(S31) Ultimus Week

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5 TPE - 9) Through a random lottery drawing, you have been named the league's new commisioner for a day. Congrats! What improvements would you make to the league if you had the power to do whatever you wanted?

My brilliant plan to win this years fantasy league was to draft as much Arizona Outlaws as possible, after all, they had everything they needed to be succesfull and were the major fantasy players the season before. Nothing could go wrong right. I had Charlemagne Cortez, Taro Raimon, Darren Pama, Cade York and even got to pick up Tatsu Nakamura as the 12th RB selected in this group. I should have known better, but Cortez was only good for 28 touchdowns this season, 7 quarterbacks had more. He threw for 4293 yards once again 8 quarterbacks scored higher. So quarterback wise the Arizona Outlaws should have been better, they had to tools to help Cortez with multiple elite receivers and running backs (they can also be included in the passing game).  Compare it to last year, where he came 1 touchdown short to the league lead and yardwise, he had only three quarterbacks before him when he had 4872 yards. So from a 14-2 record, they slipped to a 9-7 record, a big decline for a team considered the major favorite coming into the season.

In terms of running backs, in season 30 Nakamura and Memes both had around 1010 yards (Nakamura had 1 more) and 26 (14 to 12) touchdowns. So with the decrese in passing this season, you would expect a large jump here. But the contrary happened, while the touchdowns only went down slightly to 24 ( 11 to 13), the yardage dropped for both of them to 873 for Nakamura and 853 for Memes. So not the gain I would expect of them.

When looking at Cade York, I might have just gambled wrong there, as he wasn't that great in S30 either, but I figured the Outlaws offense would stay red hot, but just like the season before he remained at 24 field goals made. This time 9 kickers scored more compared to 8 more the season before.

So was the team worse in every aspect? Maybe not! We still have the defense to look at. Last season they were the amongst the worst tacklers in the league, with just New York, Baltimore and Chicago below them. This year they obliterated the others, tackling 66 more as the number two in the league.  38 of those were tackles for loss, good for 1st in the league. With this they improve from the year prior, where they had to share the number 1 position with 30 tackles for Yellowknife, Chicago and Arizona. With 47 sacks they were in the middle of the pack during S30, they did see a decline here this year with 44 tackles, losing a couple of spots here aswell. Seven teams did better as them this year when looking at the interceptions where they had 12 off, the same amount as last season, but then they had nine teams do better. With the passes defended rating they lead the league in Season 30, but no idea what happened this year, as it really was a case from the top to the bottom, as now they only have more as Orange County and San Jose.

Needless to say, a lot went worse for the Outlaws this year. For the Honolulu Hahalua, we hope this will result in their first playoff win. The odds are still against the Hahalua despite the worse season for the Outlaws, as perhaps, they just were too good the year prior.

2,5 TPE - 19) Tv show




2,5 TPE - 23) Video game cover (featuring Jay Cue Jr.)