Noteworthy events from 2023_4 Winter Week 20 (Party)

Outstanding outing(s):

  1. 40 individuals were paired into 20 teams for the Scotch-Doubles tournament.  The two teams that earned the finals match agreed to split the pot evenly.   Kevin J and Stan G was one team and Lito G and Sharon W was the other.
    • Lito & Sharon were victorious in the preceding three matches against:
      • Brian C & John G
      • Nancy K and Ed G
      • Ramiro G and Sultan S in the semi-final – thereby breaking Sultan’s streak of having reached the finals the past three tournaments.
    • The team of Kevin & Stan won their preceding three matches against:
      • Norberto E & Jerry W
      • Bryan W and Nestor C
      • Dennis S and Dave G (Goose) in the semi-final

RAFFLE Status:

  1. Sean B was selected for the 2nd time this season. He had a dry break on Table 15.
  2. Fermin A was also picked for the 2nd time this season, but unlike the 1st time, was unable to cash out any prize money tonight.
  3. The entire raffle pot rolls over to next week’s official 2024 Spring Season sign-up night!

OTHER:

  1. By night’s end, 6 teams were listed on the signup sheets for the 2024 Spring season, but the sheets weren’t made available until pretty late in the evening.  Next week is official sign-up night to the Open Public, so we’ll expect at least a few more teams to join in then.
  2. The end of season ceremony included the following announcements:
    1. For at least the 2nd consecutive season, the team that finished 2nd in the preceding season, finished 1st this season.  This season they are named Last Game!!
    2. Larry P was the league’s official Top Shooter with a 9.042 points per game average. Mona T won the Top Shooter side-pot (as described in the current rule 24.B), but was the only competitor.
    3. Eric C was recognized with the greatest average-per-game percentage improvement (10.51%) when comparing final average to the average heading into Week 01. Mike B was 2nd at 09.25% and Mike K third at 08.87%.
    4. Tony L was the player whose final average points per game was closest to what it was at the season’s onset – finishing at 6.681 and having begun at 6.667.  Tony was also recognized in the 2023 Summer Season ceremony for the same achievement – so two seasons in a row!!
    5. Other stats from this season:
      • 106 of our 111 rostered players had at least one week played, and 22 people played all 18 possible weeks.
      • We had 9 players make their league debuts.  Three were from the Free Agents roster (AJ N, Kyle B, and Kevin D) and two each were with Pool Sharks (Jeff L and Nestor C) and TBD’s (Jon S and Ron M).
      • 24 different people were selected in the raffle draws this season.
        • Mike K and Nancy K were each picked three times and Norberto E had the most with four.
        • There were 11 different cash-outs totaling over eight thousand bucks.  Kyle B had the largest prize after sinking five balls in Week 02.
  3. The league operator has no prize money left over, so contact your team captain if you didn’t collect your prize money yet.
  4. Eleven 18″ pizzas were served and none remained at the night’s end.
  5. A Scotch Doubles Tournament was conducted and was much improved with our modified rule 24 limiting one timeout per game per team.   There is still room for improvement though to figure out a way to get the tourney started earlier.
  6. Trivial stat of the season: Excluding Week 01, the team that played against Road Warriors each week had a BYE scheduled for the following week. Week 01 is excluded because Week 02 was the Road Warriors’ BYE week.

End of season standings in reverse order:

  1. TBD’s– featuring members of the Scott family.
  2. Pool Sharks– featuring members of the Dogan family and friends.
  3. Sharp Shooter’s – featuring 8 different roster lineups during the season.
  4. Should Be Out – a team that only used a substitute in three of the 18 non-BYE weeks.
  5. Scorpions a team greatly admired by the League Operator for having paid their full weekly fees before the 2nd half of the season even began.
  6. One Way- Upward, true to their name finished higher in the standings than in the preceding season.
  7. Crazy Crabs – the primary team to take advantage of the ACS Illinois State Tournament this season.
  8. There Goes My 80 – also highly regarded by the League Operator for getting the full fees paid each and every week of the season – whether or not all the players were on site.
  9. Behind the 8-Ball – the only team that began the season with a BYE week and ended the season scheduled against Road Warriors.
  10. Racking My Brain
  11. Pocket Rattlers
  12. Creepy Bullys
  13. Double Focus
  14. Road Warriors – their furthest distance ever from a 1st place finish.
  15. Free Agents – although the team name is familiar from the past, the majority of their team membership was formed on sign-up night.
  16. Big Slick – A team that only used a sub in two weeks and was satisfied using  only three players on four other weeks.
  17. Wolff Pack – in the hunt for most of the season.
  18. PhaCues – It seems like they were in each section of the standings at one week or another throughout the season and had a significant thrust in the final four weeks.
  19. Last Game – finishing with an average of 310.94 points per week.  The team members were captain Fermin A, Esteban Q, Norberto E, Alejandro T, Guillermo G, and Edgar A.

Congratulations to all!!