Congrats 2008 Champs: Mulligan's Misfits & Brian's Place #2!

The finals were played last night.

In the A/B Division we had first in the semi final matches Mulligan's Misfits defeat American Legion #2 7-0 while Suzy's Saloon #2 upset #2 seed The Pub at Midtown in a tight match winning 7-6.

In the A/B Division finals Mulligan's Misfits won it's 4th straight championship and 6th in the last 10 years by defeating Suzy's Saloon #2 7-3.

Mulligan's Misfits: A/B Champs

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In the C/D Division bracket we had in the semi finals Brian's Place #2 playing Suzy's Saloon #1 with Brian's Place #2 winning by a margin of 7-2 while on the other side of the C/D bracket Gallagher's Pub #2 defeated Anthony's #1 by a very tight margin of 7-5.

In the finals it was the #4 seed Brian's Place #2 winning in a route over the #6 seed Gallagher's Pub #2. It was the first championship for Bill & Elaine Black and there team and the first championship for Brian's Place since 1997.

Brian's Place #2: C/D Champs

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With the season over we now plan for the League Banquet. It will be April 12th at the Manteno Sportsmens's Club in Manteno, starting at 6pm. If you have any questions please email me at uncle_brewski@att.net or call Dan Corbett at 815-258-0728.

Thank you to everyone for a great season and see you at the banquet.

Thank you,
Brian Gain

PLAYOFFS UPDATE

Here is the updated bracket.

The final 8 teams will play at the American Legion Tuesday the 18th. If you are playing, please try to get there as early as you can. If we can get some matches to start at 7 that might speed up the night.

Suzy's #2 is looking for a player off the bar sub list. If there is anyone intrested please e-mail me or come to the American Legion in Peotone this Tuesday.

Thank you,
Brian

PLAYOFFS UPDATE

Here is the updated bracket.

Please be advised, I made the change to the date of the final two rounds like i stated in my last e-mail. Please disregard the prior bracket and use this one on a go forward basis.

There was an issue this past week with a player being used who is on the stat sheets with ??? as his last name. Like I told everyone before, if they were not corrected at the time I asked then you run the risk of loosing a player or forfeiting games because of this. Hate to say I told you so but.......

I will need shirt sizes for the players on the teams that took first place in there division by the end of the week. Please get back to me on this.

Thank you,
Brian

PLAYOFFS

Sorry for the delay in releasing this info but if not for the forfeit match I would have this done Saturday night. The website is now updated.

All the play-in matches this week will play in downtown Peotone. They are as follows:

A/B bracket
#8 Anthony's (home team) vs #9 Country Place #1 (away team) playing at Throwbacks.

C/D bracket
#6 Gallagher's #2 (home team) vs #11 Bit O'Blarney (away team) at Peotone Bowling Alley.
#7 American Legion #1 (home team) vs #10 Gallagher's #1 (away team) at Suzy's Saloon.
#8 Peotone Bowling Alley (home team) vs #9 Suzy's Saloon #1 (away team) at American Legion.

The team with the better record, the higher seeded team is the home team for that nights games.

If you have any questions please contact me via e-mail at uncle_brewski@att.net

Good luck to everyone in the playoffs.

Thank you,
Brian

IMPORTANT NOTICE

When your team is using a bar sub it is important to get the players first AND last names. The reason is if this person is used again thru the season by another team his average is correct and his stats can be counted accurately. Nicknames are not allowed. The following teams have until this coming Tuesday night to get the bar subs players names of you will forfeit any games won while this player was playing, regardless if he/she thru the winning dart.

Gallagher's #1, "Ronald" on 10/30/07
Suzy's #1, Highpockets" on 10/30/07
Gallagher's #1, "Jeff" on 11/6/07

These players represent 7 wins.

The following teams are short money as of 11/6/2007

Country Place #2 from 10/23/07 vs Suzy's #2, Short $7.00
Peotone Bowling Alley #1 from 10/30/07 vs Suzy's #1, Short $8.00
Anthony's #2 from 10/16/07 vs Suzy's #2, Short $7.00
Peotone Bowling Alley #2 from 10/23/07 vs The Pub @ Midtown, Short $3.00

Please make these current this week. If you have questions in regards to these please check your records and email me any questions. Otherwise after this coming weeks games you will start loosing points if these are not current by 11/20/2007.

Thank you,
Brian

The match between Brian's Place #1 and Country Place #1 was made up Monday night. The stats for the week of 11/6/2007 are now current and up to date for ALL teams.

On Tuesday the 30th of October, the match between Brian's Place #1 and Country Place #1 was delayed. The make up date will be on Monday November 5th. The match will take place at Brian's Place.

The stats will be updated without this match included as soon as I get all the teams to enter there stats. At this time, outside of the match that didn't play, the only team that has not entered their stats is Gallagher's #1.

For the following teams you must wait until Tuesday November 6th before you print the stats because of the rescheduled match. These teams are: Brian's Place #1, Mulligan's Misfits, Country Place #1 and Throwback's Throwers.

All other teams can print the stats as soon as they are updated, sometime Friday I hope...as soon as Gallagher's #1 submits there stats from the 30th.

If you have any questions please email me at uncle_brewski@att.net.

ITEM #2
The mid-season league tournament has been scheduled for Saturday afternoon, January 5th at the Manteno Sportsman's club. Check your schedules and keep it free. We are currently in negotiations with a vendor to supply the dart boards and we should be looking at anywhere from 8 to 10 boards. Details to come......

Thank you,
Brian Gain

Just a couple of reminders, The nightly fees are $8.00 per player. Some teams are only collecting $7.00 per person. I will email these captians to advise them of there money owed.

If you have suggestions on anything about how the league is run as far as all the new changes for this year please don't be afraid to email them to me at uncle_brewski@att.net. There are a few things we are going to change to the score sheets soon so please speak up!

Thank you,
Brian

Last year's league average was 1.97. Download League Materials here, sorry for the late notice!

Updated Schedule

Handicap Sheet

2006-2007 Final Statistics

League Rules

The 2007/2008 Uncle Brewski's 501 Dart League will start this coming Tuesday, October 9th. Please see the schedule either on the Schedule page (Updated) or refer to the handed out schedule from the meeting on October 3rd for your match location & opponent.

I am excited to say that this season is starting because while we were in the last months of the prior season I really did not think anyone was going to take over the league as Dan and I were asking for the last few seasons. We both knew that we didn't have the time anymore to continue putting forth the effort it takes to keep this league going every season. Dan and I both for personal reasons were at the end of our ropes with the amount of time this thing takes. For me, it was the time I lost with my family. I have a wife (Kellie) and 4 children (Jordan 13, Hannah 7, Emily 6 & Matthew 4) that all suffered thru time spent without me. I work 70+ hours every week and work about 1 hour away from home. So with what little time I had with them, most of the time, two evenings of it were spend in front of the computer, milling over score sheets that half of the time were extremely hard to read because of the warming effects of alcohol & poor penmanship.

That said, I felt like there was a real possibility the league would not exist come this month.

Then, Towards the very end of last season, Dave Huffman, Shawn Steward & Todd Seifert of Brian's Place #1 approached me with an idea they had. Using there computer skills they stated to me they could write a program that would help Dan and I run the league in considerably less time. At last seasons banquet, they showed me a very basic look and the theory of how it would work. Later that summer we met again and they showed me on there computer how it looked. And now that the league is getting underway, right up until the last few days Shawn Steward, Dave & Todd all worked very hard, no doubt taking time away from there own personal lives, to put all the final touches on the program & the web site.

It is with their vision, their skills and their efforts that this league is starting on time this year. I want to be the first to thank all of these guys for the effort they have put forth making this happen because if they hadn't done this, the vision that Uncle Brewski himself, Bruce Yunker had for this league would have died.

So this season, when you play Brian's Place #1, EVERYONE owes them a large, extra thank you.

I also want to thank my wife Kellie for sticking with me over all these years as this league has grown bigger & bigger making it more time consuming. I started playing in this league before Kellie & I got married and during this upcoming season we will have our 10th wedding anniversary. I love you very much Kel, Thank you.

Now this season starts, without skipping a beat, taking a new direction into the future.

Good luck to everyone this season
Brian Gain

The next meeting is going to be Wednesday, yes I said WEDNESDAY, October 3rd at the American Legion in Peotone. I'd like to get it started around 7:45 - 8pm. Topics at this meeting will be the web site, score sheets, sponsor fees and more.

The sponsor fee this season is $45.00 PER TEAM. If you can get it in time for the meeting Wednesday that would be great but the dead line to have them in is 10-16-2007 (week two).

The schedule is done. There are only 19 teams this season which means there will be a bye week. You can Download the Schedule Here, it is in Microsoft excel format.

If you have any questions please email them to me at uncle_brewski@att.net.

We will see you on WEDNESDAY.
Thanks,
Brian