S69 Championship Week

S69 Championship Week Due: March 12th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

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03-11-2023, 05:58 PM (This post was last modified: 03-11-2023, 06:37 PM by awils13. Edited 3 times in total.)

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1.5 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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2. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion draft to challenge cup?

b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with 25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire goalie that you need to find another way around?

d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

a. It feels like it's more difficult to get to the top than to stay there and many teams have tried to rebuild and never reached the finals, so both ways are equally impressive. But if I had to pick one then probably the expansion draft, because usually an expansion team is good enough to make the playoffs but far from a real contender, and it takes some good GMing to get there
b. Rashford is a great playmaker who can score when needed but they're always looking to pass and set up a teammate for a great chance, if you look at stats Rashford isn't a volume shooter and has an average shooting percentage, so it's probably a good idea to try to block passing lanes.
c. Base pack is facing around 32-33 shots a game which is about league average so even with a more dense schedule in the playoffs, I don't think fatigue will be an issue, especially considering that Base pack is a young goalie. You need your goalie to get hot at the right time in order to win it all, and I think that is the case here
d. I'm writing this after the series has ended so I know that Philadephia won by a gentleman sweep which is kind of surprising as these teams were indeed very close on paper, if you look at regular season stats these 2 teams were in the top 3 in shots for and shots against

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3331138

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

More hockey seasons
Cannot wait to retire
But we go again

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15. Written, 3 TPE, IIHF Analysis (150 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC! Tell me about your team! What are your expectations for your player? What teams are you watching out for this time around? Did last season's results surprise you?

I don't think anyone was surprised to see Sweden and Finland in the gold medal game last season because both teams have been good for a while. I was surprised that Canada didn't make it out of the group for the first time in forever but hoping for a better outcome this time around. Our roster is looking quite nice, a lot of players in the prime of their careers and some good young players made the team recently, almost everyone is over 1 thousand tpe I think, including the goalie. We've always had good skaters, even the last few seasons when we were in a semi-rebuild, but Dionne is our first max earning goalie since Eller like 15 seasons ago, I think? It would be nice to win this season and feels like this team is good enough to win, but I could also see it take a bit more time as our roster continues to improve

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S69 Championship Week - by leviadan - 03-03-2023, 12:14 AM

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