FUMBBL, the online Blood Bowl league

Minor 1620 TV Applications due by 22:00pm server time Wednesday 1st May Any Competitive team with a TV of 1620 or less can apply Here. (reminder that TV is now the old TW) Should note that League teams are not allowed. This will be as many 16 or 32 team single elimination tournaments as we can draw with minimal byes. Teams will be accepted based on the highest TV at the deadline for applications. If there are more teams with the same TV than places available, the date and time of application will be used to separate the teams. TV now includes players missing the next game in its calculation. Prizes Bonus MVP Record on your profile

The monthly Tournament Director blog for April is out!

https://www.thenaf.net/2024/04/tournament-director-blog-april-2024/

No issue has ever been more educational. Learn not only about recent tournaments, but also how rankings are made, where the little Gnomes come from, and witness the rise of the term 'Nonnaffies', newly coined to describe the likes of MerryZ. It's expected to make an instant impact on TikTok and might be the only thing keeping them from being banned in the US of A.

Minor VII
Malmir, happygrue and martinseptim won their respective sections each bagging 5 points

Trophy Season 10
1st Malmir 6
2nd happygrue 4
3rd Elyod 3
4th Rawlf 2
5th gdaynick 1

UI
spinball* 7
Joost** 4
Rags** 4
Rafadavila 4
Thoriin 2
Bloodfeast 2
SickasEggs 2
Yuri_the_Scourge 2

POTY (updated to Ulthuan Invitational)
13 asteflix, happygrue, Malmir
12 Bazakastine
11 spinball*
9 lautrehamon
8 Elyod
7 Tschirgant
6 Yuri_the_Scourge
5 martinseptim
4 The_Murker, Rafadavila, Joost**, Rags**
2 fxiii, Storr, Naama, Spence, dashergeaux, Java, SideshowBob, Thoriin, Bloodfeast, SickasEggs, Rawlf
1 knine, DaCoach, RickWreckless, FrowningClown, gdaynick

*still to play UI Final
**still to play UI Semi

Technically there are a few hours left in this seasons trophy but the top standings look nailed down and box isn’t firing anyway. Grats to Malmir on a dominating performance and to grue who put in a valiant effort trying to chase him down. Those points (plus that minor win each) pull them both level with asteflix into joint first. A few people opined at the start of the year that there were only a handful of players who could realistically win POTY, but at the one-third mark this is still looking like a tight race with many possible winners.

However, spinball (most consistent major performance so far this year) is waiting to play the UI final. Winning that will move him up to 16 points and start to stretch out the field. As spinball has vamps (2/2 major wins so far in 2024) and his opponent will have notvamps the smart money is likely on him converting.

The second minor of the year kicks off tomorrow night (1620 TV cap). Those of you hoping to polish off a minor team today may be a little frustrated with box not firing, but with a new trophy season starting at midnight it’ll be pumping again soon enough with plenty of time to optimise your team around the minor cap.

WIL has kicked off their 71st season and are looking for 2-3 more coaches

White Isle League or WIL in short, one of the oldest leagues on fumbbl, is recruiting for their season 71, 11th under bb2020 rules.

Closely following [C] races and ruleset, teams start in the Regionals and advance over the Conferences to fight with the best of the best in the Premier Division.

In the absence of seasons and redraft, WIL applies tiered trimming after TV between seasons, along with apo'ed niggle rolls and curing missing players.

There is a few places for new or returning coaches available. If you're interested and can commit to play a game every 9 days, then drop me a PM or swing by discord

To keep things diverse, there's a cap on 3 teams per race. Have a look here https://fumbbl.com/p/group?op=view&group=14949&p=teams&order=4 and decide your race. There may be movements, so shout out to hear if a 3 team race is available.

Ok 25 matches in, 75 left to go!

12-3-10 is the current record and must be considered to be decent in every aspect as every match in made in the Black box. I got a +8 in touchdowns and -8 in casualty which is also quite ok. I have tried to go with some sort of tournamentbuild and I could possibly have had better succes with by building a natural oneturn-runner but thats not what Im after.

I have changed the skillchoices abit as my strip ball runner has mostly been useless. Ofcourse I could position myself better in order to make use of it but by pure math I cant justify myself keeping it in the team. I tried the strip ball in a tournament and in 5 matches I had not used it once :/. I realised that what I needed instead was a tackleblitzer. Cause many of my hardest matchups so far have been teams that rely on dodge, underworld is possibly the worst among the worst.

So far into this journey Im still quite new and not very comfortable playing with them and possibly I never will and maybe thats what it should be like as I tend to play to casual. The difference is that with f.ex. Lizardmen or orcs if I have a turn of pure stupidity maybe some player got knocked down but nothing often happends. With skaven the players are just to squishy and that I have to defend some key players is crucial. Also when the match are more or less over I cant have my players lying around in order to be fouled or get hit cause I need all players til next game so planning forward is also very important.

Anyhow, the summer is comming but I will try to get some matches in and hopefully I finish this project before the end of this year? It would mean that I have to do basicly two games a week and it doesnt sound much but there is also other matches that have to be played with other teams so I doubt I can get it done.

But, next stop is a report for reaching 50 games asap! Two games a week and before the end of July? yeah, with a couple of GFI, it might just happend :)

DLE Season 15 is just about to reach its half-way point.

The league is looking to recruit one coach in time for the second half of the schedule and then for interested coaches who might want to join the reserve list.

For all about the DLE, please see our group page here.

DLE is a draft league with custom rules, so at the end of season, a coach gets to pick from a pool of players to be added to his squad for the coming season, to hopefully give a boost to teams which had a rough season.

We have customisable teams icons and great friendly discord.

Its a great group of coaches, committed to 10 day rounds with divisional rivalries and year end awards, all based on NFL style league play.

It's a great opportunity to take over a team and shape it for this season and prepare to put your own stamp on it for a new season in s16.

If you are interested or want to know a bit more, feel free to ask here, msg me or find me on discord.

Cheers

BigF

Hey everyone!
I've posted in forum before, but I figure this would be a better place to put this.
We are about a third of the way through the inaugural season of Point-Economy Blood Bowl League (PEBBL).

What is PEBBL you ask? Well its the perfect league for all of you that think you should be on GW's R&D team. I've built a spreadsheet that gets fairly close to a "line of best fit" for skills, stats, and skill access to accommodate a majority of GW teams +/- 10k. Then I did some biased manipulation to cause some skills to be worth more than what GW valued them at and others cheaper. Then I built a *TON* of automation in the spreadsheet. Now all you have to do is select what you want from a series of drop down menus, make sure there are no red flags, and I will bring your creation to FUMBBL life!* Dwarves, elves and everything in between are viable options, so I'm sure you can build a team that you would be proud to field.

I have 12 current coaches vying for Mad Scientist glory currently. They are divided into 2 divisions based on feedback of temporal availability over a 2 week period per round. Once a division has completed the first series of divisional matches, there will be a 1 week "bye week" for people wanting to adjust their team builds and add any of you crazy people to the mix. They will then compete against everyone in their division for a second time. Following that we will take the top 2 from each division to playoffs with the Championship mostly being a battle of time zones!

Check them out in Season 1 Division A and B.
|https://fumbbl.com/p/group?op=view&group=16940&p=tournaments

Currently the division leaders are:
https://fumbbl.com/p/team?op=view&team_id=1171694
Division A: Rodent Nobility by shook_one. What if you gave Imp nobs armor and a gutter runner and an Ulfwerner? Apparently really, really good things!

https://fumbbl.com/p/team?op=view&team_id=1170885
Division B: Drowf by Habeli. A bafflingly high scoring dwarf team that leverages kick/throw teammate combos to pile on points alongside very abnormal skill options!

If you would be interested in joining PEBBL follow the discord link below:
https://discord.gg/PygZebjBfH

We have 2 roles,
Explorer: This is for people that just want to see what the hell I'm talking about and watch the madness unfold. Your teams will still be created and you can play test games but you aren't obligated to join the regular season. Preseason open round-robins are welcome to Explorers.

PEBBL Coach**: This is where the big brains compete for cerebral glory. You are entered into the next available opportunity to compete in the ultimate showdown of game knowledge and game skill***.

The league also self-generates star players from previous**** seasons! Cas leader, TD leader, MVP etc all get created as Stars to carry on the legacy of excellence. The season champions will get to design their own star as well! And for you spicy cooks out there, the FUMBBL community will get to select the "Best Designed Team" to build another star.

So come in here and get creative with us! More information available in the discord!
~Carthage

*Carthage is not a licensed necromancer. Any and all side effects of this abomination of a league are at user's own risk.
** Discord IS required for this and will be used to coordinate matches.
*** Nuffle has final say on what "skill" actually means.
**** Season 1 stars were selected from players I thought fit the mold of what I wanted for stars. After season 1, these will be generated from existing players via a defined selection process.

Hello hello!

Do you want to play in a league with low demands and lots of fun? Join the Next Big Thing for season 4!

Teams play in open round robin, and there is no schedule. Play the games you want to play! When enough games have been played there is a playoff for the top teams, with a special prize for whoever wins that.

Teams are modified rosters of 12 classic teams, with no stunty or big guys as two big differences. Stars are unique to each roster and can get skills to evolve (and die!). No wizard, but otherwise things are mostly as normal.

At the end of season you get a bonus (but might be thrown into a grudge match).

Sounds like fun? Sure it does! Join a bunch of nice coaches and let's roll some dice!
New teams get +110k, 2 primary skills and 1 SPP on all starting linemen.


https://fumbbl.com/p/group&group=15852&op=view