Kickball Standings, For Your Amusement: 08/01/2008 - 09/01/2008
Kickball Standings, For Your Amusement
This will be fun...and hopefully not too narcissistic. To all you nerdy or obsessive types, here's comes da math:
Winning Percentage = ((Mercy Wins * 1.5)+ Wins + (Ties / 2)) / Games Played.
Games Played = Mercy Wins + Wins + Losses + (Mercy Losses * 1.5) + Ties
Let's talk Playoffs, shall we? First, tradition dictates that everyone advances to the post-season. The founders always believed that any team can win it, or at the very least, spoil a contender's chances. We have 32 teams, so we'll make 8 brackets of 4 teams each. The top 8 will choose which squads are in their respective division. Come September 7th, we start at 1pm, allowing everyone to play twice. Then, on the 14th, everyone plays once. For those three games, we'll award 3 points for a Mercy-Rule, 2 for a regular win, and 1 for a tie. Whoever has the most points will advance to the quarter-finals on the 21st. The Final Day is the 28th.
To all the top 8 contenders: while I believe that some of you are so close to each other that your minor percentage differences are negligible, I do not have the time to host any tie-breakers. Therefore, the top 8 will have to rely on the standings as they are, and if you lost by .002, that's the way the ball bounces, G.
Lots of good action last night. First and foremost, hats off to the Bacon Bits, as they finished strongly and confidently on their last regular season day. They played the top two teams, Prison and the Ye Oldes, and beat the former and mercied the latter! However, I should note that the Ye Oldes were drinking some extremely potent Jonestown Juice or whatever the fuck they had brewing in their Gatorade Cooler. Just one cup had me wasted before 6, so fortunately the good folks from Vitamin Water got me back to a reasonable blood alcohol level. Three of the Yees got pregnant and two went gay. Love you John, Mary, Erin, Bern, and the rest!
Regardless, unless Prison tanked it, the Bacon Bits are a legitimate contender for the Chuck D. Cup. There are now a few of those, and every team can be a spoiler in this league. Again, for these last two regular season Sundays, we're gonna witness many interesting matchups and see who can do what to whom. Good Luck, Everyone, don't be afraid to Bum Rush The Show.
For the first time in months, the Commitments won a game, beating Team Peavy. Maybe they are back on track. When I played with them, their poor performances so baffled me, I felt like the John Cusack character from "Eight Men Out." But, Commish Kenesaw Mountain Landis could have never banned me, as my sick, one-handed catches put me beyond reproach. Little mental tip when you're catching tough flies: pretend Brett Favre is throwing you the winning touchdown.
An earlier version of this post erroneously reported a Prison loss to the New Frontiersmen. So, with that win and a mercy-rule over the Gingerballs (as predicted), Prison is the current top dog of Brooklyn Kickball. Good for them, and their kindler, gentler approach to Sundays. Isn't it fun being nice?
However, I can guarantee that after this Sunday, all the top teams will constantly vie for position. Enjoy the battles.
In other notable news: The Bacon Bits beat the defending champs, the Non-Commits, with a dramatic, bottom 5, 2 out, bases loaded single by their captain, Tien Mao! The 2006 Champs, the Fun Club, proved they're always in the mix, with a solid victory over the Dream Team. O, and the Bourgy Ballers won their 3rd game of the year! Hit the victory parade in the Village this Wednesday!
O, there was a hawk in Lawn Candy's protective big tree. According to some know-it-all passerby, it was dying. Hopefully the ASPCA came to the rescue. Shots of it are in the slideshow below.
For the first time in months, the Commitments won a game, beating Team Peavy. Maybe they are back on track. When I played with them, their poor performances so baffled me, I felt like the John Cusack character from "Eight Men Out." But, Commish Kenesaw Mountain Landis could have never banned me, as my sick, one-handed catches put me beyond reproach. Little mental tip when you're catching tough flies: pretend Brett Favre is throwing you the winning touchdown.
For the first time in months, the Commitments won a game, beating Team Peavy. Maybe they are back on track. When I played with them, their poor performances so baffled me, I felt like the John Cusack character from "Eight Men Out." But, Commish Kenesaw Mountain Landis could have never banned me, as my sick, one-handed catches put me beyond reproach. Little mental tip when you're catching tough flies: pretend Brett Favre is throwing you the winning touchdown.
