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Post by glasspoet on Dec 7, 2014 18:32:40 GMT -5
When I greatly expanded GST, I kinda thought there was a place in GST for a league with Big Stats (15x15). I must have been right because this league is often GST's Most Popular League.
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 7, 2014 18:51:35 GMT -5
2011 -- We went to draft with 14 teams our inaugural year.
Regular Season Finish: 1. 1Dodgerfan 2. Glassbreakers (Commish) 3. Big Daddy Kronk 4. Metal O. 5. Ty Cobb 6. Aroid 7. Nati 8. Astros 9. City of Champions 10. Icewater Pro 11. Screwballs 12. Hoosier Daddy 13. Strong Island 14. Tracers22j
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Big Daddy Kronk 2. Ty Cobb 3. Astro 4. Nati 5. Metal O. 6. Glassbreakers 7. ARoid 8. 1Dodgerfan
This league DEFINITELY had some of the SHORTEST Team Names I've ever saw! As I've learned is common in this league, no one stepped up at first (many leaders), until 1Dodgerfan got away in Dominating fashion later in the season with an almost .600 Win%. It was Big Daddy Kronk who ended up ROLLING through the Playoffs, with a RARE Double Double Playoff Win in the 1st Round, until he finally got involved in a Hard Fought Battle with Ty Cobb in the Finals. He represented the league in the Tournament of Champions.
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 7, 2014 19:03:29 GMT -5
2012 -- We quickly expanded to 18 teams!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. City of Champions 3. LA Islander 4. Hoosier Daddy 5. Astro 6. Ty Cobb 7. Glassbreakers (Commish) 8. Beardstown Riverrats 9. Strong Island 10. Screwballs 11. Big Daddy Kronk 12. Iolana Jade 13. The Master 14. Nati 15. Southcide 16. Tracers22j 17. Northsiders 18. ARoid
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. LA Islander 2. Score Lords 3. Hoosier Daddy 4. Glassbreakers 5. Astro 6. City of Champions 7. Ty Cobb 8. Beardstown Riverrats
Once again, Score Lords snuck away from the league to Dominate in the 2nd Half, a common theme in this league. He also ROLLED through the Playoffs until meeting LA Islander in the Finals. LA Islander, I think, was "On a Mission", a mission of revenge. He BARELY escaped the 1st Round with Ty Cobb with a 13-13 Tie, then CRUSHED my team, until he won a Hard Fought Battle with Score Lords in the Finals -- accomplishing what he failed to accomplish last year despite winning the Regular Season -- winning a Championship and representing this league in the Tournament of Champions!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 7, 2014 21:27:46 GMT -5
2013 -- The league filled up quickly, it was the heyday of the league.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Beardstown Riverrats 3. Spin Doctors 4. Uptown Atl Boyz 5. Baller 32 6. City of Champions 7. The Master 8. Nati 9. Glassbreakers (Commish) 10. Tracers22j 11. Chase Ka'eo 12. LA Islander 13. Screwballs 14. Long Island 15. Astro 16. Southcide 17. DC Cubs 18. Ty Cobb
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. City of Champions 3. The Master 4. Uptown Atl Boyz 5. Spin Doctors 6. Nati 7. Beardstown Riverrats 8. Baller 32
Talk about Revenge! Score Lords and Beardstown Riverrats won their divisions easily enough, though it was probably the closest Regular Season the league has ever experienced up top, the Playoffs ALWAYS being up for grabs -- but Score Lords, in the middle of one of the greatest seasons EVER put together inside GST, revenged his Finals defeat of last year, by CRUSHING his competition with an UNHEARD OF 2 Double Double Wins on his way to the fairly rare Deadly Double, which had never been done in this league before. It didn't help he faced City of Champions in a classic matchup in the Finals. NOTHING was going to stop Score Lords this year!!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 7, 2014 21:57:54 GMT -5
2014 -- I'll call this the "Year of the Defection". Whereas I RARELY had to encourage anybody to enter this league before, all of a sudden I had to actively advertise this league extensively. Yes we filled up in the end..........
Regular Season Finish: 1. Nati 2. Southcide 3. Strong Island 4. Ty Cobb 5. Glassbreakers (Commish) 6. Chase Ka'eo 7. Spin Doctors 8. Northsiders 9. Go Tribe 10. Score Lords 11. Screwballs 12. Baller 32 13. Tracers22j 14. LA Islander 15. California Chrome 16. Long Island Firedogs 17. Another SS Cub Fan 18. DC Cubs
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Spin Doctors 2. Northsiders 3. Chase Ka'eo 4. Ty Cobb 5. Strong Island 6. Glassbreakers 7. Southcide 8. Nati
New and Old Faces. More unsettled than most years. Nati finally took the Regular Season, and with a solid .580 Win%, but it was much more competitive in here than it usually is (low Win% a solid .430), and the Wild Rush to the Playoffs was crazier than ever! The Playoffs were a bit Nutty also, with the resulting order almost exactly OPPOSITE of the order going in!? Most of this was just the result of increased competition inside GST than EVER BEFORE! This league PROVED it was not simply SAME OLD, SAME OLD any longer! Oh yea, to Top it Off, this was EASILY the Most Competitive Playoffs this league, or really ANY league, ever experienced before, with absolutely NO Big Wins (UNHEARD OF in this league), and many ties, culminating in the Most Exciting Finals EVER with Northsiders and Spin Doctors BATTLING to a 14-14 tie!! THAT'S how close this league has become! Northsiders' BIGGEST Playoff Win was 1 -- yes ONE (and we're talking a 15x15 format)! But in the end it was Spin Doctor FINALLY breaking through in GST!! Nobody has tried harder, and I can't wait to see him again in the Tournament of Champions representing this league! Well and definitely EARNED! I think he has finally opened the door into the GST Elite, very proud of him!
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Post by glasspoet on Nov 1, 2015 9:06:07 GMT -5
2015 -- This league has become one of the slower leagues to fill. Perhaps that is because it seems to require a bit of activity to succeed?
Regular Season Finish: 1. Ty Cobb 2. Big Stick 3. Score Lords 4. Beardstown Riverrats 5. Go Tribe 6. Spin Doctors 7. Glassbreakers (Commish) 8. DC Cubs 9. Tracers 22j 10. S-S Cub Fan 11. Nati 12. Baller 32 13. Chase Ka'eo 14. Strong Island 15. Screwballs 16. Long Island Firedogs 17. Southcide 18. Northsiders
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Spin Doctors 2. Beardstown Riverrats 3. Ty Cobb 4. Big Stick 5. DC Cubs 6. Score Lords 7. Go Tribe 8. Glassbreakers
True to form, whenever you think you have finally figured out the pathway to success in a GST league -- you haven't, as Ty Cobb, on of the Least Move-Making GM won the Regular Season. True, this league often being one of the leagues that seems easier to Dominate than others, was again Dominated by Beardstown Riverrats and Big Stick early on. Looked over and done. BUT the league Reeled Them Back In before the End. It turned out to be a Photo Finish at the Finish Line! Ten Teams ended up above .500! Then Spin Doctors did it AGAIN!! He had a Close Competition with Score Lords, then won Hard Battle Squeakers over Big Stick and Beardstown Riverrats to REPEAT!! The 1st Round separated the Big Boys from the Pretenders -- but after that, there were ONLY Squeakers the Rest of the Way!!! Some of the Best Battles a Playoff ever produced!
High Win%: .585 Low Win%: .443
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Post by glasspoet on Feb 23, 2017 0:16:36 GMT -5
2016 -- We had a lot of turnover this year, but we went to draft with 20 teams for the first time. I made one small change, I added 1 roster spot.
Regular Season Finish: 1 Day Dreamers 2. Score Lords 3. Joe Buck Yourself 4. Spin Doctors 5. Beardstown Riverrats 6. Dominican Master 7. Baller32 8. Southcide 9. Big Stick 10. Ty Cobb 11. Nati 12. Go Tribe 13. LI Fire Dogs 14. Chase Ka'eo 15. JW Angels 16. NY Expos 17. Northsiders 18. Glassbreakers (Commish) 19. $crewballs 20. Tracers22j
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Spin Doctors 2. Joe Buck Yourself 3. Southcide 4. Score Lords 5. Dominican Master 6. Day Dreamers 7. Beardstown Riverrats 8. Baller32
It is a yearly tradition seemingly where I lead this league early before falling back. It was the same this year, but much more pronounced, and instead of "falling back", I went into "freefall" which I could never pull out of. It was HIGHLY COMPETITIVE ALL YEAR, more so than even last year, which was the closest competition we had had in this league! MANY different teams had the lead at one point or another! I was very proud of Day Dreamers for coming through in a Big Way in the Regular Season, especially clutch in the end. We had a VERY IMPRESSIVE Rookie -- Joe Buck Yourself, who looked at 1 point like he might run away with it. Still, in the end, it was Spin Doctors once again, who won his Back-to-Back-to-Back Championship, a Fantasic Almost Impossible Feat in GST. He has really Come Into His Own the last 2 years, going from GST Regular to GST Powerhouse Team! Only Southcide game him any problems in the Playoffs.
Best Win%: .564 Low Win%: .402
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