Re: Best Players

jpahk <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Tue, 06 May 2003 08:36:21 -0000

obligatory mueller-bashing aside, there are some bizarre things going 
on here. first of all, i like a good flamewar as much as the next 
rubbernecker, but i think the recent exchange between josh hill and 
his anonymous interlocutor more properly belongs on qbflame. so, uh, 
take it over there, guys.

secondly, matt weiner probably put it best in his own words, but 
these rankings are kind of bizarre, especially at the top. whoever 
assembled these--where were you when the ICT happened? living under a 
rock in a cave on mars, with your ears plugged? subash laid the smack 
down at that tournament like the smack has never been laid down 
before. you talk about sheahan's 7/7/0 game, fine, but subash had 8 
power TUs in the finals alone, against a berkeley team that went 
undefeated against the rest of the field (well, at least sort of 
undefeated, modulo the non-standard protest resolution against 
michigan A), and averaged about 5 power TUs per game for the 
tournament. that's just sick, sicker than anything andrew yaphe ever 
did at a national championship (and yes, i clearly remember him 
dominating the field at the 1999 ICT--but not like subash this year). 
sure, it's just one tournament, but it's a BIG one, and it's not like 
the results came as a great surprise to anybody who has seen subash 
in action on NAQT questions before. he's so clearly the best active 
player that it's silly to even rank him with others; for what it's 
worth, though, the rest of the rankings look not terribly far off to 
me.

i can't say a whole lot about some of the players from the east and 
midwest that i've only seen a little bit, but i would like to 
reiterate a point i've been trying to make all year to those who will 
listen: seth teitler has made himself into the best player on the 
west coast. not only that, but he is the best science player and the 
best myth player anywhere on the circuit. witness him leading his 
team to victory with 48 ppg at ACF nationals. he and jeff hoppes are 
a killer 1-2 punch for sure, since they are both national top 10 
players who overlap very little to boot. but they essentially had the 
same scoring average, playing together, at ACF fall and regionals and 
seth outscored jeff by 20 ppg at nationals. not to take anything away 
from jeff, who is obviously a super player, but people need to know 
about seth. i'm sure josh hill is greatly improved this year, but i 
can't imagine anybody is more improved over the past year or so than 
seth.

joon