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Season 24 - Div II - Hopefuls

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246631.1
Date: 8/19/2013 9:07:45 PM
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At this point of the season - Division II powers aspire to reach the top rung. In your opinion who do you believe to be the cream of the current crop?
Poll:  Which of the following team has the best shot to reach the Naismith Division and actually stay there for more than one season?
Response Votes Result
St. Louis Beasts 8
32.0% 32.0% 32.0%
32.0%
Webfoots 2
8.0% 8.0% 8.0%
8.0%
Serenity Now 1
4.0% 4.0% 4.0%
4.0%
Big Ballerz 0
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
0.0%
Toronto Assassins 3
12.0% 12.0% 12.0%
12.0%
Harlem Strikers 1
4.0% 4.0% 4.0%
4.0%
Ragin Stajans 9
36.0% 36.0% 36.0%
36.0%
Soaring Eagles 0
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
0.0%
Some other team 1
4.0% 4.0% 4.0%
4.0%
This poll ended on 9/15/2013.

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246631.2 in reply to 246631.1
Date: 8/19/2013 10:04:26 PM
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Definitely St. Louis Beasts. No hint of the only team to beat him in the regular season in the last 2+ seasons tho?

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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246631.3 in reply to 246631.1
Date: 8/19/2013 10:17:53 PM
Syndicalists' BC
Naismith
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Imo, it's very difficult to tell, because generally the team which can get to Naismith using the least resources is more likely to stay than a team that needs to be amazing to make it to Naismith.

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246631.4 in reply to 246631.2
Date: 8/19/2013 11:29:48 PM
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I picked St Louis Beasts but I made a mistake.

The absolute best bet is the Rajin Stajans. I'm pretty certain they're sitting on a pile of cash so if Stajan wants to promote, he'll promote.

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246631.5 in reply to 246631.4
Date: 8/20/2013 8:42:38 PM
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Probably true, although having a high salary and facing the effects of the demotion penalty has caused me to fall under $9m cash reserves. I think I was almost twice that seasons ago.

Regarding the second part of the poll, it feels like any D.II team with a reasonably sized arena would be able stay in Naismith indefinitely? Maybe not.

Last edited by Stajan at 8/20/2013 8:43:18 PM

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246631.6 in reply to 246631.1
Date: 8/27/2013 10:38:23 AM
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I voted for myself. Don't believe I am the best team to go up and stay. But I will argue that I'm probably the most canadian player focused team and I could be used as an example for teams to help build canadian talent pool.

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246631.7 in reply to 246631.6
Date: 8/27/2013 10:58:05 AM
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Considering that you continually draft/buy solid Canadian prospects and then (for some reason) refuse to train them I wouldn't recommend you as an example for how to build the Canadian talent pool. The Canadian talent pool would have been much better off if you had sold these players.