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Give me your best, Nanook!

are you referring to the wife-sharing business Nanook extends to visitors?

are you referring to the wife-sharing business Nanook extends to visitors?

Wel he lives in Anchorage, makes perfect sense that he'd want a few eskimo brothers.

Would it be in bad taste to offer you an mTIE?

Good luck to our Cup representatives! May they crush the DII vermin the way Anchorage walloped, uh, their last opponent!

Queen Gorgo: Spartan!

King Leonidas: Yes, my lady?

Queen Gorgo: Come back with your shield, or on it.

King Leonidas: Yes, my lady.

Now I know how Apollo Creed felt. Well, not the part about being a world champion or getting killed by a steroid riddled Russian, but going toe to toe with a worthy foe and coming up a small fraction short. Good game tonight, TnT ... now go nail Adrian already and prepare for Clubber next round.

Give me your best, Nanook!

are you referring to the wife-sharing business Nanook extends to visitors?

How does one run a business by sharing?

What's At Stake Tomorrow Night

Big 8

The Whalers have HCA throughout the playoffs wrapped up and have a date in the Cup finals so they will likely rest their starters against Delta 9, a meaningless game for both teams as far as playoff position in concerned.

The High Point Heroes also find themselves locked in their playoff position, but their opponent the Barbarian Marauders could slide in the to 5th place with a win and a loss by the Buckeyes. At the very least, a Marauders win guarantees them 6th place and HCA in a relegation series against the Kentucky Wildcats.

Barring a loss to Hoosier, the Traptors are locked into 4th place.

The big match up is between the Buckeyes and EDH Wolves. A Buckeye win gets them at least 4th place; a loss could drop them all the way to 7th. The Wolves are in a tricky position. A win slides them into 6th place; a win and a Marauders loss puts them in 5th. A loss earns them a tough relegation series with In Your Face. The Buckeyes almost certainly crunch time this game and EDH could do the same. A lot of strategy going into this game.

Great 8

Yawn. Things are pretty much set on this side of the league. Hassan has the conference title wrapped up and could choose to avoid injuries in his game against the 3rd place Cross Chargers.

TKI is playing to lock up 2nd place against an IYF squad locked into 6th.

The Cross Chargers will be trying to complete a 2nd half conference sweep. The Chargers have rattled of 7 straight wins after entering league play a lackluster 5-9. A win coupled with a TKI loss nets them 2nd place.

The Cacti currently occupy the final playoff spot and can only fall to 5th with a loss to the Warriors coupled with a Beware of Dogs win over the Wildcats. Beware of Dogs have the Cup final to think about and can do no worse than 5th place. They could potentially rest their starters tonight, given that a playoff spot is unlikely even with a win and they may want to avoid injuries leading up to the Cup finale.

Last edited by jista26 at 4/10/2015 11:40:45 AM

Would it be in bad taste to offer you an mTIE?

No, it would be awesome!

I might as well prepare for being the 7th seed facing off against In Your Face as my road record is not very good. I fully expect EDH to put a hurt on me tomorrow night. I won the early season match-up at home by just 10 and I put more effort into the game. I expect another 20-30 blow out. In Your Face will most likely return the favor as they are back at full strength heading into the relegation games. I see Division 2 in my future, good luck to everyone and may no major injuries take place to end the season.

before the fireworks start, we should take a moment and appreciate what Ozone has accomplished:
-- made the finals in his first season in the NBBA
-- won the League championship in his second season in the NBBA
-- has an excellent chance to win both the League championship and the Cup in his third season

that is impressive.

and so i hope his team's airplane crashes into the Rocky mountains, killing all on board.

Impossible. Among Ernest Choi's many phobias is a crippling fear of flying, so as a show of solidarity, the entire team travels with him by train. It posed a bit of a problem for us in some of our B3 matchups, but it's all worth it for Choi Boy.

i'm going to combine two of my common messages -- a tip o' the hat to a good manager and my seasonal complaint about the mysterious benefits of winning in the playoffs -- with a shout-out to TnT.

i don't think anyone starts the season aiming for fifth, but i do get the feeling in the recent couple of weeks TnT decided to go for the Cup and fifth. As a strategy for gathering cash, he has played his cards well:
-- closed the season's last week with two home games -- $1 million+ in revenues
-- can win $350,000 for the Cup
-- by finishing fifth, saves 1.5 times his team salary of $669,000, which is another million.

that last figure is the key one: $1 million for fifth place.

for the playoff teams, the following scenario:
-- lose a game: $280,000+ for the gate, save a week's salary ($700,000)
-- win then lose conference championship: $560,000+ for the gate, plus save the week's salary
-- for Tucumcari and someone else, first week of playoffs is normal profit -- for most teams, under $100,000. second week, $100,000 for weekly profit (no break on salary), $400,000 for winniing, $200,000 for losing. Bottom line: NBBA champ gets maybe $600,000, runner-up, maybe $400,000. the boost in gate revenues the following season is dribbled out each game, which is not the same as cash-in-hand.

i figure the fifth-place team and the three playoff teams get $1 million or more, the NBBA champ perhaps 60% of that, and the second-place team less than half. that silver trophy is pretty expensive.