When to Overreact? A Cautionary Tale ft. Every team from before

[Victor 11,172]

 

I take full credit for the chaotic off-season we just witnessed.

 

Panicked by being mentioned in my article, multiple GMs went out of their way to get themselves out of a rebuild and very possibly into the maybe-still-to-come second edition of cautionary tales - When NOT to Buy. Let's see how every team mentioned by me in the linked piece above reacted this off-season.

 

LA - Have absolutely no idea there was an article about them.

 

Helsinki - Oh boy. To be clear, I made the Titans to be the unlucky ones to be in the rut they were stuck in but now they have made truly made their bed. Maybe it pays to make your own luck? Maybe? There is precedent... but there's a lot more precedent for it backfiring spectacularly. Godspeed.

 

D.C. and Warsaw - Were delighted with my endorsement and carried on doing what they were doing.

 

London - Largely ignored me which is fair enough. Except the weird trade down, we're all a bit unsure on that one.

 

Prague - Did a Helsinki. A Helsinki with a bit more wiggle room though. Didn't need to do it though.

 

Riga and Toronto - Did not heed my advice and have powered through to presumably eternal contention waiting for gravity to pull them down (tbf to Riga, not much they could do without a GM)

 

Malmo - Finally called it a day. Got a weird amount of slack for it.

[Pifferfish 755]

1 hour ago, Victor said:

 

Malmo - Finally called it a day. Got a weird amount of slack for it.

I might be confused by what you mean by slack, but to me slack is like room to breathe, like if people didn't react but they should have? I think what they got was an odd amount of flak for it. And all of the flak was on the basis of us collectively saying that team could have stayed pat and been top 3 in the EU with a couple of tweaks to the roster and be competitive. Instead they sell, but that didn't mean any less that they could have stayed put and been an okay team in the playoff mix.

[Pifferfish 755]

Overall, I think Malmo despite leaving value on the table in a couple trades came away really really good in the offseason.

[Gaikoku-hito 2,265]

1 hour ago, Pifferfish said:

I might be confused by what you mean by slack, but to me slack is like room to breathe, like if people didn't react but they should have? I think what they got was an odd amount of flak for it. And all of the flak was on the basis of us collectively saying that team could have stayed pat and been top 3 in the EU with a couple of tweaks to the roster and be competitive. Instead they sell, but that didn't mean any less that they could have stayed put and been an okay team in the playoff mix.

Slack also means inactive or lack of inactivity, quiet or even lack of work and sometimes even laziness!! So while I think you are right that he wanted to use Flak; you can take the comment as sarcasm as well meaning;" Malmo - Finally called it a day. Got a weird amount of "lack of work" for it. 

 

Meaning that they the got worked or tuned for it!! LOL!! I took it the sarcastic way since Malmo did a ton of work and also received a ton of flak for it!!

[Corco 1,322]

Helsinki right now reminds me of when I traded for Jarvis Baldwin and CAL G back in S32; hopefully it ends better this time than it did back then.

Edited Sunday at 12:37 AM by Corco

[dstevensonjr 529]

5 hours ago, Victor said:

Riga and Toronto - Did not heed my advice and have powered through to presumably eternal contention waiting for gravity to pull them down (tbf to Riga, not much they could do without a GM)

Who says that Toronto has a GM?  

 

For us it was definitely about giving the veterans from the S91 Cup another chance at winning before retirement in Toronto, while also allowing the next group of players to come into their own. I can't tell you how it'll turn out, but I'll put my faith in my group every day.

[LucyXpher 1,812]

1 hour ago, dstevensonjr said:

Who says that Toronto has a GM?  

 

For us it was definitely about giving the veterans from the S91 Cup another chance at winning before retirement in Toronto, while also allowing the next group of players to come into their own. I can't tell you how it'll turn out, but I'll put my faith in my group every day.

THIS GUY GETS IT 

 

[Victor 11,172]

9 hours ago, Pifferfish said:

I might be confused by what you mean by slack, but to me slack is like room to breathe, like if people didn't react but they should have? I think what they got was an odd amount of flak for it. And all of the flak was on the basis of us collectively saying that team could have stayed pat and been top 3 in the EU with a couple of tweaks to the roster and be competitive. Instead they sell, but that didn't mean any less that they could have stayed put and been an okay team in the playoff mix.

Yes I meant flak 

[Pifferfish 755]

4 hours ago, Victor said:

Yes I meant flak 

That's what I thought and I'm glad someone is saying it... Victor is a hero