2019 Toilet Bowl: So! So! So!

As the top seed headed into the Toilet Bowl, So Buckets was well placed to win their second overall Toilet Bowl -- the franchise had a 2011 win under their belt but it was under a previous regime. This time out, So Buckets was entering the Toilet Bowl with a 10-9-1 record and a spotty showing for the season.

Still, they were clearly the best team on paper and proved it by taking the whole losers tournament. Not that there weren't some close calls, as they needed home court advantage to down surging Another Bad Creation in RD2, which ended in a 4-4-1 tie as Buckets escaped a near-upset. And there were injuries aplenty for Josh to manage as CJ McCollum and Derrick Rose were mostly missing, and Joel Embiid and Kyrie Irving were constantly in-and-out of the lineup.

For the three week post-season run, So Buckets were the second ODE rated team overall, sporting a first place offensive rating to go with their sixth rated efficiency and tenth rated offensive score. They were top-three ranked in PTS, REB, STL, BLK, and FG% and that helped overcome their extreme lack of 3PT shooting. And for the actual Toilet Bowl, Buckets was led by Jabari Parker in scoring -- Jabari Parker! Also, shout out to Delon Wright's incredible STL numbers during the tournament.

Alas, with new rules instituted, #9 seeded So Buckets can't win a draft slot higher than *3, so they won't be looking at a Zion Williamson-sized reward for their success. Still, adding the third best rookie to their already fearsome core of Kyrie Irving, DeMar DeRozan, Joel Embiid, and Rudy Gobert will be quite a boost for next year's contention hopes. So congrats to Josh for both the new baby and a Toilet Bowl win!

On the losing side of things, Snack Bears awoke from a long regular season slumber to chomp down on two higher seeds on their way to a magical Toilet Bowl run. They took down both Buffy and IL Conceived in successive weeks, earning their berth in the Toilet Bowl but most importantly, the *1 overall 2020 selection.

As we've been saying all year, this team was very talented post-dispersal, and while they hit some injury and mismanagement skid marks along the way, coach Brandon pulled it all together for the final stretch of the season, after we had written Snack off for the season.

Now Snack's future is looking even brighter than before as they've got quite a core assembled for next year: Bradley Beal, De'Aaron Fox, Blake Griffin, youngsters Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Wendell Carter Jr., Bam Adebayo, plus the return of Kristaps Porzingis. After three seasons out of the playoffs, this could be the most exciting team on the rise with Ziooooooon!

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