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Leaderboards

kool aid and Homie find themselves on the leaderboards again, with kool aid now just leading in hold but Homie taking the returns and tags title for this week again. This time Porps took the prevent title, yea took the cap title, and jig got the most pups. For the GASP/NISH leaderboard, OD God takes the 10 OGASP, noice takes the 100 ONISH, while Homie snags everything else. Solid performance from Homie again. By my count, the team with the most appearances on both leaderboards is Weed the People, with 11 out of the possible 24 spots, with 10 of them coming from Homie. Second place is Master Boaters, with 7 appearances, all of them from kool aid. There are still five teams that have yet to appear on either leaderboard for A-Team.

Team Stats

Comparing these team stats to W1, the main differences I saw were increases in tags, pops, NRTs, F/G, NDPs, P/HA, RIB%, and QR%. Most of these increases can be attributed to MERALD and Grenadine, which have a ton of spiking opportunities and also have chokey bases. F/G jumped up by 0.05 points, while NDPs increased by 17, which are staples on MERALD. Because of these chokey bases, it also makes sense that RIB% and QR% increased, with RIB% increasing by six percentage points and QR% increasing by five points. A 25 tag increase from W1 to W2 could be the result of buttons leading to gate kills.

I know that Ralph Wiggum said that these team stats are kind of a mini scouting report for teams, and I kind of like that. I might add a section called "Scouting Report" after like four weeks which analyzes each team's performance up till the halfway point of the season. That should be fun.

Best / Worst TOTW

Honestly, this week was really tough to decide which team was the best and which team was the worst, because, honestly, I don't think any team really dominated or got dominated in their matchup. There wasn't a single team this week that won all of their halves or lost all of their halves. Most games ended in splits, and the sweeps had close games. I don't think it'd be right to really definitely call a single team the best or the worst this week, so I won't do it. The Best Team of the Week was no one, while the Worst Team of the Week was also no one.

Leaderboards

This time, we saw GEH and NIP take over the leaderboards, with breezy taking most of the offensive stats, and Timmy getting the 100 TNISH. lukemoo took most of the defensive stats this week, leading the week in tags and returns, while also getting the 10 DGASP and 100 DNISH. Spheroid. tied breezy in caps and snagged the 10 TGASP. renaskigo took the prevent title this week, so that's another new player. Also there was another Weed the People player in AtomicStorm also tying breezy and Spheroid for the cap lead. I only put all three names in the GEH color scheme because I used hold as my tiebreaker and breezy led the week in hold as well. He also took pups, wow. After LST swept the board last week, they are nowhere to be seen, as four new teams enter the B-Team leaderboards. MB8, WTP, GEH, and NIP are the only four teams to have had spots on both A and B leaderboards.

Team Stats

In my comparisons from last week to this week, I saw mostly the same differences. There was an increase in tags by 30, an increase in pops by 37, an increase in F/G by 0.044 points. For NRTs and NDPs, there were increases of 38 for each category, and a 4% increase in RIB% and 6% increase in QR%. The only category that didn't increase here that did increase for the A-Team leaderboard was P/HA, which actually decreased by 0.02. That isn't really a significant change, but when the A-Team stat increased by 0.06, it's kind of weird how it actually decreased on B. It is worth mentioning that four teams have their P/HA in the 0.20-0.30 range, while for A-Team only two teams exist there. I mainly chock this up to rotating lineups and the such, because it was difficult for me to really calculate the exact HA, so I just took the highest HA that a player had on the team. Woops.

Best / Worst TOTW

I'm faced with the same problem that I did with A-Team. Almost every team managed to win a game, and out of the three teams that got swept, all of them won at least two halves, so it's not like these teams were horrible, unlike Do the Wire last week. LBT and MIA won the majority of the first halves, but couldn't close their second halves out, while DOW won the second halves, but they couldn't make up their first half deficits. So for B-Team as well, the Best Team of the Week is no one, and the Worst Team of the Week is also no one. I have a feeling that this is how every week is going to go, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.