BuzzerBeater Forums

Week Six Power Rankings
With the league in full interconference play at the all star break, we're seeing a couple of things play out on either side of the conference. The Big 8 is taking advantage of the clear separation of the Great 8 between the top 4 and the bottom 4 and is enjoying a .700 win percentage over the Great 8. But there's been several Great 8 righteous victories in the middle of that, unlike a few seasons ago where the difference between the leagues was so stark, I think the Great 8 only won 12 games of the possible 64 interconference games. At any rate, not a lot of time to post these, so I'll make it brief with each team's potential all stars listed. Last week's ranking is in parenthesis again.

1. southpaw army (2)
EFFG: 149.5 | OPP EFFG: 68.1
Xavier McNair (Backup PG)
Nivaldo de Moraes (SG)
Freddy Kang (PF)
Song Kunyan (Backup C)

2. Lion Rebels (3)
EFFG: 149.5 | OPP EFFG: 80.1
Kurt Brown (Backup SF)
Terry Armstead (C)

3. Tasty Tardsicles (1)
EFFG: 130 | OPP EFFG: 82
Chik Wui Kwong (PG)
Algis Nikitinas (Backup PF)

4. San Dominica Warriors (4)
EFFG: 126.9 | OPP EFFG: 91.1
Mario Granja (SF)

5. VileOnes (5)
EFFG: 128.4 | OPP EFFG: 97.7
None (this one might come back to bite me).

6. F.Day Internet Lovers Club (6)
EFFG: 114.5 | OPP EFFG: 76.7
Igor Tabrizi (Backup PF)

7. Mindless Zombies (7)
EFFG: 122.3 | OPP EFFG: 97.6
Thomas Freeman (SG)
José Ledu (Backup C)

8. Philly Dribble (9)
EFFG: 125.5 | OPP EFFG: 119.1
None

9. Super Sonics (8)
EFFG: 112.9 | OPP EFFG: 102.9
Morris Craig (Backup PG)
Zoran Levin (Backup SF)
Daniel Lin (PF)
Chas Goldsmith (C)

10. Linndale (12)
EFFG: 116.3 | OPP EFFG: 114.1
Kyle Knowles (Backup SG)

11. Fort Wayne Pistons (10)
EFFG: 125.1 | OPP EFFG: 135.3
Simón Aranda (Backup SG)
Ulises Jaén (SF)

12. 209's MostWanted (11)
EFFG: 112.8 | OPP EFFG: 108.8
Tian Rumin (PG)

13. Las Vegas High Rollers (13)
EFFG: 85.7 | OPP EFFG: 125.5
None

14. Miami Cleo (14)
EFFG: 46.9 | OPP EFFG: 137.4
None

15. Twotone Touloose (15)
EFFG: 38.6 | OPP EFFG: 150
None

16. Żubr Białystok (16)
EFFG: -19.8 | OPP EFFG: 223.1
None

Full All-Star Predictions
Average Rating (AR) and Average Efficiency (AE)
Great 8
PG Chik Wui Kwong | AR: 16.6 | AE: 19.4
PG Morris Craig | AR: 15.8 | AE: 17.5
SG Thomas Freeman | AR: 16.0 | AE: 25.3
SG Simón Aranda | AR: 12.5 | AE: 21.4
SF Ulises Jaén | AR: 11.8 | AE: 24.7
SF Zoran Levin | AR: 13.2 | AE: 20.5
PF Daniel Lin | AR: 13.7 | AE: 20.9
PF Algis Nikitinas| AR: 13.5 | AE: 20.8
C Chas Goldsmith | AR: 15.7 | AE: 22.4
C José Ledu | AR: 14.9 | AE: 20.5

Big 8
PG Tian Rumin | AR: 14.3 | AE: 17.3
PG Xavier McNair | AR: 15.0 | AE: 16.8
SG Nivaldo de Moraes| AR: 17.2 | AE: 25.5
SG Kyle Knowles | AR: 16.0 | AE: 21.8
SF Mario Granja | AR: 13.4 | AE: 18.5
SF Kurt Brown | AR: 14.3 | AE: 15.6
PF Freddy Kang | AR: 14.6 | AE: 26.2
PF Igor Tarizi | AR: 12.8 | AE: 25.4
C Terry Armstead | AR: 16.6 | AE: 29.3
C Song Kunyan | AR: 15.0 | AE: 23.2

Great Big Snubs
There's always a handful of snubs - I'm counting 11 of them this season, with three of them being pretty big snubs based on AR/AE. This will be listed in order of their Overall Rank compared to both conferences.
8th: Floyd Hearn
11th: Phillip Huddleston
12th: Jérome Bégin
15th: Jaime García de la Vega
20th: Renzo Raich
23rd: Sjaak-Jan Brinkman
24th: Darren Le
25th: Ariel Ziółkowski
29th: Mario Watkins
30th: Ermenegildo Piana
31st: Paride Fasselli

All-star predictions are based on a

10M!! how much does people in this league have? I am under 1M and losing quite a lot.

It can be done. I'm currently at 4 mil and not losing anything. One trick is finding more well rounded players rather than specialist, since specialist tend to have significant salary jumps as the years go by than well rounded players. They also last longer before regressing as they reach the upper 30's. You have to also take into account the Southpaws have spent some time in the upper division levels, lot more tv money and more odds of having more sold out games. Combine that with smart decision making with personnel and infrastructure I can see someone with their track record having 10 mi.

Man also had 70m come and go with smart decision-making

Day 13 (Saturday 7 October 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Las Vegas High Rollers 86 - Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 126
209’s MostWanted 120 - Żubr Białystok 29
Philly Dribble 104 - Fort Wayne Pistons 109
Linndale 50 - Miami Cleo 0
Lion Rebels 85 - Super Sonics 114
San Dominica Warriors 119 - Twotone Touloose 34
F.Day Internet Lovers Club 72 - Tasty Tardsicles 89
southpaw army 88 - VileOnes 51

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 126 : Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️
Rebounds : 79 : 209’s MostWanted, San Dominica Warriors
Assists : 37 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Steals : 13 : San Dominica Warriors
Block Shots : 15 : 209’s MostWanted

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 57 : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️)
Rebounds : 25 : F. Kang (southpaw army)
Assists : 12 : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️)
Steals : 4 : L. Baião (San Dominica Warriors)
Block Shots : 5 : J. Smug (209’s MostWanted)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : M. Craig (Super Sonics) (20 Points, 0 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 23
Shooting Guard : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (57 Points, 5 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 58
Small Forward : U. Jaén (Fort Wayne Pistons) (25 Points, 10 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Power Forward : F. Kang (southpaw army) (18 Points, 25 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Center : Á. Maradona (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (21 Points, 12 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots), D. Branimirović (F.Day Internet Lovers Club) (16 Points, 9 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots), S. Kunyan (southpaw army) (15 Points, 17 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28

MVP of the evening
T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (57 Points, 5 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 58

The bad performance of the evening
G. Kirilovs (Twotone Touloose) (11 Points, 7 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -13

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : R. Singh (Lion Rebels), K. Kilijan (Twotone Touloose) : 5 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : J. Ledu (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), S. Jaena (Las Vegas High Rollers), G. Reinhardt (Fort Wayne Pistons), S. Aranda (Fort Wayne Pistons), K. Kilijan (Twotone Touloose), K. Ramazan (VileOnes) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok), E. Seals (Twotone Touloose), X. McNair (southpaw army) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : 9 Three points

The best performer : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), T. Rumin (209’s MostWanted), K. Nádas (209’s MostWanted), M. Craig (Super Sonics) : Rating : 17.0

The worst performer : W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : Rating : 1.5

I have fun discussing these kinds of things. Two part question so I’ll answer both.

How can I afford the salaries - I’m currently losing 100k with some overextension tax each week. Once my guy sells Monday that helps get me down a decent bit but still negative each week. Part of my buying this player was it should position me as the favorite for my BBM group which IF I win that the above deficits gets made up for between now and the end of the season.

How do I afford to buy these players - if you look at my team history I either promote or demote every season. Through that strategy since I took over this squad coming into this season I was sitting on $10MM. After buying this guy I’m at 7.3ish left in the bank. So money isn’t too much of an issue for me. My goal though is to go up and win the NBBA so I don’t want to be TOO loose with it on the way back.

Last note here I’ve been watching the market for a player like this for awhile and there aren’t too many. The ones I have found typically are between 120-140k in salary and never get listed for <$2MM. I reached out to the manager and told him I’d snap bid if he listed for $1.5MM. Was looking great at the number until a D IV team got into a bidding war with me. So between price I got him for, salary for how balanced dude is, and BBM tourney economics helping offset losses I pulled the trigger now.

Update to this and something I hadn't FULLY considered with this move. The Merch bump due to Saxby being and getting a few minutes with his national team helped offset even more than I anticipated. I also didn't anticipate Ziggy going for what he did. All good things!

Somebody from my team won the 3 point contest! Oh man you all need to start worrying. That's some sign of the apocalypse kind of stuff there.

I'm just happy Armstead had a good All Star appearance. He traditionally hides beneath the basket and comes out with a statline of 3-8 7 rebs and 7 points.

Last edited by Baine at 10/12/2023 9:50:27 AM

Somehow, I am not surprised. LAB is usually the one I focus on slowing down in our battles.

Pio walked into the GM’s office with his assistants in tow. Everyone wondered why this meeting was called, but no one spoke a word at all. The GM sat at his desk with his back turned to the door, hidden by his oversized chair. That pinged Pio’s radar. This isn’t a normal meeting, he thought to himself. He looked at Marshall and Byron, who were on the same page as their former teammate. Something was off.

Coach turned towards the coaching staff. “Hey, I’m just the consultant, but no one was here, the door was open, and the chair invited me to sit in it.” After greeting his former players and politely welcoming Air Allnite, Coach spoke to assembled staff.

“I was asked to talk to you because some feelings might be sore. I know Pio is pissed. He’s just had his interior offense, defense and rebounding ripped apart for the second season in a row. I’d be pissed, too. Air, you got new point guards to work with. Make it happen; you wouldn’t have them if the organization didn’t believe you were up to it.” Immediately, the entire staff knew something was up, but unsure of what exactly.

Coach noted this, and continued.

“Marshall, the organization thinks the parts we need are already here. Whatever they hand you, work to the player’s strengths. You’ll do fine. Byron, I see you got new toys. I think you’ll know what to do with them.” Coach patted Byron on the shoulder. He really was sure Byron would know what to do.

“Gentlemen, you’ll go ahead and open the folders in front of you.” Each folder was opened to a detailed, assignment specific scouting report. Air had the report on the guards, Marshall the wings, and Byron the bigs, while Pio had the report for each player on the roster. Each man took note of the handwritten note included.

“Gentlemen, if you need advice, you know how to reach me. My last act before full time retirement is to introduce your new GM. The previous guy got a promotion and is the new president of basketball operations.”

Into the room walked Roberto Gurgone. His former teammates were excited. Air Allnite was not a former teammate.

“Does this team ever bring in someone with a differing view”, he asked.

“You still have a job here, don’t you” Roberto retorted. Roberto wasn’t trying to make a new friend. “I want to hear what the plans are for the rest of this season. Air, speak your mind. Tell me what plans you have for the guards.”

“We have to increase the range on Cerri’s shot---” Air started, but Roberto had no time for canned responses and cut him off.

“If you can’t speak your mind right here and right now, then you’re the wrong one for the job.” One look at Air’s face told the story; Roberto had made his point.

“Cerri and Farley should battle for the job for the rest of the season and into next season. We need to push McCain and Donny a bit to see how they respond. I don’t think McCain is a point guard, but I don’t know that he isn’t. That’s a problem. We need to find more out about Donny, too. Coffey and Tovar have to step things up defensively. Petriukstis, we need to find a way to light his fire on offense. I want focus on outside defense for at least 2 of these remaining weeks of the season.” Air said his piece and expected the worst.

Roberto calmly replied. “I’ll give you one week. The results determine if you get another week. Marshall, you’re up.”

Marshal was ready. “I can help with Mantas. I want to see him Reybolds and Sokmen attack the rim more. Give me Hatfield and we can work on his shot. He can handle the wing defensively.”

Byron Helm jumped up at that. “Me and the bigs have work to do on our inside defense and rebounding. Inside scoring could be better also. Then there’s the shot blocking.”

“Roberto, we’re going outside defense this week. We go bigs next week. We'll see how that goes and go from there."

So..... I'm just gonna forfeit this game. Can I report your team* for bullying

Last edited by Dee-Jay-Tee31 at 10/14/2023 5:13:15 PM