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Rylakn Rambles for PT - Rylakn - 2026-06-22
I was looking around for some inspiration for what to write my weekly PT about and it didn’t take too long for inspiration to strike. I was thinking I could maybe do game recaps of the Academy, but I couldn’t see a good way to get the box scores and game info out of the index or portal, so I scrapped that idea. If you know where to see that info I would be very grateful as I think it would be fun to keep tabs on the season in detail. I did something similar with my ISFL draft class and it got me a lot more invested in the season and the other players in my class. Fortunately for me, when I was clicking around in the index, I noticed the scores for gameday 1 of the academy all had one thing in common. All of the teams who lost failed to score a goal.
It is a pretty simple recipe really when you think about it, keep a clean sheet and you have a pretty good chance of winning, but is there more to it than that? Was there any specific reason that these teams all managed to keep the ball out of their own nets?
My first thought was maybe the Home teams sim better, getting the better of the referees on free kicks and penalties. This is certainly a thing in the ISFL (I’m sure it is ok, don’t tell me otherwise), so maybe it carries on over here too. I checked over the final scores to see that 3 home teams won this week. Hmm this was promising, but not the magic bean I was looking for. If all the home teams had won, I could have called my investigation there, but the fact that 1 lost meant I needed to dig deeper. To continue my search I looked a little closer at the one game where an away team won and kept the clean sheet. Port Royal defeated Atletico and what stood out about this match? It was a user team against a team full of legends.
My second thought was maybe legends were the answer. I know as a proud member of the Jakarta Komodo Dragons, that some teams were able to beat up on legends teams in week 1. A legends team is one full of 250 TPE AI or Bot players, meaning that they should be at a disadvantage to a team with real players on. I say should, because team composition and tactics will play a role in the sim, but you would expect a team with 6-7 human players to beat a legends team. Looking into the results again 3 of the teams that won were user teams, but unfortunately for me, the matchups were not 4 user teams playing 4 legends teams. So once again I was left stumped, it wasn’t the ability to beat up on legends that caused the 4 clean sheets. At this point I had hit the limits of the statistics that I could find in the portal, so I took to the youtube VoD to try and find my answers.
I honestly had no idea where this article would take me and I kind of just rambled until I had a good amount of words on the page, so I truly apologise if you came here looking for my usual level of quality or researched article. I’ll likely knock one of those out later in the week to keep building my bank balance. In looking over the box score in the youtube VoD for the Stockholm game, I could see that almost every single player on their team had a lower rating than the lowest rated player on Victoria Falls. Ultimately I think they got outplayed all over the pitch in this one, but that would be no fun as a conclusion to this goofy fake uninformed investigation, so I will leave you with this.
Stockholm’s goalie is called Swiss Cheese and it appears he lived up to his name in this one.