October 05, 2003

As an experiment I added another column to the table ("PR") showing how many players each team was still waiting on. The first number denotes pending Blues and Blues players, and the number in parentheses is the minimum number of substitutes that would also figure into that team's scoring.

Overall    Team   Manager   T   G   R   P   PR   1  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   5   44   4,277   382   1(1)   2  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   7   31   9,917   366   2(1)   3  Better Mucus   Danny The Taupe   11   46   10,941   364   2(1)   4  Crap City United   g s p m   4   28   12,765   360   2(2)   5  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   2   31   16,849   353   0(2)   6  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   4   29   19,674   349   4(0)   7  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   1   26   23,359   344   3(2)   8  bluebears   andy griffiths   4   30   24,272   343   3(0)   9  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   10   33   29,536   337   2(0)   10  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   6   34   37,474   328   0(2)   11  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   5   28   40,272   325   1(0)   11  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   7   50   40,381   325   1(0)   13  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   6   27   41,225   324   1(1)   14  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   9   32   44,335   321   3(0)   15  last again   eckeric eckeric   4   35   47,972   317   2(0)   16  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   9   42   53,230   312   0(0)   17  Red Dragons   worldcup 2002   12   41   56,317   309   2(0)   18  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   10   23   62,095   303   1(1)   19  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   37   65,204   299   0(0)   19  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   2   34   65,529   299   0(1)   19  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   10   30   65,945   299   0(1)   22  Finally   Mark D   11   36   72,333   292   3(0)   23  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   7   34   78,239   285   2(0)   24  vagabonds   christopher f   17   42   85,306   276   0(0)   25  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   13   31   90,041   269   2(1)   26  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   4   37   93,379   263   2(0)   27  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   21   100,317   249   0(3)   28  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   12   32   103,862   241   1(2)   29  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   2   24   108,631   227   1(1)   30  tallclay   Clay H   11   40   125,603   170   2(0)

October    Team   Manager   T   G   R   P   1  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   0   50   15,316   50   2  Better Mucus   Danny The Taupe   1   46   31,084   46   3  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   0   44   35,453   44   4  vagabonds   christopher f   0   42   44,538   42   4  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   1   42   49,302   42   6  Red Dragons   worldcup 2002   1   41   54,313   41   7  tallclay   Clay H   0   40   54,545   40   8  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   0   37   71,369   37   8  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   37   71,369   37   10  Finally   Mark D   0   36   77,295   36   11  last again   eckeric eckeric   0   35   83,180   35   12  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   0   34   89,098   34   12  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   0   34   89,098   34   12  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   0   34   89,098   34   15  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   0   33   94,950   33   16  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   0   32   100,879   32   16  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   1   32   106,537   32   18  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   0   31   106,793   31   18  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   0   31   106,793   31   18  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   0   31   106,793   31   21  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   0   30   112,581   30   21  bluebears   andy griffiths   0   30   112,581   30   23  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   0   29   118,096   29   24  Crap City United   g s p m   0   28   123,250   28   24  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   0   28   123,250   28   26  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   0   27   128,185   27   27  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   0   26   132,735   26   28  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   0   24   141,110   24   29  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   0   23   144,822   23   30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   21   151,350   21

kWaCkY and I both have Chelsea captains (guess who saved my ass again); skronk will have Cudicini replacing Jones in goal. Look for kWaCkY and terrapin to vault a few places in a week and a half's time. Another down week for us overall. My sympathies are with the LFC fans here -- the report is a split in the lining between the tibia and fibula in Owen's right leg, meaning he's either "50/50" for Turkey (BBC) or out for a month (PhysioRoom.com), depending on who you ask.

posted by taupe at 03:52 PM on October 05, 2003

taupe: You are the man. Timely technicolor tables, and added detail, too. A true service to mankind. So I have more points coming? Go, Blues, go! Score, Savage, score! Red Dragons manager comments: "We won't shift and leap up the table in a fortnight, it will take some time, and to do that, we need to win and win." (actually, Newcastle's Sir Bobby Robson said that.)

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:18 PM on October 05, 2003

I said I was going to operate in automatic mode, but after week 3, I'd slipped to 75,000th in the overall rankings and it was clear that my team needed big changes. Since then, my overall ranking has improved every week. I like this league better than others I've done - defenders and midfielders score as well as strikers. The transfers are very cleverly done. Player valuations seem to work well. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can look at other people's teams.

posted by salmacis at 05:14 AM on October 06, 2003

More like catfish, I think.

posted by worldcup2002 at 09:42 AM on October 06, 2003

Barry Fry? Amateur! It might perhaps have been prudent to wait to see if any of my new chuffers are fit after the internationals, but it is done now.

posted by Fat Buddha at 10:00 AM on October 06, 2003

Thanks, wc. Sometimes I worry if it's too much, but it's good to know it's appreciated. I think someone posted a link to FISO.co.uk earlier; that has links I use. PhysioRoom.com and Soccernet have pretty comprehensive injury information in their weekend previews. (Do the Press Association write the previews that appear on Soccernet? Because I see a lot of the same information worded pretty much verbatim on other sites, like the BBC's. I'd understand if the PA worked the way the Associated Press works over here, except the AP is always explicitly credited.)

posted by taupe at 04:10 PM on October 06, 2003

I love it taupe! Don't go changin'!

posted by StarFucker at 04:35 PM on October 06, 2003

Well... I just had a great week. Stayed in first in the EPL and moved up 4 in Yahoo!! WOO HOO!

posted by StarFucker at 09:13 AM on October 07, 2003

Stupid MLS...etrader9 turned me off to that whole game.

posted by StarFucker at 11:10 AM on October 07, 2003

That Physioroom.com front page is quite amusing. Look WC, SF, we're top of the table there! W00t!!! Of course, the table is for number of injured players but something is better than nothing, my old grandpa used to say.

posted by billsaysthis at 01:45 PM on October 07, 2003

This is terrible. At this rate, Houllier will have to recall Michael Jordan to play in attack.

posted by worldcup2002 at 02:54 PM on October 07, 2003

How is Dudek messing up?

posted by StarFucker at 03:22 PM on October 07, 2003

..and a porn 'stache.

posted by lilnemo at 05:27 PM on October 07, 2003

Holy christ, its Mr. Bean's cousin!

posted by lilnemo at 06:02 PM on October 07, 2003

Nistelrooy...

posted by StarFucker at 01:58 PM on October 13, 2003

n'est ce pas. Sacre bleu!

posted by worldcup2002 at 07:47 PM on October 13, 2003

Well, those buttholes aren't updating for some reason. Here's our estimated final gameweek and overall scores, including points from substitutions:

salmacis  58 taupe  56 (52) worldcup2002  48-49 SF  45-46 sauril  46 tallclay  46 skronk  45 eckeric  42-43 catfish  42 BigCalm  42 UfezJ  42 kWaCkY  50 (42) bluebears  40 billsaysthis  37 Goats  37 terrapin  37 pfuller  35 trox  34 lilnemo  38 (34) Saturn  34 corpse  33 egorin  32 usfbull  32 gspm  31 ttrendel  31 squealy  43 (31) mbd1  34-35 (30-31) mossy  28-29 Fat Buddha  36-37 (8-9) etrader9  39 (-17)

SF  383-384 taupe  370 gspm  363 terrapin  357 bluebears  353 Fat Buddha  343-344 corpse  341 squealy  335 salmacis  333 billsaysthis  331 Saturn  331 kWaCkY  331 mbd1  327-328 eckeric  324-325 worldcup2002  316-317 egorin  313 BigCalm  312 mossy  308-309 sauril  306 etrader9  305 pfuller  300 Goats  299 trox  285 skronk  283 catfish  276 UfezJ  268 ttrendel  259 lilnemo  243 usfbull  235 tallclay  176

The numbers in parentheses are scores for the month as modified by transfer penalties. I took an extra transfer, but I think I'll be in the black from it by this time next week. salmacis's siege of the table's upper echelons continues; he's now ninth.

posted by taupe at 06:47 PM on October 14, 2003

Oh, yes, the Red Dragons are starting to make their move! Rollin', rollin', rollin ... btw, good job again, taupe!

posted by worldcup2002 at 09:49 PM on October 14, 2003