BAP split INC last week, which moved them up a two spots in the A-Team community power rankings, which seems rigged. But a BAP split shows that they're still good but not unbeatable.
For BCC, they split CYC in a couple of tight games, and they moved up three spots, from #8 to #5, so technically this BAP-CYC matchup is a top five match, since BAP is at #2.
Will BCC put together a surprising sweep, or will BAP sweep quite easily, or will this result in a split? Who knows?
We had our first OT! Well, it technically should've been direct OT, but Rick forgot to enable that setting so G1H2 stopped abruptly. Which sucks, because MP was like a few tiles from capping in order to win the game, but now we'll never truly know if he was going to cap. BAP took that game into OT and then 20 seconds later won in OT, and then cleaned up G2 with a 6-0 first half in order to get the sweep.
D4NK and OuchMyBalls both had six caps each, and combined for 751 hold. D4NK had the 82 ONISH, and also the game-winning cap in OT. Meanwhile, the BCC offense of Bold and MP combined for eight caps and 715 hold, which is a decent effort. The offense for BCC has been successful so far, congrats for Bold and MP on making strong A-Team debuts. The same goes for D4NK and OMB, which makes that four A-Team rookies starting on A-Team offense, so that's cool too.
For defense, Enthymeme and yawn had another great week, with Enthy getting the 92 DNISH with 617 prevent and 52 returns, and yawn getting the 90 DNISH with 455 prevent and 59 returns. On the other hand, BCC's defense averaged a 61 DNISH, so that's not that great. Rick and clew did do well on prevent, combining for 1104 seconds, but they lagged behind the BAP defense in returns, with just 77. This defense is somehow working decently, which is a shock to me, but I'm just going with the flow on this one.
BAP had another solid defensive performance, leading the week in returns and tags with 223 and 163, respectively. They also ranked second in KD, third in NRTs, first in QRs, and first in RIBs, so it's been established that this defense loves returning people. For BCC, they were near the bottom of the league with returns and tags, and the same goes for their KD and NRT. Another issue for BCC is that they had the most pops this week with 234, while BAP had the second-least amount of pops with 170, which is 64 less than BCC. But, BCC had a great advantage when it came to pups, leading BAP by 15 in that category. BAP had the least amount of pups this week with 29, while BCC had the most pups this week with 43. What's funny about that is that even though BCC had a 15 pup advantage, BAP still outscored them 16-14 in TPs, which is hilarious. In G2H2, BCC got twelve pups while BAP got six, but BAP got five TPs compared to BCC's four.
Looking at the ratio stats, BAP's score rate was almost double that of BCC, while BCC had the lower F/G ratio by 0.04, even though they had 42 more grabs than BAP, which is an indicator that their offense is pretty patient and smart.. BCC also had the second-lowest H/G, while BAP tied for the second-lowest amount of good handoffs. BAP had the second-lowest P/R, while BCC had the fourth-lowest Chain%. The categories that both teams seemed to excel at were RIB% and QR%. BAP and BCC were first and third in RIB% respectively, and were fourth and second in QR%, respectively. Even though BCC was dead last in returns, they still had a very high RIB% and QR%, so that BCC defense seems to be working just fine in base.
I'm giving this POTM card to D4NK_JUK3R, because his six caps came at important times in the games. His first cap came in G1H2 to tie the half score at 2-2, and then his second cap came at the end of G1H2 in order to put BAP up 5-3 in the half and tie the game on aggregate. And then, he got the OT cap in twenty seconds flat. He had three caps in G2H1 which resulted in a 6-0 win as well, which was instrumental in helping BAP win that second game, even if the score doesn't really say it. He also had more hold than OMB so I'll give it to him this week.
CONCLUSION
BAP swept BCC, but BCC had their chances to take a game, especially in G1H2. Even though BCC kind of got screwed over on pups, I mean BAP had 55% of their pups be TPs compared to BCC's 32%, there are some positives to take home for BCC. The offense is getting out pretty often and their flaccid rate is pretty low. The defense seems to be working just fine, and actually kind of improved this week compared to their week 1 match against CYC. They just had one bad half with that 6-0 score, but the other three halves were solid play. For BAP, their defense seems to be heavily based on returns and prevent while their Score% remains consistently high. It's a solid game plan that's been working so far, but the prevent aspect of their defense seems a little lackluster compared to the other parts of their team, so that is something to keep an eye on.
