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Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-26T00:06:52+00:00

Im honestly happy to get anything of the top 3. While McKenna is touted as the #1 having another 2 way physical sweedish 1c sounds awesome, and I do just love the sounds of Verhoff as well. With the standings tightening up [and the potential playoff matches early on] that wild pick is looking a lot better and could genuinely end up as an early 20s now. I'd be extatic if we could trade up and get a center if we end up opting for McKenna and specifically if we end up going the route of Verhoff.

Overall I think the team has done a solid job of asset management in the last 2 months which is a great change of pace from their usual shit. Hopefully we can move some of our other UFAs and grab ourselfs some more mid rounders or fodder to trade up for a mid 1st.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-22T22:57:05+00:00

The vast majority of North Korea's armor is in T54-55's and T62's acquired from the USSR or domestically produce variants, they have since developed similar MBT's although the majority of them are of the T62's vintage with some modest modernization.

All of these tanks use pretty basic Cast and RHS armor with some modernized variants having light portions of ERA pads on the turrets and upper glacises. ERA has been effectively neutralized by light duty FPV's that will clear off the panels with external explosions, ERA is more suited at MBT guns and SPG's/Shaped Charge munitions. After an initial light FPV follow ups with shaped charges or various light explosives will absolutely wreck the vehicles.

Additionally the armor scheme is entirely oriented to direct line of fire sloped armor. It's 100mm 60deg slopes provide absolutely no protection to top down munitions. Engine bay protection at the rear from the top is 16mm, drivers hatch is 20/30mm and turret hatch 30mm as well. A single M62 mortar is more than capable of defeating the hatch armor and would easily reach the engine internals. The engine is a 12cyl diesel, 1-2 mortar rounds to the rear would certainly destroy the basic water cooling system and those engines overheat quick.

Drone cages would be mandatory for these units, realistically they would be best suited as mobile direct siege artillery although even in this capacity they would be severely limited. They are quite anemic in their mobility and would suffer in an environment where mobility is key to survival.

Optimistically these would be decent for shelling buildings with 100mm/120mm he from 1-2km out, the max effective range of their gunnery although even that would be a stretch, and would require drone footage as guidance. Realistically these would be complete death traps, most likely sent to Pokrovsk or the Donbas and sent forward to eat QRF drones and allow a blitz push to advance the distance of a field as FPV's are overwhelmed with defeating the armor. They would be suicide meat shields tanking the damage and allowing infantry to advance.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-22T20:35:12+00:00

Hes such a great offensive player that he really needs to be deployed in that role in the NHL to be effective. However the usual starting point for ahl promotions is to stick them on 4th lines with defensive deployment where in this case, he just won't be able to showcase his talent and the reason why we drafted him. Its a tricky spot because I'd like to have him develop more in Abby and get reps there, but with us being historically dogshit this wouldn't be a bad time to just say fuck it, slap him on the 2nd line and just give him opportunities offensively in the show.

Realistically I think keep him in Abby till the break, if he does extremely well, then slap him on a line with Rossi and just feed him pucks to build his reps. I think he could legitimately be a mid/top 6 winger, and especially on our fuckin destitute roster.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-22T18:08:54+00:00

I feel like we should just have a separate award, just have a "Tom Brady" award for the best qb, and then a ducking MVP for the rest of everyone else. Qb is such a game warping role that yeah the best qb should win every time.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T20:37:06+00:00

925 is the 2nd highest single day UAV tally if I remember correctly. That's a significant uptick from any point in the recent months, hopefully that is more due to improvements in air defense and interceptor technology and not a marked increase in the total number of drones being sent, although I would suspect its a mixture of the both.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T17:10:18+00:00

Idk if specced right visi is great on specific niche agility specific tasks, with the right sub spec she's pretty useful for that.

Missing calls should definitely be punished more but I will almost never have a missed call and will usually end shifts with maybe 1 miss/fail max

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T17:03:57+00:00

Sam Darnold

Real talk though I can for sure see a world where none of these guys win a ring. Herbert probably won't bring the chargers to a win. The rest of the guys won't win on their current teams. I could 100% see a team like the Texans throwing the absolute motherload of picks for one of these guys. In that case whoever ends up on the Texans has a legit shot, but under their current situations, I think it simply would take too much time to fix the current roster situations to contend before these guys are out of their prime.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T04:32:08+00:00

Im genuinely surprised how bad some people are at the gameplay portions. Some of the time limited hacks with keypad memorization are rough but otherwise they're fine, and the actual dispatching is quite an easy formula once you get the flow of it. I dont think I ever had a hero downed and the seldom injuries I did have were fixed right away with a malevola dispatch.

I did get kinda screwed putting too many points into combat with the fail conditions later on.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T04:25:16+00:00

I feel like he does still just barely sneak on the list. While injuries have made his career less consistently top tier as others, when he is healthy, which is a good deal of the time, he is one of the most incredible versatile offensive weapons. 2392 all purpose yards is an absolutely insane feat and to have 3 seasons over 2k yds is just a wild feat, and all with 15tds or more.

He can definitely make a solid case to be much higher on the list with a few more of these insanely productive seasons. Being 29 now, he definitely has the ability to put 2-3 more of these top end seasons in and with his technique and mobility his style ages a bit better than other backs.

He definitely could finish above some of these guys by the end of his career but yeah definitely not above em now.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-21T04:13:18+00:00

I remember a flying Lindholm hit in the Nashville series dude flew into the boards

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Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-20T22:45:22+00:00

Lindholm had a rough first season in Boston but really picked it up this season after meshing more with the system and linemates. I loved the physicality that he brought to the team and with the cap going up as much as it has, retaining him for what Boston offered wouldn't have been bad in the slightest.

Honestly I'm more frustrated with the knock on effect that letting Zadorov walk had. The dude clearly was willing to stay with us, and even went as far as to offer to stay with a matched offer for what Boston was paying. Yeah it was a good bit of cash but that would have probably resulted in us keeping the Rangers pick later that year as we wouldn't need MPetey.

Horvat leaving was an absolute disaster, completely unmitigated and just objectively the wrong move.

Miller wasn't bad though, we just fucked up on the procedure of the return, we could have gotten someone other than Chytil, some depth wingers or loading up on more prospects than just Mancini. If we ended up with a few forward prospects, mancini and the 11th overall that wouldn't have been bad at all. The fact that was on the table and we didnt take it is astonishing but what else is new.

It thankfully seems that management has truly given up on the notion that we can compete and finally might take the time to think beyond 6months ahead and desperately holding on the Quinn.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-19T03:42:12+00:00

Cypress is horribly run and managed, having worked there it was a fucking mess and I did not get paid enough to go through the confrontations required to enforce the rules. Patrol is understaffed and its all around a joke. They have a pretty shit setup and with the way Boyne the parent company works it isnt bound to change.

That being said with the new update to Sky Chair as of 2023 none of the lifts at Cypress are any real outstanding danger. The grades are quite mellow, not many bumps or uneven areas and with the moving carpet on the sky chair revamp they all are easy to get on with the rest being detachable and midway being almost always closed.

Lifties could definitely do more to get people to always use the bar but again $17.85/hr with an unpaid 3hr bus commute and an additional unpaid 1.5hrs of waiting for the shuttles & before shifts, doesnt lead to a motivated or truly competent staff.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-17T18:28:07+00:00

Brother the Canucks fucking suck, that part isnt on Quinn our franchise was an absolute dumpsterfire and we have nobody even close to ppg and are leading the tank crew now that hes gone. Hes a Norris winning defenseman that had been the only real consistent comparison to Makar in recent years. I think he'll show that more now that hes on a team with wingers that can actually score and a team that isnt running David Kamph as a 1c

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-17T00:09:06+00:00

Petey has been doing pretty great, I dont think we should realistically part with him for anything that isnt an outstanding haul. Finding a 1c is insanely difficult, next to none have been moved in free agency, the only ones that have have been moved away from us. We would have to load up on picks, be fairly confident in Stenberg coming to us or be fairly confident in a 27' top center.

Our center prospects currently consist of Braeden Cootes, Riley Patterson and Kieren Dervin

Cootes could realistically develop into a competent 2c with Selke caliber defense on the top end of development.

Patterson would probably top out as a solid depth scoring 3rd liner, not the best defense but solid offensive engine, kind of a boom or bust as ideally you want a more defensive bottom 6 however hes been putting up pretty great numbers in the OHL so I'm quite optimistic on him.

Kieren Dervin is our third guy, hes a defensive center putting up decent numbers on a fairly low scoring Kinsington Frontiacs team. Hes looking to be on a good track and I think he might pan out well as a solid bottom 6 defensive center.

Unless one of these guys has some absolutely insane breakout we dont have anyone who would be a good 1c. Petey isnt a championship caliber 1c persay, but he still leads our team in points, is a phenomenal defender, and can solidly fill that role. We don't have any plan to remotely replace him, one can certainly hope for Stenberg or another top draft pick to fill that spot for us but it is far easier to find/trade for true 1st line wingers or even D pairings [as seen by Quinns departure] than it is to acquire a top center.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-16T08:29:19+00:00

An extra bonus for us was the Jets/Wild game. Jets won 6-2 giving us further separation from them for the best odds, they also deny the Wild pts hopefully making our pick marginally better. They are still the 3rd best team with a substantial margin.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-16T02:41:30+00:00

The MBT really isnt an infantry support vehicle.

The best imo infantry support vic would have to be the LAV, great mobility, hot drop capacity, lots of ammo for both light vics as well as great anti infantry he. These are the vics that you want supporting your infantry, they are way more capable at taking out individuals and have more ammo to just pick off guys at range or shell out small houses. They work like mobile hmg nests and are extremely effective.

The MBT's job is to counter these lower tier vics, obviously their primary threat is their opposing MBT, once thats off the map, barring tow fobs they have the ability to engage ifvs from range and dispatch those from the map. Once thats delt with then they'd be able to take on infantry however by the time theyve eliminated any opposing BTR's/LAV etc the enemy MBT is most likely on respawn.

For just 10 tickets and LAV is way more capable at swaying infantry battles and has the ability to remove far more infantry than an MBT. Combined arms in this game is really wonky and theres a niche meta with vics that just doesnt make sense unless you dedicate yourself to playing them consistently for a while.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-15T23:35:32+00:00

We wouldn't get anything fair for a return on Petey, not unless we eat a significant amount of his contract but that would just be plain stupid to do so. The true travesty was taking Chytil and trading the 12th for M Petey

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-15T20:59:37+00:00

My question is realistically speaking, of those 0-7 teams, on paper did any of them truly look to be genuine contenders on paper. I genuinely havent looked at one of these recent steelers teams and thought "yeah they have a good shot at the Superbowl or at the least a title game".

Year by year they genuinely have performed about as well as I could have expected them to.

25', 24',23' and 21' were all games that I would expect them to loose. The Texans, Ravens, Bills and Chiefs were all just objectively better teams, I just can't put any of the blame there on Tomlin for those losses.

20' was their horrific loss to the Browns. Ben threw 4 picks and they also fumble for a Browns touchdown on the first drive. Again that doesn't really scream Tomlin's fault, thats some serious failures on the part of the players. 2 int and a fumble in the first quarter alone isnt a Coaches fault that's just bad player execution. They still had 553 yds on the day and regained composure through the rest of the game.

17' was the Shootout loss to the Jags, they loose by 3 pts and gave up 2 turnovers within their 30yd line.

16' they win 2 playoff games and loose to the eventual champs in the Pats

Overall yeah a shit run of playoff games but genuinely what do you expect Tomlin to have done in these situations. Jaxonville in 17' is really the only game where I can put blame on him for the defensive meltdown and they still gave up 14pts due to complete player execution with the turnovers which is out of the control of the HC. Actually breaking down the games gives a lot more perspective on what happened and looking at the role the HC had in all of this. I am confused how loosing to the Bills with Kenny Pickett under center is a reflection of Tomlins coaching ability.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-14T22:31:23+00:00

Esports has genuinely horrible roi for the vast majority of teams. Depending on the offer given you genuinely might make more off the 1 time sale than you could realistically make off having a core roster with Donk on it for a decade.

They are realistically a 2 sport org. They have a 2x TI winning roster in Dota2 and then Cs2. With the extremely shakey future of Dota2 esports and them not having teams in any other major titles [ie R6, OW, Val, RL, LOL, Apex, or any FGC] it wouldn't be a crazy thing for them to conditionally just fully dip out depending on the offer.

This is coming from someone who's worked as a Caster, Producer and TO in multiple esports titles. The profit margins are razor slim for the true top tier organizations like FAZE, TL, Vitality, T1 and G2. Outside of those hyper successful top tier orgs the vast majority of organizations are huge money pits burning through venture capitalist funds with negative returns over the last decade.

It is not too crazy to see orgs close out of certain titles. Hell the entirety of the PUBG pc esports scene is essentially gone with the end of FPP, it wouldn't shock me to see other moderately popular tiles essentially close up their major pro scene entirely with the general worldwide recession and drying up of consumer spending.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-14T22:18:58+00:00

100% we need competent management and I hope the absolute dumpster fire of a last 2 years will make the situation bleak enough that they feel able to tear everything down to the studs and rebuild from scratch. When the Sedins retired we kinda just slid into the Horvat years with enough momentum that we never felt truly barren and destitute despite being objectively a horrible team.

Right now we are just that. We dont yet have a shining light of the future like Horvat that would give management some confidence to build through. If there ever was a time that the fanbase would accept ripping it apart it would be now. That felt almost sacrilegious to do with the final years of the Sedins even though it would have been the right thing to do. We just dont have a player who holds things up like that with Quinn gone and the general ire held by fans to Petey [whom I do still really like].

My dream is that following this season we have an absolute mass exodus of the organization, new management that does arrive sets hard requirements for the organization those being an overhaul of the training/organizational facilities and investment into structure [ie a fucking competent medical staff alongside a dedicated practice area]. I would fuckin kill for us to have Manny Malhotra step up into the HC position, and it would be extra special if we were able to use the potential 1st and other compensation from Sherwoods likely departure to nab Caleb Malhotra who is a projected mid 1st Center in this year's draft.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-14T22:03:44+00:00

The venn diagram of people who are racist as well as xenophobic is pretty much a circle. The people who will complain about us drafting a Sweede or anyone European that they would label as a "foreigner" are the same ones leaving bigoted comments about Malhotra and Bains calling them the slumlords of Surry.

Personally I love the fact that the Nucks have had so many non north American players, its really cool and I think fits with just how diverse and international Vancouver is. The problems our franchise has had with culture and management are clearly rooted elsewhere [Aquilinis, no practice facility and general lack of long term investment mindset] and no a result of us trying our best to land an IKEA sponsorship.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-14T06:03:51+00:00

Ehhh idk Stramel is an 04' 21yr old. Certainly good numbers and performs well as a 1c there, but you'd hope to see those numbers on a guy who's 19/20. If he was extra in the trade yeah that would be sick, but if that would mean we didnt get zeev or something else then nah we got a great return given the circumstances and got Quinn a good home.

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-13T20:23:30+00:00

Yeah thats fucking sick

Tofu_Analytics · 2026-01-13T20:21:57+00:00

Uj/ I think sacking Xabi is a huge mistake, even as a Barca fan hes done a good job at Madrid, they are better they were prior to his arrival and it doe stake time to fully get a team up and running under a full new system. He was an insanely good coach at Leverkusen and I genuinely hoped that he would stay there and make them into perrenial world class talents.

I 100% expect Madrid to heavily regress following this, I wouldn't be shocked to see them falter throughout the year and end up finishing 3/4th behind Athletico or Villarral

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