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edh up 3 with 7 to go, contortionists with the ball in a full time out

boom dodges elimination with a 1pt win

contortionists miss 3 treys in that last 7 seconds and edh goes thru

lma out, wow

Last edited by brian at 3/27/2012 9:41:45 PM

Yeah, it's very rarely not a mutually detrimental decision for both teams.

Phew. What a game. I hadn't had any insanely close games for what seemed like forever, now back to back crazy ones.

I bet he's pissed he didnt try harder than you now!

There is the entire problem. KW is yet another team that thinks they accomplished something meaningful by knocking me out (forget that there is another cup game on Thursday, and that their chance of being in the cup two weeks from now are basically zero...). I really, really, have no patience for this kind of thinking.

Yeah I agree. It's really shortsighted & pointless to CT at this point of the cup. 99% of the time at least.
In a similar vein I think it was WW who wrote something last season about hating how lower division teams can get away with CTing far too easily. (due to lack of penalty/deterrent i think?).

Though there's probably a certain cachet that comes with beating your team in particular... all things being equal, teams might be even more inclined to go all-out vs. you compared with others. (like bad NBA teams giving extra effort vs. the Miami Heat least season, or your soccer scrimmage explanation a while ago).

Anyway, weird that all 4 NBBA teams who had a CT vs TIE were in the Great 8: you, myself, Walker Wiggles, & Bruins. Saw mine coming a mile away though. Truly pointless by the other team. I mean they lost by 40 & had a 0% chance of winning. Even vs. the worst scrub lineup i'd potentially use. All it did was screw up my minutes. (early foul outs due to the insane rebounding boost). So unless that was their goal...

Last edited by shikago at 3/27/2012 10:49:15 PM

I disagree slightly here. I think there is a point in CTing, a lot more than 1% of the time.

E.g the team that beat LMA, i've not run any numbers but there's still a half decent chance they get a worse team in the next round, 50% chance of that being at home. Also, there's a chance the other team had to at least normal to get to this stage too. Assuming they started with a half-decent eth level, they could justifiably TIE the next few games and repeat the CT against another NBBA team next week.

Plus they get 50k, which is better than a kick in the teeth.

I still agree that most of the time it's futile, but in these situations, i think it's worth a try (depending upon league standings).

I bet he's pissed he didnt try harder than you now!

Nope I am exremely proud of my team for how they hung in there! Even if we won most likely would have lost Thursday or the week after. I have a tough road game Saturday and will have to normal if he doesn't agree to an Mtie; couldnt Afford to Normal 2 games in a row.

Great game Winninguy, that was fun! Good luck the rest of the way!

not sure whats going on with the cup draw, but colombia (their games are 30 mins before ours) hasnt been drawn yet. looks like all the countries that play an hour before us have been drawn.