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Wildfire vs. Bloodweiser

Nobody thought either of these teams would be here. Well maybe Wildfire might've
had a shot, but Bloodweiser wasn't expected to be here for sure.
To my knowledge, Bloodweiser is a slow build team from S5 (?).
Bloodweiser has been admirably faithful to their Bloodweiser theme,
at the cost of roster spots and depth in many seasons. They've been able
to rebuild their roster though so that depth is not the issue it has been.


Bloodweiser has always been a little bit of a finesse team with
a reputation for poor playoff performances. But last game, they
went with an all-in, burn the ships approach in a ~70 rush game
that are the stuff of upset legend.

Still, nothing in their record suggests they could've brought about
a 43 point turnaround vs. Arrowhead This folks, was a modern day Boise St.
vs. Oklahoma matchup, just a colossal upset.

Bloodweiser is led by a speedy RB in Elfric and two combo RB's. I think
last seasons they were a 2RB system, but I could be mistaken here.
They have one of the strongest balanced D's in the east. They are a strong team.
But I'm not sure the regular season suggests elite.


October Wildfire is a medium-slow build team from S6 (!).
They are owned by octowned, famous around GLB for his math
skillz and build theories. Less famous, but maybe even harder working
is co-owner and DC damanwithdamoves, who is one of the hardest working DC's I know.
Wildfire were also shaped by having hazy as their OC last season.
Wildfire are the youngest team remaining, but a closer look shows
this is not true universally. Rather, Wildfire have a lot of high level guys
mixed in with a few low level guys, plus some really low level kickers.
But they're not enough to attack in a plan and plus they low levels
are the slow built ones anyway.


Wildfire are lead by two good RB's and a great OL with no holes
in productivity. What did you expect at OL with a team owned by octowned?
I think the strength of the Wildfire D is in the secondary, so it will be interesting
to see how they match up with Bloodweiser.

Wildfire have also improved dramatically over the season with a few roster pickups,
natural level gains, and a few other changes as well. They're not the team that people
played early on.

I think the Wildfire have a better roster and a more playoff tested coaching staff.
I'm still in disbelief about Bloodweiser's win over Arrowhead.
I think the clock strikes midnight for Bloodweiser.

Wildfire 37 Bloodweiser 20



Queensland vs. Moose Jaw

Without question, Queensland has the best roster of all teams remaining.
They've got superstars at RB, OL, DL, TE and really top notch dots everywhere else.
There are no holes on this roster. This is one of the few teams built by scratch with lots of agents -
as opposed to the Moose Jaw or Bloodweiser approach with fewer agents.
Credit owner NickS for making connections, keeping them, and keeping
the team together.

On O, Queensland is known for pounding you with their superstar running game, then
throwing it when you're trying to stop the run. On D, they're known
for a vicious DL and turnover forcing back 7.
Their OC cwrujosh, is famous across the Pros and World League. Their DC, evileyez, might be less famous but may be even more harder working. The rest of their roster is mostly unknowns though, showing that
a new guard will be coming to World League next season.

The other thing Queensland is known for is outscoring their opponents
in the 4th quarter. Maybe it's slow starter, maybe it's 4th quarter refresh or
whatever that VA is, maybe it's all the pancakes their OL gets.
But Queensland DOMINATES the 4th.

Moose Jaw also has solid builds, though without the superstar quality of Queensland.
Moose Jaw's strength has always been its team. Moose Jaw's agents -
Jabber, ricksta, SLZMonster, teamriots, Touchdown Tommy, ajd40, castie, anakin, tomb4444, Boss -
all understand that no man is bigger than the team,
and that no coach is bigger than the team. Queensland will bring their
superstar running backs, their force fumbling LB's, their road grading OL,
their intercepting CB's, their dominating DL, and their speedy WR's.
Moose Jaw will bring the team, the team, the team.
Win or lose today, Dimmy Finster can truly say that it has been an honor
to be associated with these men and this team.


But it won't be enough to overcome Queensland's talent and coaching advantage.


Queensland 35 Moose Jaw 14

Very well done again Dimmy.

I think our game is going to come down to the 4th again; it's going to be tightly contested. Our last matchup is the closest any game has come for us in the last couple seasons. In a GLB way ... the silver is always the most stressful and intense. For a lot of the dots on QE, this is their last big game before moving elsewhere in our network for decline. It's going to be a great one!

I think we both know you and your coaches know what they are doing, so stop sand bagging there

I think both games will be considerably closer. All 4 teams are very solid with no apparent weaknesses in my mind which will make it tough for any team to pull away from there opponent barring a morale spiral

If we win 37-20 I'll shit my pants.

I look at it this way. We might look better on paper, and might have put in a hell of a lot more work for this game, but you can't deny the fact that Blood flat out took it to Arrowhead. Why, then, should they have trouble with us?

It's going to be a dogfight in our game, and it's the type of game that unfortunately often comes down to turnovers, which are wildly unpredictable (and rarely go our way in big games, LOL, so maybe they are predictable).

In the West, I think you're right - Queensland knows how to get it done. I've been LOL GM at Moose Jaw for a while - you guys run a tight shift, have quality dots, etc. But having played Queensland a few times over the last two seasons and getting to know their staff, these guys have their shit together and know how to get it done.

And evileyez nailed our sentiments, too. The gold trophy is an afterthought. I'm not sure Wildfire would even have the energy, if they were lucky enough to make it to that match.

Originally posted by Octowned
If we win 37-20 I'll shit my pants.

I look at it this way. We might look better on paper, and might have put in a hell of a lot more work for this game, but you can't deny the fact that Blood flat out took it to Arrowhead. Why, then, should they have trouble with us?


Because I think that Bloodweiser got a good sim and overperformed.
Just as Moose Jaw isn't 40 points better than the Silverbacks.
Sometimes you get a good sim.

We've gone against Bloodweiser a lot and I have a lot of respect for those guys.
But in an even sim, I like Wildfire.

In an even sim, I do too. Crossing my fingers LOL

Nice write up and solid prediction Dimmy, and 100% correct about Arrowhead - that was our sim for sure.

Just hoping for a repeat favorable sim

Originally posted by dimmy finster

Because I think that Bloodweiser got a good sim and overperformed.
Just as Moose Jaw isn't 40 points better than the Silverbacks.
Sometimes you get a good sim.

We've gone against Bloodweiser a lot and I have a lot of respect for those guys.
But in an even sim, I like Wildfire.

Yea I agree. Nothing against Bloodweiser, but in the regular season they lost to Arrowhead 13-53, so it was uncharacteristic for Arrowhead to lose, let alone be held to such a low score. My team also beat them in the finals last season 41-21. They had issues this season offensively, but if their defense can pull off another great effort like last match, anything is possible.

OK, too late for them to change anything. We have 174 posts in the Bloodweiser topics, and I think we came up with a pretty bitchin gameplan on offense. Either we out thought ourselves, or Blood's players on D are way too good to overcome. But anything you guys did on defense planning will not apply, we won't look like a very similar team to our other 18 games. Maybe that was a mistake, but 2 YPC from a run first team probably wouldn't have gotten the job done anyway, LOL

always a huge risk in over-thinking at this stage ... extremely fine line

We didn't do anything crazy. Upped our pass % slightly and used stringent play selection. Nothing we didn't run this season, but we cut out a lot of stuff that just didn't make sense to run on them, like the I slam/offtackle plays and I think we did a good job with custom progressions to attack single coverage.

We'll see.

yeah .. we'll see if MJ putting their FB in at TE helps or hurts

Lol, we didn't do anything like that. One or two FB runs with our HB I think. Not sure they'll even get called, though.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1100162

Good game Moose Jaw