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[dyzfunctioned]

How did you watch hockey for the last 17 years?

Shoeless doesn't watch hockey.

[ericdaoust]

Shoeless doesn't watch hockey.

Hockey watches Shoeless.

[Chuk]

Hockey watches Shoeless.

This is on a T-shirt I must own!!!!

[ericdaoust]

This is on a T-shirt I must own!!!!

http://dobberhockey.wordans.com/my/boutique

Tell the big guy to add it here.

[Atomic Wedgy]

Sounds good Wedgy, call first okay?

Ring ring....
Shoeless: Hi Wedgy
Wedgy: Caller ID?
Shoeless: Got it in one!

[Shoeless]

Ring ring....
Shoeless: Hi Wedgy
Wedgy: Caller ID?
Shoeless: Got it in one!

Ring ring....
Shoeless: Hi Wedgy
Wedgy: Caller ID?
Shoeless: No, I programmed my phone to Call Block everything but your number.

[keytolife]

Classical one i just received:


GM XXX: Hey just saw your tradeblock, so you are looking for young players or prospects in return? Your trade block is including Burmistrov and Pulkinnen. Could we work on a deal for Jose Theodore for them?

[dyzfunctioned]

Hockey watches Shoeless.

Shoeless = Chuck Norris?

[mister_mcgoo]

You don't even watch hockey on your puter Shoeless? How do you analyze the skating technique of the players and thus know exactly how many points they will score for the next 14 years?

[Shoeless]

You don't even watch hockey on your puter Shoeless? How do you analyze the skating technique of the players and thus know exactly how many points they will score for the next 14 years?

I catch a handful of games a year that way, McGoo.

As far as forecasting points over 14 years, that's actually a pretty simple exercise. At the end of August each year I buy several cartons of cheap printer paper and I dedicate 14 sheets of paper to each of the roughly 800-1000 players I think are worthwhile - I write their name on each of the 14 pages and the year in the future I am forecasting. So, 1 page will have Lupul 2015-16 as an example. Then to each page I attach a GPS signaling device which has the information from that page encoded in it's signal.

I wait for a sunny but windy day and I go to the top of my apartment building with the 11,000 to 14, 000 pages and throw them off the building. I immediately run down to my apartment and turn on the mapping software and GPS data receiver so that I can automatically map the precise location that each paper landed.

Once I have the paper locations mapped, it is a fairly simple exercise to run a unique program I designed that assigns goals and assists to each player for each year. This program combines the distance and the direction the paper flew to calculate the associated production values. Same system Dobber uses - it's pretty slick.

So I don't really have to watch hockey games to get information for my projections.

[mapletreemarty]

I catch a handful of games a year that way, McGoo.

As far as forecasting points over 14 years, that's actually a pretty simple exercise. At the end of August each year I buy several cartons of cheap printer paper and I dedicate 14 sheets of paper to each of the roughly 800-1000 players I think are worthwhile - I write their name on each of the 14 pages and the year in the future I am forecasting. So, 1 page will have Lupul 2015-16 as an example. Then to each page I attach a GPS signaling device which has the information from that page encoded in it's signal.

I wait for a sunny but windy day and I go to the top of my apartment building with the 11,000 to 14, 000 pages and throw them off the building. I immediately run down to my apartment and turn on the mapping software and GPS data receiver so that I can automatically map the precise location that each paper landed.

Once I have the paper locations mapped, it is a fairly simple exercise to run a unique program I designed that assigns goals and assists to each player for each year. This program combines the distance and the direction the paper flew to calculate the associated production values. Same system Dobber uses - it's pretty slick.

So I don't really have to watch hockey games to get information for my projections.

11,000 to 14,000 gps signaling devices adds up to quite a bit of mulah. Are you sure you're not Donald Trump?

[Shoeless]

The Sludge Chronicles can be found here all on one page:

The Sludge Chronicles

[Old_Smokie]

I'll be following that blog all year. I quite fancy your writing style. Makes for very good morning reading with a tea. I hope you keep writing. I really think Dobber should give you a place on the forum to do one of these a week or something.

[Shoeless]

I'll be following that blog all year. I quite fancy your writing style. Makes for very good morning reading with a tea. I hope you keep writing. I really think Dobber should give you a place on the forum to do one of these a week or something.

Thanks for the feedback, Smokie - encourages me to stay at it.

[ericdaoust]

Shoeless = Chuck Norris?

I'm beginning to think so.