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FingolfinandRingil · 08-17-2024, 05:09 PM

1st Maine Timber: 7340

2nd Vancouver Whalers: 6265

3rd Detroit Falcons: 6041

4th St. Louis Scarecrows: 6023

5th Quebec City Citadelles: 5782

6th Colorado Raptors: 5657

7th Ottawa Highlanders: 5627

8th Great Falls Grizzles: 5613

9th Newfoundland Berserkers: 5496

10th Kelowna Knights: 5375

11th Nevada Battleborn: 5368

12th Carolina Kraken: 5210

13th Anchorage Armada: 5208

14th Yukon Malamutes: 4789

15th Thunder Bay Walleye: 4579

16th San Diego Tidal: 4280

These standings are in applied TPE not total TPE, and all totals were calculated by me, and I don't claim that these are 100% accurate, but I tried my best. It shows some interesting results, with the Timber far ahead, which reflects the real standings, while the Whalers, with a high TPE score, are thirteenth in the league. These results seem to randomly vary between accuracy and polar opposites, but I will try to understand the reasonable conclusions that can be drawn from it. Since the season has just started, I can blame the current standings on random variations, but by the end of the season, I believe the following will happen: 1. The Vancouver Whalers will mount a large comeback and go fairly deep in the playoffs(wink wink). 2. Anchorage, Nevada and Yukon will slowly drift down the leaderboard, with Anchorage passing Yukon mid-season. 3. The Timber finish first and win the Four Star Cup with relative ease due to lack of competition. 4. The Walleye and the Tidal will suck all season and finish at the very bottom. 5. Most of the other teams will simply stay around where they are. Number five is the easiest to claim, since it is so vague, and four isn't very ambitious, two is a bit of a stretch, three is unlikely, and one is ridiculous, I have faith, but the chances are slim.

These picks are very exact, and it is quite likely that none of them come true, but that doesn't mean I won't try! You can call me a Whaler homer, but I think we can do it again. With eleven players return for a shot at back-to-back Cups, over half the team has playoff experience(though both goalies are new, which could be a make or break for them). Lead by MattyJ and Olafur Atlason the forward core is ready claim their spot among the greats, Trevor Lopez and Oliver Cornwall lead the blueliners, Cornwall has eight goals, which is the most on the Whalers, while Lopez is near a point per game. They also protect Cristobal Khabibulin and DoomGuy; the all-new goalie squad: DoomGuy is headed for his best season ever, and Cristobal is looking to make good impressions in his first year. Khabibulin has started eleven of sixteen games, and rocks a 3.76 GAA and .0892 SV%, DoomGuy has much better stats, with 2.43 GAA and 0.920 SV%, maybe the boost the need is for DoomGuy to step up to the starter roll, and maybe get some wins to reset. Center NoNoJo has struggled in goal-scoring, with a horrendous shooting percentage of 6%, Rookies Dominic Enselmo and Levon Dojkic both are without points, and desperately trying to prove that they deserve a spot on the team. Robo Sven, in his fourth year on Vancouver, leads the team in game rating, with seventy-nine offensive, sixty-one defensive, for a total of seventy-three. If everyone steps up, the rookies get rolling, the goalies get into a grove, then maybe, just maybe, the Vancouver Whalers have a chance at one more Four Star Cup. But hey, it's just a theory. A GAME THEORY! (MatPat is so good)

Levon Dojkic
Vancouver Whaler

chetib · 09-07-2024, 01:47 AM

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