Warrior General Games

1(1) Hawaii Bulls 24(+1)
2(2) The Salty Runback 26(+3)
3(4) Glasgow Rangers 39(+2)
4(5) Harrisonburg Bulldogs 40(+2)
5(3) Yorickshire Vase Breakers 42(-3)
6(7) Air Raid 44(+4)
7(6) Atlantic City Hookers 46(-1)
8(8) Lost Lounge 50(0)
9(9) Cobra Kai 56 (-1)
10(10) Andes Chinchillas 59(-1)
11(12) Berkley Bowlers 62(+1)
12(11) Louisiana Screaming Pelicans 63(-2)
13(14) DADDY 65(+2)
14(13) Los Cabos Sharks 67(-1)
15(n/a) Richmond Redskins 68(n/a)

Biggest Gain: Salty +3
Biggest Drop: Vase Breakers -3

Thoughts

Bulls cracked top 25 last ladder, Salty will probably crack it after this ladder, Glasgow plays Corndog (inc rushing nerf). Harrisonburg is back in the top 4 and looking dominant again. Vase Breakers get the only sober pro team (Tampa seems the only team putting up a fight vs journeyman), gunna be a difficult matchup but I am still gunna pick Vase Breakers to win because I love their offense. Air Raid is back and looking like Clevland has MVP on lock. Pelicans catch a bad break as they grab the hookers while DADDY gets to beat on the CPU team. The newbies, Richmond Redskins, get a brutal welcome game vs Cobra Kai. Andes gets a head scratcher in the number 20 journeyman team. Though Andes seems to be either dominant or sluggish so hopefully this is a game where Andes gets to beat on a team. Bowlers (aka thunderoo) still in the top 15. Sharks look like they are on the way out.

#1 Hawaii vs #15(pro) American Hustlers

Hawaii gets a solid pro team that likes to run as much as Hawaii does but no team has been able to stop Hawaii so obviously Im gunna pick them

28-20 Hawaii

#2 The Salty Runback vs #23(pro)Helmand Provincial Pathan Pansies

This pro team is pretty good beating Air Raid and having some close games vs the best of pro. Though Iwoa was a good team too and Salty demolished them. I look for this to be much closer but Salty will win this.

28-17 Salty

#3 Glasgow Rangers vs #36(pro) Dookie Island

Enjoy rushing while you can because Glasgow will run all over Dookie and then watch as rushing is nerfed. If I were galsgow Id pass so I dont get rushing attacks nerfed .

38-20 Glasgow

#4 Harrisonburg Bulldogs vs #36(pro) San Jose Dragons

Dragons are a solid team but Harrisonburg looks absolutely dominant allowing no more than 14 points to anyone. I expect them to easily win this one and inch closer to Salty and Hawaii.

28-17 Bulldogs

#5 Yorickshire Vase Breakers vs #38(pro) Tampa Bay Belligerent Recovering Alcoholics

Sure they beat Glasgow and sure they beat Harrisonburg twice in scrims but I dont think the drunks can handle the mighty Vase Breakers Offense and I think Vase breakers can slow down the recovering drunks long enough to win.

28-27 Vase Breakers

#6 Air Raid vs #34(pro) Mongolian Horde

Air Raid is back and Clevland is dominating the mvp ballot so far. This week they face a mob of angry asians but luckily Air Raid has its own great wall protecting Clevland

38-30 Air Raid

#7 Atlantic City Hookers vs #12 Louisiana Screaming Pelicans

Poor hookers are back into the 7 spot after a short lived top 5 spot. Though they get a game vs a solid Pelicans team that seems to be struggling as they have fallen behind the inactive Thunderoo Bowlers. I expect the hookers to put together a solid win

35-24 Hookers

#8 Lost Lounge vs 68(pro) Faber Animals

Last time Faber played a journeyman team they managed to hold a surging Andes offense to 10 points but I dont expect them to be able to stop Lost Lounge as easily since they are a pass first team. Lost Lounge will have to watch out as If faber gets the passing game going then Lost Lounge could get upset here.

#9 Cobra Kai vs #15 Richmond Redskins

Wow poor Redskins, Their first match in the top 15 is vs a very good Cobra Kai squad. Though Cobra will need to watch the upset here as a loss and an Andes win could drop them to the ten spot. I look for Cobra to put this away

28-20 Cobra Kai

#10 Andes Chinchillas vs #20 Sandy Cheeks

This match up makes no sense what so ever. Why match the 10 team against the 20 team? Well Andes been hot and cold this season but when they are hot they are unstoppable. I look forward to a good day from Andes

28-17 Andes

#11 Berkeley Bowlers vs 51(pro) 1up "Shooting Aeirballs"

Somehow Berkeley is still in the top 15, Im just gunna start calling them the Thunderoo Bowlers since hes the only reason why they are. I have a feeling 1 up will see inactive and get upset knowing that its offense is far from inactive and Hosdude still needs to send a contract out to one of thunderoo's wrs as Im not happy with only 4 wrs on the Andes roster

34-30 Bowlers

#13 DADDY vs #55(pro)Bloodless Brotherhood

Free win for DADDY this week vs the cpu

80-0 DADDY

#14 Los Cabos Sharks vs #17 Savannah Stingers

Sharks are on the way out of the top 15 and this game is a must win for them as they look horrid this season. They get an up and down stingers team who can be scary at times.

28-17 Stingers

Thanks for reminding me I don't have a DC.

Is Middle Overload spam generally how people deal with rushing teams?

Originally posted by Corndog
Is Middle Overload spam generally how people deal with rushing teams?

I don't even know tbh Dakota having a hard time with stopping it this season but my other team has no issues (might be a build thing hard to tell because we had no issues with rushing teams last season) I just plug something in at this point and hope it works.

So having half my defense be CPU is going to be bad?

Damn.

Originally posted by Corndog
So having half my defense be CPU is going to be bad?

Damn.

Let the grass grow on the field, that usually slows them down a bit.

Originally posted by Corndog
Is Middle Overload spam generally how people deal with rushing teams?

get ready to see some good rushing

Originally posted by Corndog
So having half my defense be CPU is going to be bad?

Damn.

Put em all on one side of the field. 50/50, either you win or you lose

Originally posted by TDiddy8701
ok nevermind... another blowout over a pro team

someone keeping record of ladder top 10 journeyman vs pro record? The winning % has got to be like 80% so far this season

TDiddy got me curious, so here's the results of top 10 journeyman (as of that week) vs pro teams. I'm listing Glasgow vs the CPU team, but I'm not counting it in the records.

Week 1, 4-3

Bulls v Outlaws - W
Salty v Dakota - L
Vase Breakers v Alpine - W
Glasgow v Tampa Bay - L
Air Raid v Wrath - W
Hookers v Deeproute - W
Lost Lounge v Budapest - L

Week 2, 3-3

Bulls v Goat Ranchers - W
Salty v San Jose - W
Vase Breakers v Dallas Djinn - L
Hookers v Rocky Mountain - L
Air Raid v Helmand - L
Bulldogs v Konvicts - W
Glasgow v Bloodless (cpu, not counting) - W

Week 3, 6-2

Salty v Iowa Rogues - W
Vase Breakers v Wrath - L
Glasgow v Hustlers - W
Bulldogs v Cows - W
Air Raid v San Jose - W
Lost Lounge v Chicago Monsters - W
Cobra Kai v Offtopica - W
Andes v Faber - L

Overall: 13-8

Daddy is 2-0 vs pro as well. Probs 3-0 considering CPU team this week.

it's almost exactly like current college football FCS vs FBS right now...

the top tier FCS teams (NDSU, Montana, Towson, JMU) are 25-35ish overall range, and you'll see FCS over a top 25 FBS every once in a while... App St over Mich, JMU over Virginia Tech, etc

predictions up

Originally posted by USC_Trojans
predictions up

Bah rushing is part of our offense we won't stop doing it at least 50% of the time