Originally posted by mwoods07
Originally posted by Sarg01
I actually think Semi-Pro is somewhat serious business. It's the last capped league, so it's the last chance you have to compete on a level playing field for a long time.
I can't argue with that...but if you are planning players for the future, your guys wont be all that good at that level still. Most of mine don't even have Stamina in the 35+ range yet in Semi Pro...makes playing ST's tough, especially since teams are gearing up ST's just cause it makes winning easier. I have yet to have someone show me a team that can win at the early levels consistently (without the ST setup) and also have that same team win it all at the Pro and WL level.
Maybe we just suck at what we do...can't argue, as that could be it, especially since we only won 5 Golds at the Pro and WL level last season. But our dots are pretty bad until they get to be about level 65+...once there though they seem to make up for lost time. I'd love to build a team of dots that could win that way early and still perform like ours do at the WL level...
Ahem. Hague 2.0 did this. The old system was pretty awesome... we came up with lots of great teams and it was very competitive.
We started in Pee Wee and won gold (the season before they made Pee Wee gold, silver, bronze I believe. Back then you got screwed... we had to tranfer the whole roster to a differnt team after Pee Wee. We couldn't get a L13 team... so we had to fight it out in a L16 league. So we were always underleveled. We never won another gold but we were always a 12-15 reg season win team and always in the Elite conferences. The trade-off is our guys are good Pros... not awesome WL players. But I had a blast with bringing up the roster. Way more fun than waiting 1-year to have a studly WL player at L64. I hear Bort is trying to fix this... way way overdue.
Manhattan Mercenary Penguins
http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=231
S9 - Pee Wee Gold.... think we went 14-2? (moved roster to L16 League)
S10 - 14-2, lost in 1st round playoffs 13-17... beaten by Gold trophy team
S11 - 13-3, lost in 2nd round playoffs 10-73 to a ultra slow-baked team NAN
S12 - 15-1, lost in 2nd round to Asau... the gold trophy team talked shit to us and we killed thim in a day 40 scrim
S13 14-2, lost in 2nd round 21-24 to Cult of Personalities
S14 12-4, lsot in 2nd round
S15 transferred roster to Hague and have since went 11-5, 14-2, 9-7, 15-1, 11-5 (Pro), 9-7 (Pro), 13-3 (Pro)
this generation of dots has never had a losing season!! eva!!! decline starts after this season... can't get much better than that.
Originally posted by Sarg01
I actually think Semi-Pro is somewhat serious business. It's the last capped league, so it's the last chance you have to compete on a level playing field for a long time.
I can't argue with that...but if you are planning players for the future, your guys wont be all that good at that level still. Most of mine don't even have Stamina in the 35+ range yet in Semi Pro...makes playing ST's tough, especially since teams are gearing up ST's just cause it makes winning easier. I have yet to have someone show me a team that can win at the early levels consistently (without the ST setup) and also have that same team win it all at the Pro and WL level.
Maybe we just suck at what we do...can't argue, as that could be it, especially since we only won 5 Golds at the Pro and WL level last season. But our dots are pretty bad until they get to be about level 65+...once there though they seem to make up for lost time. I'd love to build a team of dots that could win that way early and still perform like ours do at the WL level...
Ahem. Hague 2.0 did this. The old system was pretty awesome... we came up with lots of great teams and it was very competitive.
We started in Pee Wee and won gold (the season before they made Pee Wee gold, silver, bronze I believe. Back then you got screwed... we had to tranfer the whole roster to a differnt team after Pee Wee. We couldn't get a L13 team... so we had to fight it out in a L16 league. So we were always underleveled. We never won another gold but we were always a 12-15 reg season win team and always in the Elite conferences. The trade-off is our guys are good Pros... not awesome WL players. But I had a blast with bringing up the roster. Way more fun than waiting 1-year to have a studly WL player at L64. I hear Bort is trying to fix this... way way overdue.
Manhattan Mercenary Penguins
http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=231
S9 - Pee Wee Gold.... think we went 14-2? (moved roster to L16 League)
S10 - 14-2, lost in 1st round playoffs 13-17... beaten by Gold trophy team
S11 - 13-3, lost in 2nd round playoffs 10-73 to a ultra slow-baked team NAN
S12 - 15-1, lost in 2nd round to Asau... the gold trophy team talked shit to us and we killed thim in a day 40 scrim
S13 14-2, lost in 2nd round 21-24 to Cult of Personalities
S14 12-4, lsot in 2nd round
S15 transferred roster to Hague and have since went 11-5, 14-2, 9-7, 15-1, 11-5 (Pro), 9-7 (Pro), 13-3 (Pro)
this generation of dots has never had a losing season!! eva!!! decline starts after this season... can't get much better than that.
