Just posted this on our team page after noticing my team had a league low 6.4 shooting percentage (but still tied for first overall). Thought it might of interest here...

our league

 

Bear with me, as this is borderline OCD ridiculous - and I've been drinking.

 

So I'm checking out the H2H stats the other day and notice that I'm second to last in goals but also, second in shots and I said to myself, uh... Erik that's odd. So I broke out my calculator (and really, I'm not good at math and did I mention I've been drinking?) and did a quick check on my teams shooting %. As it turns out my team has 31 goals on 483 shots 31/483 = .064 or 6.4% which seemed low, as in last in the league low. Then I checked out the leaders for goals and saw they were at ~ 11 or 12%. And I was all like WTF, so I figured I'd do the math on everyones team (and this where the OCD comes in) and take an early snapshot and see how this may or may not change over the season. We're 5 weeks in out of 25 so I'll try to do this every 5 weeks to check for regressions (or at least again at the half way point and end of the season). With all the variables in player movement and roster changes it could be utterly irrelevant, but then again maybe not. Without further ado, your shooting %'s as of week 5 in order of most goals.

 

 

1. Corsi is 9/10ths Law 54/468 - 11.5%
2. Maine Black Bears 54/448 - 12.1%
3. EverydayI'mByfuglien 52/420 - 12.4%
4. CHR'sSauce Monkeys 52/439 - 11.8 %
5. Fear Boners 50/448 - 11.2%
6. LesterCousinsCrew 46/439 - 10.5%
7. Territorial Pissings 41/502 - 8.1%
8. BeerCansOnIce 40/409 - 9.8%
9. @Rabid Jack 38/338 - 11.2%
10. BlundellSt.Bullies 35/463 - 7.6 %
11. BettmansCapadesOnIce 31/483 6.4% !
12. Pretty In Phink 27/399 - 6.8%

The League average BTW is 9.95%. (anyone know what the real league avg. is?) (edit: last year it was 8.99 league wide) If my team for example, had shot at our league avg. I think I'd have 17 more goals to lead the league with 48. Corsi would lose 9 for 45 goals if they shot league avg. The shooting % leader Byfuglien would be down 12 to 40.

 

 

Definitely curious to se if this has any predictive value, and if my team can regress to at least an average shooting %. It would be a monster as it's been kind of a smoke and mirror job with goaltending, shots, hits and blocks. Surely my team can't continue to shoot this badly, right? Good luck the rest of the way folks, Uh... Erik. (...and, the afternoon is effectively killed - time for Hockey)

First the particulars, 12 team standard Yahoo! H2H.  Team is currently in first, but those little bastards are nipping at my heels.  I picked up Crawford when Rinne went down and now have to make room for him in the lineup.  My other 3 goalies are Howard, Neuvirth and Crawford.  I've tried an assortment of 2 for 1 trades involving Neuvy and a forward for a better forward, but anyone who is still active either a) doesn't want to trade with me or 2) is set in goal.  

Here's the rest of the team.

Centers.

M. Richards, Duby, Savard, and sometimes Pavelsky

LW

Sedin, Burrows, Flash

RW 

D. Brown, Iginla, Pavelsky

D

Buffy, Visnovsky, Pitkanen, Captain Kirk

G

Howard, Crawford, Neuvy, Rinne (IR)

My options, as I see them are; drop Neuvy - but he seems to have the edge now and will get scooped up, drop Pitkanen and roll with 3 D (also will probably get picked up), drop Savard and use Pavelskys dual eligibilty, or do nothing and let Rinne sit on the IR for a bit longer (but that'll prevent any other adds/drops).  Of course I could up the ante and overpay in a trade.  Any thoughts that I haven't considered?

 

I've mentioned this in the past regarding hockey that Jeff needed to get the Center Ice package and a Tivo but he claimed poverty at the time.  But this is unacceptable.

 

As someone who usually works until ~4:45 and drives home until 5:30, these East Coast games present a problem. Either I can try to pick them up live having missed a bunch of innings, which makes writing more difficult, or I can wait and watch the archived video, in which case I have to do what I can to avoid seeing the score. Neither is great, but I always have to choose one of them, and today I chose the archive.

Funny thing about game archives: you can't watch them until the game's actually over. As we approached 8pm tonight with the game still going strong, I knew I was in trouble; a near four-hour contest would take me close to midnight to watch, and in that scenario there's just no hope for getting much writing done, not with an 8-5 job

 

 

 

For all the effort Jeff puts into this blog it's uconscionable that he has these two bad options for watching the game when there is The MLB season pass and TiVo out there that would enable him to watch games at his leisure without all that bullshit described above.  Specifically, in the above scenario he could come home and start the game right away, fast forward commercials and pitching changes, pause and rewind as needed for extra special analysis, potentially catch up to real time in short order, participate in the GTE and have a recap ready in reasonable amount of time after the game AND still get some sleep.  How awesome would that be as opposed to what the alternative is?

So, I am proposing that we, the Lookout Landing community for the embigginment of everyone concerned, chip in and buy Jeff a TiVo and the MLB season pass

There are of course, some possible roadblocks like his current living situation, and potential contract obligations (which may have been an issue when I brought it up during the hockey season last year).  I'm not sure what cable or DirectTV plan he would require (I have Direct TV and the hockey pass - and it's AWESOME), but the benifits would be huge for both Jeff and this blog that we all love so much.

The overall price wouldn't be that huge.  The Mlb Season pass is about $150.00 IIRC, the TiVo is around $100.00 (but sometimes they're almost free) and the cable or DirectTv plan starts at $20.00 a month.  I don't know how long the obligation for the cable or DTV is but lets say a year @$20.00/month = $240.00.  So that's about $500.00.  If Jeff already has Cable or DTV then it's considerably less.  What is that?  50 people chipping in $10 or 100 people in for $5

Now, I'm not web savy enough to set up a paypal thingy but I'm sure someone here could do it, and I would be one of the first to chip in ten bucks for the cause.  Of course, if you, Jeff are content with your situation, or are otherwise unable to accept this offer, I will humbly go back to lurking.  So, if Jeff is Okay with this, please reccomend this diary - um Fanpost (that sounds just as lame) and hopefully we can get this done.

 

Oh Yeah, Go Caps, Go (too bad we didn't face Ottawa in the first round)