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Can't have it all...

**I took a second look at your box score, now I realize what it is you're gloating about. Hey, do me a favor and shove that box score of your's up your ass, pal. My team tried very hard!

Last edited by A-Dub at 1/15/2016 8:18:22 PM

both conferences are up for grabs, but the Allstars have a two game lead, which is tough to overcome with five games to play. for the Great 8, any one of five teams could conceivably end up in first.

the Upsyndrome - Golden Horde game is quite interesting, as A-Dub has the home court and a chance for first place but also is deep into the Cup tourney and faces the Cacti and some other team later this week. does he take the sure victory tonight against a squad that is ranked only 2nd in the country or does he take his chances on Tuesday against Glass and company and / or Thursday that many call The Most Terrifying Team in the Universe?

Being out of the Cup at this stage of the season certainly can be strategically advantageous.

I decided to log in and watch tonight's game against the Hordes, and to my dismay, I forgot to exclude Francis Garner from tonight's lineup and I was forced to watch him play 12 minutes at PG (His PS is 1). That's the second time this week my trainee didn't get full minutes due to Garner. I'm so flustered

the longer i hang around at this level, the more i need to know about declining players. i've learned something from my oldster, but what happens with one player is a slim reed to build an understanding of the pace and nature of older players. we certainly know more about young players / training than older players / dying.

all that is a preface to what i just saw on the Senecaville Bombers roster page -- ClintWiley is clearing house and has five players exhibiting drops this week -- and, this is the provocative part, three of the drops are HA and the other two PA. could the decline work in some sort of cycle, focusing each week on a skill or two? that means in a twelve week season each skill gets hit two, maybe three times a season. does this pace increase over time? i assume the rate of decline increases with age (Seneca's geriatric crowd are all 37 - 38).

on last night's games: i thought YCU looked really scary, with four players more or less averaging game ratings of 20. and i wonder how far Anchorage will go if they secure HCA through the playoffs?

I wonder the same thing

I stated this earlier this seasons, but for reference purposes...Simmons has experienced 5 skill dropped thus far. In order - 2 SB drops, 2 RB drops, and another SB drop.

I stated this earlier this seasons, but for reference purposes...Simmons has experienced 5 skill dropped thus far. In order - 2 SB drops, 2 RB drops, and another SB drop.

WOW! I am 42, and I only have seen my JS go -1, and my vertical jump -1 (although I never really had any vertical leap to speak of, so I am not sure how that is even measured anyway, and my HA -1; however, my passing is +3, so I feel pretty good, especially after seeing Simmons drops :-)

interesting -- my Drury has averaged about 5 drops a season, but he started slow (i remember it went 33, none, 34, three, 35 - 36, nine drops).

trouble is, he is still worth more to me than buying an equally talented but younger replacement. i may keep him til he is 45.

what a great time of the season. so many convolutions: for example, Anchorage is playing Toronto, and Anchorage winning comes pretty close to securing HCA for his conference and a step closer to getting HCA through the playoffs -- and all this without Ty Tracy, who died about five weeks ago but is about to be miraculously resuscitated with HGH.

Anyway, Toronto is sinking like a stone, which means those zombies are set for at least 7th place, which means tonight's meeting of TKI and IYF has some importance, as in who gets to play the zombies? Unless, of course, BNH can muster the wherewithal to win four of the final five games.

Dangerous Desert Storm may or may not be done throwing games in pursuit of the Cup, as is the case for Upsyndrome -- we'll find out tonight. Chargers and Eugene go head-to-head and the Cacti host A-Dubs and the Great Khan takes his aggression out on Irvine. After tonight, the top five teams in the Great 8 could be completely scrambled, stay the same, or something in between.

I think Hoosier tiptoeing into first place and possible HCA through the playoffs (it is likely he runs the table and ends up 17 - 5) is the story of the season -- do we have a Coach of the Year award?

Whew, switched from a normal and GDPing LI to prepping for a punt with no guesses with 45 seconds to go until rosters locked.

One of these seasons, I'll avoid getting beaten early in the cup but for now, my strategy of fashionably exiting earlier than all of you guys pays off again! :)