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I have never seen a bad beat quite like this one. As always i will congratulate my opponent on a hard fought win but this match was hard to take. This must be less than 5% probability that the opponent wins this match.

I haven´t checked, but I think I had to take part in the club record in the cup.
I don´t remember a tournament game before without extra time where 287 points were scored! Special against a good team.

Hmmmmm, I was trying, after the Cup game, to find the results records of the club.

Then I saw an interesting thing! This season is the 65th season of the club! Sad that we don´t celebrate that in the 1 division!

Considering the worst bad beats of the season for this division (yours and Skytturnar's) were both against Dropito and both were after playing a "take it easy" into their "crunch time", moral of the story seems to be "Don't play take it easy against Dropito" and you can be sure I will play at least a normal on 16/08 for all the good it will likely do!

The most recent one with more points and no overtime in the cup I remember is this https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/134981007/boxscore.aspx from last season's tournament quarter final but that was 2 teams playing Run & Gun against each other. Glasgow Raptors were 149/15.1 against the Red Hammers' 136/14.6 but this was one of those games where Full Court Press actually worked as the Raptors gave up 26 turnovers to 7 which could easily explain a 12 point swing on its own!

And since Barcelona Dragons are such a well established team, I had to go way WAY back to find the last time someone hung 160 on them in any game which was this https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/102776186/boxscore.aspx from season 43 division II.3 when I suspect that the metas were somewhat different to now looking at the outside defensive ratings!

One thing to add, which I forgot. I played normally, but they crunch.
And there is a problem with the strategy. The league and cup is strong, very few "expected" wins to take a risk.

I build, and have always does, my team up from training. Meaning I are always with 6 guards getting their training. And it can be tricky to choose how and when to take risk as I don´t give discount on it.

I am a former coach and player in other sports in the meat words, and I have never liked the strange rules in basketball (but stress that has changed here in Iceland in a better way) to buy players just for the finals. Team is built from to play as a teams.
So even though it is not the meat world and I always play online games as I would in the meat world. Would not have like games, and have even stop playing some where it is not possible, if I wouldn´t act like that.

This game has changed a lot with both pros and cons. At the start, I had 15 players who could all play in tournament games, but it is not possible now. So you need to setup weaker teams in many games and there is the tricky thing about strategy.

I have, I think, found out way to reduce the salary, even so they are too high, but have the team stronger on same time. This season is a test about it but I will developed the team in that direction if things will developed as they has done.

But the problem with depeloped own player is that the TL don´t works at all! So the reason I do it is to have always players ready when the key is to old.

As before Italics for Big 8 conference teams, Bold for Great 8 conference teams and if you see any errors then let me know.

Game 7 Game Ratings :-

145 - 14.8 - Chicago Bulbs II
143 - 14.3 - Celestia BC
141 - 14.4 - Glasgow Raptors
126 - 11.9 - Dropito
125 - 12.5 - Locomotive Edinburgh
122 - 12.9 - Santa Booker
115 - 12.0 - Revolta Culé, B.C
108 - 11.7 - Skytturnar
104 - 11.1 - Glasgow Blue Jays
103 - 10.9 - Raging Seagull
095 - 11.1 - Bibby Brotherhood
090 - 09.3 - Berzerkers Ball Club
080 - 06.9 - Pic Pedrosa
053 - 04.3 - Apex Legends
048 - 04.5 - Comandaranga
045 - 04.0 - Rocalux

Running Totals of Game Rating this season:

881 - 125.9 - Glasgow Raptors
881 - 125.9 - Celestia BC
877 - 125.2 - Glasgow Blue Jays
868 - 124.0 - Skytturnar
852 - 121.7 - Chicago Bulbs II
814 - 116.3 - Locomotive Edinburgh
814 - 116.3 - Dropito
798 - 114.0 - Santa Booker
778 - 111.1 - Revolta Culé, B.C
697 - 099.6 - Raging Seagull
657 - 093.9 - Berzerkers Ball Club
590 - 084.3 - Bibby Brotherhood
527 - 075.3 - Apex Legends
479 - 068.4 - Pic Pedrosa
397 - 056.8 - Comandaranga
374 - 053.4 - Rocalux

Best team stats of the evening

Points : 153 : Santa Booker
Rebounds : 78 : Glasgow Raptors
Assists : 43 : Skytturnar, Santa Booker
Steals : 37 : Skytturnar
Block Shots : 16 : Skytturnar

Best individual stats of the evening

Points : 44 : F. Seren (chicago bulbs II)
Rebounds : 23 : F. Pisoni (chicago bulbs II)
Assists : 19 : F. Monsch (Santa Booker)
Steals : 7 : F. Sigvaldason (Skytturnar)
Block Shots : 4 : O. Samúelsson (Skytturnar), R. Friðbertsson (Skytturnar), M. Korkeakoski (Raging Seagull)

Best efficiency by main position of the evening

Point Guard : W. Atlason (Bibby Brotherhood) (37 Points, 4 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34
Shooting Guard : S. Ratliff (Glasgow Blue Jays) (31 Points, 11 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 4 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Small Forward : F. Seren (chicago bulbs II) (44 Points, 10 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Power Forward : P. Kudyba (Glasgow Blue Jays) (29 Points, 8 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 5 Steals, 2 Block Shots), R. Dougall (Raging Seagull) (32 Points, 22 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Center : D. MacMaurice (Glasgow Raptors) (20 Points, 10 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35

In a break with tradition, the bad beat of the night was not handed out by Dropito but by myself! I was wrong twice in game day prep (I had Chicago Bulbs II doing motion tactics but they used look inside for this game) and William Buchan was injured in the 1st minute of the 1st quarter for the whole game as well but it turned out not to matter as despite Chicago having 16 more team rating and 0.8 higher average player rating, we won 84-77. We won the rebound battle 53-42, blocking 11-2, and team efficiency 99-81, they won assists 22-14 and steals 4-2. A bit like when Glasgow Blue Jays lost to Dropito though, the difference seemed to be giving away 14 extra free-throws which easily accounts for a 7 point swing.

The other game that could feasibly have gone the other way was Skytturnar beating Glasgow Raptors 131-126. Both teams seem to have similar skill levels and the game ratings (144 Skytturnar - 142 Glasgow), average player ratings (13.9 Skytturnar - 14.4 Glasgow) and team efficiency (151 Skytturnar - 162 Glasgow) seem to back that up. Glasgow easily won the rebound battle (72-38) but gave up 18 turnovers to a full-court press (Skytturnar gave up 6) and that alone seems to have cost them the game.

Game 8 Game Ratings :-

144 - 13.9 - Skytturnar
142 - 14.4 - Glasgow Raptors
133 - 13.7 - Celestia BC
128 - 11.6 - Chicago Bulbs II
127 - 13.4 - Glasgow Blue Jays
119 - 12.8 - Santa Booker
112 - 10.8 - Locomotive Edinburgh
104 - 11.1 - Dropito
102 - 10.0 - Raging Seagull
098 - 09.5 - Revolta Culé, B.C
094 - 09.4 - Bezerkers Ball Club
075 - 07.5 - Apex Legends
072 - 07.5 - Pic Pedrosa
064 - 06.9 - Bibby Brotherhood
048 - 04.4 - Comandaranga
045 - 04.3 - Rocalux

Running Totals of Game Rating this season:

1023 - 127.9 - Glasgow Raptors
1014 - 126.8 - Celestia BC
1012 - 126.5 - Skytturnar
1004 - 125.5 - Glasgow Blue Jays
0980 - 122.5 - Chicago Bulbs II
0926 - 115.8 - Locomotive Edinburgh
0918 - 114.8 - Dropito
0917 - 114.6 - Santa Booker
0876 - 109.5 - Revolta Culé, B.C
0799 - 099.9 - Raging Seagull
0751 - 093.9 - Bezerkers Ball Club
0654 - 081.8 - Bibby Brotherhood
0602 - 076.0 - Apex Legends
0551 - 068.9 - Pic Pedrosa
0445 - 055.6 - Comandaranga
0419 - 052.4 - Rocalux

Best team stats of the evening

Points : 142 : Glasgow Blue Jays
Rebounds : 72 : Glasgow Raptors
Assists : 41 : Glasgow Blue Jays, Santa Booker
Steals : 16 : Apex Legends
Block Shots : 25 : Santa Booker

Best individual stats of the evening

Points : 40 : M. Hutchenson (Glasgow Raptors), A. Doncel (Apex Legends)
Rebounds : 22 : S. Gray (Glasgow Raptors)
Assists : 14 : F. Monsch (Santa Booker)
Steals : 7 : M. Martínez (Santa Booker)
Block Shots : 5 : M. Martínez (Santa Booker)

Best efficiency by main position of the evening

Point Guard : D. Gràcia (Revolta Culé, B.C.) (32 Points, 5 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Shooting Guard : M. Martínez (Santa Booker) (36 Points, 12 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 7 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 53 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Small Forward : R. Borda d'Água (Skytturnar) (38 Points, 6 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 5 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Power Forward : M. Hutchenson (Glasgow Raptors) (40 Points, 16 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Center : S. Gray (Glasgow Raptors) (21 Points, 22 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

Great as always.

I can be completely wrong. But I have the feeling that the game is changing in a better way, in my opinion. I have the feeling that more things than the basic count now count more. Not only rebounds, (it has some seasons that I won game after game with it), FG etc.
I have the feeling that now counts all things more than before, more balance. Again, this can be bullshit, and I need to keep in mind that I started to change the team this season, and it will take 2-3 seasons, I guess.

From the start, my strength has always been that I have a team, not stars. So normally I am low in all statistics and it still is on many factors and no problem, but I am rising in the statistics of the game itself.

The Clasgow Raptors crushed me in rebounding tonight (and that was not the plan), but to balance it, I was better in TO + steals. But in great rapport, there was one thing too. FG was equal and in Free throws I had small benefits. But I think the key was the 3 FG. 20-6 means 60 points against 18, and that is huge.

But I have been planning part 2, so I have looked more closely at the group on the right side of the table. And I like, and that does my more convince that changes are, the performance of Sain Booker. If you look at the players, they could be in a problem, but they have 8-0. And if I am guessing right, it is because their players are very similar and probably a better team than an individual.

Hey! Congrats on the win and great job with all the data. From my side, I had to deal with an injury to a key role player in the first quarter, which definitely had an impact—despite the match preparation being spot-on ;)

Rebounding is still a very useful skill in my opinion and I suspect is one of the more expensive to improve in salary skills for a reason, but I am told in days of old it was very VERY powerful. Your 1st paragraph suggest I was told the truth, so I am not surprised it seems to still work if you can eat the salary cost of it.

I do agree the game engine seems to reward team depth. I pointed out when we played that Santa Booker and myself could be described as the 2 spidermen meme, and I suspect our teams as constructed are broadly similar except he doesn't have the Scottish players only restriction I have have placed on myself (reminder of how similar we seem to be are these statlines : - https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/136183166/boxscore.aspx.

Having a similar team construction to me but with the whole world to choose from and so slightly better versions of similar style players (where I have Buchan, he has Draper & where I have MacNuir, he has Pestryakov) means that while I am 8th in wagebill, 4th in FG%, 5th in 3P%, 4th in efficiency/game, 2nd in rebounds, and 2nd in blocks for the division which would sound like solid management, Santa Booker is 10th in wagebill, 1st in FG%, 1st in 3P%, 1st in efficiency/game, 3rd in rebounds, and 1st in blocks!

I am at least ahead of him on the arenabuilding I guess...