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Three games left and my team is still in the hunt to be
league champion in
the fantasy football league I'm in. Based on my estimates, the
standings for
the top four teams should look like this after this week, with three
games
remaining:
Team Record Total Points Behind
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San Francisco SunSeters 10-4 ---
Seattle Crackers 10-4 -15
Sacramento Stallions 9-5 -10
East Palestine Eels 9-5 -65
The first tie-breaker is total points scored, and since a team scores
40-120
points a game, the top three teams are practically even in terms of the
tie-breaker. Sacramento's next three games are against the #9 team, San
Francisco, and finally Seattle, so if we win the next three games it'll
at
worst be a three-way tie and since Sacramento would have won three
games
we'd have a good chance winning the tie-breaker.
Offensively I have a good team, with Grbac still at quarterback. Eddie
George
has been joined by Mike Anderson (who was waived by some team, I
suppose when
it looked like Terrell Davis was back, but Davis was injured again and
in the
meantime I picked up Anderson, who has been stellar the last couple of
weeks).
James Allen is the third back (who is doing ok right now as the primary
back
for Chicago). And I have Terrell Davis in case he recovers before the
end of
the season.
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Wide receivers are still not the strong point of my
team. Tim Brown is a good
receiver but after that I'm still lacking. Oronde Gadsden, Jerry Rice,
and
Albert Connell are all #2 or #3 receivers so they don't get the ball as
much
and their scoring is rather up and down. The rest of my team is
average.
Although we're capable of scoring a 100 points (we did this week and
have done
it one other time), that requires a stellar game from someone and good
games
from everyone else.
In the previous meeting, we lost to San Francisco and beat Seattle. It
all
comes down to the fact that we control our own destiny, something you
hear
about in real sports. As long as we win, we'll be league champions. We
don't
need help from any other team, we don't need San Francisco or Seattle
to lose
to anyone else other than us. Sure, it'd be nice to have another win,
like
that 65-62 loss in week four, but we'd probably still have to win the
three
games anyway. Ten weeks ago I was happy to be 2-2 and not have a
totally
sucky team. Now I'm thinking I can win it all. Expectations sure
change...
Salon just ran an article about UC Berkeley's eXperimental Computer
Facilty,
or the XCF. A bit on the history and some notable accomplishments and
the
fact that this year everyone but one member graduates (ok, there are
only
like 8-10 people per year, so it's not that impossible) and maybe it
will soon
be going away due to collaborative organizations on the Internet.
To me the XCF has always been that two rows of computers at the end of
the
WEB (Workstations in Evans Basement) that people played xtrek on. Oh
wait,
I'm thinking of the OCF. Actually I've been to the XCF room once
(before they
moved) for some reason (wasn't Matt Seidl in the XCF?). Anyway, the XCF
are
sort of the elite of the Berkeley Computer Science community, or as
other
people say: "the people who *really* have no life". We're all just
jealous is
all. :-) Check out their quotes page on the XCF web site.
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