S77 All Star Week

S77 All Star Week Due: Sunday, August 4th @ 11:59 PM PST

jbay7
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08-03-2024, 01:47 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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3546747

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Written, 50 to 200+ words each. Shiny Grab Bag

Who will be the star of the All-star game? Why you think they will be better than the rest?

Which are your three favorite Charity Auction items? Why those?

Who are the best players you shouldn’t pick in fantasy? Why?

Plan a heist to steal all of Luke's money.

If you had to form RPG party with 4 of your team mates, who would you pick and which role would they play?

Which PT(s) should be changed, how and why?

4. One archetype of players that are valuable to their team but not in fantasy are defensive minded defensemen who do not block a lot of shots. Since they already will gain fewer points than their offensive counterparts due to lower goals and assists, defensive minded players rely heavily on blocked shots to score points in fantasy. But if instead they perform their duties by creating turnovers, their takeaway number are not rewarded in fantasy. (74 words)

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11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Back to Back

Winning an award is not easy. To win two (or more) seasons in row is even more impressive. Which one of the back to back award wins you are most impressed with and why? Can be written about any award, including team and user awards. Below is the link to Portal where you can start looking for back to back winners.

One of the most obvious back to back wins that jumps out at you is Ivan Lacksamus winning back to back Ron Mexico trophies in S72-73. While he also won back to back Sarmad Khan and Sergei Karpotsov trophies as well, this is less impressive to me because those two are essentially the same trophy as generally voters simply award the player with the most points. The committee on the other hand generally utilizes more comprehensive qualifications and perhaps can even be biased against giving the same player the award multiple seasons in a row. At the end of the day, MVP is MVP, even if it is very skewed towards forwards, and winning it twice is no easy feat.

To diverge a little here, there is another player who has won the award twice that I actually find more impressive than Lacksamus' back to back wins. Konstantin Selich won the award in S69, then would go on to win it again five seasons later in S74. In an era where players burn brightest for a short period of time, it is quite rare to see a player seemingly have two peaks in their career. Selich isn't the only one to win the award in non-consecutive seasons, with Aaron Wilson's wins in S55 and S61 an even larger gap than Selich, but Wilson was part of a powerhouse Hamilton team that won the award a ridiculous 8 out of 9 seasons from S53-61, while Selich played for a good, but certainly not dynastically great Buffalo team. (261 words)