We are fully into election season in the USA. And as everyone knows, the election process here is utterly flawless and never leads to controversy. So I got to thinking, why are our football games still based on the ludicrous system of only looking at points scored? That's basically the "popular vote" of football games. We can't have that. Why should a team win a game just because they scored more points than the other team? Why are we overlooking the hard-working stats in the middle of the boxscore? We need a system that gives the little stats a voice!
So I'm happy to introduce the Electoral College system to ISFL games!
Here are the details:
First, Second, and Third Quarter Score: Currently we only consider the score at the end of the fourth quarter. That's absurd! We use four of these dang quarters, and we just ignore three of them? Not anymore. Under the electoral college system, we look at each quarter individually. For each quarter that your team outscores the other (no matter if it's by a single point or by 50 points), you get 1 electoral college vote. Tiebreaker goes to the home team (yes, for once, the home team will have an advantage in this league)
Fourth Quarter Score: I will of grant that the fourth quarter has more urgency and stress than the other quarters. Therefore, fourth quarter score is worth 2 electoral college votes.
Time of Possession: Let me paint you a picture - one team puts together a hard-working 14-play, 60 yard drive that lasts for 11 minutes of game time and ends in a sensible 30 yard field goal attempt that happens to miss. Meanwhile, some team with a dangerous progressive ideology efficiently completes a few passes and goes 80 yards in 5 plays and scores a touchdown in 2 minutes. Makes me sick. Under the old system, the team that scores a touchdown has a clear and unfair advantage in terms of the final score. But were they the better team in this scenario? Irrelevant! How could a methodical team like in the first example get no credit for their effort? Under the electoral college, the team that wins the time of possession battle gets 1 electoral college vote.
3rd Down Conversion: Here is where one of those radical aggressive teams fail where sensible conservative play calling thrives. The team with better conversion percentage on third down gets 1 vote.
Total Yards Gained: Obviously more important than points. Think of all the fluky missed field goals after long drives, or turnovers that start drives at the goal line already. What about garbage time you say? Doesn't exist in the electoral college system where each quarter matters individually. This one is worth 2 electoral college votes.
Penalty Yards: Shouldn't we be rewarding teams that follow the rules? If players would simply do what the refs tell them to do, they wouldn't be in danger in the first place. A team full of dangerous thugs should be punished and made an example of. I, for one, back our boys in stripes. The team with the fewest penalty yards gets 1 vote.
Turnovers: Turnovers are a form of socialism. Teams can't expect to rely on handouts from opposing players, and should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps to get the ball back. Teams that turn the ball over are obviously communists and therefore the team with fewer turnovers get 1 vote.
Here is a specific example of the new system at work:
Week 6, Arizona 41 - Honolulu 23. Arizona "wins" by 18 points. But hold on, let's check the electoral college:
First Quarter: Arizona 3, Honolulu 3 - Tie goes to Honolulu as the home team
Second Quarter: Arizona 14, Honolulu 3 - Arizona gets the vote
Third Quarter: Arizona 21, Honolulu 7 - Arizona again. But look at how unfairly Arizona was benefited initally from this second and third quarter, just because they outscored the Hahalua by 25 points. The old system was clearly broken.
Fourth Quarter: Arizona, 3, Honolulu 10 - See, when push came to shove in the most important quarter, the Hahalua stepped up their game. 2 votes for Honolulu
Time of Possession: Arizona 31:22, Honolulu 28:38 - Arizona gets the vote
3rd Downs: Arizona 8/13 (62%), Honolulu 6/14 (43%) - Arizona gets the vote
Total Yards: Arizona 390, Honolulu 419 - Honolulu gets 2 votes
Penalty Yards: Arizona 25, Honolulu 15 - Honolulu gets the vote for not breaking the law
Turnovers: Arizona 0, Honolulu 1 - Vote goes to Arizona
The new final score: Arizona 5 votes, Honolulu 6 votes. Honolulu wins, and rightfully so.
And now lets re-count this season's games and look at the new standings:
NSFC
Colorado........8-5
Chicago.........7-6
Philadelphia...7-6
Sarasota........7-6
Baltimore.......6-7
Yellowknife....6-7
Berlin.............4-9
ASFC
Arizona...............9-4
Orange County...9-4
San Jose............9-4
Honolulu.............7-6
Austin.................5-8
New York............4-9
New Orleans......3-10
So I'm happy to introduce the Electoral College system to ISFL games!
Here are the details:
First, Second, and Third Quarter Score: Currently we only consider the score at the end of the fourth quarter. That's absurd! We use four of these dang quarters, and we just ignore three of them? Not anymore. Under the electoral college system, we look at each quarter individually. For each quarter that your team outscores the other (no matter if it's by a single point or by 50 points), you get 1 electoral college vote. Tiebreaker goes to the home team (yes, for once, the home team will have an advantage in this league)
Fourth Quarter Score: I will of grant that the fourth quarter has more urgency and stress than the other quarters. Therefore, fourth quarter score is worth 2 electoral college votes.
Time of Possession: Let me paint you a picture - one team puts together a hard-working 14-play, 60 yard drive that lasts for 11 minutes of game time and ends in a sensible 30 yard field goal attempt that happens to miss. Meanwhile, some team with a dangerous progressive ideology efficiently completes a few passes and goes 80 yards in 5 plays and scores a touchdown in 2 minutes. Makes me sick. Under the old system, the team that scores a touchdown has a clear and unfair advantage in terms of the final score. But were they the better team in this scenario? Irrelevant! How could a methodical team like in the first example get no credit for their effort? Under the electoral college, the team that wins the time of possession battle gets 1 electoral college vote.
3rd Down Conversion: Here is where one of those radical aggressive teams fail where sensible conservative play calling thrives. The team with better conversion percentage on third down gets 1 vote.
Total Yards Gained: Obviously more important than points. Think of all the fluky missed field goals after long drives, or turnovers that start drives at the goal line already. What about garbage time you say? Doesn't exist in the electoral college system where each quarter matters individually. This one is worth 2 electoral college votes.
Penalty Yards: Shouldn't we be rewarding teams that follow the rules? If players would simply do what the refs tell them to do, they wouldn't be in danger in the first place. A team full of dangerous thugs should be punished and made an example of. I, for one, back our boys in stripes. The team with the fewest penalty yards gets 1 vote.
Turnovers: Turnovers are a form of socialism. Teams can't expect to rely on handouts from opposing players, and should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps to get the ball back. Teams that turn the ball over are obviously communists and therefore the team with fewer turnovers get 1 vote.
Here is a specific example of the new system at work:
Week 6, Arizona 41 - Honolulu 23. Arizona "wins" by 18 points. But hold on, let's check the electoral college:
First Quarter: Arizona 3, Honolulu 3 - Tie goes to Honolulu as the home team
Second Quarter: Arizona 14, Honolulu 3 - Arizona gets the vote
Third Quarter: Arizona 21, Honolulu 7 - Arizona again. But look at how unfairly Arizona was benefited initally from this second and third quarter, just because they outscored the Hahalua by 25 points. The old system was clearly broken.
Fourth Quarter: Arizona, 3, Honolulu 10 - See, when push came to shove in the most important quarter, the Hahalua stepped up their game. 2 votes for Honolulu
Time of Possession: Arizona 31:22, Honolulu 28:38 - Arizona gets the vote
3rd Downs: Arizona 8/13 (62%), Honolulu 6/14 (43%) - Arizona gets the vote
Total Yards: Arizona 390, Honolulu 419 - Honolulu gets 2 votes
Penalty Yards: Arizona 25, Honolulu 15 - Honolulu gets the vote for not breaking the law
Turnovers: Arizona 0, Honolulu 1 - Vote goes to Arizona
The new final score: Arizona 5 votes, Honolulu 6 votes. Honolulu wins, and rightfully so.
And now lets re-count this season's games and look at the new standings:
NSFC
Colorado........8-5
Chicago.........7-6
Philadelphia...7-6
Sarasota........7-6
Baltimore.......6-7
Yellowknife....6-7
Berlin.............4-9
ASFC
Arizona...............9-4
Orange County...9-4
San Jose............9-4
Honolulu.............7-6
Austin.................5-8
New York............4-9
New Orleans......3-10
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