Even so, off-field commitments have still drained the coffers slightly as the recently-married Power has not been available in the latter part of the competition, while allrounder Simon Badger has not one, but two weddings up north on the same weekend, starting today.
Badger, a prominent lawyer formerly based in Auckland, has received much good-natured kidding about his active social circle, having missed multiple fixtures this summer to attend nuptials.
The team should still be able to absorb his departure, as Hobbs was unavailable last weekend for the seven wicket win in the semifinal, and their swap will be the only change to the starting XI.
Hobbs said the key batsmen in Lance and Greg Smith have been hitting the ball well in the latter part of the tournament, but then getting out to bad shots.
Therefore it was pleasant surprise in the Levin game to see Matthew Boswell score a composed 78 not out, snapping his poor run of form.
"I said 'take your time, take the singles', and he actually did it. By the end, he was hitting it and his eye was in."
A strength of United is that unlike last year, different players have stood up in key situations across both the 50-over and Twenty20 formats.
"Probably the most rewarding part of the season is we've won all our close games," said Hobbs.
In previous campaigns, United have often "smashed" teams but when put under pressure in key match-ups, end up falling short.
Ritesh Verma and young James Pennefather have been solid bowlers and also played a couple of strong knocks with the bat, while father Martin Pennefather, soon to be playing for the New Zealand over-50s against Australia, has added to United having the most balanced bowling attack of pace and spin/slow bowling.
Englishman Freddie Wilson had his eye in at the end of United's innings with Levin.
United and Paraparaumu have not met this season, as their opening round game on October 7 was rained out.
The Horowhenua-Kapiti club's only defeat this competition was to Levin by 41 runs on October 28, although a rescheduling issue meant their November 18 match with Collegiate could have gone down as a default loss, but was instead abandoned.
Byron Gill is their top runscorer with 295 runs in the cup, followed by dangerman Ramesh Subasinghe with 219 runs and nine wickets.
Nigel Harvey has eight wickets this campaign.
"We'll enjoy it, that's the main thing. We'll be having a beer after, no matter what," said Hobbs.
Play will start at 12pm.
The United team is
Matthew Boswell, Tom Lance (c), Matthew Simes, Greg Smith, Freddie Wilson, Brendon Walker, Gerard Hobbs, Ritesh Verma, Martin Pennefather, Ryan Slight, James Pennefather.