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que chevere!
I think Abrantes owes a philosophical idea, no?
If you listen to their respective drafters, every picl in this draft was an outstanding pick . . .
Are there any wildcards left?I say we give him the prostate exam.(Unless he goes with my Procrastination suggestion, just sayin')
Does these rankings include the "Album" Situation?
youre more generous with your rankings than Tim is with his.
I don't remember where tim had these, but it's not surprising. Basically I'm just a much nicer person.Kidding, tim.
Ooooooo, look at the big brain on BobbyLayne!
I am getting killed by the 8th round pick of "The Nutcracker", and The 11th round Phantom of the Opera selection (an admittedly poor selection, way to early, but this is my first draft of this sort) In my defense, I did not realize that the top Musical and Ballet selections would be judged as inferior to the top plays.
You have the Nutcracker as a Wildcard so it isn't factored into these rankings. Or did you mean that you missed other value there that you should have taken instead?
Had I been a little more wise or savvy to this process, I would have waited for "The Nutcracker"When everyone headed to the ancient stuff, I decided to focus on more modern times, also with the idea that attempting to draft with a theme would be judges a bit differently. It seems not - I decided to focus as much as I could on the last two centuries, on Southern and Civil Rights influences.
Hoop Dreams is considered not only the best documentary ever by many film critics, it's also considered to be one of the best films ever, period. Roger Ebert called it the best film from the 1990's (I disagree with this.) I loved this movie and found it completely mezmerizing, but my opinion alone would not have been enough to give this film a 20. I did so because the vast majority of "expert" opinion agreed with my own analysis.The film actually focuses very little on basketball: just a few minutes in the entire movie show the two kids actually playing, and there is almost no practice time ever displayed.
If all 5 of my picls had been judged on even turf (i.e. if Tim had seen or read The Misanthrope and Life is a Dream),I would have given them a run for their money:King Lear (20)Electra (16)Prometheus Bound (16)The Misanthrope (5)Life is a Dream (5):wah:Another interesting thing to look at, here are the totals for the Play category.....Genedoc/Bonzai - 75Bob Lee Swagger - 70BobbyLayne - 65Team CIA - 64Rodg - 64Timschochet - 63Uncle Humuna - 62Postradamus - 61Abrantes - 54Fennis/Krista - 53El Floppo - 52MisfitBlondes/Jamyp - 52Thatguy - 51DC Thunder - 43Scott Norwood - 40Doug B - 39Wikkidpissah/Big Rocks - 35Tides of War - 33Tirnan - 33Yankee23Fan - 24Like Tim said, Genedoc knocked it out of the park, but BLS deserves a shout out for his fine job in this cat as well.ETA: Included Bonzai and Big Rocks in the teams to give them their due credit.ETA2: And jamyp as well.....
I agree with what you say here, but to be fair..................According to the Album Judge, critics opinions do not matter, if they do not coincide with your own
I wish you had specified more clearly that older works would score higherIf scoring is dependent on how it is influenced things over time, then it becomes better to draft older works, not based on quality, but on the fact they have had longer to "influence"
I kind of agree with your points on this one, but although I know you hate to lose, you are taking this waaaaay to seriously. Although there is judging, just remember we are all winners here, well... except for Floppo, he's not. No matter what, I promise you will still get your PARTICIPANT trophy.
Cool, 8 point lead for 2nd (Genedoc and Bonzai must be keeping it close for Yankee's bookie ring).I'm feeling winded already...you guys will be passing me on the next lap.
That's not what I wrote. Just because something is old does not make it more influential, but I agree it certainly helps. Am I supposed to rank a book that is less influential over something because it's more influential?As far as the three books you mentioned, they are important to American history, and extremely important to African-Americans. But I can't give them greater importance in terms of world history, sorry.
The Bolded is BSMaybe Zen reading and Dope smoking is part of his life, but I think Jordan, Pippen, Shaq, etc have more to do with that success
although Krista will kill me, Team Fennis will match that 30.rodg12 - why don't you slide 20 of my points over to ToW.He hates to lose and I'm apathetic, so thats winner winner chicken dinner all the way around.
That one is terrific.
All I am saying is that by nature, the older something is, the more oppurtinty it has to create influence - if it is of high qualityAnd I maintain that lumping the three AA works in the same tier equates to compartmentalization, and a touch of laziness
I was being facetious here. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is highly influential and affected millions of readers.
In the Almanack is so "brilliant", it deserves more than a measly 6 points. It simply paved the way for newspapers and journalism and "America" as it came to be known. It was published in Philadelphia when almost all important literature and reading material came from England or Boston. All Americans knew of Franklin and his Almanack. And you give it 6 points...Sheesh.....mMaybe I'll havbe to become your second arch-nemesis afterall...
I despise losingOne thing I have noticed is that one judge may apply a certain criteria to his rankings, while another may bottom shelf a pick because he cares not about the same criteria
inclinations further 
I agree with all this and you're right to hate me.
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