The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in fantasy basketball, fantasy football, fantasy hockey on Apr 17th, 2008
Hakkapeliitat won the bronze game in Yahoo! public 159358 virtual NBA league.
The margin was seemingly large at 5-3, but the differences in a lot of the individual categories (including points) were in single points.
The key player of the final game was Bulls’ Luol Deng - with very much appreciated output also […]
Posted in fantasy basketball on Apr 7th, 2008
Hakkapeliitat is not a candidate for a triple play this year - the basketball team failed to make it through the semifinals, and is now bound to fight for the third spot.
I don’t blame any single player for the loss, the margin was comfortably wide (7-2) - but losing Shawn Marion four weeks […]
Posted in fantasy hockey on Apr 7th, 2008
The first Stanley Cup appearance by Haagan Hakkapeliitat ended in a loss.
6-4 isn’t too bad, considering that Daniel Alfredsson was hurt midway in the two week final, and Marty Turco put up a pretty decent Hoover imitation a couple of times. Apart from the save percentage, the margins in all categories were […]
Posted in fantasy basketball on Apr 1st, 2008
Haagan Hakkapeliitat made it to the basketball semifinals of Yahoo! Public 159358.
The quarterfinal was a tight battle, but on the very last day the 6th seed pulled off an upset over the highest placed team in the quarters, Hakkapeliitat managed to inflict a serious increase in free throw percentage on sunday, and that […]
Posted in fantasy hockey on Mar 24th, 2008
After the second upset in the playoffs, Haagan Hakkapeliitat made it to the final in Yahoo! 76191.
Apart from negligible output from goalies (Tim Thomas is having a really bad stretch in Boston), the team played in solid fashion, and most of the categories had very comfortable margins.
But it’s a whole new […]
Posted in fantasy hockey on Mar 18th, 2008
Where we equals the Hockey instance of the Haagan Hakkapeliitat fantasy team.
Indeed. Made it to the semis against all odds by beating the #3 seed in the first round of playoffs. This was the only upset on the first round in Yahoo! Public 76191.
No individual heroics, just good quality […]
Posted in fantasy basketball, fantasy hockey on Feb 25th, 2008
The warm glow of the bowl victory in the Yahoo’s fantasy football has now faded, and it’s time to take a look how the other instances of Haagan Hakkapeliitat are doing.
The hockey team is doing all right (5th out of 12 teams). The season has been uneven, with a lot of stars […]
Posted in sports on Feb 5th, 2008
Guessed right: Eli Manning was crowned the Most Valuable Player in the superbowl.
And the 17-0 Miami Dolphins from 1972 must be pleased - they remain the sole undefeated team. Even though they played a shorter season (and had a really easy regular season), the numbers do not lie.
Posted in sports on Feb 4th, 2008
Let the first live-entry of this blog commence:
1:16 EET (the first and only mention of the timezone): OK, so the game did not being at fifteen past. Half past? Pretty please?
1:17: And let it be noted that I’m really tired already. Let’s hope for some early […]
Half a day to go.
Confirmation that the game is televised live. Check, on two channels.
Beer. Check, a couple of cans of Budweiser in the fridge.
Chips and salsa. Check.
Outlook calendar has “NOTHING HERE” for monday morning. Check.
Serious thoughts about liveblogging the event. Check, but we’ll see about […]
Posted in naked link, sports on Feb 2nd, 2008
No matter how many odd the offside rules of football may appear, they’re nowhere near as complex as the twenty-three ways to reach first base in baseball. No kidding, twenty-three.
Posted in fantasy hockey on Jan 25th, 2008
The 2007-08 fantasy NHL campaign hasn’t started that well. While Hakkapeliitat is above the .500-mark, the position is by no means strong.
This week is shortened by the weekend’s All Star-game, and thus the 1-8 loss is a fact already.
And the titular swedish wonderboy would not have made much of a […]
Posted in sports on Jan 23rd, 2008
The Chargers ousted the Colts, but the Manning dynasty will be represented on the highest level of football (the helmeted kind) this season nonetheless.
Eli Manning guided the New York Giants to victory on the frigid Lambeau Field in Wisconsin, and thus the team returns to the superbowl after a decade-long absence.
The […]
Posted in sports on Jan 13th, 2008
Tony Dungy won’t have to dread getting drenched in Gatorade this year.
Colts put up a good fight, but turnovers cost them the game against Chargers. Even when an interception returned for a touchdown was cancelled by a penalty, two picks and a fumble proved too much of a leash to give to […]
Posted in sports on Jan 13th, 2008
Bought a month’s pass to Viasat Sports, pretty much solely to watch the post-season of NFL football.
Watched a good-sized slice of Green Bay’s dismantling of the Seattle Seahawks yesterday, but called it a day at the halftime. The snowy conditions on Lambeau field made passing game tough, but it was the heroics […]