Appeals court rules in favor of fantasy baseball company
The courts came through with a ruling against Major League Baseball, that Fantasy Sports companies can publish players' statistics and names as facts, without permission. Thank you for letting common sense prevail this time (pdf). Analysis here.
Today's Link source: Boing Boing
Hockey Pool Links and Resources - Fantasy Hockey Pool Stats .ca
Free Online Hockey Pools
They've dropped the puck!!
It's the first day of the NHL's 2007-2008 Regular Season, as the mighty Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks take on the Los Angeles Kings in London, England, and it's not to late to start a fantasy hockey pool. My hockey pool draft happens tonight, and I've been in pools where the picks weren't made until a week into the season, so there's still time.
For many Canadians, the start of the hockey season means that it's hockey pool time.
For many Americans, it's fantasy hockey time. Why the difference? I'm not sure.
The Free Online Hockey Pools link has a list of free fantasy leagues to try out your hockey predictions with total strangers. There are also templates for free bracket- or category-style fantasy hockey pools, which are the easiest type of leagues to host because you don't need everyone together in the same room.
The Hockey Pool Links and Resources has a list of the best places on the net to keep track of hockey statistics, injuries, rumors, news, player salaries, the season schedule and scores.
There are also team-by-team previews for the 2007-2008 NHL season. He shoots, he SCORES!!!
Liveability: Where the grass is greener - Economist.com
The statistics are in for the annual Economist ranking of the World's Most Livable Cities. Vancouver scores the top spot this year, and Australian cities do very well too. The article has the list of the Top 10 Best Cities, as well as the Worst 10 Cities. Now if we could only get our hockey team to perform like the best in the world.
Today's Link source: Digg
MLB - Texas Rangers / Baltimore Orioles Recap Wednesday August 22, 2007
Uhhh, the Texas Rangers scored 30 runs?
It's pretty amazing that a modern game can have such a level of disparity that hasn't been seen in Baseball for over 100 years. That's sure going to improve the statistics for a whole bunch of Texas players, and destroy the ERAs for a few Baltimore Orioles players.
Kudos to the Texas Rangers for bringing the sports news back to the playing field, where it belongs.
Vancouver Canucks - Canucks Re-Sign Forward Trevor Linden
The NHL's Vancouver Canucks' annual dilemma about their heart and soul comes to an end.
The Canucks re-signed their most popular player today to a one year contract. At 37 years old, he might not have the best stats for your fantasy hockey pool, but he's an excellent supporting player.
Go Canucks! Go!
Tracksy - Free Web Stats and Counter
Tracksy is a great, free little service. Be registering and inserting a couple lines of code into your website, Tracksy gives you a counter for each page on your site, and gives you great statistical analysis of which pages people are visiting, where they're from, who referred them etc. It's super easy-to-use, and gives you accurate web statistics.
Now, if I could only figure out how to get more people to come and visit... Mom, can you digg my site?
Shout out to Alex Etchell for pointing me to this excellent link.
