(S23) - Ultimus Week

Thread Closed

(S23) - Ultimus Week

hotdog
Offline

Legend

Discord:
Posts: 1,388
Threads: 12
Joined: Mar 2020

CLAIM #56

07-22-2020, 11:13 AM (This post was last modified: 07-27-2020, 10:26 PM by hotdog.)

Code:
21) 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.

The Arizona Outlaws had a really interesting season - most people thought we'd miss the playoffs, we started out slow, then really turned it on in the middle and looked perfectly poised for a playoff seed, then we had a rough end to the season and wound up in 4th where we were projected all along! A glance reveals we may have been a bit unlucky in that rough end, however, and we're probably a better team than several playoff teams. New Orleans, for example, had a point differential of NEGATIVE 21 and we had a point differential of 122!!! Obviously there's a lot more going on in a team than its point differential, but it's tough to look at a disparity that drastic and think that the -21 team is better than the +122 one... In fact, Arizona's point differential was the best of any team in the entire league - so the case could be made that the Outlaws are actually better than not only one of the playoff teams but every single playoff team. It would probably be dumb, but I would have like it this season if the tiebreaker were Point Differential rather than head to head matchups - bad idea though lol don't do that.

Code:
13) Create an argument for your own player, or for someone else on your team, as to why they should be nominated for awards. Lay out their stats or compare them to other contenders. Make a convincing case.

The legend Saba Donut should be taking home the Wide Receiver of the Year award this season due to stellar performance throughout the regular season. Wide Receiver is one of those awards where playoffs/team success shouldn't be factored in whatsoever (MVP, different story) so AZ missing the playoffs shouldn't be a big deal here. Statistically, Donut had the best season of any wide receiver in the league. Saba led the league in receiving yards with 1420, 120 more than the second place receiver. He was also second in catches, only 4 behind the first place finisher. Donut also led the league in receiving touchdowns with 12. Leads the league in receiving yards, second in receptions, first in touchdowns, and first in yards per catch - tough to imagine a much stronger case than that! The other clear contender is Net Gaines, but Donut had the advantage in almost every category, so Gaines is a clear second place finish to me. Alongside Donut is the QB throwing him the ball, Jay Cue, who also has a very strong case to be made for quarterback of the year, though I don't think his case is quite as much of a runaway as Donut's. Cue was able to spread the ball around to multiple targets and still hit Donut enough to make him the top receiver in the league, so maybe he'll take home the hardware as well.

Code:
Imagine that the league’s Pro Bowl included a skills competition similar to the NFL. What sorts of games could you see being implemented? Which players do you think would perform the best in ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, or other games? Which conference would come out on top?

This one shouldn't be shown to the children since it's not the sort of behavior we want to glorify to the youth, but a beerlympics would be absolutely amazing to see. In real life I think it'd be fascinating to see just how much/how quickly these pro athletes can drink, especially behemoths like offensive linemen. Beer pong, boat race, slap cup, flip cup, chug a big ol pitcher, etc. - show me all of it. I think each team here could contribute a team of 5 to compete - sometimes together and the rest of the time split up among the various events. Arizona's squad should probably be Galf Wilf, Pete "Plop" Miller, Shane Masters, Claude Miller II, and Stanislaw Koniecpolski - that'd be a drinking squad that could compete with the best. Again, this shouldn't be shown on television because we probably don't want to promote or glorify binge drinking to minors, but I personally would love to see it. Others around the league who could excel in this might be Cooter Bigsby, Lord Beerus (already got Beer in the name wow), and Earl Sauce. Overall, I would bet money on Arizona or Colorado to take home the championship belt in this competition, but I bet the talent would be pretty evenly distributed across the league.