The Big 8 went chalk today, but we had a massive game day in the Great 8, where the two surprising wins were ones where I had given full confidence to the losing team.
The only movement in the Big 8 is that I had given 50/50 for southpaw army @ HPH, but with a bit extra effort the Heroes held serve. Big Gulp hit the double guess which kept them in the game, but ultimately too hard to win at the home of the table leader while running the offense through an out of position trainee (who'll eventually be a spectacular player).
I had a sense that we had a chance at Deronimo if I picked the right tactics. And indeed we led nearly all of the way. Slightly unlucky shooting from SF and PF was counterbalanced by lucky shooting at PG and SG. Terrible news on the Forsman injury: I feel like this is one of the most injury-plagued seasons I've followed. I have a very high threshold for justifying playing normal but this one made sense: Deronimo was playing a rival, and has two games coming up --- a very likely win and a very likely loss --- where enthusiasm won't make a difference. His next big match that could go a surprising way is on the last day of the season when he has to visit Rhino's Rage.
Hipsterbears beat Beware of Dogs. I had zero-ed out Hipsterbears chance at another win after they sold off a player, but they are still a great team. As Peluin noted in the Discord group, the Hipsterbears have to be one of the best 8-th seed in history.
Updated projected final stadings:
Splash Gang 16 (0)
White Walkers 14.5 (0)
Southpaw army 12 (-0.5)
The Orchestra 12 (0)
ExplosiveBubbleWrap 10.75 (0)
High Point Heroes 10 (+0.5)
Big Gulp Reincarnated 9.75 (0)
Sofuegg 0
Visionaries 21.5 (0)
Black Light 12.25 (+1)
Flashover 11.5 (0)
Rhino’s Rage 11.5 (0)
Deronimo 10 (-1)
Beware of Dogs 10 (-1)
Warroad 10 (0)
Hipsterbears 5 (+1)
Last edited by Coco at 11/26/2024 10:36:58 PM