Quote of the day
"The one family I'm happy for is the Clemente family. They told me earlier in the season that we can't have 21 losing seasons, that we've got to find a way to not have Roberto's number tied to that. I told them we'd find a way to take care of that. It's been taken care of." -- Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle, after the team’s 81st win, clinching a non-losing seasonDaily blurb
The NFL season opens tomorrow night – in case you hadn’t noticed. If you’re an old-time Gurupie, it’s not too late to sign up for FireLeague Salary Cap Football, which is the current incarnation of the original Small World Salary Cap game that RotoGuru cut its teeth on more than 15 years ago. The sortable stats and the Assimilator are once again loaded and ready to serve your analytical needs.
Football Pickoff is also back for its 15th season. I still remember building that game platform in October, 1999 – based on some discussion in the RotoGuru Forum. As I recall, I threw it together in about a week – or maybe 2. I just looked up the initial launch announcement on October 6, 1999. It’s interesting to see the things that were being discussed at the time. This was before I had a dedicated server, and capacity (and server reliability) were issues I was continually bumping into. I do notice that Pickoff had 234 registrations on its first day. Last year’s standings show only 242 teams total. Now that I have the capacity, I lack the reach.
Then again, how many games offered in 1999 are still available today, from the same producer, at the same site, with substantially the same rules – and substantially the same system programming? I’m sure that’s a small list.