Championship brackets are now available! CLICK/TAP HERE to view them.

Yes, this is Sunday's schedule...posted on a Tuesday!! Actually, that is one of my goals for next season, to have the schedule posted no later than Wednesday morning. We're going to work with Tom from the venue to try to get the court assignments early each week. In the chemical process that is schedule making, that is often the determining factor. Twenty of Sunday's 23 games are the final first-round games for the playoffs. Three other games--Ham/Shake N Bake, Fab 5/4PF, and 520 Personal Training/Enter Team Name Here--are semifinal games (a move necessitated by court availability). The winners of those three games will be in their respective championship games on December 17th.


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This Week's Byes

•Air Jesus    •APEX    •Average Joes    •Aztecas    •Basketball Junkies    •Big Steppas    •Bisbee    •Black Mambas    •Bloodline    •Boys From Vail    •Da Wolves    •Dad Bods    •East Side High    •Elrio Vets    •FFlores    •Freqz    •Heat Check    •Hemoglobin Trotters    •Hickory    •Injured Reserves    •J&A Ballers    •Laceemup    •Los Barberos    •Los Chivos    •Los Suns    •Mambas    •Marana Monarchs    •One of One    •Outlawz    •Paper Route Hoopers    •Peloteros    •Pippen Ain't Easy    •Prestige Worldwide    •Rainbow Drillers    •Running Rebels 2.0    •S.O.S.    •Shootout    •Showtime    •Sikhos    •Skoden    •Slashers    •Sleeper Squad    •Slime Time    •SlimeBallz    •Smokin' 3s    •Soul Snatchers    •Team Snipe    •Team UGLY    •The Ballerz    •The Fam    •The Regulators    •The Show    •Tucson Cyclones    •Underdogs    •White Men Can Jump    •Wolves    •Zona    

An Inexact Science Causes Anguish

November 24th, 2023

After last Sunday's first-round playoff games, I received a novel-length text from an anguished team captain, lamenting the fact that they had had to take on an opponent with a decided physical edge. "They had several guys 6'3" and over, while our tallest guy is barely six foot," he wrote. His team had lost by a considerable margin and he was dejected. His tone was civil, not angry, just disappointed. He felt that I hadn't done my due diligence in setting up the brackets and that his team was wildly overmatched. I felt (feel) bad for him. He's a good guy and nobody likes to go out in the first round.

It is an inexact science at best. Even if two teams are evenly matched, you can still get a blowout. I would like nothing better than for every single game to go down to the wire, but it just doesn't happen. 

One other thing: He offered to help me set up the brackets. I'm sorry, but that's a horrible idea. Can you imagine having teams pick their own opponents in the playoffs?

One other thing of major importance: I am instructing the scorekeepers and refs to not allow someone whose name is not on the official roster sheet to play in the playoffs. If you attempt it, you will not be allowed to play. If you somehow get away with it and I find out later, I will kick your team out of the playoffs. Every season, there's one or two teams that try to pull a fast one by adding a ringer. I'm tired of it and I'm bringing the hammer down. You've been warned.

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