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    The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Australia in shambles, Cricket version. Lost their second match of the tournament (and fourth straight overall, going back to last World Cup) in a record defeat to South Africa.

     

    Honestly, no Australian national team should be playing in any sport until they lift the curse they're under.

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    2023 VIDEO GAME CATCH ALL THREAD

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    Horrible week for Paradox: First, it's revealed that Harebrained Schemed laid off 80% of their staff after the Lamplighter's League won't hit their goals (They wanted to make Btech 2 but Paradox wanted their own IP that they could own and didn't want to pay Microsoft a cut), and now, their Stellaris meets Star Trek game: Star Trek: Infinite, is getting savaged. IGN gave it a 5 of 10, with the headline being "Star Trek: Infinite does a great job of capturing the look and feel of Star Trek, but those enticing bones splinter under the weight of its bugs and glitches."

    NCAAF 2023 - WEEK SEVEN

    in FOOTBALL

    Posted

    Sucks to leave a conference en masse and screw over your conference mates, huh?

     

    Between this and seeing Kentucky's coach going "Georgia has bought so many good players, our backers need to step up their spending and get better players in", I think it's time that we changed the college football paradigm. (Yes, I know it will never happen, but...)

     

    Just make it a U23 pro league. There are currently 128 FBS teams and 133 FCS teams.

    Divide FBS in to 4 32 team "leagues", each made up of 4 8 team divsions, divided roughly by geography.

    Teams play each other teams in their division once (7 games), and can play any other team in the league with their other 4-5 games (which are treated like non-conference games currently)

    The top team in each division, plus four wild-cards (determined by highest poll rankings) advance to an 8 team championship for the league.

    Promotion and Relgation: The 8th place team in each division is relegated to a lower division (except in the lowest divsion of course). The 7th Place team division plays the quarter final loser in the playoffs for the league below in a promotion/relegation game.

    So, this is how it'd look:

    League 1: The four division winners and four wildcards play for the National Football Championship. Last place team gets relegated to League 2, 7th place team plays League 2 QF losers to determine who's in League 1 and who's in League 2

    League 2: Four Division winners and four wildcards play in an 8 team tournament. Quarter-Finals winners are promoted to League 1, losers will play the 7th place League 1 teams for promotion. 8th place relegated to League three, 7th place will play QF losers of League 3 for promotion/relegation

    League 3: Four Division winners and four wildcards play in an 8 team tournament. Quarter-Finals winners are promoted to League 2, losers will play the 7th place League 2 teams for promotion. Last place teams fall to league 4, 7th place plays Division 4's QF losers to stay in League 3

    League 4: League 2: Four Division winners and four wildcards play in an 8 team tournament. Quarter-Finals winners are promoted to League 3, QF losers play the 7th place team to try to go up.

    As new teams get filtered into FBS, the League 4 divisions will expand to 9-10 team divisions.. after 8 new teams join, then a new fifth League 4 division is formed (and then start to look in expanding)

    This allows teams to be judged against teams of roughly the same caliber, but gives a number of slots to keep traditional rivals. If teams want to book games against lower level teams, sure.. but remember, the voters may judge you for it, if you don't play top competition and don't win your division, you're at the mercy of the voters to get into the playoffs (which are the only way to get promoted)

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    2023 NBA OFFSEASON

    in BASKETBALL

    Posted

    4 hours ago, RIPPA said:

    Dillon Brooks was ejected from his first preseason game with the Rockets

    Brooks was tossed after being hit with a flagrant foul 2

    The foul in question - punching Pacers center Daniel Theis in the dick

    Brooks says he "didn't mean" to hit Theis and he was ejected because of his reputation

    Best line I've heard.

     

    Dillion Brooks was ejected because of DEEZ NUTS Oh wait, he was ejected because of Theis's nuts. Never mind

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    The Rugby Thread, 2nd Tackle

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    I'm wondering what would be funnier, if all four northern hemisphere teams win their QF, or 4 Southern Hemisphere teams. I think if all four Northern Hemisphere teams lost there'd be weeping, gnashing of teeth, but acceptance.. but if all four of the semi-finalist are Northern Hemisphere teams, the outrage from the usual suspects may very well throw the earth off its axis..

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    The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Pakistan chase down 344 to win over Sri Lanka. 98.2 overs, nearly 700 runs. It's such a different era. (remember when ODI were 60 overs, and 225 was considered a "par" score? I don't really, because I wasn't following the game at the time, but still)

    The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    watched a bit of the ongoing England-Bangladesh game. England's rugby team could learn a lesson about what to do after coming off a poor performance. Agreed, it's Bangladesh, but BazBall seems to be back on the menu, boys!

    2023 VIDEO GAME CATCH ALL THREAD

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    yeah, look at say, Baldur's Gate 3. I bet we're going to see

     

    A) More big games spending time in early access so they can finish iterating the engine, and to get feedback on what works and what doesn't without killing your development team (now, this is more for the big 100+hour RPG side)


    B) More games being less feature-rich at release, but with robust post-release support (through free/paid DLC) if interest warrants, just because right now, one bad game is enough to kill a company, since it's supposed to set them up for years to come. Redfall comes to mind

     

    The Rugby Thread, 2nd Tackle

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Only at the Rugby World Cup would we see a team lose to Portugal and still make the QF's (Fiji, who play England there.)

     

    Then again, it would be maximum lolz if the team that lost to Portugal beat england.

     

    (and poor Brave Blossoms. Was rooting for them against Argentina, but.. not to be.

    SOCCER - AUTUMN 2023

    in SOCCER/FUTBOL

    Posted · Edited by SirFozzie

    6 hours ago, Pete said:

    The Boy is out at DC United.

    Somewhere, Sven Goran Eriksson is crying tears, and the Special One (Very nice) is telling him "Shut up, Sven" (or he's telling Sven not to be doing the pimping all over the place to take Wayne's job)

     

    (if you don't get the reference, don't worry. Although Joe-say (as he was sometimes called) will be very disappointed with you.

     

    (yes, I want them to bring back Special 1 TV, so what?)

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