That’s plenty of time.

The Wardogs have taken over top spot. Even though they equal on points with Butter Nutz, they hold the bonus point tie-break. However, bursting their bubble, it will be a short-lived tenure. The Wardogs will have to sit out round 9 with the bye, so unless they have a remarkable amount of make-up matches completed in the next week and a half, they should in all likelihood end up second.

The biggest mover since round 7 was the Nicker Ballers. They picked up 44 points over the past 2 weeks, jumped up one spot to 4^th. Mongoose are third (equal points) based again on the bonus points. And, not willing to change any trend whatsoever, On the Rocks and Foss Nation were way behind the rest of the league picking up a paltry 20 and 24 points respectively. Not surprisingly, those 2 teams also picked up the least amount of bonus points this week.

After a sluggish start to the night, it ended up being fairly decent turnout. I heard of lot of “I’m so fat and unfit” from all the holiday gorging, but what would Thanksgiving be without that extra serving or two of pumpkin pie? And stuffing. And turkey. And yams. And cranberry sauce. And more pie. Plenty of tight (shorts) 2-1 results came in, so I won’t list all of them, but I’m sure the players involved are thankful for the harder contests to burn off those extra calories. (That after match beer probably didn’t help though!)

Now remember, for those of you who qualify for the second half that will start on January 9 – which I hope is all of you – keep in mind that I will be going through your win / loss record of the first half and be shuffling you around based on those results. So, you may move up, or down, or stay put. I will be doing my best to keep you on your current team but that that will be impossible to do with 153 players, and generally, about 20% of the league will be ‘traded’. It’s all in the spirit of making the league as competitive as humanly possible. Also keep in mind, it is not an exact science. Some of you may deserve to move up but do not – it’s nothing personal I assure you, understand, that if I move someone up, I need to move someone down as well and that may not be feasible. You do not need to remind me of your current record (right, Joey Gaylord?) as I do have a spreadsheet of all your results.

The countdown to December 9 begins… tick, tock… tick, tock…