BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
13 March 2305
2305 Nuka Cup
Week 2 of the 2305 Nuka Cup Tournament is now complete. Two teams--County Crossing and University Point--know for sure that they will be moving on to the next round while 18 other teams are still in the running based on results and the need for some help in certain cases. Let's analyze the four groups.
Group A - Roxbury
Roxbury and Starlight still remain atop the group standings, though they both need either a series win or certain situations to occur should they not.
The Rad Sox face off with Easy Town in their final series of the Group A Round Robin. Should they lose, they need both the Lady Killers to lose their series to Bunker Hill and Diamond City to lose its series to Oberland. Should that happen, the Sox would win tiebreakers to get in.
For the Killers, should they lose to the 75ers, they need the Swatters to fall and they need Roxbury to win its series. That would allow Starlight to claim the second spot in Group A.
Both Bunker Hill and Oberland can only play spoilers in Group A since both squads are eliminated from moving on to the Quarterfinals.
Group B - Nordhagen Beach
With four-straight series wins, the University Point Deathclaws have already clinched a spot in the Quarterfinals. Should they also defeat host Nordhagen Beach in the series finale, they will also be the Group B winners.
For the Party Boys, a series win gives them the #1 spot in their regional. Otherwise, they need Finch Farm to defeat Lexington in the series finale to claim the #2 seed.
The Four Leafs can only play spoilers since they lose a tiebreaker against Nordhagen Beach. However, their opponent, the Synths defeated the Boys, meaning that Lexington needs a series win and a University Point series win to advance. Egret and Vault 81 are competing to avoid 6th place in the group.
Group C - County Crossing
County Crossing has both clinched a Quarterfinals berth and the #1 seed in their group after going 4-0 in their first four series. For the rest of the group, it gets tricky.
At 2-2, Salem is currently the tiebreaker leader thanks to series wins over the other 2-2 teams, Goodneighbor and Atom. Should the Witch Hats defeat Fort Hagen in their last series, Salem will be the second team to emerge from Group B.
If Salem does not win, Goodneighbor is next in line should they defeat Quincy in their series due to a series win over the Cats.
Now, if this scenario happens, then we have a mess: the Bloodbugs defeat Atom, Fort Hagen defeats Salem, and the Gunners down Goodneighbor. In that case, all five teams other than the Bugs finish at 2-3. Head-to-head matchups would be the first tiebreaker, in which all four teams would have gone 2-2 against each other. That would bring it to the second tiebreaker, overall record. The Hancocks would have the inside track for that one unless swept. Both the Silver Shroud and Gunners would have to sweep to still be alive.
Should there still be ties, then the final tiebreakers would be run differentials. We'll wait for results before we break down those possibilities. But let's be honest. We all hope for the chaos of five teams tied at 2-3!
Group D - Jamaica Plain
While not as complicated as Group C with every team alive, Group C still has five teams alive with only Spectacle Island officially eliminated from moving on to the next round.
FHE still leads the group with a 3-1 mark in their first four series. Should they win at least two against the Reapers, the Yao Guai will clinch the top spot in Group D. Should they lose, several scenarios play out.
The Yao Guai's only series loss came to Sunshine Tidings. Should the Chemists take out the host Red Rockets, they could clinch the group. Concord and The Slog also play for a 3-2 mark. So, there are four scenarios possible where three teams finish at 3-2 (all assuming an FHE loss; otherwise, only two teams will finish at 3-2 with the series winner taking the tiebreaker).
Scenario 1: Jamaica Plain defeats Sunshine Tidings and Concord defeats The Slog. In this case, FHE would be #1 since they defeated both the Red Rockets and Radstags, and the Rockets would be #2 due to a series win over Concord.
Scenario 2: Jamaica Plain defeats Sunshine Tidings and The Slog defeats Concord. In this case, FHE would be #1 since they defeated both the Red Rockets and Ghouls, and The Slog would be #2 due to a series win over the Rockets.
Scenario 3: Sunshine Tidings defeats Jamaica Plain and Concord defeats The Slog, In this case, all three teams would be 1-1 against each other, meaning best record would come into play. If the Yao Guai were to be swept, they would be the odd team out with the Chemists and Stags taking the two spots. Should all three teams finish with the same overall record, then this scenario would break ties with run differentials.
Scenario 4: Sunshine Tidings defeats Jamaica Plain and The Slog defeats Concord. In this case, the Chemists would be the #1 seed due to series win over both FHE and the Ghouls. The Yao Guai would be the #2 team due to a series win over The Slog.
2305 CBO Top Players
The 2305 scouting rankings are out with 1B Barker Cocoa of University Point rated as the CBO's top hitter and SP Nuke Laloosh of Roxbury as the top pitcher. Full rankings below.
