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The only problem is - he can't beat Death. Death is too strong.

Hey, the world didn't end on Saturday like some whackos were saying it would. Imo, everyone beat death!

His enthusiasm rose to 30 million :)

i usually don't play Ct during the season, but in your case it looks quite attractive. Important is that maybe the next 2 games, are quite easy opponents. But you win a lot of your homegames with 30+ points so the chanche isn't bad that is it like that.

And even when you win the game against your rivals, and lose one game after that, it is a TIE betwen those teams, if you just win the other games like then and loose against them you are behind.

And you have enough time to build up enthusiam, in your conference games before the PO.

The main thing is that promotion depends on winning the Finals, and HCA in the finals would be a great help. If these are really the only two games you have the possibility of losing, there's no reason at all to put extra effort in against the Wizards; you should have no problem having enough of a PD advantage to get home court in the Finals if they advance. Likewise, if you lost to DC and beat Deathmaple, it would also come down to PD at worst (if DM beat DC in the return match). Obviously, if you could lose other matches, that's a whole different story.

DM has two inside guys on the TL, so you'll likely need to look at the roster and ratings they put up after the changes more. But they're definitely an outside focused team. The thing that stands out is that their PG is not a true PG, but is considered a SG for best position. Given the relatively low offensive flow compared to their other ratings, and your quite nice perimeter defense ratings, I might go ahead with the FCP. I have nowhere near the players you do (hooray for being in a less-stout V!), and my last opponent is nothing like DM, but I was able to force 34 turnovers with FCP against his inept(medium) flow.

I would say keep an eye on DM and see if he sells those players and brings in any replacements. I'd personally give the CT + FCP combo a try for no other reason than to see if you'll have a chance with it in the Finals. I certainly don't see beating them any other way as things currently stand.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I am probably going to TIE wizard and CT DM in the hope I can possibly beat DM which is probably unlikely. I shouldn't have any problem getting game shape back up since I can TIE everyone in my conference.

Does anyone besides hrudey think this is worth a shot?

I've never used FCP in a league match. Is it worth giving it a shot?

Last edited by Kelyn at 5/25/2011 1:51:18 AM

Maybe I'm just imagining it, but FCP and TIE is a bad combination. But I've had success playing FCP (PTB/LI) Normal/CT vs. Motion.
They wanna slow it down, you speed it up.

I would not got for FCP. It is a real risky defense. You may get a lot of steals but at the cost that you know that your opponent will have it real easy when coming near the basket as well as they will have a great advantage in RB's. Your players will also tire at a greater rate then in any other defense. So there rely is a big risk for that small gain in my opinion.

On the other hand, in this case, there's no downside at all to trying it. The OP has essentially these two interconference games that are potential losses and nothing else, and the team he's going against (at least as has been playing in recent games) is demonstrably better all around. The one hole in the team is that awful(high) offensive flow. And the OP's definitely got quite nice OD on his players to put up the perimeter defense he's doing, so while it's a long shot, it's better than no shot. While I'm certainly going to defer to more experienced users on the general effectiveness of FCP, in this specific case it seems like the only way to steal a win that could steal HCA for the finals and steal a promotion. Hopefully the FCP would be as effective at generating steals as the last sentence was! ;)