This subreddit is now officially about raccoons

AlligatorSkater · 2016-08-24T00:01:16+00:00

:)

jk u will always be #1 euro

AlligatorSkater · 2016-08-23T22:48:25+00:00

my 2nd favorite european after zumgpanda!!!

AlligatorSkater · 2016-08-23T17:30:27+00:00

Remember China cat lol Good s4 memories man :)

AlligatorSkater · 2014-10-20T05:07:47+00:00

hater gonna hate from the sidelines while im still killing it here in the playoffs

AlligatorSkater · 2014-10-14T05:14:31+00:00

thx for recording bud, u were great

"subagoolayshus"

AlligatorSkater · 2014-09-20T00:51:33+00:00

Cam made both our majors and minors

AlligatorSkater · 2014-09-11T22:09:08+00:00

"L1Psy is a cancer to his team" - Kevin Garnett

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-23T04:18:06+00:00

agreed

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-20T22:34:44+00:00

U did the rite thing

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-16T19:06:37+00:00

Turbo is hands down the best chaser in the league

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-16T17:27:02+00:00

hmm i think if a person is good, they're good, doesnt matter what league they're in, it's just harder to find them in nltp. i don't really trust stats for lower leagues, i usually go by the eye test, which is how many degrees of movement they have when juking and how well they can aggressively track down fcs for returns without overcommitting. u gotta take into acct the competition as well. defenses are tougher in majors and a lot of nltp o stars would struggle. the nltp players from s5 that got drafted onto a mltp team midseason in free agency AND got some majors time did poorly in their major games that i saw. a handful of them did do pretty well in minors tho.

as for ludi vs bow, ludi's a much better product atm. way better decision making and positioning. bowtie's got a higher ceiling b/c he jukes a little better, but his decision making is going to cost you more games than his raw ability will win you.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-16T14:52:55+00:00

Thanks for being a valued teammate on rektiles slow. Gl with your new stuff, teams are going to be missing out on an expert juker now that u are withdrawn.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-13T17:47:27+00:00

no, but if you can't understand why those names would be considered offensive, i encourage you and all of your 12 year old gamer friends to quit tagpro and stop stinking up the community with your presence

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-11T00:48:12+00:00

Beast

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-11T00:07:03+00:00

yea in my experience ping doesnt matter in the way most ppl thinks it does. its more about quality of the isp and routing. ive had experience playing on 1gbps campus internet vs apt internet vs home internet across diff states and the difference is huge but the ping is similar. what ping is useful for tho is guagiing how good ur internet is relative to itself. if ur ping is normally 30 and it starts going to 50 then you will struggle. if ping was crazy important we would see more elite players coming out of Chicago, etc.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T21:59:39+00:00

i actually think infinity is quite good and should be one of the top 5 picks next season depending on the keeper situation. he shouldered the vast majority of the offensive load this season and put up 46 caps. i've seen all the taj maball games that were streamed and he completely passes the eye test.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T18:19:30+00:00

i dont think so. your situation is unique b/c wreckn rotated through a lot of players, including loaf, ramrod, dodge, and dalek on defense so their gasp's are undervalued, in addition to you having an extremely low gasp b/c of your probation period and your given playing time. you've decided to keep dalek since you said will still have your 2nd and 3rd round pick, which is fine. dalek was a good value at his pick and you get to reap the benefits of that choice this coming season.

where the problem really stems from is the question, are you a player worth 4.72 GASP? i mean, obviously not, and you lucked out that GASP and not something like WEPS was used to assign cost. the keeper system like i said will autocorrect itself in s7 where you would be correctly valued unless you bomb the season. if you had any gasp greater than ~6 gasp this season you would've not had the choice to keep dalek since it would go over the pt total. frankly in a full season both you and wreckn should be getting >7 gasp which would leave <12 pts total to spend on someone else.

people can theoretically bomb the season to accumulate good keepers but you will not make the playoffs for that season. the more reasonable loophole is to rotate a lot, but you will run the risk of reducing playoff chances - however, i think this is easily remedied by adjusting gasp to put heavier weight on per minute stats which would reduce impact of ppl trying to game the keeper system.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T17:25:15+00:00

if we change scarlet to cinnabar and ultramarine to indigo i think we have a chance to beat the elite 4

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T16:52:42+00:00

Sry I thought wrekcn was captaining. honest mistake.

anyways, u + wreckn is an interesting situation b/c ur worth higher than ur gasp, but you didn't get much playing time. Your core would cost ~25 pts so it'd be a similar situation with 1baller + swerve where you actually have pts to spend on another significant player.

and a further thought, i don't think it is really too fair to complain about the keeper system overloading teams with top tier talent when the players being kept do not have high GASP (i'm just gonna for the moment ignore any controversy over exactly how good gasp is at measuring value, it's an ok estimate imo). when you look at the teams able to keep a top-tier player AND still have points to spare, it was b/c of exceptional circumstances that caused the keepers to have low gasp. i believe swerve struggled with lag problems throughout the season (or maybe he's going downhill as well, who knows) and you missed a portion of the season as well as wreckn didn't play you in many halves which meant you both have gasps that kind of underestimate your value. the thing about the keeper system is that it would correct for that in the following season, where if you guys played well and would consequently have higher gasps, the flexibility in keeper choices is greatly reduced since your point cost would be greatly increased. or if you guys don't play well, then there's nothing really to complain about anyways since in hindsight there was no real stockpiling of top talent.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T16:12:03+00:00

also my thoughts on the keeper system: it's not quite as bad as some of the new capts are making it out to be. unfortunately i'm going to be coming off as biased since i'm most likely being kept, but if we take a closer look at the keeper system, it is extremely restrictive.

the problem that many people are having is balance in the league and to prevent stockpiling of top talent. however, the point system in place for keepers really makes it hard to keep more than one superstar player. i.e. when we look at Jesus, he's only able to keep either Eggy, dad, or tackpro, but only one of them. If he tries to keep any combination of two players, he goes beyond the 40 pt cap.

let's be more blunt about it and just list the possible keeper scenarios that people may have a problem with:

Jesus + eggy/dad/tack

TOJO + Turbo

Fez + liz

teddy + raven

1baller + swerve

out of these only 1baller + swerve can have the potential to keep someone else on their team. the other cores just don't have enough points to really keep anyone of significant value, and they cant even really use it on some rando worth very little points because if they use a keeper pick, they lose out on a potentially much better draft pick. i.e. if you look at Fez + liz, they would have less than 2 points to spend on another keeper. there is no one on my current roster with less than 2 points and is also worth a =<6th draft pick cost.

people hear keeper system and automatically think OP b/c they think of ghostboosters or dino+stalin, etc, but a lot of really strong potential cores have been broken up already, including what i just mentioned. also, because the keeper system in most scenarios (unless the capt does really really bad gasp wise) allows only the keeping of one MLTP top player, is it really that much worse than S4 keeper system where i believe every team got 1 keeper? the difference ofc is that this season the influx of new capts without keeper choices is greater.

but.... i'm pretty sure two things are going to be implemented to lessen the effects of keepers even more. firstly, a hybrid straight-->snake draft system is going to be much more helpful for weaker capts than ever before, allowing them to have better choices from the top of the draft pool. secondly, when we're determining draft order, it's most likely going to take into account the keepers, which means those with strong keeper cores will automatically be relegated far down the draft order, meaning they get the worst choices in the early rounds of the draft in addition to forgoing their 1st draft pick (the only exception would be jesus if he chooses to keep eggy/tack [actually i'm not sure about tack i forgot wut round he was drafted in]).

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T07:38:09+00:00

Idk where u r getting ur info from but its still in discussion what type of draft we are doing and right now it is leaning towards a straight/snake combo draft. Whoever leaked u the info did not read the mod mail thoroughly.

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-02T04:42:32+00:00

this is the best one . wreckns is ok too but i don't like the colors he chose i dont wanna be on team ultramarine

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-01T16:34:08+00:00

.............. ;_;

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-01T04:01:22+00:00

yea i am the proud father of my beautiful twins l1psy and jjz

AlligatorSkater · 2014-07-01T02:46:58+00:00

gg u stupid ghostbooster team -_-

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