WPSL & W-League Combine player lists set

I spent a few years of my life living in Portland, Oregon. During that time, I had some friends who would make the annual trek up to Lind, Washington for their Combine Destruction Derby. The pic to the left is apparently a souped up combine that participated in 2005. My friends always brought back some pretty amazing and hilarious stories from the Derby so if you are in the area when it next takes place, you absolutely should go. The WPSL and W-League combines on the other hand… probably not as exciting as a destruction derby but I bet loads of fun for the participants. The W-League released it’s list here and the WPSL list is here. How well is your favorite team represented? Since I live in the Yay, big shout out to goalkeeper Katie Loomis of the Nighthawks, which is, I believe the closest we’re gonna get around here to top flight women’s soccer in the near future.

And I’m introducing a new segment here at the WPS Offside. So there have been complaints in the blogosphere as of late – that most soccer reporting is done online and that any nutjob with a free wordpress/blogspot/theoffside account can set up a blog and start typing nonsense about their favorite team. There have even been blog posts from other bloggers informing new bloggers how not to write crappy blogs. This is all well and good but the geek in me wants more. So from now on, I’ll be running the words I write here through the Stupid Filter which is (and I’m dead serious) “an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines.” Perfect. Their beta software is already available to download and they’ve got a demo site up and running here. And the results of this post? “Text is not likely to be stupid.” Word. From now on, I’ll footnote my Stupid Filter results in every post.

Category: Somewhat Off-Topic, W-League

Tags: Combine, Somewhat Off-Topic, W-League, WPSL

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