08-18-2023, 01:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2023, 01:20 AM by dude_man. Edited 1 time in total.)
God. Why am I so functionally useless in the ISFL? What makes earning cash here such a… task for me? Questions I find that I am asking myself. My poor player Tunkha Danstrol really could not have gotten a worse user to drive him to glory. That poor Turkish son of a gun just needs some love, effort, and ka-ching.
Then I raise the question to myself… How much love and effort does an offensive lineman really need to be decent in this league? Like seriously? How much effort does one need to make an offensive lineman effective, or considerably worth the cost over a bot? A fair question, and one I intend to go forth and answer, kind of.
Really what I want to do is find the most efficient TPE range of offensive lineman with respect to pancakes. Or that’s what I did. I took every offensive lineman in the ISFL, recorded their pancakes and their TPE and then did some quick math using google sheets to figure out the pancakes per TPE then multiplied it by 100 to get the pancakes per 100 TPE and that is really what I used for all of this. The work was compiling the data and the figuring out what the fuck to make of it.
So anyway… First thing I am going to say, is obviously lower TPE builds get more pancakes per TPE, simply because the game seems to give offensive lineman pancakes. So the most “efficient” build through six games was a 106 TPE build New Orleans Second Line offensive tackle Shucks McShuckle with 26 pancakes, giving him an average of 24.53 pancakes per 100 TPE. The least efficient offensive lineman, were across the board 750 TPE bots, Dubby Chubby and Big Kahuna from the Crash and Sailfish, respectively, with 2.53 pancakes per 750 TPE.
As a matter of fact, TPE to pancakes has a negative relationship with very little deviation. Meaning the more TPE that is added, the less efficient that TPE is in relation to adding pancakes to the stat line. Which makes sense, considering TPE becomes less efficient the more you have of it as the cost of abilities increases.
That being said, there is a tiny little positive relationship to pancakes and TPE. Meaning more TPE will get you more pancakes, but at a slower and slower rate. This all makes sense. It’s how the system is built. So far it is all the obvious things that I am stating. So lets see if we can make this more interesting by answering the question, what is the best TPE for an offensive lineman for pancakes as far as efficiency goes? Well, for that its best to sort that data by TPE, and put it into ranges. But before we do that I wanted to, for fun sakes, figure out what TPE Tunkha needs to be at to be average… There is an answer for that. The average pancakes through 6 games in the league was 30.171, or 5.03 pancakes per game. Of the 70 offensive lineman in the league, how many are meaning or beating that figure? 24 of them. That’s the answer. 26 of them are at 30 or above total so two of them are pretty close. I’ll include them just because I’m nice. 37.14% of the offensive lineman in the league are above the average. What is the average TPE of those 37.14%? 794 TPE. J.T. Kurbis is the only offensive lineman over 1000 TPE who is below that average, and it is not by much (27 pancakes).
For fun I’d also like to take a moment to state that the Tier 3 bots average 4.315 pancakes per game so far this season, and the Tier 4 bots average 4.606. So there is some gain there, but not a whole lot. There is also a lot more Tier 4 bots so perhaps the separation would grow with more samples, or with more games it will. Also, I didn’t look at builds so maybe Tier 3 builds are more pass blocking heavy or something of the like.
Anyway, where was I? I’m lost. I don’t know. But it is also worth noting that the top two offensive lineman, pancake wise (do I have to keep saying that or can we just acknowledge I’m honed in on pancakes?) are Blacksmith Andrea with 58 pancakes and 563 TPE and Pan Cakes (big shock) with 57 pancakes and 471 TPE.
Oh yea! What TPE do I have to get too so that I don’t have to feel like a complete loser since I’m earning at a slower rate…. Well, lets tackle that question… Personally I would like to be at or around the average of the league ASAP, meaning top 37% as of today. Of course I’m in the DSFL still (GO NORFOLK!), so this is all just a mindset, and the truth is more TPE will always increase my odds of surmounting the average 5 pancakes per game. But when I can I start to expect that to happen? Well, more than 700 is the answer. If I want to give myself the best odds. Of the top group of offensive lineman, over 65% of them have 700+ TPE, with a good chunk of those being bots. 2 Tier 3 bots make the group, so while they are more “efficient” they are not better. Only 6 of the top 37% (the group who pancakes at or above average) are below 500 TPE, so while possible, it seems more sim luck then TPE, and I’d imagine those individuals might find themselves out of the top group come the end of the year.
So there I have it, not exactly a specific number, but I need to get to that tier 4 bot level before I can hope to be a top pancaker, and if I for sure want to be a top offensive lineman, then I better get to 1000 TPE, that surely seems like the safest bet. Of course, many tier 4 bots didn’t make it into the group. I likely will try to refine this after sitting on the data for a bit and really get to that efficient number.
Well, that’s all I got, I plan on doing a few more articles as time goes on to try and further have some fun putting data to use(less) applications. Lets be honest, the only real thing we got from this is more TPE makes you better, and that’s kind of a no shit statement. Look forward to coming back and trying to attack this again from a different angle when I have a little more time. Until then, keep caking.
Then I raise the question to myself… How much love and effort does an offensive lineman really need to be decent in this league? Like seriously? How much effort does one need to make an offensive lineman effective, or considerably worth the cost over a bot? A fair question, and one I intend to go forth and answer, kind of.
Really what I want to do is find the most efficient TPE range of offensive lineman with respect to pancakes. Or that’s what I did. I took every offensive lineman in the ISFL, recorded their pancakes and their TPE and then did some quick math using google sheets to figure out the pancakes per TPE then multiplied it by 100 to get the pancakes per 100 TPE and that is really what I used for all of this. The work was compiling the data and the figuring out what the fuck to make of it.
So anyway… First thing I am going to say, is obviously lower TPE builds get more pancakes per TPE, simply because the game seems to give offensive lineman pancakes. So the most “efficient” build through six games was a 106 TPE build New Orleans Second Line offensive tackle Shucks McShuckle with 26 pancakes, giving him an average of 24.53 pancakes per 100 TPE. The least efficient offensive lineman, were across the board 750 TPE bots, Dubby Chubby and Big Kahuna from the Crash and Sailfish, respectively, with 2.53 pancakes per 750 TPE.
As a matter of fact, TPE to pancakes has a negative relationship with very little deviation. Meaning the more TPE that is added, the less efficient that TPE is in relation to adding pancakes to the stat line. Which makes sense, considering TPE becomes less efficient the more you have of it as the cost of abilities increases.
That being said, there is a tiny little positive relationship to pancakes and TPE. Meaning more TPE will get you more pancakes, but at a slower and slower rate. This all makes sense. It’s how the system is built. So far it is all the obvious things that I am stating. So lets see if we can make this more interesting by answering the question, what is the best TPE for an offensive lineman for pancakes as far as efficiency goes? Well, for that its best to sort that data by TPE, and put it into ranges. But before we do that I wanted to, for fun sakes, figure out what TPE Tunkha needs to be at to be average… There is an answer for that. The average pancakes through 6 games in the league was 30.171, or 5.03 pancakes per game. Of the 70 offensive lineman in the league, how many are meaning or beating that figure? 24 of them. That’s the answer. 26 of them are at 30 or above total so two of them are pretty close. I’ll include them just because I’m nice. 37.14% of the offensive lineman in the league are above the average. What is the average TPE of those 37.14%? 794 TPE. J.T. Kurbis is the only offensive lineman over 1000 TPE who is below that average, and it is not by much (27 pancakes).
For fun I’d also like to take a moment to state that the Tier 3 bots average 4.315 pancakes per game so far this season, and the Tier 4 bots average 4.606. So there is some gain there, but not a whole lot. There is also a lot more Tier 4 bots so perhaps the separation would grow with more samples, or with more games it will. Also, I didn’t look at builds so maybe Tier 3 builds are more pass blocking heavy or something of the like.
Anyway, where was I? I’m lost. I don’t know. But it is also worth noting that the top two offensive lineman, pancake wise (do I have to keep saying that or can we just acknowledge I’m honed in on pancakes?) are Blacksmith Andrea with 58 pancakes and 563 TPE and Pan Cakes (big shock) with 57 pancakes and 471 TPE.
Oh yea! What TPE do I have to get too so that I don’t have to feel like a complete loser since I’m earning at a slower rate…. Well, lets tackle that question… Personally I would like to be at or around the average of the league ASAP, meaning top 37% as of today. Of course I’m in the DSFL still (GO NORFOLK!), so this is all just a mindset, and the truth is more TPE will always increase my odds of surmounting the average 5 pancakes per game. But when I can I start to expect that to happen? Well, more than 700 is the answer. If I want to give myself the best odds. Of the top group of offensive lineman, over 65% of them have 700+ TPE, with a good chunk of those being bots. 2 Tier 3 bots make the group, so while they are more “efficient” they are not better. Only 6 of the top 37% (the group who pancakes at or above average) are below 500 TPE, so while possible, it seems more sim luck then TPE, and I’d imagine those individuals might find themselves out of the top group come the end of the year.
So there I have it, not exactly a specific number, but I need to get to that tier 4 bot level before I can hope to be a top pancaker, and if I for sure want to be a top offensive lineman, then I better get to 1000 TPE, that surely seems like the safest bet. Of course, many tier 4 bots didn’t make it into the group. I likely will try to refine this after sitting on the data for a bit and really get to that efficient number.
Well, that’s all I got, I plan on doing a few more articles as time goes on to try and further have some fun putting data to use(less) applications. Lets be honest, the only real thing we got from this is more TPE makes you better, and that’s kind of a no shit statement. Look forward to coming back and trying to attack this again from a different angle when I have a little more time. Until then, keep caking.