NLTP NewsRoom Hub - GES vs. WTP (B)

GEH swept Do the Wire last week to move them up to 5-1 after Week 2 and at the top of the B-Team standings. breezy has now moved down to B and has been killing it while the defense seems to be very solid.

WTP only won a game against the Cyclists but it was a great game to witness. They're now 2-4 going into Week 3, which isn't great but it's still kind of respectable considering the teams they've gone up against.

Will WTP continue their trend of winning just one game each week, or will GEH just get another sweep?

It's not every day you see a game end 25-0 but the team that wins 25-0 only wins one more half for the rest of the series. GEH did just that, winning G1 by a massive 25 caps while shutting WTP out in the process, winning G2H1 by a score of 6-1, but then losing the next two halves and tying the last one. This series ended 2-1 in favor of GEH, so props to WTP for winning even a game after that massive G1.

yung breezy took over the series this week, with 14 caps and 551 hold netting him the 10 OGASP and 100 ONISH for the second week in a row. Jelly Rat followed closely behind him with 11 caps and 457 hold of his own, netting him the 97.4 ONISH. After that power duo, you have PenFifteen getting the 77.6 ONISH with four caps and 443 seconds of hold. On WTP's side you have Niplepotamus pulling double duty on both offense and defense here, with a 89.5 ONISh, six caps, and 222 hold. Then you have the rest of the WTP offenders, all of whom have less than a 45 ONISH. AtomicStorm did have 517 hold and slobonmyknob had five caps, but considering that WTP combined for 16 caps, which is just two less than breezy all by himself, this wasn't a very great offensive effort from the WTP squad.

Looking on the defensive side of things, Niplepotamus is WTP's best defender as well, with 499 prevent, 57 returns, and the 98.7 DNISH. Hjalpa came in for G3 and played very well, getting 322 prevent, 23 returns, and the 90.8 DNISH. For GEH you had Kooler and WheelinTimmy continuing to be a great defensive duo, with Kooler getting the 97.4 DNISH with 614 prevent and 53 returns, and Wheelin getting the 75 DNISH with 595 prevent and 37 returns. hellyea also got 477 prevent and 48 returns to round out a solid showing from the GEH trio. praoprao for WTP had production similar to hellyea, with 407 prevent and 48 returns to get a 72.4 DNISH, while dyd got a 15.8 DNISH. GEH shut out WTP for 20 full minutes in G1, which is an amazing feat, and that reinforces my evaluation of their defense.

There are a lot of green cells here for both WTP and GEH, which is interesting, because I wouldn't expect a team that lost 0-25 in a game to even have an average week, let alone some solid stats. On defense, you can see that both teams ranked highly in tags and returns, with GEH coming 1st and 3rd respectively and WTP coming 3rd and 4th respectively. For prevent, GEH had over 300 more seconds of prevent than WTP, which led to a 0.011 increase in P/HA, but WTP had a better P/R number at 8.11, which was 1.23 better than GEH's 6.88 P/R, which ranked 11th. GEH did also come 1st in QRs, KRs, and RIBs, which is an amazing trio of stats to come first in. When it comes to RIB% and QR%, both teams were average at best, with GEH only having a 25% RIB rate and a 23% QR rate. Meanwhile, WTP had a 24% RIB rate and 19% QR rate, which rank 10th and 12th for the week, respectively. GEH's RIB% and QR% both ranked 8th this week. Both teams had a lot of NRTs, which WTP having five more than GEH at 74, with ranks in the top three as well. Based off that trio of return stats, GEH definitely had the advantage here.

For offense, GEH had 21 more caps and 300 more seconds of hold, leading the week in caps and coming 2nd in hold. WTP actually had 18 more pups than GEH, which put them at 90 pups, which ranked 2nd for the week, while GEH's 72 pups placed 10th. GEH's Score rate was 11.14%, which was 2% better than WTP's 9.43% score rate. WTP had the better H/G, with 0.6 seconds more of hold per grab on average. But GEH had the huge edge in F/G and GHO, with GEH's 0.1882 ratio placing 3rd and their 68 GHOs coming 2nd. WTP ranked 9th and 6th in those stats respectively. For Chain% and Spark%, GEH actually came dead last in those stats, but I attribute that to their insane amount of caps. GEH had 111 handoffs and 37 caps, so getting a 61% chain rate still led to coming second in GHO, while having a 40% Spark rate means that 15 caps came off of self-produced grabs, which is still a lot of caps. GEH also had 23 long holds compared to WTP's 19 long holds. Solid production from GEH on the offensive side of the ball.

I didn't give yung breezy a card last week, but I'll give it to him this week because he led the week in caps and came second in hold as well. He had 14 caps, while the entire WTP squad had 16 caps, which is just insane. He's having an amazing season, and he deserves this card.

After GEH won the first game 25-0, it seemed like WTP would struggle to even win a half, but they came back to win two halves and tie one, even winning a game in that series. It seemed like the two teams seemed to switch places after G2H1, and a big part of that was Niplepotamus, who led the team in returns, prevent, and caps. He's been one of my favorite players due to his two-way ability, and he showcased that here.

CONCLUSION

GEH wins the series 2-1 and moves their season record to 7-2, tying them with the Master Boaters for first place in the standings. Everything seems to be clicking for them, with the offense cranking out caps and the defense keeping the flag in with ease. There has been a trade though, with Jelly Rat going out and GnasStrafDel coming in. I felt like Gnas was the best offender on Do the Wire's B-Team, so it should be interesting to see how breezy and Gnas gel together. For WTP, they now move to 3-6 on the season, which isn't bad, but they're going to need some better weeks. Their weaker lineup lost 25-0, but their best lineup won a game, so I feel like they're going to have maybe sacrifice a game each week and put their best lineup in for two games and just try to go 2-1 each week. Feels like that's their best move in order to make the playoffs.