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Friday, January 12, 2007

Ranking The Final Four's Eligible Players

Taking each league's top 7 players. Simple.

8BALL RUNNERS

1: pool.instinct
2: strikerof.death
3: soo.clear
4: xlx_under_dog_xlx
5: fuzion_hero
6: chrisxkaren
7: scorpion.zone1

Strength - Depth. MJ, Andy, Coma, Declan, that's a foursome I could live with on my team. Of course, I'd have to kick Declan off the table except for when he plays to make sure I didn't have to see him get DQed, but there's little doubt as far as playing ability. MJ has the ability to sit back and wait for game 7, rather than being forced to play game 2 or 3.

Weakness - Canadians. They're never good for anything, as evidenced against CZ last night.

POOLFICTION

1: xlx_bpk_xlx
2: xlx_spg_xlx
3: sicc.godd
4: xlx_cjp_xlx
5: derekgnr
6: goober_tyler
7: copenhagen8us

Strength - Clutch. Jamie is just that, while there are about 3 or 4 other players that can play who haven't lost a match yet. These guys should absolutely be playing each week.

Weakness - Inconsistency. Tyler, Derek, Allen, basically the bottom half of those players. You never know what you'll get from them. One night they're lights-out, the next they're... Well... Crap. That's why even though 8BR has whooped PFN twice, even with a B-list team once, the match is essentially a crap-shoot.

BRITPOOL

1: heavymetalisbest
2: river_blake
3: paris_in_flamez
4: xx_romper_xx
5: Judge666
6: badalnighter
7: lvlr.fooze

Strength - Attitude. Nicest bunch left in the Playoffs? I think so. These are players that don't really care that they're in the Playoffs; they just wanna play some pool each night and, for the most part, have fun. But they still know where the happy medium is between "being serious" and "having fun". That's why they're such a fun group to watch.

Weakness - Depth. After heavymetal, nobody else is really that great. Blake can win a good portion of his ganes, paris can win early games, but really that's it. Roy caught fire at the end of the season but he's Roy. lol :p I would expect CKP to come out gunning, and try to get heavymetal out of the match early.

CUE KEEPERS

1: sir.pommington
2: revenge_of_mr
3: mr_drunken2005
4: n3wfie
5: Blackproton
6: kidfromperu
7: pimp.tactics

Strength - Talent. If you told me I could have Pommy, Mick, and Neo all on the same team, I'd say... "Where do I sign?" There is little doubt that this is the best group in MLP on paper. So many overlooked players that while you're worrying about the big 3, 2 other guys come in and get wins.

Weakness - Winning. They can't do it when they're the favorites. At the end of the season they finally caught a little bit of a streak and pulled out some wins when they needed to, but overall they were a few breaks away from being the biggest bust in MLP history. They are HEAVY favorites even against a higher-seed BP team. Can they live up to that for one more week?