თემა: II.1

That's the lone A for me, as well. Damn. No real point, is there? I'm here, so I guess I'll stick around for the draft. Maybe.

Garbage draft for me. I pulled the first rounder just because he was 3rd pick. But I knew he was shite immediately. 230-something OR. And he's been fired already.

Suprised yet?

Yeah, I mean there's still a lot of season left, and it's yet to be seen if your energy use in the international competition will catch up to you, but I'm definitely pleasantly surprised with your success. I love it when the U.S. does well, so I'm definitely happy to see it, even if it does prove my predictions wrong.

To be fair though, you are using a bit more energy than your world opponents (VH/VH vs. L/L in your most recent game). That's pretty much what I'd expected, but so far the side effects have been minimal. So definitely, congrats man.

I can admit when I'm wrong, though I still say you would've been better off in II.1 this season.

Haha yeah, my average OTR gain per game is only about a rough estimate of 3 per game. Luckily the amount of energy invested to win in league is minimal at worst, so that is nice.

The reason I have blown so much energy is that through my entire PPM experience I have found that unless I overdo it, I will ALWAYS lose close games I(statistically speaking) should have won. You can find this in any sport, just check my team's history (2 times already in handball alone). So you can understand my fascination with wasting energy to get a win.
Side note: this wasting excessive energy thing is only TRUE if I DO NOT CARE about the match (like how I won NC last season).

I have already weighed the effects of using a lot of energy and decided that if I keep it up by the time playoffs come around my players will be at a full 70 energy! Oh yeah so pumped! I'm seriously considering just playing strictly my B line-up most of the time on normal or high...

I hear you on that. I too probably use more energy than I should. Last season, I had a TON of very close wins, but this season, I've got a rather high goal differential already. That tells me I haven't yet found the sweet spot in energy use, and I'm spending too much to win games.

70s energy is pretty low though... I felt the effects of energy losses for much of the 2nd half of last season, and DEFINITELY in the playoffs... yet I finished the playoffs with energy in the low 80s.

Keep an eye on it... the negative side effects happen before you know it. And by then it's hard to adjust AND win games. =/

Well, you can look at my one loss this season and tell that I am NOT making THAT mistake again, sheesh.

Considering I am going to make the CWC playoffs I'll be trying to conserve energy for the rest of my matches, but that OTR gain is SOOOO tempting.

Speaking of OTR I just received a whopping 2.2 points for winning a league match today, like, how am I supposed to stay in the top 100 OTR teams in the world if I am in D3!!!

And yeah If my players had 100 points of energy instead of 94 I would've only had to play high to win against Freaky Friday Sunday. Oh how I can't wait to find out how much PPm is going to screw me over and try to keep me down here in D3. I'm literally so THRILLED to see how they'll do it.

Am I the only one who does ties?

Three freaking seconds! Damn. So close to keeping the streak alive

But that's weird as hell that you're involved with every tie this season.

Really ppm...? Vandals in the arena AND Extra expenses on facility repairs in the same day???

There goes ~$1m from my bank...

God I hate you.

Lol... well I have you at 2nd in OTR in the USA, so i think you're doing alright there haha.

hey... ties are much better OTR boosters than losses.

I rarely get ties, but when I do, I look at them as "losses avoided" rather than "wins missed." Hahaha.

Oh, I am happy for the point. Just was weird as I looked at records, all ties in our league involve me.

man... in 5 days, I'm gonna have my 1st "million dollar man."

Larkin's new contract is gonna suck away ~$1.5 million of my team's hard-earned money over the ensuing 112 days.