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[Edster007]

Originally Posted by Magus978

I didn't catch them. I guess we'll be awarding a crown in Silver B after all!

I just did a really quick scan, there are 5 teams

Reno has 26 OL games followed by

O'Fallon with 22

Jefferson Valley 16

Nico-Nico 9

North East Capital 3

[BigRed75]

Originally Posted by Magus978

I didn't catch them. I guess we'll be awarding a crown in Silver B after all!

Oh yay! I have something to pay attention to after last week's epic collapse.

[BigRed75]

Originally Posted by Edster007

I just did a really quick scan, there are 5 teams

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North East Capital 3

At what point do we point out that Magus failed to notice his own team was in Silver B?

[Magus978]

Originally Posted by BigRed75

At what point do we point out that Magus failed to notice his own team was in Silver B?

You just did


It's a forgotten team. I can't be bothered to complete the theme.

[pappyzan]

This will be my last season in the OL. I've enjoyed the strong competition and strategies this league provides, but I'm ready to bow out for a while.

Everyone please remove blackswan from your friends list. Thanks!

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by pappyzan

This will be my last season in the OL. I've enjoyed the strong competition and strategies this league provides, but I'm ready to bow out for a while.

Everyone please remove blackswan from your friends list. Thanks!

Natalie Portman oh my!

[allenciox]

So, I just went through the teams in P488 (over my lunch break) and I saw some interesting things, plus want to make some predictions.

The first thing is that the talent is about as evenly distributed as I have ever seen it. A lot of balance throughout all divisions. That being said, here are my predictions for playoff teams:

AL: East: Mem,Central: CC+. West: HOBO
NL: East: SP+, Central: AH+, West: FAR+

Wild card teams:

AL: two of the following four teams: BS+,WYO,QC+,WP
NL: WSH+ plus one of the following: HRR+,BP+, MOT+,LC


As far as types of teams go:

lefty: 7 teams
lefty_contact: 4
righty: 4
righty_contact: 1
contact: 3
defense: 2
power: 1
idiosyncratic: 3
Null: 5

So there are about the same number of lefty-based teams as the last time I checked (2045), but a couple more righty-based teams (5 now versus 3 then). Contact-focused clubs is another strong meta, with eight teams having a contact focus, either alone or in combination with a lefty- or righty- focus.

The lefty-righty contrast, interestingly, is focused more in AL than NL: Seven of the teams in the AL have a lefty-type focus and four have a righty focus, compared to only four teams and one team in the NL respectively.

There should be fireworks in the AL, as the biggest advantage you could have is, as a righty, hosting a lefty team; or as a lefty team, hosting a righty team. It will be interesting to see, as we get more righty-focused teams in, whether they have a tendency to neutralize the lefty teams.

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by allenciox

So, I just went through the teams in P488 (over my lunch break) and I saw some interesting things, plus want to make some predictions.

The first thing is that the talent is about as evenly distributed as I have ever seen it. A lot of balance throughout all divisions. That being said, here are my predictions for playoff teams:

AL: East: Mem,Central: CC+. West: HOBO
NL: East: SP+, Central: AH+, West: FAR+

Wild card teams:

AL: two of the following four teams: BS+,WYO,QC+,WP
NL: WSH+ plus one of the following: HRR+,BP+, MOT+,LC


As far as types of teams go:

lefty: 7 teams
lefty_contact: 4
righty: 4
righty_contact: 1
contact: 3
defense: 2
power: 1
idiosyncratic: 3
Null: 5

So there are about the same number of lefty-based teams as the last time I checked (2045), but a couple more righty-based teams (5 now versus 3 then). Contact-focused clubs is another strong meta, with eight teams having a contact focus, either alone or in combination with a lefty- or righty- focus.

The lefty-righty contrast, interestingly, is focused more in AL than NL: Seven of the teams in the AL have a lefty-type focus and four have a righty focus, compared to only four teams and one team in the NL respectively.

There should be fireworks in the AL, as the biggest advantage you could have is, as a righty, hosting a lefty team; or as a lefty team, hosting a righty team. It will be interesting to see, as we get more righty-focused teams in, whether they have a tendency to neutralize the lefty teams.

The NL is like the NBA Western Conference while the AL is like the Eastern.

[pappyzan]

Originally Posted by OMGPuppies

Natalie Portman oh my!

Yep, I really enjoy everything that makes up this OL league, you guys have created an incredibly fun and competitive league. But I plan to put all my teams on cruise control for a long while and it's doubtful I take time to add/subtract teams from my friends list every week in the OL.

Could probably leave my current friends list as is and my team would most likely continue on as it is in the OL for a good while; I figured it'd be better to have active participants vs a cruise control team in the league, but if you'd rather try to keep this team in the league rather than a random whale or two, I see no problem with that.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

[QUOTE=Maxfire5;4544429]2 times in a row of not making it for the Rangers so I may have to check to see if it got flipped back to Random. I was in it the first two seasons for them, but the last two I haven't made it in.[/QUOTE


I know I've had you friended both times, but if it flips on you, others pulling you in won't always (never?) work. We also lost the Philadelphia Patriots in gold, but they're kind of a hands off team, and I fear they may not be coming back if their preferences got flipped.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by Edster007

All three of my teams are in the same division...

I've had that happen a couple of times as well. Just don't schedule any combined team off-season dinners this week. The internecine squabbles can get ugly.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Seems a bit more lopsided than usual, with four teams playing well over half the games. Sigh....

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by pappyzan

Yep, I really enjoy everything that makes up this OL league, you guys have created an incredibly fun and competitive league. But I plan to put all my teams on cruise control for a long while and it's doubtful I take time to add/subtract teams from my friends list every week in the OL.

Could probably leave my current friends list as is and my team would most likely continue on as it is in the OL for a good while; I figured it'd be better to have active participants vs a cruise control team in the league, but if you'd rather try to keep this team in the league rather than a random whale or two, I see no problem with that.

I'd encourage you to hang with it. It's not going to hurt anything and even a "cruise control" team built along OL lines is better than the alternative. Whatever you decide, thanks.

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

I'd encourage you to hang with it. It's not going to hurt anything and even a "cruise control" team built along OL lines is better than the alternative. Whatever you decide, thanks.

though at the Perfect tier with the effort to keep the whales from seeping in, it's a constant effort week-to-week for all 30 teams to update their friend's lists with the other 29.... so makes it more difficult to have an unattended team in the mix....

[QuantaCondor]

Originally Posted by stl jason

though at the Perfect tier with the effort to keep the whales from seeping in, it's a constant effort week-to-week for all 30 teams to update their friend's lists with the other 29.... so makes it more difficult to have an unattended team in the mix....

So long as there is not another team banging down the door wanting to get in, those floater teams are totally fine. Otherwise there would just be an empty spot and some whale could get in anyway.

[pappyzan]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

I'd encourage you to hang with it. It's not going to hurt anything and even a "cruise control" team built along OL lines is better than the alternative. Whatever you decide, thanks.

Sounds good, I'll do it. Thanks Stanley.

[Edster007]

Not much action this week. Northeast swept Nico-Nico to go 3-0, however neither of those teams are going to reach the minimum 10 games to win the title. It will be a three team race with Reno, O'Fallon and Jefferson Valley.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

The Sluggers lived up to their name, pounding the Muffins to start strong.

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

I've had that happen a couple of times as well. Just don't schedule any combined team off-season dinners this week. The internecine squabbles can get ugly.

To be honest I think of them as Gold level teams. I have completely ignored San Pedro for about two months, I'm sitting on some significant points but real life has gotten in the way. I haven't been able to find the right players to upgrade Everett and Boogie is trapped in their theme. The Knights one season in perfect was forgettable.

Team dinners are out, they have too much work to do

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

The Atom Smashers seem to picking up where they left off last season. I will try to keep up with these and the gold, though I can't promise morning delivery.