08-21-2022, 05:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2022, 05:07 PM by br0_0ker. Edited 1 time in total.)
Tier 1 Option 4:
I'm not going to write about a whole team or a season or heck, even a whole game where a single team experienced bad sim luck. I'm going to talk about a single series, in which a humble vegetable became a hero to a small island nation. You might not even consider this necessarily bad sim luck, but when you look at the plays/TPE/performance in the game to that point it really makes you feel for the team that got hosed (sort of). I am talking of course, about the final defensive series of the S36 season for the Sarasota Sailfish. Let's recap the scenario: there's just under 4 min to go in the game, probably only time for one more possession. You JUST scored the lead on a HUGE 72-yard touchdown by the league's new single season TD record holder. The stadium is rocking, it's your home crowd so the momentum shift is palpable. The opposing QB to this point is 19/35 on the day, and their run game has been struggling to get going all day. The drive starts off with a couple short runs and immediately it's a crucial third down.
Converted.
Ok, it was a short third down but still, just over 2 minutes and the balls still on the other side of the field, with your opponent needing a TD, a field goal won't do. The very next play is this 11 yard reception by a leek, for another first down but now it's the 2 minute warning and your opponent still needs 40 yards to go ahead, so they'll start burning time outs soon. One stop is all you need.
Next play is a sack, PERFECT. It's a big one too, nine yards all the way back to the 46 on the other side of the 50. An incomplete or a short rush pretty much seals it for you. A little 7 yard catch makes it a long 3rd and 11, the play of the game. What happens?
12 yard catch, timeout and a minute nineteen left in the game. So now that's two crucial third downs given up. But with only about a minute remaining, your opponent probably only has what, two, maybe three plays left? To go 30 yards? Surely the defense that finished tied for the regular season lead in points allowed would put up a stand here, in the final moments of the Ultimus when it was all on the line?
The next play, the very next play, goes to the same vegetable that just extended the drive for your opponent. How on earth you let this thing beat you AGAIN when he had just converted the most important 3rd down of his career? But here's the kicker: the next catch, it isn't another first down, or a little out for 7 yards or something like that, no this goes the FULL 35 YARDS TO THE HOUSE. In three plays you've let this vegetable push the ball into your territory, convert a crucial third down, then score the go-ahead touchdown in nearly three consecutive plays. The worst part (for you at least)? The opposing defense goes out on the field and summarily puts any hope of a miracle to rest with a quick four and out. Up to that point, the vegetable had only had four catches for sixty yards, all in the first half, he had been completely invisible the entire second half. How is this sim luck? The veg wasn't a high TPE player or a stud, it was some middling sub 600 TPE WR3 who ended up being what put your Ultimus dreams to rest. In my humble leeky opinion, that's some bad luck.
I'm not going to write about a whole team or a season or heck, even a whole game where a single team experienced bad sim luck. I'm going to talk about a single series, in which a humble vegetable became a hero to a small island nation. You might not even consider this necessarily bad sim luck, but when you look at the plays/TPE/performance in the game to that point it really makes you feel for the team that got hosed (sort of). I am talking of course, about the final defensive series of the S36 season for the Sarasota Sailfish. Let's recap the scenario: there's just under 4 min to go in the game, probably only time for one more possession. You JUST scored the lead on a HUGE 72-yard touchdown by the league's new single season TD record holder. The stadium is rocking, it's your home crowd so the momentum shift is palpable. The opposing QB to this point is 19/35 on the day, and their run game has been struggling to get going all day. The drive starts off with a couple short runs and immediately it's a crucial third down.
Converted.
Ok, it was a short third down but still, just over 2 minutes and the balls still on the other side of the field, with your opponent needing a TD, a field goal won't do. The very next play is this 11 yard reception by a leek, for another first down but now it's the 2 minute warning and your opponent still needs 40 yards to go ahead, so they'll start burning time outs soon. One stop is all you need.
Next play is a sack, PERFECT. It's a big one too, nine yards all the way back to the 46 on the other side of the 50. An incomplete or a short rush pretty much seals it for you. A little 7 yard catch makes it a long 3rd and 11, the play of the game. What happens?
12 yard catch, timeout and a minute nineteen left in the game. So now that's two crucial third downs given up. But with only about a minute remaining, your opponent probably only has what, two, maybe three plays left? To go 30 yards? Surely the defense that finished tied for the regular season lead in points allowed would put up a stand here, in the final moments of the Ultimus when it was all on the line?
The next play, the very next play, goes to the same vegetable that just extended the drive for your opponent. How on earth you let this thing beat you AGAIN when he had just converted the most important 3rd down of his career? But here's the kicker: the next catch, it isn't another first down, or a little out for 7 yards or something like that, no this goes the FULL 35 YARDS TO THE HOUSE. In three plays you've let this vegetable push the ball into your territory, convert a crucial third down, then score the go-ahead touchdown in nearly three consecutive plays. The worst part (for you at least)? The opposing defense goes out on the field and summarily puts any hope of a miracle to rest with a quick four and out. Up to that point, the vegetable had only had four catches for sixty yards, all in the first half, he had been completely invisible the entire second half. How is this sim luck? The veg wasn't a high TPE player or a stud, it was some middling sub 600 TPE WR3 who ended up being what put your Ultimus dreams to rest. In my humble leeky opinion, that's some bad luck.