As the struggling New York Giants desperately try to correct their season against the Seattle Seahawks, a similar picture is emerging in the USCL. After a crazy season that saw new teams joining the fray, old powerhouses relegated to the bottom of...
The ninth week of the USCL is upon us, and this year it takes on a whole new level of importance. The West has a small but significant edge in the interdivisional standings, up a full match point and five game points on the East. Nonetheless, the ...
With just two weeks left before the end of the season, some teams have ceased to consider their playoff chances, focusing instead on their playoff positioning. Besides the obvious benefit of the bye week for the top 6 teams, draw odds is a monumen...
I've been extremely busy this week, and completely forgot to post predictions! Hence I'll just leave these here and run, given that the matches start in half an hour... New York Knights New Jersey KnockoutsGM Gata Kamsky: 2785 1.0 0.0 GM Alex St...
We're halfway through seven weeks of play, which means that the playoff picture generally becomes somewhat clarified. Unfortunately (actually fortunately, but ok), that doesn't seem to be the case this year. There's been a very large amount of par...
Once again the recap article is missing, because I just haven't had time this week to devote to writing one. Take it from me - organizing events is surprisingly time-intensive. Organizing events involving middle schoolers? Yep. Anyway, it's been ...
Unfortunately I've been pretty busy this week, so the recap of last week's games will be a little late. However, since it wouldn't make much sense to post predictions after the matches have finished, I figured I'd at least get this done quickly be...
So Greg decided to release his midseason power rankings, meaning I need to one-up/challenge him with my own version :) Unlike Greg's version, in which he ranks the teams by how likely they are to win the championship, I'm ranking teams by how wel...
New Jersey currently sits in third place in the Eastern division, but with this positioning hardly secure every match becomes a little bit more important from here on out. Our match tonight is against the Carolina Cobras, who are currently at the ...
It certainly wasn't pretty, but it was New Jersey's turn to escape with a key half point against the New England Nor'Easters. In an interesting departure from previous weeks, this time it was the bottom boards who came through for the Knockouts, w...
We managed to climb back into the discussion last week, but with the divisional race extremely tight it's hardly time to let up. Tonight we face off against the struggling New England Nor'Easters. One of the 2010 expansion teams, New England took ...
It wasn't pretty, but we managed to notch up our first win of the season last Wednesday. Our victims were the Atlanta Kings, who put up an incredible fight despite being apparently outmatched on paper. The win puts NJ in 4th place in the Eastern d...
Though the Knockouts have garnished only half a point from the first two matches, a win tonight would vault us right back into the middle of the division and well in the playoff hunt. With New England struggling at 0-3 and Boston just a point bett...
The Knockouts drew their second match with the Philadelphia Inventors, a result that is fairly disappointing as we had them significantly outmatched on paper. Our woes on the bottom boards continue, with both boards 3 and 4 going to Philadelphia (...
In half an hour, the New Jersey Knockouts will begin our second match. After a disappointing loss last week, NJ will certainly be looking to right the ship with a big victory tonight. Our opponents are the Philadelphia Inventors, a team that alway...
The Knockouts got off to a rough start last week, dropping our first match to the Manhattan Applesauce. The match was crazy and the final result was in doubt until the final waning seconds, but eventually IM Mandizha would score the only full poin...
The opening day rosters have been revealed, and they certainly have not disappointed. With the first week being divisional play, the opportunity to secure the early advantage is certainly enticing, and the teams have responded in kind. As last yea...
Hello again chess world! We're back for another exciting season of US Chess League action. 2 new teams, the Atlanta Kings and the Rio Grande Ospreys, have joined the fray with high-powered lineups, increasing the league to 18 teams. This led to a ...
For my final post of the season, I'll be predicting the entire playoff bracket (with oddly "accurate" numbers :P). Half of the USCL teams have managed to earn a coveted playoff spot, namely the: Manhattan Applesauce New York Knights New Englan...
It took all 10 weeks, but NJ's season is finally officially over. A combination of our loss to Manhattan and NY's draw with Philadelphia added insult to injury as either would have sufficed to keep us in the spectator position for the playoffs. Re...
Well, it ain't over until its over, but it's pretty much over. NJ suffered a very disappointing loss against the New York Knights to effectively end our playoff hopes. It certainly didn't seem like this would be the end result, but some creative p...
(Sorry there's a bit less substance this week, this weekend was verrrrrrry long and I'm still tired) The season is beginning to draw to a close, and this week no fewer than seven teams are staring potential elimination in the face. Just before th...
I already did Baltimore's so I might as well finish the division, since it's really very short. Again, this is all done by hand and as such may contain errors. The historical stats are assumed to hold, as well as all teams being equally matched an...
I'm going to try and do this by hand, don't lynch me :D Methodology: Using the historical stats, assume the result of a match is 25% 2-2, 39% 2.5-1.5, 23% 3-1, 11% 3.5-0.5, 3% 4-0. Furthermore assume that all teams are exactly evenly matched (e.g...
As the regular season draws closer and closer to its conclusion, little was done to clarify the playoff scenarios as almost all of the playoff spots remain well within reach for most teams. The Atlantic division saw Manhattan continuing its mome...
