WE'RE OFF!  The spring 2008 season of the Bangkok Pool League got off to a pretty solid start last week.  To my amazement, I did not receive a single phone call on either Monday or Wednesday night.  Everybody knew where to go, who they were playing, and were comfortable enough with the rules to play out their matches.  There were some interesting results.  I will begin making more posts onto this board next week.  Some monor problems were brought to my attention, and have been easily dealt with.  If anything noteworthy happens during a match, either positive or negative, please let me know.

SPRING 2008 SEASON:  We started off the season with 34 teams in both 8-Ball and 9-Ball.  At one point, we had 36, which is why we opted for 6 divisions.  We can still plug in 2 more teams in each.  We are also constantly living with the possibility that a team might forfeit out or have a problem fielding a team.  If anyone knows of a bar that might want to play, please let me know. 

CURRENT STANDINGS:   My apologies for the standings not yet being loaded onto the site.  The scoresheets were slow in coming in.  I now have all but 1, but Will, the site administrator, is not yet back from an upcountry swing.  They should be on soon...possibly later today.

SCORE SHEETS:  For the record, here is what must be done to get the stats uploaded onto this site every week.  Charlie, my Internet Guru, created a worksheet for me for the entire season.  Once I get the scoresheets, I have to enter all of the results onto the correct weekly spreadsheet.  Once that is done, I send it off to Charlie.  He enters the information onto a different worksheet that puts all the scores and standings in order.  He then sends it off to Will, for posting to the site.  If I have everything done by friday afternoon, the information usually makes it on in time for the week-end.  At noon this past Friday, I was still missing 5 score sheets for 8-Ball and 7 for 9-Ball.  In terms of scoresheet collection, the earlier you can get them to me, the easier and faster it will be.

FAX NUMBER:  There were apparrently some problems last week with the faxing of scoresheets to Larry's Dive.  Paper jams, etc.  If there is a problem going forward, try faxing them directly to Charlie at 02-691-5149.

REGISTERED BARS: This is a reminder to all of the bars in the league that they can and should register to this sight.  Just send the request in to Will.  Feel free to post any information you want about your bar, and you can also use your logo.