and I was ready to own you, had you made the mistake of *not* tanking our recent game.
I went through a crap ton of lineups and scenarios trying to figure out a way to play all 3 games and throw out an A lineup against you. All of them wound up with a far too weak lineup in the cup. And my current GS levels are just too low, I didn't think I had a good chance at beating you regardless.
However, you are lumping together three categories that should be kept distinct:
Yep, I definitely did, and I agree with your 3 categories. In terms of my statement about how we should all be more like Myopic Marauders, yeah, those categories should be factored in.
But this whole effort came about from me wanting to find more realistic stats about our teams than what Buzzer-Manager provides. So that list was started in order to figure out which games should even go into the team stats. The categories don't matter there.
The only teams that make a real *decision* to tank are type 3
It is easily the only acceptable reason to throw a chance at a game. But I feel like that depends more on the nature of the league. If other teams do it as well, nobody really gets penalized. However if enough people in one of our two conferences focuses instead on a future playoff run, they would then push the teams ready to sacrifice for the cup, down towards a relegation match.
It's kind of weird. In D2 and below, there was only 1 goal. Promotion. Yet here in the NBBA, we've been given the opportunity for 2 different goals. The Title and the Cup. I suppose that's just the nature of the NBBA, with 2 different goals, you'll have enough teams whose focus varies to where nobody gets too penalized by throwing a game or two for the Cup.