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Introduction to the league:

National Minor Elite Champion: Vienna Ritterbrüder
After a more convincing run in the GLB Tourney, Vienna survived their playoff run with a 3 point victory over Brazilian followed by an overtime victory over Jericho. While they've earned the right to be top-ranked, the position is hardly secure.

Contender: Jericho Walls
Two seasons ago won the Regional Minor Tournament, but since then seemed to have faded a bit and be passed by Vienna. However, their overtime loss to Vienna in the playoffs may indicate this team will try to hang around for another season of minors glory before inevitably fading off to wherever the teams that will never be Pro powerhouses go.

Contender: Brazilian Farmers
This is a team that will be tough every season, in the minors and the Pros. A couple of seasons ago they won their Regional Minor league (although to be fair GLB decided to make two elite leagues that season and the other league was stacked while the one Brazilian was in was very weak). They also have been a good Pro team in the past. Vienna slipped by Brazilian by 3 points in the playoffs last season, so if Vienna fades at all, Brazilian could take advantage.

Contender: Great JPEGs
This team won 9 straight regular season games to end last season including impressive wins over Jericho and Brazilian, before a horrible AI blunder cost them in the playoffs. If this team can avoid future blunders, they may be hard to beat.

Pretender: Houston Gamblers
After a 2-14 record the last time this team was in Elite in S52, Houston spent 2 seasons hiding in the lower leagues where it racked up a 38 game win streak. In the tournament, after some initial favorable match ups, Houston was blown out by a really large margin both of the last two seasons, most recently by Vienna and previously by Jericho. I expect this team will wake up to reality on a more regular basis now it is back in Elite.

Rising Star: Corpus Christi Illegal Aliens
Now that we're getting closer to the end of build cycles, this team will begin to surpass teams it struggled with in the minors. It probably won't all happen this season but there should be a marked improvement. Last season Corpus Christi was 14 points away from beating Jericho in the playoffs and again 14 points away from beating Brazilian in the tournament, so even a little improvement could be dangerous.

Good Team: All The King's Men
They don't gameplan, else they'd be a Contender.

Average Teams:
Holland Pinoy All Stars - not even in Elite this season but better than some that are
Paris Smexies
Hostile Royal Takeover
Hispania Pride - also not even in Elite this season

The Dregs:
everyone else - gonna be a long season for these teams if they're in Elite
Edited by Sly on Jun 29, 2016 12:14:53
 
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Good write up there! Hope we can get back to elite next season!
 
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Since we have a lull, here's how GLB says builds are progressing, on an Average Player Value Per Average Level basis:

Great Builds: 17.79 / 55 dots (1049.78 APV, 59.02 AL)
Houston Pretenders: 17.72 / 55 dots (1063.16 APV, 60 AL)
CCIA Rising Stars: 17.70 / 55 dots (1044.19 APV, 59 AL)
Hispania Non-Elites: 17.54 / 54 dots (1052.59 APV, 60.02 AL)
HPAS Non-Elites: 17.50 / 54 dots (1044.31 APV, 59.69 AL)
Brazilian Contenders: 17.48 / 55 dots (1048.11 APV, 59.96 AL)
Gridiron Scrubs: 17.39 / 52 dots (1038.51 APV, 59.73 AL)
DSWC Scrubs: 17.31 / 55 dots (1038.56 APV, 60 AL)
ATKM Good Team: 17.24 / 54 dots (1036.87 APV, 60.09 AL)
Hostile Average Team: 17.13 / 49 dots (1026.29 APV, 59.90 AL)
Black Non-Elites: 17.10 / 51 dots (1026.26 APV, 60.02 AL)
Barcelona Scrubs: 16.91 / 52 dots (990.82 APV, 58.60 AL)
Vienna Minor League Glory Team: 16.88 / 55 dots (1013.02 APV, 60 AL)
Paris Average Team: 16.73 / 52 dots (1003.73 APV, 59.98 AL)
Jericho Minor League Glory Team: 16.59 / 55 dots (994.97 APV, 59.98 AL)
Sheps Non-Elites 16.37 / 54 dots (972.84 APV, 59.44 AL)
Kansas City Non-Elites: 15.68 / 50 dots (935.38 APV, 59.64 AL)
Edited by Sly on Jul 5, 2016 12:10:43
 
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Regular Season Game #1:

Game of the week: JPEGs host Houston - these two teams met in the tourney last season and the result was a 2 point win by Houston after a field goal in the final minute. Both teams were held to less than 20 points so the defenses both had big days. Houston relied on a heavy dose of FB passes for their limited success while JPEGs had the most success passing to their backs and WRs (but not TEs). I predict JPEGs wins this time around by a healthy margin - the Contender over the Pretender.

Undercard game: DSWC hosts Gridiron - two teams that will see few enough wins this season get a shot at a win right away! Last season these teams met in the regular season and Gridiron won rather easily with a heavy dose of passes to HB Gato and FB Chandra. Expect a repeat of that performance as Gridiron wins by a healthy margin.

The rest:
Brazilian (visitor) over ATKM
CCIA (visitor) over Barcelona
Vienna (home) over HRT
Jericho (visitor) over Paris
 
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Paris look much stronger this season some great agents and dots and once their chemistry improves they could be a real force...Kudos to KP on the re-rostering and inactive replacement
 
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Good luck to all this season......I hope we make you WORK for your WINS against us this go round !!

I promise you we will be trying to kick your butts on the field

Average team.........we working on it
 
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Originally posted by zz man

Paris look much stronger this season some great agents and dots and once their chemistry improves they could be a real force...Kudos to KP on the re-rostering and inactive replacement


KP's team is always tough. They always bring their A game every week!
 
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Rankings after Game #1:

Nothing happened to make me change my preseason assessments so this is pretty straightforward

1) Undefeated since becoming Reigning Champion: Vienna Ritterbrüder
2) Contender: Jericho Walls

The top two teams are what I call Minor League Glory Teams, with poor long-term builds designed to win in the minors. These teams will drop off in a big way between now and Pro, and possibly even start to see a big drop over the season. I rank these as the top two NOW but the odds are against them holding these rankings till the end of the season. I expect some of the teams with better long-term builds will pass them

3) Contender: Brazilian Farmers
4) Contender: Great JPEGs

These two teams already have a "contender" level of play but also have very good long term builds. By the time the playoffs roll around, the odds are good that one of these teams walks away with the gold trophy.

5) Pretender: Houston Gamblers

This team may or may not be better than merely good, but is not a Contender in Elite

6) Rising Star: Corpus Christi Illegal Aliens

I use the term "rising star" to signify a better than merely good team with excellent long-term prospects but a team whose performance last season was merely good. So I think this team will end up better than what it did last season, but it has to earn its way up the rankings.

7) Good Team: All The King's Men

They don't gameplan, else they'd be a Contender.

8) Average Team: Paris Smexies
9) Average Team: Hostile Royal Takeover

10-12) The Dregs: the other teams in Elite

 
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Originally posted by jdpbernal
KP's team is always tough. They always bring their A game every week!


well didn't look like it

GG ZZ Man and to the Jericho Walls
 
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GG KP ....a coupleof 3rd downs where the pQB ran (?)might have kept drives alive with diff play selection ?....With chem in the 80s the game was pretty close thru 3 qtrs
 
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Originally posted by zz man
GG KP ....a coupleof 3rd downs where the pQB ran (?)might have kept drives alive with diff play selection ?....With chem in the 80s the game was pretty close thru 3 qtrs


better than 72-0 last season as it was brought to my attention.....

 
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Inactives can really slay a team...good to see you guys back on track
 
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GG Gridiron Dynasty
 
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Rankings After Game #2:

I didn't get these out early enough but this would have been my GOTW / Undercard:

Game of the week: CCIA hosts Brazilian - these two teams met in both the regular season and the tourney last season with Brazilian winning 38-0 in the regular season and Brazilian winning a closer game, 23-10, for the 3rd place trophy in the tourney. Brazilian won this season's first regular season game 35-6. It was 7-6 at halftime but Brazilian went 28-0 after halftime to reach the final score. CCIA's QB1 had a long night with 3 picks.

Undercard game: HRT hosts ATKM - these two teams met in the regular season last season with ATKM winning 32-3. ATKM won again in the first regular season matchup this season, but by a closer margin of 14-6. Both defenses shined and kept opposing offenses below 240 yards. ATKM scored a TD in Q1 after recovering a fumble on their opponent's 20 yard line and pushing it in. ATKM gradually got the better field position and scored again in the Q4 after HRT had a rather short punt from their own end zone allowing ATKM to start its drive on HRT's 42 yard line. At this point the game was 14-0. HRT responded to the Q4 score with their best offensive drive of the game, going from their 22 to their opponent's 25 before having to settle for a FG. ATKM took the ensuing kickoff and ran twice for 5.5 yards, then threw a pass which HRT intercepted, leading to HRT's second FG.


Rankings remain same as preseason, as there have been no upsets or results that have been particularly surprising to me so far this season:

1) Undefeated since becoming Reigning Champion: Vienna Ritterbrüder (Minor League Glory Team)
2) Contender: Jericho Walls (Minor League Glory Team)
3) Contender: Brazilian Farmers
4) Contender: Great JPEGs
5) Pretender: Houston Gamblers
6) Rising Star: Corpus Christi Illegal Aliens
7) Good Team: All The King's Men - they don't gameplan, else they'd be a contender.
8) Average Team: Paris Smexies
9) Average Team: Hostile Royal Takeover
10-12) The Dregs: the other teams in Elite

 
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