mmph!

You sure talk a lot for a guy who has a memorial coal burning oven named after him!

Now I don't know which comment to be offended by!!!

The one that I'm a "Wily beast" which implicates me, or the "meaningless babble" comment which exonerates me.

darth you can go a long way towards exonerating yourself (as will others -- [prof said ominously]) by participating in an examination of the evidence that will lead to the capture and extermination of the dastardly killer that still roams unpunished in the hallowed halls of pistonsforum.com...wreaking havoc and murderous mayhem.

I've got some data I will check out when I get home from work. I just want to know whether both or only 1 murderer is left.

I can answer that. But I won't

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Professor, may I compliment you on some seriously thorough and well articulated research. My investigation yields the same results. I have a telephone book size Excel spreadsheet with all the suspects, all the murders, all the hangings and all the posts in the murder time frames. It's so nice to see someone approaching the horror with a disciplined mind.

As far as your reference to my alleged murder post, well...I'm not the one. What are you going to build a case on? The defense will argue temporary insanity due to severe memory loss. Late one night while investigating a suspect, the accused ran across a RealGM article posted by webz about the future of her beloved DEEEETROIT BAAAASKETBAAALL and the Pistons defensive prowess or lack thereof. In that instant she completely forgot about the murder game. Whaddya gunna do? Hang her because she loves the Pistons playing lockdown defense and couldn't resist running her mouth about it in the wee hours?

I'm presently drowning in data but I'm hoping to have something solid by hanging time. It sure would be nice to get a murderer this time.

you will be instantly off my suspect list if you show me the excel file. if i know you did that much stuff then i know you didn't do it. but for all we know you could be lying!!!
right now though you have the benefit of the doubt from me

Yeah, ok, so I've had enough analysing. its still too difficult to sort. To quote George from Seinfeld, "This things like an onion, the more layers you peel, the more it stinks!"

This research may be WAY OFF, but there are FOUR non-pistons words that keep coming up. They are:
- Team
- Game
- Season
- Play (which also resides in the words player and playing)

And to a lesser extent
- Coach
- League

'Wallace' has gone hiding during the last few killings, and has barely come out at all during the whole game even.

So from the FOUR non-pistons words above I have found:

Jammer has had the combination of words 'game & team', 'season & team', and 'play & team' appear in 4 of the 6 death periods and that doesn't include death period 2 which i didn't bother with because of his spam post. Wallace has appeared only once with the words 'free throw'.

Hack has had the combination of words 'coach & team' appear in 4 of the 6 death periods, and 'coach & game' appear in 3 of the 6 death periods. Wallace hasn't appeared.

Prof has had the combination of words 'play & team' appear in 3 of the 6 death periods. Wallace hasn't appeared.

Dumars has had the combination of words 'game, team & season' and 'play & team' appear in 2 of the 6 death periods. Wallace hasn't appeared. In his favour, he has posted 1 post or less in 3 of the 6 death periods. Not a likely suspect.

TheLow & TayFTD I don't suspect due to lack of evidence.

That leaves Aurora and Darth.

Darth has posted too many times to waste 5 hours researching, but his knowledge of the rules and co-commish relationship with Slippy in the forums leads me to suspect him very highly.

And Aurora, well she has probably posted the word Wallace more than anyone, but for whatever reason (maybe too kindly), I don't really suspect her, and because of her sleuthing reports.

So I guess Jammer is probably my highest suspect so far (and initial gut instinct from round 1), but I've thought all along that Darth just has to be one of the killers and so due to a lack of a standout suspect, Darth will receive my vote. Sorry buddy.

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LMFAO. Very nice work detective Webz.

In other words you are saying:

I present all of my evidence.

Ok, now that I've done that I see that it doesn't point to Darth.

So I would like to say forget all of the research I just presented.

It must be Darth because he read the rules and because he was nice enough to help Slippy out in fantasy basketball.

CLASSIC!

Haha, I thought you might like that one.

Well I never said the evidence didn't point to you, rather there was too much to go through, and there was no clear cut suspect so I thought it was time to get back on the Tater bandwagon. Which reminds me, where's linwood?