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328048.19 in reply to 328048.16
Date: 8/2/2025 4:30:35 AM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
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The most recent one with more points and no overtime in the cup I remember is this https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/134981007/boxscore.aspx from last season's tournament quarter final but that was 2 teams playing Run & Gun against each other. Glasgow Raptors were 149/15.1 against the Red Hammers' 136/14.6 but this was one of those games where Full Court Press actually worked as the Raptors gave up 26 turnovers to 7 which could easily explain a 12 point swing on its own!

And since Barcelona Dragons are such a well established team, I had to go way WAY back to find the last time someone hung 160 on them in any game which was this https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/102776186/boxscore.aspx from season 43 division II.3 when I suspect that the metas were somewhat different to now looking at the outside defensive ratings!

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328048.20 in reply to 328048.19
Date: 8/2/2025 12:11:51 PM
Skytturnar
II.2
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One thing to add, which I forgot. I played normally, but they crunch.
And there is a problem with the strategy. The league and cup is strong, very few "expected" wins to take a risk.

I build, and have always does, my team up from training. Meaning I are always with 6 guards getting their training. And it can be tricky to choose how and when to take risk as I don´t give discount on it.

I am a former coach and player in other sports in the meat words, and I have never liked the strange rules in basketball (but stress that has changed here in Iceland in a better way) to buy players just for the finals. Team is built from to play as a teams.
So even though it is not the meat world and I always play online games as I would in the meat world. Would not have like games, and have even stop playing some where it is not possible, if I wouldn´t act like that.

This game has changed a lot with both pros and cons. At the start, I had 15 players who could all play in tournament games, but it is not possible now. So you need to setup weaker teams in many games and there is the tricky thing about strategy.

I have, I think, found out way to reduce the salary, even so they are too high, but have the team stronger on same time. This season is a test about it but I will developed the team in that direction if things will developed as they has done.

But the problem with depeloped own player is that the TL don´t works at all! So the reason I do it is to have always players ready when the key is to old.

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328048.21 in reply to 328048.14
Date: 8/2/2025 5:22:05 PM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
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6363
As before Italics for Big 8 conference teams, Bold for Great 8 conference teams and if you see any errors then let me know.

Game 7 Game Ratings :-

145 - 14.8 - Chicago Bulbs II
143 - 14.3 - Celestia BC

141 - 14.4 - Glasgow Raptors
126 - 11.9 - Dropito
125 - 12.5 - Locomotive Edinburgh
122 - 12.9 - Santa Booker

115 - 12.0 - Revolta Culé, B.C
108 - 11.7 - Skytturnar
104 - 11.1 - Glasgow Blue Jays

103 - 10.9 - Raging Seagull
095 - 11.1 - Bibby Brotherhood
090 - 09.3 - Berzerkers Ball Club
080 - 06.9 - Pic Pedrosa
053 - 04.3 - Apex Legends

048 - 04.5 - Comandaranga
045 - 04.0 - Rocalux


Running Totals of Game Rating this season:

881 - 125.9 - Glasgow Raptors
881 - 125.9 - Celestia BC
877 - 125.2 - Glasgow Blue Jays
868 - 124.0 - Skytturnar
852 - 121.7 - Chicago Bulbs II

814 - 116.3 - Locomotive Edinburgh
814 - 116.3 - Dropito
798 - 114.0 - Santa Booker
778 - 111.1 - Revolta Culé, B.C
697 - 099.6 - Raging Seagull
657 - 093.9 - Berzerkers Ball Club
590 - 084.3 - Bibby Brotherhood
527 - 075.3 - Apex Legends
479 - 068.4 - Pic Pedrosa

397 - 056.8 - Comandaranga
374 - 053.4 - Rocalux


Best team stats of the evening

Points : 153 : Santa Booker
Rebounds : 78 : Glasgow Raptors
Assists : 43 : Skytturnar, Santa Booker
Steals : 37 : Skytturnar
Block Shots : 16 : Skytturnar

Best individual stats of the evening

Points : 44 : F. Seren (chicago bulbs II)
Rebounds : 23 : F. Pisoni (chicago bulbs II)
Assists : 19 : F. Monsch (Santa Booker)
Steals : 7 : F. Sigvaldason (Skytturnar)
Block Shots : 4 : O. Samúelsson (Skytturnar), R. Friðbertsson (Skytturnar), M. Korkeakoski (Raging Seagull)

Best efficiency by main position of the evening

Point Guard : W. Atlason (Bibby Brotherhood) (37 Points, 4 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34
Shooting Guard : S. Ratliff (Glasgow Blue Jays) (31 Points, 11 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 4 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Small Forward : F. Seren (chicago bulbs II) (44 Points, 10 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Power Forward : P. Kudyba (Glasgow Blue Jays) (29 Points, 8 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 5 Steals, 2 Block Shots), R. Dougall (Raging Seagull) (32 Points, 22 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Center : D. MacMaurice (Glasgow Raptors) (20 Points, 10 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35

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328048.22 in reply to 328048.21
Date: 8/5/2025 4:39:58 PM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
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In a break with tradition, the bad beat of the night was not handed out by Dropito but by myself! I was wrong twice in game day prep (I had Chicago Bulbs II doing motion tactics but they used look inside for this game) and William Buchan was injured in the 1st minute of the 1st quarter for the whole game as well but it turned out not to matter as despite Chicago having 16 more team rating and 0.8 higher average player rating, we won 84-77. We won the rebound battle 53-42, blocking 11-2, and team efficiency 99-81, they won assists 22-14 and steals 4-2. A bit like when Glasgow Blue Jays lost to Dropito though, the difference seemed to be giving away 14 extra free-throws which easily accounts for a 7 point swing.

The other game that could feasibly have gone the other way was Skytturnar beating Glasgow Raptors 131-126. Both teams seem to have similar skill levels and the game ratings (144 Skytturnar - 142 Glasgow), average player ratings (13.9 Skytturnar - 14.4 Glasgow) and team efficiency (151 Skytturnar - 162 Glasgow) seem to back that up. Glasgow easily won the rebound battle (72-38) but gave up 18 turnovers to a full-court press (Skytturnar gave up 6) and that alone seems to have cost them the game.

Game 8 Game Ratings :-

144 - 13.9 - Skytturnar

142 - 14.4 - Glasgow Raptors
133 - 13.7 - Celestia BC
128 - 11.6 - Chicago Bulbs II
127 - 13.4 - Glasgow Blue Jays

119 - 12.8 - Santa Booker
112 - 10.8 - Locomotive Edinburgh

104 - 11.1 - Dropito
102 - 10.0 - Raging Seagull
098 - 09.5 - Revolta Culé, B.C
094 - 09.4 - Bezerkers Ball Club
075 - 07.5 - Apex Legends
072 - 07.5 - Pic Pedrosa
064 - 06.9 - Bibby Brotherhood

048 - 04.4 - Comandaranga
045 - 04.3 - Rocalux


Running Totals of Game Rating this season:

1023 - 127.9 - Glasgow Raptors
1014 - 126.8 - Celestia BC
1012 - 126.5 - Skytturnar
1004 - 125.5 - Glasgow Blue Jays
0980 - 122.5 - Chicago Bulbs II

0926 - 115.8 - Locomotive Edinburgh
0918 - 114.8 - Dropito
0917 - 114.6 - Santa Booker
0876 - 109.5 - Revolta Culé, B.C
0799 - 099.9 - Raging Seagull
0751 - 093.9 - Bezerkers Ball Club
0654 - 081.8 - Bibby Brotherhood
0602 - 076.0 - Apex Legends
0551 - 068.9 - Pic Pedrosa

0445 - 055.6 - Comandaranga
0419 - 052.4 - Rocalux


Best team stats of the evening

Points : 142 : Glasgow Blue Jays
Rebounds : 72 : Glasgow Raptors
Assists : 41 : Glasgow Blue Jays, Santa Booker
Steals : 16 : Apex Legends
Block Shots : 25 : Santa Booker

Best individual stats of the evening

Points : 40 : M. Hutchenson (Glasgow Raptors), A. Doncel (Apex Legends)
Rebounds : 22 : S. Gray (Glasgow Raptors)
Assists : 14 : F. Monsch (Santa Booker)
Steals : 7 : M. Martínez (Santa Booker)
Block Shots : 5 : M. Martínez (Santa Booker)

Best efficiency by main position of the evening

Point Guard : D. Gràcia (Revolta Culé, B.C.) (32 Points, 5 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Shooting Guard : M. Martínez (Santa Booker) (36 Points, 12 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 7 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 53 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Small Forward : R. Borda d'Água (Skytturnar) (38 Points, 6 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 5 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Power Forward : M. Hutchenson (Glasgow Raptors) (40 Points, 16 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Center : S. Gray (Glasgow Raptors) (21 Points, 22 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42


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328048.23 in reply to 328048.22
Date: 8/5/2025 7:32:30 PM
Skytturnar
II.2
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2222
Great as always.

I can be completely wrong. But I have the feeling that the game is changing in a better way, in my opinion. I have the feeling that more things than the basic count now count more. Not only rebounds, (it has some seasons that I won game after game with it), FG etc.
I have the feeling that now counts all things more than before, more balance. Again, this can be bullshit, and I need to keep in mind that I started to change the team this season, and it will take 2-3 seasons, I guess.

From the start, my strength has always been that I have a team, not stars. So normally I am low in all statistics and it still is on many factors and no problem, but I am rising in the statistics of the game itself.

The Clasgow Raptors crushed me in rebounding tonight (and that was not the plan), but to balance it, I was better in TO + steals. But in great rapport, there was one thing too. FG was equal and in Free throws I had small benefits. But I think the key was the 3 FG. 20-6 means 60 points against 18, and that is huge.

But I have been planning part 2, so I have looked more closely at the group on the right side of the table. And I like, and that does my more convince that changes are, the performance of Sain Booker. If you look at the players, they could be in a problem, but they have 8-0. And if I am guessing right, it is because their players are very similar and probably a better team than an individual.

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328048.24 in reply to 328048.22
Date: 8/6/2025 12:58:54 AM
chicago bulbs II
II.2
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Hey! Congrats on the win and great job with all the data. From my side, I had to deal with an injury to a key role player in the first quarter, which definitely had an impact—despite the match preparation being spot-on ;)

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328048.25 in reply to 328048.23
Date: 8/6/2025 2:00:59 PM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
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6363
Rebounding is still a very useful skill in my opinion and I suspect is one of the more expensive to improve in salary skills for a reason, but I am told in days of old it was very VERY powerful. Your 1st paragraph suggest I was told the truth, so I am not surprised it seems to still work if you can eat the salary cost of it.

I do agree the game engine seems to reward team depth. I pointed out when we played that Santa Booker and myself could be described as the 2 spidermen meme, and I suspect our teams as constructed are broadly similar except he doesn't have the Scottish players only restriction I have have placed on myself (reminder of how similar we seem to be are these statlines : - https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/136183166/boxscore.aspx.

Having a similar team construction to me but with the whole world to choose from and so slightly better versions of similar style players (where I have Buchan, he has Draper & where I have MacNuir, he has Pestryakov) means that while I am 8th in wagebill, 4th in FG%, 5th in 3P%, 4th in efficiency/game, 2nd in rebounds, and 2nd in blocks for the division which would sound like solid management, Santa Booker is 10th in wagebill, 1st in FG%, 1st in 3P%, 1st in efficiency/game, 3rd in rebounds, and 1st in blocks!

I am at least ahead of him on the arenabuilding I guess...

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328048.26 in reply to 328048.24
Date: 8/6/2025 2:36:47 PM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
Overall Posts Rated:
6363
Thanks, although I still feel you would have likely won if there were an option in Buzzerbeater to choose to NOT foul late in the game when narrowly down and you used it.

Again and again your players queued up to foul my better free-throw shooters including MacNuir twice who hasn't missed a league free throw since season 67 and was a 93% FT shooter then!

Asgeirsson was injured by the back-up centre who likely wouldn't have been on court if you hadn't injured starting centre Buchan 1st. You then also injured starting PF MacMurchie for at least the next game so it was clearly getting a bit MMA in the rebounding battle for a while there :) !

Hinriksson replacing Asgeirsson didn't seem to be the issue anyway, he did OK. Svarvarsson going -18 in 13 mins with 0 pts, 0 rebs, 1 assist, 0 steals, and 0 blocks seems to have been the other thing that swung it my way other than the freethrows!

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328048.27 in reply to 328048.25
Date: 8/6/2025 8:10:12 PM
Skytturnar
II.2
Overall Posts Rated:
2222
Yes, agree, is it important to be good in rebound (like in the meat world). But it is not crusial any more. If you set up good tatcic and have player for it, you can do well in they have other benefit which fit the style.

This was one of the matches I was looking at and one of the matches that added my belief in the TEAM effect.

Other things are interesting. This is the first season I have the gym for training free throw. I don´t want to check it before after the season because so many effect come in. But I have the feeling it count even more than I was told.
I use 3 factors to add with the arena. Needed to reduce one as I was a littile to fast but that was from 3 to 2 so I can live with that.
But the free throw gym seems interesting.
I don´t need to add seats for the area for a long time, and have not done in a long time. But the price factor is always very tricky.

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328048.28 in reply to 328048.22
Date: 8/9/2025 5:02:10 PM
Locomotive Edinburgh
II.2
Overall Posts Rated:
6363
Pic Pedrosa would likely have absolutely taken a deal for Chicago Bulbs II to be kept to under 100 points before the game, not realising they in turn would only score a historically low 16! The only starter with a positive efficiency score was the centre Bernat Tintinyà thanks to 16 rebounds but he scored 0 points and Chicago's centres combined to 20 points from 9-12 shooting, 26 rebounds and 6 blocks. As a team, Pic Pedrosa had 5.6% shooting & 0% from the 3 point line. Top scorers for Pic Pedrosa? Bousi and Grau with 4 points each. There were likely record lows for the division in multiple categories unless anyone knows better!

Elsewhere, Santa Booker's red-hot start came to a crashing halt as a seemingly full 1st choice Glasgow Blue Jays team out to teach the new boys a lesson beat them 124-80. Santa Booker were caught out with a double-miss in preperation, outclassed 148-121 in game rating, 171-79 in efficiency, and were 2.9 per player down in average player rating.

As for us, for the 2nd league game running, a player was injured in the 1st 2 minutes, Dougal MacSymon getting his turn with the icepack after Buchan and MacMurchie had there own turns against Chicago Bulbs II. His replacement Andrew Kerr made Comandaranga pay for it though with 24pts, 11 assists, 6 steals, 4 rebounds, and 4 blocks coming dangerously close to a rare 5x5 night!

Match 9 Game Ratings :-

154 - 14.8 - Celestia B.C
148 - 14.9 - Glasgow Blue Jays
138 - 13.5 - Chicago Bulbs II

129 - 13.2 - Glasgow Raptors
128 - 12.5 - Revolta Culé, B.C
125 - 13.4 - Skytturnar
123 - 12.2 - Dropito

121 - 12.0 - Santa Booker
112 - 12.1 - Locomotive Edinburgh

099 - 10.9 - Raging Seagull
092 - 11.5 - Bibby Brotherhood
091 - 08.6 - Bezerkers Ball Club
074 - 06.6 - Apex Legends
073 - 06.3 - Pic Pedrosa

058 - 05.4 - Comandaranga
052 - 04.8 - Rocalux


Running Totals of Game Rating this season :-


1168 - 129.8 - Celestia BC
1152 - 128.0 - Glasgow Blue Jays

1152 - 128.0 - Glasgow Raptors
1137 - 126.3 - Skytturnar
1118 - 124.2 - Chicago Bulbs II
1041 - 115.7 - Dropito

1038 - 115.3 - Locomotive Edinburgh
1038 - 115.3 - Santa Booker

1004 - 111.6 - Revolta Culé, B.C
0898 - 099.8 - Raging Seagull
0842 - 093.6 - Berzerkers Ball Club
0746 - 082.3 - Bibby Brotherhood
0676 - 075.1 - Apex Legends
0624 - 069.3 - Pic Pedrosa

0503 - 055.9 - Comandaranga
0471 - 052.3 - Rocalux


Best team stats of the evening

Points : 149 : Skytturnar, dropito
Rebounds : 75 : Skytturnar
Assists : 43 : Locomotive Edinburgh
Steals : 20 : Locomotive Edinburgh
Block Shots : 18 : Locomotive Edinburgh

Best individual stats of the evening

Points : 47 : J. Torné (Revolta Culé, B.C.)
Rebounds : 23 : À. Tarrida (Skytturnar), V. Sundaram (Celestia BC)
Assists : 11 : M. Korkeakoski (Raging Seagull), A. Kerr (Locomotive Edinburgh)
Steals : 6 : A. Kerr (Locomotive Edinburgh)
Block Shots : 6 : T. Quemada (Skytturnar)

Best efficiency by main position of the evening

Point Guard : M. Korkeakoski (Raging Seagull) (21 Points, 1 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 29
Shooting Guard : J. Torné (Revolta Culé, B.C.) (47 Points, 5 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Small Forward : A. Petrescu (Glasgow Blue Jays) (39 Points, 14 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Power Forward : À. Tarrida (Skytturnar) (16 Points, 23 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39
Center : T. Quemada (Skytturnar) (28 Points, 9 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 3 Steals, 6 Block Shots), R. Mitt (Bibby Brotherhood) (16 Points, 12 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39

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328048.29 in reply to 328048.28
Date: 8/9/2025 6:03:52 PM
Glasgow Blue Jays
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