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WOW I am impressed by Gavno. They put up some serious ratings, i guess youre going to have to wait untill your newly healed guys build some game shape back up. Good Luck. I'm happy Gavno did play like that against my team in the beginning of the season

We are approaching the halfway in season 11, and almost all the games were decided before 4th quarter. Cleveland chose to focus on the Cup, TIE'd and lost against Hawks. 77-54. Former 2nd division teams, Booshers and Magic played at Stationary Village and home side didn't have any difficulty. 111-78. Magic has a tough schedule ahead but GM Magic Man believes they are gonna be in the playoff picture sooner or later. Although they are the 3rd high scoring team in Big 8, they are also the worst defensive team so far in the league and fans have every right to expect some D. Tachenko didn't give struggling Cresley's any chance. 112-97. Rips are now a .500 team thanks to their great offensive performance against Flyers. 125-113. That was the closest game of the day.

Gavno held Goats under 50 and stayed on top of Great 8. 71-49. The interesting fact is Goats were better when using their backups. Illusion were too much for Steppers. 121-88. They dominated the paint and shot 55% form the field. Bangers crashed Dragons and are officially back. 92-59. Investors move to 3rd place with a comfortable win against Knicks. 101-84. Knicks' losing streak increased to 4 and bells are ringing in New York City.

This division has a bunch of great big men and one of them was the player of the day: Félix Mayagoitia (4475792) of Tachenko. Career high 26 rebounds plus 24 pts, 5 dimes and 11/15 from the field.

Teams will get back to action on Saturday. Hawks @ Tachenko can be brutal and betting odds say Tachenko has the edge. Bangers @ Illuison might be an interesting one as well.

Great summary as usual! I went looking for something solid to back up your statement about my backups playing better than my starters. Here's the proof:

Goats Starters: 59.4 Possessions, 33 points, 0.56 points per possession
Goats Backups: 22.8 Possessions, 16 points, 0.70 points per possession

This simple analysis will lead me to analyzing how the level of importance an individual player's success is to the overall success of the team. I'm curious to know if Capps really is as important to my team winning as impression he gives to the rest of the league.

Thanks. I think it might be about the game shape also. Once they are back in shape your team will be scary. I Actually Great 8 is scary, I am not looking forward to playing interleague games this season.

I think you may be ignoring the small men in the division...George Braden my PG had, 18 pts, 9 reb. 10 ass. 5 stl. Those are Jason Kidd (in his prime) numbers right there. Still, jokes aside, great analysis. I scouted every team in the division last night and at this point I'm picking the Hawks to go all the way, interleague matchups will tell us a lot but I doubt it will change my pick. I play the top teams from the other division in there homes. That's not a nice schedule for me, but it's okay, I have a few more tricks up my sleeve.

You are right I might have ignored him. I also liked Magic center Ryan's numbers, 36 pts, 13 rbs, 8 block. Illusion's PF-C Statovci had like 26 pts 27 rbs. Those are Bill Russel (in his prime) numbers. LOL

Booshers are active on transfer market so we better expect some tricks. I am picking Booshers but Gavno, Tachenko, Illusion, Goats, Cleveland, Investors all look sharp. Still too early for predictions.

That being said. Let's have everyone submit nominees for player of the week. Then we can vote on Sunday. I'll start it in another thread, and we'll see if it takes off or not.

thats a fantastic idea, I will definetly participate

Gavno are in first by a point differencial of 1, so if we both win on saturday 1st place will go to who ever wins by more.

Goats,

I often see better performance from my subs simply because they are playing against the opposition's second unit. I don't have a ton of drop off in my 2nd unit, so its typical that I'll see a guy in the 2nd unit put a tenacious 15 minutes in, and get a high rating. One thing I've also noticed is that I tend to see heavier minutes for my starters on the road. At first I thought this might have to do with choosing "let coach decide," but it still held true for other options. The tendency on the road seems to be that my starters get about 32-40 minutes per game.

Question for the group. What impact have you seen from players with higher experience? I see this as less impacting than game shape, or even stamina, however, I've also noticed that my experienced players are more consistent whereas my younger and inexperienced players have more volatility. I also notice that they tend to make more "crunch time" plays.

Does everyone have a set starting 5? I don't. Mine rotates from game to game based upon training minutes, and matchups. This past week I sat my regular PG against Marietta, and sat my regular SG against EC so that I can start them both for the cup.

I love the player of the week idea.

I have a set starting 5 for every league game, maybe once in a while 1 player will be different for training purposes, and I never use my starters for cup games. I treat them as friendlies, and most seasons i still make it pretty far in the cup. As for experienced players I haven't really noticed any impact of having more experience, but I haven't been paying attention to that at all, and my more experienced players still aren't that high