The Raccoons didn't make the playoffs for the 1st time since our time in a whale league that had 15 whales in it (20 years ago). But it wasn't the whales that did us in this year, we just didn't do well even against the lesser teams.
So an update to our performance vs the better teams in the league. I "promoted" the Warbirds to whale status and the Suns to mini-whale.
vs Whales:
Warbirds 17-21 .447
Red Raiders 13-19 .406
Raccoons 22-34 .393
vs Mini-Whales:
Warbirds: 8-2 .800
Red Raiders: 30-11 .732
Raccoons: 15-12 .556
Total vs whales/mini-whales:
Red Raiders: 43-30 .589
Warbirds: 25-23 .521
Raccoons: 37-46 .446
Whales: LOLCats, Cardinals, Trojans, Stone Island, Soniqs, Warbirds
Mini-whales: Raccoons, Red Raiders, Deifel, Twins, Asbury, Suns
vs all non-whales (final records):
Warbirds: 102-22 .823 (119-43 .735)
Red Raiders: 97-33 .746 (110-52 .679)
Raccoons: 70-36 .660 (92-70 .568)
So... If any of you are contemplating joining an all (or mostly) whale league, then look at our records above and reconsider.
If we were to join an all whale league, we'd almost certainly be sent back to diamond. Compared to the teams in diamond, we'd look like a whale and we'd no doubt play like one too. Could be interesting as could the beating we'd take in an all whale league, but I don't think I'm up to it at the moment (lack of time to micromanage like I'd like). So if any of you do want to join a whale league, please let me know and unfriend me for now.
I do wonder if someone from this small group of whales still has my team friended, because this is the 2nd time out of the 4 times I've used the friends feature (besides the other 2 times where I intentionally joined them) where I've ended up with them even though I have none of them friended. If someone doesn't unfriend you, can you be still paired with them, I wonder?