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Free Agents have the advantage in "AAA/REC"
JANUARY 30, 2008 (9:00PM) -- After watching all 6 remaining teams in the REC-S brackets play on Sunday, it's pretty clear to me that these teams are a level above the rest of the REC. You could call them "AAA/REC" and in an ideal world, next season we would have to split the REC into an Upper and Lower bracket. However, things happen and some teams will migrate up to the AAA anyways, so we'll just have to see what happens. So anyways, SFFA sent SJA down to the Losers Bracket, to face the resilient Full Tilt, which survived a double-OT thriller against John Hsu. More details to follow as we catch up on stats, scores, and recaps.
Matchups for 1/27 posted
JANUARY 23, 2008 (10:30AM) -- Looks like EJ still has my PHRC binder and the one with all the stats from last week, so I can't update the bulk of the scores from either 1/13 or 1/20 yet. Matchups for 1/27 have been posted on the Bird's Eye page.
Weak sauce running rampant (UPDATED)
JANUARY 23, 2008 (10:30AM) -- UPDATE: The Bay Function captain chimed in to say that he felt Greg Hom wasn't a ringer in the sense that he's played 3 regular season games, but my point was that Hom, who can hit treys and drive to the basket at will, probably shouldn't be playing in the REC. However, this is probably Hom's first season in the league, so he wouldn't have really cared which division he played in.
Incidentally, if anyone objects to be called "weak sauce", by all means email me and I'm happy to post your rebuttal... More info
#9 Genins "upset" #1 John Hsu
JANUARY 15, 2008 (8:00AM) -- Playoff brackets have been posted at the above link and you can tell who plays who next on 1/20. Now, the Genins didn't always have a full squad during the regular season and limped into the playoffs with a rather deceiving #9 seed. They turned it back up a notch on Sunday and sent the #1 seed to the Losers Bracket, which was not all that surprising. The #5 SJ Assassins aren't bad either and #2 vs #3 is also a clash of titans. More to follow in the next couple days.
Recaps from 1/6 playoff games
JANUARY 12, 2008 (8:00AM) -- Here are quickie recaps from 1/6...
High d. Pret: Curtis Sasaki 14 pts 3 treys... 123N d. SJJB: Brandon Chu 19 pts, Kevin Hsu 13 pts 12 reb. Brian Miyagi 13 pts 7 reb. Tilt d. Boat: Neil Wong 14 pts, Henry Zhou 10 pts 6 ast. Calvin Ma 9 pts... Geni d. Wolv: Nic Vu 18 pts on 4-for-13 treys, Shin Iwata 15 pts. Julian Lau 14 pts 7 reb, Kris Neri 14 pts 10 reb, Long Tran 0-for-9 but 6 reb 5 ast... LUni d. RFOB: Torrent Lee 20 pts 10 reb, Raj Edwards 16 reb. Sagar Savant 13 pts... SJA d. Fade: Matthew Breaux 22 pts. Ming Dang 14 pts, Robby Kwok 13 pts.
Delivery of remaining t-shirts
JANUARY 11, 2008 (2:30PM) -- Happy Friday! First off, my plan is still to do some recaps from last week's playoff games. Now, most of the t-shirts have already been distributed. If your team has not received your t-shirts, please email me to arrange my drop-off of them next Thursday. I plan to get in my car as early as someone will see me, go burn some ozone layer, and drop off your t-shirts to wherever you are, be it at home, at work, or eatin' lunch somewhere. Get this thing off my plate, you know.
So first thing you gotta do is make sure your team is supposed to get t-shirts by double-checking the Payment Registry. Players or roster slots listed in bold mean they have already received them (and then some, meaning some of the not-bolded ones have also received them already). Then email me your situation. I will make sure my records don't indicate that we already gave them to someone at your team before some game in the past several weeks. If everything checks out, then I will reply to get your address of where you will be and I'll see you Thursday. CAVEAT: I will not be able to drive to San Jose; only Oakland or SF.
Highlife on brink of expulsion reinstated
JANUARY 10, 2008 (3:00PM) -- Turns out, the Highlife captain disappeared. Moral of the story: pay your roster slot to the league, not your captain. So anyways, new captain Toby Kanzawa took care of the problem and Highlife is reinstated for this Sunday.
JANUARY 10, 2008 (8:00AM) -- Tipoffs for 1/13 have been posted. Click on the Bird's Eye link above. Btw, the Pretenders will take Highlife's spot, since I got no word back from Highlife, which still owes me 2 slots regardless for the regular season. If this 4th check bounces, all players on Highlife will be banned from future dreamleague events until those two spots at $95 each are paid.
JANUARY 9, 2008 (4:00PM) -- Three bounced checks and I get another check for their two spots from Sunday? Hell no. Highlife needs to show up at my doorstep by tonight with $190 cash (or 2 confirmed online payments), otherwise that's the end of it. Everyone else in the league will have to wait for the schedule to get done because I cannot start it until this issue is resolved, let alone this issue having a drastic effect on the brackets. That means the schedule might not get posted until 5pm tomorrow.
Wolverines idle as only team in Losers
JANUARY 8, 2008 (4:30PM) -- The Wolverines lost and are the only double-elim team currently in the Losers Bracket, so they will have to wait until 1/20 for their next opponent. By then, we will have a total of 5 teams in the Losers Bracket. The lowest seeds must play each other for the right to play the top seed in the Losers Bracket in that case. Because the Wolverines at #8 already have the 2nd-lowest seed, they know they are already one of those two lowest seeds that will be subject to a doubleheader on 1/20. Other than that, a pretty straightforward Winners Bracket. Check the Bird's Eye page for matchups.
As far as homecourt this week, I'm turning over a new leaf and going by how many games you traveled over the course of the whole season, taken on a week-by-week scheduling basis. My goal this season is to make the mileage as fair as I can. However, as it turns out, all the high seeds still retained homecourt with a satisfactory level of fairness. The Genins haven't traveled at all and neither has 123 Not It, which as you can see on the STANDINGS/TEAMS page, actually loses homecourt advantage (where applicable, such as this case) to the SJ Assassins. But it won't always work out this perfectly. And keep in mind that some of the SJ teams are already traveling a bit just to get to Sequoia. I will definitely being keeping a lookout on that.
That means at any given point from here on out, while you may own the higher seed, you might still travel to the home of the lower seed. During playoffs in previous seasons, we did not pay any attention to mileage over the course of the whole season, but we do now. Overall, opening your travel outside a 15-mile radius of your home ensures a better chance to play against similar high-quality teams. That's the trade-off of dreamleague and what makes our league different. At the same time, you still should have ended up with more than 50% of all your games at your specified home.
Superbowl Sunday 2/3 scheduling
JANUARY 3, 2008 (8:00AM) -- Check your Season Schedule article. If your team gets far into the playoffs, chances are you will need to play on Superbowl Sunday 2/3. On that day, the Superbowl will kickoff around 6pm. That means our last tipoff would be at 4pm. Please do not schedule any festivities prior to Superbowl kickoff on 2/3 -- if you are going to party, plan to do so afterwards.
The only way I will avoid scheduling on 2/3 is if I can utilize 2/10 without any more games mathematically possible after 2/10, i.e., 2/10 is the drop-dead date to get everything done.
Playoffs start with byes for #1 and #2
JANUARY 1, 2008 (10:30PM) -- Forgot to mention that Highlife still needs to pay for its last two roster slots before tipoff.
JANUARY 1, 2008 (8:30PM) -- HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! The playoffs start this Sun 1/6 and with 14 teams and a slate of gyms busting at the seams, there's just no way we can include #1 John Hsu and #2 SFFA this weekend. All the pairings are straight-up #3 vs #14, #4 vs #13 and so on thru #8 vs #9, as you can see on the Bird's Eye page. Seeds are explained on the STANDINGS/TEAMS page (lefthand nav column).
I'll post the bracket JPG picture next week because quite frankly it's a bitch to do and we might as well wait until we know the matchups for 1/13, because I will purposely not put two RWC teams against each other (they've already played each other twice during the regular season). So let's say #13 SJJB upsets and is supposed to face #5 SJA. Well, I'll just re-seed the teams in the 2nd round to avoid the repeat of the regular season matchup. This won't be a problem for the SF teams because the 10 teams in SF all played someone different during the regular season.
Teams need to be fully paid before playoffs
DECEMBER 13, 2007 (7:00PM) -- The Payment Registry (link is above) has been updated and the following REC-S teams need to get fully paid by tipoff of 12/16: Highlife, Motorboat, SJ Jollybee, and the Wolverines.
I will not begin scheduling the playoffs if an unreasonable amount of teams are not fully paid (do not risk pushing back the NL even further because Superbowl is 2/3 and I plan to skip 2/17 NBA All-Star Weekend). If you're the only team that hasn't paid, then we will proceed forward without you and have no choice but to count your game as a forfeit.
Coming to a close (mostly) on 12/16
DECEMBER 11, 2007 (8:00AM) -- The SF teams will finish up this weekend 12/16, but in the South, I have just sent the following message to Run FOB and the SJ Assassins...
As you can see on the REC-S Season Schedule article, the RFOB vs SJA matchup is scheduled to occur on 12/30. That's the eve of New Year's Eve, but the only other option is to play on 12/16 (or some other weeknight as long as Sequoia is available) because we *must* end the season no later than 2/10 -- and don't forget 2/3 is Superbowl Sunday.
So I'm giving you both the option to play this Sun 12/16 instead of 12/30. However, doing so would result in a doubleheader for Run FOB on 12/16. This may not be attractive to Run FOB since they are 2-4 and need two straight wins to secure double-elimination playoff status.
PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Meanwhile, we could have between 9-11 teams finish above .500 and thus with double-elimination playoff status. That's pretty good parity, although the bottom teams probably wouldn't agree from their vantage point. Looks like we will have to keep this as one big bracket because there are simply not enough sub-.500 teams to vie for a separate Lower bracket. And wow, what a race we have brewing in both the Pacific and Northwest Conferences.
So anyways, I'm envisioning a massive bracket and with more than 8 teams but less than 16, it looks like the first round will probably involve some doubleheaders for low seeds.
Swishes & Bricks from 11/18
DECEMBER 11, 2007 (8:00AM) -- Just got done with the 3rd annual Gold Rush James E. Love Memorial Tournament this past weekend. Thanks to all the NL and AL players that played (too many to list here), plus the guys on AAA's Ballin', Poorcats, Ryusei, Bomb Squad, Lions, and Trybe. Bay Area Select, South Bay Shootout, Super Bad, the Warriors, and even the champion Delano Renegades had a player or two or three from dreamleague Bay Area leagues make at least a cameo appearance. About half the teams paid us a visit from out of town or outside the usual leagues.
The Payment Registry will be updated later this week and I sure hope all the teams approaching playoffs this Sunday 12/16 are paid up in full. While I get the scores from 12/2 and requests for 12/16 up, please enjoy Vinsanity's latest Swishes & Bricks from way back on 11/18. I don't know about you, but Thanksgiving was hardly the time to catch up with work (I tried and so did Vinsanity, but just couldn't get it done). That holiday was more like a time to catch up with family. Hopefully during the December holidays we'll have more easy-going days to catchup on dreamleague scores and stats. Without further adieu, here's Swishes & Bricks from 11/18... More info
No games this Sun 12/9 due to Gold Rush
DECEMBER 4, 2007 (8:00AM) -- There are no games this weekend due to our annual Gold Rush tournament (good luck to the former AL-E team Davis Dynasty, Bomb Squad and 6FT Prodigies). Payment registry will be updated again early next week and the schedule for Sun 12/16 will go up as usual by Thu 12/12. Any tipoff requests for 12/16 should be emailed in ASAP. Scores from 12/2 will be up soon as well as Vinsanity's Swishes & Bricks from 11/18.
UPDATE ON T-SHIRTS: Remember, t-shirts are given out to players who paid early and via online so as to save us the hassle of collection and going to the bank. Most of the t-shirts have now been passed out (at PHRC on 11/18 and IJRC on 12/2). If your team has not received its t-shirts, know that we will try to coordinate logistics for 12/16 and so forth until all t-shirts owed are passed out. If somehow you can pick them up at commish's garage too, that would be preferred, as I'll be out of town on 12/16 and logistics will be difficult (although I'll try my best to have my staff come through).
No games this Sun 12/9 due to Gold Rush
DECEMBER 4, 2007 (8:00AM) -- There are no games this weekend due to our annual Gold Rush tournament . Payment registry will be updated again early next week and the schedule for Sun 12/16 will go up as usual by Thu 12/12. Any tipoff requests for 12/16 should be emailed in ASAP. Scores from 12/2 will be up soon as well as Vinsanity's Swishes & Bricks from 11/18.
UPDATE ON T-SHIRTS: Remember, t-shirts are given out to players who paid early and via online so as to save us the hassle of collection and going to the bank. Most of the t-shirts have now been passed out (at PHRC on 11/18 and IJRC on 12/2). If your team has not received its t-shirts, know that we will try to coordinate logistics for 12/16 and so forth until all t-shirts owed are passed out. If somehow you can pick them up at commish's garage too, that would be preferred, as I'll be out of town on 12/16 and logistics will be difficult (although I'll try my best to have my staff come through).
Matchups for 12/2 posted
NOVEMBER 28, 2007 (12:30PM) -- Both John Hsu and 123 Not It wanted to play on 12/2 instead of their future games on 12/30 and 12/16, respectively, so we've moved both games to 12/2. See Bird's Eye page and Season Schedule article near bottom link of righthand table. Oddly, the only game this Sun 12/2 with serious playoff implications is Motorboat vs Highlife. Motorboat can relegate Highlife with single-elim status for the playoffs.
Speaking of playoffs, don't forget that I'd like to make it fair for the SJ/RWC teams, so homecourt or high seed is not necessarily a factor in the first round in terms of geography. Two-thirds of the league is based in SF, which is really, really far for some of the SJ teams -- not necessarily the vice-versa case for SF teams traveling down to RWC. And I might even use CSM or San Mateo HS, who knows. We'll play it by ear and I'll look at each matchup case-by-case.
Swishes & Bricks from 11/11
NOVEMBER 24, 2007 (10:00AM) -- In this edition of Vinsanity's Swishes & Bricks, Jay Pattugalan probably (?) set a dreamleague record with 12, yes TWELVE, three-pointers made in a game, and this: "Among the dazzling performances of the weekend, some teams simply stunk it up shooting-wise. And I'm talking about not being able to buy a basket, period."... More info
Mullin, McHale and Ainge (and t-shirts)
NOVEMBER 21, 2007 (4:30PM) -- Today the Golden State Warriors take on the Boston Celtics -- what a way to enjoy our Thanksgiving break! Many, many years ago (twenty?) the Warriors visited the Celtics as they always have. Except on that night, there were three players who would eventually shape the very league that they play in from an executive level... More info
Btw, we started passing out t-shirts last Sunday at PHRC, SQHM, and SQHX. We will be at BCRC and IJRC on 12/2 and hopefully you'll get yours. Any issues, email me. And if you want to come by my house anytime to pick them up over here 2 blocks from PHRC, that would probably be the best way to ensure receipt of your t-shirts.
Happy Thanksgiving: no games on 11/25
NOVEMBER 20, 2007 (10:30AM) -- There are no games scheduled for 11/25. Have a happy Thanksgiving weekend. On 12/2, we're back at it (PLEASE SEND IN TIPOFF REQUESTS FOR 12/2 ASAP). Then on 12/9, there's another leaguewide bye due to the annual Gold Rush Tourney.
ALL ROSTER SLOTS MUST BE PAID BEFORE THE PLAYOFFS START. If not, then it makes no sense for me to schedule you in. Case in point for the Perpetrators of the AAA-Elite, who have not returned my phone call after 2 straight forfeits. They are on the hook for the remaining 3 roster slots, as well as the $50 forfeit fee unless their opponents in those forfeits are willing to waive the fee and shrug off the $25 each.
IF YOU GO INTO THE PLAYOFFS WITH 9 PLAYERS, ALL 9 PLAYERS MUST BE PAID. Only players who have played 3 regular season games are eligible for the playoffs and they must occupy a roster slot, of course. All players who play for you in the playoffs must occupy a paid roster slot, with a minimum of 8 roster slots paid per team. The rosters are set and cannot change once the playoffs start.
THE PAYMENT REGISTRY WILL BE UPDATED LATER THIS WEEK. I still do not which team to allocate the roster slot payment for...
- Inigo Palileo (RWC)
- Suryo Senduk (OAK/SF)
- Christopher Romero (OAK/SF)
The teams of these players are all at risk of becoming delinquent on their payments. 411, please. And for those of you who have not finalized your payments, please put your team name on the memo line of your personal check or put your team name somewhere in your order with Google Checkout.
Auto-forfeit warnings for 11/18
NOVEMBER 16, 2007 (5:30PM) -- Check the Payment Registry link. The following teams are at risk of auto-forfeiting this Sun 11/18...
- Highlife: 5 slots paid, 7th game on 11/18
- SJ Jollybee: 5 slots paid, 6th game on 11/18
Roster slot payments are now up to $90 for SF/OAK and $95 for RWC.
Tipoffs for 11/18 posted
NOVEMBER 15, 2007 (12:00PM) -- See Bird's Eye page. Payment registry has also been updated. Auto-forfeit warnings will be posted tomorrow.
Matchups (but not tipoffs) for 11/18 posted
NOVEMBER 14, 2007 (8:00PM) -- Check the Bird's Eye link above. More info to follow on Thu and Fri about matchups. Payment Registry to be updated Thu night.
Swishes & Bricks from 11/4
NOVEMBER 13, 2007 (5:00PM) -- Matchups might not get posted until late Wednesday because it looks like we lost a scoresheet binder and the shotclock laptop got stolen (our 2nd laptop that has met the same fate). If anyone has a cheap old laptop we can use and maybe buy from you, please let me know. The laptop must have at least Windows 2000 and a USB port. Also, if anyone has an old laptop bag too. Meanwhile, enjoy Vinsanity's latest Swishes & Bricks from 11/4... More info
Tipoffs for 11/11 posted
NOVEMBER 9, 2007 (8:00AM) -- Payment Registry page has been fixed and updated. The following teams are at risk of auto-forfeiting this Sunday 11/11...
- Highlife: 4 slots paid, 6th game on 11/11
- SJ Jollybee: 4 slots paid, 5th game on 11/11
Roster slots are now up to $89 for SF/Oak and $94 for RWC. Refs and scorekeepers have been instructed to accept only a minimum of $89 or $94 per roster slot and they do not carry any change.
Let's take a look at some of the more intriguing matchups this Sunday. With the Genins' Nic Vu and Shin Iwata barnstorming the league, you would think that the Genins have this one wrapped up. Well, mathematically they are only 1 game up on the Northwest 4th-place L'Unis, which needs one more win to clinch double-elim playoff status. Still, the L'Unis ought to be worried. It's the familiar Wolverines and Full Tilt matchup. Both teams need a win to keep pace in their conferences. Same thing with Highlife and 123 Not It.
In the Southwest, Jollybee gets the unenviable task of breaking out of their slump against John Hsu's team, which doesn't seem like it can be stopped. The Pretenders and Assassins will try to break from the pack and Run FOB gets the bye this week.
Swishes & Bricks from 10/28
NOVEMBER 7, 2007 (8:00AM) -- Check the Season Schedule article on the righthand table for matchups for 11/11. More to follow on that tomorrow should your division's schedule have quirks. Also, we're experiencing some problems with Google Docs, so the Payment Registry page will not be updated for a few days, but you'll know on Thursday night or Friday midday which teams are subject to auto-forfeits on 11/11.
Meanwhile, here's Vinsanity's latest installment re 10/28 stats... More info
Auto-forfeit warnings for 11/4
NOVEMBER 1, 2007 (1:30PM) -- The following teams are at risk of auto-forfeiting on 11/4...
- Highlife: 4 slots paid, 5th game on 11/4 (pay for 1+ slots)
Roster slots are now up to $88 for SF teams and $93 for RWC teams each. Run FOB, SJ Jollybee, and Genins will be at risk next week 11/11.
Tipoffs for 11/4 posted
NOVEMBER 1, 2007 (2:00PM) -- Check the Bird's Eye link above. I'm gonna go eat some lunch now, so I'll be back later with some more tidbits about the difficulties of scheduling the 11/4 tipoffs, as well as some other stuff.
Swishes & the BRICK: ONLINE WAIVERS!!!
OCTOBER 31, 2007 (4:30PM) -- Matchups (but not tipoffs) for 11/4 posted on Bird's Eye page and Payment Registry updated (see links above). Also, Inigo Palileo, Suryo Senduk, and Wayne Bendebel need to email me so I know where to allocate their roster slot payment to. Not only did they fail to specify on the Google Checkout payment, but also they did not submit an ONLINE WAIVER, so I am unable to look them up in our player registration database to find out which team they're on.
While personally doing some online stats the other day, I noticed that dozens of you still have not filled out our ONLINE WAIVER, which serves many purposes. Not having you in our database to email you about our upcoming leagues and tourneys? Hey, I'm in over my head as it is, so no big loss, I can live with that. Playing on one of our courts without waiving your rights? OK, you'd be a fool to sue dreamleague and shut everything down for everybody else, so that one doesn't bother me as much either.
But not being able to look up your name to input your friggin' stats?! Bugger.
Please note, this is mainly for our newer players with whom we literally have no clue your full name or team because someone on your team botched your scoresheet one week. If you've never seen our ONLINE WAIVER page, then yeah you probably haven't ever filled one out, so go do it now. You can ignore the auto-generated error message -- haven't had time to fix that. First name, last name, team name, phone, address, email, click Submit. Simple.
So we're just gonna skip you if we can't find your name in the database. And we have to enter a whole team at once, so if we skip you, we skip your whole team. And once we skip your team, hell no, we ain't going back.
On another note, please enjoy Vinsanity's Swishes & Bricks from 10/21... More info
Ballers needed for paid photo shoot
OCTOBER 25, 2007 (4:00PM) -- We just got this in from a casting agency. Please let us know if you're interested and we'll put you in touch. Dates are Mon Oct 29 and Tue Oct 30: "PAID PRINT PHOTO SHOOT ($500 & $750). The client is a well-known sportswear company (name to be announced once final talent are selected). We need athletic people who are TRIATHLETES, RUNNERS, & BASKETBALL PLAYERS between the AGES of 19-29 with specific sizes... More info
Tipoffs for 10/28 posted, auto-forfeits
OCTOBER 25, 2007 (11:30AM) -- Click on the Bird's Eye link above for 10/28 tipoffs. The following teams are at risk of auto-forfeiting this Sunday...
- No one! I can't believe it! Hooray REC-S! Actually there's a couple teams that will be at risk next week 11/4, so please keep a lookout and check the registry.
Please note that the fees have been increased by $1 per roster slot each, $87 for SF/Oak teams and $92 for RWC teams.
Code of conduct for spectators
OCTOBER 24, 2007 (8:00AM) -- In light of incidents involving spectators for at least the past two weeks, all spectators will now be expected to sign a waiver of liability form upon entry into any of our gyms. As has been dreamleague policy heretofore, spectators fall under the supervision of the teams they represent. Spectators will be ejected for any altercations they are involved in, whether they started it or not (like a double-technical). The teams they represent may be fined or suspended as well. You will be guilty by association. Therefore, eradicate your volatile spectators immediately, or else you are putting your own team at risk. You have been forewarned.
IF YOU ARE SPECTATOR, DO NOT TALK TO ANOTHER TEAM'S SPECTATORS. DO NOT TALK TO ANOTHER TEAM'S PLAYERS. DO NOT SAY ANYTHING DIRECTED AT THE OTHER TEAM'S PLAYERS OR THE OTHER TEAM IN GENERAL. DOING SO WILL PUT YOU AT RISK OF BEING EJECTED FROM THE GYM, AND YOUR TEAM OF BEING SUSPENDED.
Players banned for fighting
OCTOBER 24, 2007 (3:00PM) -- The paragraph below has been updated to reflect available information. There are claims that the Frosh Tryouts spectator may have instigated with a physical motion, which would suggest an element of self-defense on the part of Flores and Clayton. Also, the issues of suspensions are moving towards a reconciliatory path, which means all parties seem to understand what kind of environment dreamleague would like to promote. More informational updates will follow here if necessary.
OCTOBER 24, 2007 (8:00AM) -- Dexter Flores and Benjamin Clayton of the AAA-P SloJams have been banned indefinitely from dreamleague for entering the stands and fighting an opposing spectator. Flores's two sisters have also been banned indefinitely. The spectator representing SloJams' opponent, Frosh Tryouts, is suspended and cannot attend anymore dreamleague games for the rest of this season. SloJams may not replace Flores or Clayton on their roster for the remainder of this season.
I find it very disappointing that people still resort to violence to solve their problems, no matter how much verbal abuse you have taken. If you are one of these people who have even the remotest chance of crossing the line into physicality, who cannot walk away from a verbal attack, do us all a favor and don't play in dreamleague anymore. Don't come and watch our games. Don't visit this website. This is not the place for you.
For those of you who instigate with verbal attacks, it will not be tolerated AT ALL anymore. Anyone who instigates by verbal means will automatically be ejected, be it a player or spectator. The same goes for anyone who retaliates, even by verbal means. PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS WHO ARE EJECTED FROM THE PREMISES FOR THESE REASONS WILL RECEIVE AN AUTOMATIC 1-GAME SUSPENSION, more if the league office deems necessary. If you don't like these rules, then please do not play in dreamleague.
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE SITUATIONS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS. WE HAVE REFEREES AND GYM DIRECTORS WHO ARE FULLY QUALIFIED TO DIFFUSE CONFLICTS. OVERSTEPPING THIS AUTHORITY WILL LEAD TO EJECTION FROM DREAMLEAGUE.
"Uphold our safe haven for high-quality, high-caliber, high-class organized bball." -- dreamleague bullet point #1 on our RULES & REGULATIONS page.
Swishes & Bricks from 10/14
OCTOBER 22, 2007 (5:30PM) -- Dear Loyal Readers, yes, I'm talking to all of you, whoever you may be: captains, players, rabid fans, groupies (wait, do we even have groupies?). Please take the time to make sure roster lineups are filled in correctly. I can't stress how important this is to many of us here at Dream League HQ. To clarify -- by correctly, we mean a couple of things... More info
Tipoffs for 10/21, Risking auto-forfeits
OCTOBER 19, 2007 (8:00AM) -- See Bird's Eye link for 10/21 tipoffs. Scores from 10/14 have been entered.
So it goes like this: I call your ref before tipoff. If you haven't paid the scorekeeper what you owe by then, the ref proceeds to forfeit your game. So if you need to, bring your checkbook in case your teammate flakes. I don't care who pays your spots, but someone on your team's gotta pay 'em. The following teams are at risk of auto-forfeiting this Sunday...
- Highlife: 1 spot paid, 3rd game on 10/21, pay for at least 2 slots before tipoff
And don't forget, it's $91 for RWC teams and $86 for SF/OAK. Nothing more, nothing less (we have no change at the table). Next week, it goes up to $92 and $87.
Swishes & Bricks from 10/7
OCTOBER 16, 2007 (9:00PM) -- Going over the numbers from 9/30, I felt like I was in stathead heaven. Ballers dropping 30+ with ease, shooting ungodly percentages, ripping down boards like madmen and dropping dimes left and right...I guess you can say that this was a down week for the league. But that's not to say there weren't any bursts of brilliant play... More info
Late fees and auto-forfeits kick in soon
OCTOBER 15, 2007 (8:00PM) -- The payment registry (see link above) has been updated and now that most every team in the league has played two games and had a month to pay their roster slots ahead of time, the payment button will be updated within the next 24 hours with a $1 per roster slot per week late fee. Btw, t-shirts will then be ordered and any payments with late fees (or payments not made online) will obviously not get a free t-shirt. T-shirt orders are made to exact numbers from our payment registry.
Remember, any payments made by cash or check do not yield a free t-shirt because the whole point is to drive all payments online to minimize the work on my part after the fact. Also, if you are going to bring cash to a game, you must give it to a scorekeeper and have him/her write it down on your scoresheet. We do not give change at games, nor am I fond of keeping track of partial payments, so no payments except the exact amount will be accepted. Any partial payments will either be rejected or still incur late fees until paid in full.
All captains are expected to check the Payment Registry to see if their team is updated. Currently there are three players who have not stated what team they're on, nor have they submitted an ONLINE WAIVER (link is in the green part of the vertical navigation bar to the left) as we've instructed, so basically we do not know who these people are. Even though we are catching up on stats, we will NOT be publishing any stats for people who do not submit an up-to-date ONLINE WAIVER. Because of the risks posed to our gym directors, we reserve the right to kick any player out of the gym if they have not submitted an ONLINE WAIVER.
FAIR WARNING: from now on, if you don't have as many roster slots paid as the number of games played including the upcoming Sunday, your team will automatically forfeit unless the required payments are made before tipoff. This will be your only warning. I predict at least one or two teams will screw up in this regard. Prove me wrong.
Bay Area = mini-Milwaukee?
OCTOBER 13, 2007 (8:00AM) -- While Milwaukee introduces itself to Yi Jianlian, we ought to do the same here in the Bay, at Cal to be exact. Enter Max Zhang, who made a cameo appearance at an Asian tourney last year that we wrote about... More info
Update on suspensions
OCTOBER 11, 2007 (12:00PM) -- Just wanted to update everyone to basically say that I think a more positive spin should have come out initially below. Hopefully this update will make up for that. Although players will be suspended, Trybe and Kurruption are perhaps two of the senior teams in dreamleague who really "get" what we do. Unfortunately, they will have to sacrifice in this instance to make the league better. I thank them for that, although I still believe the suspensions are required... More info
Tipoffs for 10/14 posted
OCTOBER 11, 2007 (8:00AM) -- Click on the Bird's Eye link above. Quick note: Payment Registry will be updated soon. Late fees kick in next Monday.
Should we have upper/lower REC playoffs?
OCTOBER 10, 2007 (6:00PM) -- The following was sent to all REC-S and REC-O captains: Upon inputting the recent scores from all 3 REC locales (SF/Oak/RWC), I'm noticing a disturbing trend. We have had a handful of *extreme* blowouts. I'm talking well over 20-point differentials, sometimes as bad as a final score of 60-something to 20-something... More info
24-Hour: $25/mo., no down, almost all clubs
OCTOBER 10, 2007 (12:00PM) -- While we finish up the scores (they're almost done, which means the STANDINGS pages are almost updated), Mark Scates of NL Up In Smoke and AL-E Rayguns would like to announce that 24-Hour Fitness has monthly memberships at only $25 per month, month-to-month, at any club except the big-ass one in San Ramon. This is a pretty good deal and signing up thru Scates helps him out too. His new job at 24 Hour is his second job. He just had a new baby recently.
Contact Mark at apehangin@comcast.net. I'll let you know when the scores and standings thru 10/7 are updated.
Poor Man's Commish on camera
OCTOBER 9, 2007 (8:00AM) -- While scores from 9/16 thru 10/7 get posted on into the night, and special requests for 10/14 get posted to the Bird's Eye page, let us pre-occupy your time with something else. This is a blogpost shown on the righthand table.
The folks at Bassett Productions (Tom, Sidney, and Andrew) recently made an incredible video about community basketball leagues. It was one of the most riveting pieces I have ever seen about basketball "for the rest of us"... More info
"Swishes & Bricks" from Vinsanity
OCTOBER 8, 2007 (3:30PM) -- Wow, is Vinsanity making a splash or what (see below)? Aside from providing you with some content to enjoy the day after 13 non-stop hours of dreamleague hoops at 4 different gyms, #1 on Poor Man's Commish's to-do list is getting all the scores from 9/16, 9/23, 9/30 and now 10/7 posted. Meanwhile...
Welcome to the first installment of my weekly column that takes a deeper, insightful and frequently irreverent look at the numbers the Dream League players put up every Sunday. Yes...it may seem daunting to pore through a copious stack of scoresheets from the 40 or so games that took place -- squinting hard to discern whether or not the scorekeeper’s hastily scrawled “R” (for Rebound) is actually a “B” (for Block) or in some cases, neither -— but it is something that I truly relish... More info
Please fill in your team names or else
OCTOBER 4, 2007 (11:30AM) -- Now that we got Vince Morales doing some stat-mongering, it's becoming a bigger and bigger pet peeve when you guys don't fill in your team names (and FIRST AND LAST names) on the scoresheet.
So when you fill in your scoresheets every 4th quarter of the game preceding yours when you arrive at the gym before your game, be sure to fill in your first AND LAST names, as well as your team name. Otherwise, we will skip your team when Vince comes across your scoresheet to write a little sumthin-sumthin about it.
REC-S season matchups set
OCTOBER 5, 2007 (4:30PM) -- The season matchups for the 14 registered REC-S teams has now been completed. Everyone please check to make sure your team name appears in 8 regular season games. We have 9 teams in SF and 5 teams in Silicon Valley. While 9 teams is a great number for one league, it didn't feel right to just cut off the 5 teams in Silicon Valley. So what we'll do is have a regular season that's within your locale, then in the playoffs we'll mix them up... More info
We're hiring! Play for free! Help wanted!
OCTOBER 4, 2007 (10:30AM) -- Yup, I've finally got way, way, way too much stuff on my plate. I really gotta hand this stuff off to some people. And I'm willing to pay for good service. Over the years, guys have asked if we have jobs available and I've told them we had nothing that would be substantial, but now we do. Here's what help we need... More info
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