GAME 23: Already?

T.O.T Tournament

A Message From Jeff Dancey:

Our 32nd Annual (yes the tournament has been running longer than the league!) SPN Tournament is in the books and by all accounts (even though the financials aren’t settled) it was another successful year!  Congratulations to our local teams, The Tailgators, for winning the 40E division (they won two round robin games against MENS E teams!!), The Rusty Rebels for making the finals in the 50E division, and to Jimmer’s Squirtin Units for winning the FUN division.

These tournaments don’t happen without A LOT of hard work and support from many people and while it’s impossible for me to recognize all, there were a few standouts that I would like to identify whom did WAY MORE than their $20 worth:

Andy Gee – Food Manager extraordinaire, present and accounted for all weekend long.

John Stiff – Bar Guru and SPN pick-up resource.

Doug Dwyer – Put the FUN in the F division and for the first time ever I didn’t have a single issue to deal with from there.

Carol-Ann RH – jumped behind the bar whenever needed and was a great  Gatekeeper, too!!

Jason Bowers – another very common face behind the bar

Steve ``Whateveryouneed`` Ross – produced awesome scoreboard sheets and then did a bit of everything else on top

Sue `Meatgirl` Farah – Foodland`s finest is one of TOT`s very best supporters

Wayne ``the iceman`` Caldwell – our ice costs were ZERO and his tournament knowledge base was invaluable…again

Jamie ``da Prez`` McClean – backed up everyone, everywhere, anytime…he truly was THE FIXER.

I know I am missing a pile of people and hopefully you will all hear about them and be able to give them at least a pat on the back.  For those of you that were away for the weekend, or had family obligations, or just didn`t make it over to Coventry, I encourage you to say `Thank you` to all of these folks – they saved you $20.

Cheers All!!

Danceman

  

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When you're finished figuring out that sign you can join me in some stats....

INTRO

It was a little busy with a weekend tournament....so this is just the weekend stats BLOG.  An update on our league statistics through last week will follow on this page.  An update on team stats, and up to the moment standings including today's games can be found ====> HERE.

The normal Grisslie post game BLOG will be a day or two away.  You see, sometimes BLOGs are just figments of my overactive imagination and sometimes they are based on actual events.  When the actual events happen too close to a BLOG date I can push it out to a later week.  But I'm running out of weeks so I need a delay.  Hopefully it'll be worthwhile.

STATS

The .800 group remains at 4 player.  Scott Barton is unchanged as he continues to recover from injury.  Hopefully he's back for playoffs!  Clayton Avery dropped a bit from .839 to .810, And Kevin Moon and Rick Cudnik both went up.  Moon from .815 to .826 and Cudnk from .810 to .815. 

Moon has been red hot for awhile....but you'd have to look long and hard for a guy hotter than Scott Mason right now.  He's a blistering 18 for his last 19!  Nice run Scott!!!

I'm hoping to start the Power Rankings earlier next year, it seems to be a nice little trending tool.  Oh, this just in:  The Brew Jays are pretty good!  Okay, so we don't need this chart to identify the obvious, but there are some small movements that jump out.  Like the Beer Bros. for instance.  They are the only team to leap ahead in each of the last two weeks and they are starting to look like a playoff team to be reckoned with. 

As outlined above, Scott is ripping the ball.  Nice way to end the season!

2 Brew Jays, 2 Dodge City Rounders, 3 Red Dogs, 1 Tap Master, 1 Beer Bros., and one Rusty Rebel.  Its probably not a coincidence that these represent the top 6 run producing teams in the league.

I have 2 games and will be batting at the bottom of the order with my twisted ankle, so I'm not going to reach 100.  Jens has 3 games left and should get to at least 103.  Jerry has 3 left as well and should hit at least 100.  It should come down to Jerry and Jens ... one big offensive game could make the difference.

Now this is interesting!  Its totally possible that the guys at the top could slump and the guys at the bottom could get hot ... the bottom of this list are some of the better hitters in the league.  However, I think I would draw the line on this one after the top 3.  Doucet and Wynnyk have both had terrific years, but they only have 2 games left compared to the top 3 who have 3 games.  Jens and Bob have done great too, but hits back with 3 to play and 5 guys to pass is a tall order.  Hardly impossible, but tough. 

So a battle of the Scotty team mates with Tim Schrank thrown in, all with 3 games.  The hottest right now is Mason but all three have had great streaks through the year.  Not much to pick between in this one. 

I've had more fun tracking this one than any other stat .... Ricky Cudnik is on the verge of joining Hjelholt and Tessier with increases of +200 over last season.  Actually, If you look at the names, you have almost all the rankings in there....that would make a pretty damned good team!

With Jason Chiovitti out (hopefully back for the playoffs) this is looking like a 2 horse race.  Scott and Peter Holmann.  Peter hit .773 in the 1st 1/4 of the season; 700 in the 2nd quarter, .800 in the 3rd quarter and .846 so far in the 4th quarter.  Both clubs have 3 games left, should be a good finish!

Interesting to see Brian and Cal on this list considering their clubs are near the bottom offensively. 

After building a lead, Roger has some company with Scott and Al right on his tail.  And I wouldn't count out Phil or Rob either.  Runs are funny, one huge game came make a difference and all of these guys are capable of 5 run nights.