Participation (I just threw random answers just to guarantee that even if either of my word counts get docked I get full TPE. Thank you.)


Well this one very much depends on what you mean by renegades. I am not going to directly quote Merriam Webster as I believe that would negatively impact word count, but suffice to say they list two options for the noun renegade. The first I do not think stands a good chance against a pack of wolves as they are unlikely to remain loyal to each other whereas the wolves will work as a cohesive unit thus giving them the easiest path to victory. In a team based battle unit cohesion is incredibly important and the wolves have that in spades compared to renegade meaning one. Now as for meaning two I would say the same basic principle applies in that the wolves will work together better and the infighting among the meaning two renegades will lead the wolves to victory. However as meaning two is essentially outlaws there is an outlaw type that I would give the edge to and that group is poachers because I would expect them to be trained to deal with wolves more specifically, and so even with them being more prone to bickering than the wolves as there is no honor among thieves I do not think that bickering will bring them down enough for the wolves to overtake them in this situation. Overall I give the win to the wolves as I would expect them to meet up after the renegades desert something or another and the wolves being practical predators pick them off after noticing their weakness. With the wolves moving appropriately for group hunting the renegades break out into infighting leading to a disruption in response that ultimately costs them all their lives.



So honestly I have zero expectations going into any season in this league as I do not have a good baseline with which to judge things. There are probably grade schoolers who have lived their entire life in a desert who have more knowledge of hockey than I do, but what I do have is the ability to look back at other seasons for comparison. Now based off of Dave's history coming into this season I would have expected goals in the mid twenties and forty to fifty assists. That might be illogical given in S76 he had 29 and 28 respectively and is in regression, but I know from experience in other sim leagues that sometimes you just have a down year and that assist total is the worst of his career with the point total being third worst now behind his sophomore season and the most recent season. So since this season ended with him getting just 15 goals eight fewer than he had ever managed before and just 33 assists a mere five more than his worst performance I am comfortable saying he failed to meet my expectations. Meanwhile as he is old enough that I could compare regression to him being hit by multiple trucks I get the unpleasant feeling that next season is only going to be worse which means his time might be coming to an end sooner rather than later. I have committed to one more season with Chicago though and so I will continue to work to keep him somewhat relevant. Even with regression being trucks though given when he came in he had lower TPE than he will have next season my stance is that if he fails to hit 60 points that the season is a failure given he has beaten that mark in nine of twelve seasons and anything under 50 is a catastrophe given this past season is his first to fail to beat that mark.


Additionally I love you for the word count changes. A blessing on all the houses involved in that decision.