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II.4 ... come for the punch in the teeth, stay for the kick in the crotch!

Hold a spot for me! I will be back in a few weeks. I would prefer Big 8 please. Seriously, its a tough league, but I enjoyed my time here more than any other league I have been in. It's a fun group.

Broke my bank with the new trainer and trainees and hopefully I will secure the 5th seed to save up for next season.

Good luck y'all with playoffs and relegations.

U probably have th biggest bank out of most of us :)

Broke my bank with the new trainer and trainees and hopefully I will secure the 5th seed to save up for next season.

Good luck y'all with playoffs and relegations.

I didn't think it was possible to break your bank. Maybe chip off a corner or something, but short of a full-on atomic blast, I thought you'd have a bank that outlasts us all.

Admittedly, outlasting my bank is no accomplishment. I've only ever had over $1M in this game twice, for less than a couple of days each time and never by more than a hundred thousand.

Broke my bank with the new trainer and trainees and hopefully I will secure the 5th seed to save up for next season.

Good luck y'all with playoffs and relegations.

Looking at the last night of games, there are still a handful of things to be decided...
Big 8's 2nd place: currently a tie between the Clogs and the Lethargy. Rik Smits takes on my Sungrazers and Milwaukee does battle with Forza. Assuming they both win, the Lethargy will need to pick up a 28 point differential on the Clogs, or still remain in 3rd. Seems unrealistic that one of them would do anything other than TIE at this point, as the playoffs are right around the corner.

Big 8's 5th place: Sungrazers and Marshland, separated by one game and 138 points. While Marshland is a favorite over Diorite, the question is whether they can make up 138 points on me while I play Rik Smits Clogs. Nothing is impossible, but that would have to be quite a blowout victory (combined with me getting stomped by the Clogs).

Great 8's 3rd place: Silverbacks & Evolution. Tied with Silverbacks up 115 pd. Silverbacks play the Thumpers and Evo plays the GS_Warriors. At this point, it makes sense for them both to save up on enthusiasm to go for an upset in the playoffs.

Great 8's 5th place: GS_Warriors, SF Warriors, & Reston. What a crazy race this has turned into. GS currently has the top spot, but the deepest point differential chasm at '-429'. SF is certain to beat the Minnesota Botbirds by a large margin, thus securing 5th place, which leaves GS vulnerable to a Reston win dropping them all the way to 7th place. However, Reston would need to beat the Silverbacks, which actually isn't too crazy as they beat them in their first meeting on the Silverbacks' home turf. The question is whether or not it would be worth it to perhaps exert higher than TIE to have a chance at playing the Silver Dogs instead of Marshland or the Sungrazers in the relegation series.

Best of luck everyone!

Iguanadon

I got too busy sometimes and I forgot to set my lineup a few times in the past 2 seasons. If GSW and I both won he would still secure the 5th seed due to my punishment for forfeiting the games this season.

It seems that I will have to win the relegation series in order to stay in this league.

Oh right. I forgot about the forfeit punishment...

wow he really wanted that 4th spot!

Dang. Well, I surprisingly took down the Clogs, but the Lethargy lost to Forza, so the Clogs keep 2nd place.

A bit of venting: my Prominent FT shooting Spencer Sylvester went 0-4, putting him at 58.7% FT shooting for the season.
That is simply ridiculous any way you slice it. Boo, Buzzerbeater, boo.

Last edited by Iguanadon Joe at 9/27/2014 9:44:24 PM

Dang. Well, I surprisingly took down the Clogs, but the Lethargy lost to Forza, so the Clogs keep 2nd place.

A bit of venting: my Prominent FT shooting Spencer Sylvester went 0-4, putting him at 58.7% FT shooting for the season.
That is simply ridiculous any way you slice it. Boo, Buzzerbeater, boo.

You were probably the only one surprised. I expected to lose (and half expected you'd CT), but I was pretty happy to postpone the inevitable HCA+Effort+LI result until about four minutes to go.

On the venting side myself, my team had higher outside shooting rating than your outside defense, with more than 100 PP100 for the 2, 3 and 4 positions, and we put up a whopping 3-31 from beyond the arc. But I suppose I shouldn't complain because outside offenses are so clearly overpowered that any misfortune I suffer on that front is well earned.

(Of course, on a more serious note, OD in the game is highly overpowered and I get much more benefit from that than I suffer from the fact that it's impossible to score unless you're scoring inside or have excessively good outside shooters).