2014: the year of the underdog

[Racer26]

While I agree Aerial Assist seems to be built to prevent elites from leaving everyone else in the dust, I think it will still happen, and I think it will happen in a way that ultimately is pretty discouraging to the weaker teams.

In recent posts, I've listed why I think an elite playing by themselves, with their two alliance partners clearing a road for them, will be able to score in the 150 territory.

In the predict week 1 scores thread, I outlined why I believe the average week 1 score will be about 73.5.

This means that unless paired with other significantly above average teams, the elites will likely tend to want their alliance to allow them to be the sole offensive machine, because the weaker teams will slow them down so much it reduces their total effective scoring ability, EVEN with the big bonuses for assists. 6 1-assist runs with a truss toss (20pts) and 4 2-assist runs with a truss toss (30pts) have the same total score.