9/10/2009

Car Pooling Season. Place your Bets!

All right the new schedule is out and it's got 12 teams this year! That means 22 matches.. Just 4 short of a complete half years worth of Saturday matches. Throw in the two byes each half, some vacations and playoffs and this years season will clock in at just under a Decade.

This Year the Motto is "Drive Baby Drive" Your average road trip time just went up. This Year Lexington is back along with a 2nd Westford team. Not to mention the 2 Winchester Teams and that Lynnfield place. But it's not all bad news.. Both of the BSC's are Air Conditioned!

This year we are looking stronger than ever. We missed the draft due to a Coaching Change. But we were able to add a couple of New guys. ( We stole em from other teams.) Our Veterans are now Older aka More experienced. And our New Captain is Brainstorming out some killer lineups.

Now for the Breakdown of the Season and our opponents.



Ok let's break down the Teams.

Playoff Contenders.

US: Of course this is the Year.

Prediction: Champs! (no seriously 5th again)

Newburyport: Since drafting former A players a couple of seasons ago they have become a lock on the #1 regular season spot. But they keep coming up one match short in the playoffs as the more stacked team of the season takes em out.

Prediction: Finish Season in 1st, lose 2-3 in Playoffs.

Winchester Red: Ok now this team seems to pick up some sick players every year thanks to the fact that they are an open club and easy drive from Boston. Hopefully this year they don't. They have a home version and an away version of thier team. Home version is much better.

Prediction: Finish in 2nd or 3rd even money to win Championship.

Better Willows team: Ok this year there is only 2 Willows teams and One figures to be alot better than the other. The core of thier team rolled thru the Usta's and with the ability to pick and choose the best of the Willows they are Winchester Reds toughest foe for the Championship.

Prediction: Finish in 2nd or 3rd, even money to win Championship.


Westford: Last year they snuck in with some lucky matchups in the final 3 weeks. But this year with the addition of a 2nd team it gives them the opportunity to stack one of the Teams. We will probably be fighting them for 4th again.

Prediction: 4th by a point. Lose in the Finals to Willows/Winchester


The Rest of the Bunch.

Lynnfield has the power in thier top position to surprise some teams but they lack depth. Yes they creamed us in the last match last year. But that was a fluke. Northeast is riding a 5 year skid down the rankings. The 2nd Teams for the Willows,Westford, and Winchester will have a few stars but will lack the depth to reach the heights of thier better teams. Bass River is a solid average team that will be right in the middle at the end of the Season.

The sleaper of the year: Lexington. The Reason is that they have solid players and the club is like 100 miles away. It gives them the easiest Home matches due to the fact that most clubs have a hard time getting thier 5 top teams there at thier split match times. If they can mount a better than .500 road record position 4 could be thiers.

So that's this years scouting report. Draft accordingly and get a fuel efficient Vehicle.

1 comment:

Kartik said...

entertaining and fun comments, Todd! Mix in distance with the early start times for some of the venues, and it makes for a real interesting season!