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Issue #10: Season 13 Punting Review
”Professional football’s only Special Teams focused publication.”[/div]
We’re back! After... nine months? That sounds right. Issue #8 came out in June 2018 so... yeah. Nine months. But, what about Issue #9 you ask? Well, I wrote it, and then I killed it. Frankly, it showed that with a single season as a sample size, you can’t determine anything about a kicker’s performance with any practical significance from their kick power, kick accuracy, or total TPE, and I didn’t want to put that info out there for @bovovovo to go raving about kicker bots. But! I have new info based on thirteen seasons now. :eyes: So we’ll see when I have time for another article. Right now, we’re looking at the 13th season of the NSFL to, in complete self-service, attempt to prove I was the best punter. I’ve kinda given up on kicking awards, but hey. Maybe punting is my thing?
Before comparing the different kickers to each other directly, I’m going to go over each person’s individual season stats, as well as what I believe to be their best and worst game of the season. We’ll go in alphabetical order. Oh jeez I just realized we have three kickers with last name starting with F this year. Weird.
Adam Anderson
77 punts
3603 yards
46.8 yds/punt
7 inside the 20 (9.1%)
63 yard long
Best game: Week 5 vs. Baltimore - 11 punts, 48.6 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (18%)
This was a low scoring game that came down to the wire. The Otters secured a narrow one point victor over the Hawks, 14-13, and it was all about field position. Baltimore rarely found themselves pushing into Orange County territory because Anderson was able to consistently drive the ball deep after his own offense has stalled.
Worst game: Week 10 vs. Philadelphia - 5 punts, 43.0 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
So, the Otters actually won this one by six points when it was all said and done, but boy it wasn’t pretty on special teams. I mean, they gave up a 106 yard kickoff return to a linebacker. Ouch. But, Anderson struggled in this showing. A 43 yard average makes sense if several land inside the 20, but he actually had one kick hit 50, and two not break out of the 30s. It was a volatile and inconsistent performance, and his shortest punts weren’t even near the opposing end zone (so the excuse that he was avoiding a touchback is, in this situation, not passable).
Kyle Corbett
66 punts
2905 yards
44.0 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (15.2%)
62 yard long
Best game: Week 13 vs. Arizona - 6 punts, 46.7 yard avg, 4 inside the 20 (66.7%)
46.7 yards per punt is pretty middle of the pack, but to get that while landing two thirds of punts inside the 20 is an impressive feat. Actually, this one game was 40% of his punts left inside the 20 on the season. Good way to finish the season, Corbett!
Worst game: Every week
Okay, so like, wow. Week 13 was amazing, kudos Corbett. But I looked and re-looked at every single game for every single punter and damn, Corbett was just so impressively consistent in his mediocrity. He legitimately impressed me with his consistent lack of performance. Take away week 13 and his true worst game, whatever it may be, was like, barely distinguishable from his best game. Now he did have a game where he averaged 39 yards per punt with no punts left inside the 20... but I’m not counting that since he punted a single time that matchup.
Neo Donaldson
79 punts
3645 yards
46.1 yds/punt
8 inside the 20 (10.1%)
69 yard long
Best game: Week 13 at Orange County - 5 punts, 54.5 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (20%)
20% of punts left inside the 20 isn’t impressive, but when get an average punt of 54.5 it is. I mean Jesus, 54.5 yards per punt over 5 punts in one game is insane. Gotta love the raw kicking power seen in this matchup.
Worst game: Week 8 vs. Yellowknife - 7 punts, 41.7 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Oof. Just not good punting. This is a failure to control field position on seven separate occasions. His team still won by 14 points though.
None Forfeit
74 punts
3454 yards
46.7 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (13.5%)
71 yard long
Best game: Week 11 at New Orleans - 7 punts, 48.6 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (28.6%)
Forfeit maintained a high average punt length while still getting two of his punts to end in the opposing redzone. Although this was a losing effort, his personal performance was solid in an otherwise lackluster season.
Worst game: Week 6 vs. Philadelphia - 4 punts, 42.0 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Every punt matters. Yellowknife lost this Week 6 game by two points, 33-31. Had they controlled the field better, their near-21 point comeback might not have crumbled to a last second field goal. If Forfeit’s gonna have this low an average punt distance, you’ve got to have punts inside the redzone to go with it.
Alex Frost
71 punts
3258 yards
45.9 yds/punt
14 inside the 20 (19.7%)
68 yard long
Best game: Week 6 vs. New Orleans - 4 punts, 47.2 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (50%)
High average punt distance. Half of them left inside the 20. Not much more to say. A strong punting performance that he actually near replicated week 1, but with only half the volume, hence my choosing this as his best game.
Worst game: Week 5 at Orange County - 9 punts, 43.1 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (11.1%)
This game wasn’t overtly bad, but it definitely wasn’t good. If you’re going to have a sub-44 average punt yardage, you’d hope to have more accuracy in your kicks. That wasn’t the case here.
Kulture Fulture
68 punts
3033 yards
44.6 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (14.7%)
70 yard long
Best game: Week 11 vs. Baltimore - 5 punts, 50.8 yard avg, 3 inside the 20 (60%)
This is one of the most phenomenal punting performances I’ve seen. Any game where a punter averages over 50 yards per punt automatically catches my eye, particularly when it’s a competitive game where the punter has a volume greater than say, two or three. In this matchup, Fulture averaged 50.8 yards per punts while landing three of the five inside the 20. A stellar game, and one rookie kickers should aspire.
Worst game: Week 3 at New Orleans - 4 punts, 36.5 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Oh god. This was bad. Look, small sample size means a low average punt is understandable sometimes, but this was low as hell. And with 0 left inside the 20, I don’t get it. Fulture’s first punt of the game was 48 yards, and the subsequent three went for 32, 30, and 36. See, he had one game with three punts where he averaged 20 something yards, but one was blocked (counts as 0 yards) so I removed it, since that’s on his punt blockers. But this game? There were no such excuses.
Dean Jackson
90 punts
4164 yards
46.3 yds/punt
15 inside the 20 (16.7%)
75 yard long
Best game: Week 6 vs. Orange County - 7 punts, 42.3 yard avg, 4 inside the 20 (57.1%)
Punting is all about field position, which is why week 6 goes down as Jackson’s best on the season. Although his average yards per punt was much lower than several other games, he landed over half his punts inside the opposing 20 yard line! That is a huge and direct helping hand lent to his defense, and helped the Outlaws control field position throughout the game, though it did end up a losing contest. Honorable mention goes to Week 12 at Philadelphia - 8 punts, 50.1 yard avg, 3 inside the 20 (37.5%). Fun fact: despite an excellent punting performance in this game, the Outlaws got destroyed.
Worst game: Week 4 vs. Baltimore - 7 punts, 42.0 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (14.3%)
See, week 6 was great because of an insane inside the 20 percentage. In this game, Jackson’s punting was just bad. Consistently short kicks from his own side of the field, and too-long kicks that went for touchbacks once they reached the Baltimore high 30s and 40s, meant the Outlaws defense was repeatedly left in bad positions.
Since best game got an honorable mention, so does worst game: Week 5 vs. New Orleans - 3 punts, 39.7 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%). Fun fact: in spite of a horrendous punting performance by Jackson, the Outlaws decimated the Second Line in this matchup.
Beat Meoff
84 punts
3761 yards
44.8 yds/punt
14 inside the 20 (16.7%)
66 yard long
Best game: Week 8 vs. Arizona - 8 punts, 48.2 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (25%)
Meoff put on a good showing when he performed above average in both average yardage and inside the 20 percentage. Importantly, he did so with a volume of 8 punts in one game. Good work.
Worst game: Week 2 at San Jose - 7 punts, 40.9 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (14.3%)
This was the opposite of his week 8 performance. Even with volume, he performed below average in both power and accuracy efficiency. His team still eeked out a one point victory however.
Now that we’ve covered each kicker individually, let’s see how they stack up in relative efficiency.
Yards per punt:
1. Adam Anderson (46.8)
2. None Forfeit (46.7)
3. Dean Jackson (46.3)
4. Neo Donaldson (46.1)
5. Alex Frost (45.9)
6. Beat Meoff (44.8)
7. Kulture Fulture (44.6)
8. Kyle Corbett (44.0)
Inside the 20 percentage:
1. Alex Frost (19.7%)
T-2. Beat Meoff (16.7%)
T-2. Dean Jackson (16.7%)
4. Kyle Corbett (15.2%)
5. Kulture Fulture (14.7%)
6. None Forfeit (13.5%)
7. Neo Donaldson (10.1%)
8. Adam Anderson (9.1%)
Average Standing: (as in, of those two metrics, since Donaldson ranked 4th in one and 7th in the other, 4+7=11, 11/2 = average standing of 5.5)
1. Dean Jackson (2.5)
2. Alex Frost (3)
T-3. None Forfeit (4)
T-3. Beat Meoff (4)
5. Adam Anderson (4.5)
6. Neo Donaldson (5.5)
T-7. Kulture Fulture (6)
T-7. Kyle Corbett (6)
Alright, here’s where the self promotion begins. Strictly in terms of volume, Dean Jackson was the best punter, leading in yardage, total punts inside the 20, and had the longest punt on the season. But as we all know, volume is stupid. So we see that Dean Jackson, although not number one in either category for efficiency, was easily the best all around punter, being third in yardage efficiency and second in inside the 20 efficiency.
Now, the most common place we talk about volume versus efficiency is when evaluating runningbacks, and in that situation, we typically view them as inversely correlated. But maybe you’re thinking, oh, volume helps punters be more efficient? Well, I’m in the process of collecting all historical punting data for the league so I can make graphs and stuff, but that’s still a ways from completion. So for now we’ll just take a look at the NFL instead. In the 2019 season, the eight teams with the highest gross punting average (average yards per punt), were 1st, 9th, T-22nd, T-25th, T-10th, T-31st, T-31st, and T-28th in total number of punts. In other words, no obvious correlation between punting volume and punting efficiency.
Conclusion: Dean Jackson was the most all-around efficient punter in the 13th season of the National Simulation Football League. Furthermore, no kicker was historically accurate or historically powerful in their punting this season (like McCormick was with a 50+ average yards per punt in Season 10 when he won an award). Therefore, I urge you to vote Dean Jackson for punter of the year. Please and thank you. <3
(2006 words)
Issue #10: Season 13 Punting Review
”Professional football’s only Special Teams focused publication.”[/div]
We’re back! After... nine months? That sounds right. Issue #8 came out in June 2018 so... yeah. Nine months. But, what about Issue #9 you ask? Well, I wrote it, and then I killed it. Frankly, it showed that with a single season as a sample size, you can’t determine anything about a kicker’s performance with any practical significance from their kick power, kick accuracy, or total TPE, and I didn’t want to put that info out there for @bovovovo to go raving about kicker bots. But! I have new info based on thirteen seasons now. :eyes: So we’ll see when I have time for another article. Right now, we’re looking at the 13th season of the NSFL to, in complete self-service, attempt to prove I was the best punter. I’ve kinda given up on kicking awards, but hey. Maybe punting is my thing?
Before comparing the different kickers to each other directly, I’m going to go over each person’s individual season stats, as well as what I believe to be their best and worst game of the season. We’ll go in alphabetical order. Oh jeez I just realized we have three kickers with last name starting with F this year. Weird.
Adam Anderson77 punts
3603 yards
46.8 yds/punt
7 inside the 20 (9.1%)
63 yard long
Best game: Week 5 vs. Baltimore - 11 punts, 48.6 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (18%)
This was a low scoring game that came down to the wire. The Otters secured a narrow one point victor over the Hawks, 14-13, and it was all about field position. Baltimore rarely found themselves pushing into Orange County territory because Anderson was able to consistently drive the ball deep after his own offense has stalled.
Worst game: Week 10 vs. Philadelphia - 5 punts, 43.0 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
So, the Otters actually won this one by six points when it was all said and done, but boy it wasn’t pretty on special teams. I mean, they gave up a 106 yard kickoff return to a linebacker. Ouch. But, Anderson struggled in this showing. A 43 yard average makes sense if several land inside the 20, but he actually had one kick hit 50, and two not break out of the 30s. It was a volatile and inconsistent performance, and his shortest punts weren’t even near the opposing end zone (so the excuse that he was avoiding a touchback is, in this situation, not passable).
Kyle Corbett66 punts
2905 yards
44.0 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (15.2%)
62 yard long
Best game: Week 13 vs. Arizona - 6 punts, 46.7 yard avg, 4 inside the 20 (66.7%)
46.7 yards per punt is pretty middle of the pack, but to get that while landing two thirds of punts inside the 20 is an impressive feat. Actually, this one game was 40% of his punts left inside the 20 on the season. Good way to finish the season, Corbett!
Worst game: Every week
Okay, so like, wow. Week 13 was amazing, kudos Corbett. But I looked and re-looked at every single game for every single punter and damn, Corbett was just so impressively consistent in his mediocrity. He legitimately impressed me with his consistent lack of performance. Take away week 13 and his true worst game, whatever it may be, was like, barely distinguishable from his best game. Now he did have a game where he averaged 39 yards per punt with no punts left inside the 20... but I’m not counting that since he punted a single time that matchup.
Neo Donaldson79 punts
3645 yards
46.1 yds/punt
8 inside the 20 (10.1%)
69 yard long
Best game: Week 13 at Orange County - 5 punts, 54.5 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (20%)
20% of punts left inside the 20 isn’t impressive, but when get an average punt of 54.5 it is. I mean Jesus, 54.5 yards per punt over 5 punts in one game is insane. Gotta love the raw kicking power seen in this matchup.
Worst game: Week 8 vs. Yellowknife - 7 punts, 41.7 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Oof. Just not good punting. This is a failure to control field position on seven separate occasions. His team still won by 14 points though.
None Forfeit74 punts
3454 yards
46.7 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (13.5%)
71 yard long
Best game: Week 11 at New Orleans - 7 punts, 48.6 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (28.6%)
Forfeit maintained a high average punt length while still getting two of his punts to end in the opposing redzone. Although this was a losing effort, his personal performance was solid in an otherwise lackluster season.
Worst game: Week 6 vs. Philadelphia - 4 punts, 42.0 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Every punt matters. Yellowknife lost this Week 6 game by two points, 33-31. Had they controlled the field better, their near-21 point comeback might not have crumbled to a last second field goal. If Forfeit’s gonna have this low an average punt distance, you’ve got to have punts inside the redzone to go with it.
Alex Frost71 punts
3258 yards
45.9 yds/punt
14 inside the 20 (19.7%)
68 yard long
Best game: Week 6 vs. New Orleans - 4 punts, 47.2 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (50%)
High average punt distance. Half of them left inside the 20. Not much more to say. A strong punting performance that he actually near replicated week 1, but with only half the volume, hence my choosing this as his best game.
Worst game: Week 5 at Orange County - 9 punts, 43.1 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (11.1%)
This game wasn’t overtly bad, but it definitely wasn’t good. If you’re going to have a sub-44 average punt yardage, you’d hope to have more accuracy in your kicks. That wasn’t the case here.
Kulture Fulture68 punts
3033 yards
44.6 yds/punt
10 inside the 20 (14.7%)
70 yard long
Best game: Week 11 vs. Baltimore - 5 punts, 50.8 yard avg, 3 inside the 20 (60%)
This is one of the most phenomenal punting performances I’ve seen. Any game where a punter averages over 50 yards per punt automatically catches my eye, particularly when it’s a competitive game where the punter has a volume greater than say, two or three. In this matchup, Fulture averaged 50.8 yards per punts while landing three of the five inside the 20. A stellar game, and one rookie kickers should aspire.
Worst game: Week 3 at New Orleans - 4 punts, 36.5 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%)
Oh god. This was bad. Look, small sample size means a low average punt is understandable sometimes, but this was low as hell. And with 0 left inside the 20, I don’t get it. Fulture’s first punt of the game was 48 yards, and the subsequent three went for 32, 30, and 36. See, he had one game with three punts where he averaged 20 something yards, but one was blocked (counts as 0 yards) so I removed it, since that’s on his punt blockers. But this game? There were no such excuses.
Dean Jackson90 punts
4164 yards
46.3 yds/punt
15 inside the 20 (16.7%)
75 yard long
Best game: Week 6 vs. Orange County - 7 punts, 42.3 yard avg, 4 inside the 20 (57.1%)
Punting is all about field position, which is why week 6 goes down as Jackson’s best on the season. Although his average yards per punt was much lower than several other games, he landed over half his punts inside the opposing 20 yard line! That is a huge and direct helping hand lent to his defense, and helped the Outlaws control field position throughout the game, though it did end up a losing contest. Honorable mention goes to Week 12 at Philadelphia - 8 punts, 50.1 yard avg, 3 inside the 20 (37.5%). Fun fact: despite an excellent punting performance in this game, the Outlaws got destroyed.
Worst game: Week 4 vs. Baltimore - 7 punts, 42.0 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (14.3%)
See, week 6 was great because of an insane inside the 20 percentage. In this game, Jackson’s punting was just bad. Consistently short kicks from his own side of the field, and too-long kicks that went for touchbacks once they reached the Baltimore high 30s and 40s, meant the Outlaws defense was repeatedly left in bad positions.
Since best game got an honorable mention, so does worst game: Week 5 vs. New Orleans - 3 punts, 39.7 yard avg, 0 inside the 20 (0%). Fun fact: in spite of a horrendous punting performance by Jackson, the Outlaws decimated the Second Line in this matchup.
Beat Meoff84 punts
3761 yards
44.8 yds/punt
14 inside the 20 (16.7%)
66 yard long
Best game: Week 8 vs. Arizona - 8 punts, 48.2 yard avg, 2 inside the 20 (25%)
Meoff put on a good showing when he performed above average in both average yardage and inside the 20 percentage. Importantly, he did so with a volume of 8 punts in one game. Good work.
Worst game: Week 2 at San Jose - 7 punts, 40.9 yard avg, 1 inside the 20 (14.3%)
This was the opposite of his week 8 performance. Even with volume, he performed below average in both power and accuracy efficiency. His team still eeked out a one point victory however.
Now that we’ve covered each kicker individually, let’s see how they stack up in relative efficiency.
Yards per punt:
1. Adam Anderson (46.8)
2. None Forfeit (46.7)
3. Dean Jackson (46.3)
4. Neo Donaldson (46.1)
5. Alex Frost (45.9)
6. Beat Meoff (44.8)
7. Kulture Fulture (44.6)
8. Kyle Corbett (44.0)
Inside the 20 percentage:
1. Alex Frost (19.7%)
T-2. Beat Meoff (16.7%)
T-2. Dean Jackson (16.7%)
4. Kyle Corbett (15.2%)
5. Kulture Fulture (14.7%)
6. None Forfeit (13.5%)
7. Neo Donaldson (10.1%)
8. Adam Anderson (9.1%)
Average Standing: (as in, of those two metrics, since Donaldson ranked 4th in one and 7th in the other, 4+7=11, 11/2 = average standing of 5.5)
1. Dean Jackson (2.5)
2. Alex Frost (3)
T-3. None Forfeit (4)
T-3. Beat Meoff (4)
5. Adam Anderson (4.5)
6. Neo Donaldson (5.5)
T-7. Kulture Fulture (6)
T-7. Kyle Corbett (6)
Alright, here’s where the self promotion begins. Strictly in terms of volume, Dean Jackson was the best punter, leading in yardage, total punts inside the 20, and had the longest punt on the season. But as we all know, volume is stupid. So we see that Dean Jackson, although not number one in either category for efficiency, was easily the best all around punter, being third in yardage efficiency and second in inside the 20 efficiency.
Now, the most common place we talk about volume versus efficiency is when evaluating runningbacks, and in that situation, we typically view them as inversely correlated. But maybe you’re thinking, oh, volume helps punters be more efficient? Well, I’m in the process of collecting all historical punting data for the league so I can make graphs and stuff, but that’s still a ways from completion. So for now we’ll just take a look at the NFL instead. In the 2019 season, the eight teams with the highest gross punting average (average yards per punt), were 1st, 9th, T-22nd, T-25th, T-10th, T-31st, T-31st, and T-28th in total number of punts. In other words, no obvious correlation between punting volume and punting efficiency.
Conclusion: Dean Jackson was the most all-around efficient punter in the 13th season of the National Simulation Football League. Furthermore, no kicker was historically accurate or historically powerful in their punting this season (like McCormick was with a 50+ average yards per punt in Season 10 when he won an award). Therefore, I urge you to vote Dean Jackson for punter of the year. Please and thank you. <3
(2006 words)
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