New Scaratings

Nicely difficult game last night. I was thinking I would be headed for another finish of 100+, but the rest of "the nation" must have thought it was fairly difficult as well as I ended up 41st. 9 out of 12 in the last round didnt hurt I guess. Hockey is never my strong suit but was able to get both the Trottier and Toronto arena questions.

Again pretty well written game. I expected the last couple weeks to be a bit top heavy in Olympics and that seemed to be the case, but they are very much fair-game questions. I whiffed on all of them in the first round though. The only question I was disappointed to see was the Bassmaster Classic winner. Really, with all the varied things going on in the sports world these days I think we can avoid those types of questions. And Im not complaining about it just because I got it wrong. As I said I whiffed on all the Olympic questions in the first round too, but those are very fair questions. Apart from the fishing question I thought it was a pretty well balanced game.

As a Packer fan it was fun to see a question on Chester Marcol. I think thats the first Marcol question Ive seen in my 8 years of playing! The NBA question on which superstar only lsted 6 years due to injury was a good question too. I suspect there were a few folks who erroneously went with Baylor on that one. Also did not know the baseball season ended on September 2 in 1918. Have to look that one up. Was it due to somethign with WW!?

The U.S. government made MLB end the season by 9-15-18.
So they ended the regular season early to finish the World Series by the deadline.
Yes, it was because of WWI.
I'm sure there's a joke about Frenchy Bordagaray in here somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find it...

we thought that we had tanked it as well. None knew hockey particularly well.
Someone just happened to know the fishin' question. I don't mind one curveball question a game.
IIRC, our 14K average put us at 44th. My guess on the rankings was "eh, 60 something".