(S47) PT #5 - April Madness Brings May Sadness

[slothfacekilla]

SHL PT

[AW13]

After having just done my playoff predictions, I feel like it would be easy to write about why I made the decisions I did in those in order to win TPE and earn TPE here.

ASFC:

I have Arizona beating my New Orleans Second Line in the Wildcard round. This one I think will be incredibly close as the two teams split the season series 1-1 with both road teams winning. Arizona has both a top tier offense and defense being the best scoring offense in the ISFL and the 2nd best scoring defense in the league as well. This will come down to protecting the ball, both of which the two teams does pretty good. I mostly went with Arizona here because of the old adage of winning TPE or being happy your team won.

NSFC:

I have Baltimore over Cape Town here. They seem like the better team and while they also split the season series 1-1 I believe Baltimore had the more convincing home win and with HFA, I took the Hawks.


Rest:

Arizona over San Jose
Baltimore over Chicago

Arizona over Baltimore

I believe I would prefer to lose to the champion if we have to lose so AZ or NOLA or bust.

[Rydychyn]

A bold prediction for both ISFL and DSFL.

The Butchers come up against Wraiths in the quarterfinal round which I believe they should breeze past (but you never know... sim will sim), moving them on up to the semi where they will meet one of Crash or Hawks, again they should coast through the the Ultimus if they continue their form from the regular season. This is where it will get tricky as they will come up against NOLA. A close game will ensue, maybe even go to overtime, but the Butchers will prevail and take the Ultimus.

In the DSFL, it's a little trickier to predict with 2 teams still fighting for their spot in the playoffs. However, it looks like the Ultimi will include the Minnesota Grey Ducks as they've been an unstoppaple force this season, only losing 3 time so far in the regular season. The Buccaneers beat Tijuana in the first week of the season, and now play them in the final week of the season. Can they do the double? I say yes... and yes they can also do the triple when they play them yet again in the playoffs.

With a Minnesota v Bondi Beach Ultimini, I would be bias if I told you who I think will win.

209 words.

[.simo]

Obviously the team that is most likely to win is the team of the people - the Outlaws from Arizona. Truly just a loveable bunch of scamps that get together and are trying there hardest. Just a bunch of young battlers trying to make their way in this harsh world and have come together to be something greater than the sum of their parts. It has been a fun season winning a bunch of games and just hanging out with a good bunch of friends as we all work towards a championship again together. I think in the end for the championship games the favourite hardly ever wins. There is always some drama to pop up so this is why Arizona lost a few games so that we will be underdogs in a few games and can show up in an ambush and steal away a few victories that we shouldn't have won.

[Supersquare04]

My prediction for the Ultimini is going to be a landslide victory for the Minnesota Grey Ducks. In short, these guys have been dominant all year long and don't show any signs of slowing down. It begins on defense, with most of their top guys on that side of the ball. Specifically, they are led in TPE by PeePee Poop-Eater Jr. at safety who peaks over 300 applied TPE. As a team, they sport over 5000 effective TPE together, while most other teams in the DSFL is hovering around 3000. The most insane part about this Grey Duck team is just how far ahead the defense is than anyone else. They have more TPE on just the defensive side of the ball than any other team in the league has effective TPE...that is CRAZY. Frankly, barring some sim madness I don't really see this team losing at all. In fact, I think its absurd they've lost any games to this point.

[araa]

This season DSFL champions without a sliver of doubt will be the Tijuana Luchadores, after all they have the best points per game and yards per game offense in the league, with defense also holding up well, holding opponents to second lowest points per game in the league. Unless sim gets rigged again this year first game against Bondi Beach Buccaneers should be a cakewalk, after that Lucha will likely face Minnesota Grey Ducks, only team allowing less points per game than Luchadores, although at this time we don’t know yet who’ll Ducks face in North playoff game, since London Royals and Portland Pythons are tied and they play last game against each other, but anyway putting point per game aside Grey Ducks are rather rush heavy team while Lucha boasts pretty great rush defense with LB Grzegorz Winnicki bringing down anyone that comes his way. On other hand Luchadores are rather pass heavy team and that is something Minnesota is likely to struggle against.

[Number 82]

Playoff time is just around the corner. In the ASFC we have San Jose, Arizona and New Orleans while in the NSFC we have Chicago, Baltimore and Cape Town. San Jose have secured home field advantage through the playoffs and have put themselves in the best position possible after a strong regular season where they finished with the leagues best record of 13-3. While Arizona and New Orleans certainly won't be pushovers, home field advantage gives San Jose an edge in the AFSC. It does at this moment in time appear that the ASFC has the edge over the NSFC. Chicago finished top of the conference in the NSFC with a 11-5 record, Baltimore in second with a 10-6 record and Cape Town in third with a 9-7 record. If we're going off season predictions, Chicago have been a surprise but will play host to either Baltimore or Cape Town. Baltimore were 8-1 but struggled at the tail end of the season and lost to Cape Town on the road to close the regular season but redemption is on offer for Baltimore as Cape Town visits them in the first round. If I had to pick a winner, I'd certainly be picking one of the teams in the ASFC will take home the Ultimus. Maybe an a matchup of San Jose and Chicago, with San Jose winning the Ultimus.

Code:

229 words

[Amkamkamk]

You will NOT catch me on this jinx-baiting prompt. But I think that [REDACTED] has everything they need to be a contender for the Ultimini this season. [REDACTED] is losing our advantage from the earlier TPE spike as other players begin to catch up TPE-wise, but our recent games have shown a positive trajectory, and we're getting more bounces in our favor. Last season, we saw a very strong season get undone by one game, and a few plays went against us, and that's equally possible. [REDACTED]'s defense has been solid; the offense is coming along after [REDACTED]'s archetype change, and the running game has been very consistent behind the GM bot line. I think I speak for myself and [REDACTED] where it'd be a huge achievement to make it to the Ultimini, but there is a lot of dot-ball chaos between now and then.

The ISFL? Sim to end. Who cares. Boring. Silverbacks draft season and then bring on S48.

[homercrates]

CTC versus Baltimore, CTC is a home field winning team and Baltimore is at home so the Baltimore Hawks will win this. Then Bal will meet Chicago in Chicago.  However I think Baltimore will get this win over the upstart number one in the league Butchers.  This will lock up Baltimore into the Ultimini.  Over at the otherside Arizona will have home field over NOLA.  Personally I was always rooting for the day that NOLA would get into the playoffs and finally pay off that drought.  However due to fatigue of having to listen to one particular member whine and cry and tantrum non stop win or lose this player would demand so much attention from the community, I am actually rooting AZ the evil empire here.  I think AZ handles NOLA at home and goes on to face SJS in San Jose.  San Jose wins the matchup against AZ stopping AZ from a chance to back to back Ulti’s.  The face off in the Ultimus is Baltmore vs San Jose. 

San Jose and their front 7 win this match up lead by the league MVP *DJ scratch noises” DJ Maclean.  Kit fisto fans will rejoice and Kit Fisto and his smile will gleen brightly off that Ultimus trophy.

[lock180]

What kind of point task is this? Forcing a player on a nonplayoff team to think about the playoff picture for next week? That should be illegal. I can't bear to talk about the ISFL playoff picture so Im going to talk about the DSFL instead. The goat Triceracop and his GM partner in crime whovian will lead a surprising underdog path to victory that is reminiscent of the Wraiths just one season ago. They will defeat Tijuana like they did week 1 and will likely do in the final regular season and face the powerhouse that is the Minnesota Grey Ducks. Everyone has been crying about how overpowered Minnesota is the whole season but Bondi Beach is ready for the challenge and won't allow anything to deter them as they will soundly defeat Minnesota in a stunning upset that will leave the DSFL discord chat (that I wish I was a part of oh so much) in ruins.