(S6) - PT5 - Sherlock

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In the last 4 years the combined for 6 wins, averaging just 1.5 wins per year. A team doesn't become this bad naturally, especially not a team that was one of the best in the league in the first two years. The decline started with the Yeti missing the playoffs in Season 2 despite being the best team in the NSFC by point differential. Coincidentally, the tiebreaker after conference record and head to head record happened to be points scored, a tiebreaker that directly disadvantages defensive teams like the Yeti in favor of offensive teams like the Wraiths. It doesn't make sense why the league would choose an unbalanced tiebreaker like this unless they had an ulterior motive to let the Wraiths make the playoffs in favor of the Yeti. Missing the playoffs started a chain reaction as the Yeti saw key players go inactive or request trades during the long off season that resulted from missing the playoffs and the roster was left decimated. However, there was still a chance the Yeti could be dragged into contention by their star quarterback Logan Noble. Then Noble was suddenly found to have illegal TPE on his account. How did this all happen? My conspiracy theory is that the league intentionally tanked the Yeti. They made sure the Yeti missed the playoffs and then took over Noble's account to add illegal TPE so that they would have a reason to ban him and ensure the Yeti would be trapped in the gutter. The top 6 teams in the league joined together and decided to make two cupcake teams, so that they would be assured some easy wins each season to boost confidence and pad stats before competing with each other. The two teams destined to be bottom feeders were the Yeti and the Legion. When the Legion started showing signs of improvement, the other teams hacked accounts of Legion players to sow discord in their locker room and orchestrate a mass retirement to take them back down. So in reality, the Yeti and the Second Line are not actually bad teams, they are just being forced to the bottom of the standings by a league-wide conspiracy. That's the only reasonable possibility.

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