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(trophy)*Flash Mashers vs Div II Beskitas Cs (9-1) - Premium mathup for two Div II division leaders, the question is, who wants to stay in the tourney...going with the Mashers as they flash on by Beskitas....

I think I may end up having to train GS after this week. Too bad I couldn't get a little farther before I had to start making choices between tournament and normal club affairs, but this is a little too early to duck out of the tourney for me.

Last edited by Chekreyes at 3/25/2016 12:39:41 AM

3. Mikelis Dziesminieks (25291439) of the Sungrazers had the best of a few patient offense games this week by various teams, dropping 36 points on Work in Progress to make it an easy win. This is Dziezwhatever's second honorable mention, making him my first repeat player on the rankings.

Deks (that's what we call him) is honored to be selected twice in the honorable mention rankings.

Ok so I put together an excel document that uses the data from our league standings, point differential, and average team rating per match to spit out a power rankings list! Thought I'd add to the weekly fun. The excel document is loosely based off of a ranking system that my old friend Natellio ran for us when I was in III.6 years ago but he is now bot so I couldn't get his old formula. His used to incorporate the effort a team put into a match... I'm going to try and replicate that but for now this is a beta test of my own creation.

So here's how the league stands as of now!

Team Rank
1) Flash Mashers - (17.83875)
2) Flying Leapords - (13.30875)
3) EDH Wolves - (13.01875)
4) The Closers - (10.27875)
5) Serenity Valley Brothers - (10.25875)
6) Super Stars - (7.99875)
7) oo Pwnstrz oo - (5.65875)
8) Bananahorns - (3.19875)
9) Big Head Todd - (2.11875)
10) Sungrazers - (1.07875)
11) Work in Progress - (-0.86125)
12) PuffPuffPass (-2.55125)
13) Beware of Dogs - (-4.64125)
14) San Diego Eagles - (-20.35125)
15) BigShots - (-26.87125)
16) Eloping Cantaloupes - (-29.48125)


Interestingly enough, I discovered that Super Stars has the best Average Team Rating in the entire league, beating my own team out by 0.8 per game and the EDH Wolves by 0.9! Crazy that they are sitting at 5 and 5. Perhaps Team Rating can be misleading?

Last edited by Chekreyes at 3/25/2016 12:03:34 AM

Very nice!

Ugh, this has to be one of my more disappointing early Cup exits, and one of the worst fouling games in franchise history.

32 team fouls
3 players fouled out (my entire starting front court)
45 free throws attempted by my opponent

Aw man, that is a tough one.
I used to be in a league with Bob Christopher's Peachtree City Shooting Stars!
I'm glad to see he is still playing.
Sorry you lost to him in such a strange way. That is unlucky.
However, you couldn't have lost to a nicer team.

Last edited by Iguanadon Joe at 3/25/2016 10:16:12 AM

Interestingly enough, I discovered that Super Stars has the best Average Team Rating in the entire league, beating my own team out by 0.8 per game and the EDH Wolves by 0.9! Crazy that they are sitting at 5 and 5. Perhaps Team Rating can be misleading?

For a moment I thought my team could be competitive this season but the wins never came. I really tried to figure out why but I just couldn't. Fans weren't filling in the seats either. So, sold my old big guy and I'll try to rebuild again.

Hopefully there wont be a powerhouse with 600k+ in their arsenal. lol

Div II.IV Tourney Survivor Update


Last week the Banannahorns slipped up

Leaving the score

Great 8 - 5
Big 8 - 3

It gets tougher and tougher as we get deeper in the season, with many close races it is tough to rate some games as some teams will punt, some will put out a decent lineup and others will go for it and risk overplaying folks and that is not considering the dreaded CT......

Now for this week's games


Flash Mashers at Div IV Shrewsbury Honeybadgers (11-1) - The Honeybadgers have a nice Div IV team but they are playing a team that will contend for a NBBA slot.....I see the Mashers flying by the home team Badgers

Super Stars vs Div III Raleigh Roughriders (5-7) - The Stars will shine over the Roughriders this week

San Diego Eagles vs Div III Super Sonics (4-8) - The Eagles will soar over the Sonics in this one.

* EDH Wolves at Div II Mars Aliens (8-4) - Tough matchup as both teams are contending and can put out solid lineups, in the end I think the wolves will put the bite on the aliens.

Serenity Valley Browncoats at Div IV TKLU (9-3) - TKLU has another nice Div IV team but the Browncoats will dispatch them.

The Closers vs Div III Danbury Mad Hatters (11-1) - With more depth and the HCA the Closers will closeout the Hatters tourney run.

Pwnstrz vs Carmel Griffins (11-1) - Another tough matchup, a key injury and lack of comparable depth by the Griffins will be the difference as the Pwnstrz will own them.

Big Shots at Div IV Worth Warthogs (8-4) - While the Big Shots have not won a league game, they have won 6 tourney games and will put the team out to make it 7 this week as the Warthogs are essentially a 1 or 2 man show.

Good Luck All

* Game of the Week

Updated! I changed the formula a bit. Last time record was weighted much much heavier than PD and Ratings. This time they're all about the same with Rating probably being the most influential.

1) Flash Mashers (10.55)
2) EDH Wolves (9.8)
3) Super Stars (8.767)
4) Serenity Valley Brothers (8.5083)

5) The Closers (7.9083)
6) Flying Leapords (7.8167)

7) oo Pwnstrz oo (4.55)
8) Bananahorns (4.383)
9) Big Head Todd (3.74167)
10) Work in Progress (3.34167)
11) Sungrazers (2.867)

12) Beware of Dogs (0.99167)
13) PuffPuffPass (0.225)

14) San Diego Eagles (-11.875)
15) BigShots (-17.3)
16) Eloping Cantaloupes (-20.275)

Still working on it.

Anywho. I'm stoked I drew a D4 team in the cup and that Upsyndrome and Arizona drew each other XD

II.4 Player of the Week:
Stuart Vereker (26040848) of Big Head Todd

Mr. Vereker reminded us this week that he has been the dominant player of this league for many seasons. On Saturday he lead the team to a win with a rather pedestrian (for him) 20 and 17 stat line. Then to show off his versatility he lead the team in a patient offense on Tuesday going 22 for 44 for 47 points. Big Head Todd sits at 6-6 right now, but even conference leaders can never mark them as a sure win on their schedule as long as Vereker is in the lineup.

honorable mention:
1. Sherman "Tank" Le (32531658) of the EDH Wolves led his team to a perfect 2-0 week averaging 21 pts and shooting 17 of 27. He's an understated "glue guy" for EDH, and is shooting 53% on the season from SF.

2. Ralph "Rollover" Graves (31633788) of the Super Stars had a dominant performance on Tuesday to lead his team over the Bananahorns. He had 38/6/7 with 2 steals and 7 treys. He also had 18 in a loss on Saturday.

3. Andy "Jumping" Jack (26039048) of the FlashMashers topped Vereker's 47 for high game of the week, getting 49 in a win over the Pwnstars! Throw in 16 points in a win in their other game and he had a dang fine week.


Last edited by Bob at 4/4/2016 9:35:40 PM

Just noticed it was an all-American player of the week week. Nice to see.