Both the rec leagues in Las Vegas finished last night, as Recspekt won the Summerlin title and Dyme Pieces won the Green Valley title.

These have been the two most dominant teams in each respective rec league in Las Vegas in recent years, as each franchise has won five titles since the Fall of 2017. There have been multiple debates about which team would win if they played against each other (most recently in a comment thread on the live stream of the Summerlin Rec championship game last night in the UH Las Vegas Facebook group).

It doesn’t seem like a combined rec championship is going to happen this year, so I’m going to have a hypothetical debate to arbitrarily decide which team is better despite not seeing either team play a game this season in person.

The first thing to address is which league is more competitive? It depends on who you ask, as everyone in Vegas has their preferred gym and is going to have some portion of bias. Green Valley had 10 teams this season while Summerlin had eight. I can’t speak to the quality of every team in each league, so I can’t definitely say which one is more competitive.

Each team went 11-0 this season, so they’re even there, but we can dissect average margin of victory to create some separation.

Dyme Pieces - 14.67 (in nine games, as they won two by forfeit)

Recspekt - 15.73 (in 11 games)

So that’s one in favor of Recspekt. Now let’s look at the stats for each team and where they rank compared to their respective leagues.

Points: Dyme Pieces - 72.9 (fourth), Recspekt - 88.5 (first)

Points against: Dyme Pieces - 60.9 (second), Recspekt - 72.8 (third)

Field goal percentage: Dyme Pieces - 45% (tied for second), Recspekt - 52% (first)

3-point percentage: Dyme Pieces - 38% (first), Recspekt - 36% (tied for first)

Free-throw percentage: Dyme Pieces - 69% (third), Recspekt - 69% (tied for first)

Rebounds: Dyme Pieces - 37.3 (fourth), Recspekt - 40.1 (first)

Assists: Dyme Pieces - 20 (second), Recspekt - 23.7 (first)

Dyme Pieces leads one category, while Recspekt leads six categories, which gives them two categories in their favor. The only other category to use as a metric is PPV, which is also in Recspekt’s favor.

Dyme Pieces: Team PPV - $62,648,226 for an average PPV of $7,831,028 (third in Green Valley)

Recspekt: Team PPV - $69,068,826 for an average PPV of $9,866,975 (first in Summerlin)

All of the measuring tools offered on the leagues website favors Recspekt in this matchup, with the caveat that league competitiveness is unmeasurable. The only number that can be used to even try to determine that is finding the average team PPV in each league.

Green Valley - 50,358,748

Summerlin - 57,965,086

That would give Recspekt another edge, although PPV is not that accurate in determining player skill and competitiveness of a league. This all still adds up in Rekspect’s favor though, and until an actual game is played between the two teams, I have to say that they had the more impressive season of the two.

Who had the better season in Las Vegas Rec: Dyme Pieces or Recspekt?