S81 Championship Week

S81 Championship Week Due: Sunday, April 6th @ 11:59 PM PST

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03-31-2025, 02:27 PM

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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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+1.5-3.0 TPE

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Written, 50 to 200+ words each. Short Prompts

2. Which team has had the easier road to the cup finals? Do you think they could have made it to the finals if they were in a different division?

5. 8 of the top 10 players by TPE on SFP are forwards, meanwhile 4 of the 6 TBB Defensemen are part of the top 10 players by TPE. Do you think it’s more important to have a core of powerful forwards or a core of incredible defensemen?

6. Your player gets added to a message group by accident and gets an unintentional invite to watch the finals live with the commissioners on their box. What does your player do and how does the situation evolve?

2.I believe that on this occasion the San Francisco Pride had the easier pathway to the finals. From facing a 61 point Winnipeg team in the opening round (and making it look tricky) to a respectable Seattle team in round two and finally Nola in the conference finals (avoiding Texas thanks to an upset) I believe on the balance of things it was not as difficult as what the Barracuda faced in the two teams that placed above them in the division and then perennial playoff magicians New England in the conference finals. I think Tampa underachieved in the regular season and caused this on their own, and they are lucky fatigue/wear and tear aren’t a thing that will influence them in the finals. Based on the relatively challenging paths both did end up taking however, I don’t think either would have missed out by being in another division. They had to prove themselves along the way in order to reach the final.

163 words, +3 TPE

5. Hindsight could play a bit of a role in my answer although I think I would have chosen the same answer had I written this earlier: I think the forward core is most important. I think in the current FHM sim engine, teams should be built from front to back, and we know in general that goalie TPE is borderline irrelevant. I think that defensive TPE could be next, if the coach knows how to deploy their players and strategize around them appropriately. On offense though, there seems to be quite the correlation between tpe and output and I think it has been this way for a while. At this point, with SFP as back-to-back-to-back champs once again having TBB’s number in the finals, I think the results back up this hypothesis.

132 words, +2 TPE

6. If Marek Carda were accidentally added to the text group regarding taking in the finals from the box of the Commish, he would probably go along with everything he read. If by the time he were to fly out for the game nobody had noticed the error, he would probably rock right up and into the game as if he owned the place. A minor oversight is one thing, but if Carda can actively participate in the chat, plan, and never get called out, then he would absolutely take advantage of the opportunity. Additionally, despite having been in the U.S. for a number of seasons now, English is still his second language, which offers him a small bit of deniability should he be called out for not suspecting he was added in error.

133 words, +2 TPE

Totals: 1.5-3 TPE + 3 TPE + 2 TPE + 2 TPE = 8.5-10 TPE Total for a maximum of 8 TPE