Late to the Party

Late to the Party
Description	This Team or Player will Overperform in the Lateseason.
Duration	Season
Target(s)	Team or Player
Cause(s)	Blessing or

Early to the Party
Description	This Team or Player will Underperform in the Lateseason.
Cause(s)	Gifts

For the Modification which makes players Overperform in the Earlseason, see Earlbirds.

For the Modifications which make players Over- or Underperform in the Midseason, see Middling.

For the Modification which make players Over- or Underperform in the Postseason, see Ambitious.

Late to the Party is a Modification introduced in Season 12 which causes teams to Overperform in the lateseason.
Early to the Party is a Modification introduced in Season 18 which causes teams to Underperform in the lateseason.

Effect

Late to the Party causes teams to gain the  OverperformingThis Team or Player will play 20% better than usual. modification in the Lateseason, with the intention of making a push into the postseason.

Early to the Party causes teams to gain the  UnderperformingThis Team or Player will play 20% worse than usual. modification in the Lateseason, with the intention of trying to reach Party Time as early as possible, and gain additional boosts from Partying.

History

Late to the Party

Late to the Party first appeared as a part of the Late to the Party blessing in Season 12, which was won by the Firefighters to be used in Season 13.

Late to the Party appeared again in the Season 16 Election under the Fashionably Late Blessing, which granted a random player on the winning team Late to the Party as a permanent modification. This was won by the Hades Tigers, and granted to Randy Castillo

Late to the Party would later appear in the Gift Shop in Season 18, being applied as a Seasonal modification for teams that funded it on their Wishlists.

Early to the Party

Early to the Party first appeared in the Gift Shop in Season 20, being applied as a Seasonal modification for the team. This was the season that introduced the Underbracket, and the gift was advertised to "to make the most of an Underbracket run".