THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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2008_Spring/Summer REC (SF/Oakland) |
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REC Cheep Thoughts from 5/4 | |
| 5/7/2008 12:00PM | |
REC: Triple Singles beat Technics, 43-27. Benson Tran had 16 points and at one stretch scored 14 of TTS's 16 straight points. Technics trailed 6-18 out of the gate and never caught up, along with a 3-point 3rd quarter to boot... The Flint Tropics failed to show for their game against ACGT and thereby lost their 5th regular season game, relegating them to single-elim playoff status. They are also now 2 slots behind in the payments... SFFA fell barely to the Spartans, 42-39. Adrian Garcia with 14 points. Steve Long 15 points in defeat... Still Balling has another scoresheet with blanks for names, but they won 38-33 over the Wolverines. I won't bother with any Still Balling stats. Wolverines were led by Kris Neri, who tallied 18 points... Dunjoz defeated the SF Warriors, 49-38. Brandon Chu with 16 points, 9 of them in the 4th quarter. Joel Villareal compiled 16 points, 8 of them in the 4th, in defeat. Tim Jones added 11 rebounds for Dunjoz... Bay Function prevented MSG from clinching double-elim status with a 52-31 win. Greg Hom led the way with 19 points... Faded only mustered 27 points and fell victim to the resurgent Oakland Warriors, 27-47. Pete Chong got hot with 20 points. Eric Lee collected 10 points and 19 rebounds. Robby Kwok scored 15 points but Faded combined to shoot just 9-for-52... Highlife beat WWWD, 47-36. Looks like there may be no stopping the Highlife train. For once, Derek Lau was contained, scoring only 6 points on 3-for-17 from the floor. He still grabbed 11 rebounds. The high man was Curtis Sasaki, who scored 12 points. Mualimu Collins collected 9 points, 8 rebounds, as no WWWD broke the double-digit barrier in points scored. STANDINGS WATCH: Here are the standings... EASTERN 1. (5-2) What Would Wat Do -- combined 2-1 vs OakW and BayF 2. (5-2) Oakland Warriors -- combined 1-1 vs WWWD and BayF 3. (5-2) Bay Function -- combined 1-2 vs WWWD and OakW 4. (3-4) Technics 5. (2-5) ACGT 6. (2-6) Spartans NORTHWEST 1. (7-0) Highlife 2. (4-4) Faded 3. (3-4) MSG 4. (2-5) The Triple Singles 5. (0-7) SF Free Agents SOUTHWEST 1. (5-2) Dunjoz -- 3rd tiebreaker: strength-of-victory = 12.0 ppg 2. (5-2) SF Warriors -- strength-of-victory = 7.0 ppg 3. (4-3) Still Balling 4. (3-4) Wolverines REC 5. (2-5) Flint Tropics On 5/11, the Southwest visits the East, with the Northwest playing intra-conference. Remember, the Spartans and Faded are done with their regular seasons, so we can skip them over. Also, the theory on the home/away is that there are more teams in SF, therefore mathematically during the playoffs, an SF team could stay home simply because they are playing against another SF team. So that's why we force the SF teams to go and play the East in the regular season. Btw, Dunjoz and the SF Warriors had to go to a 3rd tiebreaker because both the head-to-head and records against common opponents were stalemates. We had to use the vague NFL wildcard tiebreaker (the coolest yet simplest tiebreaker system I know of) called "strength of victory", which I have defined over the past 6 years since dreamleague's inception as "point differential in games won". But over the years, I've added the caveat that we should exclude forfeits in the averages (of course) and we should limit the point differential to 20 points because a 20-point blowout is just as bad as a 20+ point blowout and we never want the games to get dirty just because of point differential. This tends to be more of an issue during one-weekend tournaments, though. So anyways, Dunjoz had the better average point differential. Here's what we got... sw/e: Dunjoz at What Would Wat Do sw/e: SF Warriors at Oakland Warriors sw/e: Still Balling at Bay Function sw/e: Wolverines at Technics sw/e: Flint Tropics at ACGT nw-repeat: Highlife at MSG nw-repeat: SF Free Agents at The Triple Singles Serendipitously, we have the Warriors at the Warriors for bragging rights on adopting our belove pro Golden State mascot. Unfortunately, MSG got unlucky and will have to battle for double-elim status against mighty Highlife. Well, at least they know the playoffs run through Highlife, so at some point they've got to beat them. Of course, then again it could be a moot point if we have enough teams with single-elim status to split things up into separate Upper and Lower brackets. Then again, I think I might just go with one massive 16-team bracket because... Also, since both the SF Warriors and The Triple Singles want 5/18 off due to a mutual friend's bachelor party, and that the SF Warriors are no worse than a #6 seed if the playoff matchups were determined right now, and The Triple Singles look like they could land around #11, |