Pool updates

Posted Wednesday, February 17. 2010 by Warren Baker
Filed under 2010 Olympics

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Well here we go.

The first night is over and we know 2 things for sure. People who stacked their team with Norwegians and Latvians are not going to do well.

If you're wondering how you are doing in your pool, the stats have been loaded for the games of Feb 16th. We will update the pools at the end of each night shortly after the last game is complete. So nightowls on the west coast can check them before bed, everyone else will have them to peruse over their morning coffee.

Now that the calculations have started, your team will be the one highlighted when you open your pool. So for those of you in larger pools, you won't have to hunt for your team.

Good luck in your pools and feel free to get in touch if you have any issues.

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Haywood Jablomy February 17, 2010 at 3:14 pm

Kill this foolish Youtube clip…the song is incredibly lame

gilles falardeau February 17, 2010 at 5:12 pm

i want to see results of olympic men hockey pool

Karen February 18, 2010 at 12:08 am

I learned today that Thomas Holmstrom was replaced by Johan Franzen on Team Sweden. A lot of people in my pool picked Holmstrom (including me) and I wanted to know whether (1) Franzen will replace Holmstrom in our pool (2) Whether we are SOL (3) Another option.

Warren Baker February 18, 2010 at 12:27 am

We are not going to replace Holmstrom with Franzen in the selection box, but if you are the pool admin, what happens is up to you! You could just let everyone pick another player in the box, or you could tell everyone they are SOL.

If you get people to repick, what I would suggest is to get everyone who picked Holmstrom to email you their new pick. Then you go in and update all the picks. In order to let each poolie do it would mean unlocking the pool and this would allow all of the poolies to change any of their picks.

You have control of when the pool is locked via the [Pool Settings] -> [Pool Lock] setting. As a general rule, you should lock your pool once the picks have been made and the tournament has started.

Does this help?

Karen February 18, 2010 at 12:35 am

It does not really help because I think most people (including myself) picked Holmstrom because they felt that Sweden would go far (and Holmstrom is a great player). At his point, I do not see a box for Franzen. My thought was to change all of teh Holmstrom picks to Franzen because he replaced Holmstrom and that would be fairer then allowing people to pick after the games have started. Can you let me know if you will slot Franzen in round 10?

Warren Baker February 18, 2010 at 7:06 am

Currently, our boxes are set up so that a change to one box cannot be applied only to a single pool and must be applied to all of the box pools we support. This would potentially cause confusion so we decided to just leave Holmstrom in. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

Karen February 18, 2010 at 10:11 am

I guess I do not see what the confusion is.

Holmstrom was apparently out on February 15th and the roster in the pool did not change to reflect that he was no longer playing or that Franzen was his replacement to indicate an extra player in the pool.

What is confusing about Holmstrom ,who is not playing and will net everyone who has him ZERO points, and replacing him with Franzen, who is playing and replaced him, and has a chance to net people points because he is actually playing.

How will anyone complain that they have a substitute player who can get them points since Holmstrom is not playing at all? How is that confusing in any way?

Warren Baker February 18, 2010 at 11:22 am

The people getting Franzen won’t be complaining, it will be the people who didn’t have a chance to get Franzen.

Some pools had earlier deadlines so poolies who didn’t pick Holmstrom won’t have the chance to repick.

In any case, there may be a solution. We could convert your box pool to a standard pool. The boxes dissappear but thats ok since player selection is over. Teams remain intact, but as the administrator, you could go in and change players to anyone you want. You could just go in and change all the Holmstrom’s to Franzen’s

I will confirm with the technical team that this is possible and post when I have an answer.

Warren Baker February 18, 2010 at 11:59 am

Hi Karen – I have confirmed with the technical team that making the change to a standard pool is easy. So if you want us to make this change, just send an email to support@armchairpools.com and we can help you out.

Anonymous February 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm

If you didnt do your homework and picked holmstrom and he was injured thats your fault, why are you blaming it on everyone else.

Anonymous February 19, 2010 at 8:03 pm

The point was Holmstrom’s name was listed in their pool b/c the pool was not write in style, they had to select based on the players listed and Franzen’s name was not added to the listed players they could pick from even after Holmstrom pulled out

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