World Juniors Championship Pool

[dmvincent]

In my infinite genius I picked Jenner as my last Canadian forward instead of Strome. I must've missed his name or something. Or I must have been brain dead from exams and tired from work. I'll go with that...

Anyhow, your morning update...

1 praba 31
2 vandalay 30
3 Neves 29
4 Big Ev 29
5 BC Oiler 29
6 b0ndon 28
7 TML 28
8 cannon 27
9 InForAPenny 27
10 dmvincent 27
11 keytolife 27
12 Dean Youngblood 26
13 Kudelski's Krushers 25
14 watchingthegame 25
15 Nights 25
16 reeveta 24
17 Dodospice 24
18 ccsitdown 24
19 Art Vandelay 23
20 littleranger 23
21 metaldude26 23
22 bigbabybuda 23
23 dyzfunctioned 23
24 Ballsakic 22
25 TK12555 20
26 Noma 19
27 NikW71 19
28 martmart 18
29 Doulos 16

Woohoo big gain! Awesome to be in the top 10.

[Nights]

Woohoo big gain! Awesome to be in the top 10.

Enjoy Florida instead of following this pool Not worth wasting your time this early greaking out about top 10.

[ccsitdown]

Kidding aside: Any feedback on the pool format? Any changes you would want to see next year? I struggle with thinking about ways to get:
a) diversity of players (hence the limit per team and 'captain' position)
b) not too deep so people are intimidated to enter

One thing that we had, I think in the Fatigue League, in the Olympics portion, maybe? that helped with diversity was similar to your set-up but a step further: on top of limiting how many players you can take from a team (5 in our case), add in an 'at least one player from every team' or something similar. I found it interesting, anyway, had to look harder into the teams like Latvia and Norway and what have you. Just an idea. Love the pool the way it is, too.

[Nights]

One thing that we had, I think in the Fatigue League, in the Olympics portion, maybe? that helped with diversity was similar to your set-up but a step further: on top of limiting how many players you can take from a team (5 in our case), add in an 'at least one player from every team' or something similar. I found it interesting, anyway, had to look harder into the teams like Latvia and Norway and what have you. Just an idea. Love the pool the way it is, too.

Actually, I think it was 2 per team at the olympics. I think our NHL playoffs had it be 2 per team as well.

I like this pool the way it is - in fact, I found it to be just on the cusp of making some hard decisions. It's pretty good the way it is.

[Big Ev]

I wish our WJC pool counted SOG. Zibanejad with 12 and Rakell with 9.

[vandalay]

yeah Vandalay has 2 entries, nice heh

No, Art Vandelay is not me.

[Nights]

And Praba - in spectacular fashion - drops to 9th. Someone will now be awkwardly silent.

1 vandalay 43
2 TML 40
3 BC Oiler 40
4 Neves 39
5 cannon 39
6 Dean Youngblood 39
7 Art Vandelay 38
8 Big Ev 38
9 praba 38
10 InForAPenny 37
11 b0ndon 36
12 bigbabybuda 36
13 ccsitdown 36
14 Kudelski's Krushers 35
15 metaldude26 35
16 dyzfunctioned 35
17 Ballsakic 34
18 Noma 34
19 watchingthegame 34
20 dmvincent 34
21 keytolife 34
22 Dodospice 33
23 Nights 33
24 reeveta 31
25 TK12555 31
26 littleranger 30
27 NikW71 28
28 martmart 28
29 Doulos 26


The fact that Wedgewood got the SO, USA actually lost to them Finns and that Strome was only picked by like 2 people (so we have 27 idiots in the pool) is a big reason why.

[Nights]

And Praba - in spectacular fashion - drops to 9th. Someone will now be awkwardly silent.

1vandalay432TML403BC Oiler404Neves395cannon396Dean Youngblood397Art Vandelay388Big Ev389praba3810InForAPenny3711b0ndon3612bigbabybuda3613ccsitdown3614Kudelski's Krushers3515metaldude263516dyzfunctioned3517Ballsakic3418Noma3419watchingthegame3420dmvincent3421keytolife3422Dodospice3323Nights3324reeveta3125TK125553126littleranger3027NikW712828martmart2829Doulos26

The fact that Wedgewood got the SO, USA actually lost to them Finns and that Strome was only picked by like 2 people (so we have 27 idiots in the pool) is a big reason why.

[JagrBomb]

LOL damn i knew i should have picked wedgewood, i hate visentin. and i was debating with smith pelley and strome.

oh well, first was nice while it lasted.

[Big Ev]

My total should be 41. Jason Zucker had 3 points in the first game, but he has 0 in the spreadsheet. Not sure what the official stats were, but I know he at least scored a goal.

So Neves and metaldude26 should increase as well.

[Nights]

My total should be 41. Jason Zucker had 3 points in the first game, but he has 0 in the spreadsheet. Not sure what the official stats were, but I know he at least scored a goal.

So Neves and metaldude26 should increase as well.

I'll get to that in the next update. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Dean Youngblood]

Damn. I had Gusev in my lineup until the last minute when I put in Coyle. BIG Mistake.

Kid is unreal right now.

[bigbabybuda]

Vandalay is about to pull way ahead! He has all the big 5 Russians on his team...

[Big Ev]

Vandalay 27 tonight by my count. I only have 23

[Dean Youngblood]

I was damn close to taking Vasilevski too in net (two shutouts)....another bad decision on my part.

Stick a fork in me. See you guys next year. Never betting against the Russians again.