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260756.12 in reply to 260756.11
Date: 8/4/2014 7:36:06 PM
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Way back in Season 20 I drew Chi Town Bangers to open the Cup when they were in the NBBA and I CT'd and won, but they had deliberately decided to tank and rebuild. My team is built for breadth and depth where I can platoon based on each week's situation, but it always seemed like in DIV I'd lose my season opener even when the best 2-3 teams in my league which caused me to have to concentrate on league a little more than ideal.

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260756.13 in reply to 260756.11
Date: 8/7/2014 4:23:11 AM
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well, it's now a 100k decision so far, because i won, and then i drew a pretty surefire win this round. that's the thing about an early tough matchup in the cup; it's worth cting because you might get several more 50k wins, not just the 1. if i get a super tough opponent in like 3 weeks, i might let it go and focus on league instead, so i don't relegate. my goal is to avoid relegation, so those 50ks come in handy. i'm saving up for the last piece of my team (40ishk starting sf), so i just need to build that bank. and holy shit, i adjusted my prices and started making sooooooo much more money.

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260756.14 in reply to 260756.13
Date: 8/7/2014 10:56:52 PM
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Man this cup road is tough. Now I've got another super tough team that I'd be lucky to beat, and my team isn't in the greatest shape

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260756.15 in reply to 260756.14
Date: 8/7/2014 11:09:09 PM
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I have a tough one this week, too. That said, we have 11 teams still in the cup. Wow!

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260756.16 in reply to 260756.15
Date: 8/14/2014 10:51:55 PM
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my god, i can't believe i won! i'm so happy i can't even tell ya. so happy i wrote a song about the game to the tune of 'hokey pokey':

you put your starters in
you take your backups out
you play run or motion
and you make it a shootout
if you win all of your cup games
you can turn your team around

that's what it's all about!

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260756.17 in reply to 260756.16
Date: 8/15/2014 9:49:37 AM
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Hahaha...nice...

I'm a little bummed I didn't have the same luck. I thought I might steal one too.

I was surprised my opponent played most of his first team that were defensive beasts--my team only made I think 2 FGs in the first period.

Since I had the greater enthusiasm, despite getting run out of the gym in the first, my team was able to draw a lot of fouls and keep in the game at the FT line. Got one of his big 3 players to foul out but couldn't quite get another.

When Tremol went down late in the 3rd, it got a lot tougher and couldn't cut it closer than 5. I think had the injury not occurred the result would have been different.

Tough one. And he's out for 2 weeks, but I get last year's breakout rookie Cooper back. Not exactly a good trade, but considering I really only have 2 true centers, I had no idea who I would have been able to play at the 5 besides Odion.

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260756.18 in reply to 260756.17
Date: 8/16/2014 2:16:39 PM
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Bad cup loss for me. Should have won that easily. If I hadn't TIE'd I would have. In retrospect coming up to the ASG I should have.

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260756.19 in reply to 260756.18
Date: 8/16/2014 7:58:54 PM
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Wow. I wouldn't expect an upper-division III team to CT another in the Cup.

Last edited by squirrel at 8/16/2014 7:59:07 PM

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260756.20 in reply to 260756.19
Date: 8/19/2014 10:47:50 AM
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Well getting closer to the All-star Break the league has done a great job in the cup! 8 teams still in the cup hunt and 4 from each side shows the strength of our league. As of right now the Big 8 (OUR SIDE!) has gotten the best of the Great 8 in the interleague games. However the Top team Lam-lam-lam has a chance to get a few games back for the Great 8 by beating our #2 & #3 team. Best of luck this week to all teams. Stay healthy!!! I repeat STAY HEALTHY!!! this is a critical time to get an injury. So i wish that NO ONE fall to that injury bug late.

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260756.21 in reply to 260756.20
Date: 8/25/2014 8:57:06 PM
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Back to being active again. RL was busy. My players GS is terrible as well as my teams enthusiasm, but I plan on stealing that final playoff spot in my conference and hopefully do some damage in the playoffs. :)

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260756.22 in reply to 260756.21
Date: 8/30/2014 10:40:40 PM
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congrats to cheektowga for making the field of 64. that's a really good run. tough game against pyramid, but very winnable. a top 32 finish would be awesome.

good win tonight for frosty bc against taki boyz. wasn't expecting them to take it easy against me, didn't realize i was viewed as that small of a threat. not that i'm complaining, mind you. i'll take wins wherever i can get them. i actually came into the game expecting a very close contest. possible preview of the relegation series?

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