2006 Season Underway

WHAT, when did this happen? We are playing the other side of the fantasy here with the pros, the real players. We have a full compliment of games on this ledger. Not everyone is in all the games but that is OK, the updates on the pros will be on this blog and the college on the other so we don't confuse anyone. The season is not even a quarter of the way done and here is how we stand.

Eliminator: This game is so easy to play, only to pick one team each week but tough to win. Just ask last year's champ, Scott, who lost in the second week and decided (I guess) not to pick any more. We still have 5 people who are perfect after 4 weeks. Big Jay, Amy, Lin, Jay and myself. It keeps getting tougher each week so pick wisely.

Gridiron: This one is tough to get the right combination of players each week. We welcome two newcomers this year in Matt Scalici and Jay Beemer. Welcome and hope you stick around for the entire season. Here are the standings so far:
1. Jay
2. Beemer Ball
3. Lin (I know my wife's uncle's name)
4. Me
5. Matt

Pigskin Pickem: Not many points separate this group yet since there are no confidence points, just straight up picking but there are some upsets already. Each week it is difficult to decide which team is going to show up. I have gone to confession for not picking the Pats last weekend but based on how they played the week before who would have expected them to man-handle the Bengals like they did. Mea Culpa. We welcome three newcomers to this game, Beemer Ball, Adam and Liz. Let's look at the previous weeks.

Week 1. What a start for Liz and Adam. As you will see, this was not beginners luck. First was Liz followed by Jay and in third, Adam and Amy.

Week 2. Just take the first week's top performers and shuffle the deck. First was Jay followed by Adam & Amy and Liz in third.

Week 3. A bunched up week but we welcome some others from the group to the top three performers, 1st: Beemer & Lin; 2nd: Adam, Amy & Liz; 3rd: Scott, Big Jay & myself.

Week 4. First was Adam, second was myself and third Liz, Amy and Beemer. Looking over the list, we notice the same names and as you might expect, they are in the leaders group. After 4 weeks the leader board looks like this.

1. Adam
2. Liz
3. Amy
4. Jay
5. Beemer

Don't get too confident you group of five as Lin can attest the season isn't over until the last game is played on the last weekend. You do have to pick though so if you miss a week it is tough to catch up but not impossible. Bryan did it last season and perhaps would have won the entire season if he had not missed one week. As the saying goes, YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOOSE.

Good luck as the season progresses and Adam and Liz, try not to make us look too bad.