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Nice, the legendary coco is back in the top league. I'm star struck!

Welcome back Deronimo and HipsterBears.

EWB is here as well. Look forward to his posts and analysis.

And welcome first timer Big Gulp Reincarnated.

Yike, 6 teams with over 1M rosters as of this morning. Here I'm counting beans to keep my econ from going into the red. :(

Day 1 (Saturday 21 September 2024) : Performances by https://www.buzzer-manager.com

Night results
Big Gulp Reincarnated 62 - High Point Heroes 93
ExplosiveBubbleWrap 54 - Splash Gang 90
The White Walkers 95 - The Orchestra 87
southpaw army 107 - Sofuegg 93
Warroad 107 - HipsterBears 97
Black Light 74 - Visionaries 95
Flashover 83 - Deronimo 90
Beware of Dogs 100 - Rhino’s Rage 107

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 107 : southpaw army, Warroad, Rhino’s Rage
Rebounds : 74 : Splash Gang
Assists : 29 : southpaw army
Steals : 8 : High Point Heroes
Block Shots : 12 : Splash Gang

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 36 : S. Vilja (Flashover)
Rebounds : 20 : R. Mullins (The Orchestra), M. Imširović (Flashover)
Assists : 10 : X. McNair (southpaw army)
Steals : 3 : K. Sikes (Flashover)
Block Shots : 4 : P. Wilkinson (Splash Gang), R. Lesickas (Splash Gang), C. Asaro (Splash Gang)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : R. Faryna (The White Walkers) (24 Points, 7 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28
Shooting Guard : M. Imširović (Flashover) (10 Points, 20 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 25
Small Forward : A. Fornos (The White Walkers) (18 Points, 8 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots), X. Shunyao (Rhino’s Rage) (23 Points, 5 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Power Forward : C. Morse (Warroad) (25 Points, 16 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Center : T. Ying Yung (Rhino’s Rage) (29 Points, 12 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

MVP of the evening
T. Ying Yung (Rhino’s Rage) (29 Points, 12 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

The bad performance of the evening
K. Goundo (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (2 Points, 1 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -6

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : F. Fernandes (Flashover) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : R. Salazar (Black Light), F. Fernandes (Flashover), V. Polizzi (Beware of Dogs) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : M. Koroman (Big Gulp Reincarnated), G. Prescott (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), V. Pereira (Warroad), F. Fernandes (Flashover) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : W. Mott (Beware of Dogs) : 5 Three points

The best performer : A. Taylor (Visionaries) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : H. Polk (Visionaries) : Rating : 3.5

I like a little qualitative, punchy discussion of day games. So here goes my report on opening day.

The most thrilling match of the day was White Walkers @ The Orchestra. The Orchestra played without Toney who got injured in the pre-season scrimmage. (I dread those preseason scrimmages for just this reason) Even considering the absence, it's not totally clear to me how WW pulled this win off. In a vacuum I pick the Orchestra's ratings, but the pp100 tells a different story.

Warroad @ Hipsterbears is kind of similar, except that here at least I can see that Warroad used more effort. I suspect these ratings are depressed compared to my expectations because the fashion of the times in the NBBA is to play a bad bench. Killer performance by Morse here, who parlays a 104 PP100 to 11-14 FG5%. Some days it's your day.

Deronimo hangs on to beat Flashover who run a quirky reverse Low Post. I do like loading up the JS in a low post and Vilja gets to eat for two today --- his 36 pts representing the highest scoring across the league.

Splash Gang, Visionaries, and High Point Heroes get newly promoted teams at home and pummel them. Splash Gang field NT point god Aboki for the last time, but he won't go far away, as Big Gulp Reincarnated signs him on the cheap (and current stalwart Keiser who was not cheap). Only note in this lot is that HPH uses enthusiasm at a time when it could have boosted their competitiveness going into the away game at EBW.

Speaking of bad benches it was driving me a little crazy that Peluin's scrub Polk ended up the game with a positive +/- when he was often in MTM coverage against my highest salary guard. If your team can go +3 while fielding 12 minutes of a 3k scrub, life is good.

TV chose to show Beware of Dogs @ Rhino's Rage. It was a tight game until Rhino pulled away in the second half of the third. At the beginning of the fourth a brutal groin injury took out Keburis, who was having a good night in the C slot of a reverse Patient offense. Despite the injury, Beware managed 33 points in the fourth, but not enough to get close. Ultimately between the big injury and the wasted normal they'll be licking their wounds.




Last edited by Coco at 9/22/2024 10:06:12 PM

Ultimately between the big injury and the wasted normal they'll be licking their wounds.

It's the injury that hurts the most. 3 weeks...not 3 games ... 3 weeks! :(

As far as my game goes, I think my starting lineup is top tier in the league and they ran a bad offense to play against the 3-2. With the injury to Toney I was pretty confident I could get the road win

Love the writeup!!

And thanks for the confidence. With Toney on the bench my team is a shell. He makes the difference for the whole team when he's down low. And I had to field two players that have no business on a NBBA court. I might've had more success with a different offense, but props to White Walkers. I'll take my lumps. It seems like it's been the Orchestra's MO in recent seasons to lose early. We'll see how the season shapes up... Hopefully Toney can get healed on Thursday so I can injure him in a meaningless cup game before the Friday GS update really screws me over. Wish me luck losing my first B3 game!

Speaking of bad benches it was driving me a little crazy that Peluin's scrub Polk ended up the game with a positive +/- when he was often in MTM coverage against my highest salary guard. If your team can go +3 while fielding 12 minutes of a 3k scrub, life is good.

You asked for it (on discord)! And Llanos dropped 4-4 FGs too. My $3k guys aren't scrubs they've just taken hometown discounts and all have 150 TSP I swear.

I like a little qualitative, punchy discussion of day games. So here goes my report on opening day.

Look forward to your next one Coco. In the meanwhile, here is the buzzer-manager's version.

Day 2 (Tuesday 24 September 2024) : Performances by https://www.buzzer-manager.com

Night results
High Point Heroes 66 - ExplosiveBubbleWrap 147
Splash Gang 64 - The White Walkers 79
The Orchestra 81 - southpaw army 89
Sofuegg 68 - Big Gulp Reincarnated 107
HipsterBears 95 - Black Light 119
Visionaries 92 - Flashover 75
Deronimo 90 - Beware of Dogs 101
Rhino’s Rage 116 - Warroad 76

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 147 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Rebounds : 66 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Assists : 39 : ExplosiveBubbleWrap
Steals : 13 : Big Gulp Reincarnated
Block Shots : 11 : Big Gulp Reincarnated

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 36 : K. Takagi (Sofuegg)
Rebounds : 25 : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap)
Assists : 14 : Q. Hô (Deronimo)
Steals : 6 : I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated)
Block Shots : 6 : I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : W. Mott (Beware of Dogs) (28 Points, 5 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Shooting Guard : T. Vaupotič (Black Light) (34 Points, 6 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 4 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Small Forward : Q. Ellis (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (35 Points, 5 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Power Forward : R. Mullins (The Orchestra) (19 Points, 16 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Center : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (26 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51

MVP of the evening
M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (26 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51

The bad performance of the evening
B. Brannon (Splash Gang) (0 Points, 2 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -6

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : K. Rodriguez (High Point Heroes) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : M. Cornwell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), G. Spain (The Orchestra) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : E. Mattox (High Point Heroes), K. Rodriguez (High Point Heroes), R. Beatty (High Point Heroes), I. Polichronopoulos (Big Gulp Reincarnated), M. Jorquera (Sofuegg), V. Khanyuk (Sofuegg), M. Lange (Warroad) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : Q. Ellis (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), S. Allen (Splash Gang), S. Koenig (The Orchestra), K. Takagi (Sofuegg), C. Deisig (Big Gulp Reincarnated), M. Keneme (Big Gulp Reincarnated), T. Vaupotič (Black Light), W. Mott (Beware of Dogs) : 4 Three points

The best performer : T. Meade (The Orchestra) : Rating : 18.5

The worst performer : R. Dutton (Warroad) : Rating : 2.0

For some reason, I forgot to spotlight southpaw army on Saturday. Must have been the lowercase font. They were in a tight one today: behind at home for long stretches, tied with 5 min to go in the fourth and then pulled away. Before I noticed the lowercase kings, I was gonna say that we sure look to be going towards a final between Visionaries and White Walkers, with a couple potential spoilers. However, the southpaw army is no spoiler. They are up there.

There were two away wins today. The 40 point one by Rhino's rage over Warroad was peppered with the double injury to Pereira and NT stalwart Vickers. Rhino didn't win just because of the two injuries, but for Warroad losing two players like this in an NBBA season with ostensibly no tankers and 100% competent, focused teams is a big blow. (Also bad for the NT)

The other away win sees Visionaries hold serve (which for them means wins home AND away) with a really impressive Patient lineup. At least this time Llanos was -12. However the low salary king of the NBBA, H. Polk, continues his journey into positive plus minus. Maybe, at some point, I'll do an award at some point for the best performer under 10k salary.

Elsewhere, HPH decides it's a good idea to punt on a national TV game --- with a bot visiting your arena in the cup you can never be sure. EBW says "thank you, we'll hang 80 points on y'all". TV Ratings were down for this one, but Ellis and Cornwell were putting on a show.

Also punting is Sofuegg's skeleton crew. Wake them up when October ends.

We (Black Light) get our first NBBA W. Whatever happens next, that counter in the "100 win thread" will go up. The win comes at a cost, though, as sixth man Jack Jackson gets injured. The result is that training minutes are a little messy at a time where we can't afford to not take off with GS and enthusiasm. Speaking of costs, we used higher effort. Instead we should have grown a pair and TIEd. Ah well, the cup bot won't notice the difference.

Beware of Dogs handled Deronimo at home. (FWIW, my autocorrect really wants to change this to "Geronimo": I hope the network won't fire me, if one day I forget to hand-correct it.) The final score was fairly close but BoD kept the newly promoted team a short distance away for pretty much the entire match.


Last edited by Coco at 9/25/2024 7:48:27 AM