Rules of the game / Week 3 lines

I meant to put this up before the season, after the ref clinic.

I wish I had a better reason for missing my own deadline, but I don’t. I was waiting for a response from the MLB in regards to my written request to use its logo. Request ignored. Bud Selig might or might not hate kickball – he might or might not see it as direct competition to the baseball fan base. Or I might have sent my request to the wrong Bud Selig.

No need to memorize all those annoying little rules now (except for the ones that I excluded).

kvklrulesMoving on.

Big picture, I’m not sure if week 2 is an anomaly or a transition into a new phase of the league – better defense resulting in lower scores. It was windy, but there have been weeks like that before, and it never seemed to affect the games like last week.

I’m going to whip out some third grade graphing skills for a sec.

Runsbyweek

The league scored 264 runs last week. That would have been the lowest total on a Sunday for all of last year. The lowest scoring weekend last season was 285 runs on week 6. This is the main reason the over/unders were so off the mark last week. (That and bad intel.)

I expect the total runs to climb back up this week.

FavoriteLineUnderdogO/U total runs
Abraxas14Jazzhaus22
Love Garden13BP Tigers22
Reign of Terror13Tellerdactyls20
Slowride12Harper Valley16
Goats11Free State22
After Party!!10Rats23
Hurtz Donut9Ghosts15
Das Boot8Toe Pokes17
Chalmersiz7Balls Deep18
Asteroid Head7$P@C3Pu$$y!26
Wildman7Rockets20
Corksuckers6West Coast22
Los Matadores6MUrda25
Screamers4Liberty Hall16
Brew Ballers3Dirty Mike21
Happy Shirt3Red Lyon17