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I'll likely slide some more to be honest. Focused more on training minutes the rest of the season than playing to win.

Yeah - I get that; it's really hard to get some decent volume training done at this level without compromising your team's performance.

Day 16 (Saturday 18 June 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Mighty Moose Rockets 93 - Seattle SuperSonicz 86
Lion Rebels 103 - War Birds 105
San Dominica Warriors 78 - Philly Dribble 110
Rip City Revival 93 - Linndale 108
The Beer Bellys 118 - Żubr Białystok 131
pintipv 76 - Miami Cleo 99
Gremlins 110 - Dallas Bomskwad 67
The Ashkickers 105 - Weather Society 65

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 131 : Żubr Białystok
Rebounds : 64 : Miami Cleo
Assists : 26 : Philly Dribble, The Beer Bellys
Steals : 14 : Gremlins
Block Shots : 10 : The Ashkickers

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 46 : J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets)
Rebounds : 24 : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo)
Assists : 9 : J. Glicas (Philly Dribble), W. Huffman (The Beer Bellys)
Steals : 5 : D. Donlon (pintipv)
Block Shots : 4 : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo), R. Peñalver (Gremlins)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : M. Velasco (Philly Dribble) (16 Points, 6 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 23
Shooting Guard : F. Carrillo (Lion Rebels) (25 Points, 3 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Small Forward : J. Vázquez (Gremlins) (16 Points, 8 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 26
Power Forward : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo) (10 Points, 24 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 38
Center : J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets) (46 Points, 21 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44

MVP of the evening
J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets) (46 Points, 21 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44

The bad performance of the evening
K. McNulty (Mighty Moose Rockets) (4 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)C. Taylor (Weather Society) (3 Points, 6 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -4

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : V. Laddha (Rip City Revival) : 5 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : J. Pugejs (Seattle SuperSonicz), A. Huerta (Seattle SuperSonicz) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : G. Locus (Miami Cleo), J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets), G. Chiodarelli (Mighty Moose Rockets), D. Winkler (Lion Rebels), S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok), N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival), D. Ðuric (Rip City Revival) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : M. Maurin (Miami Cleo), I. Avellaneda (The Beer Bellys) : 5 Three points

The best performer : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) : Rating : 17.5

The worst performer : D. Winkler (Lion Rebels) : Rating : 5.0

Day 17 (Tuesday 21 June 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
War Birds 78 - Mighty Moose Rockets 101
Philly Dribble 75 - Lion Rebels 84
Linndale 84 - San Dominica Warriors 92
Seattle SuperSonicz 73 - Rip City Revival 104
Miami Cleo 83 - The Beer Bellys 105
Dallas Bomskwad 110 - pintipv 128
Weather Society 83 - Gremlins 113
Żubr Białystok 90 - The Ashkickers 104

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 128 : pintipv
Rebounds : 58 : Gremlins, Dallas Bomskwad
Assists : 33 : Gremlins
Steals : 12 : The Ashkickers
Block Shots : 11 : Mighty Moose Rockets, San Dominica Warriors, Gremlins

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 37 : L. Baião (San Dominica Warriors)
Rebounds : 20 : Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys)
Assists : 10 : D. Nava (Gremlins)
Steals : 5 : G. Gattoni (The Ashkickers), N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival)
Block Shots : 5 : D. Charles (Mighty Moose Rockets), V. Valladares (San Dominica Warriors)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : R. Kiaulius (War Birds) (35 Points, 2 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Shooting Guard : N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) (35 Points, 7 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 5 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Small Forward : V. Valladares (San Dominica Warriors) (20 Points, 11 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 2 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33
Power Forward : R. Peñalver (Gremlins) (24 Points, 15 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39
Center : Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys) (21 Points, 20 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

MVP of the evening
Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys) (21 Points, 20 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots), N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) (35 Points, 7 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 5 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

The bad performance of the evening
H. Leal (War Birds) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots), : Efficiency : -5

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : C. Masetti (Weather Society) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : V. Sesamo (The Ashkickers), Á. Sütöri (Linndale), M. Wade (Gremlins), R. Sedonio (Lion Rebels), C. Kontor (The Beer Bellys) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : A. Gallucci (Miami Cleo), B. Lutz (Lion Rebels), K. Brown (Lion Rebels), N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : R. Kiaulius (War Birds), J. Rushing (Seattle SuperSonicz) : 5 Three points

The best performer : T. Grigoropoulos (Dallas Bomskwad) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : P. Mandosio (pintipv) : Rating : 1.5

Week 9 Power Rankings
A couple of upsets this week brings us the updated power rankings for week 9. With only 5 games left in the season, there are a couple of important races. In the Big 8, you've got Linndale and Rip City Revival jockeying for 2nd place, Lion Rebels, Mighty Moose Rockets, and San Dominica Warriors duking it out for 4, 5, and 6th, and War Birds trying to overcome Seattle SuperSonicz for a right to fight for relegation. In the Great 8, The Ashkickers have a shot still for the top seed, while Miami Cleo and pintipv going blow for blow over the 5th seed, and finally, Weather Society still has a chance to make it to a relegation matchup, only trailing Dallas Bomskwad by one game and a very close point differential for 7th place. This week's rankings will show last week's ranking in parenthesis.

1. Philly Dribble (1)
Phils_Wings is maybe kicking themselves for TIEing their matchup with my Lion Rebels - believe you me, I was as equally surprised to check scores Sunday to see my team lose to War Birds as to find out Tuesday evening that Lion Rebels pulled off the win (at home) against Philly. All of the rest of Philly's games look winnable, but an interesting matchup looms with Rip City Revival this week. Very slight dips in both EFFG this week, but both ratings remain #1 in their respective categories to leave Philly at the top spot. Unsurprisingly, Philly leads the league in scoring and is 2nd in allowed scoring.

2. Gremlins (4)
Extremely easy wins for Gremlins against the bottom tier of teams in the Great 8 after a somewhat surprising loss the prior week to Rip City vaults them back up the rankings. I'd have to go through all the rankings (but I'm lazy) to be certain, but I think last week's 4th place ranking was the lowest they've been ranked. But their efficiency ratings are nothing to sleep on! Should be smooth sailing this week and next before the final matchup against The Ashkickers. Gremlins are just .1 PPG off of league leading Philly Dribble for the most PPG and they lead the league in Rebounds per game at 53.8.

3. Linndale (2)
After their big leap last week (from 6th to 2nd), Linndale drops a spot, partially because of the somewhat surprising upset loss to San Dominica on the road on Tuesday. Up 2 heading into the 4th, their defense fell apart and they let San Dom score 33 points in the final period to overcome Linndale's well balanced starting 5. There was a point in the 4th, where Linndale was still up, but SG Kyle Knowles was struggling mightily to score (4-14 FG on the night) and was subbed out for Israeli PG Elran Chazan. At the time, Linndale was leading 70-69, but two and a half minutes later, San Dominica found themselves up by 5, leading 77-72 and they never looked back after that. Speedtrap's team faces a couple of intriguing matchups this week. There is a scenario where they could end up in 1st place, but a lot of dominos would have to fall into place for the upstart team to pull that off.

4. The Ashkickers (3)
Tylormade's crew took care of business this week and face what should be a relatively easy two weeks before the aforementioned face-off with Gremlins for potentially 1st place in Great 8. Improvements in both EFFG and OPP EFFG bring them in at fourth place, and while it might feel dismissive (they're a daunting squad!), this feels about right based on their EFFG ratings, ranking 5th in EFFG and 3rd in OPP EFFG. One sneaky stat that could propel them further in the playoffs is their 2nd ranked 3P% of 41.6.

Week 9 Power Rankings Continued
5. Rip City Revival (5)
A loss to Linndale in a return to conference play followed by a drubbing of bottom seeded Seattle this week, let's Rip City remain in 5th in these rankings. Potential for a similar outcome after this upcoming week as they face War Birds and then host Philly Dribble at home. Will they turn it on to move up the standings? Or will they stand pat at 3rd in the Big 8? While their EFFG is middle of the pack, their OPP EFFG is 2nd in the league. Their tough defense makes games interesting based on different matchups. They missed their chance against Linndale this week - but something tells me they'll be able to make up for it with a shot to host the first round of the playoffs.

6. Mighty Moose Rockets (6)
Hutch44 appears to be in the midst of a serious fire sale to sell off his two stars, Walenty Kofan(#2 in REB/game and #8 in PTS/game in Div III.11) and Jean-Louis Fleurent (#5 in PTS/game #4 in FG made in Div III.11). If they manage to sell those two, the rest of their schedule might all be losses, assuring them of a relegation series most likely with the 6 seed in the Great 8 (again, I'm too lazy to go through the schedule to see if there's any real way either Seattle or War Birds could win the next 5 games to displace MMR to 7th). But, if Hutch44 can't sell them for a profit, they could be a problem and vie for a playoff spot still. MMR leads the league in FT% with 82%.

7. San Dominica Warriors (7)
After their "Not in My House" loss to Philly on Saturday, as previously described, San Dom pulled off the upset at home against 2nd seeded Linndale to hold steady at 7th in these rankings. I feel like 5th-10th in these rankings could be in any order, depending on the week of games. Two easy matchups for them this week should solidify their position before vital matchups against MMR and Lion Rebels in the final full week of the season. San Dom leads the league in Offensive Rebounds/game, with 15.1 (which isn't a great stat, but hey, they're good at rebounding their own missed shots!).

8. Lion Rebels (8)
The only thing I'll say about the Lion Rebels loss to War Birds Saturday night is this: why the eff is my backup C (whose probably not qualified to be a backup in this division) taking the last second shot after starting C Terry Armstead tied it up with 30 seconds left (and certainly, nothing against SF Rajko Peklar who scored the go ahead two with only 13 seconds left). Stupid training minutes getting in the way of winning! Some relief came in the form of holding Philly Dribble to only 75 points on Tuesday night, which was a good thing since my squad only scored 9 points in the 4th quarter. A tough matchup against Linndale on Saturday, followed by a potential look-past game next Tuesday against Seattle. Will it be a revenge game for their early season loss? Or will the Rebels continue to their trend of losing games they should win?

9. The Beer Bellys (9)
A tough loss to #3 Żubr Białystok followed by a convincing win over Miami leaves thatguy's team solidly in 4th place in the Great 8. and looking at the schedule, it's pretty easy to believe that's where they'll be at the end of it all, which isn't a bad place to be considering it's their first season in Div III. Their EFFG number was eclipsed by their OPP EFFG this week, so while they're ranked 6th in EFFG, their 11th place ranking in OPP EFFG is what is holding them back.

10. War Birds (10)
It seems like the Big 8 is just a tougher conference this season, with War Birds only winning 2 of their 9 Big 8 matchups, while winning 3 of their 8 Great 8 matchups with some daunting teams remain on their schedule and, I'd guess (though I'm not bitter about it at all ;) ) that they shot their shot against Lion Rebels and the rest may be downhill. But I do think they still have a chance to compete for the last relegation spot over Seattle.


Last edited by Baine at 6/23/2022 12:48:58 PM

Week 9 Power Rankings Part 3
11. Żubr Białystok (11)
Żubr's high scoring defeat of Beer Bellys on Saturday night seems to prove my power rankings wrong, especially since thatguy out-efforted whitestok, with Żubr outscoring Beer every quarter to take a seemingly insurmountable 22-point lead into the final frame. whitestok had 3 players score at least 20 points in the match, including backup PG Aleksa Kričković, which was fortunate since he was -10 on the night. They face the giant Gremlins on Saturday before what looks like easy coasting through the bottom tier of the Great 8 before a semi-interesting matchup with Miami to end the season. All told, they should remain on track for a first round playoff loss.

12. Miami Cleo (12)
Miami is sitting at 5-12 on the season, but thanks to point differential, unless pintipv starts winning a bunch of games, they're easily in line for a 5th place relegation matchup against Big 8's 7th seed, which could be favorable, depending on how things turn out on that side. A dominating win over pintipv solidified their position before suffering a loss to Beer. Most likely two losses coming up this week before they get a chance to balance it out to have a chance to go 8-14 versus 7-15 on the season. Unfortunately for packer_22, his squad leads the league in lowest average FT%, just barely making more than 1/2 their attempts on the season (that's about 160 total points!).

13. Seattle SuperSonicz (13)
Seattle finds themselves back in last place in the Big 8 thanks to an 11-point difference to War Birds. Two losses this week, including a relatively close one to MMR leaves them at the bottom with some difficult matchups the next four games before a potential tie breaking final game against the Birds. Statistically speaking, Seattle is basically in the middle of almost every major stat, both for themselves and what they allow from their opponents. Their biggest problem is that while they're not the worst team in OPP EFFG, they're also not a great team in EFFG. They've had 15 (15!) transfers since just before the start of Season 57, selling off 7 players and replacing them with 8 new ones. Overall, the turnover doesn't seem to have helped as they're looking at ending up with a similar record as last season. But time will tell - maybe the fruits will be borne next season!

Week 9 Power Rankings Part 4
14. pintipv (14)
A win over Dallas put them at 5 wins on the season with another potential win against Weather Society on Saturday before having to face Żubr at home. There may be potential for a win there, but after that, it's looking scarce as they finish the season playing currently seeded #2, #1, and #4. pint is allowing the second most points per game this season at 110.2 coupled with the second highest allowed FG% (47.2%).

15. Dallas Bomskwad (15)
Dallas actually improved their season average EFFG by 3 points this week, to push them up ahead of Weather for "winner" of the worst EFFG in the league and combined with their 14th ranked OPP EFFG (which dropped a bit), they find themselves still in the deathly hallows of Div III.11. They're only averaging 71.9 ppg with their highest game total being 117 in a win against Weather. But since then, they haven't scored 80 points in a game, including games ending with 39, 46, 46, & 49 points total. If I've learned anything this season - a strong core group of 5-8 players is much better than a single titan. Fortunately for The Architect, as I've mentioned before, he's got to be sitting on some dough to rebound after this season.

16. Weather Society (16)
Melon Collie's squad has given up the most points of any team this season, rapidly approaching the 2000-point mark and his OPP EFFG has eclipsed the 155 mark two weeks in a row. Weather Society is at or near the bottom of nearly every major statistical category, but one thing they do have going for them is they lead the league in least personal fouls per game with only 11.5. The last thing I'll say about Melon's squad is that it's hard to compete in a division when you're spending more than $100k less than the 2nd lowest salaried team in the division (also, well under the salary floor!).

Day 18 (Saturday 25 June 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Mighty Moose Rockets 75 - Philly Dribble 104
Lion Rebels 74 - Linndale 87
San Dominica Warriors 78 - Seattle SuperSonicz 74
Rip City Revival 92 - War Birds 72
The Beer Bellys 127 - Dallas Bomskwad 101
pintipv 147 - Weather Society 124
Gremlins 112 - Żubr Białystok 102
The Ashkickers 100 - Miami Cleo 61

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 147 : pintipv
Rebounds : 60 : The Ashkickers
Assists : 32 : pintipv
Steals : 17 : Rip City Revival
Block Shots : 10 : San Dominica Warriors

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 50 : N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival)
Rebounds : 21 : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), J. Pugejs (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Assists : 11 : J. McGill (Weather Society)
Steals : 4 : A. Newman (The Ashkickers), J. Vázquez (Gremlins), Z. Fatik (Rip City Revival), J. Hicks (Rip City Revival)
Block Shots : 4 : C. Pirtsos (War Birds)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : I. Avellaneda (The Beer Bellys) (36 Points, 3 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 38
Shooting Guard : D. Donlon (pintipv) (38 Points, 2 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33
Small Forward : D. Komlósi (pintipv) (25 Points, 7 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33
Power Forward : F. Grossman (pintipv) (28 Points, 16 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Center : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (24 Points, 21 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33

MVP of the evening
F. Grossman (pintipv) (28 Points, 16 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45

The bad performance of the evening
G. Chiodarelli (Mighty Moose Rockets) (7 Points, 1 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -9

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : D. Muncy (Seattle SuperSonicz), F. Cristancho (Seattle SuperSonicz) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : D. Santana (Miami Cleo), G. Locus (Miami Cleo), K. Brown (Lion Rebels), B. Lutz (Lion Rebels), S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : K. Knowles (Linndale) : 6 Three points

The best performer : T. Grigoropoulos (Dallas Bomskwad) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : S. Dunlap (The Ashkickers) : Rating : 4.5

Props to pintipv's Grossman with a monster double double, but Rip City's Nikky Nay with a 50-burger!

I've enjoyed these - sorry for not being very active in here.

I'm in a weird spot with my team. I think that Kofan is a D.II-level player, but Fleurent just didn't develop into the type of player that I was hoping for. I spread his training pops around a bit too much and now he's just a decent SF/PF.

I probably would need to pick up 2 guards in the $20-40k salary range to really compete for promotion, but my revenue situation doesn't really allow for it at the moment. We'll see what happens this week, but I think my goal may be to just avoid relegation this season and go into a full-blown rebuild next season.