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| SOME INFO ABOUT THE 05/06 SEASON SCORING CHANGES |
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How will the final score of a game that goes to shootout read?
If a game is tied 3-3 after regulation and eventually goes to a shootout, the final score of the game will be 4-3 (regardless the number of goals scored in the shootout). How will statistics from a game that goes to shootout be accounted for? No individual statistics will be awarded from performance in a shootout (e.g. no goals -- or game-winning goals -- credited to scorer; no saves or goals against charged to a goaltender). Also, a goalie will not be charged with a loss to his record should he lose in overtime (this is a change from current practice) or in a shootout. Instead, such a decision would be added to the goalie's OT column (e.g. same as team standings -- GP W L OT). |
Questions About Features
# 1 My pool only counts the top 10 scorers of 12 drafted players. (Top N Team)
# 2 Can I change the point scoring system?
# 3 Can we customize headlines, taunt and trash talk one another, and change team sorting?
# 4 Can I control which charts are displayed?
# 5 We select a city's hockey team or draft ALL goalies on a club, can you handle that?
# 6 Can we trade players, and have newly traded players start at 0 points while keeping the points-to-date of the old player?
# 7 Our pool has mini-seasons, can we track it here? (i.e. Oct. 15 through Nov. 15)
# 8 Can I award points for Goalies who only allow 1 or 2 goals a game, or players who score multiple goals in a game?
# 9 Can we track player draft salaries, contracts and add bonus points to players?
Pool Set Up Questions
#10 Trouble Initializing your teams? We strongly suggest you look at this 10 page tutorial.
#11 Can I change the number of Owners or Players once I've registered?
#12 I can't enter Federov, McInnis, Hedjuk, St. Louis, O'Niell or some other common player.
#13 Can I change the Pool Login Id to something else?
#14 Can you please change my email address to foo@bar.com?
#15 Can you change the sorting of my team / I drafted Player A not Player B / Player X should/should not be a Penalty/Bonehead/Goalie/etc?
#16 I have a player with a strange name like "Sorry NotReinprecht" who has 0 points.
Login/Password Questions
#17 I've forgotten my Pool Login or Password. What do I do?
#18 I can't login to my pool or I get the wrong pool when I do login.
(End of NUMBERED questions.)
More Frequently Asked Questions
Q: One of my players seems to have lost points last night, or a player who did not play last night gained
points. What happened?
Q: I'm having font problems.
Q:What stat categories can I track?
Q: How much does it cost?
Q: Why would I use this service?
Q: The season is already started, can I still register?
Q: Do I need Java or any other plugins to use this service?
Q: Is this a form of gambling?
Q: When are the stats updated?
Q: What type of pools can be kept track of using this service?
Q: Can we trade players?
Q: Can I compete against other people on the net with this service?
Q: Can I keep track of just my team or do I need to keep track of the whole pool?
Q: My pool involves trades which can result in an un-equal number of players on each team. How do I set that up?
Q: Should I give out the Pool's Password to everyone in the pool?
Q: Once the pool is set up, how do we access our Daily Stats Page?
Q: I'm pretty sure I remember my password correctly, but it isn't letting me login. What's going on?
Q: You are asking for my email address. Are you going to sell this information to anyone or spam me?
Additional and more recent info is available on the What's New page.
The only problem is, what if you're not leading in your hockey pool? Well, you can still have a good night and decimate your opponents, or a strong last 10 days where your team out scored all others, or you may have picked that one dark horse player in the late rounds that turns out to be in the Top 30 scorers. That deserves to be recognized, and with THE Hockey Pool, it is recognized.
You don't have to worry about updating the stats, or waiting until the newspaper comes out. The special daily charts provide you with all sorts of personal, specific to your pool, break-downs in a variety of areas.
We also keep track of the top scoring un-drafted players and goaltenders (if your pool has them) so if your pool involves re-drafts or trades, you have the best information possible about the available players.
Variable: Times New Roman 12 point Fixed: Courier New 12 pointIn your browser, Edit>Properties or Tools>Internet Options and select 'Times Roman New' for Variable width font or Web page font and 'Courier New' or 'Courier' for Fixed width font or Plain text font.
In case of any dispute between sources about a stats total, the NHL.com's stats are used as the final Official stats.
You can have all drafted players totals count towards your team's total score, or you can limit the total to only include the top scorers (ie. Only the top 10 of your 13 players count towards your total points). See this document for more information on this feature.
You, as pool administrator can trade players between teams or replace players by using your pool login and password, and editing the players on the respective teams. This gives you a lot of power over your pool, but we count on your friends and co-workers to keep you in line. (They won't be too happy if you try to trade Sergei Fedorov to your team in exchange for Tie Domi without the other party's consent.)
We cannot keep track of pools which allow active/reserve roster changes yet. You can fake this by doing timed player trades to and from individual teams, but the pool administrator has to be responsible for doing all of the trades. See this document for more information.
A great deal of the entertainment from this service comes from seeing the headlines, charts and comparisons which are generated each morning, and for these to work, the service needs to see how your team is doing compared to everyone else's team. If your pool is too large to enter, you could always enter a sub-set of the teams. But if you don't enter all of the teams, how will you know when you're winning?
http://www.TheHockeyPool.com/cgiNew/DailyStatsPage.cgi?Pool=[your_Pool_Login_goes_here]
For example, if your Pool Login is ThemGoons, you can access:
http://www.TheHockeyPool.com/cgiNew/DailyStatsPage.cgi?Pool=ThemGoons
Of course, it is much easier to bookmark this link from the top of your Daily Stats Page. On the upper right of the page is a green box with the words "Bookmark this for your Daily Stats Page!" Use your right mouse button to click on the link and roll down to select "Add to Favorites..."
However, sometimes a point reporting problem is simply due to a bad formating of the statistics we get from the NHL and the problem should correct itself with the next day's stats.