By Hockey Guru
Scoring for this pool is simply 1 FP awarded for every Point Scored, GWG, Win, and Shutout.
| 2010 Playoff Pool |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 | 205 | 202 | 182 | 202 | 200 | 225 |
 | Pronger 18 | Pronger 18 | Pronger 18 | Briere 34 | Pronger 18 | Pronger 18 |
 | Kane 29 Keith 17 | Kane 29 | Keith 17 Hossa 16 | Kane 29 | Kane 29 | Kane 29 Toews 32 |
 | Cammalleri 22 | Gionta 16 | Gionta 16 | Markov 4 | Markov 4 | Gionta 16 |
 | Marleau 15 | Marleau 15 Heatley 13 Boyle 14 | Heatley 13 | Heatley 13 Boyle 14 | Marleau 15 Thornton 13 | Boyle 14 |
 | Crosby 20 | Crosby 20 | Crosby 20 Malkin 12 | Crosby 20 | Crosby 20 | Crosby 20 Fleury 8 |
 | Chara 8 | Chara 8 | Chara 8 | Chara 8 | Rask 8 | Chara 8 |
 | D.Sedin 16 | H.Sedin 15 | Burrows 6 Luongo 6 | Luongo 6 | H.Sedin 15 | H.Sedin 15 |
 | Howard 6 | Zetterberg 17 | Datsyuk 14 | Datsyuk 14 | Franzen 19 | Zetterberg 17 |
 | Ovechkin 10 Green 3 Backstrom 10 | Ovechkin 10 Green 3 | Ovechkin 10 | Ovechkin 10 Green 3 Backstrom 10 | Ovechkin 10 Green 3 Backstrom 10 Semin 2 | Ovechkin 10 Green 3 |
 | Kovalchuk 6 Brodeur 1 | Parise 4 Brodeur 1 | Parise 4 | Kovalchuk 6 | Kovalchuk 6 | Kovalchuk 6 Parise 4 |
 | Myers 1 | Miller 2 | Miller 2 | Miller 2 Vanek 3 | Myers 1 | Miller 2 |
 | Alfredsson 8 | Kovalev 0 | Spezza 7 | Alfredsson 8 | Alfredsson 8 | Alfredsson 8 |
 | Stastny 5 | Stastny 5 | Quincey 0 | Stastny 5 | Anderson 4 | Duchene 3 |
 | Weber 3 | Weber 3 | Weber 3 | Weber 3 | Weber 3 | Weber 3 |
 | Brown 5 | Doughty 7 | Brown 5 | Brown 5 | Doughty 7 | Doughty 7 |
 | Doan 2 | Doan 2 | Doan 2 | Yandle 5 | Wolski 5 | Stempniak 2 |
I am unable to hide my shame and embarrassment at my firm grip on last place. I never seem to do well in the playoff pools. I'm not just behind - I'm WAY behind. Guess I should have loaded up on more Caps like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteHaha nice touch with the golf tees Guru
ReplyDeleteJut trying to catch the spirit of the thing
ReplyDeleteHear, hear, my good man. Bang up job, Dick. Bang up.
ReplyDeleteA small oversight on my Craig Anderson total aside, the way you've kept this thing updated is amazing. I probably would have just been putting out my first weekly report about now and you've published at least eight of them already.
Why not save yourself the time and effort, and simply remove Sid and Ovie from the pool. And while you're at it, might as well send Weber to the golf course with the Sens (I'm resisting making a joke about Hell Lions here).
Thought that was Roy in net not Anderson - it's been corrected....
ReplyDeleteI said it before and it bears repeating. Having the Guru provide these updates has been a godsend.
ReplyDeleteI have spent about 48 total hours in the past two weeks close enough to civilization to have internet access. There is just no fucking way I would have had time to even keep up weekly updates right now.
Hey Guru, you should start a new post, titled Day 19 of 64 or whatever. I dunno of any other way to bump this back to the top of the page.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that would drop your current articles down, but I was hoping to get off my ass and do that anyway, with my first contribution in a month to come shortly.
Franzen, FTW!!1!
ReplyDeleteThe latest Gallup pool pojects Sunnyville Shithawks as the winner of the STP Playoff Pool II.
ReplyDeleteSTP and Team Wombat are projected to round out the top 3.
We at the Associated Press are just about ready to declare the Shithawks the winner.
Losing Backstrom really hurt, and literally losing Markov obviously hurt vs. Gionta, but do not count out Thornton and Marleau.
ReplyDeleteI concede nothing yet.
I concede everything now.
ReplyDeleteI need my Sharks to score 18 more than Toews and Boyle, but maybe someone else can catch the Shithawks.
Nah, I guess not.
Make that Toews, Boyle and Gionta.
ReplyDeleteAs if that makes the case any more convincing than it already was.
We should tweak the format a bit next year. Post ideas in these comments section. One idea is to have a supplemental draft after round one or even after each round - to create even more interest and possibility for movement.
ReplyDeleteA second idea would be to have point values double in each round sort of like in a NCAA pool
Anyhow, with Shithawks making this a boat race this year - why not make a tweak right now and allow a special Stanley Cup supplemental draft?
The draft could be in reverse order of the standings and have three rounds of picks - one per team of any undrafted player.
Or, a separate Stanley Cup pool can be created.
Let the Sports Talk Pool Nation speak!
What about baseball-ifying the thing by, oh .... 78% or so.
ReplyDeleteAs in, what about shaping our rosters like our baseball rosters, and selecting the same 20 players, but dressing only our starting 6 for the duration of Round 1.
Then before Round 2, we'd have 14 players who didn't register any stats yet, many of whom will have been eliminated from the playoffs. At this point, we'd each have to name our new starting 6 from among the 8-12 players on our rosters who were still active . All Round 1 stats accrued would be kept by the manager who scored them and no retro stats would be awarded to a player who was brought in for Round 2.
Pros: 6-man lineups would be far faster to update every night; the fewer the FP's awarded the closer the race; no need for snake drafting or even for any coerced participation on the 3 supplemental dates (which are often short 48-hour windows between Rounds)
Cons: Will almost surely result in someone missing a deadline and not selecting any supplemental line-up changes (possibly leaving an injured or eliminated player in their line-up for Round 2); the closer the race the more random the results (turning it into one of those game shows like Family Feud or Jeopardy, where the Final Round often makes the first 29 minutes moot by being worth so much
With several lead changes the pool was looking great - then Games 3 & 4 for Chicago against Vancouver and Toews led the Shithawks to an easy victory.
ReplyDeleteSecond place was hotly contested and the nominations for the Carnac Awards* - aka the Carnies are:
Colt 45 - Michael Cammalleri
Team Wombat - Patrick Marleau
Hell Lions - Evgeni Malkin
Muff Divers - Daniel Briere
STP - Joe Thornton
STP - Johan Franzen
Sunnyville Shithawks - Jonathan Toews
Finally the only nominee and clear winner of the Brain Cramp Award is.....
Team Wombat and the selection of Alex Kovalev
* The Carnac Award is awarded to the best selection in the pool that no other manager had - excluded from nominations but with honorable mention:
ReplyDeleteYandle, Wolski, Anderson, Duschene, Quincey, Spezza, Vanek, Semin, Howard, and Burrows
Actually, upon further review - the Team Wombat Patrick Marleau nomination has been eliminated - and the winner is....
Daniel Briere
ReplyDeleteYou expected Jonathan Toews to capture another award, didn't you?
Well winning the playoff scoring title and boasting a 16 point lead over Chris Pronger in the STP Playoff Pool won't take all the sting out of losing in the Stanley Cup Finals - this former Springfield Falcon can take solace in earning the Muff Divers - the first Carnie award.
The omissions of Joe Thornton, Jonathan Toews and Evgeni Malkin by 5 managers in the pool shows that there was just too much depth at center and some obvious names were missed.