Category: News

Another message from our League Operator

The League Operator has a wide set of poor health over the past few weeks.  It looks as though it will continue that way for a while.  Notice no end date is predicted yet.
The underlying cause turns out to be a rare condition.  Although treatment has begun for that, other complications have also arisen.

The purpose of this announcement, though, is to highlight that through the collaborative work of the League Operator, his spouse, and Shooter’s personnel the raffle and league scoring continues uninterrupted.  Yes, there were icky scoresheets in Week 01 and the Creepy Bullys were misnamed for a little while, but timing consequences like these do have accurate outcomes.
On a personal level, the League Operator is greatly appreciative for all that the league has done with best wishes and expressions of hope.  There is really nothing else to be done.  Time and healing is what’s needed.

Noteworthy events from 2024 Spring Week 01

Outstanding outing(s):

  1. Mona T scored the only perfect 80.
  2. Kevin C shot a 77.
  3. Kyle B tallied 76 points.

RAFFLE Status:

  1. Ramiro G from Scorpions was selected and cashed out for 2/9ths of the available pot.  41 different people invested this week.
  2. Mike M was the second person selected and did not reap a reward for it.
  3. The remaining raffle pot rolls over to Week 02.  

OTHER:

  1. Roster alterations since sign-up night:
    • There Goes My 80 replaced Matt S with Ricky R
    • Free Agents added AJ N as a sub
    • Vatos Locos added Ramiro G (yes, another one, but this one is not known for selling Girl Scout cookies like the Ramiro G on Scorpions)
  2. League debuts included:
    • John C of Vatos Locos
  3. Steve J returned from a season or two of non-participation.
  4. Ricky R returned after a far longer absence.
  5. Creepy Bullys had one absence causing a HCP decrease thereby awarding 16 bonus points to their Mother Hustlers opponent.
  6. Last Game had one absence without a HCP impact.
  7. There was a barrage of mis-prepared scoresheets this week. The primary cause was an oversight by our League Operator who normally checks
    those things before printing. But his routine was significantly altered as explained in the Message from the League Operator post which immediately precedes this Noteworthy events from 2024 Spring Week 01 post.
  8. Zero individuals invested in the Top Shooter side-pot competition.  The deadline to enroll is 11pm on Week 03 – April 25th.  This season will require playing a minimum of 13 weeks to qualify.  See rule 24.B for more details.

A message from our League Operator

Some to many of you in the newly-begun Spring 2024 Season have noticed the absence of our League Operator.  It is due to a set of health-related issues.
The issue that caused my trip to the ER early in the morning of our Apr 4th Signup Night has been resolved now.  I will, nevertheless, likely return to League Night attendance on Week 05, May 2nd with the delay due to my greatly-reduced ability to fight off infections – a side effect of the health issues that remain.
In the meantime, there are some individuals on Shooter’s staff, especially Alex B and venue owners who have picked up one or more of the gears to propel the League forward with only minor impacts. Two minor impacts are:

    1. Raffle money winners will need to wait a week to be paid in full, but the 1st winner on a given night will have availability to the raffle investments that were made on that night.
    2. Individual Stats, Team Stats, Team Rosters, Current Schedule, and Latest News updates to the shooters8ball.com website will likely be delayed until Sunday instead of Saturday each week – to allow for the data to flow to the correct places as efficiently as possible.

I extend my deepest thanks to all of you who have been concerned whether or not you’ve notified me of it.
Please also be assured that I am taking time now to enhance documentation describing  how to do the League Operator responsibilities and how to use the tools on which the league relies for tracking all of its data.  There will eventually be a day when someone else or a team will need to replace me in that role.  I continue to work for and hope for that day to be at least a couple years away from now.