First week in the books

The first week seemed to go off without a hitch. There are a few things I want to touch on.

1. There is no need for both teams to keep score individually. There should only be one score sheet between both teams. It is like this for a reason. If there are two sheets for one match and there is an error it makes it difficult to tell who was right and who was wrong. ONE SET OF SCORE SHEETS PLEASE!
2. There are a few teams that need to still turn in there sponsor fee's they are:
   • Anthony's #1
   • Anthony's #2
   • Brian's Place
   • Peotone Bowling Alley #1
   • Peotone Bowling Alley #2
   • Sky's Lanes & Lounge #1
   • Sky's Lanes & Lounge #2 Shooting 60's
   Captains, please get these turned in this week.

Thank you,
Brian Gain

2008-2009 Season Underway!

The website is now updated with the information for the new season and is all ready to go! Keep in mind you will need to use Internet Explorer if you are entering the scoresheets for your team. You also need cookies and Javascript enabled in your browser. Email Shawn if you have any questions or problems with the website. I will be upgrading features on the site throughout the year so if you have any suggestions please let me know.

You can find the Final 2007-2008 Player Statistics here. Last season's league average was 2.27.

You can download the Handicap Sheet (Excel), Schedule (Excel) and Rules (Word) here.

Thanks,
Shawn

2008-2009 Season Starting November 4th!

Well, with alot of set backs behind me, I want to announce the dart league will be starting on NOVEMBER 4th. The schedule is attached to this email in excel format. For those new to the league, all this information can be found on the dart leagues website, www.unclebrewski.com. There are a couple of last minute changes that had to be made.

The first is due to the delay of the start of the season, it pushed everything back one week. What happened with the schedule is that the playoff finals would have ended up on the first Tuesday of the month, which the hall at the American Legion is not open. So to have a spot for the finals, I made December 23rd an off week.

I also attached a copy of the rules for this season in word format. Please note the addition to rule 14 and the addition of rule 15. As discussed at the meetings prior to the start of the season, there is no reason not to have entered your teams stats into the website by friday evening. There is a deadline. If the deadline is not met, then your team looses all the wins for that weeks games. The other team will only get credit for the games they win in this case. (i think i forgot that bit of info on the rules but this will be the case)

Again, I am sorry about these delays however with the little amount of time I have, this is the best I could do.

Someone from each team will need to come up to the American Legion this coming Tuesday to pick up there team packet. I will not be running them around to each bar, droping them off. Included in the packet will be 25 score sheets, 25 summary sheets, 25 envelopes, one copy of the rules, the schedule and the week one handicap information.

JUST AS A REMINDER, the first weeks games will be played using last seasons averages. If you are or have a new player, they will use last years league average of 2.27. If you are or have a player that has played before but didn't play last season, they also will start with the league average of 2.27. AFTER WEEK ONE IS COMPLETE, you can throw out the print out of last seasons averages. THEY WILL NOT BE USED ANY MORE THIS SEASON other than during the first week. Starting week two all new players will start with the currant years league average which will be found on the statistics link from the main page of the website. If you played week one, your new average will be posted on the website.

We have 19 teams this season which meens there will be a BYE WEEK in the schedule. We lost a team from Suzy's and a team from Gallagher's but picked up another team that is playing out of The Pub @ Midtown (#3).

If you have questions, the best way to get in touch with me is via email, uncle_brewski@att.net or brian@unclebrewski.com. You can call my cell phone but I can not promise I will always answer it. My cell # is 815-516-3493, just leave me a voice mail.

I want to also remind everyone that by the midway point of the season I want to have a panel of league members who are intrested in taking part in the operation of this league next season and beyond. My idea of having a group of board members to make decisions and operate the league needs to happen. To many people for whatever reason have issues with just a single person running it that they might not like and the last thing I want to see happen is this league take a step backwards. When I started in this league we had 12 teams. Since taking over the league for the second time, the team count has never been under 17 and over the last 4 seasons it has always been 19 or 20 teams. There is room to grow this league and puting in place a group of people with good intentions in a position to make decisions will keep the league going in the right direction.

In closing, I want to wish everyone a GREAT season, good luck to all and most importantly, everyone just have some fun!

Thank you,
Brian Gain

2008-2009 Rosters Due

Email Brian Gain with your rosters asap please!

Congrats 2008 Champs: Mulligan's Misfits & Brian's Place #2!

The finals were played last night.

In the A/B Division we had first in the semi final matches Mulligan's Misfits defeat American Legion #2 7-0 while Suzy's Saloon #2 upset #2 seed The Pub at Midtown in a tight match winning 7-6.

In the A/B Division finals Mulligan's Misfits won it's 4th straight championship and 6th in the last 10 years by defeating Suzy's Saloon #2 7-3.

Mulligan's Misfits: A/B Champs

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In the C/D Division bracket we had in the semi finals Brian's Place #2 playing Suzy's Saloon #1 with Brian's Place #2 winning by a margin of 7-2 while on the other side of the C/D bracket Gallagher's Pub #2 defeated Anthony's #1 by a very tight margin of 7-5.

In the finals it was the #4 seed Brian's Place #2 winning in a route over the #6 seed Gallagher's Pub #2. It was the first championship for Bill & Elaine Black and there team and the first championship for Brian's Place since 1997.

Brian's Place #2: C/D Champs

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With the season over we now plan for the League Banquet. It will be April 12th at the Manteno Sportsmens's Club in Manteno, starting at 6pm. If you have any questions please email me at uncle_brewski@att.net or call Dan Corbett at 815-258-0728.

Thank you to everyone for a great season and see you at the banquet.

Thank you,
Brian Gain