Neighborhood Rumble

Welcome everyone to the brand new Neighborhood Rumble page! From this point forward, please refer to this only as the Diamond Dynasty Neighborhood Rumble Presented by Kevin Bean's Islington Secession Attempts.. or DDNRPBKBICA. Here is a detailed breakdown of how this all works, as it appears people voted for it as a way to either A. shut me up or B. shut everyone up because it was February.

For those of you who are soccer fans, think of this as the FA Cup or DNB Pokal or Copa del Rey. It's a way for everyone to have a shot to win something, despite how their early season struggles, injuries or, in most cases, just being bad, may have impacted their early season. Remember, these incentive based games (IBGs) are meant to keep attention throughout the full season. The tournament is broken into two major components; Royal Rumble Week and Tournament.

Royal Rumble Week kicks off this week, the two week week. Royal Rumble week is to determine seeding and have a fun ass Royal Rumble. Last year I took a bunch of adderall and pitched a WWF themed DD season. I kind of got my wish as this incorporates the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring.

So Royal Rumble Week is this week. We will be pitted against our neighborhoodmen in a 1 on 1 on 1 on 1 on 1 roto battle to determine seeding. This weeks stats will be used in the roto, with the tiebreaker being overall record against your own neighborhood. If that's tied too, tiebreaker is head to head. If that's tied too, tiebreaker is overall record. As Yahoo! Has taught us, you can never have too many clear tiebreaker rules.

Once the seeding is accomplished, you will be placed into this bracket:

 

Once you enter the bracket, tiebreaker becomes overall seeding.  The weeks are played out during the weeks noted on the bracket.  The tiebreaker for the finals will be head to head record between the two neighborhoods as of the completion of week 20.  It will be announced Monday of Week 21 who has the overall tiebreaker. 

Good luck to everyone.  To recap, this is a big ass tournament that includes everyone for no reason other than to increase late season involvement.  For example, Adrian has nothing to play for right now and  many of us in his position would have already sold off players and checked out.  Not anymore!  Maybe he has some players heating up?  Find out in the preview article that is to follow this. 

Editor's Note:  The loser of the 4-5 matchup on the Westwood side has to drive their car into the window of Kabloom.