Cumulative Scores:
thaxton: 552
kr1963: 496
Herkey#1: 490
GAGE: 466
tigerfan: 463
Gold: 455
therick: 413
gobigred: 404
accboy: 387
vaisforlovers: 382
RD149-2: 346
sgallan: 255

Week 8 Scores:
Gold: 101
thaxton: 101
GAGE: 89
Herkey#1: 74
RD149-2: 56
kr1963: 54
gobigred: 51
tigerfan: 49
therick: 40
vaisforlovers: 36
sgallan: 25

accboy: 22

Notes:
Sorry this is so late. Well, I'm finally back in it--at least it appears that way until I take a closer look at the scores from Midlands/Scuffle week (which just ended a couple hours ago, so get off my case). I'm pretty sure there we no matches in Week 9, so this puts us up to date.

If we awarded bonus points for the Reno ToC, I would have really closed the gap (I had 3 champs and a runner up). I vote for awarding bonus in that tournament next year--it was probably tougher than the Scuffle and more difficult that Midlands or Vegas at some weights. I became aware that the other league decided to score bonus for Reno, but which tourneys get bonus isn't something that should change at this point.

This brings me to my next point. As I was reviewing my chances of making the playoffs, I remembered something that we did last year that I forgot to put in the rules this year. Last year, the guy who scored the most points in conference week (but would not have otherwise placed high enough in the cumulative standings to make the playoffs) earned an at-large bid to the playoffs.

Like I said, I forgot about the rule when writing them, so it's not in the rules right now. So, I leave this to you guys. Discuss, and if there is significant interest, we will put it to vote.

Originally Posted by GAGE

I should be ahead of TigerFan. I have 466 and he has 463

Fixed!

Originally Posted by Gold

This brings me to my next point. As I was reviewing my chances of making the playoffs, I remembered something that we did last year that I forgot to put in the rules this year. Last year, the guy who scored the most points in conference week (but would not have otherwise placed high enough in the cumulative standings to make the playoffs) earned an at-large bid to the playoffs.

Like I said, I forgot about the rule when writing them, so it's not in the rules right now. So, I leave this to you guys. Discuss, and if there is significant interest, we will put it to vote.

This is what I was asking about in the rules thread when I asked if you qualify for the NCAA tournament if you win the conference week. But you didnt know what I was talking about so I didnt press it. I was the one that benifited from this rule last year so I like it. It really makes conference weeks interesting for the guys on the bubble or the ones that won't make it otherwise.

So would that potentially make 7 playoff spots?

It would make seven playoff spots unless the person who scored the most was already in the top six. Or we could say that the person with the best conference score the would not have made the playoffs otherwise will make it, making it seven no matter what.

I know we have incentives for winning the good conferences and all that, but I don't want to see someone pick up a bunch of so. con scrubs and other weak conf champs and get into the playoffs because his scrub w/ 0 aa chance wins a crap conference scored more points than daniel dennis did in the big 10s.

That's what I did last year. Picked up a bunch of UNI guys and scored the most points of everyone in the conference week. But you can only do that if you save your free agent pick ups.