...to all you fathers in the league. May your day be all that you want. Cheers!!

I keep seeing the yellow bar of
"please wait". Is this a measure of
how keen I am?

Yes, not a good day for either of us, Colin. The Manager is different from SESL in that you don't
get to enter a prediction when your own team is involved, hence the "X" against our names in our own
games. The maximum any Evolution Division 1 manager could have scored yesterday was 5 points.

6 points for KEN in the PL. Well done Mint Cake 👏

So that's full marks but me and Stewartie only got 2. Bit harsh for the leaders of the PL but these
things happen. My thinking is that KEN predicted all 6 correctly but I could be wrong.

Let's say I am correct. Therefore me and Stoosers must have had two the same as Kendo. Well that is
correct too, but we both have an X against our own games. I know I picked SPT to win which should
take me to 3 points and I guess Stonkers picked his team to win too.

Not that great at maths but that should be 3 points each.

I am starting to sound like the morale police, but this is different. I think...

As Colin said, "time and effort that Stupot puts in is hard to match." Stewart puts a ton more
into his managerial planning and decisions than me, for sure, and he deserves all the success he
gets. But it's not all about the effort. In a nutshell, he's damn good at these games. The boy's
got talent!

Yes, it's true TED are the best team of all the teams in manager. Stewie gets his T11 over 27 every
season and his T16 is not far off that too. Season 39 was a high for SPT when I got the T11 to 27.0
but that was the same season TED broke their record high with 27.9. We fight on though and so should
we all, but the time and effort that Stupot puts in is hard to match.

Stewart has the highest lifetime winning percentage: 0.747. Colin is 2nd on that list, but still
a wee behind at 0.712.

...what are they doing? Wilting? Struggling? I don't think so. TMT may be second in the league
right now to Spartick, but come the showdown fixture with Spartick, the odds are that those
positions will be reversed. This is not to denigrate Spartick, who have a great team (and
manager) but recognition of the reality: TMT are dominant and getting better all the time
relative to the other clubs, at least in this division.

You've forgotten to mention one thing Brian, and that is we are currently only lying second in the
Evolution League table - oh how I hate penalty goals! Yes, we've had a great season so far, but it's
unfair on Partick to say that we are dominant.

TBH i find it quite hard to understand exactly how them and USL are getting to the ridiculous
levels, i am not sure there are many places i can improve my team and we are still getting blown
away. A few more high level purchases in the auctions might help but then i wouldn't be able to
afford CP for next season.

Just a couple of quick stats on the Gers this season:

The Teddybears are the only team with a T11 and T16 both above 27SL (Unsporting have a T11 above 27SL, but fall short of
that mark on T16...oops, I forgot, this is about TED).

The Gers lead in both goal categories: 110 for (3.3 gpm) over 11 against (.3 gpm). Yes, only 11 goals allowed this far!
Almost ridiculous really. Think of it - every three games, the Teddybears score 10 goals and allow only 1. I truly don't
understand how they are not undefeated. Oh wait...

Yes, the Gers have one (1) loss this season, a 0-1 defeat at Fullham. The wee bears have 28 wins, and of those, 21 were
shut outs! 21 shut outs!! Did I not yet mention only four (4) draws?

Next time you feel your team is sliding, remember Stewart's team is getting better.

Yes, Stewart is master of all he surveys in that competition. Come to think of it...

Delighted to hold a good lead going into the last lap, so to speak. However, I think it would have
been closer had Paul not gone AWOL for four rounds.

My prediction is Stewie will stroll to victory in the PL. It’s normally quite close but not this season. I am delighted to be second
though and hopefully I will be able to hold on for the final few games 🤞🏻

Stewart, you are killing it in the Prediction League. It's not even close right. Well done so far.

I am glad that my suggestion was of use

Our Friday loss was, and was not, unexpected (well done, David, you deserve the points). In order to best commiserate, I have started
drinking pints. Yes, Pints. Well, to be fair, the first was only 12oz, but I have now moved on to a local beer (Bog Iron Brewery, Norton,
MA). Based on the time of day, I expect to have at least 3 pints. I know, not much, but I'm getting old. Three is a good number for me,
especially when they are 8+% beers. Do I understand right that many of the beers on the British Isles are low in ABV? Well, on to my
beers. I hope we're FINALLY able to beat Dr King tomorrow, though I imagine we'll lose...once again.

Cheers my e-friends!!

After tonight’s drawn ‘rivals’ match I can confirm that my morale calculation is defective after a rivals match draw. Our morale
value pre-game was 0.882 which meant that it should have dropped to around 0.767. It is currently showing as 0.707. I still
can’t work out what formulae the game engine is using here.

The only fix I can see is for me to choose two rivals who I will never likely play from next season onwards.

The draw has paired all four ties as Evolution versus Origin! What price an Evolution clean sweep? 🤗