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Alright, what the heck is up with the refs? I"m not one to complain about these things, but just check out the foul disparity in my three games. It keeps getting worse and worse! It's not like I've had these problems in past seasons, and it's not like I'm suddenly rolling out a new team with extremely aggressive players, and it's not like I'm seeing lineups with 5 All-World starters all incapable of committing a few fouls here or there (except of course the for the guy who injury Roger Holm in my first game...). Yeah, yeah, just three games so far, hardly enough to go with the conspiracy theory yet, but still! Game 1, 21-14 fouls. Game 2, 31-10. Game 3, 26-5. 5 fouls against my team in one game? Are the refs blind? I mean, I'm losing by less than 10 points per game on average. Those free throws are killing me! Was there a new element in BB I don't know about where you have to decide how much to pay the ref before each game (in addition to selecting a Attitude)? Throw in the fact that not a single one my team's fouls has led to a single injury, this is just the strangest start to a season I've ever seen my team have.

...again....chunked
That's what she said!

I'm here relaxed on div.III.7....my players just train, drink mojitos and play&win so relaxed.....fan survey it's filled up with little orange balls.....

If the players are accumulating fouls late in the game it could be a stamina issue or if they are fouling to try and get back into the game...

The heavy fouling can be irritating. Guys that play their entire career as low foulers all of a sudden start blowing up on the fouls. I have been lucky - my pickups are all significantly lower foulers than their predecessors. However, it is a crap shoot it seems...

This weeks games had some interesting results:

Myopic gave me a gift, the gift that keeps giving: point differential. After my travesty of a game on Tuesday against TWSS, it was heartily appreciated. Next up: Red Fort

East continued to roll in Div II, with a solid win over Red Fort. Markos put up 50 pts to open up a huge 10pts/game lead in the scoring race.

Silverbacks and Medellin put together an outside focused shoot-out. A triple double by Polt led the way for the Silverbacks.

TWSS cruised over the ATL hawks. It was close at halftime, then TWSS put it away in the second half.

Digging put up a strong effort defensively with his new guards starting to mesh with the team. However, Mapleton kept it close with their outside attack and Digging put up a higher level of effort.

Biggest shock was Ginger vs. Petersburg. Petersburg's CT vs. TIE loss is hard, especially since these two have been at the top of the Great 8 standings for some time. Jiao Wee Swee sets the MVP pace with a solid game and 17.0 rating.

Scrap vs. Chunks was an ugly mess under investigation by the commissioner. 5 to 26 in fouls, Waeber 10 for 10 on the charity stripe, and a 74-53 rebounding advantage for the Scrappers led them to the win.

Rockets had a clear win over Phi - perhaps due to Phi's focus on Ginger in Game Two last week. Carbon had a great game, finally finishing his first game in this league with only five fouls after blowing up in the first two - congrats Roberto!

Cup Status: Everyone is still in it so far...

Theories:
a. Perhaps the refs are refs are tired of the old 1970's uniforms with the short-shorts and decided to call a foul everytime they saw cheek showing from the uni's?
b. Maybe you shouldn't have slept with the refs wife the week before season?
c. Maybe you have too many Europeans on the roster who don't like to play physical American basketball?
d. Game engine got screwed up when they messed with the salaries a couple of seasons ago?
e. Randomness is a great thing and makes us keep playing because you can't always predict the outcome?

Regardless, I will shamelessly take the win and move on to my next match. My very first game in BB, I was up by 10 with something like 12-seconds left and ended up losing at the buzzer. I am surprised I am still playing after that.

If the players are accumulating fouls late in the game it could be a stamina issue or if they are fouling to try and get back into the game...

In all games the fouls have been coming early and often, which has the adds to the problems since my bench players enter the game early and, being of generally lesser ability, often pick up fouls at an even faster rate than the starters. I had my third-string SF in the last game in 2nd quarter, it was that bad (which is a shame since SF was one of the first "soft spots" in Scrap's starting lineup). Last week I had to change my Training strategy since my team's minutes were all screwed up from the foul trouble. I'm hoping for a karma bounce, but this is starting to look like my team's swan song in this league. Maybe mojitos with In Your Face next season might not be so bad.

Well, you keep adding 100k players to your arsenal, you'll be just fine.

Alright, since this is my personal "What the Heck is Going On?" thread...

Normal vs. TIE... check
5 to 12 TO advantage... check
13 to 18 PF advantage... check
starting guards $78k vs $23k... check
starting C/PF $143k vs $92k... check

Oh wait, my team somehow shot 32.9% from the field? 57.9% free throws? Well that sort explains most of the rebounding and assist difference. And that 18-point loss! Not even close in the end!

I look at my stats from the past few seasons to see if my team was this bad before this season, and I just can't figure this one out. It's a strange one indeed.

Eh, it's all good fun.

it is very strange. the black swan visits BB.

seriously though, it is probably an anomaly - a 1 in 100,000 event or maybe even less... so you will get your revenge against me when we meet again later in the season.

Last edited by rocket.science at 10/27/2010 12:03:34 AM

Carbon had a big game and didn't foul out for a change
41 11 - 13 0 - 0 4 - 4 2 17 1 1 1 0 4 26 15.0

The main problem was the third quarter - just a bad one for your team.

Yeah, I think my team is just snake bit this time around. I recognized what my team's problems were last season but rode out the storm and figured I'd adjust this season, but between the foul issues and now the shooting problems, I'm about 2 games worse than I was anticipating. I might have to go on another spending spree to save the season.