Welcome back, everybodiez!
It's season 4 of GLB2, or as I've taken to calling it, OP QB Rollout Strong Season. No, I'm not going to harp on the silliness of the complaints about that play since there is exactly 3,157,322 other threads (I counted...sorta...maybe) where we can argue about it, you can call me names, or we can all point and laugh at Jampy.
This season has seen yet another influx of new teams, new teams with old coaches, and yet another new Lounge team. In fact, that new Lounge team is why I started this a round earlier than I expected, and with 12 teams still in the top 10. I figured if I didn't start now, there is a good chance I wouldn't get to make snarky comments about the new Loungers who are actually coaching that team. In fact, let's get things started with that Lounge team, shall we?
#10 (tied) Rapper's Delight vs #17 Men Who Herd Cats
Men Who Herd Cats is the 4th Lounge team, and definitely the most appropriately named (although Yorick's owner's new troll name for Yorick's is phunnier). After two seasons of coaching the other three Lounge teams and listening to the b****ing and moaning, Sieg and I are having nothing to do with coaching the fourth. Instead, we're mostly pointing and laughing and snarking on the two Loungers who stepped up. It's only fair.
Rapper's is the Homage-bhall collaboration that the original Lounge team chased out of Oberon last season. They also have the excellent Adderfist as their DC. It's kinda surprising they're not starting higher in my writeups, but I suspect that it's just a matter of time till they move up.
MWHC 14 - Rapper's 7 (only because if I picked against a Lounge team, I'd never hear the end of it)
#10 (tied) Vandelay Industries vs #3 (tied) Portland Snoozers
This is a game of opposites. Vandelay is a pass first team that can't stop the run. Portland is a run first team that can't stop the pass. If you're a fan of good defensive play, this is definitely not the game for you.
If, on the other hand, you're like me and a big fan of train wrecks, this should be a lot of fun. I don't know that early season rookie teams can put up 1000 yards combined, but if they can, this is the matchup to do it. In the end, though, my money is on the running team. Even though passing teams eventually get nasty impossible to stop, until they've had some time to build skills, their WR's drop a lot of passes. Running teams don't have that problem.
Portland 54 - Vandelay 38
#10 (tied) Portland Storm vs. #Sophomore CPU San Francisco Pit Bulls
It didn't take long for this to happen. Rookie team going up against a Sophomore. And unlike many of the CPU Sophomore teams that have rookies filling up most of the roster, this one has actual sophomore players, including a decent number of human controlled sophomore players.
I feel bad for Portland. I really do. It's not as bad as what happened to teams like Yorick that went up against human sophomore teams as rookies, but it's still patently unfair. If it's any consolation, they'll have an entire season to recover their ranking.
Pit Bulls 30 - Storm 10
#9 Philadelphia Quakers vs #8 Run GLB
At last, our first chance to talk about that play that shall not be named. Run GLB has the current #1 HOF list rookie QB because of said play. They also have a pair of very good running HB's. I feel really confident when I say that "Run" GLB really will run.
Philadelphia is a true balanced team. This means they are a serious pain in the other-word-for-donkey to gameplan against defensively. But most importantly, they have a head coach who actually knows how to play against the run which means Run GLB isn't going to be guaranteed an easy time against a total unprepared defense.
Philidalphia 38 - Run GLB 24
#7 BO( . )( . )OBS! vs #3 (tied) The Boogie Men
BO( . )( . )OBS! is another team that runs the play that shall not be named (TPTSNBN), and this team is definitely OP. Not because of TPTSNBN, but because boobs. As a guy, I can assure you that in the eternal war of boobs vs. men, boobs are seriously OP. They've been OP since the first caveboy got mauled trying to kill a saber-tooth tiger to impress the first cavegirl. They'll remain OP until mankind genetically alters themselves into asexual beings who reproduce via test tube. Thankfully I'll be long dead and buried before then because it'd really suck to live in a world without boobs.
The Boogie Men also make TPTSNBN, but not quite as effectively. Instead, their offense is very keyed towards a superstar HB who is putting up big numbers already this season with TPTSNBN as more of a change of pace move. Now you're prolly thinking this will be a straight up ground v ground game. You'd be wrong because boobs are sneaky things, and just when you think you're going to get your hands on them, they slap your paws away and throw a 30 yard pass down the sideline.
OP Mammary Glands 45 - Boogers 31
#3(tied) Dublin Wolfhounds vs. #2 C O N V I C T E D
Dublin is a single-agent, pass-first team with a really cheesy team logo. C O N... is a superstar-laden, balanced team with a really cheesy name. I mean really, who names their team "Wolfhounds" and then uses a flashing neon wolf as a logo instead of, I don't know, a wolfhound? And who over the age of 13 T Y P E S I N S P A C E D O U T A L L C A P S A N D T H I N K S I T ' S A N Y T H I N G B U T L A M E ?
As for the game, I'm going to go with the single-agent team. There is definitely some advantage to be gained in having a lot of superstars on a roster. However, there's even more advantage of getting a team all working towards the same vision, and no team type does that better than single-agent.
Dublin 17 - L A M E 10
#3(tied) Doinitin Djibouti 2.0 vs. #1 Syndicate Bayou Bengals
D2.0 is another of the teams the original Lounge team chased out of Oberon which played a major role in the demise of what had been the best league in all of GLB2. But it's understandable. Not everyone can handle gazing upon the glory that is a team with Xavori coaching it. Mere mortals should not be expected to handle such awesomeness. And, okay, that's getting a bit thick, even for me...
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the staff of either team that these are both run-first teams. D2.0 is a classic HB led attack with a mix of inside and outside runs. The Bengals are an outside run team that feature both a superstar HB and TPTSNBN. But I'm not basing this pick on those running offenses. Instead, I'm going with the team I think can do the better job on defense, and for that, I gotta go with Parab00n.
D2.0 41 - Bengals 24
It's season 4 of GLB2, or as I've taken to calling it, OP QB Rollout Strong Season. No, I'm not going to harp on the silliness of the complaints about that play since there is exactly 3,157,322 other threads (I counted...sorta...maybe) where we can argue about it, you can call me names, or we can all point and laugh at Jampy.
This season has seen yet another influx of new teams, new teams with old coaches, and yet another new Lounge team. In fact, that new Lounge team is why I started this a round earlier than I expected, and with 12 teams still in the top 10. I figured if I didn't start now, there is a good chance I wouldn't get to make snarky comments about the new Loungers who are actually coaching that team. In fact, let's get things started with that Lounge team, shall we?
#10 (tied) Rapper's Delight vs #17 Men Who Herd Cats
Men Who Herd Cats is the 4th Lounge team, and definitely the most appropriately named (although Yorick's owner's new troll name for Yorick's is phunnier). After two seasons of coaching the other three Lounge teams and listening to the b****ing and moaning, Sieg and I are having nothing to do with coaching the fourth. Instead, we're mostly pointing and laughing and snarking on the two Loungers who stepped up. It's only fair.
Rapper's is the Homage-bhall collaboration that the original Lounge team chased out of Oberon last season. They also have the excellent Adderfist as their DC. It's kinda surprising they're not starting higher in my writeups, but I suspect that it's just a matter of time till they move up.
MWHC 14 - Rapper's 7 (only because if I picked against a Lounge team, I'd never hear the end of it)
#10 (tied) Vandelay Industries vs #3 (tied) Portland Snoozers
This is a game of opposites. Vandelay is a pass first team that can't stop the run. Portland is a run first team that can't stop the pass. If you're a fan of good defensive play, this is definitely not the game for you.
If, on the other hand, you're like me and a big fan of train wrecks, this should be a lot of fun. I don't know that early season rookie teams can put up 1000 yards combined, but if they can, this is the matchup to do it. In the end, though, my money is on the running team. Even though passing teams eventually get nasty impossible to stop, until they've had some time to build skills, their WR's drop a lot of passes. Running teams don't have that problem.
Portland 54 - Vandelay 38
#10 (tied) Portland Storm vs. #Sophomore CPU San Francisco Pit Bulls
It didn't take long for this to happen. Rookie team going up against a Sophomore. And unlike many of the CPU Sophomore teams that have rookies filling up most of the roster, this one has actual sophomore players, including a decent number of human controlled sophomore players.
I feel bad for Portland. I really do. It's not as bad as what happened to teams like Yorick that went up against human sophomore teams as rookies, but it's still patently unfair. If it's any consolation, they'll have an entire season to recover their ranking.
Pit Bulls 30 - Storm 10
#9 Philadelphia Quakers vs #8 Run GLB
At last, our first chance to talk about that play that shall not be named. Run GLB has the current #1 HOF list rookie QB because of said play. They also have a pair of very good running HB's. I feel really confident when I say that "Run" GLB really will run.
Philadelphia is a true balanced team. This means they are a serious pain in the other-word-for-donkey to gameplan against defensively. But most importantly, they have a head coach who actually knows how to play against the run which means Run GLB isn't going to be guaranteed an easy time against a total unprepared defense.
Philidalphia 38 - Run GLB 24
#7 BO( . )( . )OBS! vs #3 (tied) The Boogie Men
BO( . )( . )OBS! is another team that runs the play that shall not be named (TPTSNBN), and this team is definitely OP. Not because of TPTSNBN, but because boobs. As a guy, I can assure you that in the eternal war of boobs vs. men, boobs are seriously OP. They've been OP since the first caveboy got mauled trying to kill a saber-tooth tiger to impress the first cavegirl. They'll remain OP until mankind genetically alters themselves into asexual beings who reproduce via test tube. Thankfully I'll be long dead and buried before then because it'd really suck to live in a world without boobs.
The Boogie Men also make TPTSNBN, but not quite as effectively. Instead, their offense is very keyed towards a superstar HB who is putting up big numbers already this season with TPTSNBN as more of a change of pace move. Now you're prolly thinking this will be a straight up ground v ground game. You'd be wrong because boobs are sneaky things, and just when you think you're going to get your hands on them, they slap your paws away and throw a 30 yard pass down the sideline.
OP Mammary Glands 45 - Boogers 31
#3(tied) Dublin Wolfhounds vs. #2 C O N V I C T E D
Dublin is a single-agent, pass-first team with a really cheesy team logo. C O N... is a superstar-laden, balanced team with a really cheesy name. I mean really, who names their team "Wolfhounds" and then uses a flashing neon wolf as a logo instead of, I don't know, a wolfhound? And who over the age of 13 T Y P E S I N S P A C E D O U T A L L C A P S A N D T H I N K S I T ' S A N Y T H I N G B U T L A M E ?
As for the game, I'm going to go with the single-agent team. There is definitely some advantage to be gained in having a lot of superstars on a roster. However, there's even more advantage of getting a team all working towards the same vision, and no team type does that better than single-agent.
Dublin 17 - L A M E 10
#3(tied) Doinitin Djibouti 2.0 vs. #1 Syndicate Bayou Bengals
D2.0 is another of the teams the original Lounge team chased out of Oberon which played a major role in the demise of what had been the best league in all of GLB2. But it's understandable. Not everyone can handle gazing upon the glory that is a team with Xavori coaching it. Mere mortals should not be expected to handle such awesomeness. And, okay, that's getting a bit thick, even for me...
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the staff of either team that these are both run-first teams. D2.0 is a classic HB led attack with a mix of inside and outside runs. The Bengals are an outside run team that feature both a superstar HB and TPTSNBN. But I'm not basing this pick on those running offenses. Instead, I'm going with the team I think can do the better job on defense, and for that, I gotta go with Parab00n.
D2.0 41 - Bengals 24
Edited by Xavori on May 22, 2014 02:07:34
