yea, I don't see myself as a contender for the crown this season. I expect top 3 is a strong possibility, but I don't have 5 teams in the playoffs and I don't think I can win 2 leagues, which should put me out of it for the crown. Unless nobody gets 5 teams in AND nobody wins 2 leagues... then I have a great chance!

Posted by pexetera on 11/30/2020 2:48:00 PM (view original):
yea, I don't see myself as a contender for the crown this season. I expect top 3 is a strong possibility, but I don't have 5 teams in the playoffs and I don't think I can win 2 leagues, which should put me out of it for the crown. Unless nobody gets 5 teams in AND nobody wins 2 leagues... then I have a great chance!

Getting back to the actual game, I think you absolutely have a chance to repeat.

Yeah, I mean, I am in 4th place and feel like I am a hundred games back from pex is that is any indication of how I view his current performance.

I had him in the top five this season and he is even better than I thought he would be. jpevans31, amerk1180 and 20ks are the biggest surprises for me this season and I am real happy for those guys.

gerryred has had a nice last 50 games too. I think I thought he would finish #3 if I recall correctly.

Rank___	Owner__________	League 1___	League 2___	League 3___	League 4__	League 5__
1 (74)	dBKC	17	13	12	14	18
2 (71)	pexetera	20	11	16	10	14
3 (68)	jpevans31	11	13	16	14	14
4 (67)	robusk	15	18	10	11	13
5 (66)	gerryred	8	12	15	14	17
6 (65)	jkaye24	12	9	17	13	14
6	jhsukow	13	16	12	16	8
6	amerk1180	14	18	7	14	12
9 (61)	20ks	14	15	12	10	10
10 (60)	ashamael	12	11	12	14	11
10	dh555	16	9	12	10	13
10	benhoidal	9	14	14	9	14
13 (58)	longtallbrad	12	13	9	11	13
13	tarheel1991	5	14	11	15	13
15 (56)	jcred5	15	13	8	12	8
16 (55)	albiband0	13	11	18	5	8
17 (54)	bds9992	11	11	6	12	14
18 (52)	Midge	10	10	10	12	10
19 (50)	24kpyrite	10	8	12	13	7
20 (46)	mikee1	11	5	13	10	7
21 (45)	goetz93	7	8	12	11	7
22 (43)	NotoriousJ	6	11	10	8	8
23 (42)	zora4preside	6	7	7	9	13
24 (39)	cmcafeeky	9	6	5	9	10

194 points for Kareem this morning. Only 2 wins though....

I believe we're better than our record......

Not exactly bottom 5 but not top 5 either.

if only I had David Robinson.

(lol, just a little joke)

My worst team has lost nine in a row and is dragging me down more than I thought it would. I was confident it wouldn't make the playoffs but didn't think it would be this bad.

PEX-ology 101

I’d like to be a HELL of A LOT better at WIS.
As I may have mentioned, I feel like I'm a basketball historian FIRST, and a MATH guy a distant second...
I had a business degree before going back for my teaching masters...
Several courses on statistics, economics, accounting, finance, etc.

My business degree tells me: FOLLOW a SUCCESSFUL MODEL...

In my humble opinion, I see what Pexetra has done in just about every league we’ve been a part of…
And he is Standard Oil, GM, Apple…
He has the Colonel Sanders secret recipe… he Knows the ingredients for Classic Coke…
(for the perpetually confused: those are poor business metaphors)

I look at the guys draft, and before each season –
I’m muttering: ”WTF, he surely has screwed this up – look at the dudes he’s picked!!!”
Nope… its another championship…

Soooo, going into Savage THREE
I thought I’d try to pull off a total shift of many of my 'shaky' paradigms I hold near and dear, -
to attempt to change many of my foundational beliefs ....
and try to go “FULL PEX”… “FULL PEX”

As the draft unwound… and opportunity presented itself:
“This is NOT what I would normally want to do… but it is as close to a “FULL PEX” as I think Im capable of pulling off”….
Hell, he even wanted one of the players I DRAFTED !!! (I thought I was on the right track)
As I left the draft I remember thinking: “I just might be on to something here”…

It wasn’t an EXACT “FULL PEX” …. But pretty damn close…

PEX - Savage 2	cmc - Savage 3
Kevin Garnett	Tim Duncan
Dwyane Wade	Dwyane Wade
Nikola Jokic	Nikola Jokic
Donyell Marshall	Jimmy Butler
Jimmy Butler	Sidney Moncrief
Kenneth Faried	Arvydas Sabonis
Ed Davis	Cedric Maxwell

And the results –
Pex takes his season 2 squad to a CHAMPIONSHIP
Cmcafee Season 3 is a cellar dweller…
LOL

We share D.Wade, Jokic, and J.Butler…
I THOUGHT I liked my Tim Duncan more than his Garnett…
But it’s his selection of D.Marshall, Ed Davis and K.Faried
instead of my Moncrief, Sabonis & Maxwell…

is that difference the gap from SEASON 2 Champ to Season 3 Cellar Dwellar??? – I guess so

Sure sure … there is the rest of the team rosters to figure in…
But damn… I really thought I was onto to something there for a second…
NOPE

after my use of the phrase: "FULL PEX"...
it reminded me of the film Tropic Thunder,
and Ben Stillers character being warned to never go "FULL RETARD"...

I've learned an embarrassing lesson here: NEVER attempt a "FULL PEX"

you run the very costly risk (FIVE SEASONS at $10 a pop)
of ending "FULL RETARD" in the standings if you dont pull it off.... 24th place is a tough pill to swallow

good grief cmac. When I die I want you to give the eulogy. I'm going to have a bronze statue of my *** commissioned to mark the gravesite. That way you can stop by every day and keep it shiny. Actually, I thought you had a very good draft, you might either be using some of the wrong player seasons or possibly using them in inefficient combinations. Not sure.

lol...
If it would make you feel any better, I've kind of been praying that your computer crashes or
at the very least it comes down with some debilitating virus (your COMPUTER..not you)

I didnt come out of the draft thinking I was a top tier team.. but AM somewhat surprised to be in the cellar...
in most every other attempt, Im usually a playoff team or at least competative....dont think Ive ever been the WORST,, until now at least

I was attempting to spread out my distribution of assists and rebouding and have contributions throughout team
instead of having passing, assist oriented PGs and rebounding 'drones'

I'm through trying to reverse engeneer your teams to garner insight...
and back to selecting who has the coolest nicknames, and back to nabbing guys who had an interesting basketball card back in the day.