As you may know, Fyodo was my first player in ISFL and in recent S23 Hall of Fame Results received 5/8 votes to be voted in, just a single one away from being inducted.
While obviously this will be a biased article, as I believe he belongs in the Hall of Fame, even if his career early on didn't suggest so.
To give some background let's start with a fact that Vlad started the career as CB and spent 1 DSFL year (S6) and 4 NSFL seasons playing purely there (S7-10). After that came big S10 free agency where I decided to switch it up and play WR, while also playing two-way that year, since it was last year before rule changed, forbidding such use of players. So the switch happened more than halfway point on the way to regression and I had a dream target than to get to 10k receiving yards with only 8 seasons to play. Despite arguably first 4/5 seasons wasted from that standpoint Fyodorovich achieved that and established himself as one of the most iconic receivers of 2nd decade of the NSFL, being selected 8 times in a row to the Pro Bowls (S10 through S17 - S10 as DB, rest as WR), having a historic playoffs run in S11 and then an individual year in S12 (more about it later). He had amazing teammates those days obviously too.
Early career
There is a bit of problem with judging cornerbacks by sheer numbers available by the DDSPF, namely, we can only point to big stat being INT and to a lesser extent deflected pass. There is no point of beating around the bush here since he waited for 25 games for his first peak and over his 70 defensive games played accumulated just 7 sacks, 7 INTs & 49 deflected passes. Still, this was also a time where he played on dominant defensive teams of New Orleans that went to 4 straight Ultimus Games winning two of them, so his real defensive impact might have been there, just not showing in the boxscore. Overall he went to 6 straight finals from the get-go - S6 Ultimini Title with San Antonio Marshalls, S7 Finals with Orange County Otters (won also Defensive Rookie of the Year that year, though the competition wasn't big back then), S8 & S10 Finals with NOLA, S9 & S11 Ultmius Win with NOLA. Still, if there was a bright spot in his defensive game it was 3 Interceptions game that is a franchise record up to this day.
WR Peak & Best Season
Between S11 & S17 he gathered every year at least 1000 receiving yards on well above average efficiency - 17.3 yards per reception - and high volume - almost 6 catches per game which gave amazing 102.75 yards per game average, you could basically count on him getting over 100 yards and in his peak year of S12 he achieved just that - in every single game he reached triple digits. That season is special for more reasons - it's the only one in Top 10 after S6, when fair different strategies were allowed which resulted in RB getting ridiculous results and it clearly stood the test of time since haven't seen anyone beat or even approach it within 50 yards ever since:
1 RB Jordan Yates Orange County Otters (2021) 1860
2 WR Bradley Westfield Orange County Otters (2020) 1756
3 RB Eric Kennedy Yellowknife Wraiths (2020) 1655
4 WR Vladimir Fyodorovich New Orleans Second Line (2027) 1637
It was also one of the rare occurrence when receiver averaged over 20 yards per catch - 20.2 to be exact and in 14 games era it amounted to 116.9 yards per game.
Efficiency
Despite playing to his last breath and going deep into regression as anyone ever among WR that crossed 10k receiving yards mark (15 players) he ranks 5th:
1. Maddox, E. 18,1 - awaiting eligibility
2. Valentine, V. 17,6 - just unanimously inducted
3. Oles, K. 17,4 - awaiting eligibility
4. Westfield, B. 17,3 - unanimously inducted
5. Fyodorovich, V. 16,8
ahead of some other already inducted players like Willie, T. 16,4, LeClair, A. 16,4, Garden, J. 15,4 & Crush, C. 14,5.
While at it let's mention longevity here since it's another attribute of player willing to go as far as possible:
By games played:
he is ranked tied 3rd overall with his draft classmate, that also have been just inducted:
1 CB Dermot Lavelle Yellowknife Wraiths - 182
2 WR Trey Willie - 180
3 WR Vladimir Fyodorovich & TE Verso L'Alto - 178
If we counted only started games he'd be 2nd only behind Lavelle, as both started as many games as they played.
So if he was so efficient, high volume & played so many games why he finished with just 10002 receiving yards? Well, to remind again sadly some portion of career was spent playing the only Cornerback, which didn't produce many eye-popping eyeballs, still, if you look at list of Hall of Famers you'll find plenty of players that played more than a single position, just to name RB/LB Boss Tweed, DE/QB Childish Gambino or K/QB Micycle McCormick.
I wondered how many games it took for other players to get to that magical mark of 10k, as I remembered being on the edge of my seat in the final game of Fyodo when on the final play of his last game he caught two passes for 40 yards and a touchdown which gave him 2(!) yards above 10k. This is an estimate, based on season average for other players, but shouldn't be farther off than a 1/2 games:
Games it took to reach 10k receiving yards:
1. Westfield, B. 98 - already inducted
2. Garden, J. 105 - already inducted
3. Fyodorovich, V. 113
4. LeClair, A. 115 - already inducted
5. Valentine, V. 115 - already inducted
6. Willie, T. 116 - already inducted
Further down the line with 142, we have the last one inducted WR - Carlito Crush
One other measure of prolonged success can be number of pro-bowl appearances, sadly can't find any updated one, so the one made by @JuOSu back in last year have to suffice since all of already inducted were either retired or on their last legs:
13-time Pro-Bowl Dermot Lavelle (13 at Defensive back, 5 additionally as Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
1/1
11-time Pro-Bowl Paul DiMirio (11 at Tight End) - Inducted
1/1 inducted
9-time Pro-Bowl
Angus Winchester (3 at Offensive Line, 5 at Linebacker, 1 at Defensive End) - Inducted
Austin Roenick (9 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Avon Blocksdale (1 at Offensive Line, 7 at Quarterback, 1 at Defensive Back) - Inducted
Bradley Westfield (9 at Wide Receiver, 1 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
Josh Garden (7 at Wide Receiver, 2 at Kick Returner) - Inducted
Mason Brown (6 at Linebacker, 3 at Defensive Back, 1 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
Owen Taylor (1 at Defensive End, 8 at Running Back) - Inducted
Trey Willie (9 at Wide Receiver) - Inducted
Verso L'Alto (9 at Tight End) - Inducted
9/9 inducted
8-time Pro-Bowl
Antoine Delacour (8 at Defensive Back) - Inducted
Boss Tweed (4 at Running Back, 4 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Dean Jackson (7 at Punter, 1 at Kicker, 3 additionally at Kicker in the same years) - Inducted
Fuego Wozy (8 at Defensive End) - Inducted
Jaylon Broxton (7 at Defensive Back, 1 at Kick Returner, 2 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years)
Jonathan Saint (8 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Mike Boss (8 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Turk Turkleton (4 at Kicker, 4 at Punter, 1 additionally at Punter in the same years) - Inducted
Vladimir Fyodorovich (1 at Defensive Back, 7 at Wide Receiver, 4 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - under consideration
William H. Harrison (8 at Defensive Back)
7/10
As you can see most of the players that made it to 8 pro bowls or more have already been inducted, among them 3 wide receivers, overall Fyodorovich had at that point tied 2nd most appearances as WR and only Lavelle was selected 1 more time additionally as Kick Returner.
Other bits
1x NSFL Defensive Rookie of the Year (S7)
1x NSFL Performance of the Year: (S11)
1x NSFL Offensive Player of the Year: (S12)
1x NSFL Wide Receiver of the Year: (S12)
1x NSFL Returner of the Year Award: (S14)
8x NSFL Pro Bowl: (S10) as DB, (S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17) as WR
2x NSFL Champion: (S9, S11)
5x ASFC Champion: (S7, S8, S9, S10, S11)
1x DSFL Defensive Back of the Year (S6)
1x DSFL Defensive Player of the Year (S6)
1x DSFL Pro Bowl (S6)
1x DSFL Champion: (S6)
1x SFC Champion: (S6)
While it isn't your typical career, due to the positional switch I feel like overall longevity with dominant peak years as Wide Receiver as well as team success early on in the career that combined in bountiful trophy case deserve recognition in form of Hall of Fame. I'll leave this decision obviously to the Hall of Fame committee (which has league legends in it: @ADwyer87, @Bwestfield, @iamslm22, @JuOSu, @manicmav36, @PigSnout, @run_CMC, @infinitempg) and would love to hear others opinion on this matter, about a player I almost have given up, but instead with help of fantastic teammates like @bovovovo, @AdamS, @TomHanks, "@JuOSu, @Beaver, @"BayleyIsland" and many more is on the verge of ISFL immortality
While obviously this will be a biased article, as I believe he belongs in the Hall of Fame, even if his career early on didn't suggest so.
To give some background let's start with a fact that Vlad started the career as CB and spent 1 DSFL year (S6) and 4 NSFL seasons playing purely there (S7-10). After that came big S10 free agency where I decided to switch it up and play WR, while also playing two-way that year, since it was last year before rule changed, forbidding such use of players. So the switch happened more than halfway point on the way to regression and I had a dream target than to get to 10k receiving yards with only 8 seasons to play. Despite arguably first 4/5 seasons wasted from that standpoint Fyodorovich achieved that and established himself as one of the most iconic receivers of 2nd decade of the NSFL, being selected 8 times in a row to the Pro Bowls (S10 through S17 - S10 as DB, rest as WR), having a historic playoffs run in S11 and then an individual year in S12 (more about it later). He had amazing teammates those days obviously too.
Early career
There is a bit of problem with judging cornerbacks by sheer numbers available by the DDSPF, namely, we can only point to big stat being INT and to a lesser extent deflected pass. There is no point of beating around the bush here since he waited for 25 games for his first peak and over his 70 defensive games played accumulated just 7 sacks, 7 INTs & 49 deflected passes. Still, this was also a time where he played on dominant defensive teams of New Orleans that went to 4 straight Ultimus Games winning two of them, so his real defensive impact might have been there, just not showing in the boxscore. Overall he went to 6 straight finals from the get-go - S6 Ultimini Title with San Antonio Marshalls, S7 Finals with Orange County Otters (won also Defensive Rookie of the Year that year, though the competition wasn't big back then), S8 & S10 Finals with NOLA, S9 & S11 Ultmius Win with NOLA. Still, if there was a bright spot in his defensive game it was 3 Interceptions game that is a franchise record up to this day.
WR Peak & Best Season
Between S11 & S17 he gathered every year at least 1000 receiving yards on well above average efficiency - 17.3 yards per reception - and high volume - almost 6 catches per game which gave amazing 102.75 yards per game average, you could basically count on him getting over 100 yards and in his peak year of S12 he achieved just that - in every single game he reached triple digits. That season is special for more reasons - it's the only one in Top 10 after S6, when fair different strategies were allowed which resulted in RB getting ridiculous results and it clearly stood the test of time since haven't seen anyone beat or even approach it within 50 yards ever since:
1 RB Jordan Yates Orange County Otters (2021) 1860
2 WR Bradley Westfield Orange County Otters (2020) 1756
3 RB Eric Kennedy Yellowknife Wraiths (2020) 1655
4 WR Vladimir Fyodorovich New Orleans Second Line (2027) 1637
It was also one of the rare occurrence when receiver averaged over 20 yards per catch - 20.2 to be exact and in 14 games era it amounted to 116.9 yards per game.
Efficiency
Despite playing to his last breath and going deep into regression as anyone ever among WR that crossed 10k receiving yards mark (15 players) he ranks 5th:
1. Maddox, E. 18,1 - awaiting eligibility
2. Valentine, V. 17,6 - just unanimously inducted
3. Oles, K. 17,4 - awaiting eligibility
4. Westfield, B. 17,3 - unanimously inducted
5. Fyodorovich, V. 16,8
ahead of some other already inducted players like Willie, T. 16,4, LeClair, A. 16,4, Garden, J. 15,4 & Crush, C. 14,5.
While at it let's mention longevity here since it's another attribute of player willing to go as far as possible:
By games played:
he is ranked tied 3rd overall with his draft classmate, that also have been just inducted:
1 CB Dermot Lavelle Yellowknife Wraiths - 182
2 WR Trey Willie - 180
3 WR Vladimir Fyodorovich & TE Verso L'Alto - 178
If we counted only started games he'd be 2nd only behind Lavelle, as both started as many games as they played.
So if he was so efficient, high volume & played so many games why he finished with just 10002 receiving yards? Well, to remind again sadly some portion of career was spent playing the only Cornerback, which didn't produce many eye-popping eyeballs, still, if you look at list of Hall of Famers you'll find plenty of players that played more than a single position, just to name RB/LB Boss Tweed, DE/QB Childish Gambino or K/QB Micycle McCormick.
I wondered how many games it took for other players to get to that magical mark of 10k, as I remembered being on the edge of my seat in the final game of Fyodo when on the final play of his last game he caught two passes for 40 yards and a touchdown which gave him 2(!) yards above 10k. This is an estimate, based on season average for other players, but shouldn't be farther off than a 1/2 games:
Games it took to reach 10k receiving yards:
1. Westfield, B. 98 - already inducted
2. Garden, J. 105 - already inducted
3. Fyodorovich, V. 113
4. LeClair, A. 115 - already inducted
5. Valentine, V. 115 - already inducted
6. Willie, T. 116 - already inducted
Further down the line with 142, we have the last one inducted WR - Carlito Crush
One other measure of prolonged success can be number of pro-bowl appearances, sadly can't find any updated one, so the one made by @JuOSu back in last year have to suffice since all of already inducted were either retired or on their last legs:
13-time Pro-Bowl Dermot Lavelle (13 at Defensive back, 5 additionally as Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
1/1
11-time Pro-Bowl Paul DiMirio (11 at Tight End) - Inducted
1/1 inducted
9-time Pro-Bowl
Angus Winchester (3 at Offensive Line, 5 at Linebacker, 1 at Defensive End) - Inducted
Austin Roenick (9 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Avon Blocksdale (1 at Offensive Line, 7 at Quarterback, 1 at Defensive Back) - Inducted
Bradley Westfield (9 at Wide Receiver, 1 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
Josh Garden (7 at Wide Receiver, 2 at Kick Returner) - Inducted
Mason Brown (6 at Linebacker, 3 at Defensive Back, 1 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - Inducted
Owen Taylor (1 at Defensive End, 8 at Running Back) - Inducted
Trey Willie (9 at Wide Receiver) - Inducted
Verso L'Alto (9 at Tight End) - Inducted
9/9 inducted
8-time Pro-Bowl
Antoine Delacour (8 at Defensive Back) - Inducted
Boss Tweed (4 at Running Back, 4 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Dean Jackson (7 at Punter, 1 at Kicker, 3 additionally at Kicker in the same years) - Inducted
Fuego Wozy (8 at Defensive End) - Inducted
Jaylon Broxton (7 at Defensive Back, 1 at Kick Returner, 2 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years)
Jonathan Saint (8 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Mike Boss (8 at Linebacker) - Inducted
Turk Turkleton (4 at Kicker, 4 at Punter, 1 additionally at Punter in the same years) - Inducted
Vladimir Fyodorovich (1 at Defensive Back, 7 at Wide Receiver, 4 additionally at Kick Returner in the same years) - under consideration
William H. Harrison (8 at Defensive Back)
7/10
As you can see most of the players that made it to 8 pro bowls or more have already been inducted, among them 3 wide receivers, overall Fyodorovich had at that point tied 2nd most appearances as WR and only Lavelle was selected 1 more time additionally as Kick Returner.
Other bits
- Up to this day, he remains only WR winner of the Performance of Year Award for his Ultimus Game of S11, when on the biggest stage he gathered the following stat line: 10 receptions, 99 receiving yards, 3 touchdowns, 3 punt returns, 84 return yards, 1 return touchdown, 8 tackles, 2 passes deflected.
- Special Team numbers don't draw much attention, but let's mention them nonetheless since he was also the recipient of NSFL Returner of the Year Award back in S14 and overall is one of 4 players to return kicks for over than 8000 yards and done so on the best efficiency among them:
1. Fyodorovich, V. 8351 25,9
2. Lavelle, D. 9093 25,2
3. Bly Jr., A. 8400 24,3
4. Weston, S. 8227 22,4
- Outside of mentioned historical Ultmimus performance as well as regular-season peak as WR you can find Fyodo in various playoff leaderboards:
- Tied 7th with 7 rec. TD on just 31 catches in 6 games played as WR in the postseason.
- The only player ever to record 2 Punt record touchdowns in the postseason. 3rd most PR Yards with 265 on fantastic average of 16.6 (best among players with at least 150 yards).
- NOLA Franchise holds a special place in my heart, both for amazing folks I played with & unique atmosphere. Fyodo also own plenty of franchise records, which you can follow on fantastic sheet made by @JuOSu , just to name a few he holds career rec. catch, yards, TDs, kick returns yards, tds, playoffs tds, season rec yards and more. It was trully a plasure and honor playing almost entire career with that franchise, the feat I'll hope to achieve with Outlaws and Stanisław Koniecpolski too.
1x NSFL Defensive Rookie of the Year (S7)
1x NSFL Performance of the Year: (S11)
1x NSFL Offensive Player of the Year: (S12)
1x NSFL Wide Receiver of the Year: (S12)
1x NSFL Returner of the Year Award: (S14)
8x NSFL Pro Bowl: (S10) as DB, (S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17) as WR
2x NSFL Champion: (S9, S11)
5x ASFC Champion: (S7, S8, S9, S10, S11)
1x DSFL Defensive Back of the Year (S6)
1x DSFL Defensive Player of the Year (S6)
1x DSFL Pro Bowl (S6)
1x DSFL Champion: (S6)
1x SFC Champion: (S6)
While it isn't your typical career, due to the positional switch I feel like overall longevity with dominant peak years as Wide Receiver as well as team success early on in the career that combined in bountiful trophy case deserve recognition in form of Hall of Fame. I'll leave this decision obviously to the Hall of Fame committee (which has league legends in it: @ADwyer87, @Bwestfield, @iamslm22, @JuOSu, @manicmav36, @PigSnout, @run_CMC, @infinitempg) and would love to hear others opinion on this matter, about a player I almost have given up, but instead with help of fantastic teammates like @bovovovo, @AdamS, @TomHanks, "@JuOSu, @Beaver, @"BayleyIsland" and many more is on the verge of ISFL immortality
[OPTION]Balanced || 6'5'' || 265 lbs || #77
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[OPTION] Trophy Case:
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[OPTION] Regular Season Stats:
[OPTION] [DSFL] S6 KCC: 4 G | x Tackles | x Sacks | x PD
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[OPTION] Playoff Stats:
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[OPTION] Transactions:
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[OPTION]Speed Receiver || 6'2'' || 220 lbs || #77
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[OPTION] Trophy Case:
[OPTION] [S9] [S11] Ultimus Champion with New Orleans Second Line
[OPTION] [S6] SFC & Ultimini Champion with San Antonio Marshals
[OPTION] [S12] NSFL Offensive Player of the Year
[OPTION] [S12] NSFL Wide Receiver of the Year
[OPTION] [S11] NSFL Performance of the Year Award for Ultimus Game
[OPTION] [S14] NSFL Returner of the Year Award
[OPTION] [S6] DSFL Co-Defensive Player of The Year
[OPTION] [S6] Top DSFL DB
[OPTION] [S10] [S11] [S12] [S13] [S14] [S15] [S16] [S17] NSFL Pro-Bowl
[OPTION] [S6] DSFL Pro-Bowl
[OPTION] [S8] [S9] [S10] [S11] ASFC Champion with New Orleans Second Line
[OPTION] [S7] ASFC Champion with Orange County Otters
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[OPTION] Regular Season Stats:
[OPTION] [DSFL] S6 SA: 13 G | 33 Tackles | 1 Sacks | 3 INT | 10 PD | 1 DTD
[OPTION] S7 OC: 14 G | 49 Tackles | 7 Sacks | 0 INT | 4 PD
[OPTION] S8 NO: 14 G | 69 Tackles | 0 Sacks | 1 INT | 13 PD
[OPTION] S9 NO: 14 G | 51 Tackles | 0 Sacks | 1 INT | 9 PD | 1 TFL
[OPTION] S10 NO: 14 G | 59 Tackles | 0 Sacks | 3 INT | 14 PD | 1 FR
[OPTION] S11 NO: 14 G | 73 Tackles | 0 Sacks | 2 INT | 9 PD
[OPTION] S11 NO: 14 G | 1150 Rec. Yards | 6 TD | 71 Catches | 16.2 AVG | 58 LG
[OPTION] S12 NO: 14 G | 1637 Rec. Yards | 10 TD | 81 Catches | 20.2 AVG | 76 LG
[OPTION] S13 NO: 14 G | 1383 Rec. Yards | 5 TD | 75 Catches | 18.4 AVG | 47 LG
[OPTION] S14 NO: 14 G | 1335 Rec. Yards | 8 TD | 80 Catches | 16.7 AVG | 55 LG
[OPTION] S15 NO: 14 G | 1289 Rec. Yards | 3 TD | 82 Catches | 15.7 AVG | 50 LG
[OPTION] S16 NO: 13 G | 1006 Rec. Yards | 5 TD | 64 Catches | 15.7 AVG | 57 LG
[OPTION] S17 NO: 13 G | 1140 Rec. Yards | 10 TD | 64 Catches | 17.8 AVG | 55 LG
[OPTION] S18 NO: 13 G | 802 Rec. Yards | 5 TD | 57 Catches | 14.1 AVG | 38 LG
[OPTION] S19 NO: 13 G | 260 Rec. Yards | 1 TD | 22 Catches | 1.8 AVG | 26 LG
[OPTION] Total NSFL Defensive: 70 G, 299 Tackles, 49 PD, 7 INT
[OPTION] Total NSFL Offensive: 113 G, 10002 Rec. Yards, 53 TD, 596 Catches, 76 LG
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[OPTION] Playoff Stats:
[OPTION] S6 SA: 2 G | 6 Tackles | 1 PD
[OPTION] S7 OC: 2 G | 6 Tackles
[OPTION] S8 NO: 2 G | 9 Tackles | 2 PD
[OPTION] S9 NO: 2 G | 7 Tackles | 1 PD
[OPTION] S10 NO: 2 G | 5 Tackles
[OPTION] S11 NO: 2 G | 5 Tackles
[OPTION] S11 NO: 2G | 200 Rec. Yards | 5 Rec. TD | 15 Catches | 50 Yard PR TD
[OPTION] S19 NO: 2G | 96 Rec. Yards | 2 Rec. TD | 7 Catches
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[OPTION] Transactions:
[OPTION][S7] Drafted 3rd OA in the NSFL Draft by OCO
[OPTION][S7] Signed $10M/3 year rookie deal with OCO
[OPTION][S8] Traded for S Jaylon Broxton by OCO with OCO S8 1st
[OPTION][S9] Signed $6M/3 year extension with NOLA
[OPTION][S10] Opted out of S11/12 deal
[OPTION][S10] Signed $16M/4 year extension with NOLA
[OPTION][S10] Position Changed to the Wide Receiver
[OPTION][S12] Opted out of S13 contract
[OPTION][S12] Signed $30M/6 year extension with NOLA
[OPTION][S18] Opted out of S18 contract
[OPTION][S18] Signed $1M/1 year extension with NOLA
[OPTION][S19] Signed $500k/1 year extension with NOLA
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