Claimed:The Damned Numbers Game! [Reviewed] [2/2]

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The Victory Cup winning New York Americans will face either the Calgary Wranglers or the Seattle Bears in the North American Conference Championship game, two teams that finished the regular season level on 80 points, 39 points behind the Americans. While people will favour the Americans heading into the tie, they haven’t exactly dominated either of the two teams during the regular season, losing three games each to the Bears and the Wranglers. With that being said, there is a little bit of history that currently works in the Americans favour; according to the playoff indexes that still exist (S18 onwards), no team has ever been eliminated from the playoffs by a team that finished 39 points or more behind them. The closest example of this was in Season 33, when the Riga Reign shocked the Victory Cup winning Helsinki Titans, a team they had finished 38 points behind in the regular season.

 

 

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For the third season in a row, the Riga Reign were swept in the playoffs in the Quarter-Finals after losing their four playoff games to the Stockholm Vikings. This means that the last time that the Riga Reign won a playoff game was in Season 41, which is currently the longest active streak of seasons without a playoff win (the closest team to them is the Toronto Legion, who managed to win one playoff game against the Americans in the Season 42 Quarter-Finals). While the Reign certainly didn’t deserve to be swept in either of these last three seasons given the strength of the team, this sweep was the least surprising of the three. While they had entered the previous two Quarter-Finals having finished in second place in the European Conference during the regular season, they only managed to finish in third place this season and found themselves up against an in-form Stockholm Vikings team that had won 16 of their last 20 games.

 

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Speaking of the Stockholm Vikings, they are currently one of the three teams who have secured their place in the Semi-Finals. As of right now, they are the only team currently in the Semi-Finals that no-one predicted to win the Continental Cup in the Yearly Awards Prediction Point Task (although the Bears would also fit for this if they overcome the 3-1 deficit they face against the Wranglers in the Quarter-Finals). What this means is that two people in the Yearly Awards Prediction Point Task predicted that the New Delhi Fighting Mongooses, a team that has never and will never compete in the VHL, was predicted to win the Continental Cup by more people than a VHL Playoff Semi-Finalist. While the team that two voters selected as their favourites had a history of winning championships, winning the International Sim League’s World Bowl three times in its eleven season run, it would be impossible for a football team to ever realistically compete with a hockey team in a hockey environment. To their credit though, they would be damn good at goalie sacks

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That predictions troll this season was too good and too cruel.

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Looks good. Very well written. There's some good information in here. Didnt see any grammatical errors or anything like that and the use of graphics was on point, you didnt just throw a bunch of useless pictures on there.

 

Nicely done!

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[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

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Solid article from a long time ago. Poor Riga got swept like 3 seasons in a row if i remember correctly. NYA was a great team always under your reign and you always troll people with your predictions. I wish you would come back