The Cyclists are coming off a split of BCC, where zeus capped 11 times and led the week in grabs and flaccids. I'm pretty sure he's ecstatic about that.
Weed the People are coming off a split of Miami Ballphins, where they won a half 8-1 but also let Activ. get 657 seconds of prevent, so who really won that week?
Both teams are 1-1, and are looking to take a leap in the standings with a sweep. Will that happen, or will both teams get another split?
First off, 17 caps in one half is wild, that might be the most caps I've ever seen in a single half, so kudos to both teams for making that happen. Also, a lineup change for CYC put Irony on O and Helen Keller on D, and it seemed like the changes helped a bit. In G2H2 the Cyclists were up 4-3 with a minute to go, and then WTP got two caps in order to retake the lead and the game, which is just unfortunate for zeus's team.
On offense, that first half boosted the offenders' numbers, as evidenced by CYC and WTP coming 1st and 2nd in total caps for the week. For WTP, yea had 11 caps and 388 hold netting him a 92 ONISH, while Sir Cle Jerk had six caps and 259 hold, getting him a 68 ONISH. For CYC, the change to Irony on O seemed to work well, with him capping ten times and getting 392 hold for a 90 ONISH. zeus led the four offenders in hold with 448 and tied Sir Cle with six caps to get the 80 ONISH.
For defense, Homie led the week in the returns and tags for the second straight week, netting him the 10 DGASP and 100 DNISH. That being said, the CYC defense really excelled in prevent, combining for 1558 prevent and 73 returns. For reference, Homie had 74 returns, so he out-returned an entire defense. Helen Keller had a decent week on defense with the 76 DNISH, while WRIG lagged behind with 552 prevent and 33 returns for a 56 DNISH. Gram led the defenders in prevent with 818, which was good enough for 4th this week.
Weed the People dominated CYC in terms of tags and returns, with WTP having 65 more returns and 43 more tags than CYC, which is a huge difference. CYC actually came dead last in tags and returns, while WTP came second in those two categories. That in turn led to 22 more NRTs, 16 more QRs, 7 more KRs, and 9 more RIBs than CYC. Despite all of that, the RIB% and QR% between the two teams weren't that different, with WTP actually having a worst RIB% at 26.30%. Another huge disparity is the fact that CYC had 230 pops, second most for the week as well, while WTP had the least amount of pops this week with 164, which led to WTP having the highest team KD this week at 2.09, which is 1.28 more than CYC's KD at 0.81, which was the second worst. On the flip side, the Cyclists had the edge on WTP when it came to prevent, coming in at 1863, which was 440 more seconds than WTP's prevent. They also had the least amount of HA at 887, the highest P/HA at 0.525, and the highest P/R at 14.92. On a crazy map like MERALD, in base prevent isn't really as important as tags and returns, but on Grenadine, a prevent-heavy playstyle is way more effective.
On the offensive side of the tables, we know that Weed the People had a low amount of hold at 887, which was 251 seconds less than CYC's amount of hold at 1138 seconds. CYC also had a better H/G at 7.385 seconds per grab and 16 more good handoffs than WTP, which was tied for the most this week with LST. CYC also had 36 more grabs than WTP, and had a better Chain% with 77.99%, compared to WTP's 74.71%. For Weed the People though, they had the edge in score rate, leading the week with 16.75%, and their F/G ratio was one of the best this week at 0.2593. If you wanted to compare how many categories each team "won" between them, the tally ends up being 13-12 in favor of WTP (pups was tied), so this match was very even.
Homie led the week in returns and tags, all while getting the 100 DNISH and 10 DGASP, for the second week in a row, so I have to give this POTM award to him. He's been amazing for WTP and is probably going to easily get the 10 DGASP for the season if these two weeks are any indicator.
CONCLUSION
Close games that ended up in a sweep for Weed the People, but the Cyclists definitely had their chance to make this a split. Those last-second caps in G2H2 screwed them, but hopefully they can make this a learning experience. The new CYC lineup with Irony on O and Helen on D looked solid, so maybe they try this lineup for another week. For WTP, keep doing what you're doing I guess, because it seems to be working. I will be a little worried about their prevent numbers, because these past two weeks have kind of shown that the team more or less favors the return-based playstyle rather than a prevent-focused style. I'm interested to see how this pans out for them for the rest of the season.
