Just when you thought the game could become no more exciting.
So, I am a pretty avid foosball (table soccer) player. It's a great bar game. It's such a great bar game, I went out and got myself a foosball table (from that exact store I linked to, as a matter of fact). Over the course of playing foos, it was often bantered about that we should be keeping statistics. For a while, some of us kept track of our respective records against one another, but nothing formal came of it. But, now, it has been standardized and finalized -- here is the official "J$" nomenclature for tracking foosball scoring.
Each player has four bars of foos guys -- the goalie bar, the 2-man defenders, the big 5-man rod, and the offensive 3-man rod. Thus, they can be referenced alphanumerically like G, 2, 5, and 3. Each specific "foos-dude" on each bar can be referenced numerically with an index of 1 starting at the side of the player's control. This breaks that table down into G1, G2, G3, 21, 22, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 31, 32, and 33.
So, at the start of a game, you mark down a timestamp and the opponents. From there, you record who scores each goal in a chronological format. Furthermore, a "clean" goal (the nature of a clean goal versus a sloppy goal is the subject of an entire other entry) is specified by encircling the marking. The last caveat is a goal on one's self. This is marked as the other players goal with the identifier of the offending players foos-guy; however, it is marked appropriately by putting a square around the score indication. The last item that may need clarification is that the foos-guy responsible for the goal is the primary player who put the ball in motion which resulted in the ball falling into the goal. This leaves a little room for argument, but most of the time, it is terribly obvious. Here is an example score card:
Oh, yes, it's that good. I can now look over and pinpoint my number 1 player; or who has the current hot "toe." This is better than I could have possible imagined.
Just leave it to a geek to do something like this...
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You must really be getting bored over there without Prall around? On a completely different note, how do I view your old alpha-geek comrades sites? Can we get a list of links to their sites?
Reading the post's title, I was concerned for a minute there that you had actually improved your foos skillz, causing me to fret the upcoming rematch after my embarrassing collapse at The Foos Championship of the Universe in sunny Las Vegas.
But alas, it does not seem to be so. After my 4-games-to-none triumphant trouncing of my once proud foos mentor, TK, plus a "book'em, Dan-o", I am merely amused by your pathetic little "scoring system". The time for my dominance on the table is again at hand. Plus, it'll be in the southland, my home turf. Last time I was weakened by the multiple daystars of the desert. Of course, I haven't really played since Vegas other than the TK incident, so it may be interesting. We'll see.
In all seriousness, am I to assume by this new scoring system that you're now counting non-clean and even self-scored goals? Or is that merely for the purpose of the stat monkeys in the van to query for cute info snippets during commercial time-outs?
> You must really be getting bored
> over there without Prall around?
It was, actually, Prall and I who came up with the system; thus, I am just a co-author of the RFC.
> how do I view your old alpha-geek comrades sites?
They are on the blogroll. Maybe I'll put up a static link section, though.
> Can we get a list of links to their sites?
Coloring Outside the Lines -- scott.alpha-geek.com
Better Half -- gnubbs.alpha-geek.com
> that you're now counting non-clean and even self-scored goals?
Yes. Bar rules. There's a bar in Lakewood called the Richland Cafe. Every Saturday night, there is a foos tourney with really, really good foos-ers there. I am talking about money 5-man to 3-man passing and wicked snake shots. They are quite good and can even be found there on non-tourney nights mopping the floor with wanderers who stumble in and decide to try their hand at the foos (your's truly included).
At any rate, we have standardized on bar rules -- slop is allowed and counted but the statistics track that. Most of the time, though, (I would say 80%), all of the goals are clean anyways.
> The time for my dominance on the table is again at hand.
My victories will be made that much sweeter by your shit-talkin'.