04-27-2020, 10:40 PM
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DEVELOPMENTAL SIMULATION FOOTBALL LEAGUE S22 Preseason Breakdown
Intro
Hi, as we near the start of the season, I wanted to get a better understanding of the Developmental Simulation Football League teams and how their rosters are constructed. So, I went into the TPE tracker and did a little research. This article is about what I found. In this article I discuss how the team rosters are broken down by season. Additionally, I discuss each team roster by position and effective TPE. Finally, I wrap things up with Developmental Simulation Football League preseason power rankings based on the research. Finally, a brief conclusion is met discussing what was learned. We’ll start with the rosters by season first.
Roster by Season
The above table is a graphical representation of all the players from seasons 21, 22, and 23 on Developmental Simulation Football League rosters in the TPE tracker as of 4/27/2020. The teams are located in the first column. The next columns have the total TPE for each team as well as the average TPE per player on the roster. As you can see, Myrtle Beach has the most TPE in the league, followed by Minnesota as the only two teams in the league with over 5000 total TPE. Minnesota is then followed by Tijuana and Norfolk and Portland at over 4000 TPE. The expansion teams and Kansas City all have less than 4000 TPE. Don’t be fooled by the total TPE, as will be discussed in further detail later, the best teams cannot be decided simply by counting TPE.
Along with the total TPE, in the next column you’ll find TPE per player. Adding this column helps to begin clear up the picture of which teams are the best in the Developmental Simulation Football League. Instead of Minnesota behind Myrtle Beach as was the case with total TPE, there is Tijuana and Portland. Norfolk is fourth in TPE per player followed by Minnesota, Dallas, London, and Kansas City.
The next column you’ll find is the number of capped players per team. For the purpose of this discussion capped includes any player with TPE greater than 240. As you can imagine, Myrtle Beach is once again leading the way. With absolute mind blowing TEN capped players heading into season 22. As we continue into this analysis, a trend is beginning to emerge, in second place behind Myrtle Beach and with only half the number of capped players is Portland. At this time is when I started noticing Myrtle Beach and Portland emerge as league powerhouses heading into S22.
Then, rostered IA players are in the following column. For the purpose of this discussion, IA is considered not seen in more than thirty days per the TPE tracker. The columns after the IA player count are for seasons 21-23 and those columns represent the total players from each team from each season. Additionally, you find the average TPE of the players counted from each of the seasons as well as the IA players.
That wraps up the look into roster breakdown by season. The next part of the discussion will be focused on team breakdown by position.
Roster by Position
The above table is the graphical representation of every Developmental Simulation Football League team roster broken down by position. The teams are listed in the first columns followed by positional breakdowns for defense in the top part of the table, offense in the middle part of the table and kicker in the bottom part of the table.
Each position has two columns, the first column in every position has the quantity of players at the position on the roster as well has the highest TPE single player total at each position. The next column under each position is the average TPE of all players at the position on the roster.
You may notice asterisks on some of the TPE numbers, these asterisks annotate a player at a starting potion on the depth chart is IA. Again, for the purpose of this discussion, IA is considered not seen in more than 30 days per the TPE tracker as of 4/27/2020. Noteworthy observations will be discussed at each position now.
At Cornerback, the Birddogs and Seawolves each have capped players. The Seawolves have the highest average TPE at the position as well making them the best CB team in the league at this point. Myrtle Beach has only one CB with 77 TPE on the roster, making them the worst at the position heading into S22.
At Defensive End, Minnesota, Portland, and Myrtle Beach have capped players. Although, with an average of 159 TPE, Portland is the best DE team in the league followed by Myrtle Beach and Minnesota. The worst DE team in the league is Dallas with a TPE high of only 87 and an average of 66 among 6 players at the position. That’s arguably the worst position of them all in the league.
At Defensive Tackle, Portland and Myrtle Beach strike again with capped players at the position. This time, with 2 players at the position with an average of 225 TPE Portland is the best followed by Myrtle Beach. Dallas has a player with 188 TPE at DT and 4 players averaging 88 TPE for third place. The Royals bring up the rear with 3 players at the position with an average of 69 TPE.
At Linebacker, Myrtle Beach is the only team in the league with a capped player. Their average of 157 TPE among four players makes Myrtle Beach, by far, the best linebacking corps in the league. The next best is Norfolk with a 224 TPE player and an average of 126 TPE among 5 players. Norfolk is followed by Tijuana with a TPE high of 226 and an average of 125 TPE among 5 players. Kansas City has the worst linebackers in the league with a high of only 118 and an average of 70 with 5 players.
Safety is one of the most well fielded positions in the Developmental Simulation Football League with 4 teams having capped players. The best team at the position is Tijuana, with 4 players averaging 193 TPE. Tijuana has 2 capped players at safety and this might be the strongest position in the Developmental Simulation Football League. Along with Tijuana, Minnesota, Portland, and Kansas City have capped safeties. The worst safety team in the Developmental Simulation Football League is Norfolk and they have a 152 TPE player, which is a testament to the strength of the position across the entire league. The discussion now shifts to the offensive side of the field, starting with quarterback.
Quarterback technically is the strongest position in the Developmental Simulation Football League but do you NSFL scarcity will not be considered. There are two teams, Myrtle Beach and Tijuana with two capped players at the position as well as five teams total with capped QB. The other three teams with capped QB are London, Dallas, and Portland. The worst team at QB is Kansas City with a high TPE of 155 and an abysmal average of 82 among four QB.
Running back in the Developmental Simulation Football League is one of the stronger positions in the Developmental Simulation Football League and it makes sense considering the Developmental Simulation Football League reputation as a run first league. Dallas is arguably the best RB team in the league with a capped player and 3 players averaging 143 TPE. Dallas is followed by Minnesota with a capped player and 2 players averaging 152 TPE. The Luchadores are the third team with a capped running back. The worst RB team in the league are the Royals with a TPE high of 133 and a four player average of only 93 TPE.
Tight End is another position of strength across the league, there are three teams with capped players. In addition, every Developmental Simulation Football League team has at least one TE with 144 TPE as a high. This position is very well represented indeed. The best at the position and again one of the strongest positions in the league overall, almost on par with the Luchadores at Safety, are the Bucs. The Bucs have a capped player and a two player average of 182 TPE. The other two teams with capped TE are Kansas City and Norfolk. The worst TE team in the league is Dallas with a still respectable 144 TPE high.
Wide receiver is the strongest position in the league. There are four teams with capped players and the lowest team high in TPE at the position is an impressive 154 TPE. Even more impressive than that is, only one team in the league has an average at the position under 118 TPE. The Bucs, Royals, Birddogs, and Pythons all have capped players at WR. The best receiver corps belongs to the Bucs with six players averaging 158 TPE. Bringing up the rear are the SeaWolves with five players averaging 92 TPE.
Offensive Line is the most interesting position in the league. The disparity among the teams is stark and this position has obviously become something of a dividing line among Developmental Simulation Football League general managers. In fact, the two teams with the best offensive lines also are the two best teams in the league according to my research. More will be discussed later regarding the coincidence of OL strength and placement in my power rankings. Back to the teams and their offensive linemen. As previously alluded to, Portland and Myrtle Beach are the two best OL teams with Myrtle Beach being the best. The Bucs have two capped players at the position and have one of the top the position strengths in the league along with their TE and the Luchadores safeties. Right there with the OL of Myrtle Beach are Portland’s OL. Portland has two players at the position with an astounding average TPE of 209. Tijuana has a high TPE player of 137 and an average of 78 TPE among five OL. Beyond the three teams already discussed, the Grey Ducks have also committed resource to OL. The Grey Ducks have a TPE high 0f 106 and an average of 68 TPE among five players.
The Myrtle Beach and Portland OL make up half of the four strongest position groups in the league overall. Contrast this with the fact that two other teams have NO offensive lineman at all and the disparity of the league’s impression of OL importance is right there in the wide open for everyone to see.
Kicker is clearly the least valued position in the Developmental Simulation Football League going into season 22. The Luchadores have the high TPE player with 167 TPE. The royals have the next highest at 142 as well as another kicker; they both average 96 TPE. The Bucs have the next highest TPE kicker at 131. The Coyotes and SeaWolves both have no kicker. That concludes the team-by-team positional breakdown and the discussion now continues with establishing preseason power rankings for the Developmental Simulation Football League.
Power Rankings
I took a pretty simple approach with the power rankings, having already done the research and positional comparisons. As you can see with the table above, all I did was break out each team by offense, defense, and kicker and grade each team 1-8 based on the positional comparisons. The one additional thing I took into account was the IA status of starters according to the depth chart. As we’re all aware, some Developmental Simulation Football League General Managers will start IA players over actives in order to position their team for a win. Unfortunately this is the reality now, however the IA players were taken into consideration in my power rankings. Here are the rankings with a brief synopsis for each team.
A+ Myrtle Beach Buccaneers – Clearly the class of the league heading into S22. The Bucs own the top ranking in four positional comparisons as well the second spot in an additional four. Their TE and OL are among the four best position groupings in the league. It’s not even close on paper at this point.
B+ Portland Pythons – Portland is the next best thing after the Bucs. The Python OL is among the four strongest positional groupings in the league. The Python hold the top spot in four positional groupings as well, though their dominance drops off considerably from there. Easily good enough for second place in S22.
B Tijuana Luchadores – The strength of this team and how they stand apart from the pack are their safeties; the best positional grouping in the entire DSFL. Beyond their safeties, the Luchadores will rely upon their offense to carry the load for them as they grade out as the second best offense behind Portland.Los Luchadores lead the rest of the pack behind the two obvious front runners.
C+ Minnesota Grey Ducks – The Grey Ducks need to be about two things in S22; Jamar Lackson and defense. The Grey Ducks defense grades out with Portland just behind Myrtle Beach. Their offense is where you find the holes, with one exception. They have the best RB in the DSFL. The Ducks are towards the front of the rest of the pack at this point.
D Norfolk SeaWolves – The SeaWolves have bright spots, specifically at QB, TE, and especially CB. However that won’t be nearly enough to keep them from the bottom half of the league. Just too many holes elsewhere to be competitive at this juncture.
D Dallas Birddogs – The Birddogs were the expansion team to take the largest leap forward in the offseason and they’ve done a very nice job fielding a competitive team. Competitive is all they’ll be however in S22. Plenty of high points on offense with one of the top rated WR corps and a great RB situation.
D- Kansas City Coyotes - The Coyotes are the worse non-expansion team in the DSFL. The lone bright spot for the Coyotes is at TE with one capped player. The Coyotes are currently in the top half in two other positional groupings, leaving a lot of room for improvement over the season.
F London Royals – Sorry boys, just not a lot going on here. Not a lot expected of the Royals in their second season, and they didn’t disappoint. Graded out as the worst defense and in the bottom half on offense as well. WR and QB are the lone bright spots for the team, with finishing in the top half of the league in only one other positional comparison.
Conclusion
To belabor the point, Myrtle Beach and Portland are the class of the league and everyone is fighting for third place. I say that with two caveats, one is this is all only on paper and, two this is all preseason.
The one thing I learned researching and writing this article that will stick with me is the OL disparity. The coincidence of the two highest graded teams also having the two best OL is noteworthy. Perhaps improving OL is where the teams have set themselves apart. Maybe their success last year was due in part to their focus on OL. There’s a chance it’s no more than a coincidence and OL is simply the flavor of the month. One thing is for certain, I’ll be paying close attention to how Myrtle Beach and Portland do this year in the standings, as well as how their OL dependent position players perform. As S22 gets under way, I’m sure there’ll be more people than just I focused on the burgeoning OL development in the DSFL. Is it a fad or is it the future? Stay tuned to find out! Thanks for reading this and I hope you got something out of it.
Intro
Hi, as we near the start of the season, I wanted to get a better understanding of the Developmental Simulation Football League teams and how their rosters are constructed. So, I went into the TPE tracker and did a little research. This article is about what I found. In this article I discuss how the team rosters are broken down by season. Additionally, I discuss each team roster by position and effective TPE. Finally, I wrap things up with Developmental Simulation Football League preseason power rankings based on the research. Finally, a brief conclusion is met discussing what was learned. We’ll start with the rosters by season first.
Roster by Season
The above table is a graphical representation of all the players from seasons 21, 22, and 23 on Developmental Simulation Football League rosters in the TPE tracker as of 4/27/2020. The teams are located in the first column. The next columns have the total TPE for each team as well as the average TPE per player on the roster. As you can see, Myrtle Beach has the most TPE in the league, followed by Minnesota as the only two teams in the league with over 5000 total TPE. Minnesota is then followed by Tijuana and Norfolk and Portland at over 4000 TPE. The expansion teams and Kansas City all have less than 4000 TPE. Don’t be fooled by the total TPE, as will be discussed in further detail later, the best teams cannot be decided simply by counting TPE.
Along with the total TPE, in the next column you’ll find TPE per player. Adding this column helps to begin clear up the picture of which teams are the best in the Developmental Simulation Football League. Instead of Minnesota behind Myrtle Beach as was the case with total TPE, there is Tijuana and Portland. Norfolk is fourth in TPE per player followed by Minnesota, Dallas, London, and Kansas City.
The next column you’ll find is the number of capped players per team. For the purpose of this discussion capped includes any player with TPE greater than 240. As you can imagine, Myrtle Beach is once again leading the way. With absolute mind blowing TEN capped players heading into season 22. As we continue into this analysis, a trend is beginning to emerge, in second place behind Myrtle Beach and with only half the number of capped players is Portland. At this time is when I started noticing Myrtle Beach and Portland emerge as league powerhouses heading into S22.
Then, rostered IA players are in the following column. For the purpose of this discussion, IA is considered not seen in more than thirty days per the TPE tracker. The columns after the IA player count are for seasons 21-23 and those columns represent the total players from each team from each season. Additionally, you find the average TPE of the players counted from each of the seasons as well as the IA players.
That wraps up the look into roster breakdown by season. The next part of the discussion will be focused on team breakdown by position.
Roster by Position
The above table is the graphical representation of every Developmental Simulation Football League team roster broken down by position. The teams are listed in the first columns followed by positional breakdowns for defense in the top part of the table, offense in the middle part of the table and kicker in the bottom part of the table.
Each position has two columns, the first column in every position has the quantity of players at the position on the roster as well has the highest TPE single player total at each position. The next column under each position is the average TPE of all players at the position on the roster.
You may notice asterisks on some of the TPE numbers, these asterisks annotate a player at a starting potion on the depth chart is IA. Again, for the purpose of this discussion, IA is considered not seen in more than 30 days per the TPE tracker as of 4/27/2020. Noteworthy observations will be discussed at each position now.
At Cornerback, the Birddogs and Seawolves each have capped players. The Seawolves have the highest average TPE at the position as well making them the best CB team in the league at this point. Myrtle Beach has only one CB with 77 TPE on the roster, making them the worst at the position heading into S22.
At Defensive End, Minnesota, Portland, and Myrtle Beach have capped players. Although, with an average of 159 TPE, Portland is the best DE team in the league followed by Myrtle Beach and Minnesota. The worst DE team in the league is Dallas with a TPE high of only 87 and an average of 66 among 6 players at the position. That’s arguably the worst position of them all in the league.
At Defensive Tackle, Portland and Myrtle Beach strike again with capped players at the position. This time, with 2 players at the position with an average of 225 TPE Portland is the best followed by Myrtle Beach. Dallas has a player with 188 TPE at DT and 4 players averaging 88 TPE for third place. The Royals bring up the rear with 3 players at the position with an average of 69 TPE.
At Linebacker, Myrtle Beach is the only team in the league with a capped player. Their average of 157 TPE among four players makes Myrtle Beach, by far, the best linebacking corps in the league. The next best is Norfolk with a 224 TPE player and an average of 126 TPE among 5 players. Norfolk is followed by Tijuana with a TPE high of 226 and an average of 125 TPE among 5 players. Kansas City has the worst linebackers in the league with a high of only 118 and an average of 70 with 5 players.
Safety is one of the most well fielded positions in the Developmental Simulation Football League with 4 teams having capped players. The best team at the position is Tijuana, with 4 players averaging 193 TPE. Tijuana has 2 capped players at safety and this might be the strongest position in the Developmental Simulation Football League. Along with Tijuana, Minnesota, Portland, and Kansas City have capped safeties. The worst safety team in the Developmental Simulation Football League is Norfolk and they have a 152 TPE player, which is a testament to the strength of the position across the entire league. The discussion now shifts to the offensive side of the field, starting with quarterback.
Quarterback technically is the strongest position in the Developmental Simulation Football League but do you NSFL scarcity will not be considered. There are two teams, Myrtle Beach and Tijuana with two capped players at the position as well as five teams total with capped QB. The other three teams with capped QB are London, Dallas, and Portland. The worst team at QB is Kansas City with a high TPE of 155 and an abysmal average of 82 among four QB.
Running back in the Developmental Simulation Football League is one of the stronger positions in the Developmental Simulation Football League and it makes sense considering the Developmental Simulation Football League reputation as a run first league. Dallas is arguably the best RB team in the league with a capped player and 3 players averaging 143 TPE. Dallas is followed by Minnesota with a capped player and 2 players averaging 152 TPE. The Luchadores are the third team with a capped running back. The worst RB team in the league are the Royals with a TPE high of 133 and a four player average of only 93 TPE.
Tight End is another position of strength across the league, there are three teams with capped players. In addition, every Developmental Simulation Football League team has at least one TE with 144 TPE as a high. This position is very well represented indeed. The best at the position and again one of the strongest positions in the league overall, almost on par with the Luchadores at Safety, are the Bucs. The Bucs have a capped player and a two player average of 182 TPE. The other two teams with capped TE are Kansas City and Norfolk. The worst TE team in the league is Dallas with a still respectable 144 TPE high.
Wide receiver is the strongest position in the league. There are four teams with capped players and the lowest team high in TPE at the position is an impressive 154 TPE. Even more impressive than that is, only one team in the league has an average at the position under 118 TPE. The Bucs, Royals, Birddogs, and Pythons all have capped players at WR. The best receiver corps belongs to the Bucs with six players averaging 158 TPE. Bringing up the rear are the SeaWolves with five players averaging 92 TPE.
Offensive Line is the most interesting position in the league. The disparity among the teams is stark and this position has obviously become something of a dividing line among Developmental Simulation Football League general managers. In fact, the two teams with the best offensive lines also are the two best teams in the league according to my research. More will be discussed later regarding the coincidence of OL strength and placement in my power rankings. Back to the teams and their offensive linemen. As previously alluded to, Portland and Myrtle Beach are the two best OL teams with Myrtle Beach being the best. The Bucs have two capped players at the position and have one of the top the position strengths in the league along with their TE and the Luchadores safeties. Right there with the OL of Myrtle Beach are Portland’s OL. Portland has two players at the position with an astounding average TPE of 209. Tijuana has a high TPE player of 137 and an average of 78 TPE among five OL. Beyond the three teams already discussed, the Grey Ducks have also committed resource to OL. The Grey Ducks have a TPE high 0f 106 and an average of 68 TPE among five players.
The Myrtle Beach and Portland OL make up half of the four strongest position groups in the league overall. Contrast this with the fact that two other teams have NO offensive lineman at all and the disparity of the league’s impression of OL importance is right there in the wide open for everyone to see.
Kicker is clearly the least valued position in the Developmental Simulation Football League going into season 22. The Luchadores have the high TPE player with 167 TPE. The royals have the next highest at 142 as well as another kicker; they both average 96 TPE. The Bucs have the next highest TPE kicker at 131. The Coyotes and SeaWolves both have no kicker. That concludes the team-by-team positional breakdown and the discussion now continues with establishing preseason power rankings for the Developmental Simulation Football League.
Power Rankings
I took a pretty simple approach with the power rankings, having already done the research and positional comparisons. As you can see with the table above, all I did was break out each team by offense, defense, and kicker and grade each team 1-8 based on the positional comparisons. The one additional thing I took into account was the IA status of starters according to the depth chart. As we’re all aware, some Developmental Simulation Football League General Managers will start IA players over actives in order to position their team for a win. Unfortunately this is the reality now, however the IA players were taken into consideration in my power rankings. Here are the rankings with a brief synopsis for each team.
A+ Myrtle Beach Buccaneers – Clearly the class of the league heading into S22. The Bucs own the top ranking in four positional comparisons as well the second spot in an additional four. Their TE and OL are among the four best position groupings in the league. It’s not even close on paper at this point.
B+ Portland Pythons – Portland is the next best thing after the Bucs. The Python OL is among the four strongest positional groupings in the league. The Python hold the top spot in four positional groupings as well, though their dominance drops off considerably from there. Easily good enough for second place in S22.
B Tijuana Luchadores – The strength of this team and how they stand apart from the pack are their safeties; the best positional grouping in the entire DSFL. Beyond their safeties, the Luchadores will rely upon their offense to carry the load for them as they grade out as the second best offense behind Portland.Los Luchadores lead the rest of the pack behind the two obvious front runners.
C+ Minnesota Grey Ducks – The Grey Ducks need to be about two things in S22; Jamar Lackson and defense. The Grey Ducks defense grades out with Portland just behind Myrtle Beach. Their offense is where you find the holes, with one exception. They have the best RB in the DSFL. The Ducks are towards the front of the rest of the pack at this point.
D Norfolk SeaWolves – The SeaWolves have bright spots, specifically at QB, TE, and especially CB. However that won’t be nearly enough to keep them from the bottom half of the league. Just too many holes elsewhere to be competitive at this juncture.
D Dallas Birddogs – The Birddogs were the expansion team to take the largest leap forward in the offseason and they’ve done a very nice job fielding a competitive team. Competitive is all they’ll be however in S22. Plenty of high points on offense with one of the top rated WR corps and a great RB situation.
D- Kansas City Coyotes - The Coyotes are the worse non-expansion team in the DSFL. The lone bright spot for the Coyotes is at TE with one capped player. The Coyotes are currently in the top half in two other positional groupings, leaving a lot of room for improvement over the season.
F London Royals – Sorry boys, just not a lot going on here. Not a lot expected of the Royals in their second season, and they didn’t disappoint. Graded out as the worst defense and in the bottom half on offense as well. WR and QB are the lone bright spots for the team, with finishing in the top half of the league in only one other positional comparison.
Conclusion
To belabor the point, Myrtle Beach and Portland are the class of the league and everyone is fighting for third place. I say that with two caveats, one is this is all only on paper and, two this is all preseason.
The one thing I learned researching and writing this article that will stick with me is the OL disparity. The coincidence of the two highest graded teams also having the two best OL is noteworthy. Perhaps improving OL is where the teams have set themselves apart. Maybe their success last year was due in part to their focus on OL. There’s a chance it’s no more than a coincidence and OL is simply the flavor of the month. One thing is for certain, I’ll be paying close attention to how Myrtle Beach and Portland do this year in the standings, as well as how their OL dependent position players perform. As S22 gets under way, I’m sure there’ll be more people than just I focused on the burgeoning OL development in the DSFL. Is it a fad or is it the future? Stay tuned to find out! Thanks for reading this and I hope you got something out of it.