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As far as my game goes, I think my starting lineup is top tier in the league and they ran a bad offense to play against the 3-2. With the injury to Toney I was pretty confident I could get the road win

Love the writeup!!

And thanks for the confidence. With Toney on the bench my team is a shell. He makes the difference for the whole team when he's down low. And I had to field two players that have no business on a NBBA court. I might've had more success with a different offense, but props to White Walkers. I'll take my lumps. It seems like it's been the Orchestra's MO in recent seasons to lose early. We'll see how the season shapes up... Hopefully Toney can get healed on Thursday so I can injure him in a meaningless cup game before the Friday GS update really screws me over. Wish me luck losing my first B3 game!

Speaking of bad benches it was driving me a little crazy that Peluin's scrub Polk ended up the game with a positive +/- when he was often in MTM coverage against my highest salary guard. If your team can go +3 while fielding 12 minutes of a 3k scrub, life is good.

You asked for it (on discord)! And Llanos dropped 4-4 FGs too. My $3k guys aren't scrubs they've just taken hometown discounts and all have 150 TSP I swear.

I like a little qualitative, punchy discussion of day games. So here goes my report on opening day.

Look forward to your next one Coco. In the meanwhile, here is the buzzer-manager's version.

Day 2 (Tuesday 24 September 2024) : Performances by https://www.buzzer-manager.com

Night results
High Point Heroes 66 - ExplosiveBubbleWrap 147
Splash Gang 64 - The White Walkers 79
The Orchestra 81 - southpaw army 89
Sofuegg 68 - Big Gulp Reincarnated 107
HipsterBears 95 - Black Light 119
Visionaries 92 - Flashover 75
Deronimo 90 - Beware of Dogs 101
Rhino’s Rage 116 - Warroad 76

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 147 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Rebounds : 66 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Assists : 39 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Steals : 13 : Big Gulp Reincarnated
Block Shots : 11 : Big Gulp Reincarnated

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 36 : K. Takagi (Sofuegg)
Rebounds : 25 : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap)
Assists : 14 : Q. Hô (Deronimo)
Steals : 6 : I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated)
Block Shots : 6 : I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : W. Mott (Beware of Dogs) (28 Points, 5 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Shooting Guard : T. Vaupotič (Black Light) (34 Points, 6 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 4 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Small Forward : Q. Ellis (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (35 Points, 5 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Power Forward : R. Mullins (The Orchestra) (19 Points, 16 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Center : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (26 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51

MVP of the evening
M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (26 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51

The bad performance of the evening
B. Brannon (Splash Gang) (0 Points, 2 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -6

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : K. Rodriguez (High Point Heroes) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), G. Spain (The Orchestra) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : E. Mattox (High Point Heroes), K. Rodriguez (High Point Heroes), R. Beatty (High Point Heroes), I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated), M. Jorquera (Sofuegg), V. Khanyuk (Sofuegg), M. Lange (Warroad) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : Q. Ellis (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), S. Allen (Splash Gang), S. Koenig (The Orchestra), K. Takagi (Sofuegg), C. Deisig (Big Gulp Reincarnated), M. Keneme (Big Gulp Reincarnated), T. Vaupotič (Black Light), W. Mott (Beware of Dogs) : 4 Three points

The best performer : T. Meade (The Orchestra) : Rating : 18.5

The worst performer : R. Dutton (Warroad) : Rating : 2.0

For some reason, I forgot to spotlight southpaw army on Saturday. Must have been the lowercase font. They were in a tight one today: behind at home for long stretches, tied with 5 min to go in the fourth and then pulled away. Before I noticed the lowercase kings, I was gonna say that we sure look to be going towards a final between Visionaries and White Walkers, with a couple potential spoilers. However, the southpaw army is no spoiler. They are up there.

There were two away wins today. The 40 point one by Rhino's rage over Warroad was peppered with the double injury to Pereira and NT stalwart Vickers. Rhino didn't win just because of the two injuries, but for Warroad losing two players like this in an NBBA season with ostensibly no tankers and 100% competent, focused teams is a big blow. (Also bad for the NT)

The other away win sees Visionaries hold serve (which for them means wins home AND away) with a really impressive Patient lineup. At least this time Llanos was -12. However the low salary king of the NBBA, H. Polk, continues his journey into positive plus minus. Maybe, at some point, I'll do an award at some point for the best performer under 10k salary.

Elsewhere, HPH decides it's a good idea to punt on a national TV game --- with a bot visiting your arena in the cup you can never be sure. EBW says "thank you, we'll hang 80 points on y'all". TV Ratings were down for this one, but Ellis and Cornwell were putting on a show.

Also punting is Sofuegg's skeleton crew. Wake them up when October ends.

We (Black Light) get our first NBBA W. Whatever happens next, that counter in the "100 win thread" will go up. The win comes at a cost, though, as sixth man Jack Jackson gets injured. The result is that training minutes are a little messy at a time where we can't afford to not take off with GS and enthusiasm. Speaking of costs, we used higher effort. Instead we should have grown a pair and TIEd. Ah well, the cup bot won't notice the difference.

Beware of Dogs handled Deronimo at home. (FWIW, my autocorrect really wants to change this to "Geronimo": I hope the network won't fire me, if one day I forget to hand-correct it.) The final score was fairly close but BoD kept the newly promoted team a short distance away for pretty much the entire match.


Last edited by Coco at 9/25/2024 7:48:27 AM

Ps happy B3/BBM day to those who celebrate!

For some reason, I forgot to spotlight southpaw army on Saturday. Must have been the lowercase font. They were in a tight one today: behind at home for long stretches, tied with 5 min to go in the fourth and then pulled away. Before I noticed the lowercase kings, I was gonna say that we sure look to be going towards a final between Visionaries and White Walkers, with a couple potential spoilers. However, the southpaw army is no spoiler. They are up there.

Hey thanks for the shout. I thought saving $10MM to begin this run guaranteed me a NBBA title. Y’all got some deep pockets! Beginning to think two seasons ago was the best shot I’ll ever see and that went tits up. Grinding away in case that opportunity presents itself again but I’m not optimistic.

Once Peluin runs out of money, I will certainly be trying my best to make it hard on you to accomplish a championship where I hope I can pull one off before I have to tear it down

Life in the NBBA is hard, man. Three teams topped 175 BBM rating today: Visionaries (more on them later), southpaw army, and High Point Heroes. The non-visionary ones lost. Now, I am also perplexed about this as someone who worships offensive flow, so let's delve deeper.

southpaw army ran into an NT level perimeter defense: it's not often that you put up a prolific offensive flow rating, and get 17 assisted shots out of 97 attempts. Splash Gang didn't exactly light the world on fire offensively, but 87 pp100 was enough to win it with that team defense.

The Heroes' loss against the White Walkers is a mirror version with inside offense in place of outside offenses. Both went inside. The Walkers' defense rated a bit higher and the Heroes couldn't find their men down low with enough consistency despite the high offensive flow. Indeed, in proportion to the number of shots taken, the Walkers had more assisted shots (17/73 vs. 19/93). Fascinating stuff.

I couldn't watch today, because I was at the theater watching a Shakespeare play (fr). But looking through Play-by-play, the most interesting match was Flashover @ Hipsterbears. Flashover ties it with three minutes to go, and even has some chances to pull ahead, but it's Hipsterbears who pull out seven points in a row and get the W. Wise normal by Hipsterbears: when your goal is to stay afloat, you don't mess around with delicate home games.

Elsewhere, routine matches and an unsuccessful CT by Sofuegg, possibly to stave off fan turmoil. But it keeps broiling.

So, hear me out about Visionaries. I should really have talked about this last week, but I was taken by the legend of Polk. You know how they matched the only 22-0 NBBA win season? Well, I did some fairly easy digging and it turns out that after stomping on us fools in season 12 Brian lost in the [I]second game[/I] of season 13. Go to the end of season 11 and you'll see that Brian lost @ Wake Forest in the third to last game. That's 2+22+1=25 consecutive regular season wins. (Both Peluin and Brian lost game 2 of the finals so PO inclusive streaks are out)

Which brings me to Peluin. His last regular season loss was @ Yuck in the penultimate game of the season -- just ahead of the cup final. Then the 22 game streak, and now 3 wins: 1+22+3=26.

For a moment, I thought this meant that that Peluin now has the longest [I]regular seasonwinning streak in NBBA history (both Peluin and Brian lost game 2 of the finals). Then I remembered that my actual job is as a professor of logic, and that this doesn't follow from my observations. Someone could have a longer streak by combining e.g. a 14 end-of-season streak and a 14 beginning-of-season one. But let's just say: it's in play that Visionaries have the longest regular season winning streak in NBBA history. And if they don't have it, they'll get there soon.