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No worries! Everyone is expensive at this point in the season and yours is justified.

I have 2.1mil that I'm going to try to be patient with.

In my d.III last season I was doing gameday summaries in a season where we know that Yuck was gonna dominate anyway. I thought I might bring some of that here too, but I'm too lazy to actually do a *comprehensive* league analysis. So I'll start with one game per conference.

We'll start with the Great 8, because the big hitters are there.

The HipsterBears visited Belvedere Square Market and left with a big win against Belvedere Square Lakers. Somehow the Great 8 got two teams that relegated from the NBBA. HipsterBears is one of them and on this day they face one of the impressive promoted teams. I haven't scouted the Great 8 all that carefully yet, but BSL went for 2-3/balanced-normal GDP, so I assume that HipsterBears often play II. They switched it up this time, though, and the busted guess was likely the difference maker here. Some notable scoreboard elements: Vasilko (BSL) put up 40 points in 40 minutes while HipsterBears spread the scoring with 29 assists and 5 starters in double digits.

In the Big 8, the most interesting match was SK @ Prairie Dogs. SK needed a win after getting stung by my boys in the opener, and despite the half missed/half right GDP they got it. This game was tight and if I had to infer a difference maker from the box score I'd say that the 22 free-throw (19 made) for SK ended up being key (but I'd have to rewatch the third quarter to be sure: SK went 27-13 in it). Prairie Dogs put up a 136 Buzzermanager rating: this is one of the highest I've seen this season, and certainly the highest in a loss. Their 0-2 record does not reflect their actual strength.

In general, it seems that the Big 8 will be somewhat "flatter" with teams playing not too differently from each other and the Great 8 will have a clearer top and bottom. But it's early to tell.

I'm in the process of getting rid of all my 37 year olds and trying not to demote all the way to d3; expect a roller coaster from my guys this season!

So much for being patient! 😜

I got what I wanted sooner than I expected 😂

Had to give you shit. Just biding my time to unleash my war chest. All the auctions of dudes I wanna get are at like 5-5:45am. When I wake up and check I've had 6 players go for one additional bid now. Its tilting

You pushing hard for promotion this season?

Yessir!

Finally! 9th times the charm. Also, some of the players I lost went for 2X that price and most weren't as good. 🤷‍♂️

Quite the eventful night on Sat. I knew I was gonna lose with near certainty, given that I was away and intended to start a 19yo trainee, but I thought let's go ahead and guess what I think Kiwi will play. Getting the double guess right was small consolation anyway.

First run for E.B.W.'s shiny new roster against Prairie Dogs. This was a game between two really competitive teams that happened to be 0-2. Buoyed by Youngsheng's acquisition E.B.W. jumped out in front, but an untimely in-game injury to Dowell upset the balance of the game. The 'Wraps ended up winning it by a lone point on a Burrows J with 13 seconds to go. On the last possession, Prairie dogs' math-challenged coach called for a three down one point. It was an open look but the three was missed, and that was that.

In the other conference, BSL is also obviously better than their 0-3 record would suggest. But Southpaw army was on another level. They put up a 158 buzzer-manager rating in an imposing home victory. I believe this to be the highest overall rating on the young season. (Of course as enthusiasm increases and GS stabilizes in the 8-9 range we'll see higher ratings than this.)

My prediction of a flat Big 8 and a stretched Great 8 is shaping up to be right.

All right, I'm spacing out these recaps since this forum is on the quieter side. But let's take a look at what's happening at the end of the first third of the season.

Southpaw army started this forum with a declaration of intention: they want to be here exactly one season. And they are playing like it. Their 7-0 record, with everyone else having lost at least 2 games, is a loud statement.

My prediction that the Great 8 would be more lopsided than the Big 8 is coming out less strong that I'd imagined. Yes, there is a cluster at the top of the Big 8, and yes, only 2 games separate the top Big 8 teams and the 6th place. But Great 8 is looking compressed too below Southpaw.

I'm pretty happy to sit where I am after seven. My goal was to float and make money. A 5-2 record and a 163 Buzzer-manager rating in today's game says I'm floating. My arena even *just* passed 14k seats and the money is flowing so I can keep building this franchise

Sad to see EBW packing it in and accepting relegation. It's a good piece of strategy, given some terrible luck they'd had early on and difficulty scoring. But I was looking forward to battles with them for season to come.

Eclypze's Jaffa is the top scorer and unquestioned MVP of the first intraconference round. First in points, third in rebounds, over 500 FG%, and .687 3FG%.

Most of us are still in the cup but some tough games are coming.