S78 Championship Week

S78 Championship Week Due: Sunday, September 29th @ 11:59 PM PST

Chevy
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09-19-2024, 02:50 PM (This post was last modified: 09-19-2024, 03:01 PM by Chevy. Edited 2 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.

Stromboli

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. The Path

Los Angeles comes to finals after two seven game seriesses while Tampa Bay has only lost one game after the first round and they have 3 less games during the playoffs. Do you think Tampa Bay gets meaningful advantage from seemingly easier path to the finals as they come in more rested? Or is there no stopping the train of the Los Angeles after they fought their way through teams that finished second and third during regular season? How do you think the path to the finals will impact the series and does it change who you favor?

If this were real life, Tampa Bay would definitely have an advantage of being more rested with a longer break. Unfortunately though, the way FHM works out is that both teams, if I recall correctly, have a full on week or so break before the finals start on the schedule. This is actually, WORSE in my opinion for Tampa Bay due to the "rust" mechanic that the game includes. Now granted, it isn't a full thirty days of play that they are missing, however their players are going a longer time without actually playing in a game compared to Los Angeles. This could be detrimental, especially in Game 1 as they will have to "shake the rust off" so to speak. That is also assuming that that mechanic is treated the same in post-season play as it is during regular season play.

I personally am looking forward to these finals. Having been part of the Season 65 Tampa team who went to the finals against LA previously (Chomp Chomp waterdogs!!!!), it would be nice to see some retribution return, and the streak ended for the flamboyant Miami Vice entrusted fantasy team.

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When things stay the same for too long there is risk of them becoming stale, so to ensure that doesn’t happen we need to add something or to something and as you were just elected as dictator of SHL you get to make the pick. Are we going to have more games? Maybe add few teams or 4th lines to current ones? Could even add more stats to spend our TPE by not standardazing the mental stats? What or to what would you add and why?

Oh this is easy. The first thing I would do is bring back fourth lines, across all leagues. On top of that, I would re-enable unit tactics, but only for the powerplay and penalty kill teams. This would allow players to truly have some specialization instead of getting stuck in some sort of twisted meta. I think it would allow us to have more variability in games. On top of that, I would expand the scale. You think right now having near 20's in a player is McDavid or Gretzky-esque? Just wait until you realize that the attributes can go all the way to 40. As Uncle Si would say "Now you're cooking with peanut oil!"