For Smashe, with love WARNING: this is going to be hard to follow. Let’s run a mock draft, using last season’s sheet. I’m going to roleplay Zend, one of the low mmr captains. Assumption: The goal of auction draft is to collect the most mmr you can. Auction money, and player value, can be viewed …
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S27, “Value” vs. Standings
If this post doesn’t make sense, consider reading my season 26 write-up first. Standings: https://rd2l.gg/seasons/8Xlg5xZDw/divisions/HJSzO_xoM/standings Questions: 1) Why did HappyHobo do so poorly? https://rd2l.gg/seasons/8Xlg5xZDw/divisions/HJSzO_xoM/teams/Oz7mWq3Uaz Did they disband too early? Keep in mind, he paid pennies on the dollar for ping. His ancient carry, Tiger, stood in for Mantis in their playoff upset over Tokyo (who …
Advertising: Effect on the player draft
We back. The nectar of captaining in auction draft has been alluring, and I’ve wanted to taste it. So I’m back for probably my last season. (My first was season 8.) Topic: If you mention a player a lot, can you cause his draft value to go up? Does the advertising principle of familiarity, apply …
S27 Name Commentary
Big Lou’s Smoke Shack (Tøkyø) I’m with Scrub. Player, who last season newly joins and climbs to Immortal, this season drafts his new friend who immediately climbs to immortal. HMMMM The name works on a lot of levels. I think Lou is the aforementioned friend? Smoke Shack seems refer to smoked meats (Barbecue), and there are …
You’re doing fine.
Kisses is so cool. Of the boomers I know in rd2l, I think he’d be the coolest dad. UWU Gachi is so cool. He’s like a neet, except with a job, and has his shit together. “Amar”/PooNaNi is so cool. I love names with a’s in them. I think it’s level-jumping to call people by …
Love yourself, but actually
It is impossible for someone to be happy, who has not accepted himself. You seek the love and acceptance externally. For awhile, you think you are happy. But the anxiety and darkness are always lurking underneath. Your mother did not accept you. Your teacher didn’t accept you. Society doesn’t accept you. Naturally, you’ve been conditioned …
Taiwanese Delicacies
Starting with ones you can’t really find in the San Francisco Bay Area, but otherwise, in no particular order. I haven’t been to Taiwan in a long time, so it’s surely changed some. 胡椒餅 Hujiao bing, Pepper Bun Raohe Street Night Market is where you get this. On the topic of night markets, Raohe isn’t …
A brief discussion of MMR distribution
Let’s consider two possibilities: 1. Supports do not contribute as much to the team’s success as core players. This was the argument of CRAP, who drafted a team this season that 0-2’d Cerys, before mercifully being forced to disband by great adminship. While I agree with his idea in general, I think it was presented …
ForTheSwarm vs. itachi, Part 2
In part one, I talked about the offlaners. AR prefers to play more like a semi-carry, and ForTheSwarm prefers to play more tempo-oriented team heroes. When their teams employ a different strategy, it can looked at as a deviation from the “comfort” strategy. itachi Although his profile is private, or he’s playing on another account, …
ForTheSwarm vs. itachi Preview Part 1
不怕不识货，就怕货比货Don’t worry if you don’t know the value of something; you will know it by comparison. First I’d like to take a look at a few different offlaners this season. ZombiesExpert The original meaning of “core” was synonymous with carry, and not just any hero with farm priority. ZombiesExpert is my favorite offlaner in the …
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