{"id":2267,"date":"2013-02-03T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:28:00","slug":"hockey-pool-week-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2013\/02\/03\/hockey-pool-week-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey pool, week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m really enjoying the return of the NHL &#8211; having games to watch on dark, rainy weeknights makes me very happy!<\/p>\n<p>The pool, however, is not going so well for me. Here are everyone&#8217;s points for Week 2:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-03 at 11.12.45 AM by VWXYNot, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89085608@N05\/8442682076\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-03 at 11.12.45 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8472\/8442682076_9866fa77c9_z.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a great week for Gerty and Lava, while Week 1 leader Sugar Scientist also had a very strong showing, with Raj Blackhawks not far behind. At the other end of the graph, Bam and Gen Repair still don&#8217;t seem to have figured out which sport we&#8217;re following, not that I can talk with my mighty 11th place weekly finish!<\/p>\n<p>And how did these results affect the overall standings?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-03 at 11.29.41 AM by VWXYNot, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89085608@N05\/8442682094\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-03 at 11.29.41 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8227\/8442682094_31c0e97bd6_z.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry about the shitty graph, by the way &#8211; I used to make these graphs in Excel while I had lunch at my desk, but in my new job I actually have people to eat lunch with AND the pool weeks end on a weekend rather than a week day. So I have a choice of Google Drive or Numbers, neither of which I know how to use anywhere near as well as Excel. So I can&#8217;t figure out how to give similarly coloured lines uniquely shaped data point marks, but at least the legend on the right lists the players in order of their position).<\/p>\n<p>Sugar Scientist retains the top spot, while Lava&#8217;s, Gerty&#8217;s, and Raj&#8217;s strong week 2 picks lifted them up to second, third, and fourth places, respectively. The rest of us are ticking along much as we were &#8211; but there&#8217;s still plenty of hockey left to play!<\/p>\n<p>Beth is hosting next week &#8211; thank you, Beth and Chall, for signing up for hosting duties!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m really enjoying the return of the NHL &#8211; having games to watch on dark, rainy weeknights makes me very happy! The pool, however, is not going so well for me. Here are everyone&#8217;s points for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2013\/02\/03\/hockey-pool-week-2-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hockey-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}