Noteworthy events from 2024 Autumn Week 18 (Party)

Outstanding outing(s):

  1. 24 individuals were paired into 12 teams (should have been 2 more but I forgot to enter Esteban & Braxton…sorry guys!) for the Scotch-Doubles tournament.  The two teams that earned the finals match agreed to split the pot evenly.   Romy G & Danny O was one team (who actually left before the semi-final was over between Kevin J & Goose vs Mike M & Francisco), Kevin J & Goose were the victors of that. Romy asked both teams if they would split so he could go home! It was agreed!
    • Romy G & Danny O were victorious in the preceding three matches against:
      • Joe L and Cristina
      • Lito G and Josh
      • Eric L and Johnny G in the semi-final
    • The team of Kevin J & Goose won their preceding three matches against:
      • Bye in the first round
      • Ed S and John V
      • Mike M & Francisco in the semi-final

RAFFLE Status:

  1. Primo was selected for the 1st and last time this season. He had a weird break on Table 14, but the last second the 8-ball was kicked into the side pocket.
    • Had a nice angle on the 1-ball in the corner pocket to come up for the 2-ball.
    • 2-ball straight in the side with a little draw so not to be shooting over the 9-ball.
    • Almost a full table length straight-in on the 3-ball and made it with ease.
    • Cashed out for 4/9th of the raffle pot.
  2. Braxton was also picked for the 3rd time this season, nice break but broke dry.
  3. The remaining raffle pot rolls over to next week’s official 2025 Winter Season sign-up night!

OTHER:

  1. By night’s end, 16 teams were listed on the signup sheets for the 2025 Winter season.  Next week is official sign-up night to the Open Public.
  2. The end of season ceremony included the following announcements:
    1. Mona T was the league’s official Top Shooter with a 8.973 points per game average. Larry P was ahead with 9.194, however, he didn’t have the 13 weeks to qualify. There was no Top Shooter side-pot this season.
    2. Frankie C was recognized with the greatest average-per-game percentage improvement (08.88%) when comparing final average to the average heading into Week 01. Cristina C was 2nd at (06.79% and Mike K third at (05.78%).
    3. Sean B was the player whose final average points per game was closest to what it was at the season’s onset – finishing at (0.03%) change.
    4. Other stats from this season:
      • 99 of our 101 rostered players had at least one week played, and 20 people played all 16 possible weeks.
      • We had 12 players make their league debuts.  Six were from the new team 501 Club roster (Renee R (it is her BDay today), Rich V, Don L, Matt G, Chris R & Andrew St), John W from Free Agents,  Chris Einterz from Chalkoholics, Tom Kane from the Road Warriors, Patrick Wetzel from Stanly Steamers, Ed Flatt from the Wolff Pack and Jenn Y from There Goes My 80! Welcome to all!
      • Counting Party nite – 26 different people were selected in the raffle draws this season.
        • Mike K was picked 5 times (cashed out twice), Ed S was picked 4 times, Roy S picked 3 times, and Braxton, Mike M and Nancy K were each picked twice. (Yes, Nancy was picked ONLY twice!)
        • There were 6 different cash-outs (counting Primo last night) totaling over eight thousand bucks.
        • The league operator has no prize money left over, so contact your team captain if you didn’t collect your prize money yet.
  3. Eleven 18″ pizzas were served and none remained at the night’s end.
  4. 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 (once Nancy figures that out!).

End of season standings in reverse order:

  1. 501 Club – featuring ALL new members.
  2. Racking My Brain– WHAT????
  3. 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.
  4. PhaCues 
  5. Creepy Bullys 
  6. Stanly Steamers –(sure this name is changing since Stan’s out!)
  7. Behind the 8-Ball
  8. Last Game
  9. The Butchers
  10. Pocket Rattlers
  11. Ferocious Ferrets – the primary team to take advantage of the ACS Illinois State Tournament this season.
  12. Chalkoholics
  13. Road Warriors – a rarity to see them this far from 1st place
  14. Free Agents 
  15. There Goes My 80
  16. Wolff Pack
  17. Big Slick – finishing with an average of 317.63 points per week. The team members were captain Frankie C, Kevin J, Mike B, Dennis S, Alex O.

Many members ask about Paul all the time! We want to wish Paul (who’s so far been having a pretty good couple of weeks) to keep it up and hope you have a wonderful 2025!

Congratulations to all!! See y’all next season! Happy New Year! (and thanks for your patience!)