Monday 11 February 2008

Highlights of 5th Minileague

Yet another fantastic month with a new record of 99 games played! Allowing for injuries and dropouts, this represents 86% of possible games played! Well done to leagues 1, 4, and 8 for playing all of your games and leagues 5 and 9 for managing all but 1 game. It was also good to see a very active league 13 this month.

A few leagues were affected by injuries this month, which can't be helped. For next season I've been wondering whether it might be better to have leagues of 6 rather than 5 and give an extra week to play games? This might reduce the impact of holidays etc and give more chance of games being played. Any views on the merits or otherwise of this would be most welcome.

The results of the fifth league are here ..... Jan/Feb league

A number of players managed four straight wins this month - Allan Hamer (once again!), David Grieve, Nick Ford, Robin Pollok and Jamie Halcro-Johnstone. Difficult to pick out a winner of "Minileaguer of the month" this time - I'll pick Allan for getting all games played in less than a week before heading off to work in Abu Dhabi! Other close contenders would be Nick for his relentless rise up the leagues, or either Robin or David for spectacular returns from injury! Also good to see Grange legends Ian Sinclair and Ian Mitchell back in the leagues and both securing promotion - competitive instincts undiminished!

Looking at all the results so far, Allan Hamer has jumped into the lead with 127 points scored, Fiona McLaren is second with 118 and Mike Moyes third with 115. Mike and Fiona also top the games played table with 21 and 20 respectively. We have 49 players who have managed to play 75% or more of the possible games. Keep it up.

Here is the new league ..... Feb/Mar league

Welcome to 4 new players this month - Kate Fry, Tim Ferguson (aged 14) and new members Nick Gray and Ralph Benson. For your benefit the rules are posted on the notice board next to the leagues.

Enjoy your games!

Dougie Brown

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