Total MVP points:
Phil Lauricella: 17
Alan Mahoney: 5
Lucas Athelstan = Joshua Hall: 4
Phil Marichal = Frederick Gibney = Scott Stannard: 3
Dwight Osullivan: 2
Dineshguru Karthiyaswamy: 1
Starts and total minutes played:
Lauricella 7 272
Hall 6 203
Marichal 5 204
Mahoney 4 164
Gibney 3 157
Karthiyaswamy 3 82
Athelstan 2 176
Lake 2 110
Osullivan 2 97
Malfoy 1 82
Stannard 0 48
Murdoch 0 31
Yull 0 20
Bateman 0 16
Hirsh 0 12
Dupre 0 7
Notes:
- Karth was unlucky with the in-game injuries. OSullivan and Mahoney iirc the only players to have injuries that affected their playing time due to the actual injury / following poor game shape.
- Phil Lauricella was a beast but basketball is a team game and he's not the kind of offensive player who could win games himself (if anyone can)
- Marichal will be the best player long term in this group I'm sure, very good TSP, I just couldn't start him the first few games due to lacking 1 skill basically.
- Hall was my player but I wasn't picking him because of that - most of the guards (Lake and Yull included) were pretty evenly matched, it was just a case of Hall being in 9 GS most weeks meaning he played most.
- Mahoney, Gibney, Stannard, Murdoch and Dupre will all come back next year so we've got some good guard and SF depth/experience carrying over (and/or we struggled this year in those positions)
- Picking Hirsch in the squad was a mistake in the end. I think he was (almost) capped at the start of the season, lots of OD and passing and if he was in good GS he'd have been useful but apart from the first few weeks he just wasn't.
Overall season analysis:
We did ok. I think I did ok? (but not perfect at all). I dunno.
The game shape on the whole was good, so thanks for that :) It's the most important thing an NT manager wants (I did scout the previous season's games and if I doubted how it looked I didn't pick the player initially so half a pat on the back to myself but still..)
I'm off work until the 4th now, hopefully I can use the 2nd/3rd to scout the new seasons draftees and before that scout the 19s/20s again to see how they've progressed.
We've had so many scrimmages with the under 20s already (the format is rubbish) so you'll probably know if your player is in contention already, but it's a good time to message me if you want to discuss any training plans or where your player stands. I'll try my best to get back to you - I've probably missed a few through the season that I should've responded to but was just too busy / lazy.
I still want to make a proper project to make us good, focused training on players from the week they're drafted to make them a specific position/player type rather than the halfnhalf/nothingy players we mostly end up with. I'd need some help with messaging managers re: training / training properly / selling their young guys if we were going to do that though tbh, but I don't know who is interested in that. If we've not got the managers to train them then it's never gonna happen anyway.