Thank you all for the congratulations and nice words both here and via BB-mail. Really happy for the victory for both myself as well as for the enthusiastic Finnish community, from whose work I've got to reap a bit of benefits from. 🙂
The fouling was definitely prevalent, but even before the finals it was quite clear that Joe had a much more of a foul prone team than myself. This season during B3 (not counting the finals), he averaged 21 fouls to my 13, with my highest total being 19, while he had 20+ fouls in 9/12 games. Considering he didn't have to do end-of-game fouls in his other high fouling matches, the 31 isn't abnormal compared to his other B3 season highs of 27/26/26/25, all of which came in winning contests.
That being said, would love to see the simulations results from our contest, as was done last year for me vs DLR, to see if this was an outlier or not.