A DECENT FIRST HALF

Boasters League – Round 9

It wasn’t record breaking, but I’m fairly content with the turn-out for the first half of the Boasters League. Of course, all things considered with the pandemic wreaking havoc with everybody’s life! Surprisingly, we didn’t fill up with the usual 153 players, we ended up 9 short of that. The Wednesday evenings were a little hit and miss with participation, but make-up matches were relatively healthy. I was most pleased that the standings remained close all the way through and the winner of the first half wasn’t a foregone conclusion weeks before the end. As you can see from the standings, Wardogs came out the victor even though Mongoose had the same amount of points. The difference? Wardogs had more bonus points. Other stats to ponder for the half:

·         Overall, 72.5% of matches were completed. No where near the record of 85% set in 2016. In fact, not even one single team played that much.

·         The most frustrating part of the first half was the 5 members who immediately dropped out of the league after the schedule was released. I replaced 3 of them, but 2 teams remained 1 player short. Those teams ended up 7^th and 9^th, a definite handicap.

·         Mongoose played the most with 80%, Wardogs 79%.

·         No prize for guessing the team who played the least… yep – Over Served with 63%.

·         Bonus points also ran to true to form. The top 2 teams accumulated the most. Nicker Ballers the least. In fact Nicker Ballers averaged just over 5 per week… from a maximum of 16. Ugh.

·         Best winning percentage goes to Foss Nation with 59%. They were 7^th! Strangely though, out of all their wins, only 16% of them were 3-0.

·         Mongoose had the highest percentage of 3-0 wins. When they won a match, it was 3-0 48% of the time.

·         Lowest winning percentage was Over Served with just under 30%.

·         Most points scored in any one round was Wardogs in round 1 with 37.

·         Least amount of points scored was Over Served in round 9 with 9.

·         Not once were all 16 matches completed in any one round. 15 matches were played just twice.

·         Highest scorers for the half were Jed Elley (Wardogs) and Paul Palinski (Mongoose) with 28.

·         27 players played all 8 of their matches. Not bad.

·         4 of those 27 also went through undefeated: Will Markley (Winky-Dinks); Paul Palinski (Mongoose); Henry Gembis (Foss Nation); Jordan Dean (Vivio’s).

·         Only 13 players picked up all 8 of their bonus points. 5 of those players were from Wardogs.

·         8 players didn’t pick up any bonus points at all.

 
As I mentioned, not groundbreaking numbers, but all in all acceptable. When 64% of all the results are 2-1, it does appear the parity was pretty good. That being said, I have gone through everybody’s win / loss record for the half and juggled people around. Ten players have needed to be replaced as well. Please understand the aim is to make the league as competitive and fair as possible, and that I have done my best to keep you on your original team. 85% of you are, but with the new players entering the league (some of which are a high level) some team trading is unavoidable, and you may also feel that you haven’t moved up or have been moved down where it wasn’t warranted. I assure you that many decisions were not easy to make, and it is impossible to keep everyone happy. I apologize in advance. I predict an awesome second half to the league, so have a fantastic holiday break and we’ll see you all bright eyed and bushy tailed come 2022!