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Day 21 (Tuesday 29 March 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Lion Rebels 79 - Philly Dribble 93
Tidals 38 - War Birds 143
Scrap Heap Low Posters 96 - San Dominica Warriors 82
Seattle SuperSonicz 89 - Mighty Moose Rockets 122
Chewbaccans 95 - Dallas Bomskwad 103
Gremlins 121 - Tropicana Flamingos 34
x DOMINATE x 90 - Miami Cleo 102
Solana Tides 24 - The Ashkickers 128

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 143 : War Birds
Rebounds : 78 : War Birds
Assists : 42 : War Birds
Steals : 17 : Gremlins
Block Shots : 17 : The Ashkickers

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 42 : D. Santana (Miami Cleo)
Rebounds : 25 : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets)
Assists : 10 : R. Pedrosa (Gremlins)
Steals : 5 : A. Varpukevicius (Miami Cleo), J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets)
Block Shots : 6 : O. Reine (The Ashkickers)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : D. Santana (Miami Cleo) (42 Points, 11 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47
Shooting Guard : R. Pedrosa (Gremlins) (12 Points, 5 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Small Forward : J. Glicas (Philly Dribble) (30 Points, 6 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Power Forward : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (35 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 56
Center : M. Morete (War Birds) (18 Points, 16 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37

MVP of the evening
W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (35 Points, 25 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 56

The bad performance of the evening
P. Castellano (Tropicana Flamingos) (3 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -17

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : P. Castellano (Tropicana Flamingos), A. Shields (Solana Tides) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : P. Huddleston (Philly Dribble), H. Alen (Solana Tides) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : A. Gallucci (Miami Cleo), M. Farnsworth (Philly Dribble), W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), J. Grcev (San Dominica Warriors), A. Parrish (San Dominica Warriors), B. Lutz (Lion Rebels), G. Sand (Tropicana Flamingos), E. Moschetto (Tropicana Flamingos), M. MacDonald (Tropicana Flamingos), A. Hurtado (Solana Tides), L. Lindsay (Solana Tides) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : D. Santana (Miami Cleo), C. Wood (Chewbaccans), T. Kang (Scrap Heap Low Posters), A. Gobber (Seattle SuperSonicz) : 5 Three points

The best performer : C. Calderón (Dallas Bomskwad) : Rating : 21.0

The worst performer : S. Miller (Tidals), C. Nash (Tidals), C. Schiavi (Tropicana Flamingos), M. MacDonald (Tropicana Flamingos), A. Shields (Solana Tides), H. Alen (Solana Tides) : Rating : 1.5

Ugh this is a big one for the Warriors and the Moose. The winner of this likely earns the final playoff spot in the Big 8. Of course that will likely earn the privilege of facing the buzzsaw known as the Low Posters but it also means a guarantee of staying in the division.

At least we both are in control of our playoff fate

Some excitement for tonight! Looking forward to it - best of luck to you both!

Good game - that third quarter was very strange, I think that it should've been closer than it ultimately was. Good luck in the relegation playoffs!

Yeah - that 3rd quarter was definitely the difference maker. Looked like your bigs were just too much for him. Good luck!

Day 22 (Saturday 2 April 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Philly Dribble 129 - War Birds 117
Tidals 24 - Lion Rebels 127
San Dominica Warriors 78 - Mighty Moose Rockets 99
Seattle SuperSonicz 88 - Scrap Heap Low Posters 100
Dallas Bomskwad 133 - Tropicana Flamingos 29
Gremlins 108 - Chewbaccans 94
Miami Cleo 71 - The Ashkickers 84
Solana Tides 110 - x DOMINATE x 111

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 133 : Dallas Bomskwad
Rebounds : 69 : Dallas Bomskwad
Assists : 44 : Lion Rebels
Steals : 15 : Dallas Bomskwad
Block Shots : 14 : Lion Rebels

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 50 : T. Kang (Scrap Heap Low Posters)
Rebounds : 27 : K. Hobbs (x DOMINATE x)
Assists : 13 : L. Aragon (x DOMINATE x)
Steals : 4 : D. Santana (Miami Cleo), C. Ledoux (Dallas Bomskwad)
Block Shots : 4 : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), A. Itararé (Dallas Bomskwad)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : D. Nava (Gremlins) (30 Points, 3 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots), L. Lindsay (Solana Tides) (24 Points, 6 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Shooting Guard : T. Kang (Scrap Heap Low Posters) (50 Points, 5 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Small Forward : B. Łyżwiński (Lion Rebels) (22 Points, 5 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Power Forward : K. Hobbs (x DOMINATE x) (44 Points, 27 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 59
Center : L. Aragon (x DOMINATE x) (21 Points, 19 Rebounds, 13 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41

MVP of the evening
K. Hobbs (x DOMINATE x) (44 Points, 27 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 59

The bad performance of the evening
P. Castellano (Tropicana Flamingos) (0 Points, 6 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -15

Triple-Double of the evening
L. Aragon (x DOMINATE x) (21 Points, 19 Rebounds, 13 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots)

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : J. Cedrón (Tidals) : 8 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : S. Hillman (x DOMINATE x), G. Sand (Tropicana Flamingos), E. Schafer (Solana Tides), A. Shields (Solana Tides), P. Boyd (Solana Tides) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : G. Locus (Miami Cleo), K. Hobbs (x DOMINATE x), L. Aragon (x DOMINATE x), M. Farnsworth (Philly Dribble), K. Brown (Lion Rebels), E. Moschetto (Tropicana Flamingos), L. Lindsay (Solana Tides) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : T. Kang (Scrap Heap Low Posters) : 7 Three points

The best performer : C. Calderón (Dallas Bomskwad) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : M. MacDonald (Tropicana Flamingos) : Rating : 1.0

Season Statistics
I love stats, so here's how things shook out over Season 56 for Div III.11!

Team Stats
Offensive Stats
Points Per Game
1. Gremlins 108.6
2. Philly Dribble 108.5 (close!)
3. Mighty Moose Rockets 105.9
The majority of teams didn't average over a 100 PPG this year (10).

Points Allowed Per Game
1. Miami Cleo 74.7
2. Lion Rebels 75.1
3. The Ashkickers 75.2 (close!)
12 teams averaged less than 100 points allowed and 5 teams allowed less than 80 ppg.

Best Point Differential
1. Philly Dribble 27.1
2. Scrap Heap Low Posters 25.4
3. Lion Rebels 21.6

Highest FG%
1. Philly Dribble 48.5%
2. Gremlins 48.3%
3. Scrap Heap Low Posters 47.3%
It's no surprise that Solana Tides averaged a measley 23% from the field.

Best 3-Point Shooting Teams
1. Philly Dribble 46.8% (wow!)
2. War Birds 40.9%
3. Gremlins 39.9%
Interestingly, Solona Tides averaged 2% better from 3 than from the field!

Top Assisting Teams
1. Scrap Heap Low Posters 25.9
2. Philly Dribble 24
3. San Dominica Warriors 23

Best Offensive Rebounding Teams
1. San Dominica Warriors 16.4
2. x DOMINATE x 15
3. Lion Rebels 14.7
Side note: Philly Dribbles, the best shooting team in the league had the second least average of offensive boards a game with 8.9!

Most Efficient Teams of the Season
1. Mighty Moose Rockets 135.4
2. Scrap Heap Low Posters 135
3. Philly Dribble 134.6
Gremlins was a close fourth, with 133.4, but no one else was quite as close, with lowly Solona averaging 12.2 (and a difference of -175.4 against opponents) - may be the worst bot team I've ever seen.

Defensive Stats
Top Rebounding Teams
1. The Ashkickers 56.3
2. San Dominica Warriors 55.7
3. Lion Rebels 54.4
Eight teams averaged more than 50 rebounds per game.

Best Blocking Teams
1. Mighty Moose Rockets 7.8
2. San Dominica Warriors 7.7
3. The Ashkickers 7.6

Teams Most Like Gary Payton (Steals, that is)
1. Mighty Moose Rockets 8.6
2. Miami Cleo 8.5
3. San Dominica Warriors 8

Least Turnover Prone Teams
1. Miami Cleo 8
2. Philly Dribble 8.5
3. San Dominica Warriors 8.8

Highest Season Receipts
1. Miami Cleo $2.688 million
2. Scrap Heap Low Posters $2.499 million
3. Philly Dribble $2.385 million

Season Statistics - Part Two

Player Stats
Scoring Leaders
1. Christopher Wood - Chewy - 25.6 PPG
2. Tommy Kang - Scrap Heap - 23.1 PPG
3. Gabriel Horyza - Scarp Heap - 22.8

Field-Goal Shooting Leaders
1. Wu Chan Kiew - Gremlins - 58.5%
2. Demyan Charykov - Scrap Heap - 58.4%
3. Ramón Peñalver - Gremlins - 57.3%

3-Point Shooting Leaders
1. Sébastien Rigaux - Philly - 53.3% (32 made)
2. Paride Fasselli - Philly - 50.5% (47 made)
3. Roc Pedrosa - Gremlins - 48.7% (37 made
Outside Looking In: Collin McMahon - War Birds - 48% (mentioned because he made almost 60 threes on the season (lead the league)

Free Throw Shooting Leaders
1. Poobalan Motsoaledi - Ashkickers - 92.2%
2. Vincenzo Sesamo - Ashkickers - 88.1%
3. Walenty Kofan - Mighty Moose Rockets/Yaduveer Srivastava - Lion Rebels - 86.7%
There were two players with higher percentages, (Dale Sheridan - Seattle - 95.7% & Turgut Bayraktar - Tropicana - 92.5%) but they both only played in 12 games. I figure with only a 22 game sample size, it isn't fair for players to only play half the games but take home the honors!

Rebounds Leaders
1. Kevin Hobbs - DOMINATE - 387 (17.6/game)
2. Su Xuiying - Scrap Heap - 334 (16.7/game - 20 games)
3. Terry Armstead - Lion Rebels - 358 (16.3/game)
Hobbs was the only player to have over 100 offensive rebounds for the season.

Assists Leaders
1. Dwayne Nava - Gremlins - 132 (6/game) - AST/TO: 6
2. Bruno Pappalardo - Scrap Heap - 122 (5.5/game) - AST/TO: 4.4
3. Roc Pedrosa - Gremlins - 114 (5.2/game) - AST/TO: 5.4
And, because I'm the one posting the message, I'll take the liberty to mention my guy, Terry Armstead, the only Center in the top twenty (and one of two big men - Mauricio Andrés Morete PF for War Birds at 19th) finishing at 7th in assists/game with 4.6, but a surprising 102 total.

Dikembe Mutumbo Award
1. David Charles - Moose - 49 (2.2/game)
2. Vicente Vallardes - Warriors - 47 (2.1/game)
3. Ben Gandsler - Chewy - 46 (2.1/game)
Honorable Mention to Oscar Reine from Ashkickers with 45 blocks to average 2/game.

The Glove Award
1. Arys Varpukevicius - Miami Cleo - 47 steals (2.1/game)
2. Marko Maurin - Miami Cleo - 39 steals (1.8/game)
3. David Charles - Moose (a Center!) - 36 steals (1.6/game)
Honorable Mention to Giorgio Chiodarelli - Moose (a PG, like it should be!) - 33 steals (1.6/game)

Best Players
Best Players by Rating
1. Gabriel Horyza - Scrap Heap - 16.2 Average Rating
2. Su Xiuying - Scrap Heap - 16.0 AR
3. Walenty Kofan - Mighty Moose - 15.9 AR

Best Players by Efficiency
1. Terry Armstead - Lion Rebels - 30.6 Average Efficiency
2. Ramón Peñalver - Germlins - 27.7 AE
3. Walenty Kofan - Mighty Moose - 27.7 AE

Worst Players (Non-Bot Edition)
Worst Players by Rating
1. Lon Aragon - DOMINATE - 21 games - 4.6 AR
2. Christopher Geiger - Scrap Heap - 16 games - 6.1 AR
3. Elliott Hess - Miami Cleo - 14 games - 6.4 AR

Worst Players by Efficiency
1. Stan Christopher - Gremlins - 13 games - 1.8 AE
2. Hud Leal - War Birds - 17 games - 2.2 AE
3. Elliot Hess - Miami Cleo - 14 games - 2.3 AE

Baine's MVP Predictions
I feel like this is a tough year to guess. The best scoring leader, Chewy's Christopher Wood (25.6 PPG) isn't in the top 20 in average rating, but is 5th in average efficiency. Gabriel Horyza (3rd in scoring) is the highest rated player for the season, but is 11th in average efficiency. My guy, Terry Armstead is 5th in average rating, 1st in average efficiency, but ranked 20th in scoring. While Walenty Kofan (Mighty Moose) is 3rd in both average rating and efficiency but NOT in the top 20 in scoring.

Of course, scoring isn't everything, and since my All Star predictions were pretty close, I'm going to go with the same formula I used to guess the league's all star teams (Average Efficiency, followed by Efficiency per 48 minutes, and then Average Rating):

1. Walenty Kofan (Mighty Moose)
2. Su Xiuying (Scrap Heap)
3. Terry Armstead (Lion Rebels)
4. Ramón Peñalver (Gremlins)
5. Jean-Louis Fleurent (Mighty Moose)
6. Gabriel Horyza (Scrap Heap)
7. Umberto Bilotta (Tropicana)
8. Wu Chan Kiew (Gremlins)
9. Christopher Wood (Chewy)
10. Arys Varpukevicius (Miami Cleo)

Last edited by Baine at 4/7/2022 12:20:39 PM

Quarter Finals Recap
No surprises in last night's quarterfinals matchups - higher seeds all advanced (no Cinderella performances this year)!

Game One: Big 8's Mighty Moose Rockets (4) vs. Scrap Heap Low Posters (4)
Scrap Heap defeated Mighty Moose, but because of the effort difference, it required a bit of work! Scrap Heap found themselves down 9 coming into the final frame, with Jean-Louis Fleurent leading their Patient charge with 34 points after 36 minutes. With 6 minutes left in the game, Scrap had reduced the lead to 3 with Horyza (spoiler alert) having scored 38 of his 52 points on the night. Two minutes later, Scrap heap led by two, with Chiodarelli sinking two free throws for Moose to knot it up. PF Doktor tied it ten seconds later and the Low Posters never looked back, outscoring Moose in the last quarter 39-17.

Both teams shot well from the field, with Moose hitting 9-21 from three, but the real difference came in free throws, with 36 attempts by Scrap Heap and only 7 coming from the Rockets. After the game, Moose's manager, Hutch44 could be seen screaming with outrage and the vast difference of foul calls against his team (29-10). Later, on social media, Hutch44 deleted a tweet alleging 2 of the 3 refs had at least $10,000 on the game.

Game Two: Big 8's Lion Rebels (3) vs. Philly Dribble (2)
Dribble had the Rebel's number all season, and last night's matchup was no difference other than the Rebels jumping out to a 6 point lead after one quarter. By the half, that lead had been erased and the Rebels found themselves at a 5 point deficit. Interestingly, even though Philly was running and gunning and the Rebels employed a Patient tactic, the Rebels took 13 more shots, but shot a woeful 29% from three, with their leading scorer Carrillo (26 PTS, 14.0 RTNG) missing 8 of his 10 threes. Philly, on the other hand, had a much more even display with three of their starters in double digits scoring and two of their backups scoring 10 or more points each. Philly easily defeated the Rebels 102-83 with the game never in question after the first half.

Game Three: Great 8's Dallas Bomskwad (4) vs. Gremlins (1)
Bomskwad's reward for eking past Chewy for the fourth place spot in the division was the number 1 seeded Gremlins, who took care of business 103-86. Dallas tried to focus on the low post for the evening and while they were only down 4 at the half, the Gremlins dominated the third quarter enroute to victory. Though Dallas shot better than 50% from three, they only hit 37% of their overall field goal attempts while the Gremlins matched their three point rate and percentage and scored over 50% from the field as well. The Gremlins inside defense was the major difference maker in this game, holding Dallas below their own average points per game on the season. PF Penalver led the way with 26 points in 37 minutes on 12-18 shooting, including three of the teams eight blocks on the night.

Game Four: Miami Cleo (3) vs. The Ashkickers (2)
In the final quarterfinal game of the night, The Ashkickers defeated Miami Cleo at home 82-73, with Ashkickers' PF Colomina having a night, scoring 40 points (17-22 from the field, including 6-6 from FT), hauling in 18 rebounds and blocking three shots. Miami's SF Maurin had a decent effor, scoring 23 points (11-24 from the field) to go along with four steals, but his -6 point differential wasn't enough to make up the ground required to eliminate Ashkickers. The 2nd seeded Great 8 team just had too much of a inside defensive advantage, coupled with the fact that they only missed one of their 14 free throws, while Miami missed seven of their 11 free throws. Ashkickers took a 9 point advantage into the half, and while Miami was able to bring that back down to 5 by the end of the 3rd quarter, Ash took those four points back by the end of the game.

Notable Relegation Matchup Recap
With two minutes left, Chewy led SuperSonicz 105-97. Chewy's SG Sebastian GFojin fouled Antonio Gobber, who made both FTs to pull within 6. Center B. Gansler then threw the ball out of bounds with 1:35 left and SuperSonicz SG M. Whitney scored from the wing to bring it to 4. Seattle's SF N. Ferriz intercepted the ball and on a fast break layed it in. Whitney then intercepted a pass, but turned around and let Chewy's backup SF M. Shipp take it back; MVP candidate Christopher Wood tried a lay up but missed because Ferriz fouled him. Wood hit the first free throw to bring the difference to three, and then after a series of substitutions puts the Chewbaccans back up 4 with 38 seconds left. Whitney scored from the top of the key to cut it to two and with 10 seconds left, C. Wood again is fouled on a layup by Ferriz. Wood hits the first free throw, substitutions occur again, but Wood misses the last free throw and SuperSonicz immediately call a time out after SG Whitney secures the rebound.

Down three, with ten seconds to go, Ferriz forces up a three but misses, but SuperSonicz PG Muncy grabs the rebound and hits it out to Whitney who makes the three to tie it up with two seconds left. Unfortunately for Supersonicz, they weren't able to foul quick enough, as Whitney fouled backup SG A. Roland with 0 seconds left. All Roland needed to do was make one of his two free throws since they were in the bonus. He made the first and while he missed the second, that's all they needed to win the game, 109-108. All in all, Supersonicz had a valiant 11 point run in the last two minutes but couldn't pull it off.

You do have to wonder about some of SuperSonicz coach's substitution changes, however, as their SG and SF had point differentials of +5 and +11 in their respective 39 and 34 minutes. Particularly in Ferriz's case, whose backup, R. Brannon played 14 minutes and had a point differential of -12. The other juicy deets about the final seconds of this game, backup PG A. Roland, who averaged 16.8 mpg to go along with 5 ppg was only shooting 27% from the free throw line this season (3-11) and was already 0-2 on the night before hitting the game winning FT with no time left (and missing the second to finish 1-4 on the night).

Should be an interesting relegation series to watch play out!