Series Update through week 12

Five years, and 12 weeks later, somebody, somewhere, found Captain Chris' krypotonite.
Yes!
He was making a mockery of this great league. :)

Just a few other notes on some things ...

Consolation Brackets: You teams that do not make the playoffs, more specifically, you six teams ranked seven through twelve when the season ends, have one final shot at avoiding relegation to a lower league. Win the Consolation bracket.

That's right, if you don't make the playoffs, all you have to do is win that consolation bracket at the end of the season, and your team does not get relegated to a lower league for the next season. We came up with this idea to give you motivation after losing Brandon Webb for the season, to keep your team in top shape all year long, and ideally increase the league wide competition.

I hope it works. Heck I know it'll work.

Power Players: I haven't posted the Power Players this season for one reason only. They are meaningless if only half the leagues are reporting scores. I have sent out a few emails to leagues that haven't been reporting, but I don't get much feedback. I've tried to make it easy too. Just copy and paste the standings, ya know? Still, I am at about 50% reporting each week. I think it is more of a growth issue than anything. I am always looking for new commissioners, as some guys move on, and some guys get promoted up the ranks.

In seasons past, I knew I would have a few commissioners that ran a a couple of leagues for us, so with one quick email, I could get two leagues posted.

As we grow, this will always be a problem, but ideally a problem only within the lower ranking leagues. As we find more and more reliable commissioners for each league, it wont matter if a guy gets relegated one season, or promoted the next, as we should have three or four capable guys per league. Guys that have reported scores or ran leagues for us in the past.

And remember, you don't have to be a commissioner to report scores. If you are in a league and you don't see regular updates posted around here, take charge, and I'll give ya a hug!

How can you refuse that?

Dead Teams: Every year around this time, we start shutting down the dead teams. Hopefully the dead teams are just showing up in our "B" leagues, and eventually the "C" then "D" leagues, but as noted it is a growing process. I generally do not invite the dead teams back, and with our current relegation system in place, we can be assured that dead teams will always find their way to the bottom leagues.

Often you can tell a team is dead by say week six or seven. Some guys even give it a try for five or six weeks, lose a key player, and then quit. In knowing this, I try not to shut down dead teams too soon, as it'll give everybody a chance to play them at least once.

I hate doing it, but it is one thing I have zero patience for. None. If you are going to play in a league, any league, you play to win.

When we shut down a dead team, I always ask the league commissioner to set the lineup to the best available with the existing roster. They should go into the dead teams roster, and put in the highest ranked players per position. Ideally, MLB players that are seeing full time duty. If they can't do that, then the commissioner can pick up the highest ranked player for that derelict position. After the roster is set, they should lock it up, lock the old teams owner out from everything, including posting, and then contact me with the email address.

Head To Head Superbowl: As noted elsewhere around here, it's football time. For you ESPN faithful types, it is probably always football time, but for our purposes here, it only matters twelve weeks out the year.

And hey look at that, those 12 weeks are about 12 weeks away, so we might as well start collecting team names.

Questions?
Concerns?
Bad day, and ya just need to vent?

hollar back.
go padres!