S65 Championship Week

S65 Championship Week

raymond3000
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S11, S35 Challenge Cup Champion

#214

07-03-2022, 07:26 PM (This post was last modified: 07-03-2022, 07:57 PM by raymond3000. Edited 3 times in total.)

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 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.

patience

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

a. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a. While both teams are certainly deserving of being in the Challenge Cup Finals, the Los Angeles Panthers have clearly been the class of the league this season and are the clear favorite to win it all. The Panthers have more quality players than any other team in the league, and while they may lack that true superstar, they have several elite players which make them so hard to play against.
b. The Barracuda offense has been firing on all cylinders, but the Panthers defense has been just as good this season. They possess arguably the best defensive defenseman in the league in Jonas Kahnwald, while the rest of the top four are no slouches either. Finally, even if you can get past their defenseman, goalie Olof Karsikko has been an absolute brick wall all post season long.
c. The Barracuda might look to spread out their top forwards on different lines to avoid getting matched up with the Panther's shutdown pairing. The Panthers managed to shut down the Syndicate's top line which was the best trio in the league, so they are likely a match for anything Tampa can throw at them.
d. The shot blocking stats mostly speaks to the level of competition these two teams have faced so far and the number of games required to defeat those teams, especially in the second round. While the Panthers were able to sweep the Pride, the Barracuda were entrenched in a seven game slugfest against the Inferno, who were last seasons cup finalists and still one of the best teams in the league.

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6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat (150 words min.)

I work for the FHM dev team and I’m giving you, sweet user, the ability to add any stat you want to our player build system. Footwork? Sure! Stink level? Why not! Stomach capacity? Ok… I guess so! Tell me what stat you want to add, and how you imagine it’ll affect the sim.

Luck is an ability which should be explicitly added into the FHM sim engine. While luck currently exists in the random number generation that I'm sure is used to compute countless decisions and actions within the simulated games, players should have a luck attribute which ever so often overrides or nudges these calculations to give the player a favorable decision. Furthermore, this luck attribute would be randomly selected for each player and rerolled every season to help give the league some more randomness and parity, with season over season performance not guaranteed. It would also give players who aren't max TPE earners the chance to have a pop-off season and contend for awards, something that used to quite common in STHS but unfortunately has gone away with FHM. I'm sure this would suck if you're a top team who just gets unlucky rolls, but as someone on a bottom feeder, it would be nice to have something help tips the scales in what are otherwise seeming unwinnable games.

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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

+2 TPE

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but it’s fun!  

LINK: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

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19. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Congratulations, graphic loving procrastinator! Much like the written word loving procrastinator, you too have a special task just for you! Create a post-series splash screen detailing the outcome of the series, or highlighting the player that you think should be playoff MVP. Include at least 3 stats no matter which way you go with it!