The SJ.com 2008 charts ... today!

[Football_Bat]

Look out dools and BYH ....

(Warning: The following is the product of extreme boredom and a well-deserved break from intoxicants.)

I was curious about what the new year would hold among the top posters on the board. What I learned is it’s damned hard to rise in the rankings unless you churn out Good Doctor-like volume.

Billboard style ....

Projecting what the post standings will look like on Jan. 1, 2008, using the average posts per day extrapolated out over the course of a 365-day year (and using the total posts as of 11:59:32 p.m. CST on Dec. 31, 2006 as my starting point):

Note: Posters with superlatives are in red and those with bullets are in purple.

08 Pvs Poster Avg/day Total Change
1 1 dooley_womack1 16.891 28,795 0
2 2 BYH 14.342 27,092 0
3 3 shotglass 12.119 21,964 0
4 23 The Good Doctor 25.023 16,582 +19
***Sales Gainer***
5 4 Fenian_Bastard 8.623 16,408 -1
6 5 imjustagirl 8.340 15,828 -1
7 6 JR 8.437 15,693 -1
8 7 Ace 7.795 14,784 -1
9 9 21 8.730 14,574 0
10 8 Boom_70 7.479 14,263 -2
11 10 Mizzougrad96 7.235 13,797 -1
12 12 Hank_Scorpio 7.438 13,181 0
13 32 Columbo 19.048 13,178 +19
***Airplay Gainer***
14 11 Freelance Hack 6.854 13,022 -3
15 26 DyePack 16.448 12,864 +11
16 14 Buck 6.635 12,656 -2
17 15 Moderator1 6.534 12,382 -2
18 25 sportschick 14.233 12,150 +7
19 15 spnited 6.377 12,135 -4
20 21 Oz 9.376 11,547 +1
21 17 2muchcoffeeman 7.167 11,521 -4
22 16 Cosmo 5.922 11,199 -6
23 18 Armchair_QB 6.450 10,748 -5
24 19 HoopsMcCann 5.615 10,346 -5
25 20 Starman 5.327 10,154 -5
26 51 Flash 15.926 9,833 +25
27 33 buckweaver 9.817 9,798 +6
28 28 slappy4428 7.737 9,588 0
29 37 Songbird 10.319 9,536 +8
30 30 Idaho 7.594 9,498 0
31 31 Bubbler 7.620 9,441 0
32 36 hockeybeat 9.335 9,297 +4
33 40 Double J 10.308 9,172 +7
34 23 Pastor 4.705 8,802 -11
35 24 Almost_Famous 4.563 8,693 -11
36 27 Flying Headbutt 4.454 8,460 -9
37 29 Zeke12 4.433 8,377 -8
38 39 Guy_Incognito 6.148 7,714 +1
39 44 Football_Bat 6.564 7,526 +5
40 34 heyabbott 3.974 7,445 -6
41 35 Inky_Wretch 4.009 7,437 -6
42 38 poindexter 3.622 6,802 -4
43 50 AlleyAllen 7.383 6,715 +7
44 41 Ben_Hecht 3.489 6,643 -3
45 42 SF_Express 3.581 6,508 -3
46 48 boots 6.205 6,435 +2
47 43 HejiraHenry 3.351 6,393 -4
48 45 farmerjerome 5.088 6,317 -3
49 47 TheSportsPredictor 3.950 5,758 -2
50 104 Chuck~Taylor 9.868 5,723 +54
***Hot Shot***
51 87 Evil ******* (aka Chris_L) 8.830 5,678 +36
52 46 spaceman 3.050 5,523 -6
53 77 Lee Jackson Beauregard 7.535 5,486 +24
54 105 spup1122 8.983 5,399 +51
55 57 MU_was_not_so_hard 4.113 5,151 +2
56 60 PopeDirkBenedict 4.190 5,069 +4
57 49 dixiehack 2.614 4,984 -8
58 55 Sam Mills 51 3.299 4,974 -3
59 62 wicked 3.990 4,866 +3
60 52 Gold 2.590 4,865 -8

Bubbling under the Top 60:
Lugnuts 2.629 4,730
markvid 2.540 4,727
novelist_wannabe 3.749 4,678
Mystery_Meat 2.884 4,623
The Big Ragu 2.488 4,588
bigpern23 3.663 4,537
cranberry 2.354 4,449
leo1 3.013 4,370
goalmouth 2.459 4,248
Dude 2.219 4,240
dog428 2.199 4,173
Gutter 2.274 3,930
Frank_Ridgeway 2.052 3,859
Webby 1.921 3,781

Some of the hot ones coming up:
pallister 7.149 4,690
Carrie 4.750 4,213
Johnny Dangerously 5.143 3,980
KYSportsWriter 4.578 3,969

 

[imjustagirl2]

I am so sad for you right now.

 

[Oz]

Didn't carrie average 20 posts a day when she first logged on here? I swore she would have hit 10,000 by now.

 

[Football_Bat]

Didn't carrie average 20 posts a day when she first logged on here? I swore she would have hit 10,000 by now.

I think Flash and spup stole her mojo.

 

[spup1122]

I don't understand the purple. I'm sure it's the blonde stupidity in me, but can you explain?

 

[pallister]

I had 70-80 posts alone on New Year's Day, so I started off strong. But it's a marathon, not a sprint. I'll have to pace myself -- and possibly schedule some extra vacation time.

 

[Football_Bat]

I don't understand the purple. I'm sure it's the blonde stupidity in me, but can you explain?

It signifies posters who are projected to make significant gains in the overall rankings. As for the color selection, I just like purple because it's different. Maybe I'll use teal or lime green next time.

 

[spup1122]

No, that's cool. I just didn't get it. Like I said.. spup=blonde stupidity sometimes.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Didn't carrie average 20 posts a day when she first logged on here? I swore she would have hit 10,000 by now.

I think Flash and spup stole her mojo.

Yeah, baby!

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

I don't understand the purple. I'm sure it's the blonde stupidity in me, but can you explain?

It signifies posters who are projected to make significant gains in the overall rankings. As for the color selection, I just like purple because I'm a homosexual. Maybe I'll use teal or lime green next time.

Fixed.

 

[BYH]

I've got work to do this weekend, so I didn't want to log on and further distract myself...but I had to complement Football_Bat. This was HILARIOUS. Well done!

 

[Double J]

That is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen on here. When I was younger I was a huge Billboard and AT40 nut, so I'm tres gratified to see that a) I'm in the Top 40 and b) I've got a bullet on the chart.

And now we're up to our Long Distance Dedication, about a little dog named Snuggles....

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

That is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen on here. When I was younger I was a huge Billboard and AT40 nut, so I'm tres gratified to see that a) I'm in the Top 40 and b) I've got a bullet on the chart.

And now we're up to our Long Distance Dedication, about a little dog named Snuggles....

Ponderous. ****in' ponderous!

 

[imjustagirl2]

Here you go, peeps.

Oh, and duh: NSFW. It starts automatically.


http://beeftone.com/Casey-Kasem_Snuggles-MP3.mp3

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Thank you so much, IJAG. I needed a spot of Casey tonight to make me smile.

 

[BYH]

I'd love to hear Casey's lead-ins to each of us.

Our next poster has raced up the charts under a slightly different name before. But at the height of his popularity, he left the board--twice. Now, having mended fences with Moderator1, and wanting to join his friends from the No Idiots Allowed Fantasy League, he has returned. And this time, it appears, for good. At number 51, up an incredible 36 spots from last week, it's Evil *******, aka Chris_L.

Our next poster is another one who has changed his name and left the board many times. He loves Miami and professional football. Indeed, when it comes to his favorite city and sport, debate him at your peril. He'll unleash f-bombs like you haven't heard since my Snuggles long distance dedication. He hates Nick Saban, loves Frank Gore and baseball's economic system drives him mad. And the Yankees' spending spree has inspired this man to post like never before. He says, and I quote, 'BYH is a [expletive] no-good [expletive] who flunked economics. He's a complete [expletive].' At number 13, up an amazing 19 spots from last week, it's Columbo.

We finally have a new number one, and this poster has spent a long time climbing the charts. He started out in October 2002 like everyone else on the site but didn't begin posting with frequency until the following spring. He has an opinion on everything and he hates frauds. His board battles with the likes of Almost_Famous, Moderator1 and Columbo are the stuff of legend. He's done his best not to hit number one, including taking several long sabbaticals in 2006, and it looked like he'd mimic his favorite band Foreigner by spending forever at number two. But the Chiefs making the playoff sent him over the top. Finally (drum roll), here, at number one, ending Dooley_Womack1's 78-week stay at the top, is BYH.

 

[Double J]

Hey, even Foreigner finally made it to No. 1, so there's reason to believe BYH may yet get there.

Isn't it stupid that some people could belch into a microphone and score a No. 1 record (hi, Fergie, you no-talent skank!) while artists like CCR and Bruce Springsteen never accomplished the feat? Or that "Louie Louie" was kept out of No. 1 by The Singing Nun's "Dominique"? To quote CI channelling Casey, "ponderous, ****ing ponderous."

Oh well. "Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!"

 

[Football_Bat]

More fun facts: Out of 6,556 members as of this posting, 2,766 have signed up but never posted even once. Another 786 have posted exactly one time and another 423 deigned to grace us with their presence twice.

And John D. Villarreal is almost on a Good Doctor pace.

Diaper Dandies (all less than 6 months in): SoSueMe (423 posts, 5.494 per day), RokSki (480 posts, 5.333 per day), Clever username (628, 4.794) and indiansnetwork (520, 4.561) seem to be off to fine timewasting careers.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Damn, the Doctor went by me like I was standing still.

 

[slappy4428]

Damn, the Doctor went by me like I was standing still.

So the future IS like real life...