S74 All Star Week

S74 All Star Week

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#188

01-28-2024, 04:01 PM

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1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE.

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

Link your Milestone claim as task 1 for up to 3 TPE towards your 8 total.

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

S74 MILESTONES

Milestone Claim - 2 TPE

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

a. Two teams, Edmonton and Los Angeles, tie with five total nods each. Both of those teams are in the West. Playoff rivalry aside, do you think it's to the West's advantage or disadvantage to have a relatively large number of players from the same two teams? Does it make the all-star game better or worse when this happens?

I thinks it's an advantage from a purely scoring more than the other team perspective. The ASG is pure offense, so playing with people who you have already built up chemistry with is absolutely ideal. By the same reasoning I would make an argument that it also makes the game better because it should limit silly mistakes, like being a foot offside due to mis timing an entry.
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b. While the East rolled it back with two top defensive pairings - this year that means Philadelphia and Hamilton - the West mixed it up with only Los Angeles having two defensemen present. Everyone else has a new partner. Which side's defense are you more interested in watching?

Philly. I mean east. Knowing what your d partner is going to do is so important for a high flowing offense. You need to know what the partner is going to do before the action happens in order to be optimized. Who is picking up the dump in, where do they want the outlet pass to go?
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d. Why should YOUR player have made the all star game, and why should you be the last man in? (If your player did make the all star game, argue for one of your teammates instead!)

Nathaniel should have gotten the nod because what is better than 2 philly D? 3 philly D! Just imagine how mad the rest of the league would have been, it would have been absolutely glorious. This builds on the chemistry aspect from above, and the philadelphia defense are the best looking d in the league. That's why we always sell out the annual calendar.
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4. Written, 3 TPE, TPE TPE TPE (150 words min.)

How much of a correlation do you think there is between TPE and an all-star nod? Should there be more, or less, than there is?

I worry that if there is any correlation at all then we have an issue at heart. The problem is that people might expect to do great things in their ultimate season if they max earn. I would personally venture a guess that for 95%+ of players that their best season will occur on one of the 2 bordering seasons on either end. If players have this expectation, then I worry that words get send in the many discord servers, or expectations made on teams to put people in prime positions even if the random seed isn't feeling the player this season. With that expectation I expect it forces players into positions to do well more so than others. Now, if the players are doing well in these positions sure, but I think it's a pretty weak excuse from the committee putting players in just because player x is 200 more tpe. Almost as bad as the zoomer contest that is last player in I'm sure.
At the end of the day, if no one cares about all star game, does it really matter who gets in?

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