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Still 2 undefeated teams! And both of them had >200 point margins this week. Owen has jumped ahead of Jasmine on the points for ladder and leads the league in that category; however Jasmines Mob are playing better D, as they have the least points against in the league, leaking more than 200 less points than Team Stowie who are 2nd best...  at defense that is - not sure exactly what that says in this game - haha.

There are three teams with only the one loss: Wade Machine, Dannys Lebronts, and Team Heaver. While there are still three teams yet to register a win: Fudges Sixers, Pikus United, and Team El Bonanzas. Interestingly Fudges Sixers have the worst D in the league,  meaning they play D like the Golden State or that they are just plain unlucky to cop teams on fire.

In the NBA, Boston are leading the East with a 16-4 record; and San Antonio are leading the West with 17-3, however Dallas are biting at their heals, on a 9 game winning streak, only 1 game back in 2nd place. Durantula is still leading the league in points with 27.4 pg; Love is miles ahead of the rest with 15.3 rpg; and Rondo is even further ahead of the next best in assists with 14.1 pg. Westbrook is committing the most TOs with 4 pg. And Pau Gasol and Love both have the most dub dubs, both achieving this feat in 75% of their games, while no-one has had more than 1 TD so far.

In our league, Pau Gasol is on 59.9 fppg, and there are 3 ahead of him: Rondo on 60.1 fppg, Westbrook on 60.5 fppg and Chris Paul leading the way with 61 fppg. 8 of the top 10 scorers are PGs, however the next 8 players are not.

And just quickly, we made another change to Elbonzs team: We dropped Donald Sloan as he is stuck in the D-League not likely to get a gig in the big time for a while, and we replaced him with Marcus Thornton as he was the winner of the poll we conducted. I want to say again that if Elbonz wants Sloan when/if he returns, then he should get first dibs on him, I reckon. Same goes for Redd...

So, its time for the rookie draft and the PSD. Previously just a meh day its stature has been raised significantly with the advent of the mature aged rookie.

So who will be this years Barlow/Podsiadly? Will there even be one? Surely with the compromised drafts, teams more than ever are going to be looking to bolster their lists with some of these guys.

Follow the draft live at- <a href="http://psrdrafttracker.afl.com.au/">http://psrdrafttracker.afl.com.au/[/url]

More over the break
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Preseason Draft
Pick 1. Nathan Ablett. Love the photo! Premiership winning forward, its not suprising that he was picked up by the GC. I reckon, despite a few years out of the comp, a price of $250k will see him ignored by most. A rookie pricing though might make him relevant.

Pick 2. Blayne Wilson. Blayne- really? thats a name these days? nevermind- He was expected to go to the Eagles, and here he is. An All Australian U18 in 2009, injuries have seen him go backwards- far enough to fall out of the National draft. I guess well have to see how he fits into the Eagles lineup off the half back line. Definitely one to watch.

Pick 3. Bachar Houli. Priced in the $400+ range, no way is his lack of opportunity at the Bombers going to be enough to get him a gig in anyones fantasy squad.

Pick 4. Michael Hibberd. Won the Fothergill-Round Medal for the most promising young player in the VFL. This is the same award that has been won in the last 3 years by Barlow, Nahas and Valenti- perhaps not staying players, but all three made a splash in their first year. Definitely one to watch.

Pick 5. Cameron Bruce. Have Hawthorn gone completely mad!?! Priced at a whopping 102 average, I cant see anyway hell be improving on that with a change of environment. Have the Hawks done the right thing topping up their list once again? Or is it just my blatant bias showing through?

Pick 6. John Anthony. Averaged 75 in 2009,...

I know this is a little late but I have been distracted by the cricket so i thought Id give a quick review of the round and go through the match ups next. Only one round to go now, 7 teams in the running for 4 playoff spots and 6 of those teams are playing each other this week. That is pretty much the perfect end to what has been a very close season. In the last two weeks the Eastern division has really caught up on the west and now could have two teams make it through to post season action, which makes it even more the interesting. It should be a good playoff series, with still plenty of action happening on the waivers as teams tweak their squads trying desperately to get any advantage over the opponent. There was a couple of huge omissions this week, with some high profile being dumped from squads.
In the NFL this week it was the Thanksgiving round (thanksgiving sounds great; a public holiday, a Xmas lunch without the Xmas BS, and three games of football). The round started with the Pats dominating the Lions and Brady being given a perfect game rating for the day. The Jets also won which sets up a huge game this week against the Pats. These teams have equal records, the winner should take out the division and the AFC. There is plenty of big games over the next few weeks as almost every division is up for grabs, any ways, in our league...
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Wiggles Vs Aussie Battlers; Whoever wins is guaranteed to make playoffs.  If wiggles loses and Stowie wins, wiggles will need to outscore Stowie by 28 to make playoffs as well as rely on results from the west.  Aussie Battlers  is guaranteed playoffs unless he is outscored by over 50 points.
Stowie Vs Too Seriouseses; Stowie needs to win to make playoffs and also hope that wiggles doesnt outscore him by 28 and also rely on results from the west.
Adelaide Maggots Vs Doobia Doobs; Neither of these teams can make playoffs
In the West;
The Pack Vs Under...

So, word has it that league play will be revamped next year.

Along with the traditional H2H league, there will also be one that allows for a pure points-based leader- with unlimited entrants.

Sounds good to me! Heres hoping that if theyre tweaking that section, that they are also allowing for unlimited leagues!

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December is upon us and this is where the season battles up for the top couple of spots. Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal all play each other in the next month. Chelsea have had injuries hit them hard, Lampard has missed almost 3 months now Drogba is battling malaria. Alex is due for surgery and Terry is now out. United are now sitting top after a 7-1 demolition of Blackburn. Berbatov scoring for the first time in 10 weeks netting 5. Arsenal are there or thereabouts again with another solid win against Villa. Fabregas is out atm with a hamstring and is likely to miss another 2 weeks. Manchester City got back to form with a 4-1 win away to Fulham but could only manage a 1-1 draw with Stoke who scored in the 92 minute to equalise. Spurs 2 big wins over the past 2 weeks coming from behind to beat Arsenal 3-2 and again coming from behind to bit Liverpool 2-1. Their key player Rafael Van Der Vaart is with a torn hamstring likely to be out for at least a month. Bolton sitting 6th have been crusing along nicely but had to come 2 down at home to blackpool to snatch a point. The big Merseyside clubs are struggling and find themeselves in 10th and 16th spot respectively. Down near the bottom West Ham got a much needed win last week but still find themselves on the bottom with Wigan and Wolves in the bottom 3 atm. Fulham 1 point further ahead in 17th.
 

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So, this is more of an "Hey, isnt that interesting" sort of a thread, but I figure, in the current lull, it cant hurt to take a look at.

So lets take a look at team supercoach scores throughout the year. One thing to keep in mind, because of the 3300 rule, the average score for a player would be 75.

The first thing that strikes me at round 12 is Freo. Whilst they are 8-4 and sitting in 4th on the real ladder, here they have given up more SuperCoach points that theyve made coming in at less than 75.
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Carlton looks to have shot high, but when you look at the actual ladder, you can see that although they were in 6th at the time, they had the 4th highest percentage (behind St Kilda, Geelong and the Dogs- the other "top 4 teams in the table).

The biggest fall on this ladder would be North. Though again, although they were sitting 6-6 in 9th on the real ladder, their percentage was at 76.27


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If we look at the second half of the season though, we can see a couple of things. First of the mark though is Collingwood. They found another gear in the second half of the season and it shows being the only top4 team to increase their output in the second half of the season.

We can see Freo and Carlton absolutely hemmoraging as they moved into the finals, and I reckon without the home ground advantage, Freo might have gone a different way.

Essendon showed why...

What a round. So many close games! Going into the final day, almost every game could still go either way!  And the lead changed in a few games on that final day too.

This entry is going to be a smaller one today as Im pretty flat out with other things at the moment, and probably will be the same next week.

We still have 2 undefeated teams in Jasmines Mob and Run TMC, but both were given a run for their money this round; but importantly - both got the job done again! Jasmine is also sitting atop the overall points ladder, whereas Owen comes in in 4th place. And on the other side of things, we still have 3 winless teams in Fudges Sixers, Pikus United and Elbonanzas. Fudge is actually sitting in 11th spot on overall points ladder, but still hasnt been able to muster up a W!

Before I get to the reviews and previews, just want to give an update on Elbonanzas...   Still no word from Elbonz himself - and as discussed, we have made a change to his team and will do another in the coming days. We have dropped Michael Redd for Jeremy Lin and there is currently a poll to decide who to bring in for Donald Sloan with Manny Harris in front - but only by 1 vote so Im not going to do it just yet. If you want to influence the decision at all, and havent yet, make sure you log in and <a href="http://games.espn.go.com/fba/leagueoffice?leagueId=23530" target="_blank">go to our league homepage[/url] and vote. Ill do the swap when there is a clear leader. And want to point out again that Elbonz should get 1st priority on Redd and Sloan if he wants them when he comes back.

Now over the break will be the reviews of each game in matchup 4; and the preview of matchup 5 :::::

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Matchup 4 Review:

<a title="Ruddys Cavaliers (Peter Rudd)" href="http://games.espn.go.com/fba/clubhouse?leagueId=23530&amp;teamId=14&amp;seasonId=2011" target="_top">Ruddy’s Cavaliers[/url] 784 v <a title="Team Stowie (Daniel Stow)"...

Looks like my awesome plan of bringing in Arteta didnt work. Good thing it didnt need to. Enjoy.

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I know Im starting to sound like a broken record but, damn this one close league! With only two rounds to go no one is certain to make the play offs and only a few teams a out of it all together. Top spot got knocked off again and in the West the top 4 teams are seperated by a game and points for only and in the East the top three teams are also only separated by PF. The last two playoff spots are certain to be decided by PF and with some of the scores lately its still pretty open.

In the NFL this week the Patriots beat modern day rivals, the Colts, the Bills won their second game for the year, the packers smashed the Vikings, the Steelers belted the Raiders and the eagles held out the Giants in a fumble fest, but the biggest story was the miraculous victory by the Jets at the death. Mark Sanchez led his men up the field 85 yards in less than a minute snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Santonio Holmes getting on the end of an amazing final drive and catching the winning pass for an impossible touchdown. Also Randy Moss continues to suck it up, no catches again this week. Well, time for the league review

<!--more-->First game, well start with the biggest score of the round, going to AUSSIE BATTLERS (e) as they beat SAM CROW (w) 143-71.  ABs had two players score in the 30s, led by Steve Johnson with 31.  This huge score includes a big fat 0 from the TE, making it even more impressive.  Sam Crow fell victim to fumble fest with Bradshaw fumbling all over the place to land him a zero too.  The win takes the ABs to top of the east conference with a couple of  big games to finish the season.

The second match up was the biggest game of the round with the winner to take top spot in the West.  The eventual winner was THE PACK (w) as he knocked off top place BOLDIN SHOWERS (w) 121-87.  The Pack extended his winning streak to four straight, the best of anyone at this present time and resigned BS to their second straight loss and down to...

Hey guys,

Ashes are just on our doorstop better late then never there is a fantasy league and a place we can discuss the ashes

<a href="http://cricketdreamteam.sportal.com.au/?p=index">http://cricketdreamteam.sportal.com.au/?p=index[/url] TooSerious League: 873909

Australias squad

Australia 1 Simon Katich, 2 Shane Watson, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Marcus North, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Xavier Doherty, 10 Peter Siddle, 11 Ben Hilfenhaus.

English squad

1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Ian Bell, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steven Finn

Scores  England 10/260  (Bell 76  Cook 67  Siddle 6/54 inc hat-trick Dohetry 2/41)

Aus 481 (Katich 50, Hussey 195 Haddin 136 Finn 6/125)

England 1/517 dec ( Strauss 110 Cook 235 n.o, Trott 135 n.o)  

Aus 1/107  ( Ponting 51 n.o Watson 41 n.0)

Match Drawn

Second Test starts Friday so make sure any trades are done between then and dont forget your captain. Ryan Harris has been added to the squad for Steve Smith so maybe a possible bowler getting dropped and Bolinger might come in. Johnson looks like the most likely to go. England remain unchanged