On Hockey Pools

 

 

The first week of this year's hockey pool is done.   By determination, research and skill (also known as blind luck) I am leading.  While this is no indication of future success, it makes me feel good nonetheless.

What I have found amazing over these past couple of days is the technology of it all.  Websites provide services that allow one to customize your pool in a dizzying array of ways.  Additionally, they provide real time stats.  The fact that it works so well is only blown away by the fact that it is provided for free.

What did people do before?  What poor soul had to sit down with a newspaper/many newspapers on Monday and work out everyone's points?  Either pools were a lot simpler then, or that person didn't get any "real" work done that day.

Having talked to a few people, it seems like the technology has not only made it easier to keep track of things, but somehow it allows people to be in a number of pools at once.  How they don't get confused between players from one pool team to the next is beyond me--or maybe they don't remember and have to spend a lot of time online checking and rechecking.   I guess that is what a smart phone is for, or is it?

Week one was fun.  Hopefully week two will be just as fun and just as successful.

Fantasty Hockey

 

This year I am joining a Fantasy Hockey League.  My strategy lacks hard work and hockey IQ.  Hopefully, I will be lucky. 

 

We had to come up with team names.  Since my name is Anthony, I decided to play with a bit of alliteration.  We also have an Andrew playing--he took Andy's Army.

 

I decided to call my team The Sarcastic Aces.  I chose the above image as my team logo.  I considered a bunch of other images.  Some are probably too sexist, but so is the internet.  The reasons for not choosing the following had to do with cropping it down to size.  I might have been able to do it, but a lot of the image would have been lost.  Which one would you have chosen?