თემა: I.1

Can anyone stop the Emus? 15-1 in their last 16.

My bet is on either you, babies or Salt Lake.

It is actually 5 points. 3 if we assume i wont lose tomorrow.

4 loses in a row is a lot specially when the team had only 8 loses the entire season!!

I'm just looking for my team to be consistent.

One troubling sign is my 7m shooting. Mallory started off strong at over 80% but is just 22/33 (67%) the past 8 games. Luckily I've still been winning most of those games.

Yes - you did last week xD

That's like what's happened in our league since WasUpNerd bought Børre Aspen . I don't think he's lost in the last month, and he's been taking down higher seeded teams right and left during that time.

He and Last Place McGees, who has played EVERY game this season on VL and is still in 1st place by 2 points, have just been on fire lately. After I lose to WasUpNerd tomorrow (all of my starters are are in camp), McGees will have a 4 point lead in 1st place (which is the largest 1st place lead of the season... as far as I remember).

Anyways... those two are my odds on favorites in the playoffs of II.1 this season. You'll probably see both of them in your division next season. At least that's what I'm hoping. It's absolutely filthy (and pretty demoralizing) how good McGees has been this year while expending only like 4.5 points of seasonal energy per player. And if I actually had my starters available and I were trying to arrange a gameplan for tomorrow's game against WasUpNerd, I'd probably just want to cry lol.

Non-playoff teams in division 1 would be wise to try to avoid playing in the II.1 relegation match, because it might not be pretty if you pull a matchup against one of them.

I tried setting him as 7m for National Team but he was horrible and I run away. Tubbs is also decreasing his 7m% (and shooting)

Or perhaps the issue is that we are facing better goalies ...

could be the combination of seasonal energy loss effect and improved goalies. I've noticed it with my 7m shooter as well.

Just look at games played against unchanging (dead teams) throughout the year, and you probably see a little bit of a decline just due to the fatigue factor. Add in the better goaltenders, and it's a bigger effect.

I remember that game... it was very painful indeed. He seems to be hitting more crossbars/posts lately too. Likes the sound it makes (:

Good point by both of you, but I will expand on my take of this. I think goalies will improve faster than shooters in regards to 7m shots. Goalkeeping and Blocking skills have major and medium influence, vs. Shooting (and Technique?) being medium/variable influence. The effect of FiP (if any) on 7m shooting is not clear to me in the guide. The effect of Technique ("Technique represents the ability of a player to dribble with the ball or to deceive the opponent with fake moves." ) seems apparent by the last part of that sentence- deception can play a big part in the 7m shot.

But the point is, depending on what ratio you use for shooting (I do not train mine like a major attribute), it seems to me that goalies will improve their 7m defense faster since their major and medium influence attributes help them out.

And of course I don't have access to the source code, so this might be balanced out when making the shot calculation. But it's something that I've been thinking about.

the 7m specialist I placed in the NT Ron Williams is still shooting well and no FiP or technique. but then, he does not play so no fatigue.

So perhaps fatigue and better goalies are the main factors being fatigue perhaps the biggest factor.

He is at ~83% 7m shooting, which is comparable to the best shooters in D1 hovering around 80%. Yet his shooting attribute is almost 2x higher... Just speculation, but maybe once a player's shooting attribute reaches a certain percentage of their OR (or FiP), the gains of increasing shooting drastically fall off.

But I agree, Williams' high energy could account for that 3%.

if we go from canucks study from hockey, it would be 125% of main attribute.

What is funny is that Ron does not train the main attribute so it is much more than 125% ....

If we go from the real perspective, passing would be important. how he grabs, spins and whatever the ball. technique would also be important. how he throw the ball at the floor making it harder to save ...

but when Ron does have that high percentage with no other trained attribute it is hard to think that nothing other than shooting is needed

That guy is a waste of space. Should be the first drop off the NT team.