(S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements

[IsaStarcrossed]

This PT will actually come pretty easy to me because I'd already discussed it earlier today. New York got the short end of the stick for expansion just by virtue of being stuck in the ASFC. Even if Berlin and New York came in on perfectly even ground, there is a good chance that New York would have a worse season than Berlin purely from their conference. The fact is every single team in the ASFC is built better than either expansion team. At least in the NSFC team you have teams that have been marginally struggling like the Hawks, the Wraiths, and the Liberty. These are teams that Berlin might be able to pull wins off of. They might even be able to compete with Chicago, though Chicago looks terrifying this season. New York though is in last place in both total TPE and average TPE for their conference. The Silverbacks are 500 TPE behind the next closest ASFC team, Honolulu. They 1200 total TPE behind the ASFC team after that who also happens to be the Ultimus winning Sabercats. They are lead by a rookie QB with less than 600 TPE and in the second most important position for win rates, their best player at CB has 435 TPE. Meanwhile the ASFC had a 4 way tie for playoffs last season and going into the last week could have had a 5 way tie with Honolulu in the mix. This is all with Austin massively underachieving as most believed them to be a top three team and they are even better now. New York was stuck in a conference with six teams ready for playoffs right now. I think they go 0-2 against at least 4 of those teams and split with the other two, so optimistically they end up with six total wins. That is assuming they win all four of their out of conference games. For that reason I think New York will have a worse record than Berlin this season despite putting together what initially looks like a better overall team.