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Yellowknife Wraiths at Baltimore Hawks:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 6/15
Jameson Vermillion: 8/12
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 8/20
Matthias Hanyadi: 0/1
Skyline had a couple of really good rushes, an 8 yarder and a 14 yarder. He also had a 4 yard rush on 3rd and inches. The rest of his successes came from short rushes that were put in a situation to succeed. A 3 yard rush on 1st down counts as successful when it comes after a 12 men on the field penalty, who cares if you only went 1 yard if you were at the goal line, and a 2 yard run on 2nd and 4 counts as enough for a success even if you follow that by rushing just shy of the 1st down marker. It's also worth mentioning one of his unsuccessful rushes directly prevented his next rush from being successful. Getting -3 yards on 2nd and inches, only to get 2 yards on the next run, has got to sting. His yards per carry was 2.5, and without that 14 yard gain it falls to 1.6. Vermillion was just excellent all around on the day. His only successful run that even has a hint of an asterisk was a 3 yard run on 2nd and -1, but we've had much worse runs get successes. Even without the offsides on the previous play that 3 yard carry would have still been a success. Now, his yards per carry are slightly inflated by a 23 yard run at the end of the first half, but even if you remove that, he still has 5.3 yards per carry on the day, which is excellent even if it isn't 6.8. I don't think the Wraiths are at all complaining about Vermillion's performance today.
Fukushu had a great performance but they were completely boom or bust on their runs. Granted, when 8 of your runs are successes, and only 1 was a short yardage success, I think being boom or bust is fine, but that doesn't change the fact that on those 8 runs Fukushu got 161 rushing yards, and the rest of her day she got -1, and that's counting her 1 yard gain on the unsuccessful 2 point conversion. She had 12 unsuccessful runs to get that -1 yard. That said, due to having more than 1 extremely long rush, she's not hurt too terribly bad by the Remove Long method, minus her 54 yarder she still has 5.6 yards per carry. Removing her OTHER +50 yard rush, a 53 yard touchdown early in the 2nd half, does cause her yards per carry to drop below 3 though. Hanyadi was only used once and only got 2 yards on a 1st and 10.
Colorado Yeti at Chicago Butchers:
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 6/10
Anders Christiansen: 1/2
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 5/16
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 1/3
Zed Keppler: 0/1
Gilbert's first 2 runs were both under 4 yard successes. A 1 yard touchdown after other players brought the Yeti down to the 1 inch line, and a 2 yard run on 2nd and 3 (that to be fair came from a 7 yard completion to Gilbert in the first place). None of the rest of his runs were short yardage successes though, they were a 5 yard run on 1st down, a 12 yard rush on 2nd and 16 (really have to give credit here for managing to have a successful run even in this poor situation) and then a pair of touchdown runs; 11 yards and 60 yards respectively. That 12 yard rush alone more than makes up for the 2 short yardage successes in my mind, and even with a long of 60 Gilbert still manages to average 4 yards per carry once that run is taken out, not an easy thing to do with a long that big. Anders Christiansen has boosted his success rate a bit today, his success was a 4 yard run on 2nd and 3.
Last time I wrote about how the San Jose running backs had regressed from their masterful week 2 performance. Baby Yoda has, albeit not quite as bombastically, failed to live up to the same heights as well. To compare to Gilbert, Yoda's first 2 runs were a 0 yard run and a -2 yard run while on the inch line after a pick-almost-six. I swear that there's been an unreasonable amount of turnover returns to the inch line, as a side note. Yoda did not get any successful carries until the second half started, where they promptly got 3 5 yard carries in a row, later got a 3 yard run on 2nd and 4, and a 2 yard run on 4th and 1. Those 20 yards on Yoda's 5 successful carries leave them with 4 yards on 11 carries, and none of those successes were all that excellent either. I think you can safely blame the running game in part for the loss tonight. 2 lost fumbles out of 2 plus a disastrous pick was another part. Meanwhile, Tirtawidjaja's lone success on the night was his 1 yard touchdown run, which also happened to be his only yard on the day; he got stopped for no gain on his other 2 carries.
Orange County Otters at Sarasota Sailfish:
Otters Rushers:
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/17
Ace Savage: 2/10
Bronko Mills: 0/1
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 9/21
Running Back: 0/4
Sigismund Sternenstaub: 0/1
The Otters still do not have an actual run game, apparently. 28 rushes, only 5 successes? That's absolutely terrible, and it was actually worse for a long time. Phillips did not have a successful rush until the 3rd quarter was almost over, promptly pulled off an 8 yard rush and a 3 yard rush, both for 1st downs on 3rd down, and then waited another entire quarter to do his final successful rush: a 2 yard rush on 2nd and 1. Only his 8 yard rush I couldn't say was set up by another player. Speaking of, taking out that 8 yard rush causes his yards per carry to fall from 1.2 to 0.8, and it's impressive enough that he got any rush large enough to damage his yards per carry by a full third by taking it out. Savage got a higher success rate, but less yards per carry at only 1, and less runs that I could say weren't set up by another player. He had two separate 2 yard rushes on 2nd and 2, one of which got a 1st down, and the other left Orange County with 3rd and Inches. He had only a long of 3. Mills' only rush was a 1 yard gain on 2nd and 3. I'd say that Orange County really needed to lean on its Quarterback more...but on a day when Ramza threw for 3 picks, it seems more like the Orange County offense was out of luck with their offense this game.
Chan still had a good game, but this had the potential to be awe inspiring. Up until the last drive of the first half, Chan had 7 successes out of 10 rushes, including a drive where she contributed all but 1 of the yards after an Orange County turnover right outside the Red Zone. The only successes she had in the next 11 rushes were a 3 yard rush on 2nd and 4, and a 22 yard rush on 1st and 10. Chan did have a number of short yardage successes, which probably explain her extremely low yards per carry figure (only 3.6). Chan had a 2 yard rush on 1st and Goal from the 2, a 1 yard rush to clean that touchdown up, a 1 yard rush on that touchdown drive which she commanded, and that previously mentioned 3 yard rush on 2nd and 4. She almost got another one when she gained 0 yards on 1st and Goal from the 4, and then gained 2 yards on 2nd down, but the new ball spot said she started on the 5. Then the ball spot after the play put it on the 2. So, kind of unfortunate, but it would have been another short yardage success anyways. Chan also gets hit hard by the Remove Long method, as she falls to 2.7 yards per carry once you remove that 22 yard scamper. Nobody else on the Sailfish had a successful run, and Running Back in particular somewhat destroyed his season long efficiency with his 0 for 4 on the day.
Philidelphia Liberty at Berlin Fire Salamanders:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 4/19
Sam Torenson: 3/9
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 8/17
Terry Yaki: 1/5
Nick Kaepercolin: 1/1
All of Williams' successes resulted in a 1st down, and besides a 4 yard run on 3rd and 1, they all were at least 10 yards long. Considering he only had 4.2 yards per carry, it really shows just how many runs he had that pretty much went nowhere. Taking out his long of 23 causes his yards per carry to fall to 3.1. If you take out his other carries of over 10 yards? It falls to 1.3 yards per carry. Now, maybe taking out that many runs is a bit unfair, but I've done it to others and they usually had more runs to go through before it fell to this low. The other thing is, all but 1 of Williams' successes were IMMEDIATELY followed by an unsuccessful rush of his that led to a 2nd and long. I feel the success rate is a bit more accurate in regards to Williams' day than his yards per carry. Torenson also got 1st downs on all of his successes, with an 8 yard run on 3rd and 1, an 11 yard run on 1st and 10, and a 2 yard run on 4th and 1. He also very much had his successes boost his yards per carry, and unlike Williams, his original yards per carry wasn't that good. Minus his 8 and 11 yard run, his yards per carry falls to a flat 1.
Petrongolo had a really, really bad ending. You see that 8/17? It was 8/10 at one point. Granted, that did include a number of short yardage conversions, including a 1 yard run on 2nd and Goal from the 2, a 3 yard run on 1st and 5, and another 3 yard run on 3rd and 1 during the same series, so maybe it shouldn't have reached 8/10 in the first place. However, he did get robbed of a success later, when he pulled off a 9 yard run on 2nd down, that unfortunately came after a Taunting penalty so it was still unsuccessful. After his first run in the 2nd half, he did not have a success for the rest of the night. However, due in part to things like that 9 yard unsuccessful run, he still has a pretty good yard per carry when you remove his long; minus his 40 yard long it falls to 5 yards per carry. Terry Yaki got put in a large number of short yardage situations with the chance to easily get successes, and he screwed it up. His runs were on 1st and Goal from the 3, 2nd and 2, 1st and Goal from the 5, 3rd and Goal from the 3, and 2nd and 1. During LITERALLY ALL OF THESE RUNS, getting 3 yards would have been a success. All but the 3rd and goal would have been a success with 2 yards. He only got 2 yards on the 1st and Goal from the 5 and thus only got 1 success on a day where a bad rushing day could have STILL gotten you 5/5. His 0.8 yards per carry is EARNED. Kaepercolin's only rush was a 4 yard rush on 1st and 10, to bump him up to 50% on the season.
San Jose Sabercats at New York Silverbacks:
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 10/22
Rando Cardrissian: 4/14
Monty Jack: 1/1
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 2/5
Ashley Owens: 0/3
Buster Bawlls: 0/1
Lackson had a decent number of short yardage successes. Getting successes off of a 1 yard run and a pair of 2 yard runs, albeit both being set up by previous successful runs from him, is more luck than most people get. Still, he more than made the most of it considering he also boosted up his counter with 7 other successes, including 2 to set those 3 up, and a couple double digit length carries. Speaking of, I'm actually surprised at how low his yards per carry was, I expected it to be higher than 5.3, but I guess "only" getting 2 longer than 10 yard carries doesn't do enough to boost it. I'm also surprised at how much his yards per carry drops when you take away his long of 49, as it falls to 3.2. Cardrissian, meanwhile, got a 6 yard carry, and then 3 other short yard carries that all were helped out by other people having successful runs, including a 1 yard carry after Monty Jack's lone run on the day gave the Sabercats a 3rd and Inches. His 6 yard rush on 1st down wasn't just his only run longer than 3 yards, it was then followed up by an unsuccessful run from Cardrissian despite only needing 2 yards for a success.
Why didn't this team run the ball more? Granted, their running game wasn't good, but this was a day where their GM said in the stream chat that Sam Howitzer was the best offensive player for the Sabercats and everyone agreed. Rogers started out by getting a 14 yard run for a 1st down, a 4 yard run on 3rd and 3 for another first, and then being used 3 more times for a grand total of 1 yard. As such, taking out his 14 yard run causes his yards per carry to fall precipitously from an already poor 3.8 to a dreadful 1.25. Owens had a long of 3 yards on 1st and 10, then rushed for 2 yards and 1 yard, and earned their 0/for on the day. Bawlls on the other hand, remains the most weirdly timed back to use. He got 4 yards on his 1 run, a shame it came on 2nd down after Rogers got 0 yards and a penalty on 1st down to prevent it from being a success. Maybe that's why this team didn't run the ball more, because it wasn't a good rushing day for them either.
New Orleans Second Line at Austin Copperheads:
Second Line Rushers:
Mr Forty Two: 3/11
Mike Rotchburns: 3/10
Forrest Gump: 0/1
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 8/17
Jim the Vampire: 0/1
Mr Forty Two's successes were a pair of runs on 1st down to give his team a 2nd and short, and a 48 yard scamper on the drive that would give the Second Line a lead they wouldn't relinquish. That 48 yard run is the vast majority of his production, though; his 5.8 yards per carry falls to 1.6 if you take it out which tells you about how often he would run into a wall of bricks that the passing game would have to overcome (they usually did). Rotchburns was extremely similar in terms of successful runs, but flipped the timing. He had an awful first half with his lone successful run being an 8 yard carry on 2nd and 3, and then put together a pair of successful runs to put the game out of reach of a successful last second Hail Mary attempt, making up for a 2 yard loss on 1st down with a 34 yard gain on 2nd, and then a 1 yard touchdown run to finish it off. His yards per carry do fall to 1.4 minus that 34 yard run. Gump continues to be used sparingly, and this time was unable to get a success when handed a 3rd and 6.
Watts was great today, and extremely consistent. Perhaps slightly too consistent...Watts was in lockstep with a 50% success rate the entire night, pretty much. One time she had 5 runs in 5 plays that went Success, Failure, Success, Success, Failure. They were able to get 2 first downs out of that section so maybe it's not too consistent. Watts did get the benefit from a couple of short yardage successes, one of which was set up by previous runs of hers; a 2 yard rush on 2nd and 2 set up by the passing game, and then a 1 yard rush on 2nd and 1 that was set up by her previous successful run. Even despite a long of 40, Watts still had a yards per carry of over 3.5 after taking it out. Meanwhile, Jim the Vampire is somewhat far removed at this point from getting 2/3 successful rushes on his debut in week 2, he hasn't had a successful rush since.
Arizona Outlaws at Honolulu Hahalua:
Arizona Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 8/21
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 0/2
Charlemagne Cortez: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicholas Ayers: 0/8
Cobra Kai: 0/4
Nakamura continues his games of decent efficiency on heavy usage, and suffered again from that heavy usage in the 2nd half. At one point he was 7/13, over 50% on the day, but would only get 1 success the rest of the way, which encompassed the entire 2nd half. His yards per carry does fall a decent ways if you remove his long of 25, all the way to 3.25. He again was very feast or famine on the day, but feasted pretty heavily and often enough that it didn't truly matter in the end how clustered his yards were around his successes. Add that to his role in the passing game and it's reasonable to say he had a great day at the office. Thorbjornsson has finally fallen below 50% success rate on the year, for the first time since the 1st week of the season. He was close, with a 1 yard rush on 2nd and 3 that gave us a 3rd and 1, but I can't give it to him because then I'd have to redo the entire season and you'll excuse me if I don't want to do that.
We have reached it, what might end up being the best rushing defense on the entire season. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I'm almost certain this is the first time any team has held the other team to 0 successful rushes on the day, and why wouldn't it be this one? 10 yards on 12 rushes, both rushers had a long of 3, and that almost entirely could tell the story of why the Hahalua are no longer on the top of the table in the ASFC. I think I can sum up their entire day with a single series. Ayers got/tied his long on 1st down, not enough to reach a success. 2nd down was an incomplete pass, then a neutral zone infraction brought up a 3rd and 1. Ayers got the ball again, promptly got 0 yards, 4th down and a punt. Basically all of the Hahalua running back production this game was via receiving.
Time for the master list.
100% George O'Donnell 1/1 (+1) CHI
100% Kichwa Jones 1/1 (+1) AUS
57.1% Matthias Hanyadi 8/14 (+2) BAL
50% Jameson Vermillion 25/50 (0) YKW
50% Chika Fujiwara 2/4 (0) BAL
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
50% Mike Boss Jr 1/2 (0) SAR
50% Colby Jack 1/2 (0) YKW
50% Nick Kaepercolin 1/2 (0) BER
50% Monty Jack 1/2 (0) SJS
48.3% Gunner Thorbjornsson 14/29 (-1) ARI
42.4% Captain Rogers 31/73 (-11) NYS
42.3% Tatsu Nakmura 47/111 (-17) ARI
40.2% Raphtalia Chan 41/102 (-20) SAR
40% Sam Torenson 18/45 (-9) PHI
40% Forrest Gump 2/5 (-1) NOLA
39.1% Running Back 9/23 (-1) SAR
37.8% Baby Yoda 37/98 (-24) CHI
37.8% Cobra Kai 14/37 (-9) HON
36.6% Joseph Petrongolo 26/71 (-19) BER
36.2% Jamar Lackson 25/69 (-19) SJS
35.4% Acura Skyline 28/79 (-23) YKW
35.3% Rando Cardrissian 18/51 (-15) SJS
35.1% Terry Yaki 13/37 (-11) BER
33.3% Ashley Owens 10/30 (-10) NYS
32.4% Darrel Williams 24/74 (-26) PHI
32.4% Richard Gilbert 24/74 (-26) COL
31.5% Mike Rotchburns 17/54 (-20) NOLA
31.3% Zoe Watts 21/67 (-25) AUS
30% Julio Tirtawidjaja 6/20 (-8) CHI
29.5% Mai Fukushu 28/95 (-39) BAL
28.6% Jeffrey Phillips 10/35 (-15) OCO
28.1% Mr. Forty Two 16/57 (-25) NOLA
25.3% Nicholas Ayers 19/75 (-37) HON
25% Ace Savage 14/56 (-28) OCO
25% Buster Bawls 1/4 (-2) NYS
22.2% Anders Christiansen 2/9 (-5) COL
20% Jim the Vampire 2/10 (-6) AUS
0% Luke Skywalker 0/2 (-2) HON
0% Sigismund Sternenstaub 0/4 (-4) SAR
0% Zed Keppler 0/3 (-3) CHI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/4 (-4) PHI
0% Bronko Mills 0/2 (-2) OCO
0% Charlemagne Cortez 0/2 (-2) ARI
The new king of efficiency has got to be Jameson Vermillion, with 50 rushes and 50% efficiency. I also would like to draw attention to Chan getting above the 40% mark, competing with Nakamura in my mind for RBotY.
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Yellowknife Wraiths at Baltimore Hawks:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 6/15
Jameson Vermillion: 8/12
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 8/20
Matthias Hanyadi: 0/1
Skyline had a couple of really good rushes, an 8 yarder and a 14 yarder. He also had a 4 yard rush on 3rd and inches. The rest of his successes came from short rushes that were put in a situation to succeed. A 3 yard rush on 1st down counts as successful when it comes after a 12 men on the field penalty, who cares if you only went 1 yard if you were at the goal line, and a 2 yard run on 2nd and 4 counts as enough for a success even if you follow that by rushing just shy of the 1st down marker. It's also worth mentioning one of his unsuccessful rushes directly prevented his next rush from being successful. Getting -3 yards on 2nd and inches, only to get 2 yards on the next run, has got to sting. His yards per carry was 2.5, and without that 14 yard gain it falls to 1.6. Vermillion was just excellent all around on the day. His only successful run that even has a hint of an asterisk was a 3 yard run on 2nd and -1, but we've had much worse runs get successes. Even without the offsides on the previous play that 3 yard carry would have still been a success. Now, his yards per carry are slightly inflated by a 23 yard run at the end of the first half, but even if you remove that, he still has 5.3 yards per carry on the day, which is excellent even if it isn't 6.8. I don't think the Wraiths are at all complaining about Vermillion's performance today.
Fukushu had a great performance but they were completely boom or bust on their runs. Granted, when 8 of your runs are successes, and only 1 was a short yardage success, I think being boom or bust is fine, but that doesn't change the fact that on those 8 runs Fukushu got 161 rushing yards, and the rest of her day she got -1, and that's counting her 1 yard gain on the unsuccessful 2 point conversion. She had 12 unsuccessful runs to get that -1 yard. That said, due to having more than 1 extremely long rush, she's not hurt too terribly bad by the Remove Long method, minus her 54 yarder she still has 5.6 yards per carry. Removing her OTHER +50 yard rush, a 53 yard touchdown early in the 2nd half, does cause her yards per carry to drop below 3 though. Hanyadi was only used once and only got 2 yards on a 1st and 10.
Colorado Yeti at Chicago Butchers:
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 6/10
Anders Christiansen: 1/2
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 5/16
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 1/3
Zed Keppler: 0/1
Gilbert's first 2 runs were both under 4 yard successes. A 1 yard touchdown after other players brought the Yeti down to the 1 inch line, and a 2 yard run on 2nd and 3 (that to be fair came from a 7 yard completion to Gilbert in the first place). None of the rest of his runs were short yardage successes though, they were a 5 yard run on 1st down, a 12 yard rush on 2nd and 16 (really have to give credit here for managing to have a successful run even in this poor situation) and then a pair of touchdown runs; 11 yards and 60 yards respectively. That 12 yard rush alone more than makes up for the 2 short yardage successes in my mind, and even with a long of 60 Gilbert still manages to average 4 yards per carry once that run is taken out, not an easy thing to do with a long that big. Anders Christiansen has boosted his success rate a bit today, his success was a 4 yard run on 2nd and 3.
Last time I wrote about how the San Jose running backs had regressed from their masterful week 2 performance. Baby Yoda has, albeit not quite as bombastically, failed to live up to the same heights as well. To compare to Gilbert, Yoda's first 2 runs were a 0 yard run and a -2 yard run while on the inch line after a pick-almost-six. I swear that there's been an unreasonable amount of turnover returns to the inch line, as a side note. Yoda did not get any successful carries until the second half started, where they promptly got 3 5 yard carries in a row, later got a 3 yard run on 2nd and 4, and a 2 yard run on 4th and 1. Those 20 yards on Yoda's 5 successful carries leave them with 4 yards on 11 carries, and none of those successes were all that excellent either. I think you can safely blame the running game in part for the loss tonight. 2 lost fumbles out of 2 plus a disastrous pick was another part. Meanwhile, Tirtawidjaja's lone success on the night was his 1 yard touchdown run, which also happened to be his only yard on the day; he got stopped for no gain on his other 2 carries.
Orange County Otters at Sarasota Sailfish:
Otters Rushers:
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/17
Ace Savage: 2/10
Bronko Mills: 0/1
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 9/21
Running Back: 0/4
Sigismund Sternenstaub: 0/1
The Otters still do not have an actual run game, apparently. 28 rushes, only 5 successes? That's absolutely terrible, and it was actually worse for a long time. Phillips did not have a successful rush until the 3rd quarter was almost over, promptly pulled off an 8 yard rush and a 3 yard rush, both for 1st downs on 3rd down, and then waited another entire quarter to do his final successful rush: a 2 yard rush on 2nd and 1. Only his 8 yard rush I couldn't say was set up by another player. Speaking of, taking out that 8 yard rush causes his yards per carry to fall from 1.2 to 0.8, and it's impressive enough that he got any rush large enough to damage his yards per carry by a full third by taking it out. Savage got a higher success rate, but less yards per carry at only 1, and less runs that I could say weren't set up by another player. He had two separate 2 yard rushes on 2nd and 2, one of which got a 1st down, and the other left Orange County with 3rd and Inches. He had only a long of 3. Mills' only rush was a 1 yard gain on 2nd and 3. I'd say that Orange County really needed to lean on its Quarterback more...but on a day when Ramza threw for 3 picks, it seems more like the Orange County offense was out of luck with their offense this game.
Chan still had a good game, but this had the potential to be awe inspiring. Up until the last drive of the first half, Chan had 7 successes out of 10 rushes, including a drive where she contributed all but 1 of the yards after an Orange County turnover right outside the Red Zone. The only successes she had in the next 11 rushes were a 3 yard rush on 2nd and 4, and a 22 yard rush on 1st and 10. Chan did have a number of short yardage successes, which probably explain her extremely low yards per carry figure (only 3.6). Chan had a 2 yard rush on 1st and Goal from the 2, a 1 yard rush to clean that touchdown up, a 1 yard rush on that touchdown drive which she commanded, and that previously mentioned 3 yard rush on 2nd and 4. She almost got another one when she gained 0 yards on 1st and Goal from the 4, and then gained 2 yards on 2nd down, but the new ball spot said she started on the 5. Then the ball spot after the play put it on the 2. So, kind of unfortunate, but it would have been another short yardage success anyways. Chan also gets hit hard by the Remove Long method, as she falls to 2.7 yards per carry once you remove that 22 yard scamper. Nobody else on the Sailfish had a successful run, and Running Back in particular somewhat destroyed his season long efficiency with his 0 for 4 on the day.
Philidelphia Liberty at Berlin Fire Salamanders:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 4/19
Sam Torenson: 3/9
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 8/17
Terry Yaki: 1/5
Nick Kaepercolin: 1/1
All of Williams' successes resulted in a 1st down, and besides a 4 yard run on 3rd and 1, they all were at least 10 yards long. Considering he only had 4.2 yards per carry, it really shows just how many runs he had that pretty much went nowhere. Taking out his long of 23 causes his yards per carry to fall to 3.1. If you take out his other carries of over 10 yards? It falls to 1.3 yards per carry. Now, maybe taking out that many runs is a bit unfair, but I've done it to others and they usually had more runs to go through before it fell to this low. The other thing is, all but 1 of Williams' successes were IMMEDIATELY followed by an unsuccessful rush of his that led to a 2nd and long. I feel the success rate is a bit more accurate in regards to Williams' day than his yards per carry. Torenson also got 1st downs on all of his successes, with an 8 yard run on 3rd and 1, an 11 yard run on 1st and 10, and a 2 yard run on 4th and 1. He also very much had his successes boost his yards per carry, and unlike Williams, his original yards per carry wasn't that good. Minus his 8 and 11 yard run, his yards per carry falls to a flat 1.
Petrongolo had a really, really bad ending. You see that 8/17? It was 8/10 at one point. Granted, that did include a number of short yardage conversions, including a 1 yard run on 2nd and Goal from the 2, a 3 yard run on 1st and 5, and another 3 yard run on 3rd and 1 during the same series, so maybe it shouldn't have reached 8/10 in the first place. However, he did get robbed of a success later, when he pulled off a 9 yard run on 2nd down, that unfortunately came after a Taunting penalty so it was still unsuccessful. After his first run in the 2nd half, he did not have a success for the rest of the night. However, due in part to things like that 9 yard unsuccessful run, he still has a pretty good yard per carry when you remove his long; minus his 40 yard long it falls to 5 yards per carry. Terry Yaki got put in a large number of short yardage situations with the chance to easily get successes, and he screwed it up. His runs were on 1st and Goal from the 3, 2nd and 2, 1st and Goal from the 5, 3rd and Goal from the 3, and 2nd and 1. During LITERALLY ALL OF THESE RUNS, getting 3 yards would have been a success. All but the 3rd and goal would have been a success with 2 yards. He only got 2 yards on the 1st and Goal from the 5 and thus only got 1 success on a day where a bad rushing day could have STILL gotten you 5/5. His 0.8 yards per carry is EARNED. Kaepercolin's only rush was a 4 yard rush on 1st and 10, to bump him up to 50% on the season.
San Jose Sabercats at New York Silverbacks:
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 10/22
Rando Cardrissian: 4/14
Monty Jack: 1/1
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 2/5
Ashley Owens: 0/3
Buster Bawlls: 0/1
Lackson had a decent number of short yardage successes. Getting successes off of a 1 yard run and a pair of 2 yard runs, albeit both being set up by previous successful runs from him, is more luck than most people get. Still, he more than made the most of it considering he also boosted up his counter with 7 other successes, including 2 to set those 3 up, and a couple double digit length carries. Speaking of, I'm actually surprised at how low his yards per carry was, I expected it to be higher than 5.3, but I guess "only" getting 2 longer than 10 yard carries doesn't do enough to boost it. I'm also surprised at how much his yards per carry drops when you take away his long of 49, as it falls to 3.2. Cardrissian, meanwhile, got a 6 yard carry, and then 3 other short yard carries that all were helped out by other people having successful runs, including a 1 yard carry after Monty Jack's lone run on the day gave the Sabercats a 3rd and Inches. His 6 yard rush on 1st down wasn't just his only run longer than 3 yards, it was then followed up by an unsuccessful run from Cardrissian despite only needing 2 yards for a success.
Why didn't this team run the ball more? Granted, their running game wasn't good, but this was a day where their GM said in the stream chat that Sam Howitzer was the best offensive player for the Sabercats and everyone agreed. Rogers started out by getting a 14 yard run for a 1st down, a 4 yard run on 3rd and 3 for another first, and then being used 3 more times for a grand total of 1 yard. As such, taking out his 14 yard run causes his yards per carry to fall precipitously from an already poor 3.8 to a dreadful 1.25. Owens had a long of 3 yards on 1st and 10, then rushed for 2 yards and 1 yard, and earned their 0/for on the day. Bawlls on the other hand, remains the most weirdly timed back to use. He got 4 yards on his 1 run, a shame it came on 2nd down after Rogers got 0 yards and a penalty on 1st down to prevent it from being a success. Maybe that's why this team didn't run the ball more, because it wasn't a good rushing day for them either.
New Orleans Second Line at Austin Copperheads:
Second Line Rushers:
Mr Forty Two: 3/11
Mike Rotchburns: 3/10
Forrest Gump: 0/1
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 8/17
Jim the Vampire: 0/1
Mr Forty Two's successes were a pair of runs on 1st down to give his team a 2nd and short, and a 48 yard scamper on the drive that would give the Second Line a lead they wouldn't relinquish. That 48 yard run is the vast majority of his production, though; his 5.8 yards per carry falls to 1.6 if you take it out which tells you about how often he would run into a wall of bricks that the passing game would have to overcome (they usually did). Rotchburns was extremely similar in terms of successful runs, but flipped the timing. He had an awful first half with his lone successful run being an 8 yard carry on 2nd and 3, and then put together a pair of successful runs to put the game out of reach of a successful last second Hail Mary attempt, making up for a 2 yard loss on 1st down with a 34 yard gain on 2nd, and then a 1 yard touchdown run to finish it off. His yards per carry do fall to 1.4 minus that 34 yard run. Gump continues to be used sparingly, and this time was unable to get a success when handed a 3rd and 6.
Watts was great today, and extremely consistent. Perhaps slightly too consistent...Watts was in lockstep with a 50% success rate the entire night, pretty much. One time she had 5 runs in 5 plays that went Success, Failure, Success, Success, Failure. They were able to get 2 first downs out of that section so maybe it's not too consistent. Watts did get the benefit from a couple of short yardage successes, one of which was set up by previous runs of hers; a 2 yard rush on 2nd and 2 set up by the passing game, and then a 1 yard rush on 2nd and 1 that was set up by her previous successful run. Even despite a long of 40, Watts still had a yards per carry of over 3.5 after taking it out. Meanwhile, Jim the Vampire is somewhat far removed at this point from getting 2/3 successful rushes on his debut in week 2, he hasn't had a successful rush since.
Arizona Outlaws at Honolulu Hahalua:
Arizona Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 8/21
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 0/2
Charlemagne Cortez: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicholas Ayers: 0/8
Cobra Kai: 0/4
Nakamura continues his games of decent efficiency on heavy usage, and suffered again from that heavy usage in the 2nd half. At one point he was 7/13, over 50% on the day, but would only get 1 success the rest of the way, which encompassed the entire 2nd half. His yards per carry does fall a decent ways if you remove his long of 25, all the way to 3.25. He again was very feast or famine on the day, but feasted pretty heavily and often enough that it didn't truly matter in the end how clustered his yards were around his successes. Add that to his role in the passing game and it's reasonable to say he had a great day at the office. Thorbjornsson has finally fallen below 50% success rate on the year, for the first time since the 1st week of the season. He was close, with a 1 yard rush on 2nd and 3 that gave us a 3rd and 1, but I can't give it to him because then I'd have to redo the entire season and you'll excuse me if I don't want to do that.
We have reached it, what might end up being the best rushing defense on the entire season. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I'm almost certain this is the first time any team has held the other team to 0 successful rushes on the day, and why wouldn't it be this one? 10 yards on 12 rushes, both rushers had a long of 3, and that almost entirely could tell the story of why the Hahalua are no longer on the top of the table in the ASFC. I think I can sum up their entire day with a single series. Ayers got/tied his long on 1st down, not enough to reach a success. 2nd down was an incomplete pass, then a neutral zone infraction brought up a 3rd and 1. Ayers got the ball again, promptly got 0 yards, 4th down and a punt. Basically all of the Hahalua running back production this game was via receiving.
Time for the master list.
100% George O'Donnell 1/1 (+1) CHI
100% Kichwa Jones 1/1 (+1) AUS
57.1% Matthias Hanyadi 8/14 (+2) BAL
50% Jameson Vermillion 25/50 (0) YKW
50% Chika Fujiwara 2/4 (0) BAL
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
50% Mike Boss Jr 1/2 (0) SAR
50% Colby Jack 1/2 (0) YKW
50% Nick Kaepercolin 1/2 (0) BER
50% Monty Jack 1/2 (0) SJS
48.3% Gunner Thorbjornsson 14/29 (-1) ARI
42.4% Captain Rogers 31/73 (-11) NYS
42.3% Tatsu Nakmura 47/111 (-17) ARI
40.2% Raphtalia Chan 41/102 (-20) SAR
40% Sam Torenson 18/45 (-9) PHI
40% Forrest Gump 2/5 (-1) NOLA
39.1% Running Back 9/23 (-1) SAR
37.8% Baby Yoda 37/98 (-24) CHI
37.8% Cobra Kai 14/37 (-9) HON
36.6% Joseph Petrongolo 26/71 (-19) BER
36.2% Jamar Lackson 25/69 (-19) SJS
35.4% Acura Skyline 28/79 (-23) YKW
35.3% Rando Cardrissian 18/51 (-15) SJS
35.1% Terry Yaki 13/37 (-11) BER
33.3% Ashley Owens 10/30 (-10) NYS
32.4% Darrel Williams 24/74 (-26) PHI
32.4% Richard Gilbert 24/74 (-26) COL
31.5% Mike Rotchburns 17/54 (-20) NOLA
31.3% Zoe Watts 21/67 (-25) AUS
30% Julio Tirtawidjaja 6/20 (-8) CHI
29.5% Mai Fukushu 28/95 (-39) BAL
28.6% Jeffrey Phillips 10/35 (-15) OCO
28.1% Mr. Forty Two 16/57 (-25) NOLA
25.3% Nicholas Ayers 19/75 (-37) HON
25% Ace Savage 14/56 (-28) OCO
25% Buster Bawls 1/4 (-2) NYS
22.2% Anders Christiansen 2/9 (-5) COL
20% Jim the Vampire 2/10 (-6) AUS
0% Luke Skywalker 0/2 (-2) HON
0% Sigismund Sternenstaub 0/4 (-4) SAR
0% Zed Keppler 0/3 (-3) CHI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/4 (-4) PHI
0% Bronko Mills 0/2 (-2) OCO
0% Charlemagne Cortez 0/2 (-2) ARI
The new king of efficiency has got to be Jameson Vermillion, with 50 rushes and 50% efficiency. I also would like to draw attention to Chan getting above the 40% mark, competing with Nakamura in my mind for RBotY.
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