თემა: II.1

"Shambles" is a good way of describing my team right now lol.

During the past two league matchups, my lineup consisted of the following:
- My three (horribly unready) 15 year old draftees
- A shitty 16 year old (added from the sports academy for the sole purpose of playing while I was in camp)
- A shitty 20 year old (added from the market for the sole purpose of playing while I was in camp)
- My 4th string pivot
- My 3rd string goalie

Average OR of the guys playing = 433 OR

I'm also pretty sure than my lineup was randomly determined today, because my pivot was playing out of position. Whoops. ... not that it would've made any bit of difference lol.


Needless to say, thank god my camp is over tonight... I don't think I could stand to see another league game go down like the last two. I already have as many red cards as I had ALL of last season, and my goal differential is just plain gross.

I am interested to see what my team strength looks like now though. Between the seasonal energy refresh and my now-completed camp, I'm hoping my team is stout enough to win some tough games since I'm starting in such a hole.

We currently have 6 teams with 10 pts. Crazy that positions 1-6 in the standings are currently determined by goal differential.

Yup, close for this last week. I think you and the tuggers are going to separate from the rest of us.

... he says as he takes over first place. hehehehe.

ha, that was luck. He played at normal vs my very low. No idea how my goalie stopped 44%!! Had to have been home field advantage.

Another one bites the dust.

Level 13 TF and SA. Big... big loss for USA handball.

Looks like he's still got his other teams. Just decided handball wasn't worth it anymore.

Yeah... i think that's what makes it so bad in my eyes. For the most part, people aren't quitting PPM... they're just quitting handball. The active USA player base for Handball was pretty small to start with... but it's rapidly dwindling with each passing season.

Who quit?

Microwave repairmens manager

I agree Lank, it is a big loss. I feel part of it is American's don't really know what handball is. The extent of my knowledge is gym class 10 years ago. It's a shame.

that's absolutely a big part of it. people seem to want to play sports that they can identify with.

Funny thing is... I never heard of team handball before ppm released this game. I even signed up 3 days after the launch because I "didn't really care." Since then I've actually watched a bunch of real life matchups online.

It's now become my favorite ppm games... and perhaps most ironically, it's the only PPM game that I didn't personally spend years playing growing up.

Haha yeah same here. It's the sport I know least about yet I care about it the most. It's funny that way.

That is a shame!! We keep shrinking much more and we will be in the world pool.

We should keep 2 levels of handball