Jump down to previous posts pertaining to 2/19…

THU 2/16 (12:15PM) — Thank you to those of you who responded quickly on the payment issues. I am now working on the tipoffs and Freddie has done a first draft of the Oakland schedule. There is a major issue in A/R-SJ where I only count Beast Mode with 5 regular season games on the Roadmap, so I need to take time to unravel that mystery before I go too far down the path.

One thing to keep in mind is, please do not send us special requests after every Tuesday midnight. PLEASE LET YOUR TEAMMATES KNOW: TUESDAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. This will significantly reduce the pressure, plus gives us enough lead time to solve difficult conflicts between teams having or wanting opposite timeframes.

Below are the matchups. They are NOT in chronological order yet. This is hot off the presses now that all the payments have been verified as paid or 99% no risk of being delinquent at this point, even if not 100% paid. The payments that are still in limbo (or affected by the Bay Bridge closure), well, I have postponed those games. That’s what you get. Check the previous posts to see how we got here. I know that there is one serious conflict thus far (AAA-OSF Prob vs Falc). Again, check the Roadmap to understand where these matchups are coming from. If you sense that we’re missing a matchup or something is awry, have your captain text me ASAP.

And remember from the previous post that we’re moving a few games to other weekends.

WED 2/15 (2:00PM) — Again, Friday morning is the expected publish date of the schedule for this Sun 2/19. Meanwhile, you should be checking the Roadmaps for the matchups. Aside from the last post, A/R-OAK has a slight modification to its roadmap too. I will probably not be posting the schedule table, even without tipoffs, until tomorrow morning.

As I wrote before, due to the payment delinquencies, I do not foresee being able to post the final schedule for this Sun 2/19 until Friday morning. The only team with a special request was 6FT-OSF Trainwreck (12p-2p) and OAK-AM Throwing Up Bricks wanting a bye (which they got by total luck). It is now too late to ask for a special request.

I hope to post a new Special Request page that also has a list of tipoff timeframes for the season. Sorry about that.

WED 2/15 (1:00PM) — The Bay Bridge will be closed this Sun 2/19 so here are the games affected…

• AL/NL Underdogs at Cobras: We’ll have to move this to 3/4, which results in a doubleheader for both teams. The Cobras are an expansion team partially funded by me, so I will tell them they will have no problem with that …I’d feel more sympathy for the Underdogs about this imposed doubleheader, but then again they’ve neglected paying me for two weeks, so the sympathy isn’t quite there.
• AAA-OSF Chaos at O2M: We’ll have to move this to 2/26, which results in a doubleheader for both teams. THIS STILL MEANS CHAOS SHOULD GET UP-TO-DATE ON PAYMENTS BY THIS AFTERNOON, PER THEIR CAPTAIN. I let O2M pay after the deadline, although they thankfully paid the full amount, so if we’re maybe keeping score, we’re even on that one. I’d feel more sympathy for Chaos about this imposed future doubleheader, but then again they’ve neglected paying me for two weeks, so the sympathy isn’t quite there.

WED 2/15 (11:45AM) — The schedule probably won’t be done until Friday this week. Here’s why. Here’s the email I sent this morning to Dream League captains…

Dear Dream League captains,

If you have been paying these past two weeks while I haven’t checked payments, then you’re good. For those of you who haven’t paid, you know who you are. This is when I catch up to the payments and find out you haven’t been paying, which then upsets me a lot because it’s like you show up every week and don’t even think about the costs involved with your gym time, refs, and scorekeepers.

I just don’t understand how you can show up and not give a second thought to paying. I guess I was brought up different.

So, I have my finger on the trigger for these teams, really anxious to forfeit them unless you pay me asap…

6FT-OSF Misfits: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
6FT-OSF Sonics: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
A/R-SJ GBP: 4th game coming up 2/19, $175 paid, $300 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
A/R-OAK Colossal: 4th game coming up 2/19, $250 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
A/R-SJ Marc Jackson Five: 5th game coming up 2/19, $175 paid, $400 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
AAA-OSF Chaos: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
AAA-OSF BTR (AAA): 3rd game coming up 2/19, $220 paid, $100 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
AAA-OSF Falcons: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $220 paid, $100 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
AAA-OSF Prodigies: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
AL/NL Underdogs: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
OAK-PM LightsOut: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $250 paid, $100 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
REC-O+ LaoRu+: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $150 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
REC-O+ Kurruption: 4th game coming up 2/19, $100 paid, $350 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.
SF-AM Boogie Down Eagles: bye 2/19, 2/12 was 4th game, $120 paid, $300 owed immediately.
SF-PM Kuyabraddaz: 3rd game coming up 2/19, $120 paid, $200 owed prior to scheduling 2/19 game.

Ouch, guys. Really, really not happy about this. Don’t mean to be so rude and upset about this, but come on, guys.

The above list: very much a pain to compiile. That is why you all are paying an extra $100 the last week. It makes up for this pain.

REPEAT: THIS IS WHY YOU WILL END UP PAYING $100 EXTRA. EXAMPLE: ALL TOLD FOR SF TEAM ON PAYMENT PLAN: $620. IF PAID UPFRONT WEEKS AGO: $520.

PLEASE PAY NOW: http://www.drmlg.org/bay/leagues/sundays/pay/

Again, you’re about to be forfeited. Text me if you have issues with this.

Also, the info below has been corrected to 6 regular season games instead of 7. That was a copy/paste error when we used to have regular seasons at 7 games, albeit only double-elimination for teams finishing above .500. We now have a 6-game regular season and ALL teams get double-elim status for playoffs.

THU 2/9 (3:15PM) — Here are the roadmaps in the embedded spreadsheet below. I’ll put this page in the scrolling article blurbs on our homepage so it’s easier for you to access, but if you ever need to find, use either the Search field and search on “roadmaps” or use the League Navigator widget to pivot on “Schedules”.

Let me know by email if you have any questions, but the following should be self-explanatory…

LEGEND:
Wk = code for block of games
Date = actual date of Matchups
Code = matchups based on team #s
Matchup = description of matchups
Comments = comments
green = moved from another Wk/Dt
red = moved to another Wk/Dt
* = (asterisk) home/away reversed

]]> http://www.drmlg.org/bay/sunday-2012-winter-spring-roadmaps/feed/ 0 http://www.drmlg.org/bay/sunday-birds-eye-view-schedule-for-2012-02-12/ http://www.drmlg.org/bay/sunday-birds-eye-view-schedule-for-2012-02-12/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:04:02 +0000 poormanscommish http://www.drmlg.org/bay/?p=3387 THU 2/9 (12:15PM) — The last post had blank rows and therefore had errors. I was one foot out the door rushing to an appointment, so I didn’t bother double-checking. Thanks to Rady Khean for hitting me up on email and pointing it out. It’s now corrected below.

THU 2/9 (12:00PM) — Final tipoffs are below. As previously mentioned, in SF we got booted by CYO in the middle of the day at BHPY, so we had less gym time to work with. There’s a makeup weekend in A/R-SF coming up due to a rocky start there with some teams starting on 1/15, then the quirks with the 1/22 49ers and 2/5 Superbowl. So I’ve moved up that makeup weekend to this Sun 2/12.

Every other division except maybe for A/R-SJ and REC-O+ is proceeding normally as you can see from the list of byes below. In A/R-SJ, as you’ll eventually see on the roadmap that will be published hopefully by tonight, there’s a juggling of matchups which creates a bye for Monstars and a different matchup for Space Jamz (as well as a doubleheader for GBP). In REC-O+ there’s juggling that creates a bye for Dragon and a different matchup for SQ. That’s a small sampling of how roadmaps start out as a template and get changed around due to various issues. In Dream League, I’ve found it best to work with something malleable like that. The goal is to make sure everyone has 6 regular season games and try to avoid doubleheaders (GBP’s was necessitated by the fact that they switched divisions).

Also in the previous post, I accidentally left off the AL/NL Rangers at Underdogs matchup, which is now tacked onto the end of the WKRC set. I’ve also added mathematical formulas on the scheduling spreadsheet to help doublecheck that teams aren’t left off the schedule each week, so hopefully something like that won’t happen again.

We will forge ahead thru 2/19, so don’t take that weekend off. You’ll see this tonight when the roadmaps publish. Please read the previous posts so that you understand in this league, it is simply not advisable to take any vacation/byes if you intend to play every game. And if you intend to vie for the championship, this becomes especially true next month and thru April.

Jump down to previous posts pertaining to 2/12…

Read the previous posts where I talk about not assuming you’ll have any byes. Btw, we’re planning to forge ahead and make 2/19 a regular game weekend…

WED 2/8 (3:15PM) — I know you guys are all still flying blind without roadmaps posted, but here are the matchups for 2/12. In SF, we are bumped out of BHPY in mid-afternoon due to CYO playoffs. Because of this, I swapped out a makeup weekend for A/R-SF such that only four teams in that division are playing. Sorry, but you probably wouldn’t be playing anyways due to CYO’s stranglehold on BHPY and it goes without saying that gyms in SF are nearly impossible to get these days.

Below is NOT in chronological order. You can see that it’s mainly a core dump, division by division.

The rest of the schedule of matchups is still subject to any wrenches thrown at me from left field, namely the MSR page which I haven’t had the time to check yet.

So, obviously, more info is coming. If you’re listed as a bye team, I’d actually wait until tomorrow if you could to see that it’s official. If you absolutely need to make it official, then email me, but know that the entire schedule is interdependent on the demands of other teams as well and, as I wrote in the email announcement, you should be getting into the mindset that you never have byes and if you do get a bye, you treat that as an unexpected bonus in terms of free time off.

THU 2/2 (12:30PM) — Forgot to list AAA-SJ byes (God Bless It and Bring Protection). They’re on there now, scroll down.

THU 2/2 (11:45AM) — Forgot to mention that I had to put SQ outside of its preferred timeframe, at 1pm. I’ll give them the option to shift all 3 games at BCRC back to 1230,130,230pm if they want, but if I don’t hear from them then it’s still 12,1,2pm set, as you see below.

THU 2/2 (11:15AM) — The schedule for Superbowl Sun 2/5 is below, scroll down. Please note, a/r-sj Rudy Gay has a doubleheader. I honestly can’t quite remember how we got there, but a lot of that had to do with the fact that many SJ teams could play on 1/22 when they couldn’t. The doubleheader for Rudy Gay is necessary to keep the remainder of the season roadmap smooth. Sorry guys, but oh well. Remember, the Losers Bracket of playoffs requires the ability to survive doubleheaders, so consider it training for the most grueling part of Dream League.

Also, this week, the 6FT-SF team that travels to meet Beast (Oakland) is Below The Rim 6FT. You’ll see it explained on the 6FT-OSF roadmap later, but with 7 teams, 1 of which is in Oakland, each of the 6 other SF teams will visit Beast for those 6 regular season games. Then Beast will travel to SF for the first round of playoffs. Then after that, case-by-case basis ensuring that Beast’s opponent has traveled a similar amount as Beast itself.

Here are the byes for this Sun 2/5, with maybe a brief one-line explanation. Once I saw what was happening, I made adjustments to various season roadmaps to minimize the effect on 2/5 and I got sort of lucky that everything fit into the SF and SJ gyms, while the OAK gym is surprisingly sparse. Some of the postponed matchups (which are essentially byes for 2/5) will be doubleheader makeups, some won’t; it just depends, so wait for your division roadmap. I know you are still flying blind, but everything will make sense once you see the season roadmaps for each division…

BYES FOR 2/5 (* – natural)
AL/NL byes: all teams (easier to just give a league-wide bye)
aaa-osf byes: all teams (easier to just give a league-wide bye)
aaa-sj byes: Bring Protection, God Bless It (easier and this matchup played on 1/22 when SJH/Ukourt didn’t)
a/r-sj bye: Pineapple Express
a/r-sj bye: River of Life Christian Church (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sj bye: SJ Barons (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sj bye: Good Shepherd Christian Community (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sj bye: Wii Not Fit (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sj bye: Anklebreakers (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sj bye: Beast Mode (SJ) (SJ roadmaps are complicated)
a/r-sf byes: Dynasty A/R at Blazers (postponed, Dynasty needs 2/5 bye)
a/r-sf byes: Who’s Next at Motionz (postponed, Who’s Next needs 2/5 bye)
a/r-sf byes: Wolverines A/R at Full Tilt (matchup already played on 1/15)
a/r-oak byes: all exc Colossal at Undrafted (only matchup not played on 1/22)
6ft-osf byes: Sonics at Marin (postponed, Marin needs 2/5 bye)
6ft-osf bye: Trainwreck* (natural bye, fit the mathematical schedule best)
sf-am byes: Kuyabraddaz at Lob City (postponed, Kuya needs 2/5 bye)
sf-am byes*: Illuminati at Dynasty Rec (this “matchup” is actually a natural bye)
sf-am bye: Elite (SF)* (natural bye)
sf-pm byes: all teams (very hard to schedule PM games on Superbowl)
rec-o+ byes: all exc Dragon at SQ (very complicated, see roadmap later)
oak-am byes: all teams (6 of 10 teams started on 1/15, all played on 1/22, division progressing smoothly)
oak-pm byes: all teams (very complicated, see roadmap later)

Next up: posting the season roadmaps and getting caught up with payments.

Jump down to previous posts pertaining to 2/5…

WED 2/1 (11:45AM) — There are complications in scheduling 2/5 due to the Superbowl (kickoff at 330p). There were also complications impacting the season roadmaps due to the 49ers game 1/22 and many teams not starting until 1/29. So it is these combinations of factors making me hesitate to publish the season roadmaps just yet. Therefore, let me get through this 2/5 mess and things will post shortly.

Let me give you an example of how messy things are. I have one team in A/R-SF that needs to move up to AAA because there are key players already on another A/R-SF team and there was a miscommunication. Because I had actually finished the season roadmaps for both, I had to rack my brain and come up with a smoother solution by swapping out a AAA-SF team that probably doesn’t belong there, and is more suited for A/R-SF.

Then there’s a new team being added to AAA-SJ and they are slow registering and paying, but I wanted to have another competitive team in there because that’s been a major complaint there. It’s crazy how it takes some teams more than a month to gather their teams.

Then there’s a team in SJ that got blown out by 30 and feels like they’re in the wrong division, so there’s more juggling there for me yet again, with this new upper division team coming in and basically taking their spot, etc. etc.

Again, this is EVEN BEFORE I CAN EVEN THINK ABOUT SCHEDULING 2/5. This is why when I finally get a chance to lookup the payments and your payment isn’t there, I can get irritable. This is why when I post information up like this and you don’t read it and you’re asking me something I already addressed, I get fed up. I’m just overwhelmed.

This is also why stats aren’t up yet. If you know our dreamleague.org stats site, you probably have gotten the sense that all stats are contained division by division. This is so that if Joe Schmoe plays in AAA and A/R, we have one unique player in each division, and this player is accumulating stats in two divisions. If you throw all stats into one bucket, then we have to create a duplicate Joe Schmoe, and that from a stats perspective makes no sense. So as long as there are teams preventing me from locking down a division, I’m not going to be able to enter the stats. And as long as there are more than one division with such complications, I’m going to queue up the to-do’s on creating the stats sites instead of doing it piecemeal.

Here is an email I sent out to all captains. IF YOUR CAPTAIN ISN’T RECEIVING OR RESPONDING TO THESE EMAILS, YOUR TEAM WILL BE AT A DISADVANTAGE WITH LACK OF INFORMATION. “You snooze, you lose.”

But don’t worry, I’m in good spirits esp after Dominic McGuire proved he should be in the Warriors rotation last night. OK, I got 57 responses to the 2/5 Superbowl email below that I need to notate on the scheduling spreadsheet…

Dear Dream League captains,

7. If you respond after Tue 11:59pm, then things can be messy and there will be no guarantees on anything. Again, be proactive and help me out here.
8. Expect the schedule for 2/5 to come out late again. I can already tell it’s going to be another complicated week.
9. Remember, all these complications on 1/22 and 2/5, I feel like I’m going out of my way to make people happy. Please treat me with reciprocal respect.

FRI 1/27 (12:30PM) — Swapped the 6p/8p at BCRC such that Beast can be at their 6p max timeframe, esp it being Beast’s captain’s birthday. Guess we overlooked that one. Thanks to Hyperducks and Triple Threat for the trouble, now at 8p.

We also have an issue with the 7,8,9p slots at ISAH. I’m working on that one and all those captains know. Finally, there’s an issue with 6ft-sf teams and I’ve sent an email to captains on that one. More info should follow pertaining to these. Sorry for the hiccups.

FRI 1/27 (6:15AM) — Final schedule has posted below with tipoffs, scroll down. Thanks to Freddie for doing the Oakland scheduling and staffing. At this late juncture, it will be next to impossible to change it. I will explain soon for next week and onward how you would make your special requests — and pay $5 for the special request — each week BEFORE TUESDAY MIDNIGHT.

THU 1/26 (7:30PM) — Here’s a rough draft. These are all in chronological order, but we left out tipoffs because we’re not sure if they will hold. We would like them to. We still need to look at not overlapping players playing on more than one team and staffing scorekeepers.

We’ll put in the tipoffs when they are final. For now, each gym opens at approximately these times: ISAH early morning, BHPY early morning, BCRC early morning, WKRC early morning, and PHHS midday. Please see underneath the table for BHPY location.

Click here to read previous posts

NOTE: If you see blank rows in the table below, there are errors; if so, please disregard the table and email me immediately. All games in bold cannot be moved/swapped.

THU 1/26 (1:00PM) — Headed to a meeting with B.Velasquez, commish of TripleDouble. Almost done with AL/NL… (12:15PM) — Added AAA-OSF… (12:00PM) — Added the two REC-SF divisions SF-AM and SF-PM… (10:45AM) — I think I’m gonna need until tomorrow morning to post the schedule. Freddie’s sick and Wylie’s now got two jobs, so we’re shortstaffed to begin with. On normal weeks, we’d already know the matchups, so it wouldn’t take longer than Thu morning, barring unforeseen circumstances, but as I mentioned below, I’m building the season roadmaps from scratch and it’s just taking a little longer than usual.

So bear with me and just exercise some patience. Yes, your stats and scores from 1/8, 1/15, and 1/22 are around the corner. I just can’t worry about that right now and I don’t think you’d want me to be focusing on anything except the roadmaps right now. Also, if you had some kind of special request for this Sun 1/29, sorry, but telling me now is just too late. Again, it would cause friction and delays, and you should’ve told us back on Tuesday anyways. I hope everyone agrees that right now, I and the 130 or so teams this season need the path of least resistance.

Thanks for your ongoing patience and understanding. Keep checking the bullets below for updates, division by division. Don’t worry, it’s going to be a great season. I can’t even begin to describe each division (and probably won’t have time to, but we’ll figure that out later).

THU 1/26 (11:15AM) — Here’s an ongoing update…

• A/R-OAK: Almost every team was ready to go on 1/22, so I went ahead and did the roadmap, which has yet to post. That means I can’t add or subtract anymore teams here. Because Colossal and Undrafted didn’t play on 1/22, they’ll need to do a makeup game coming up, but we’ll discuss this later after the roadmap posts.
• OAK-PM: This is the REC-, aka REC Lower or REC “Pure”, where we discourage adding guys who are playing in another division. The only exception is when there’s someone playing in the REC+ and he is a non-impact player, in which we restrict him to 10pts 10reb. Now, the REC- has been split into AM and PM, so because we have the same situation in SF, we rename this to “OAK-PM”. So we have 19 teams in the REC-, AM and PM combined, and 9 of those have been designated for the PM, some influenced by the soft-launch of three teams doing a doubleheader on 1/8. With many games already done 1/8 and 1/15, I have “locked” this division with the 9 teams. We also moved SpaceJams to REC+ and Town Biz to OAK-AM, effectively rendering their first meeting irrelevant (a 7th regular season game that won’t count in the standings) — both teams paid a $25 for changing divisions. It goes without saying that I’ll be posting this roadmap soon.
• OAK-AM: Please read the description of OAK-PM above. We have 10 teams here and I’ve already created the roadmap. Four teams didn’t play on 1/15, but I made every team play on 1/22, so those four will have to do a makeup later, to be determined.
• REC-O+: This one is REC-OAK+ aka REC Upper in Oakland. This one was difficult to do because we have 13 teams. Thirteen is a really challenging number to work with.
• ALL-SJ: As mentioned before we’ll combine the 1 6FT-SJ, 3 AAA-SJ, and 13 A/R-SJ teams together. To do this, I first combine the 6FT and AAA for four teams. Then there’s the 13 A/R-SJ teams. I keep them separate for the first 4 of 6 regular season games, then the 5th and 6th game are based on standings. Obviously, this was a very complicated process, esp. with the two weeks of A/R-SJ games already played.
• A/R-SF: Thankfully, scheduling 1/29 for this division was “easy” in that only two games have been played so far. I’m going to split into AM and PM, 6 teams each, for simplicity of future scheduling, however, there are some grey areas. Nothing major, though, and we’ll discuss later.
• SF-AM: This is morning division for REC-SF. There wasn’t a clear line between AM and PM, so until you see the matchups, don’t assume you’re in AM or PM. I put 9 teams in here and we’re adding 1 more, the former SF Free Agents from last season, so the total is 19 in both. Since we have 9 teams here, that means there’s an odd team out, taking a bye, every week. For 1/29, I really don’t know whom to pick to take the bye, so it will probably be Kuyabraddaz, which was the last team to pay other than the Free Agents, who will inherent last Sun 1/22′s natural bye.
• SF-PM: This is the afternoon division for REC-SF. As explained above, it wasn’t totally black or white, so please wait to see if your team is in here. It’s all for easier scheduling purposes and was based entirely on your tipoff preferences in your registration. Being placed in SF-PM or SF-AM is also a final thing. We cannot go back and change it. Really. We can’t. It’s a mathematical issue, fitting you within the structure of a 9- or 10-team format. There are 10 teams in SF-PM.
• AAA-OSF: We have 14 teams here, but I plan to keep the playoffs separate in SF and OAK. One issue is that Rack City (fka SF City) has late tipoffs and its best to put them in OAK for that, which would make the divisions 6 in Oakland and 8 in SF. Not that big a deal considering we can do any number in any location for playoffs, but just putting Rack City outright in Oakland would be so much easier. So, we’ll see. If we keep the structure as-is, one SF team will have to go visit one OAK team every Sunday, and for now I have Rack City at Rockit Scientist for 1/29. Of course, this is just a placeholder for now.
• AL/NL: 6 teams, 2 of which are Oakland. Everyone plays each other once for 5 games, then repeat a matchup for the 6th game. It’s obvious one of the repeats should be the two Oakland teams. Therefore, every SF team goto OAK at least once to play against the OAK teams. I’ll figure what’s the best balance. Remember, when you’re playing at this high level, travel is expected. There just aren’t that many good teams in terms of parity near your area. So that’s the trade-off.
• 6FT-OSF: There’s one more 6FT-SF team on the fence. Since there’s only been one game played, I don’t really need to do the roadmap yet, but can arbitrarily set matchups for 1/29 as we await status of this last team.

WED 1/25 (3:00PM) — Finished REC-O+ and SJ as mentioned below. I’ll need to skip 6FT-OSF as there’s one team that says they’re paying, but then no response back. What we have left are REC-SF, A/R-SF, AAA-OSF (we’ll need to combine the 5 OAK and 9 SF teams in AAA, at least for one or two regular season games)… WED 1/25 (12:30AM) — Made a near-final update of the Rumor Mill. Teams that should be paying will get notification that they will need to pay. This is one of the few weeks where I’ll be behind on chasing you all for payments of the next installments, but that doesn’t mean we won’t forfeit you on the spot if you don’t pay by tipoff. You know who you are. Sure, you can wait until the schedule comes out, but really, you’re gonna end up paying the next $100 anyways, right? Why risk it? Pay here at bottom of page. Again, if you’re on your 2nd game, you need to have paid $220-$275 (depending on SF, OAK, or SJ) prior to tipoff.

So right now I’m working on the season roadmaps. The next division I will work on is REC-OAK+, aka REC Upper. I had started the roadmap but luckily didn’t finish it, which allowed us to add Cereal Killers and Dragon at the last minute, without making me go insane (because I hadn’t set it in stone yet).

After that, I’ll just go down the list of the Rumor Mill, starting with 6FT-OSF. I should also note that REC-SF was played on 1/22, but remember, all I did was take the teams that didn’t play on 1/15 and played them, while giving the teams that did play on 1/15 a bye for the 49ers game. Finally, we didn’t start AL/NL, AAA-SF, or AAA-OAK at all. Incidentally with only 5 teams in AAA-OAK, I will have to combine the divisions to create a 14-team division there in AAA.

(see bullet list above)

Suffice it to say, a lot more information coming down the pipeline. IT IS BEST IF YOU GUYS JUST WAIT UNTIL THIS IS DONE. READ THE PREVIOUS POST BELOW THAT LISTS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK, TO SEE WHEN YOU WILL GET MORE INFORMATION.

TUE 1/24 (1:30PM) — Here’s what’s happening this week. Please understand that no season schedules can be cast in stone until the number of teams in a particular division settles and there is no chance of adding or subtracting a team from that particular division.

ALL TEAMS SHOULD EXPECT TO PLAY THIS SUN 1/29. However, divisions with an odd number of teams will likely have one team that hasn’t already taken a bye, take a bye. If you have a burning desire to be that team, please email me BUT UNDERSTAND THAT NOT ALL REQUESTS CAN BE ACCOMMODATED and that EVERYONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING RIGHT NOW, so please keep your demands and expectations to a minimum, if you and everyone else really want this ship to sail properly.

This week…

• MON (already passed): wait for last-minute teams to register and pay.
• TUE: start formulating season roadmap for divisions likely not to add or subtract teams last-minute, continue accepting payments.
• WED: block entry of new teams, begin finalizing season roadmap, of which 1/29 matchups are obviously included.
• THU: verify gyms, publish 1/29 schedule.
• FRI: publish season roadmap, division by division.

So again, this week you will primarily be flying blind without a season roadmap, which means you don’t know who you’re facing yet. This is normal over the first couple weeks, and recall that we were hit with an unexpected wrench from left field: the 49ers game.

Also, I have renamed the REC divisions as follows:

• REC-SF has been split into AM and PM, so I’ve called them SF-AM and SF-PM, respectively.
• REC-OAK- (i.e., Lower division) has been split into AM/PM, thus OAK-AM and OAK-PM.
• REC-OAK+ (i.e., Upper division) is now known as REC-O+. We’ve called it this in the past.
• Even though San Jose will be an old school “blended” division, I’m still calling them A/R-SJ and AAA-SJ so far (6FT-SJ probably not though, we’ll see).

I’m actually done with the season roadmaps for A/R-OAK, REC-O+, OAK-PM, and OAK-AM, but won’t be posting those until next week. You can sort of see this development listed under the byes, where I have two teams listed as a matchup as a bye; this means that the matchup, previously scheduled on 1/22, was moved to another week other than 1/22. You’ll see this once the roadmap announcements are made.

FRI 1/20 (10:15PM) — Earlier this evening, Top Flight REC requested a swap with the 10am game and went through the trouble of getting permission from all teams involved. Therefore, you now see their game at 10am vs Black Out and WWWD vs Oak Warriors has moved earlier to 9am… FRI 1/20 (8:00AM) — Oakland is done. Here’s the schedule for this Sun 1/22. Please scroll below the table to see how we got here. For those of you new to Dream League, the pref1 and pref2 columns correspond to the respective team’s tipoff timeframe. This week, due to the 49ers game, a vast majority of you are roughly 9a-2p, as you can see. So those columns are literally the information that I use to come up with your tipoff this Sun 1/22 (I actually messed up a couple, but it was due to the overwhelming pressure of this 49ers conflict — my bad).

As far as the remainder of your season, I will create what are called season roadmaps next week. At that point, I’ll know whom is matched up against whom each week and my only major task is to figure out the aforementioned tipoffs based on the overlapping timeframes. It will also serve as a schedule and calendar for you, obviously. However, the roadmaps can sometimes be changed should a scheduling issue arise for your team, although such changes cannot be guaranteed. More on all of this next week.

NOTE: If you see blank rows in the table below, there are errors; if so, please disregard the table and email me immediately. All games in bold cannot be moved/swapped.

THU 1/19 (6:45PM) — SF schedule has been confirmed. Kuya and Aubergine agreed to play in the 9a-2p timeframe and the gym director said 7p and after is a no-go. Therefore we only have REC-SF games this Sun 1/22 in SF. The new gym will open next week. Also, I have put San Jose in the same table and I previously discussed that in the posts below the current table, so scroll down and read that if you need to. Up next is Oakland and I hope to get that done tonight sometime before midnight (sorry guys!)…

THU 1/19 (2:15PM) — Crap, I miscalculated REC-SF. Captains have been sent a follow-up email. Kuya and Aubergine are in different sub-divisions (AM/PM). I might have to force another AM and PM team to take a bye this Sun 1/22 if we can’t work something out. I can’t work on this until after 5p, either. Let’s see how the dust settles. And Oakland, thanks for your patience… (2:00PM) — Per the previous post, scroll down for the SJ schedule. The following email was just sent to SF captains. I need to get some things done, but it explains pretty clearly who is probably playing this Sun 1/22 and who’s not. For OAK teams, please wait until tonight for an update. We’ll get there, don’t worry. Again, the Rumor Mill page has everyone’s 1/22 preferences listed.

This information is hot off the presses. First off, I have finally found a secondary gym in SF. An announcement will be made by early next week.

If you do not respond, I’ll just assume you don’t want to play that one time slot that’s available, assuming you’re not in REC-SF.

THU 1/19 (1:30PM) — Here’s the schedule for San Jose. Next up: SF, then OAK. Scroll way down past this table to see previous posts pertaining to this Sun 1/22.

Issues for San Jose…

• Byes for Rudy Gay, Good Shepherd, and Anklebreakers, as requested by them.
• Bye for SJ Hibachi (AAA equivalent team).
• Don’t start any 6FT teams yet as I need confirmation they are comfortable with the regular season and playoff strategy, which is to mix them in and then rank the teams after 6 regular season games, then split the playoffs accordingly as they do with NCAA, NIT, and so on. This is “old school” in that most leagues start up with a wide range of competitiveness. I’m sure we’ll discuss this further.

THU 1/19 (11:15AM) — Rumor Mill page updated… (8:00AM) — Still checking everyone’s emails. Almost done. While it’s becoming obvious that we can’t fit everyone into the 9a-2p,7p-9p tipoff timeslots — and that because of the 49ers, effectively we’ll have to extend the season out one more week (update to CALENDAR page will happen next week) — please standby for the final word for your particular team. As I always say, be ready to play, but at the same time don’t get too discouraged if your team ends up with a bye. That’s just how it goes with Dream League sometimes. Sorry for the delay, been battling a sore throat too. Hope to have an update for you by 12pm today.

WED 1/18 (2:15PM) — I will now check everyone’s emails to me about the 49ers game conflict. I suspect that many of you will have a bye. There are only so many gyms where we can cram 9a-2p,7p+ tipoffs anyways. Stay tuned and check the Rumor Mill for more info.

MON 1/16 (11:15AM) — Right now you should be checking between this page and the Rumor Mill page for updates. Below is an informative email I just sent out to all captains explaining what’s happening this week.

One thing I forgot to say is that we have the scores and stats from 1/8 and 1/15, but won’t be posting those until the registrations and payments have been settled. This is because each division needs to be nailed down before we start inputting stats. If we mess any part of that up, or if one division is to be combined with another due to lack of teams, it’s extremely difficult to go back and correct it. So all of this depends on captains paying for their registrations. The longer they hold out, the longer it takes to setup the stats.

Meantime, I will be getting those 1/8 and 1/15 scoresheets to Freddie so at least he can start posting recaps that we usually broadcast on Twitter. More on that later.

Here’s the latest email to captains…

Dear 2012 Winter-Spring captains,

Thanks,
Rich

The gym change was due to a scheduling miscommunication with the BCRC director, who has rented out BCRC this Sunday to another function. I texted him the schedule on Thursday and had to text him again today, 24 hours later, before he told me about the other rental. Maybe I was dead tired last Sunday night when he told me. I honestly don’t remember him telling me and usually this notification is done via text. I have no text message from him saying we couldn’t have it this weekend. So, who knows.

The move to WKRC will cost the league $100 since WKRC is more expensive. I could’ve just skipped this week entirely, but I decided to eat the cost. It is literally a terrible financial decision on my part, because it does not harm the league to move everything back one week, but I just want the greater good to be happy and not have another excuse for people to say I’m this or that even though those people have never met me.

THU 1/12 (1:45PM) — Scroll down and you’ll see the schedule for this Sun 1/15. Below that was the schedule from last Sun 1/8. The following is the description of how I arrived at this schedule, copy/pasted from the Rumor Mill page…

THU 1/12 (1:30PM) — Finished REC-OAK-, which was a pain in the ass… (12:45PM) — Added REC-SF, next up is to finish out REC-OAK+ now that I’ve heard back from Make It Drizzle… (12:30PM) — Added REC-OAK+. Next up: REC-SF… (12:15PM) — Added REC-OAK-. Next up: REC-OAK+… (12:00PM) — Added AAA and AL/NL. Next up: REC-OAKs… (11:45AM) — Added A/R-SJ. Next up: AAA-OAK… (11:30AM) — A/R-SF added, fixed A/R-OAK, next up A/R-SJ… (11:15AM) — A/R-OAK added… (11:00AM) — I hope to get the schedule for this Sun 1/15 done by 2pm today.

Here’s what happens the first 2-3 weeks of scheduling. On 1/8 and 1/15 and to a certain extent 1/22, I’ll “randomly” matchup teams based on who has paid, etc. For these first 2-3 weeks, you really have no idea who you’re playing. You also only know that I’ll be doing my best to put you in your timeframe, given your unknown opponent’s timeframe as a complication as well as gym availability. By 1/22 or 1/29, I’ll have what’s called a season schedule template or ROADMAP in place that has mathematically derived matchups. I will fit those matchups with the matchups that already occurred, so that everyone still ends up with 6 regular season games in this math-driven schedule. Suffice it to say, you’ll need to be aware that you’re flying blind for the first couple weeks. Schedules should be up each Thursday.

Here’s a division-by-division breakdown that I will add to as the day goes by, starting with 6FT-SF/OAK and 6FT-SJ…

6FT-SF and 6FT-OAK: We are going to combine the 6FT-SF (5 teams) and 6FT-OAK (1) divisions. We will have one division of 6 teams. Each team will play each other once for 5 games, then the 6th game will be a repeat based on standings. Each of the 5 SF teams will travel once to the OAK team. During the 6th week, the OAK team will play against an SF team. However, for playoffs, this would mean the OAK team gets to play in OAK in Round 1. After that, it will probably alternate for that OAK team. For SF teams, that means the bulk of your games are in SF, with a 20% chance of an OAK game during the playoffs, every other round. For the first week, I’m planning to have the last team that paid, Eagles, make the first trip to OAK; at least that gets it out of the way for them. PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Eagles at Beast in Oakland (pending approval of Eagles), Trainwreck vs Below The Rim in SF. PROBABLE BYES: SF Free Agents and Scorekeepers. OUT: OAK Rich’s Rayguns.

6FT-SJ: As explained to all SJ captains, we’re gonna try to regroup this division somehow. More info later.

A/R-OAK: Oops, I screwed up. Some of the teams that paid don’t wanna start til 1/22. Here’s the correction. Grey Goose, Undrafted, and Redhawks don’t wanna start til 1/22. We have Sole, Dream, and Main Event left over. Since Dream is scorekeeping for their spot, let’s give the first game to the teams that have paid hard money: Sole vs Main. PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Sole Supremacy vs Main Event. PROBABLE BYES: Dream, Grey, Undrafted, Redhawks, Seven Brothers. The following crossed out stuff was the original post which erroneously assumed everyone wanted to start on 1/22: No payment from Seven Brothers yet, so they’re the 7th team and odd team out. I usually like to schedule teams with opposite timeframes first so that we get that complication out of the way asap. PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Grey Goose vs Sole Supremacy A/R, Undrafted vs Redhawks, Dream vs Main Event. PROBABLE BYE: Seven Brothers.

A/R-SF: As of yesterday, where I wrote that I had to put a stop to the moving variables at some point, we had 6 teams paid and of those 6, 5 teams that wanted to start on 1/15. That means there’s a 5th team out for this Sun 1/15. I usually pick the last team to pay to be that team out. Again, best to matchup teams with opposite timeframes first. PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: The Fam vs Motionz, Full Tilt vs Wolverines A/R. PROBABLE BYES: Braves, Chaos, teams that didn’t pay yet.

A/R-SJ: There are exactly 6 teams paid and wanting to start 1/15. Again, I’ll try to matchup teams with opposite timeframes now, to get it out of the way. PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Pineapple at Good Shepherd, Monstars at Space Jamz, Anklebreakers at Basketballs Of Fury. PROBABLE BYES: Everyone else who wanted 1/22 start or hasn’t paid yet.

AAA-OAK: There are no teams who have both paid and want to start on 1/15. Bye for everyone, I guess.

AAA-SF: There are no teams who have both paid and want to start on 1/15. Bye for everyone, I guess.

AAA-SJ: As emailed and discussed, we are revisiting the San Jose region, although A/R-SJ will begin.

AL/NL: There are no teams who have both paid and want to start on 1/15. Bye for everyone, I guess.

REC-OAK-: Make It Drizzle said it’s ok for them to be in the afternoon, although there will still be complications down the line. But they played two PM games on 1/8, so I’m forced to keep them in PM. Why did they play then? Because I wanted to be nice and they paid and wanted to play 1/8 before we knew we would have AM/PM. With that we have 8 PM teams and 7 AM teams ready to go. The odd team out in the AM will be the Grim Reapers since they paid the least ($150 down). So here are the PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Triple Threat vs Inglorious Baskets, Make It Drizzle vs Rawkats (probably at 330p), Straight Gunnin vs Lau Ru Lower, Town Biz at Space Jams OAK, Hefty vs Warriors, WWWD vs Kryptonite, Throwing Up Bricks vs Black Out. The following was the previous post, now out of date: 14 teams paid and ready to go for 1/15. Luckily an even number of teams in both AM (8) and PM (6). Gotta remember not to repeat the games we had from 1/8. Still working on matchups and waiting on Make It Drizzle to see if they can be an afternoon team, since the other two teams that started on 1/8 were PM. That would make scheduling much easier. I’ll come back to this.

REC-OAK+: Only 4 of the 11 teams have paid and of those 4, only 3 want to start on 1/15. Of those 3, Team China paid the latest, so I’ll make the PROBABLE MATCHUP FOR 1/15: Black Catz vs JS23.

REC-SF: 5 AM teams ready to go and paid, 3 or 4 PM teams ready (waiting on word from Boogie Down Eagles if they are ready). I don’t want to mix AM with PM yet because it might add complications fitting into the eventual season roadmap if that gets set in stone. Usually what I do is make the odd team out the team that paid last (Wolverines Rec and Team CB in this case, with Team CB dependent on Boogie). PROBABLE MATCHUPS FOR 1/15: Rothstein vs Illuminati, SFFD vs Frisco, Lay Up City vs Hapa, Team CB vs Boogie Down (maybe). BYES: Wolverines and the unpaid teams.

NOTE: If you see blank rows in the table below, there are errors; if so, please disregard the table and email me immediately. All games in bold cannot be moved/swapped.

Schedule from Sun 1/8

NOTE: If you see blank rows in the table below, there are errors; if so, please disregard the table and email me immediately. All games in bold cannot be moved/swapped.