NLTP NewsRoom Hub - NIP vs. BCC (A)

NIP is coming off a sweep of LBT and brought their record up to 2-2 after getting swept by MB8 in Week 1. They went from 8th in the community power rankings after Week 1 to 4th in the rankings after Week 2, so that's solid.

BCC got swept by BAP, bringing their record down to 1-3 and near the bottom of the standings. Their team has been doing better than what I expected, but I did expect them to go winless so it's a pretty low bar.

Will NIP get a second straight sweep, or will BCC get swept for the second week in a row?

Both teams won two halves, but in the end NIPs wins were bigger than BCCs wins, as NIP won both games and got the sweep over BCC. I am impressed with BCC and all of these close halves, but close doesn't cut it most of the time.

jig was the best offender in the match with eight caps, 332 hold, and the 96 ONISH. Meanwhile, Cobra had 477 hold, five caps, and the 85 ONISH. Cobra has been really solid on offense next to jig this season, which is cool considering I thought he'd play defense with slime_god, but he's been having a great season as an A-Team rookie. The BCC offense didn't have quite the same stats, with BoldRoller getting a 73 ONISH and MagicPigeon getting a 52 ONISH. The BCC offense combined for 838 hold and eight caps, so they did get more hold than the NIP offenders, but jig had as many caps as the two BCC offenders combined. Not a good look.

None of the defenders in this match had great stats. The highest DNISH from this match was a 67 DNISH by juke juice, who had 469 prevent and 45 returns. slime_god had 38 returns and 566 prevent, ranking 8th in that prevent category, and the 65 DNISH. The BCC defense of Rick and clew struggled a bit, combining for just 67 returns and 971 prevent, compared to 83 returns and 1035 prevent for the NIP defense. And now, with clew gone from BCC, one of Blob or Prime will take over on A-Team defense, but will they be able to match clew's production? It's a question that needs to be answered quickly.

NIP has a lot of green on both tables, while BCC has some glaring red marks here. It should be fun to sift through these. NIP had 190 tags and 159 returns, ranking 3rd in both stats, while BCC had 163 tags and 136 returns, ranking 12th and 11th in those categories. That's a big disparity, but that's ok as long as BCC had way more prevent than NIP. Oh, they almost had the same amount of prevent as NIP? That's not good. What's even worse is that BCC's RIB% and QR% were lower than NIPs rates, with NIP having a 7% increase in RIB% and 3% increase in QR%, ranking 5th and 4th in those stats, respectively. NIP also had more QRs, more KRs, and more RIBs, with BCC actually coming 11th and QRs and KRs and dead last in RIBs. BCC also was dead last in NRTs with 27, while also ranking 11th in KD with 0.86, 0.24 less than NIP's KD. Yeah the NIP defense definitely had a better outing than the BCC defense.

For offense, their hold numbers are pretty similar, with NIP having the edge by just 22 seconds, but NIP also had a 10% score rate, while BCC had a 7.50% score rate. Those score rates are ranked 2nd and 8th for the week, respectively. NIP also placed 6th in H/G and F/G, while BCC lagged behind, ranking 9th and 10th in those same categories. Both teams had very few NDPs, while NIP had two more long holds than BCC. NIP had the least amount of pops this week at 175, which probably attributing to also having the third-least amount of NDPs this week. BCC's Chain% of 59.39% was 10th for the week, but NIP's chain rate wasn't that better, coming in 8th place. NIP's Spark% was 13% better than BCC's though, so that's nice. Overall, the NIP offense had the advantage in Score%, H/G, and F/G, which are three of the most important offensive stats, so that's why BCC didn't cap as much.

I'm giving another card to jig, because he led the offense with eight caps and 332 hold to get the 96 ONISH, but he was also very adept playing temp defense. Jig also had 52 returns and 252 prevent, which is very impressive. Those 52 returns ranked 11th this week, which means that he had more returns than 12 other A-Team defenders, and he played offense. He also got the 2nd most amount of pups this week with 25, so that's another plus. Congrats to jig for his second straight POTM card!

CONCLUSION

A NIP sweep moves them up to 4-2 on the season and in the top half of the standings. After that hiccup against the Master Boaters in W1 it's been a steady climb for NIP, and they're doing pretty well for themselves. jig is performing at an MVB-level already, and the defense is holding their own. For BCC, their record is now 1-0-1-4 and they're near the bottom of the standings. Something's not working for this team, because they're keeping games close but they're not able to finish games, kind of like the LBT B-Team. Prime or Blob will have to step up on A-Team in order to make this defense a little stronger, but will that even be enough?