rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/14/85)
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Well, the NHL regular season (or is that really the pre-season) is winding
down. Teams are beginning to gear up for the playoffs. Which can only
mean one thing: it is time for another hockey pool. I will moderate a
playoff pool for those who are interested. You will, if you are interested,
send to me, at the electonic mail address below, the following:
a list of 100 (one hundred) NHL players. They should be ranked in the order
in which you think they will finish in scoring at the end of the Stanley
Cup playoffs. Thus you want to take into consideration how many games
each team and its players are going to play (ie. Oilers are probably
going to play a lot of games, but probably Red Wings probably won't).
But be aware that there are ALWAYS upsets in the playoffs. The players
on your list must be in the following format:
last name, first name, team abbreviation
and everything must be in lower case (actually, I will run a program to
convert to lower case anyway). Once all the entries are in I will run
the draft. A random drafting order of the participants will be
determined by drawing names from a hat (or something similar). The
first person then gets the top player on his/her list. The second
person will get the top play from his/her list that hasn't been chosen
already (I suspect Gretzky will top most lists). The draft will
continue this way (taking the top undrafted player from subsequent
lists) until the last person's turn. That person gets two players in
a row and then the draft proceeds back in reverse order, ie. the
draft goes 1 -> n, n -> 1, 1 -> n, n -> 1, ... So the first and last
people always get two picks in succession.
The playoffs begin sometime around April 9 or 10 (I haven't got a
schedule handy). I will accept entries until 1 hour before the first
playoff game starts, or until I have 10 entries. I will not accept entries
after those times. So, if you are afraid the mail will be slow *enter
early*. Of course, that means you may not know who will play whom and will
make your choices tougher. You must decide how late you can afford to
wait.
There will be a $5 entry fee to make things interesting (that's $5 'murican
to you folks in Canada - about $7 canuck the last I heard). The person
whose players amass the most points (goals + assists) in the playoffs will
receive 75% of the fee total. Second place will receive the other 25%.
So, get out there and make your choices. Oh, when you mail your entries to
me make sure that you mention that in the subject line so that I do not
accidently peek at your list.
Here are the accepted team abbreviations:
boston bruins bos
buffalo sabres buf
calgary flames cal
chicago black hawks chi
detroit red wings det
edmonton oilers edm
hartford whalers har
los angeles kings los
minnesota north stars min
montreal canadiens mtl
new jersey devils njd
new york islanders nyi
new york rangers nyr
philadelphia flyers phi
pittsburgh penguins pit
quebec nordiques que
st. louis blues stl
toronto maple leafs tor
vancouver canucks van
washington capitals was
winnipeg jets win
So, a sample list might begin as follows:
gretzky, wayne, edm
bossy, mike, nyi
dionne, marcel, los
kurri, jari, edm
...
Send list, questions, complaints, flamesm etc. to me:
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Rick Gillespie
rick@ucla-cs
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