Regular Season Report Card

[RB-Old]

I know they have American on Friday but for all intents and purposes it feels like the regular season is over so i thought it might be fun to grade the team.

First the starters:

Lilledahl gets an A. He's lost a couple but it seems like he learned a lot from the first one and the second one was more of a fluke. Since the loss at Rutgers he's opened up his offense which is what did wasn't doing early on.

Davis gets a B+. He has a couple nice wins but he really mismanaged the Van Dee match. It would have been a B but he gets the + for gutting out that win against Bouzakis.

Bartlett gets an A. He's beaten everybody he was supposed to beat and the guy he wasn't supposed to beat. It would be an A+ if he didn't wrestle down to his competition from time to time.

SVN gets a B+. He's been a beast and I think he probably just had a bad night in Nebraska but that was the match that would have put him over the top. I expect him to get revenge in a couple weeks.

Messinbrink gets an A+. His dominance at 165 is no different than Steveson's at HWT. You couldn't ask for more, he's been perfect.

Haines gets and A+. Almost three months later and I still think he had O'Toole in OT. I also think that he thought he had him and stopped wrestling.

Starocci gets an A+. Perfection, never even close to being in danger of losing a match.

Barr gets an A+. He's waaaaay more than we could have hoped for. He's literally six seconds of riding time away from going to OT against Buchanan where he's been a BEAST

Kerkvleit gets an A+. Sure he's got a helluva test coming up but PSU had the secret sauce to beat Steveson before with a much less heralded wrestler so you never know...

Rookies who are projected to start:

Ryder gets an A+. He's undefeated and has a couple nice wins for a true freshman
Connor gets a B. He's been good but getting majored by Barr shows that he might not be ready to go next year.
Cole gets a B. He looked completely overmatched in the duals so he needs to get seriously better before next year.
Sealey gets a C. Unless you're blind you know that he won that match in Illinois but he really looked bad against OSU. He looked nothing like a blue-chip recruit getting ridden out on bottom like that.

 

[Sleepylion]

Great take, but given what you posted here...

That is EXACTLY what I said until I gave it an honest chance. There is so much to learn about that is beyond what you think you know. All I did was ask myself how likely it is for BILLIONS of people to love a sport if it had no redeeming qualities and logically I realized that it's not possible.

Also, players who dive are shown yellow for simulation so they've pretty much cleaned that part of the game up. There aren't any commercials so the game actually has some flow and watching a team compete on up to five different fronts in the same season injects a ton of drama. Do you prioritize the league or Champions League (if you qualified) if not do you try to make a cup run where a mid-level team can win a trophy? How do you handle it when you have a massive league game on Sunday and then a big Champions League clash on Wednesday? Who do you sit?

You can also buy players from any league around the world but some of your players may want a move of their own. There aren't trades btw, it's just one team buying another team's player. Then there's the idea that contracts pretty much don't matter, if a player wants to leave he's pretty much going to be sold.

Last but not least there are rivalries and derbys that are 10x more intense than anything we have in America. They literally separate the visiting team's fans from the home team's with police officers. The imagination and ruthlessness put into the songs and chants is worth the price of admission.

I've been watching sports all of my life and have seen some pretty amazing things but when you look into the history of the rivalry and the fact that United kicked City when they were down for over 30 years you'll see that they couldn't even come up with a script this good in Hollywood. To put it in wrestling terms this is Bo pinning Myles Martin, Cenzo pinning Imar and Cassar beating Kolling Moore all wrapped into one except even that doesn't measure up to the Agueroooooooo goal.

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... I don't think I can ever trust you. 😂

I played soccer in HS and I still don't get it. For me it was just a way to stay active.

 

[GogglesPaizano]

Only 9 starters?

I'll finish it for you.

Kasak A+