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Second in the Great 8 Razorbacks smashed on the road by eighth place from the other side, the Muffin Men, in what should have been a Saturday Snoozefest.

This game is a classic case of underestimating an opponent. Started second stringers at several positions, and was punished severely for it. Tipton is a draftee, while Liting, Reiter, and Guedes aren't that far behind the starters skill wise, but enough to let this happen.

Muffin Men went on to finish that season 9-13. The team has never been higher than 4th place in their conference at the Division IV level.

Last edited by Iamthedude at 4/14/2013 10:54:52 AM

If a team has HCA, better top 3 DMI, stronger depth, more effort, more stored Enth and the best tactics to attack the others weaknesses and hide his own, the lesser team has no chance and I doubt any team has overcome all that. Any team that can get 3 of those categories on its side has a chance and is seen as a good manager working with what he has and not really an upset.

All 8 of my wins in season 11 I consider upsets. I wasn't better than any of those teams but I put focus on those I thought I could win because I needed to.

In season 15 I started the cup with a ranking of 251 and put out 198, 93, 240, and 26, but again I managed my resources into those games.

I started the cup this season ranked 276 and just knocked off 5th.
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/58762388/boxscore.aspx

His team that took the court (750k) was roughly 7 times mine (105k from memory).
Both same enthusiasm, i used alternate tactics to see how theyd go. Would love to see the game replayed with different tactics to see how it changed the outcome!

I am very intrested to see if there were any huge upsets ....

How about Rocky Balboa over that big Russian dude? Is that very interesting?

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this game always comes to my mind when I think of upsets.It was my second season in Div I and my opponent was the best indian team at that time.it was almost his complete squad against mine.

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/14/cup.aspx

What about this whole tournament in general?

Wowsers, just saw that, it's pretty darn impressive/strange. Thanks again to Muse for training! (and all other English managers!)

I consider this game (23914) as an huge upset.

The only thing Aussies had going for them was HCA and Enthusiasm (our 9 against their ~11). Oh, and advantage on C position, while we had advantage on PG-PF + better backups.

We had much better game shape than them and we were playing CT against their TIE. And somehow their 40k PF with 240k DMI was their best scorer. Their starting PG managed 8 assists - and he is listed as SG. Their starting SF, who is a C, had only 2 turnovers against OD=12 (our both SFs are at Proficient of course).

With playing TIE, they shoot 51% against our 42%, playing CT. All of our PGs and SGs combined, with passing ranging from 12-14, have only 4 more assists than all their PFs and Cs combined (13 to 9). Their C has 4 assists against OD=6.

Are you kidding me???

I conside myself a knowledgable manager and I can almost always predict the result of a game, be U21 or my team's. But in 10+ seasons I never saw anything like it. Compare our game to this game: (22910). Huge disparity in team ratings, yet Kazahstan still wins.

So if anyone can explain me why did we lose without "you had less assists" lines, I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

Can anyone tell me how I lost my game I know I got CT'd to his TIE, but that was my 2nd loss to the year and he was only 7-6. Thanks for the responses.
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/55963762/boxscore.aspx

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