Under the heading "I shoulda kept my mouth shut".......Buffalo cut Billy Joe Hobert last week after he publicly states the one thing a player never, ever should. Under the heading "RAFFLE '98".......Is it too early for me to determine who I'm going to draft with the first pick overall (in Lg I)? This after I drop yet another game...... :( Anybody stay up late enough to watch the fourth quarter of MNF this week? There was another "classic jinx" moment. A graphic popped up showing the only other NFL game with no TD or turnover -- right before the ball popped loose. The offense recovered, but still............. I'm giving early notice on this: work is going to have me super-swamped for parts of Weeks 10 and 11 (Nov 2-8). The lineups for Week 10 will go out on time Nov 2, but just about everything after that will be on a very delayed basis. The best I'm hoping for is sporadic login time to take care of things. The worst-case scenario is that I won't be able to do anything on the 'net until the following Saturday (Nov 8). (I'm placing my bet on somewhere in between.) For those who have complete 'net access, you can finger my Vnet account (troan@vnet.net) to determine when I was last able to login. This will give you an idea of how delayed things will be. (I switched to a PPP account, but I still telnet into Vnet to pull mail -- for now.) Yet Again: Don't forget about the section in the rules titled "Unresponsive Ownership". A couple more teams are a week away from being contacted under this section. Daylight savings time ends this coming weekend for the U.S. This will add an hour to all deadlines -- relative to GMT/UT. (The normal deadline for lineups will move from 15:00 UT to 16:00 UT.) I also get an extra hour of sleep Saturday night..... :) :) Standings ~~~~~~~~~ Record Division Pts Max Avg Pts Max Avg W L T W L T For PF PF Agnst PA PA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Obliterators 4 4 0 1 2 0 588 96 74 567 93 71 Purple Bruins 4 4 0 2 1 0 552 87 69 561 100 70 Peace Frogs 4 4 0 2 1 0 485 78 61 527 108 66 Trouncers 3 5 0 1 2 0 551 97 69 613 106 77 Quarks 6 2 0 3 1 0 675 108 84 569 89 71 Wisconsin Panthers 5 3 0 3 1 0 713 122 89 622 104 78 Technicolor Goatboys 3 5 0 1 3 0 569 89 71 674 122 84 Millionaires 1 7 0 0 2 0 523 79 65 645 97 81 Longhorns 8 0 0 4 0 0 624 100 78 445 81 56 Rainbow Warriors 6 2 0 2 1 0 673 101 84 563 105 70 Slaying Annihilators 2 6 0 1 2 0 519 77 65 595 87 74 Hurons 2 6 0 0 4 0 501 106 63 592 101 74 Results ~~~~~~~ Trouncers ( 67) Obliterators ( 89) Peace Frogs ( 77) Wisconsin Panthers (100) Quarks ( 80) Technicolor Goatboys( 69) Millionaires ( 58) Rainbow Warriors ( 70) Hurons ( 41) Longhorns ( 60) Purple Bruins ( 53) Slaying Annihilators( 77) Waiver Wire ~~~~~~~~~~~ FFL ------------Dropped------------ -------------Added------------- TM TM Pos Player TM Pos Player ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 PHI RB Charlie Garner NYG HC Jim Fassel 6 GB WR Derrick Mayes BUF K Steve Christie Trades ~~~~~~ None this week. Trade Windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All Times Eastern (EDT/EST): Thursday 7:00AM: Team 8 Thursday 8:00AM: Team 11 Thursday 9:00AM: Team 12 Thursday 10:00AM: Team 1 Thursday 11:00AM: Team 6 Thursday 12:00PM: Team 4 Thursday 1:00PM: Team 2 Thursday 2:00PM: Team 3* Thursday 3:00PM: Team 5 Thursday 4:00PM: Team 9 Thursday 5:00PM: Team 7* Thursday 6:00PM: Team 10* Next Week's Games ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peace Frogs at Purple Bruins Longhorns at Wisconsin Panthers Trouncers at Quarks Technicolor Goatboys at Millionaires Obliterators at Rainbow Warriors Slaying Annihilators at Hurons Baltimore at Washington Cincinnati at NY Giants Dallas at Philadelphia Denver at Buffalo Kansas City at St. Louis Minnesota at Tampa Bay San Francisco at New Orleans Chicago at Miami Tennessee at Arizona Indianapolis at San Diego Jacksonville at Pittsburgh Oakland at Seattle Atlanta at Carolina Green Bay at New England