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Oh, right. They shouldn't have had 24 seconds on the shot clock. My bad.

I think i should work on ID next season...

Yeah, what's up with that? I thought last season was the turning point for the league when we finally had two conferences and not one and a half? So much for progress... Come on Big 8! Was last season a fluke?

Why strive for success when you can strive for mediocrity and stay in the league ;) actually I'm just trying to stay in the cup otherwise I could have probably won 2-3 more games this season. Now my star SF is injured though so I'm in a bit of a rough patch.

I am getting killed in this new league. This league has so many more good players lol.

Dear nat,

I am sorry I broke your small forward. Please accept my apologies, I know what it's like to lose a player for five weeks. One of my players, Zingale, would be so much better if he didn't have the same five-week injury only a few games after I paid a ton of money for him in the hopes of training him into the best guard I ever had. I am still traumatized from that experience. Next time I will try to only "slightly ding" your players.

Sincerely,
chihorn

My SF on the U21 NT was just injured for 2 weeks.

I figured it out!

The Big 8 always losses the conference battles because the Great 8 focuses on league games and the Big 8 wants to do well in the USA Tournament.

Big 8 teams left in cup- 4
Great 8 teams left in cup- 0

Keep it up Big 8ers!

Last edited by E.B.W. at 2/6/2014 9:48:41 PM

In the 11 seasons I've been in this league, the Big 8's only won 3 titles, though two of them came in the last two seasons when the Big 8 was finally looking to be on par with the Great 8. Season 18 was the other time a Big 8 team won, and that was a 2nd place team that pulled off the amazing feat. (The Great 8 has seen a 4th place team win a league title before. Sherlock, remember the Jack Rabbits?) We used to keep track of the wins and losses in interconference games and there were some seasons that the Big 8 just didn't even show up. As I write this, only one Great 8 team has a losing record, and that team has more wins that the bottom two Big 8 teams combined.

Historically, this really has been a league that's had a much much stronger Great 8, and some seasons a Big 8 looks really good coasting through a conference with little competition until the league finals comes around... It's no coincidence that the Big 8's back-to-back titles have come during seasons when the competition got tighter (and the Great 8 payrolls did come down the last few seasons). I think it's fair to say that this season is looking a lot like the past seasons when the top of the Big 8 might look scary (I'm expecting to get trounced on Saturday...), but the higher level of competition in the Great 8 will keep the leaders sharper heading into the playoffs. We'll see, but I'm thinking Anchorage is looking like the team to beat right now.