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Post by glasspoet on Dec 6, 2014 16:27:20 GMT -5
2011 -- I thought this league would be a natural. There have always been many GMs complaining about how many moves other teams make. I thought this simple League Concept worthy of PremiumPro status and that it would be very popular. I still believe the first assumption, but this league has always been the hardest to fill up. That was true in its inaugural year also. Of course I might point out that GST itself wasn't that popular/well known back then either.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Restore the Roar 2. Northsiders PL 3. Team HJ 4. Glassbreakers (Commish) 5. KI Gorillas 6. Queen Kard Sharkz 7. City of Champions 8. Bi-Winning 9. Dtownsluggers 10. Icewater Life 11. Pollard Pinstripes 12. Duke Raul
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Northsiders PL 2. Glassbreakers 3. Restore the Roar 4. Queen Kard Sharkz 5. Bi-Winning 6. Team HJ 7. KI Gorillas 8. City of Champions
Halfway through the season it looked like this might be GST's most highly contested league, until late when Restore the Roar pretty much thoroughly dominated this league with a .600+ Win%. There were only 4 Winning Teams. The rest of the league was tightly packed, with the Playoff ramifications not settled till the last week. Northsiders, who came into the league this year and has since become a GST website moderator and League Scribe for UltimatePro, and the GM who has "had my back" more than any other GM, proved his stuff his very first year winning a Close One, settled only by a couple of relievers on the last day of the season -- heading to the Tournament of Champions, which he has made every year since!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 6, 2014 16:46:40 GMT -5
2012 -- LOT's of New Faces, but we did manage to expand to 14 teams.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Drunk Cubs Fan 2. City of Champions 3. Mariner Madness 4. Glassbreakers (Commish) 5. Northsiders 6. Commerce Comets 7. Dtownsluggers 8. Restore the Roar 9. Cyrus 132 10. Braves 2012 11. Some Like it Dread 12. Pollard Pinstripes 13. Blue Diamond 14. Texas Whoopass
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Restore the Roar 2. Northsiders 3. Dtownsluggers 4. Mariner Madness 5. Drunk Cubs Fan 6. City of Champions 7. Glassbreakers 8. Commerce Comets
Talk about a COMPETITIVE league! Though Drunk Cubs Fan won the Regular Season going away, it wasn't until very late. Until that time, the Top Team Lead switched hands more than any other GST league last season.
Restore the Roar, a longtime GST GM, finally won his first Championship, though he has come close a couple of times in other leagues. What makes it more remarkable is he did it from the #8 Playoff Position. Even though there have been more famous cases of this happening in GST prior, I believe this was the first time a Championship was won with a sub-.500 win% (.497), quite possibly the first time it has ever been done in GST history--but proving it CAN be done!
He only made it INTO the playoffs through the Yahoo Regular Season tiebreaker system! Then he went on to Turn the Tide on Northsiders, beating him in the Finals 10-9! Talk about Revenge!!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 6, 2014 17:03:33 GMT -5
2013 -- this league started to find some stability as the GST Regulars began to find this league. The league expanded for the 3rd straight year.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Northsiders 2. Restore the Roar 3. Mariner Madness 4. Hoosier Daddy 5. Commerce Comets 6. 1998 Atlanta Braves 7. City of Champions 8. Glassbreakers (Commish) 9. RG3 10. Cyrus 132 11. Drunk Cubs Fan 12. Braves 2013 13. Spin Doctors 14. DC Cubs 70 15. Dtownsluggers 16. Mayo IV
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Mariner Madness 3. Glassbreakers 4. Commerce Comets 5. Hoosier Daddy 6. Northsiders 7. 1998 Atlanta Braves 8. Restore the Roar
This year Northsiders and Restore the Roar SQUEAKED out Regular Season Divisional Championships in their respected divisions (how appropriate was THAT?!). However it was City of Champions, in his last year in the league, who wanted it MOST. You could practically FEEL the determination! He won by 3, then by 2 in the SemiFinals and finally won in a terribly fought Finals over Mariner Madness by 1, 10-9!! A proper Last Hurrah for the Living Legend!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 6, 2014 17:29:57 GMT -5
2014 -- The only real change was Score Lords replacing City of Champions as he took on the "Face of GST" Title. What does that mean? It means if you want to win a GST league, you are going to HAVE to beat Score Lords to do so!
Regular Season Finish: 1. DC Cubs 70 2. Score Lords 3. Glassbreakers (Commish) 4. Mariner Madness 5. Hoosier Daddy 6. Blunt Force Trauma 2 7. Cyrus 132 8. Drunk Cubs Fan 9. RG3 10. 1998 Atlanta Braves 11. Commerce Comets 12. California Chrome 13. Dtownsluggers 14. Braves 2013 15. Drunken Bastard 16. Northsiders
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Blunt Force Trauma 2 3. Drunk Cubs Fan 4. Mariner Madness 5. Cyrus 132 6. Glassbreakers 7. Hoosier Daddy 8. DC Cubs 70
This may have been one of most Hotly Contested League in GST History! NOTHING was settled till the End! Score Lords ROLLED through the Playoffs with only Blunt Force Trauma 2 giving him any competition, in a fairly close Finals.
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Post by glasspoet on Oct 31, 2015 9:03:21 GMT -5
2015 -- This is always the league that fills last, and 1 of GST smallest leagues. Why, I'm not sure -- it ALWAYS has the Closest of Competitions. Wasn't expecting anything else this year, as we had the Same Old Group back once again!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Braves 2013 2. Cuban Clubbies 3. Commerce Comets 4. Drunk Cubs Fan 5. Northsiders 6. Score Lords 7. Pass the Premo 8. Drunk Bastards 9. Mariner Madness 10. Glassbreakers (Commish) 11. Hoosier Daddy 12. 1998 Atlanta Braves 13. Downtownsluggers 14. DC Cubs 15. Cyrus 132 16. RG3
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Braves 2013 3. Drunk Cubs Fan 4. Pass the Premo 5. Cuban Clubbies 6. Commerce Comets 7. Northsiders 8. Drunk Bastards
GST's Closest Competition once again! Only the Finish Line decided the Playoffs! Score Lords rolled through the Playoffs from the 6th Position. 10 of the 16 teams were above .500!!
High Win%: .551 Low Win%: .435
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