Parity Recap Festive edition

Submitted by Adam MacDonald on Tue, 2018-12-18 23:48

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Tis' the season for callahans , sleigh rides, hot chocolate, heckles, beaver tails, and family. Well my ultimate family, what a week we have had; the chaos of the season spilled over into our parity, leaving GMs scrambling with trades and rosters so carefully assembled but torn asunder in grandiose fashion. Alas parity was not achieved, but like Sisyphus we must press on to our ever-allusive goal. 

 
 

Highlights 
 

Johnny Champagne coming down with a contested disc for a point sandwiched between Pascal and Craig.  

Hadrian had 2 majestic layouts for goals making his throwers look almost as good as his hair.  

Money had a layout to assist sequence that was the epitome of hustle to chill. 

 
 

Game of Callahans  
 

In the Moneyball vs Andrea's Fault there were 2 callahans both by Andrea's Fault. Morgan Howard and Sam Breslaurer each caught one. Shout out to the whole D lines for shutting it down, causing these wonderfully exciting plays. 

 
 

Stats  
 

Kelsey was the greediest, racking up a new season best salary of 222,000. Not to be out done Emily Kavanagh had a massive 11,000 per point salary being the new season best in that stat. Rounding out the top 3 in both categories Shubho Bo Biswas with a big week.  
 

The biggest gift givers where Emily Kavanagh and Renée Gauvin with 7 each.  
 

The most goals went to Kate Achtell with 6 followed closely by Mark Donahue and Thomas Sattolo with 5. 

Grinches this week with their knockdowns: Kelsey Charie - 7, Morgan Howard - 4, Patrick Mapp - 4, and Renée Gauvin - 4. Point of personal team pride Mapp was held at only 4 Ds

No berries or binaries this week 

 
 

Words of wisdom with Marcus 

"Parity favours risky plays.. I won't continue to miss forever!!!" Marcus then proceeded to make 6 throw-aways 

 
 

Listening Skills test 
 

Mehmet yells to his handler that he is poached as Pascal is floating around midfield. Clearly they didn't hear and threw the bomb anyway. As Pascal easily gets the sky D Mehmet can be heard very sassily yelling "That's my guy poaching deep!" 

 

Shout outs 
 

Linh Pham-Vo with the impressive 3 goals on 4 catches with no turns stat line 

Ali & Kenzie for stats keeping when they aren't playing games

 
 

And now for the best holiday tradition the airing of grievances.  
 

Starting off with Chris "Gary Bettman" Keates, his crazy expansion plan will have us in Arizona soon no doubt.  
 

Steve Bisang has 1 drop, it just messes up our neologisms.  

 

Those little rubber balls from the turf, I find them everywhere at home. 

 

 There are more but I don't want to dampen the mood too much. 

 
 

In closing, I hope you all have a great break and a happy new year. Come back refreshed and with some good heckles ready to go on January 7th. 

  
 

Ps as a league we rely on stats keepers, so volunteer or you will be heckled for your inability to push buttons and/or remember names. Bonus: you get to judge everyone else's play while you are safely on the sideline. If any great plays where missed be them your own or someone else post them.

 

PPs Tom Newman something-something bad at frisbee this message is brought to you by Amos

citations: Kelsey, Marcus, Katie A, Emily M

 

Jon Rowe

Wed, 2018-12-19 00:08

Christmas eve and New Years eve both on Mondays! Had there not been some weekend tournaments through the holidays I may've withered away.

As per Heather: Keep up with your sprints, suicides and squats!

Amos Lee

Wed, 2018-12-19 08:40

NEWMAN IS BAD AT FRI... oh. Thanks Adam.

Marcus Bordage

Wed, 2018-12-19 09:58

After doing exactly what I said wouldn't happen, I wonder if I'm some kind of opposite fortune teller where the future happens exactly opposite of how I predict it. The other option is that I'm definitely not a good thrower or throw decision maker. Unfortunately, the latter is objectively true while I can only wonder if I truly have psychic powers.

 

Next game's goal: more throwaways!

Sebastien Belanger

Wed, 2018-12-19 11:37

It should be noted that some of your misses were to Hadrian where the disc landed in bounds. That is extreemly difficult to do considering Hadrian is fast enough to catch up to almost any throw anywhere on the field regardless of where he starts from unless your throwing the disc sideways. Well done Marcus!

For the record, I'm an expert in throwing the disc sideway, it must run in the family...

Adam MacDonald

Wed, 2018-12-19 10:20

Luca, Renee, Pascal all had berries.
Citation Geofford

Heather Wallace

Wed, 2018-12-19 11:00

Adam promised to mention that multiple teams with four women a side this week. So it's not just my team that has benefited from no-shows!

Christopher Keates

Wed, 2018-12-19 12:19

"benefited".

Adam MacDonald

Wed, 2018-12-19 11:29

Wasn't festive, involved math, and I forgot.

Christopher Keates

Wed, 2018-12-19 17:41

So we have a lot of data that we capture, and when there's lots of data nerds will do what nerds will do and figure out ways to manipulate or aggregate it to try and infer meaning. One of these inferred numbers is "Salary Per Point", a measure of how many dollars you earn each time you touch the field.

The highest this number gets over a season is usually ~$6,500. Spikes usually go to ~$8,000 week to week. For example, I set what was a season high of $8,278 in week 2 (and it was a noteworthy number, I can't recall off the top of my head a weekly number being that high before [NOTE: I am excluding substitutes]). In week 5 John Haig and Patrick Mapp both beat it, and Haig set the new bar at $8,583 (edging out Mapp by $3).

These are relatively absurd numbers. To have a game like that you need to register a positive event almost every time you touch the field (G/A/AA/D) and have very few mistakes. It's a little like saying "week 5, John Haig scored a goal or threw an assist in 80% of the points he pplayed," which is an incredible performance.

This week, Shubho (?!?) made a play for the top number, coming up short at $8,524. But Kelsey decided to one-up someone twice his age with a per point salary of $10,571. Not to be outdone, Emily Kavanaugh, the youngest player in the league and a junior decided to blow all those numbers out of the water and drop $11,000 per point.

I don't know if that's a realistic number for anyone to beat over the course of the rest of the season. That is more than a goal or assist per point played. It's bloody ridiculous.

 

Steve Bisang

Fri, 2019-01-04 07:59

Tell that to my team!