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I speak to Jelme offsite, and basically it comes down to he wanted to 100% ensure he got the #1 pick. He'd been planning to WO the game since he got eliminated from 7th place, about 2.5 weeks before the end of the season. I don't know whether the name of the team he was giving a WO to played any part in his decision, but my impression from IMing to him was that it didn't.

That said, I think it'd be delicious irony if the WO tiebreaker rules were such that Jelme winds up with the 2nd pick.

I know everyone gets their share of adversity. New York Jests for instance had a ton of injuries early on and had to fight through it. The difference is, my team from the start was at best a 5th place team. That's with every good break going my way. The first part of the season played out the way I thought it would. The CT first game worked just as I thought, and I still managed two more wins in conference play which put me exactly where I wanted to be. I tried to sell off one of my injured players and I couldn't get as much out of him as I would have liked. A 4 week injury does that though. Still reeling, I wasn't able to get any of the winnable games against the Great 8 to go my way and the C I tried to hire as a stop gap didn't work AT ALL because of the fouling problem that I couldn't see from his stats before I bought him. After losing to Slip N Slide to start conference play, I knew avoiding 8th was impossible at that point. So what should I have done? No point in TIE'ing and saving up enthusiasm for one win against a team of my random picking. The only goal still there was the number 1 pick.

I would be VERY ironic if I got the 2nd pick from the WO tiebreaker. It really should be that way anyhow.

And no reason to bring U21 into this at all. That is a completely different scenario.

Well said, Jelme. I think that it would be best at this point to wrap this thing up and for all of us to forget about it...

I think that it would be best at this point to wrap this thing up and for all of us to forget about it...

+1

But only if darykjozef was given a heads up and able to plan his training around the WO. Anything short of that is classless.

As you may of seen other people say, I have enough problems trying to promote without someone helping out the other team.

I was with you until you said this. Now I've decided you're just being silly.

The only way you're not promoting is if you play a WO game 2 and POCT it to give me a chance at stealing game 3 at your place.

Come back to the NBBA. We miss you!

I think that it would be best at this point to wrap this thing up and for all of us to forget about it...

+1

But only if darykjozef was given a heads up and able to plan his training around the WO. Anything short of that is classless.

Jelme has since apologized, and my training lineup would not have changed much. I also think we touched on the subject prior to the match in a game chat beforehand (squeakrico was there as well), but I didn't get the impression he was really going to set a WO lineup.

No blood, no foul.

Come back to the NBBA. We miss you!

If by that, you mean "it sure was nice to have a sure-fire 20-point TIE victory on the schedule," then I'm sure you do.

I think next season I may have a shot. I can't compete with Hobos' guards.

You're not going anywhere, cuz next season I'm beating you before the finals**!!!




** In the regular season****



**** If you TIE/throw it******



****** Maybe