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Originally posted by DB Coach
You know what, I'll find an hour a day to get my ass back into this game now.


Cool....imo you guys have a great team and it will only add to this age group if it gets shaken up a little....
 
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Rankimgs after Game #6 and Tournament Round #2:

1) Contender: Great JPEGs. Beat Vienna (by 10 in tourney), Houston; Lost to: Vienna (by 1), Jericho

Other than the loss to fading Jericho this team has shined. JPEGs suffered a 1 point loss to Vienna but turned around the next day in the tourney and beat Vienna by 10, so at this point they seem like the best team in the league.

2) Hanging around as a top team (Minor League Glory Team): Vienna Ritterbrüder. Beat: Brazilian, JPEGs (by 1); Lost to: JPEGs (by 10 in tourney)

Getting ousted by JPEGs in the tourney made it clear there's a new sheriff in town. Although Vienna did squeak past JPEGs by 1 the day before they lost by 10 to JPEGs in the tourney, at this point I consider JPEGs the favorite in any rematch. Vienna is still showing a heckuva lot of fight and will no doubt be a top team for the rest of the season. Vienna hasn't started to fade away yet a la Jericho but like Jericho they have a roster built to win in the minors (but not the Pros) and eventually decline will happen.

3) Contender: Brazilian Farmers. Beat Houston; Lost to: Vienna

Despite their loss by a large margin to Vienna early this season, Brazilian is the Conference rival that has the best chance to overtake Vienna by the time playoffs roll around. Right now the most likely scenarios I see is either JPEGs vs Vienna or JPEGs vs Brazilian in the League finals.

4) Pretender: Houston Gamblers. Beat Jericho; Lost to: JPEGs, Brazilian

Winning games against the weaker opponents but not much of a challenge for the serious Contenders in Elite.

5) Fading Away: Jericho Walls (Declining Minor League Glory Team). Beat JPEGs; Lost to: Houston

Every game Jericho gets a bit further back from the better built teams. Although they had the surprising win against JPEGs, they are unlikely to beat any of the top teams going forward, and may even start to lose against lesser teams by the end of the season. They've already been passed by Houston

Below the top 5 really no team stands out as being worthy of ranking at this point in the season, but I'll keep my eye out in case one emerges. I will briefly comment on the remaining teams though:

Other Alpha Conference teams:
ATKM - they don't gameplan and it's catching up to them; losing to scrub teams now
HRT - their defense is pretty good but their pass-first offense is not effective at this point in their builds; losing a lot
CCIA - dots mostly under lvl 64 without any advanced equip playing dots mostly above 64 with advanced equip
Barcelona - Just lost to a non-Elite team (HPAS) by an 87 point margin in the tourney

Other Zeta Conference teams:
Paris - Just lost to a non-Elite team (Hispania) in the tourney
Gridiron - JPEGs beat them by 104 points
DSWC - Jericho beat them by 79 points

So that's why I don't consider any of these remaining teams worthy of being ranked at this point. Hopefully some of them will do better going forward.

Week 7 Main Event: Jericho vs Brazilian - Jericho won this matchup 35-16 last season, and Brazilian doesn't really seem to put a lot of effort into the regular season so this is a chance for Jericho to appear to remain relevant for a bit longer, although I don't think Jericho would have any chance if this was a playoff game. As a point of reference, my CCIA team played Jericho in the tourney today and it was a 10-6 game with 2 minutes left in the game, although my team then went into desperation mode and Jericho happily piled on some last second points rather than just run out the clock. But the point is any team that CCIA can take to a 10-6 margin with 2 minutes left I think Brazilian can beat pretty easily if they put in any kind of effort.

Week 7 Undercard: CCIA at DSWC. As one of the most irrelevant teams in the league, DSWC decided they could make an example out of CCIA to show that DSWC is ... whatever. But the point is that the DSWC team has spent the past week game-planning to beat CCIA. Just as a point of reference, CCIA has won 1 game this season so far. CCIA's average level is 62 and most of their dots therefore don't have lvl 64 equipment, while DSWC's average level is 65 and therefore most of their dots do have lvl 64 equipment. And CCIA hasn't bought any enhanced equipment yet, while DSWC dots mostly have 2 enhanced pieces at this point. Despite all this, I think DSWC has at best a 50/50 chance. They're just not that good, even when they try their best.
Edited by Sly on Jul 27, 2016 05:26:15
Edited by Sly on Jul 26, 2016 23:53:28
 
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All I hera from you is "Wah Wah Wah !!"

Remember when you posted this...

Fail attempt as usual. Let's review: your team was correctly sent to the non-elite league because you suck, your AI sucks, your team management skills suck, and you are generally worthless. We breezed by your fail team three times last season. You never even put up double-digit points or even broke 200 yards total offense. Before the third game, you did a lot of huffing and puffing in the forum then gave your mightiest effort in the playoffs and you failed miserably, because, well, you suck. My only effort in the playoffs was a brief review on my iPhone as I was waiting an hour between planes in an airport, because I was more interested in my ski vacation than the unfathonable possibility that you might come up with any effective game plan. In short, I utterly surpass you in GLB. I also utterly surpass you in real life, but that's even easier.

Have your scrub outfit beat Jericho since then gob-shite ???....I think not.......Your ELVs are better than ours yet you still lose but have the built in excuse of "We aint got no AEQ" wah wah wah......Your co-ordinating sucks and your choice of archetypes is bordering on the lamentably boringly obvious.....You run 2 plays well...GL run and Screen and yet you still manage only 6 points....Just content yourself with all the huffing and puffing youve done for the best part of a year youve achieved absolutely nothing.....

You may be better than us one day but I doubt your team will ever amount to more than canon fodder should one of your losing seasons ever get you a place in your much vaunted World League.....And to be honest I find your Jericho team crush rather embarrasing and can only presume you have a penchant for being gang-banged....Maybe its time to dust of your skis ???
 
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Originally posted by zz man

All I hera from you is "Wah Wah Wah !!"

Remember when you posted this...

Fail attempt as usual. Let's review: your team was correctly sent to the non-elite league because you suck, your AI sucks, your team management skills suck, and you are generally worthless. We breezed by your fail team three times last season. You never even put up double-digit points or even broke 200 yards total offense. Before the third game, you did a lot of huffing and puffing in the forum then gave your mightiest effort in the playoffs and you failed miserably, because, well, you suck. My only effort in the playoffs was a brief review on my iPhone as I was waiting an hour between planes in an airport, because I was more interested in my ski vacation than the unfathonable possibility that you might come up with any effective game plan. In short, I utterly surpass you in GLB. I also utterly surpass you in real life, but that's even easier.

Have your scrub outfit beat Jericho since then gob-shite ???....I think not.......Your ELVs are better than ours yet you still lose but have the built in excuse of "We aint got no AEQ" wah wah wah......Your co-ordinating sucks and your choice of archetypes is bordering on the lamentably boringly obvious.....You run 2 plays well...GL run and Screen and yet you still manage only 6 points....Just content yourself with all the huffing and puffing youve done for the best part of a year youve achieved absolutely nothing.....

You may be better than us one day but I doubt your team will ever amount to more than canon fodder should one of your losing seasons ever get you a place in your much vaunted World League.....And to be honest I find your Jericho team crush rather embarrasing and can only presume you have a penchant for being gang-banged....Maybe its time to dust of your skis ???


OMG had to quote this because it's so funny! ZZ Loser is looking into the abyss as his Minor League Glory Team crumbles and lashing out in desperation while he still has some tiny bit of relevancy left. To be clear, we do make an effort to be competitive at all levels, which is why we've been an Elite playoff team every season coming up, but we don't sacrifice our long-term builds to win in the minors. We accept that even a mediocre owner like ZZ is capable of beating us regularly in the minors if he sacrifices long term builds, but we don't find that praiseworthy. He's still a horribad owner with a horribad team at the Pro level. But in honor of all the Minor League Glory Fail Teams like his I've composed this little poem:

The Charge of the Jericho Minor League Glory Team!

Minor League, Minor League,
Minor League Glory Team!
Into the valley of Pro irrelevancy
Rode the Jericho fyb's.
"Forward for Minor League Glory!"
"Charge for 'who cares?' trophies!"
Into the valley of Pro irrelevancy
Rode the Jericho fyb's.

"Forward for Minor League Glory!"
Was ZZ dismayed?
Eventually, once he knew
His blunder that other owners had seen far beforehand.
Theirs not to win in Pro,
Theirs not to make WL,
Theirs but to whither and die;
Into the valley of Pro irrelevancy
Rode the Jericho fyb's.

Better Pro teams to right of them,
Better Pro teams to left of them,
Better Pro teams in front of them,
Would all surpass them.
Scorned in the league rankings,
Faintly they faded away,
Into the jaws of Desth,
Into the mouth of Reboot Time,
Rode the Jericho fyb's.

How quickly did their glory fade!
Oh, the minor charge they made!
All the good teams said fyb's.
Who cares about minor leagues?
Who cares about Jericho's supposed "glory" there?
FYB's.
 
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GG Sly. Stop running your mouth about things you know nothing about pal. Take that L and enjoy it.
 
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Originally posted by Sly
Rankimgs after Game #6 and Tournament Round #2:

Week 7 Main Event: Jericho vs Brazilian - Jericho won this matchup 35-16 last season, and Brazilian doesn't really seem to put a lot of effort into the regular season so this is a chance for Jericho to appear to remain relevant for a bit longer, although I don't think Jericho would have any chance if this was a playoff game. As a point of reference, my CCIA team played Jericho in the tourney today and it was a 10-6 game with 2 minutes left in the game, although my team then went into desperation mode and Jericho happily piled on some last second points rather than just run out the clock. But the point is any team that CCIA can take to a 10-6 margin with 2 minutes left I think Brazilian can beat pretty easily if they put in any kind of effort.


Bah, let's be clear. Farmers are the farm team for our top Gurupie teams. We don't do anything for our minor league teams and certainly don't boost them early. We do well because we have some nicely built players. When they hit 64 and get some more gear, they will do even better. Still there are so many builders who don't even have CE on yet or any AEQ and forget to upgrade it when they do have it at times. It is cool to get some rings on the way up before players disperse to our top teams but the goal is WL rings. If we had enough GMs we'd put some cares into our minor league teams as it would be a good way for people to learn and experiment but we don't. Still we do have some stuff in there that is pretty effective when used with nice builds but if anyone thinks we are actually scouting and putting plans in to simply win games at this level they haven't really studied us. No one likes to lose, but we just don't have enough GMs.
 
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I'm not too worried about Vienna, regional pro is a joke and so we'll be hitting with a high record which we'll get me anything I need to fix anything, the vast majority of our roster will be fine, a bunch of it is my combo blockers and they worked fine last time
 
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Originally posted by zz man

All I hera from you is "Wah Wah Wah !!"

Remember when you posted this...

Fail attempt as usual. Let's review: your team was correctly sent to the non-elite league because you suck, your AI sucks, your team management skills suck, and you are generally worthless. We breezed by your fail team three times last season. You never even put up double-digit points or even broke 200 yards total offense. Before the third game, you did a lot of huffing and puffing in the forum then gave your mightiest effort in the playoffs and you failed miserably, because, well, you suck. My only effort in the playoffs was a brief review on my iPhone as I was waiting an hour between planes in an airport, because I was more interested in my ski vacation than the unfathonable possibility that you might come up with any effective game plan. In short, I utterly surpass you in GLB. I also utterly surpass you in real life, but that's even easier.

Have your scrub outfit beat Jericho since then gob-shite ???....I think not.......Your ELVs are better than ours yet you still lose but have the built in excuse of "We aint got no AEQ" wah wah wah......Your co-ordinating sucks and your choice of archetypes is bordering on the lamentably boringly obvious.....You run 2 plays well...GL run and Screen and yet you still manage only 6 points....Just content yourself with all the huffing and puffing youve done for the best part of a year youve achieved absolutely nothing.....

You may be better than us one day but I doubt your team will ever amount to more than canon fodder should one of your losing seasons ever get you a place in your much vaunted World League.....And to be honest I find your Jericho team crush rather embarrasing and can only presume you have a penchant for being gang-banged....Maybe its time to dust of your skis ???





LMAO he hit him with the ski joke. I'm dead
 
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Originally posted by Obliterator
I'm not too worried about Vienna, regional pro is a joke and so we'll be hitting with a high record which we'll get me anything I need to fix anything, the vast majority of our roster will be fine, a bunch of it is my combo blockers and they worked fine last time


What? lol.....a good record in the minors gets you anything you want? You better hope so, you've built that team for minor league glory my dude. Enjoy this run while you can
 
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i have 6 players saying I built the team to do anything is stupid

I'm not saying anything i want but it's not like FAs don't exist
Edited by Obliterator on Jul 27, 2016 09:44:28
 
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Wow, looks like everyone is active today!
 
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