TIER 2
1. Awards season is a big part of the offseason festivities. Take the stand, in 400 words or more, for one or more players that are not your own, and argue why they should receive awards glory. They can be your teammates or anyone in the league. How did their stats and on the field contribution contribute to their case this year?
To preface this, I'm new to football and I'm learning what stats are important, so this is a good way to learn and apply the stats on who I think will win certain awards. Since I created a WR, I'll start off with the best Wide Receiver Award. Looking at previous years, I can see a very easy correlation in who wins that award vs the amount of touchdowns they perform with each winner being the player with the most touchdowns. The exception was when Vinny Valentine won in S16-S18 where he lead in receiving yards averaging around 1400 where current WR couldn't achieve. Thus, by looking at Yards and Touchdowns, there are three obvious candidates in the race: Nate Swift, Rod Tidwell and D. Thomas-Fox. All three receivers got 11 touchdowns as well as getting over 1000 receiving yards. But in my opinion, my choice for the award would be Rod Tidwell because he averaged a higher amount at 18.2. The other two only averaged between 14-15. Tidwell also got the longest received with 50 yrds among the 3, but I think this stat won't represent the performance well.
The next positional award I'll look at is Quarterback. This one seems a lot simplier to look at. From comparing the winners to the stats for previous years, all of the recipients of the award had the highest passing rating. If we use this method, the player I would choose is Dan Wright with a 95 Passing Rating. But my actual choice for the award is his closest competition, Cooter Bigsby. Bigsby does have a lower rating but is close with 93. He had 80 more oppotunities but has 8 more touchdowns, 30 more completions and 600 more yards. He does have 1 more interception than Wright but I would say that's a positive thing with a larger sample size vs a small one. Wright got a higher rating because of his higher percentage completed with 5% more than Bigsby but with more opportunities, I feel he would regress to a lower rating than Bigsby.
My last positional award analysis is the Kicker and Punter award. For my money, Alex Dasistwirklichseinnachname is going to win the kicker award again having a 100% XP% this year with 34 attempts. He has has a decent FG% with 93.5% in 31 attempts with only missing two where the attempt was 40+ yrds. For the Punter award, the correlation seems to be the highest average punted yards. My choice will be Alfredo Crisco, Having almost average 50 yards with 49.2 in 76 punts which is one point higher over the next.
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TIER 3
1. PBE Championship PT +2.5 TPE
2. Make a comparison between your own team and a playoff team, if your team failed to make the postseason, showing why your squad was better.
I'm currently not on a team as I will be a S24 Draftee, so I'll be comparing two teams similar in TPE but drastic in results. The two team twos I'm comparing are the San Jose Saber Cats and Arizona Outlaws. In TPE totals, the Sabre Cats have 300 more at 10317 while Outlaws only have 10085. But the Sabre Cats are in the playoffs with a better record of 8-5-0 while the Outlaws have an unfortunate 4-8-1 record. Looking at the Quarterback matchup, the Outlaws have Jay Cue with 1090 TPE who on paper should be better than the Sabre Cat's QB, Dan Wright. However, Dan Wright overperformed to be a contender for the best QB of the season. Cue did lead the league in passing yards so the main problem isn't in the QB. The major difference between the teams is the defence. The Sabre Cats performed to be a top 2 defence in their division while the Outlaws' defence are ranked dead last in their league as well as the division. Outlaw's allowed the most yards in all defense category as well as points in the division. In terms of TPE, Outlaws' defence team, to no one's surprise, ranks last in the division, and third last in the league (last two are the two tanking teams in the NSFC). The Outlaw's offense should be better with more TPE by almost 1000 versus the Cats but struggles in the many categories. In the end, the defense is definitely a worry of concern for the Outlaws and it should be retooled in the future as they approach their competitive phase in making the playoffs.
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1. Awards season is a big part of the offseason festivities. Take the stand, in 400 words or more, for one or more players that are not your own, and argue why they should receive awards glory. They can be your teammates or anyone in the league. How did their stats and on the field contribution contribute to their case this year?
To preface this, I'm new to football and I'm learning what stats are important, so this is a good way to learn and apply the stats on who I think will win certain awards. Since I created a WR, I'll start off with the best Wide Receiver Award. Looking at previous years, I can see a very easy correlation in who wins that award vs the amount of touchdowns they perform with each winner being the player with the most touchdowns. The exception was when Vinny Valentine won in S16-S18 where he lead in receiving yards averaging around 1400 where current WR couldn't achieve. Thus, by looking at Yards and Touchdowns, there are three obvious candidates in the race: Nate Swift, Rod Tidwell and D. Thomas-Fox. All three receivers got 11 touchdowns as well as getting over 1000 receiving yards. But in my opinion, my choice for the award would be Rod Tidwell because he averaged a higher amount at 18.2. The other two only averaged between 14-15. Tidwell also got the longest received with 50 yrds among the 3, but I think this stat won't represent the performance well.
The next positional award I'll look at is Quarterback. This one seems a lot simplier to look at. From comparing the winners to the stats for previous years, all of the recipients of the award had the highest passing rating. If we use this method, the player I would choose is Dan Wright with a 95 Passing Rating. But my actual choice for the award is his closest competition, Cooter Bigsby. Bigsby does have a lower rating but is close with 93. He had 80 more oppotunities but has 8 more touchdowns, 30 more completions and 600 more yards. He does have 1 more interception than Wright but I would say that's a positive thing with a larger sample size vs a small one. Wright got a higher rating because of his higher percentage completed with 5% more than Bigsby but with more opportunities, I feel he would regress to a lower rating than Bigsby.
My last positional award analysis is the Kicker and Punter award. For my money, Alex Dasistwirklichseinnachname is going to win the kicker award again having a 100% XP% this year with 34 attempts. He has has a decent FG% with 93.5% in 31 attempts with only missing two where the attempt was 40+ yrds. For the Punter award, the correlation seems to be the highest average punted yards. My choice will be Alfredo Crisco, Having almost average 50 yards with 49.2 in 76 punts which is one point higher over the next.
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TIER 3
1. PBE Championship PT +2.5 TPE
2. Make a comparison between your own team and a playoff team, if your team failed to make the postseason, showing why your squad was better.
I'm currently not on a team as I will be a S24 Draftee, so I'll be comparing two teams similar in TPE but drastic in results. The two team twos I'm comparing are the San Jose Saber Cats and Arizona Outlaws. In TPE totals, the Sabre Cats have 300 more at 10317 while Outlaws only have 10085. But the Sabre Cats are in the playoffs with a better record of 8-5-0 while the Outlaws have an unfortunate 4-8-1 record. Looking at the Quarterback matchup, the Outlaws have Jay Cue with 1090 TPE who on paper should be better than the Sabre Cat's QB, Dan Wright. However, Dan Wright overperformed to be a contender for the best QB of the season. Cue did lead the league in passing yards so the main problem isn't in the QB. The major difference between the teams is the defence. The Sabre Cats performed to be a top 2 defence in their division while the Outlaws' defence are ranked dead last in their league as well as the division. Outlaw's allowed the most yards in all defense category as well as points in the division. In terms of TPE, Outlaws' defence team, to no one's surprise, ranks last in the division, and third last in the league (last two are the two tanking teams in the NSFC). The Outlaw's offense should be better with more TPE by almost 1000 versus the Cats but struggles in the many categories. In the end, the defense is definitely a worry of concern for the Outlaws and it should be retooled in the future as they approach their competitive phase in making the playoffs.
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