Uhm... my "congrats to Heathens" post from yesterday now has disappeared. I'll make it short so it doesn't duplicate it, if it reappears: Congrats to Heathens! Amazing season.
Also: we have two home court upsets from d.II. Deronimo lost II.2 and Technical Fouls upset I'll Replace you with Machines in a game that is reported to have been incredibly bizarre (not able to open it right now).
Congrats to all promotees: may the Bruins end up on the other side!
Yep, I will easily be the worst team to ever play a nbba game. I sold off almost all my guys just before the playoffs to save money. I bought a few to have a 'hopefully get by in d2' type team as I rebuilt and got younger and cheaper. Of course, every single break possible went my way during the playoffs. Upsets gave me home court in round 2 which allowed me to sneak into the finals.
Machines was basically assured a win and played trainees for 48 mins. For the finals series, I had 6 players with greater then 4k salary, with one of those my 'starting' sg making 7.5k (no, those numbers are not mis-types). Game 3 rolls around. Machines 48 min trainee SG is injured in the first quarter, so he has back-up PF and C playing SG with run and gun. Then his center (and almost league MVP) gets ejected in the 4th for his second flagrant foul. He had only one back-up at that point while giving big minutes to his back up bigs at C and SG. It starting getting real ugly for him. Then, he started hitting 3s. I Have decent FT shooters and ended up winning.
999 times out of 1000 I lose that game. Hell, based on my transfer history you can easily tell I didn't think I would make it out of round one of the playoffs.
Wherever I end up, the other 7 get a pretty easy TIE twice a season.
That said, I thought I would make it to ML in hattrick before NBBA here and I don't plan on rolling over. I don't have a chance, but that's what I thought the past few weeks too.....