S76 Championship Week

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05-19-2024, 07:22 AM

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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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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. Neither of the teams have been relying on one or two superstar forwards to do all their goal scoring in playoffs, but if you had to pick a player you expect to carry their team to cup who would it be?

b. Looking at save percentage and goals against average it seems that Beau Kavanagh has the upper hand over Justin Time. Do you think they do or are those numbers misleading?

c. Willow Söderberg-Snooks has 7 goals, 18 points, 18 takeaways and no giveaways, is that enough to make them best defenceman in finals? Who would you pick instead?

d. Which of the teams had easier path to finals?

e. Which one would win a fight, a lion or an eagle? How would it go?

f. If it ain't broke don't fix it: Who you got? Who wins? Why?

D. I would say as someone with next to no knowledge of the league at large that San Francisco had the harder run of the two courtesy of the two teams they played that I don't belong to. Going back to the regular season Chicago is in a rough state getting only 22 wins making us an easy opponent, but Los Angeles put up 50 and Winnipeg put up 36 good for third most and eighth most respectively. Baltimore had to play a team in four way tie for 11th twice in that they played two of the teams in that logjam, and played 5th winningest team Philadelphia in the middle. Personally I'd rather play 11-14, 5, 11-14 than 17, 3, 8 which leads me to my conclusion.

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E. I am going to confidently say that in a fight between a lion and an eagle that I am going to give it to the lion for an incredibly simple reason. You ever see a house cat versus literally any bird? Personally never seen a house cat lose such a fight outside of cartoons, but I'll admit that could just be a lack of experience for me in that regard. That said given what experience I do have seeing cats devour birds I am going to bank on the big cat over the big bird in this engagement as it seems the safe option to me.

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F. Okay I am going to pick the San Francisco Pride for this as I think I picked them when I was doing playoff predictions. Well picked them in the sense that I believe the person I copied from had picked them as I do not actually know about hockey or the league at large. Now as to why I think that they will win I am honestly just going to go with my answer to the previous question. Maybe this is the season that they are going to make everybody play alongside their mascots and the lion eating the eagle demoralizes Baltimore enough to give San Francisco the edge to win it all.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Haven't I seen this already (150 words min.)

SHL has a playoffs setup that has teams in the same division playing each other for the first two rounds.With only 5 teams in each division it often means that same teams play versus each other season after season. This can lead to good rivalries but also get pretty repetitive. Do you think this is a good structure or would you like to see it changed? Why? You can but don't have to ignore limits of FHM.

Well in my honest opinion as a fan of a different sport I think the 2002-2019 NFL playoff format was the best. Out of thirty-two teams the top twelve made it with the eight division winners and two wildcards from each conference. Top two teams got a bye week and the rest of the playoffs were handled by seeding. Now admittedly we have a significantly different structure in regards to teams as well as how many teams make the playoffs to account for the fun of users given we are a simulation sports league rather than a real sports league. So to sort of merge the two to the best of my ability I would say the division winners are seeded 1 and 2, but after that the next six can come from either division based off win percentage and are seeded accordingly. Still guarantees top three teams of each division make it due to the number of teams, but allows conference rivalries rather than just division rivalries which is a good thing in my honest opinion. Speaking as a fan of a team involved in something like that as there is a team in the NFL known as the Green Bay Packers that has a grudge against the entire NFC West division as we knocked them out of playoff contention seven times in the last thirteen seasons. I think if we spread the love and rivalries more it will only lead to more entertainment. Also I know it said can, but don't have to ignore the limits of FHM I will state after the fact that I have zero familiarity with FHM and could not say if this is anywhere near possible within the game that we call home for our simulation.