Thank you to all who participated in the first season of SHL Fantasy² - this was a test run of this exciting new idea and we invite anyone interested to sign up for the S54 version here. @bbjygm is continuing to work on the automated drafting procedure and we're excited to give this another fun run before opening it up to monetary incentives, likely the following season if interest continues. 

A quick recap on the standings from S53:

Group 1:
Winner: @Julio Tokolosh
2nd: @Naosu
3rd: @Mutedfaith
4th: @"thecanadiancanuck"
5th: @"BoucherFan12"
6th: @BDonini
7th: @soulja
8th: @thiefofcheese

Group 2 didn't actually finish their draft but congratulations to @The__Y-man__100 for technically winning!

In group 1, Tokolosh put together a dominant squad, led by charlieconway, who finished 2nd overall in the global S53 fantasy standings, and kylrad, who finished 4th overall in the global standings. In fact, none of the 5 users who Tokolosh selected finished worse than 3rd in their group, so an impressive all-around effort from Julio. Naosu's squad was nothing to sneeze at, selecting the 5th and 8th global scorers in Gwdjohnson and Weretarantula. thiefofcheese owned the worst draft pick from this group, selecting Citizen of Adraa, who finished last in group 1 and 3rd-to-last globally. 

The global S53 fantasy scoring leader - RedCapeDiver - went unselected in both groups. Even @RedCapeDiver passed on himself!

The "group managers" selection - which averages the highest and lowest scores from that manager's entire group - wound up displaying a pretty small amount of variance, with the lowest chosen group scoring just 100 points less than the highest chosen group.

thanks @Carpy48 and @frithjofr and @rum_ham and @Julio Tokolosh and @Briedaqueduc for the sigs

  

group 2 gang

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