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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.

Whoa!!! Those ugly mugs at the bottom of the page haven't changed in forever!! Congrats, plasma!

Incidentally:
Assists record is from when Jason destroyed a 3-man Yuck squad in S33 (4/30/2016)
Rebounds record is from a game where Rocket Science slayed Funky Town Fire as they tanked out in S26 (2/25/2014)
Points record is from a Very Covid Christmas Milwaukee-Bucks loss to A-dub in his second prime in S52 (12/19/2020)


Last edited by Rhyminsimon at 9/30/2024 1:12:38 AM

Coco, we’re all in agreement you owe me one (or two) for getting you promoted, right?

My progression of feelings on this topic:


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EDIT: Ah the interface is so old that it promises some emojis that don't show up

Last edited by Coco at 10/1/2024 9:30:57 AM

The clown emoji still works, but I’ve been told I can’t use it, because it’s offensive.

SMH - this guy lead this thread telling us to eff off... and now is worried about offending folks.

"It's FLASHover, baby... not PUSHover!" That's what GM GForce03 was heard screaming in the tunnels of Undo Stadium, after Flashover stomped all over hitherto undefeated Rhino's Rage. Vilja dumped 46 points on the visitors in 41 minutes of play, which pushes him into the NBBA scoring lead. Good use of a home normal gets them into the positive integers in the win column.

Only 36 seats were left unsold at History Repeating Coliseum for the game between Black Light and Deronimo. Deronimo had tried mind games in the media and seemed to have an early edge. Things looked dire for us in the third, when Deronimo hit four threes in a row. But we did just enough to stay attached and deliver the winning punch in the fourth. Monster performance by Salazar who manages to not foul out (rare for him). Black Light's PG, SG and SF end the week with 80+ minutes. Jackson's return will be extremely important to rebalance minutes next week. But, on a more general note, minutes can be kind of a mess in this NBBA, where there blowouts are few and far between. Deronimo is in between players and could field incredible depth, but we had just enough to hang on.

The Explosive Bubble Wrap did in fact explode into a CT. Not sure it was necessary given the 26 pt win, but facing #1 and #2 team in their conference next week, it probably does not make a huge difference and secures the win.

southpaw army (I'm still struggling with this: is it lowercase at the beginning of a sentence?) returns to the winning ways with a comfortable home win against HPH. Not much to see here. The higher payroll team cruises at home. Maybe the only surprising thing was that it's a high-scoring affair, instead of a defensive blowout. Relatedly, pace was also kind of crazy (109 possessions for HPH, 108 for sa).

In a bit of a surprise, we had just finished saying that OD is still overpowered. Big Gulp puts up an incredible perimeter defense rating, and yet loses because they field five Ben Simmonses and end up with 60 pts in 88 shooting possessions for 68 pp100 (excluding, as usual, FT's).

Sofuegg is beginning to look more like a tank than 3d chess.

Visionaries win and Polk is still hanging out with Madonna.






Last edited by Coco at 10/2/2024 8:45:12 AM

southpaw army (I'm still struggling with this: is it lowercase at the beginning of a sentence?)

I haven't the past couple offseasons... but for several after I created this squad, I would look at changing my name so it's not all lowercase and I think it cost $20k or something and I just said "nope".

I had good intentions but Dave Ramsey said I couldn't do it.

It costs $100k!

But just like real money, you can’t take it with you. And BB cash you can’t even give away. So you should just spend it all. 😀