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Well what a night it was. This was the big clash between the top of the Big 8 and the top of the Great 8. I felt fairly confident going into the game but watching it live (with the RabidCamel) I was quite worried. Lucky in the end 5 of my players had a good night with ratings of 10 or higher and Rafael "The Devil" Palencia had a mighty 15.0 rating! So despite my fears the team stormed home with a dominant 4th quarter. So why was it so close?

Australia Gangsters looked like the only team trying out there.

It seems they Gangsters were VERY keen to win this one while the Seagulls were looking more towards the next clash with The Cleveland Sweaty Steamers. Both the Gangsters and the Steamers are very good teams so I needed to spread my efforts to have a chance in both games.

A pity to see both my friends the Massive Ballers and Rempaging Marmots go down but overall it was a good nights work. The second most interesting thing was that all season the opinion has been that the Big 8 was MUCH stronger than the Great 8 yet tonight the Great 8 won 5 games, lost one by 2 points and the other two games involved the no 2 and 3 teams from the Big 8. This suggests the gap is not as wide as some (including me) first thought.

Saturday we go to Cleveland, that will be an interesting experience! We can't wait!

That was a quality win by you. I did think you'd come through, though!

Meanwhile, apparently I CT'd it instead of doing TIE. Eep. That explains why it was close for part of it. That was definitely meant to be either normal or TIE, being an away game. So now not only did I not win, but i have no enthusiasm. dammit. And he even TIE'd me and STILL won.

Still not sure why you sold John Lehmann (12020502) Point Guard. He was your draft pick, great skills already and highly trainable. I guess his height was really bad, but he was your Aussie draft pick and would have been fantastic for your teams meachandising.

Bummer about the CT, that sucks.

His height was very annoying, and he'd had a couple of injuries and had fallen behind where I wanted him to be. I pondered keeping him for a couple more seasons to get more for him when I sold him, but I decided to cut him loose straight away and get in two new trainees.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I got a 0.5 rating for one of my players!

PF A. Cannata 45 2 - 9 0 - 0 2 - 4 0 2 0 2 1 0 6 6 0.5

Plus in the same game I got a 1.0 and a 1.5.

After 3 rounds of cross-conference games the Great 8 is leading the Big 8 14-10. Predictions on the final outcome?

This is amazing to me, as far as I can see the Big 8 is much stronger, well their rosters are stronger, perhaps the great 8 are winning on the tactical front.

And Ricky I have to say what an amazing job you are doing, your first year in division III and you are doing really well. Ah, reminds me of myself, I won division IV my first season, won division III my second season and then...lets not talk about the and then shall we...

Hahaha, sounds like me. I won Div III in my first full season.

Then..... ugh.

I thought it was interesting as well and definitely goes against preseason expectations. I guess the major team overhauls from the Marmots and XBB have evened the conferences out a little.

Out of interest, where are you expecting the Marmots to finish this season RabidCamel? Still looking for another awesome trainee to go with O'daire and Salambo?

And yes, obviously happy with the way my team is going after thinking I would be fighting relegation at the start of the season, Ansari and Gibert proved to be great pickups.

I think he will try to position him in 7th so he can get the best draft pick possible, then a week or so before the playoffs buy a bomb player or two with that mountain of money he is sitting on and destroy whoever is unlucky enough to oppose him.

You are, of course, 100% correct :) And that's also the reason I'm not worrying about getting a third trainee yet. I'm giving Clune one more season of training, then he'll be done, and I can get a third young guy in. I think, tactically, your side of the league is superior to ours, but we have better rosters. Which just shows that tactics > roster, as long as the roster isn't so much better that tactics become irrelevant. I will say though, after last year, I am surprised how even it is.