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A new season breaks! Looks like a pretty good week in the ladder. When your #1 vs #9 game is the biggest snoozer, that makes for an interesting week

#1 Air Raid vs #9 New Jersey Generals
- New Jersey has a CPU roster. Air Raid will do some stat whorin' in this one. Snagging NJ's #9 quality elo while it's still hot! I'm taking all the easy ladder games I can get while chemistry is low. In case nobody noticed, Air Raid has 11 new faces this season.

#2 The Salty Runback vs #4 Harrisonburg Bulldogs
- Here's a good one! Salty's high contracts vs Harry's overhauled roster. It's no secret that Salty's much better equipped to deal with rushing teams than passing teams. Harry is capable of a pretty nasty passing attack. Harry's also won a scrim already this season against Salty, but that doesn't necessarily mean much. I'm picking Salty to win this one. I don't really have any compelling reason why though, other than I'm guessing that Blastoh and Fumblerooski will out gameplan Tdiddy for the day.

#3 Minnesota Stunners vs #8 New York Nightmare
- 3 for 3 on top 10 matchups so far this week! That usually means a cool week. New York was playing particularly good bortball towards the end of last season, and snagged a championship over Stark Dire Wolves. They've reworked the roster a good bit this offseason too, and are fielding one of the nastier looking offensive lines in the game. Minnesota is the same team from last season. Solid top 5 caliber squad. They're not likely to slip this season. I'm expecting Minnesota to hammer New York here. NY will get better though as the season progresses. It'll be interesting to see if New York can keep their top 10 standing early, and if not, can they reacquire it later this season as chemistry recovers.

#5 Portland Ronin vs #14 Rhode Island Falcons
- Portland continues to be the model of consistency. No real changes in many seasons. They're the highest remaining season 1 team. Power running attack. Good defense. They're not an elite team, but they're good enough to have hung around the top 5 for a very long time. I expect they'll slip this season towards the bottom half of the top 10. There's a few other teams out there that are going to push them. One of which, they face this first week. Rhode Island's capable of shutting down Portland's rushing attack, and Portland's struggled with good passing attacks in the past. Rhode Island's beefed that up even more this season by bringing in Percy Harvin. I'm picking Rhode Island here. I'd expect Rhode Island to win a blowout over Portland normally, but chemistry may tamper such a result somewhat early this season.

#6 Stark Direwolves vs #16 Gatling Valley Pirates
- Another good Season 1 vs Season 3 matchup. Gatling Valley has been a consistently good team, and deserves their nearly top 15 ranking. Stark had a really nice top 10 quality season last year, and have edged up to #6 to start this year. They've got some chemistry issues after the offseason, and it may make this game close. On a normal day, I'd expect Stark to win comfortably, but I'm going with the upset here. Chemistry hurts. Rookie longsnapper botches at least 3 snaps

#7 MMArmy Can Crushers vs #21 I've Never Had Sex
- Powerhouse Season 3 squad MMArmy tackles fresh to Veteran Season 4 powerhouse Virginity Rules! This could be a really, really good game. We're going to find out what Season 4 squads are made of really quick, because MMArmy was a top 5 squad last season that just ran out of games to finish the ladder climb. This one should be really interesting.

#10 Legacy vs #27 LUELinks LUEshis
- I used to bitch about typing out LL's name in league writeups from Season 2 rookie ball. Well, they're back, and as a Season 4 re-roll that's been pretty good. There's some talent on the squad, but it appears they've had a rough offseason trying to recruit. ONly 36 players, and needed 3 CPUs to get that many. That does not bode well for facing a top 10 caliber squad in Legacy. Of course, Legacy's undergone it's own offseason overhaul. Lots of chemistry to recover, but knowing AirMcMvp, this is likely to be a very talented squad. Legacy, much like New York, is going to be interesting to watch this season. I'm picking them to win this game despite the chemistry issues.


Noteworthy outside the top 10:

#11 Dookie Island vs #12 Rusty's Ruins
- I like Rusty to win. That said, losing to an inactive owner in the first league game is bad form. That minimalist offense is very interesting though. Will it work? Chemistry will limit Rusty's a good bit early on. Particularly with the smaller roster.

Pretty excited to see the MMA vs Virgin match-up, I think Season 4 has some very good teams and we get to see fairly quickly just how good they are.

Originally posted by Parab00n
Pretty excited to see the MMA vs Virgin match-up, I think Season 4 has some very good teams and we get to see fairly quickly just how good they are.

Agreed. There's 3 or 4 teams that ought to make good ladder climbs this season. Could've been as many as 5 or 6 if LUELUE and TBM hadn't appeared to have lost some bodies. Right now I like Virgins, Alaska Assassins, Run GLB, and DD 2.0 to carry the banner for season 4 squads.

One of my friends who has 8 players on the team really likes to go MIA before signing his contracts. Has happened the last couple seasons lol

And another who has to log on to sign his HB. Probably won't make it tommorow but should be good by the next set of games

also ive never had sex

Originally posted by Galithor
Agreed. There's 3 or 4 teams that ought to make good ladder climbs this season. Could've been as many as 5 or 6 if LUELUE and TBM hadn't appeared to have lost some bodies. Right now I like Virgins, Alaska Assassins, Run GLB, and DD 2.0 to carry the banner for season 4 squads.

LUELUE is a season 3 team.

Originally posted by Parab00n
Pretty excited to see the MMA vs Virgin match-up,

Agreed.

Ah, HBurg and Salty... one of the oldest GLB2 rivalries... oh the memories! I remember back S4 when we played each other 8 times in ladder, since we were WAY ahead of the next team in tier (not named Hawaii, who was in-league), and went 4-4, including maybe the most boring #1/#2 tier GLB game to date http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/game/67417

as you guys know, I'm usually pretty confident in my teams, but I don't see us beating Salty tomorrow

Half our team is at 50 chem, which I have a feeling is an absolute killer in an otherwise pretty even matchup. If we play this game end of season, HBurg by 10... right now... Salty by 20, and it won't have anything to do with gameplanning... We know each other WELL




MMArmy and Ive never had sex is the only game really worth watching tomorrow.

MMA will be in the top 3 this season. Stunners going for the throne.

Be on the look out for Killer Kiwi's. Team's they play have to deal with Mountain lions and coyotes.

Originally posted by AirMcMVP
Originally posted by Galithor

I like Virgins



Heyoooo!

Originally posted by Maddencoach
MMA will be in the top 3 this season. Stunners going for the throne.

Be on the look out for Killer Kiwi's. Team's they play have to deal with Mountain lions and coyotes.

Air Raid's not relinquishing the throne this season. The almighty Bort has already rewarded us with an early lolladder matchup to buy time for chemistry recovery.

Harrisonburg takes down Salty in an ugly game - http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/game/153977

Salty threw for a 27% completion rate

Yukkio threw for 47% with 4 INTs

Originally posted by tezed
Harrisonburg takes down Salty in an ugly game - http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/game/153977

Salty threw for a 27% completion rate

Yukkio threw for 47% with 4 INTs

The consequence of buffing pass defense and weakening passing to nerf Air Raid is that they've murdered every team that attempts to throw passes not using a S* QB and 3+ S* pass catchers.

Fact is, there's only two ways to counter Air Raid.

A) Build a S* laden secondary to match the pass catchers.

B) Build your own focused offense to sustain drives and eat clock or win the shootout.

The way the skill system is laid out in tandem with the S* system has always guaranteed that niche built teams were going to be able to exploit the system.

Originally posted by Galithor
The consequence of buffing pass defense and weakening passing to nerf Air Raid is that they've murdered every team that attempts to throw passes not using a S* QB and 3+ S* pass catchers.

You're preaching to the choir man.

Originally posted by tezed
LUELUE is a season 3 team.

yeah? my mistake. I'll probably stop bothering with tracking that type of stuff in these writeups next season. It won't be as interesting by then anyhow I suppose since we'll be seeing teams that have had a full view of the team/player building process start arriving in Veteran.