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10232.1
Date: 12/17/2007 3:59:11 PM
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Hugely important match today for Canada against Panama. If we win, we're on to the next round. If we lose, it's scrimmages for quite a while.

From: uflorin
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10232.2 in reply to 10232.1
Date: 12/17/2007 7:36:09 PM
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I'm a little taken aback by the game shape for some of our players...

I don't get it.

That player is very important, both for your team (talking to their owners) and for the NT. I know there were only 2 games in previous week, but... that is all you need to get the 48 minutes.

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10232.3 in reply to 10232.2
Date: 12/17/2007 7:46:44 PM
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Pretty sure that none of the cases are about not enough play time, except where injuries are involved.

In one case, there is a player still getting back into form after a long-term injury. Next week should do it.

Another player is owned by a not particularly active owner who somehow still managed to survive into the cup until last week (when I finally took her out), so that player was getting too many minutes.

Another played too many minutes a couple of weeks ago by accident... his owner let me know he screwed up. Unfortunately, it takes more than one week to bounce back from atrocious form completely. Hey, at least it isn't HT.


Anyway, the points to take home:
- I know what's going on in most of the cases.
- Injuries happen.
- Given we're a small country, we have to live with occasional bad allotment of minutes. We can't just limit selection to teams with dedicated, NT-friendly owners.

We have a balanced roster of 15 still, so I'm not finding these game shape issues too difficult to work around.

Edited by oeuftete (12/17/2007 7:56:35 PM CET)

Last edited by Mod-oeuftete at 12/17/2007 7:56:35 PM

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10232.4 in reply to 10232.3
Date: 12/17/2007 8:36:50 PM
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Hey, we invented basketball!

Edited by uflorin (12/17/2007 8:36:58 PM CET)

Last edited by uflorin at 12/17/2007 8:36:58 PM

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10232.5 in reply to 10232.3
Date: 12/17/2007 11:50:46 PM
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Pretty good half time score. Time to go home, I'll see the result later i guess.

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10232.6 in reply to 10232.1
Date: 12/18/2007 12:52:35 AM
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We're through to the next round. Here's what the starting standings will look like, according to GM-JuicePats:

USA 3-0
Brasil 2-1
Uruguay 2-1
Chile 2-1
Argentina 1-2
Canada 1-2
Bolivia 1-2
Venezuela 0-3

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10232.7 in reply to 10232.6
Date: 12/18/2007 12:55:31 AM
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That doesn't take into account points or anything, so the ties may be broken slightly differently.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
From: harfang

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10232.8 in reply to 10232.2
Date: 12/18/2007 1:47:52 AM
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Yeah, two of those are mine. One, Cossette, I had as a backup to Laviolette in all games that week. And since Laviolette got injured in like the 5th minute of the game, he played almost all the minutes of that game and the next two, because I was out of town that week and forgot to look it up. So he dropped to atrocious. He bounced back and is now respectable and will always get between 48 and 90 minutes from now on.

Laviolette came back in 4 weeks from a 6 weeks injury, so not too bad. His game shape should be back to normal for the important upcoming games of the NT.

Good job oeuftete!
WTG getting us to the next round

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10232.9 in reply to 10232.8
Date: 12/18/2007 2:27:41 AM
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One thing I don't quite get. If we are in 8 team pools then why do we play a 6 game round robin instead of 7?

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10232.10 in reply to 10232.9
Date: 12/18/2007 2:51:46 AM
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You must have looked at the standings page before they updated it (typically well after the games finish). We played 7.

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10232.11 in reply to 10232.10
Date: 12/18/2007 3:42:26 AM
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oh...lol