Division A: Week 3 UPDATE:
Things have changed slightly since I created these graphs, I will update the image in the first post later. But lets focus on the current race.
At this point, the race for relegation is between Random Players and Legends of Light as Spuds, WTF and Warsenal WC cannot be relegated (currently Warsenal has 57 points, not the 49 in the table). Robot Unicorns, the slowest team so far, will likely not be relegated but we must wait and see. But looking at the numbers, the winner for the first season is going to be Spuds. Their lead over WTF and Warsenal WC in points is sizeable. With so few games left for Spuds, a late season stumble is looking less and less likely.
Its funny because right now the predictions for the teams haven't panned out at all. The two perceived front runners Robot Unicorns and Legends of Light are either very far back or mathematically eliminated from winning. Spuds, which no one seemed to have a clue where they would place is nearly running away with it. Warsenal WC is placing strong, not strong enough to win, but definitely not in 5th or 6th place. WTF has surged massively as can be seen in the Points Growth and Win Rates graphs. Where they place will be interesting to watch.
Booting:Now onto the main topic of this post that has become kind of a problem. As I wrote yesterday, I observed only sporadic boots in Division B games which is understandable. But as of right now I have observed 53 boots across all the games completed so far. Yes 51 boots. Its getting ridiculous now. And from what I've observed it is a pervasive issue but some are more responsible then others.
Looking at the boots per team, it makes sense why Legends of Light and Random Players are floundering since their teams are riddled with boots from various players. But look at Warsenal WC where two players have been booted 13 times between them: dodo commander and andy903. Andy903's 1v1 games are at an end but dodo commander's continued booting will hamper the team's ability to win 2v2 games. While getting booted doesn't guarantee a loss, most games where a time is booted did result in a loss for the team. It isn't just that a player like dodo commander gets booted, its that they then come back and get booted
again and
again in the same game! My assessment of Warsenal WC is that the team is performing quite well but that two players are acting as anchors.
This also shows how solid Spuds as a team is, that they have had only one boot when compared to 3 teams with double digit number of boots really shouldn't be a surprise. This isn't that hard.
But there are always extenuating circumstances, players like Glamourous semi-retire and that does put a damper on a team's ability to succeed but are this many players retiring? Other teams understand player situations better them myself but
A simple solution to this is to enable vacations but as Master of the Dead has said to me vacations are probably one of the worst things to happen to a league like this one. When using a system where the group can only move as fast as the slowest person, it makes sense why vacations aren't allowed in Manager's League.
From the manager's perspective, maybe a new rule that a player with a boot rate about x% is automatically removed from the league in the subsequent season. Just a thought.
But to me the weirdest part of all of this is that the number of boots is so different between divisions. If this was an issue of vacations, then a similar effect should be observed in Division B but its isn't. To me it is the players in Division A that are the cause and there is no obvious solution.
Edited 4/11/2016 17:57:18
