NLTP NewsRoom Hub - BCC vs. CYC (A)

The community thought that these teams were pretty close in terms of talent, with them ranking BCC #8 and CYC #6. I ranked them a little more far apart, with BCC #11 and CYC #7. I was just worried about how the BCC defense would be, because if Rick G / Butter didn't work that great last season, how would a Rick G / clew defense work this season? For CYC I liked all four players on this team, but I was a little off on the defense due to the inconsistency of Irony at times.

A match between two teams that have circle logos. Who will emerge as the more superior circle?

Looks like BCC took the Incrediballs strategy of winning only one half, but managing to split and get the three points. At least it looks like all of the other halves were kind of close, with the worst half just being a 4 cap diff. CYC did win three of the four halves, so that's a nice start for their season.

Cyclist (zeus) had a great starting week, with 11 caps and 435 hold to get the 98 ONISH. His O partner was Helen Keller, and in his comeback debut, he had 426 hold and four caps, so he matched zeus on the hold front and has shown that he's still got it. BoldRoller got the 83 ONISH and had 391 hold and six caps, while Catbabel had 428 hold but just three caps. This game was a solid hold fest, with every offender getting either almost or more than 400 seconds of hold.

The BAP/INC A-Team game had all four defenders have DNISHs above 80, while here you have all four defenders having DNISHs less than 70, which is cool. Their prevent numbers were fine, but all of their return and tag numbers were below the league average, another piece of evidence for that hold fest I was talking about earlier. Gram led the pack with a 69 DNISH (nice), 589 prevent, and 38 returns, while clew ended up being the better BCC defender with a 60 DNISH, 532 prevent, and 32 returns. Rick and Irony were nice support defenders, with Irony getting 48 returns and Rick G getting 430 prevent.

Both teams had pretty good hold numbers, and decent H/G numbers. CYC had the lower F/G ratio by 0.04, but BCC had more good handoffs. Looking at the Score%, BCC had a 2.2% increase compared to CYC, with BCC coming in at 11.25% and CYC with 9.75%. The Chain% for both teams was pretty low, with CYC actually having the lowest Chain% for the week. Meanwhile BCC's Spark% was the second-highest in the league, and CYC's Spark% was pretty average. In both categories there, BCC had the advantage, which is probably why despite having less grabs than CYC, they were able to get more hold.

On defense, BCC actually had decent tags and returns numbers when compared to the league, while CYC's numbers were below the league average. Prevent for BCC was average while CYC had below average prevent. Another big issue that helped BCC was the fact that CYC had 35 more pops and six less pups than BCC. CYC's KD was the second lowest, while BCC's KD was league average. When it came to RIB% and QR%, both teams did slightly better than the league average. Both teams were also pretty low on P/HA, so that's just a bunch of below average defensive metrics for both teams.

CONCLUSION

Both teams had a defense that slightly underperformed this week in terms of the league average, but when compared to each other, CYC had the better RIB% and QR%, while BCC had more returns, tags, prevent, and P/HA, but only by a little. On offense, BCC capitalized on more opportunities, while CYC had more grabs and a smaller F/G ratio. I think in a vacuum, I'd say that the CYC offense was the better one this week, just because zeus got 11 caps, which seems to be more of a testament to the CYC defense keeping the blocks. Very close match, I feel like both teams have the potential to get a few more wins.