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The Golden Neep RPG (thegoldenneep) wrote in neeps,
@ 2017-12-01 22:09:00

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! ic/ooc, ! match, # portree, ainsley galbraith, alasdair buchanan, alasdair maddock, elspeth macfusty, gregor mcgregor, jason king, justin finch-fletchley, lorna macfarlane, madeline savage, maggie macdougal, meaghan mccormack, mg mcgonagall, peggy urquhart, sara scrimgeour, sebastian cavallero, torquil mctavish, x-joy willison, x-luag macfusty

IC/OOC: Wimbourne Wasps (3-2-0) versus The Pride of Portree (4-1-1) 1999-12-01
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Wimbourne Wasps (3-2-0 0.600) versus The Pride of Portree (4-1-1 0.667)
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Play Started:1999-12-01 at Bodmin Moor
Snitch caught in : 3 hours, 46 minutes
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Wimbourne Wasps : 230
The Pride of Portree : 630
Congratulations, The Pride of Portree
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Team Notes: Wimbourne Wasps
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Wasps Reserve Chaser Kelly Patrick substituting for Chaser St. John Robinson
Wasps Beater Dawn Withey warned for Yipping.
Wasps Beater Dawn Withey warned for Flacking.
Wasps Keeper Denison Frisby warned for Blagging.
Wasps Chaser Kelly Patrick warned for Pantsing.
Chaser Keaton Flitney took 22 shots, scoring 10 points, with a shot percentage of 4%
Chaser Kelly Patrick took 42 shots, scoring 50 points, with a shot percentage of 11%
Chaser Colin Ashley-Pitt took 44 shots, scoring 20 points, with a shot percentage of 4%
Wasps Keeper Denison Frisby blocked 112 shots, allowing 630 points, with a defending percentage of 64%.
Seeker Solomon Fofana caught the snitch for a loss.

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Team Notes: The Pride of Portree
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Pride Beater Lorna MacFarlane warned for Blurting.
Chaser Alasdair Buchanan took 59 shots, scoring 220 points, with a shot percentage of 37% before being removed from play for medical reasons.
Chaser Sara Scrimgeour took 76 shots, scoring 280 points, with a shot percentage of 36%
Chaser Joy Willison took 40 shots, scoring 130 points, with a shot percentage of 32%
Pride Keeper Meaghan McCormack blocked 100 shots, allowing 80 points, with a defending percentage of 92%.
Chaser Alasdair Buchanan was severely injured and at risk for missing future games.
Chaser Sara Scrimgeour was lightly injured during play.
Beater Lorna MacFarlane was severely injured and at risk for missing future games.

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bestbeloved
2017-12-02 10:32 pm UTC (link)

Georgi shook his head in agreement because that was about what he'd thought -- the European League counts wins (I think we established this during the discussion about changing the BIL ranking system?) and the idea of intentionally ending a game when you could play on and maybe win is foreign to him. (Viktor Krum's famous moment in 1994 was the exception rather than the rule and I feel like he was kind of reviled in Bulgaria for it for a while because wtf dude.)

He listened intently to Merc's discussion of the numbers of it all and had some comments to contribute; Georgi may be shy but he pays attention and he's clever. He agreed that the system is pretty terrible, but it is what it is, and he super wanted to talk about how that changes the whole-game and end-game strategies for various players, with lots of scribbling down numbers and gesturing emphatically. You got yourself a strategy nerd here, Coach.

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MG is a diehard Montrose Man

avoidretrograde
2017-12-02 10:59 pm UTC (link)

Merc agrees with a lot of these changing strategies but points out that this is just for the regular season. When it hits the playoffs, it's back to classic tournament style. Winners win. Which is where some of the teams that focus just on getting numbers, win or lose, get tripped up.

As an example he uses the Bats, defending champions (no need to explain the messy politics of the last season just yet), top of the standings by a significant amount right now and riding high and yet...look at their record. 2-4-0. Is that the record of what should be the number one team in the league? He explains that this is because they knocked out the keeper one match and scored over 800 points. And even in their losses they walked away with 500 points more than once.

They're not a bad team, in fact they are very good, but when teams like this come up against teams that win...(here he points to the 5-0-0 record of the magpies. Undefeated so far tyvm) they fall. So at the end of the day, winning still matters. Merc is really just using this as an example to explain to Georgi his philosophy. Winning teams will win the cup. Not just high scorers. Win well and you will be comfortable enough in standings to slide into the playoffs (there are 8 spots and 13 teams, you have good chances) where this pays off. So he is not making you play to score, he is making you play to win. And see Georgi? Undefeated, second in standings with a bye week included. And once we get into the playoffs this will pay off.

MG is here to win Georgi. Welcome to the team that always aims for the Cup, and welcome to the team that wins it. Welcome to the most successful team in BIL history, the Montrose Magpies.

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