Leaderboard

astroNikon · Oct 7, 2014

Btw
What happened to Griffith 3 ?

sm4him · Oct 7, 2014

snowbear said:
Good morning, all. I have my coffee and I'm almost ready for work. Just a quick post or two before I run off to the wonderful exciting world of Fire-EMS Geographic Information Systems.

Oh that's right. You have to WORK today. And you were SO close to the top spot! Now I can put some more room between us.
But then--didn't I see something about you taking the next two weeks off???? I'm toast.

sm4him · Oct 7, 2014

astroNikon said:
Btw
What happened to Griffith 3 ?

Hurt his ankle in week 2 against the Jags; probably out for several more weeks at least, and there's a lot of speculation about whether he'll even return as the starter. Although it's pretty clear that Washington doesn't exactly have a lot of options there.

snowbear · Oct 7, 2014

Perhaps. Maybe we can coordinate things and make it a tie.

snowbear · Oct 7, 2014

RG3 keeps getting broke - remember last year? He started too soon, I think.

BTW, I can see their stadium from out building. When they first started playing in Landover, they used a number of the parking lots in our area - sent folks home early on those Monday nights there was a game.

sm4him · Oct 7, 2014

pgriz said:
Uh huh. And how many are going to do the ebay bid thing at the very end and practically spam the thread to get their final post count up?

And how do you think THIS thread got started in the first place? :1247:

To me, the whole point of this thread, originally, was just that it was silly--almost, but not quite, as silly as a "leaderboard" to show us who the "Top Poster" of the month was. NOW, I post here because we're having fun. And I like fun.

I see absolutely no real value in knowing who made the most posts in a month, since we have no way of knowing whether they were all useful, or just a bunch of internet memes, emojis and smart*ss comments (which isn't to say those aren't often useful!).

pgriz said:
I think we should have the leaderboard algorithm do something more interesting - such as counting only those posts with "exceptional" interest (that that attracted a "winner" or "informative" or "useful"), or even summing the words over three letters and dividing by the number of posts... to reward the pedantic among us, for instance. Or why not have several leader boards including the month's comedian. Then there's the leaderboard which counts only the posts with photos, multiplied by the number of likes... Oh that will be a real interesting read..

Now see, THAT would actually be interesting! But the problem with THAT, is that there are certain nefarious sorts around here who will maliciously DISLIKE your comment just to be mean...you know who you are!!! :allteeth:

(And yes, I can just anticipate the result of that remark! Well, my perfect record is already crushed now, so who cares). :black_eyed:

sm4him · Oct 7, 2014

snowbear said:
RG3 keeps getting broke - remember last year? He started too soon, I think.

BTW, I can see their stadium from out building. When they first started playing in Landover, they used a number of the parking lots in our area - sent folks home early on those Monday nights there was a game.

Yeah, he just can't seem to stay healthy. It's a shame, because he could have been something special, on par with Brady and Manning. I don't know if it's because he started too soon--that could be it, but he could also just be one of those people who just isn't well enough conditioned to take the absolute brutal pace of the NFL.

snowbear · Oct 7, 2014

He's a scrambler and seems to be pretty fearless. I think that puts him in a place where he's going to get hurt unless he has an exceptional defense.
NB: I have watched him very few times. I am NOT, in no uncertain terms, a Redskins fan.

sm4him · Oct 7, 2014

snowbear said:
He's a scrambler and seems to be pretty fearless. I think that puts him in a place where he's going to get hurt unless he has an exceptional defense.
NB: I have watched him very few times. I am NOT, in no uncertain terms, a Redskins fan.

It could well be his O line. I don't get to see the Redskins very often (and judging from last night, when I *do* get the chance, it puts me to sleep), so I'm not really that familiar with their roster. The Redskins are one of those teams somewhere "in the middle" for me. I'm not a fan, nor do I actively DISlike them. Unless one of MY teams play them (which is rare), they don't really make it to my radar screen.

But I *would* have liked to see them upset the Seahacks last night.