GRECO!7 PLAYOFFS WEEK 1: 6/2 to 6/6

[Wayoshi]

This playing will presumably cover 1051-55L in production order, but there are no guarantees.

There are no spoilers.

We know for sure the Monday and Tuesday shows are "reverse frankens" of 0971L. This is following in-order with reverse frankens of 0961-64 the past two weeks (remember 0965L was an all-cash and separate, taping-wise). It is a fair assumption, but perhaps not safe, that 0972L reverse frankens will follow, then one 0973L reverse franken to round out this week. All-cash, Payday Friday shows are over for the season.

Only the following players may play in these GRECO playoffs, having earned at least 300 points in the regular season. They will start with the following number of bonus points (1 per every 25 points past 300):

22FJB: 16
Kev347: 15
Wayoshi: 14
OneBidTris: 13
Flerbert419: 9
thepriceis_J: 3
Pikachu732001: 3
Hag: 3
dprice: 1

(I'm so sorry 88JR - but you literally missed the qualifying amount by the minimum half point possible. Them's the breaks!)

The POSTAGE STAMP (top right 2x2) will be the PATTERN for this playing.

Good luck! Remember the super spot now goes away for the playoffs, and this is a cumulative three-week total.

[Wayoshi]

Unfortunately jj was unavailable to join us, so it's down to 8.

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8: Do the Math, Pick-a-Number
7: 1 Right Price, 1/2 Off, Danger Price, Gridlock!, Money Game, One Away, One Wrøng Price, Range Game, Secret "X", Squeeze Play
6: Grocery Game, Hole in One, Switch?, That's Too Much!
5: Cover Up, Dice Game, Line em Up, Lucky $even, Punch a Bunch, Spelling Bee, Swap Meet, To The Penny, Vend-O-Price
4: Balance Game, Most Expen$ive, Rat Race
3: Check Game, Coming or Going, Flip Flop, Hot Seat, Plinko
2: Bargain Game, Double Prices, Switcheroo
1: Back to '74, Bonus Game, Bullseye, Gas Money, Golden Road, It's in the Bag, Make Your Move, Pathfinder, Pocket ¢hange, Push Over, Side By Side, Stack the Deck

[Wayoshi]

3 games from 0971L indeed appear... it's a bit of a cheat code, isn't it?

We love early sandbags.... well, not really, but here's one with Bonkers (and maybe puts Balance in doubt tomorrow?). Most picked Half as it was in fact due. The slight difference early on is if you picked Dice to finally make a showing despite late season, which 5 out of 8 did do.

Note I've labeled the playoff bonus points as "C" ("carryover").

[Wayoshi]

There were some thoughts about Bee/Balance being filler this week after last week, but we continue the filler-less streak after all. I do not get first GRECO however as FJB arranged his diagonal better, this is a 10-point swing that I am not happy to give up given I started this week in a 2 point disadvantage.

I saw a couple 3X picks last week (I think people forgot Gold on a moved show counted as the Big 3 for May, and we just ended up getting nothing for April), but none this week. I get it, very risky playoff pick, but it was going to show sometime this month. That said, this early in the month and with this loaded of a lineup was a surprise. That left DP as a needed quickie, which only 2 people picked.

Finally, Vend, the most due regular GP, managed to show here, thank goodness.

[Wayoshi]

I'll write a recap for both of these 0972L reverse frankens later today.

[Wayoshi]

I thought I had picked ORP to skip, but ultimately I did not do so. Good thing as there was no filler again this week, even if it produced a crappy lineup today. For non-0972L games the past two days we got...

- Squeeze / Range / Check - various amount of due on the 1 prizers
- Line - there's a group of Dice / Cover / Line / TTM on regular cars (not including 3X as "regular" here) that are traditionally due. Line added onto Dice here.
- H-L for a car - well if we were getting a non-car, it'd be H-L! Only two weeks, but cash shows have made these rotations crazy
- Plinko as a 3rd SP cash on the week - kinda eew here, I have X on an inner diagonal... we'll have to see tomorrow

I am really regretting being careless and forgetting about accounting for my pattern - Flip is looking dubious for tomorrow, sadly. FJB even with X missing today is in pretty good shape (got the Line/Dice pair exactly right, aforementioned first GRECO worked out with the swapped shows earlier - he's at 19 hits out of 24, fantastic) and might run away with this yet - we'll see what cards ultimately get far tomorrow.

[Wayoshi]

I got bailed out with Flip, pure & simple. I've never been so happy to see it, and not sarcastically like Drew with Stack today (which no one was happy to see, come on).

We also got Cliff as the only regular SP this week, which yes it can show anytime... but wow at X suddenly getting ignored for a bit. (And CoG went 3 weeks in a row, I would have preferred it to take a week off. Watch it show again now, lol.)

Another big story is 3 SP/cash and 0 GP/cash. That sets up a pretty curious situation heading into next week, they could have swapped the playings of a couple of these cashers out a bit better I think. Also led to just Bee (on back to back, but we had an idea thanks to reverse franken) as the only SP/car this week, when a couple SP/cars are getting quite due now...

FJB and I end up with matching GRECOs, hits & patterns this week, so it's that silly first situation I talked about that has FJB opening up a lead. But it could have been a runaway already so easily, and for that I am thankful to be very much alive heading into next week.

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Biggest misses: X, OWP, Cover, Penny

8: Do the Math, Pick-a-Number
7: 1 Right Price, 1/2 Off, Danger Price, Gridlock!, Money Game, One Away, One Wrøng Price, Range Game, Secret "X", Squeeze Play
6: Grocery Game, Hole in One, Switch?, That's Too Much!
5: Cover Up, Dice Game, Line em Up, Lucky $even, Punch a Bunch, Spelling Bee, Swap Meet, To The Penny, Vend-O-Price
4: Balance Game, Most Expen$ive, Rat Race
3: Check Game, Coming or Going, Flip Flop, Hot Seat, Plinko
2: Bargain Game, Double Prices, Switcheroo
1: Back to '74, Bonus Game, Bullseye, Gas Money, Golden Road, It's in the Bag, Make Your Move, Pathfinder, Pocket ¢hange, Push Over, Side By Side, Stack the Deck
0: 3 Strikes, Bonkers, Cliff Hangers, Hi Lo

[Wayoshi]

Sorry, it's been a mess of a day for me lol. I was one hit behind FJB, Tris actually went from 4th to start out to tied-2nd here.