2016 Winter TPL Discraft

[Edk001]

Going in the order of the games on the schedule:
- Automokirk (best name since Chintendo, made me laugh) / Tesla Vincemobile
- M&M / Over / Steele for goals
- I O the Tiger / Kalu & Spears
- Ghoz / Under / Kat & Sarah
- Participaction, starring Greg Kramer as Hal Johnson's Mustache / Stacia / No, but it will be VERY close (also a cool team name and inspiration for the music in this week's TPL video)

[cut-chemist]

Packman / under / Packwomen
Ghoz / under / Norm+Ben
Cats / Rick and Mike
IOI / Andrew and co.
Stache / Stacia / no

[nantana50]

Pack, Over, Steele
Ghoz, Under, Kat and Sarah
Automokirksssss, Rick and Mike
I-O, Kalu, john and James
Hal Johnson, Cassie, No

[nhung2]

Steele- Over, Steele
Goz (loses by 2) - Under- Kat
Kirk-RSJ
Fell- Fell/tim/Kaplan
Kramer- Cass- Yes

[dentonmatthew]

Steele
Ghoz
Pta
Io
Raiders

[dentonmatthew]

Over
Steele

Under
Norm

Rsj
Fell/kill/kat

Cass
Alyne yes

[ca_ta]

Remington Steele

Ghozbusters

Planes, Trains and AutomoKirks

I O the Tiger

Hal Johnson's Moustache

[ca_ta]

Mr. & Mrs. Packman vs Remington Steele
Side bet#1: Total Score over
Side bet #2: Who gets more G's: Steele

Alvin and the Chikmunks (-4.5) vs Ghozbusters
Side Bet #1: Total Score under
Side Bet #2: Who gets more Total Assists: Norm Stewart + Ben Kirkland (-0.5)?

Redraft matchups:
Team names in the schedule have not all been changed...

Stray Cats: Rock This Town (WHAM) vs Planes, Trains and AutomoKirks
Cat Brooks vs Kirk MacRae
Side bet: Who gets more G + Total Assists: Quinn Liddicoat + Vince Poon

I O the Tiger (-1.5) vs Tone Lock Wild Things
Andrew Fell vs Lachlan Holmes
Who gets more G's: Andrew Fell + Tim Kiladze + Bryan Kaplan

Hal Johnson's Moustache (-2.5) vs Alyne-diana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Mark
Kramer vs Alyne "Better than Ellis" Azucena
Side bet #1: Which Cheung gets a higher salary (not including the W): Cassandra?
Side bet #2: Will Alyne win female MVP this week? Yes

[rajiv]

BBS Stats Post
Full stats leaderboard can be found here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1238198717

Also, if you haven't done so, find the TPL facebook page and like it!

Male MVP
This week’s MVP is Jeff Steele. This is his 6th MVP honors this year and 9th lifetime

10 Goals
4 Assists
2 2nd Assists
1 Ds
1 Throwaways
0 Receiver Error

Female MVP
This week's female MVP is Nicolette Bertsch. This is her 2nd MVP honors this year and her 2nd lifetime.

4 Goals
3 Assists
1 2nd Assists
5 Ds
1 Throwaways
0 Receiver Error

Defensive players of the week
The male defensive player(s) of the week are Greg Sheldrake and Rajiv Seneviratne with 6 Ds
The female defensive player(s) of the week is Nicolette Bertsch with 5 Ds

Leaderboards

Goals
Tyler Curtis 91
Jeff Steele 67
Julian Weinrib 63

Goals - Female
Vikki Shimoda 43
Nicolette Bertsch 32
Marianne Perko 32

Assists
Andrew Milne 71
Jeff Steele 60
Greg Kramer 60

Assists - Female
Emma Seaborn 38
Amanda Moore 37
Hadiya Roderique 24

2nd Assist
Chris Loat 34
Darrel Nantais 29
Jon Brunetti 25

2nd Assist - Female
Emma Seaborn 24
Amanda Moore 23
Nat Wong 22

Most Ds
Greg Sheldrake 31
David Shimoda 28
Matt Murl 26

Most Ds - Female
Janine Duffy 18
Destin McQuillan 17
Nicolette Bertsch 14

Throwaways
BC Roedde 42
Greg Kramer 38
Andrew Milne 38

Top Salary
Jeff Steele 856000
Tyler Curtis 726000
Julian Weinrib 657000

Top Female Salary
Marianne Perko 427000
Vikki Shimoda 424000
Nicolette Bertsch 421000


Milestones

These people have reached the following milestones

100 Goals -
250 Goals - Matt Kirk

200 Assists -
500 Assists - Chris Loat

50 Ds -
100 Ds -

100 Throwaways - Greg Kramer
250 Throwaways

$1,000,000 - Vikki Shimoda
$2,000,000 - Rob Grundy

20 Wins -
50 Wins

Century Club (100G, 100A, 100 2A, 100D, 100TA)
$2,000,000 -

20 Wins -
50 Wins -

Century Club (100G, 100A, 100 2A, 100D, 100TA)

[c5ho]

Any finals/championship related historical stats as we approach this finals? Murl? Rajiv?

[MaxPower]

Correct Week 9 picks:

Mr. & Mrs. Packman; under; Steele
Alvin and the Chikmunks; under; Norm + Ben
Planes, Trains & AutoMacRaes; Quinn + Vince
Tone Lock Wild Things; no bet
Alyne-diana Jones and the Traders of the Lost Mark; Cassandra; no MVP for Alyne

Nice try Carter...submitting your picks at 8:50pm for the 8pm game. What's worse is you went 1-2 for those picks! However, as a penalty that correct pick is forfeited. Let this be a warning: next time I send Rocko and Moose (Gareth and Marcy) to "adjust" your thumbs.

This week players went 50-63 (44%) against the house.
For the season players are 472-465 (50.4%) against the house.

Standings (Week 9; Season Total; % correct):

edk001 6-6; 44-26; 63%
dentonmatthew 6-6; 53-35; 60%
mmurl 0-0; 45-30; 60%
Big Country 4-8; 46-42; 52%
c5ho 0-0; 20-19; 51%
master_storm 2-3; 35-38; 48%
JonB 7-5; 42-46; 48%
nantana50 6-6; 37-41; 47%
cut-chemist 5-7; 34-40; 46%
nhung2 4-8; 39-46; 46%
gregkramer 0-0; 22-26; 46%
ca_ta 5-7; 26-33; 44%
christopherjywang 0-0; 13-17; 43%
ENYGMA 5-7; 13-18; 42%
pferder 0-0; 1-5; 17%

[rajiv]

Any finals/championship related historical stats as we approach this finals? Murl? Rajiv?

Sorry, I don't have access to the data from previous championship games and Murl might still be on vacation.

[jon160]

No individual stats but...

As we approach our 8th TPL championship, based on regular season standings the favourites have won 4 of 7 TPL Championships.

If Steele wins out tonight, he will be the lowest seed team (4th) to win a championship not named Loat, who has twice brought his team from 7th (S7) & 8th (S4) in the final reg season standings to power through the playoff bracket and win it all. Loat is also the most winning GM at 3 Championships (+S3).

Calvin won in Season 6 coming in the favourite (ranked 3rd) over Glee Club (4th).
Season 6 was a notable final as it was both the highest combined score, highest single team score, and most lopsided victory (41 points, +7, 24-17).

The lowest scoring final? Season 3's matchup of Loat vs K finished at 34 goals (18-16).

Coming out of last week, Chik had a lopsided victory to bring the team confidently to the finals, while Steele won out on universe point to gain back some momentum.

Twice the TPL finals have come down to just 1 point (S5 Denton over Marcie & S7 Loat over Glee), and 5 of 7 have been close (3pts or less)

With Chik's high scoring offense, could we see any of these records broken tonight or will Steele edge out another close game?

[MaxPower]

It's the Final week of the TPL Betting Pool aka the Soupcan Memorial Degenerate Player Pool:

Reminder:
Spreads will be used to handicap the match-ups (and provide bulletin board material for captains/players).
Note: "Team A (-1.5) vs Team B" means that Team A is favoured to win by 1.5 points.
Another Note: Side bets will count in the results (unless players involved are absent).

As it's Championship night, that's the only game on the card.

Remington Steele vs Alvin and the Chikmunks (-4.5)
Alvin has looked unstoppable so far on their way to the finals, while Remington has won their two games by a total of 3 points. The Peanut Gallery will do their best to try to keep the game close, but not sure if they can make that much of a difference.
Side bet #1: Who will get more G's: Steele or the rest of Steele (-0.5)?
Side bet #2: Who will get more Total Assists - Throwaways: BC + Denton or Norm Lew + Dempster?
Side bet #3: Who will get more G's: Jar (-0.5) or Melody + Elysia?
Side bet #4: Who will have more Total Assists: Carolina or SMF (-0.5)?
Side bet #5: over/under 44.5.

[JonB]

Alvin
1.Rest of Steele
2.Norm and Dempster
3. Jar
4. SMF
5. UNDER

[ENYGMA]

Alvin
1.Rest of Steele
2.Norm and Dempster
3. Jar
4. SMF
5. UNDER

I'm being lazy on this one and just agreeing with everything Jub said.

[JonB]

Alvin
1.Rest of Steele
2.Norm and Dempster
3. Jar
4. SMF
5. UNDER

I'm being lazy on this one and just agreeing with everything Jub said.

That's risky, have you seen my record? I'm hoping I break even for the season with this one.

[ca_ta]

Alvin and the Chikmunks
Side bet #1: Rest of Steele
Side bet #2: Norm Lew + Dempster
Side bet #3: An ajar jar jar
Side bet #4: SMF
Side bet #5: over 44.5

[nhung2]

Chik
Rest of Steele
Norm
Jar
SMF
Over

Hoping to break 50%...not going to hapen.

[dentonmatthew]

Where's Eds post?
Steele
Rest
BC/Denton
Mel and Elyssa
SMF
Over (seriously,with me and BC, who's playing defense?)

[Edk001]

Denton!!!!! *cough conflict of interest cough*

Toughest bet of the year - well chosen, Loat.

For $5,000 TPL dollars (and I have some, I'll bring them to the game):
- Steele
- Rest of Steele
- Norm / Dempster (hardest pick of all the sidebets) <-- I see Denton adjusting his game accordingly
- Jar
- SMF
- Under

Let the championship heckling begin.

[Big Country]

Steele
Side Bets:
Rest of Steele
BC+Denton
Jar
SMF
Over

[nantana50]

Steele (+4.5) Have to take those points, just have to. (keep it close, do it for the fans!)
Rest of Steele (-0.5)
Norm and Dempster, straight up no spread on this one, what are the odds they tie I guess.....
Jar (-0.5)
SMF (ette) (-0.5)
Under- no way this goes over 44.5, will anyone take over? Oh damn, BC took over *reconsidering*

[cut-chemist]

Steele
Rest of Steele
Norm + Jamie
Jar
SMF
Under

Nice job to the three TPL superfans who are head and shoulders above the rest of the field in this thing.

[Big Country]

I love how everyone took Norm/Dempster over BC/Denton, except of course me and Denton!

[MaxPower]

Correct Final Week picks:

Remington Steele
Rest of Steele
BC + Denton
Jar
SMF
under

This week players went 38-16 (70%) against the house.
For the season players went 510-481 (51%) against the house.

Standings (Week 10; Season Total; % correct):

edk001 5-1; 49-27; 64%
dentonmatthew 4-2; 57-37; 61%
mmurl 0-0; 45-30; 60%
Big Country 5-1; 51-43; 54%
c5ho 0-0; 20-19; 51%
nantana50 5-1; 42-42; 50%
JonB 4-2; 46-48; 49%
cut-chemist 5-1; 39-41; 49%
master_storm 0-0; 35-38; 48%
nhung2 3-3; 42-49; 46%
ENYGMA 4-2; 17-20; 46%
gregkramer 0-0; 22-26; 46%
ca_ta 3-3; 29-36; 45%
christopherjywang 0-0; 13-17; 43%
pferder 0-0; 1-5; 17%

Congratulations to Ed Kung on winning the Soupcanman Memorial Degenerate Player Pool. My guess as to how things went down at his work on Thursday.

[Ed sits down; proudly places his SMDPP Trophy on his desk]
Co-worker: Hey Ed...what's happening?
Ed: Nothing much. A little tired from ultimate last night.
Co-worker: I hear ya. Hey, that's a cute little pencil holder you got there. Did your little niece or nephew make it for you?
Ed: Umm no. A 38-year old man gave it to me last night for winning an ultimate gambling pool.
[Awkward silence. Ed's co-worker looks at his phone and quickly leaves.]
Ed: This trophy is awesome.

[jed]

I missed, by one point, having what I can only assume would have been a TPL record: 2 season titles in 1 season (2 half-seasons to be precise) played. At least I can gain some comfort knowing that, had I played in the final, we probably would have lost by more.