We are actually midway via the 12 months… and never a lot occurred this week. However that was anticipated.
Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Soccer, however for Video Video games
Final week we left off with the scoreboard wanting like this.
The Standings for Week 25
Then, over the course of the week, there have been simply two updates, each associated. First, there was a rating replace.
- Outdated Skies
- [Picked by Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss)]
- Rating has gone DOWN from 80.8 to 79.5
And, as anticipated, when a picked recreation’s rating goes down then any individual’s rating on the board goes down with it.
- Writer Rating Updates
- Fairly Blue Fox Video games (Bhagpuss)
- Rating has gone DOWN from 85.0 to 83.7
Fairly easy, that. So the scoreboard ended up wanting like this on the finish of the week.
The Standings for Week 26
Bhagpuss continues to be in first place and projected for first, however can be the one participant with six releases on the board. You’ll be able to see a number of different small rating modifications, and Archey and Arhanta swapped projected last positions, however no new releases meant no large updates, no bids, and only one drop.
- Drops
- Dave the Diver – Within the Jungle
- Rodent Leisure (Arhanta)
- Drop Profitable
In order that one has been disposed of earlier than anyone might counter decide it… however we’ll get to that in a second.
Subsequent week will see two releases.
Arising for Week 27
The remainder of July and into August can have updates. So this would be the slowest week for some time but.
And that was actually it. Not a lot to jot down about. So I figured I might use the underside part of this week’s submit… the place I believe it’s successfully beneath the fold in order that solely the actually devoted will see it… to ponder the mechanics of the league up to now, classes realized, and what we’d do subsequent time, if there’s an urge for food for a subsequent time.
There are a number of facets I take into account, just like the variety of picks all people ought to get (extra!) the variety of free drops folks ought to get (extra!) and that type of factor.
However the major factor on my thoughts is counter picks. I’ve determined that I don’t like them.
I believed that counter picks is likely to be an fascinating side to the sport, a little bit spice within the combine, a lot in order that I even opted in on the concept which you could’t drop a title if any individual has counter picked it, a choice that turned problematic instantly with cancelled titles.
However past that blunder of mine, counter picks simply aren’t that fascinating to me now that I’ve watched them in motion. A part of the issue is that so few titles really get a rating beneath 70.
I imply, there are at all times a number of. I talked about Captain Blood beforehand, on the time the bottom scoring title of the 12 months up to now.
Captain Blood and its Scores
Captain Blood has since been eclipsed by Minds Eye.
Minds Eye now units the low bar
Neither of them made for an particularly good counter decide, partially as a result of FCL has a sliding scoring scale in order that beneath 60 it’s half some extent per level increment, and the scoring will get softer the additional down it goes, in order that Minds Eye and is 34 is simply -18.2 in case you picked it, or 18.2 in case you counter picked it. Good… higher than common… however not a killer.
That’s compounded by the extra element of solely with the ability to counter decide titles that different folks within the league have picked. So not solely does a title need to be unhealthy, any individual has to have picked it and you need to figured it out all upfront.
It looks like it might be higher to simply have one other decide than a counter decide.
The result’s that probably the most affordable tactic turns into guessing a title that merely received’t ship so that it’ll have zero internet impact in your rating. There may be little or no likelihood of a counter decide of your personal serving to you, so probably the most affordable tactic is to go together with one thing that received’t harm you.
Or such is my considering in the intervening time.
What do you consider the counter decide as a mechanic up to now this season?
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