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The preseason predictions made in the Big8 were astonishingly close this season. If it weren't for the MadDogs selling the farm they probably would have been even more accurate. The Believers were on the money finishing 1st at 20-2. The Gens and Peppers and Believers were only off by 1 game.

The buckets were the biggest surprise, reeling off 6 more wins than projected.

The Great 8 isn't even worth recapping the projections because of the crazy turnover experience this season. 3 teams went bot and the dogs went home. Hopefully next season there will be some more consistency.

Good luck to those still in the running for the DIV.11 crown. I've been making some moves to hopefully get into the "offs" in season 35

Great game to the Generals, hopefully this time I will pull off a championship and even out this crazy league a little.

You'd better...or I'm gonna start having my players take out your team's knees like Houston does to Golden State.

MVP is rigged

I feel like rigged would imply that there is a rhyme or reason for the result. I think they're just drunk voters.

Highly possible. It would be fun to know what the intention is in the engine for selecting players. I think "best player best team" is far oversimplified but perhaps. For this season, to be completely fair Pujol did keep up with Moo mostly stats-wise. He was right there with scoring and rebounding (benefitted from a slow start) and had some solid assists too. He did lose his spot at the end of the season and got dominated in the playoffs, so no exaggerations. France probably should have gotten it with those great efficiency stats.

Who is the real MVP though?

Real MVP is the player who makes the biggest difference for a team. Most VALUABLE not most stats. I thought France deserved it, he destroyed any matchup he came across.

In reality, the MVP voting should be more like the NBA where 10 players from 8 teams got votes and where a player putting up big enough numbers for a loser can still get votes from time to time (like Kevin Love in 2014). To think that not one of the three stat monsters on my team got even a single vote is a bit odd to me. McCloud put up huge numbers, Churchill led the league in rebounds while putting up about 18 a night and Bosyakov was #2 in assists and #10 in scoring. McCloud was also 2nd in blocks and 10th in steals. If a guy averaged 15.6, 10.1, 5.2 with 2.1 BLK and 1.7 STL in the NBA, he would get at least one 5th place vote.

Last edited by DanTheCoach at 5/18/2016 12:59:26 AM

Oriol Pujol will recieve his MVP trophy before tipoff of game 2 in the D IV.11 championship series in Saturday, but he will be joined by several other award winners, which the BB league has neglected for the 34th straight season.

Rookie of the Year
Runners Up
Cuccu Pasquale - Mercy Buckets 4.5pts/1.6reb/1.5ast/.5stl/.12blk
Troy Jett -Clairmont Condors 12.9pts/2.2reb/.9ast/1stl/2.25blk
Leroy Hoffmann - Morgantown Dogs 5.2pts/3.9reb/.3ast/.2stl/.5blk
Winner
Joseph Duvall - The Force 15.8pts/8.5reb/3.8ast/1stl/1.5blk

Defense Player of the Year
Runners Up
Wayne McCloud - Clairmont Condors 7Reb/1.7Stl/2.1blk
Ferdi Medar - Machete Kills 6reb/2stl/1.3blk
Mike Churchill - Clairmont Condors 7reb/1.4stl/1.8blk
Winner
Whitney Jacques - Tartans 8reb/1.6stl/2.2blk


All IV.11 Team
1st Team. 2nd Team
PG - Fleck. PG - Spencer
SG - Massaccesi. SG - Montalvo
SF - Pouliadis. SF - Rozen
PF - Pujol. PF - Jacques
C - Chul Moo. C - France


All Rookie Team
PG - Jett
SG - Neely
SF - Cuccu
PF - Duvall
C - Hoffmann

My Condors put up some numbers this year, but they didn't translate to wins against the top teams. Maybe with another year of seasoning, Jett will be able to pick up the slack in the backcourt.

Love this list, looking forward to another season with you in the league. By the looks of it, you and I will be in IV.11 for a long time, so I hope to continue seeing your thoughtful and entertaining reports!

So long everyone, been a pleasure! Best of luck to all!