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Post by glasspoet on Dec 13, 2014 23:46:02 GMT -5
This league is to find out who the GRAND CHAMPION of GST really IS! It is a league where it takes a Special Invite, which is extended only to the Champions of GST + a Wild Card Team chosen by the Commissioner out of the Whole of GST based on Overall Performance! EVERY Team consists of a GST League Champion -- and not only any league, but ONLY GST's BEST Leagues, the GST PremiumPro Leagues. If you are invited, you can see you will be competing with ONLY Top-Level PROVEN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! It will be the TOUGHEST CHALLENGE possible to be a part of in FMLB!!
This league was NOT designed for you to LIKE it -- as a matter of fact it was designed for EVERYBODY to NOT LIKE it EQUALLY! It is a composition of bits and pieces of ALL the Different GST Premium Pro leagues. The Stat-Line is a unique design created by GST called "Stats of Excellence". As always, it complies with GST's policy of "Fairness to ALL strategies". To be successful, draft EXCELLENT Overall Players! It was NOT designed to be fair either -- those who can return Year after Year will be rewarded (at least in theory).
The league is (somewhat) Winner-Take-All, with the Champion being Crowned GST Grand Champion, which DOES have its benefits!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 14, 2014 0:42:39 GMT -5
2011 -- This league didn't start out ANYTHING like it would become. First of all, there just wasn't that many GST PremiumPro (or any other kind) Leagues to MAKE this league go yet. It was a simple 8 team league, and I hadn't even developed the Stat-Line we were to end up using yet. We used a 6 Team Playoff system, so there were only 2 teams that didn't make the Playoffs, lol. Regular Season Finish: 1. Yellow Cap 2. City of Champions 3. Moon Again 4. Score Lords 5. Mickey Lolich 6. Vin Scullys Boys 7. Glassbreakers (Commish) 8. Astro While this league may have been different and small, that doesn't mean it wasn't HIGHLY Competitive! No-one could stay on top very long ALL YEAR LONG! Mickey Lolich advanced into the Playoffs with a 9-8 Victory, then a 10-8 Victory, but Lost in the Playoffs to City of Champions in a Bitter Battle 9-10! It IS Telling that this group became THE GST Elite Regulars and several have been back to the Tournament of Champions EVERY YEAR since! While small, these were still the Best of the BEST!! Side Note: I did manage to end up NOT in Last Place, but to be honest -- with a 6 Team Playoff, I ended up playing Astro in the Consolation Bracket and he ended up beating me!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 14, 2014 1:00:32 GMT -5
2012 -- By this year GST had created enough PremiumPro Leagues to expand the Tournament of Champions to 14 Teams!
Regular Season Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Fat Bastards 3. Philadelphia Phillies 4. Yellow Cap 5. Vin Scullys Boys 6. 69 Village 7. The Next Iron Chef 8. Velvet Elvis 9. Tiger Blood 10. Moonagain 11. Commissioner (Commish) 12. Big Daddy Kronk 13. Northsiders 14. Mickey Lolich
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Fat Bastards 3. Philadelphia Phillies 4. Yellow Cap 5. Vin Scullys Boys 6. 69 Village
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Tiger Blood 8. The Next Iron Chef 9. Moonagain 10. Velvet Elvis 11. Big Daddy Kronk 12. Commissioner
This year might not have been as Pure Craziness as last year, but it was CRAZY ENOUGH! Here is where City of Champions Officially became a Living Legend -- winning the Regular Season Championship and his SECOND GST Grand Championship!! At this point -- the ONLY Grand Champion GST has known!!!
Side Note: This is the ONLY GST League I've ever seen where the Champion Playoff Finish followed exactly with the Seeds going in!?
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 14, 2014 1:58:53 GMT -5
2013 -- By now we had started using the Stat-Line we use presently and went to the 1 Win System (as per ProPoints1). By this time I was FULLY EXPECTING City of Champions to win Back-to-Back-to-Back (Grand) Championships -- which had NEVER BEEN DONE in ANY GST league!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Squeeze Play 3. Commissioner (Commish) 4. City of Champions 5. Moonagain 6. Yellow Cap 7. Drunk Cubs Fan 8. Judicial Activists 9. MVP 10. Los Angeles Dodgers 11. LA Islander 12. Mickey Lolich 13. Northsiders 14. Chipper HOF
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Yellow Cap 2. City of Champions 3. Score Lords 4. Squeeze Play 5. Moonagain 6. Commissioner
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Judicial Activists 8. Drunk Cubs Fan 9. Mickey Lolich 10. LA Islander 11. Los Angeles Dodgers 12. MVP
City of Champions has never been a Dominator (though he's CERTAINLY capable of such!), more like a "Bloodhound for the Playoffs". It was Score Lords who DOMINATED the Regular Season, going 17-4-1!! Still it was City of Champions who had the Most Impressive 1st Round Win of 20-4, and then SQUEAKED out a Win over the Regular Season Champion to get into the Finals, seemingly to do the IMPOSSIBLE -- which seemed QUITE PROBABLE at THIS Point!!
OK, sorry, I have to PAUSE to tell an INCREDIBLE STORY that was happening while all this was going on. It's a story ALL should TAKE INTO HEART!! While Score Lords was going 8-1 to start the season, Yellow Cap was going 1-8 to start! Starting at 3-10, Yellow Cap finished undefeated for the Last NINE Games -- to just SQUEAK into the Playoffs! Once in the Playoffs he got Better and Better finally doing his Best in the Finals against City of Champions, winning kinda Easy!! GST had a NEW Grand Champion!!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 14, 2014 13:34:03 GMT -5
2014 -- City of Champions was forced to miss the draft, due to work, and the Yahoo Autodrafter REFUSED to bid for any players! It was THE Story going into the Season! We also expanded to 16 Teams.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Northsiders 2. Yellow Cap 3. Big Stick 4. City of Champions 5. TID 6. Chipper HOF 7. Waterloo Wildcats 8. GAP in my Pale Hose 9. Glassbreakers (Commish) 10. 1993 Atlanta Braves 11. Squeeze Play 12. Long Island Firedogs 13. Score Lords 14. Mickey Lolich 15. Bulldogs 2 16. KP
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Yellow Cap 2. Northsiders 3. TID 4. Chipper HOF 5. City of Champions 6. Big Stick
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Waterloo Wildcats 8. Glassbreakers 9. GAP in my Pale Hose 10. 1993 Atlanta Braves 11. Squeeze Play 12. Long Island Firedogs
Northsiders DOMINATED this league like it had never been Dominated Before! He went 18-2-1!! A couple of TOC Newcomers, TID and Big Stick, impressed GREATLY, making it into the Playoffs! Northsiders had a Terrible Battle with TID in the 2nd Round -- winning by Tiebreaker 11-11! Meanwhile Yellow Cap had ROLLED into the Playoffs. He had to be a Slight Favorite, being Grand Champion and not having lost in a Playoffs in Years. It looked like Northsiders was JUST TOO STRONG, but Yellow Cap used the Final Weekend to Win the Battle Royal! Can you say Back-to-Back Grand Champion!?!! GST's Living Playoff Legend!!
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Post by glasspoet on Feb 23, 2017 19:26:59 GMT -5
2015 -- We expanded to 18 teams this year! This is the year the GST Regulars Put the Brakes on the Up and Comers!
Regular Season Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Yellow Cap 3. This is Dog 4. Big Stick 5. Score Lords 6. LA Islander 7. Northsiders 8. Mickey Lolich 9. To Da Moon 10. KP 11. Baltimore Yankees 12. Walls of Wrigley 13. Cincy Porkopolitans 14. Spin Doctors 15. Glassbreakers (Commish) 16. Salty Seamen 17. Batmen 18. Waterloo Wildcats
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Yellow Cap 2. Big Stick 3. This is Dog 4. City of Champions 5. Score Lords 6. LA Islander
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Score Lords 8. Mickey Lolich 9. To Da Moon 10. KP 11. Baltimore Yankees 12. Walls of Wrigley
This was really the First Year no one took a Commanding Dominant Lead in the Regular Season. There were a Record Amount of Ties. The Competition was FIERCE! This capped an AMAZING FOUR YEAR RUN where Yellow Cap NEVER LOST in a Playoffs!! He became our First 3 Time Grand Champion!!!!
High Win%: .714 Low Win%: .143
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Post by glasspoet on Feb 24, 2017 1:08:18 GMT -5
2016 -- This is the year that began with SO MUCH Talk about the Power of Keepers, enough I made a Couple of Basic Rule Changes -- which came into effect in reality.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Yellow Cap 2. Big Stick 3. To Da Moon 4. NY Deathstare 5. Chipper 6. City of Champions 7. Score Lords 8. This is Dog 9. Lisa Ann Does Fantasy 10. Spin Doctors 11. Northsiders 12. Beardstown Riverrats 13. Mickey Lolich 14. Drunk Cubs Fan 15. Velvet Elvis 16. Vottomatic 17. Waterloo Wildcats 18. Glassbreakers (Commish)
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Yellow Cap 3. Big Stick 4. NY Deathstare 5. Chipper 6. To Da Moon
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Score Lords 8. This is Dog 9. Lisa Ann Does Fantasy 10. Spin Doctors 11. Northsiders 12. Beardstown Riverrats
After all the talk about Keepers, well into the season, teams WITHOUT Keepers were on top and Yellow Cap languished outside the Playoffs and City of Champions languished outside the Consolation Playoffs. It looked early like Beardstown Riverrats would run away with the Regular Season. Instead, we easily had the Most Competitive Season ever, had the Most Teams Be In The Lead ever, and broke the Number of Ties Record. Alas, the Cream Always Rises To The Top, and Yellow Cap rose to the top and City of Champions just made the Playoffs on the Last Week of the Season. From there it boiled down in the Finals into a competition between the two Grand Champions going Head to Head!! What a Season! What a Finals!! This is the season Yellow Cap lost his Playoff Invincibility and City of Champions became our Second THREE-TIME Grand Champion!!!
High Win%: .667 Low Win%: .238
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