EPTNASL Format
At the end of the season the top 2 in each division will qualify to be flown to our live-finals. The remaining players will be ranked. The top 20 will have a playoffs where 5 of them will be selected to continue on to the live-finals. The bottom 16 players will be relegated from the league and will have to re-qualify if they wish to play next season.
At the end of the season the top 2 in each division will qualify to be flown to our live-finals. The remaining players will be ranked. The top 20 will have a playoffs where 5 of them will be selected to continue on to the live-finals. The bottom 16 players will be relegated from the league and will have to re-qualify if they wish to play next season.
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NASL Projections - Week 5 (spreadsheet)
Automatic placement in the Grand Finals (10 players)
Qualify for the Playoffs (20 players)
Relegated from NASL (16 players)
You can read about how are the projections developed here.
Changes from the previous projection
- The battle for Division 1's automatic spots descend into chaos with Sheth 's surprise lost to KiWiKaKi this week. The Prospectus simply picked the next batter up, MorroW, to replace Sheth's spot, but this six-man race truly is in a statistic dead-heat. Luckly, the coming week brings us three match-ups that will finally break this deadlock: the
Fenix vs 
MorroW regame, Moon vs Sheth, and TLO vs 
KiWiKaKi . - DarKFoRcE 's cinderella story seem to be cut short in Week 5 by White-Ra 's psiblades. Now, July is now in clear position to take the division.
- Unlike his countryman July, Ensnare continued to falter in the NASL and now risks relegating from it all together. Division 3's dde may very well end up occupying the playoff spot originally reserved for Ensnare.
- Perhaps MoMaN should start following IdrA's advice, "A baguette, not very useful for Starcraft," and start eating cereal like the All-American CrunCher.
- Ret 's spot in the Grand Finales is all but assured with his strong showing against SeleCT . With the difficult schedule behind him, this Liquid' member may be well advised to book his plane tickets early for Los Angeles.
- Poor KawaiiRice, it seems like every time I write this column, I put him further down the leaderboard. On the bright side, he has a light schedule ahead, and can start winning again against fellow bottom-feeder Axslav for a chance at redemption.
Closing words
With Divisional Play drawing to a close, I am keenly aware of increasing frivolousness of a weekly ELO-based ranking projection. In the coming weeks, my focus will begin shifting towards refining and evaluating algorithms to improve prediction accuracy of the NASL Prospectus in Season 2.
Projected final standings - Week 5
+ Show Spoiler [Division 1] +
Name ELO Record Points
Fenix 2173 7 8
MorroW 2209 6 5
Moon 2212 6 7
Sheth 2192 6 5
KiWiKaKi 2247 6 5
TLO 2153 5 2
ViBE 2161 4 -2
Grubby 2162 2 -5
Rainbow 2012 2 -8
Artosis 1872 0 -16
+ Show Spoiler [Division 2] +
Name ELO Record Points
White-Ra 2144 6 5
July 2144 6 6
DarKFoRcE 2145 5 1
SjoW 2118 5 3
TT1 2125 5 2
iNcontroL 2052 4 -3
Ensnare 2109 4 -2
CrunCher 2072 4 -3
MoMaN 2130 3 -2
qxc 2130 2 -6
+ Show Spoiler [Division 3] +
Name ELO Record Points
Strelok 2328 8 9
Naniwa 2327 7 10
Squirtle 2198 6 5
Slush 2158 5 -1
dde 2225 4 -1
Nada 2113 4 -1
Axslav 2140 4 -2
Kawaiirice 2138 3 -5
Moonglade 2083 2 -6
Haypro 2066 2 -8
+ Show Spoiler [Division 4] +
Name ELO Record Points
Ace 2310 7 10
Ret 2213 6 6
Hasuobs 2264 6 4
SeleCT 2221 6 6
Brat_OK 2209 5 0
MC 2324 5 3
Stalife 2150 3 -6
Catz 2090 2 -5
Goody 2132 2 -8
Machine 2052 2 -9
+ Show Spoiler [Division 5] +
Name ELO Record Points
IdrA 2314 7 11
Socke 2227 7 7
Sen 2177 6 7
Boxer 2119 6 2
Zenio 2175 5 2
Cloud 2180 5 -1
Tyler 2080 3 -4
Drewbie 2129 3 -6
Mana 2081 3 -6
Painuser 2010 1 -11
Further NASL Reading
- NASL News: When Worlds Collide
- FantasyNASL leaderboard breakdown, week 5
- tumba's Gretrol contest entry
- IdrA quotes
- NASL Prospectus: division predictions with TLPDELO
- Fantasy NASL Draft Guide
