Re: 10th League Sunday game: 12:30pm at Highpoint E, Plano

From: Scott Bao (sbao@cisco.com)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 10:36:49 CST


Anybody knows Lao Tang's status ?  ( Injured and hospitalized last night in practice.)



"Chen, Mark" wrote:

> All,
>
> ND 40 is the toughest team, Drillers second, then FC Devan. And ND40
> beats them all. Networkers is a skilled team, with less toughness. So is
> Dragon.
>
> Well, let me try this again:
>
> ND40 Pick: Drillers
> ND40 always wins over Drillers 4:0, 2:1;
> ND40 never wins with netWorkers 2:4, 3:3;
> ND40 ties with Dragon 3:3;
>
> Networkers Pick: ND40 (Impossible), thus -> Dragon
> NetWorkers always wins/ties with ND40;
> NetWorkers never wins over Drillers 1:1, 2:3;
> Networkers ties with Dragon 1:1;
>
> Drillers Pick: NetWorkers
> Drillers always wins/ties with NetWorkers, 1:1, 3:2;
> Drillers always looses to ND40 0:4, 1:2;
> Drillers vs Dragon ?
>
> Dragons Pick: NetWorkers (Agree with Li Huan's opinion)
> Dragon ties with ND40 3:3;
> Dragon ties with NetWorkers 1:1;
> Dragon vs Drillers ?
>
> Current standing, ND40 vs Dragon and Drillers vs Networkers. So who
> wants to change or does not want to change?
>
> 1) ND40 may want to loose next game in order to play with Drillers;
> Networkers intend to play win in order to play Dragons; Drillers want to
> win in order to play Networkers in the playoff; Dragons want to play
> with Networkers in the playoffs. Use current standing as a basis, we may
> just want to tie/loose next game.
>
> 2) However, if Networkers assumes that we can beat Drillers, they want
> to loose next time to secure their play with us, then we loose and we
> have to play with ND40. We may want win with this assumption.
>
> 3) If ND40 does not care and go ahead win the next game, we may want to
> win the next game in order to play with Networkers.
>
> 4) If ......
>
> Well, I am confused already. One thing I can be sure is that Drillers
> really want to win next game in general. If they play too physical, we
> may just want to save our Zhu(3)-Li(4) for the playoffs. I guess we'll
> just play our game next Sunday, try to win, even though win/loose may
> not matter that much at all.
>
> Just my 2 cents, Go Dragons!!!
>
> -Chen, Si
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li Huan [mailto:huan_l_99@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 6:29 PM
> To: Chen, Mark; Dragon (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: 10th League Sunday game: 12:30pm at Highpoint E, Plano
>
> Latest standing of this division:
>
>         #1 North Dallas 40      65 points
>         #2 Net-workers          60 points
>         #3 Drillers             54 points
>         #4 Dragon               50 points
>
> Since Drillers beat Net-workers (3:2) yesterday,
> the playoff teams has already been finalized in
> this division. The next Sunday game will be important
> for these four teams to choose their playoff
> opponents.
>
> Now, it looks like North Dallas 40 and Net-workers
> will remain as #1 and #2 for the regular season since
> their opponents in next game do not have any
> motivation
> to fight with them. North Dallas 40 only need to tie
> the game (vs. United S.C.) with a couple of goals to
> keep the #1 spot. To us, we need to beat Drillers in
> next game although we believe both North Dallas 40 and
> Net-workers are beatable. However, personally
> speaking,
> I would like to choose Net-workers as our playoff
> opponent since North Dallas 40 is more physical and
> has
> a pretty good midfield, which is able to put
> relatively
> more pressure on our defense. Its defense is slow and
> has a lot of gaps though. The performance of our
> midfield will be the key factor to beat them.
> Net-workers has the best goalie, from my opinion, in
> this division and has quite solid defense. However,
> its
> midfield is not very aggressive and it has only one
> pretty good striker. As far as we pay enough attention
>
> to their counter-attack, we should be able to dominate
>
> the game with our new playing style.
>
> Lets keep the momentum and get into the championship
> game again.
>
> Go Dragons,
>
> Huan Li
>
>
> --- "Chen, Mark" <MChen@santera.com> wrote:
> > Dragons,
> >
> > This Sunday 10/28, we will have a very critical game
> > against
> > Smith-Thompson United (Red Striper) at Highpoint E
> > -- Plano. The same
> > field we played last Sunday. As most of us know, we
> > will be in the
> > playoffs if we win. Then on the next makeup game on
> > 11/04/01, our team
> > can pick which team to play in the playoff.
> >
> > So every player is expected to arrive the field at
> > 12:30pm. Both BinBing
> > and Dick did pretty good last Sunday. Get enough
> > time to warm up,
> > stretch, etc.
> >
> > Also, this Thursday's team practice time is at
> > 7:45pm. We will do some
> > shooting to start with. Please be on time.
> >
> > If you are not able to show this Sunday, please let
> > me know.
> >
> > Go Dragons,
> > -Chen, Si
> > (972)814-4631 (M)

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