Well, those certainly were games. And for once we won. Besides that, we have some very interesting efficiency stats to go over, so let's start out!
Yellowknife Wraiths at Colorado Yeti:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 6/18
Jameson Vermillion: 6/11
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 5/17
Anders Christiansen: 0/2
If you looked at the basic stats of the 2 wraiths rushers, one would look OK and one would look bad. This metric says that one looked OK and the other one looked great. Granted, this stat almost definitely flatters Vermillion's night. When your first 4 rushes are short gain, 6 yards, 2 yards, and 1 yard gain, leaving you with 4th and inches, you have a little over 2 yards per carry and a 50% success rate. Four of Vermillion's successes were followed up by an unsuccessful rush of his that put his team needing another good play in order to convert. His only successes that didn't fit that bill were a pair of runs to get into the red zone and get a first down late in the 4th to help seal the game for the Wraiths. As for Skyline, half of his successes came on scoring plays, 2 touchdowns and a 2 point conversion. His only other successes were a pair right before the pair of successful Vermillion runs late in the 4th, and a 6 yard gain right before halftime on 3rd and 5 that did not really matter at all. That being said, if you take out his 20 yard run, his yards per carry drop from 3.7 to 2.6, so an already not great statline looks even worse under that metric.
Gilbert might have lost this game for the Yeti. He started out pretty well in the first quarter...outside the Red Zone. During that time he got 3 of his successes getting 2 drives into field goal range, and 3 of his unsuccessful runs came inside that zone, including back to back runs on the 4 yard line that went nowhere. His only other successes in the game came on long runs to take the Yeti into Yellowknife territory on scoring drives. Speaking of, most of his yards came from those 2 runs. Taking those runs out causes him to fall to under 2 yards per carry, and removing one already puts him at just over 3 yards per carry. They ended up giving him only 1 run during the entire 4th quarter, and I can't blame them considering how he was killing drives. Christiansen had one terrible unsuccessful rush, a 1 yard rush for a 2 point conversion, but in general was just not leaned on much.
Baltimore Hawks at Chicago Butchers:
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 2/21
Matthias Hanyadi: 2/2
Chika Fujiwara: 0/1
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 7/17
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 3/7
George O'Donnell: 1/1
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Hawks are not a good team this year, and this rushing is just the tip of that iceberg. Fukushu had 2 successes, a 3 yard rush on 2nd and inches to get a first down, and a 5 yard rush on 1st and 10 to bring up a 2nd and 5. Of course, the way things were going for the Hawks and Fukushu, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise that the next 3 plays were a 1 yard rush, a 1 yard rush, and a -1 yard rush to turn the ball over on downs and have Fukushu go 1/4 on that series. 0.5 yards per carry is I believe the 2nd worst mark this year from anyone with at least 5 rushes in a game, and it STILL can get even worse considering almost half of the yards came from that single 5 yard rush. Take that out and she falls to .375 yards per carry, which is, again, the 2nd worst mark we've seen so far, only Terry Yaki and his negative yardage total last week was worse. Hanyadi only got the ball twice on the ground this game, but got first downs on both runs. It was a 46 yard run and an 18 yard run on the day for him. Fujiwara, meanwhile, had 1 run where she gained 2 yards and then immediately fumbled the ball away to the opposition.
The Butchers ran all over the Hawks, the same way that the Sabercats ran all over the Hawks last week. Just like with the Hawks, the backup running back did most of the damage, although this time, the damage wasn't as severe, and the primary running back wasn't just worse than the backup, he was downright mediocre. One of his successes was a short gain on 2nd and 1, which led to a 3rd and inches (as a reminder, I treat this as a successful run due to the sim seeming to treat it as at least 50% of the yardage to gain). That being said, none of the rest of his successes were really cleaning up on short yardage situations, with the closest ones of those being a 3 yard touchdown run and a 3 yard gain on 2nd and 5. The other good thing about not being great but being consistent? You don't suffer too much in the yards per carry department when your biggest run is taken out. His yards per carry falls below 3 yards when his long of 11 yards is removed, but when your original yards per carry was only 3.4, that's not really that big of a drop. Julio Tirtawidjaja on the other hand, suffers immensely when his longest run of 41 yards is removed, falling to 2.8 yards per carry from 8.3 yards. Still, he kept up generally successful runs and also contributed pretty well in the passing game. I'd say the 3/7 flatters his running game considering one of his successes was a 2 yard run on 2nd and 3, but it's hard to complain about it too much when a catch from him got it to 2nd and 3 in the first place. The 3/7 definitely undersells his overall performance considering his status of being a top receiver this game as well. Lastly, I'd like to congratulate George O'Donnell for the longest run of any quarterback so far, at least of those that didn't lead to a fumble.
Philadelphia Liberty at Sarasota Sailfish:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 7/19
Sam Torenson: 4/9
Fuzzy Dotson: 0/1
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 11/25
Running Back: 3/4
The Liberty really traded off their successes. Darrell Williams had 6 successes by the end of the touchdown drive that began the 2nd half, while Torenson had 4 successes, all coming in the 3rd quarter. One came on that touchdown drive and the rest came later, on the second touchdown drive that tied up the game. On the other hand, Williams once he had 6 successes only had 12 runs. His final 7 runs only had 1 success: a touchdown run from the inch line. Most of Williams successes came in two spurts: he had 3 on the touchdown drive that opened the scoring, then got 2 more on the touchdown drive at the start of the 2nd half. Both of these guys are a bit of an example of longs helping pump up their yards per carry. Williams' yards per carry goes from 5.4 to 3.6, while Torenson has his fall from 4 yards per carry to 2.9. As for Fuzzy Dotson, I believe he now takes the lead for most runs without any successes with 3.
Raphtalia Chan really fell off late. At one point she was 10/16, but then only got 1 successful run in the final 9 attempts in their efforts to chew through the rest of the clock during the 4th quarter. This included getting 1 yard on 3 carries to keep the Sailfish from fully capitalizing on Peter Patterson's clutch interception that stopped the Liberty from taking the lead in the 4th, and getting saved by James Hoffman to keep the drive alive when she went nowhere on 3rd and 3, where he committed unnecessary roughness. Without being the tackler. Taking away her 45 yard run scales her yards per carry back to 3.8 from its 5.4 current. Back, meanwhile, only got the ball 4 times but was inches away from being perfect. His runs were a 28 yard touchdown run, a 7 yard run on 1st and 10, a 5 yard run on 1st and 10, and a 3 yard run on 3rd and 3 that led to a 4th and inches. Even without his 28 yard touchdown run he still has 5 yards per carry. Again, inches away from perfection. Such a shame.
Arizona Outlaws at Berlin Fire Salamanders:
Outlaws Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 6/18
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 3/5
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 6/19
Terry Yaki: 4/10
Nakamura had his worst performance of the young season by far, which doesn't make this one awful, it's more that this is his first time below 50%. It's probably important to mention that one of his runs was partly wiped out by an unnecessary roughness after the play, but it wasn't his fault and it led to a 2nd and 1 anyways, so it'd still be a successful run even taking that penalty into account. You take away his longest run, and he still has 4.4 yards per carry. Looking at his successes versus his failures is more illuminating in my mind. He had 12.3 yards per carry on his successful runs, with his shortest being 5 yards, and just under 2 yards per carry on his 12 unsuccessful runs. Thorbjornsson is the epitome of making his yards count, as his successes are a pair of 4 yard touchdown runs and a 3 yard run on 2nd and 6. Just BARELY getting over the 50% mark for the night, and keeping his average up.
Petrongolo had an OK impact in the passing game, but did not do well rushing the football. His first rush was a -1 yarder on 4th and 4, and yet his early rushes were much better for him than his later rushes. After the turnover, he then succeeded on 4 of his next 5 carries with a long of 6, ran for 4 yards and 5 yards on 2 of the next 5 carries, for 6/11 at that point. His longest run during the last 8 carries for him was 2 yards, and he had a total of 5 yards across those 8 carries. 1.8 yards per carry...at least considering his long was only 6 he couldn't be hurt too bad by taking away his long, he only falls to 1.6. Terry Yaki meanwhile had a long of 5, and all of his successful runs were 1st downs on 3rd and short. Granted, he was getting 4 or more yards per carry on all but one of those runs, so even though he was generally cleaning up on someone else making his job manageable, he at least went through with it on flying colors at least a good portion of the time.
Austin Copperheads at New York Silverbacks:
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 3/10
Jim the Vampire: 0/4
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 10/18
Ashley Owens: 6/10
Buster Bawlls: 1/2
Hey! It's a decent rushing day from Watts! Good to see you! Watts was extremely feast or famine on the day, with the 3 successes combining for all but 7 of her yards on the day. Everything else had 1 yard per carry. Granted, if you took away only 1 carry on the day, you'd end up with 6.9 yards per carry. It appears like the Sim heard Kya's comments on my last post on the subject, and decided to answer by giving her exactly one more boom run than her average. Jim the Vampire, meanwhile, just went nowhere all day. With a long of 3, a total yardage of 1, or 2 if you count the unsuccessful 2 point conversion, him having any success at all would have felt like a bit of a robbery. He did not have any successful run.
The Silverbacks ran extremely well against the Copperheads, and were able to get all 3 of their running backs at or above 50% success rate on the day. Mainly, Rogers got going in the 2nd half, with only 3 successful runs in the 1st half. 7 of his 10 second half runs were successful, although he did get handed a couple of them: gaining 2 yards on a 2nd and inches for a 1st down, gaining 1 yard on a 3rd and -4 due to a neutral zone infraction, and a 3 yard gain on 1st and 10 were his first 3 rushes out of halftime and none of those were exactly good runs, yet 2 of them were technically successful. Then he ran for -2 yards, a short gain at the start of the 4th...and then he was perfect on his final 5 runs, even if 2 of them were 3 yard gains, that doesn't matter too much when they came from his previous good running. Minus his best run on the night, a 19 yard run, he still went for 3.7 yards per carry. With that 19 yard run it goes up to 4.6 yards per carry. Meanwhile, Ashley Owens made the most of his wheelchair, because according to the stream chat and what I feel, wheelchairs are hard to tackle. Half of his successes were short touchdown runs, two 3 yard runs and a 1 yard run. His other 3 successes were a 5 yard run on 2nd and 4, a 36 yard run to set up 1st and goal, and a 5 yard run on 2nd and 5 to help continue to take time off the clock. Actually, in general New York was great with their runs in the 4th, with only 4 unsuccessful runs in the quarter compared to 9 successful ones. Owens took a pretty big hit from the "single long run pumping up the yards per carry" metric, falling to 2.4 yards from 5.8. Finally, Bawlls' success was a 3 yard run on 1st and goal from the 4, setting up Owens' 1 yard touchdown run.
New Orleans Second Line at San Jose Sabercats:
Second Line Rushers:
Mr Forty Two: 7/15
Mike Rotchburns: 5/11
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 2/8
Rando Cardrissian: 1/3
Both Mr Forty Two and Mike Rotchburns have a similar story: They were extremely great up until near the end of the game, where a few bad runs knocked them below 50 percent for the day. Almost half of Mr Forty Two's successful runs were touchdown carries, and he was much better early than he was late; in his first 8 runs he had 6 successful carries including his long 40 yard touchdown run. His last 7 runs had a single success, a 1 yard run from the inch line. Minus that 40 yard touchdown run, his yards per carry fall from 5.5 to 3 yards per carry flat. As for Rotchburns, 4 of his first 5 carries were successful, leaving him to get 1 in his final 6, a 20 yard run to get over midfield in the 4th. Those two late successful runs from each player were New Orleans' only successful runs in the second half. That might have mattered if New Orleans didn't 1. go up 28-10 entering the 2nd half, and 2. if Slothlisberger didn't save some of his best throws for that second half. Rotchburns also suffered pretty hard from removing his longest run, as his yards per carry fall to 2.5 from 4.1.
The Sabercats came off of one of the greatest rushing performances of all time to put up a massive dud. The 3 successes on the entire day were a 12 yard run on 1st and 10 from Lackson, a 2 yard run on 4th and 1 from Lackson, and a 6 yard rush on 3rd and 3 from Cardrissian. Granted, they only ran 11 times in total, but that's BARELY over 25% success rate. In general they were terrible on the ground. Somehow, though, they were even WORSE than their 2.4 and 2.3 yards per carry. Jamar had a long of 12, and once you take that out he is left with 7 yards on 7 carries. And Cardrissian is even worse, with half a yard per carry on his 2 rushes other than his 6 yarder.
Orange County Otters at Honolulu Hahalua:
Otters Rushers:
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/8
Ace Savage: 0/6
Suleiman Ramza: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicolas Ayers: 5/11
Cobra Kai: 2/6
Luke Skywalker: 0/1
Our last game to write up about has shown us one major thing. Moving Jeffrey Phillips over to Running Back might have helped out the Otters' running game, but it certainly hasn't solved all of their issues in that department. Phillips was 0/5 on rushing entering the 4th quarter; then, during the 4th, he rolled off 3 successes in a row to enter the list down below at a respectable position. Those 3 successes, a 5 yard run on 1st and 10, a 15 yard run on 2nd and 1, and a 65 yard run on 1st and 10, account for all but 3 of his yards on the day. Just taking off that 65 yard run brings his yards per carry down to 3.2, which in my opinion is a much more accurate view of his influence on the game than his actual 11 yards per carry, especially considering having literally no successful rushes among the entire team was probably part of why they went down 6-27 before getting the ball in the 4th quarter. Savage, meanwhile...he had a long of 3 yards. He could have gotten a success or two if he was ever set up for it by a fellow teammate but as is, he went 0 for the day and I can't say he didn't deserve it.
Hahalua, I'm happy that you're winning, but could you do it when I pick you to win? You've cost me 2 TPE in the last 2 weeks. Anyways, Ayers did not take the easy route for any of his successes, with none of them being less than 5 yards. He even managed to get a successful run on 1st and 20 by going 8 yards. He does get hit a bit from taking away his longest run of the day, but that only brings him down to 5.1 yards per carry from 10, so still a very good day on his end. Kai's successes are more interesting to talk about: After only getting 1 yard on 1st and 10, he got 9 yards on 2nd and 9 to get a first down, so he made up for an unsuccessful run with a successful one. His other success was more interesting in the academic sense than anything else, he got 4 yards on a 1st and 10 where Orange County also committed a penalty to give them a new set of downs. I decided to give people successes on downs where their runs were successful, and failures where they did not, even if penalties made those runs successes or kept them from being successes. This obviously does not apply to things like Holding, where it could have an impact on the play and leads to the play being nullified anyways.
So how does the master list look now?
100% George O'Donnell 1/1 (+1) CHI
66.6% Forrest Gump 2/3 (+1) NOLA
57.1% Running Back 8/14 (+2) SAR
55.6% Matthias Hanyadi 5/9 (+1) BAL
54.5% Gunner Thorbjornsson 12/22 (+2) ARI
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
50% Mike Boss Jr 1/2 (0) SAR
48.1% Rando Cardrissian 13/27 (-1) SJS
45.3% Baby Yoda 29/64 (-6) CHI
45.2% Tatsu Nakmura 28/62 (-6) ARI
45.2% Jameson Vermillion 14/31 (-3) YKW
41.8% Captain Rogers 23/55 (-9) NYS
40.9% Ashley Owens 9/22 (-4) NYS
38.8% Raphtalia Chan 26/67 (-15) SAR
37.9% Jamar Lackson 11/29 (-7) SJS
37.5% Acura Skyline 18/48 (-12) YKW
37.5% Jeffrey Phillips 3/8 (-1) OCO
37.1% Mr. Forty Two 13/35 (-9) NOLA
37% Cobra Kai 10/27 (-7) HON
35.7% Julio Tirtawidjaja 5/14 (-4) CHI
34.4% Sam Torenson 11/32 (-10) PHI
33.3% Terry Yaki 9/27 (-9) BER
33.3% Buster Bawls 1/3 (-1) NYS
32.6% Joseph Petrongolo 15/46 (-16) BER
32.4% Mike Rotchburns 11/34 (-12) NOLA
31.8% Darrel Williams 14/44 (-16) PHI
30.4% Richard Gilbert 14/46 (-18) COL
29.7% Nicholas Ayers 16/54 (-22) HON
28.6% Jim the Vampire 2/7 (-3) AUS
28.1% Mai Fukushu 16/57 (-25) BAL
22.9% Zoe Watts 8/35 (-19) AUS
17.1% Ace Savage 6/35 (-23) OCO
16.7% Anders Christiansen 1/6 (-4) COL
0% Luke Skywalker 0/2 (-2) HON
0% Sigismund Sternenstaub 0/1 (-1) SAR
0% Zed Keppler 0/2 (-2) CHI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/3 (-3) PHI
0% Chika Fujiwara 0/2 (-2) BAL
0% Monty Jack 0/1 (-1) SJS
0% Colby Jack 0/1 (-1) YKW
Running Back is our new efficiency champ, unless you count Gump's 3 carries or O'Donnell's 1. As for inefficiency, Watts has gotten unstuck from the bottom, leaving Christiansen and Savage to fight it out right now. Again, minus those without at least 5 carries.
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Yellowknife Wraiths at Colorado Yeti:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 6/18
Jameson Vermillion: 6/11
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 5/17
Anders Christiansen: 0/2
If you looked at the basic stats of the 2 wraiths rushers, one would look OK and one would look bad. This metric says that one looked OK and the other one looked great. Granted, this stat almost definitely flatters Vermillion's night. When your first 4 rushes are short gain, 6 yards, 2 yards, and 1 yard gain, leaving you with 4th and inches, you have a little over 2 yards per carry and a 50% success rate. Four of Vermillion's successes were followed up by an unsuccessful rush of his that put his team needing another good play in order to convert. His only successes that didn't fit that bill were a pair of runs to get into the red zone and get a first down late in the 4th to help seal the game for the Wraiths. As for Skyline, half of his successes came on scoring plays, 2 touchdowns and a 2 point conversion. His only other successes were a pair right before the pair of successful Vermillion runs late in the 4th, and a 6 yard gain right before halftime on 3rd and 5 that did not really matter at all. That being said, if you take out his 20 yard run, his yards per carry drop from 3.7 to 2.6, so an already not great statline looks even worse under that metric.
Gilbert might have lost this game for the Yeti. He started out pretty well in the first quarter...outside the Red Zone. During that time he got 3 of his successes getting 2 drives into field goal range, and 3 of his unsuccessful runs came inside that zone, including back to back runs on the 4 yard line that went nowhere. His only other successes in the game came on long runs to take the Yeti into Yellowknife territory on scoring drives. Speaking of, most of his yards came from those 2 runs. Taking those runs out causes him to fall to under 2 yards per carry, and removing one already puts him at just over 3 yards per carry. They ended up giving him only 1 run during the entire 4th quarter, and I can't blame them considering how he was killing drives. Christiansen had one terrible unsuccessful rush, a 1 yard rush for a 2 point conversion, but in general was just not leaned on much.
Baltimore Hawks at Chicago Butchers:
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 2/21
Matthias Hanyadi: 2/2
Chika Fujiwara: 0/1
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 7/17
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 3/7
George O'Donnell: 1/1
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Hawks are not a good team this year, and this rushing is just the tip of that iceberg. Fukushu had 2 successes, a 3 yard rush on 2nd and inches to get a first down, and a 5 yard rush on 1st and 10 to bring up a 2nd and 5. Of course, the way things were going for the Hawks and Fukushu, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise that the next 3 plays were a 1 yard rush, a 1 yard rush, and a -1 yard rush to turn the ball over on downs and have Fukushu go 1/4 on that series. 0.5 yards per carry is I believe the 2nd worst mark this year from anyone with at least 5 rushes in a game, and it STILL can get even worse considering almost half of the yards came from that single 5 yard rush. Take that out and she falls to .375 yards per carry, which is, again, the 2nd worst mark we've seen so far, only Terry Yaki and his negative yardage total last week was worse. Hanyadi only got the ball twice on the ground this game, but got first downs on both runs. It was a 46 yard run and an 18 yard run on the day for him. Fujiwara, meanwhile, had 1 run where she gained 2 yards and then immediately fumbled the ball away to the opposition.
The Butchers ran all over the Hawks, the same way that the Sabercats ran all over the Hawks last week. Just like with the Hawks, the backup running back did most of the damage, although this time, the damage wasn't as severe, and the primary running back wasn't just worse than the backup, he was downright mediocre. One of his successes was a short gain on 2nd and 1, which led to a 3rd and inches (as a reminder, I treat this as a successful run due to the sim seeming to treat it as at least 50% of the yardage to gain). That being said, none of the rest of his successes were really cleaning up on short yardage situations, with the closest ones of those being a 3 yard touchdown run and a 3 yard gain on 2nd and 5. The other good thing about not being great but being consistent? You don't suffer too much in the yards per carry department when your biggest run is taken out. His yards per carry falls below 3 yards when his long of 11 yards is removed, but when your original yards per carry was only 3.4, that's not really that big of a drop. Julio Tirtawidjaja on the other hand, suffers immensely when his longest run of 41 yards is removed, falling to 2.8 yards per carry from 8.3 yards. Still, he kept up generally successful runs and also contributed pretty well in the passing game. I'd say the 3/7 flatters his running game considering one of his successes was a 2 yard run on 2nd and 3, but it's hard to complain about it too much when a catch from him got it to 2nd and 3 in the first place. The 3/7 definitely undersells his overall performance considering his status of being a top receiver this game as well. Lastly, I'd like to congratulate George O'Donnell for the longest run of any quarterback so far, at least of those that didn't lead to a fumble.
Philadelphia Liberty at Sarasota Sailfish:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 7/19
Sam Torenson: 4/9
Fuzzy Dotson: 0/1
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 11/25
Running Back: 3/4
The Liberty really traded off their successes. Darrell Williams had 6 successes by the end of the touchdown drive that began the 2nd half, while Torenson had 4 successes, all coming in the 3rd quarter. One came on that touchdown drive and the rest came later, on the second touchdown drive that tied up the game. On the other hand, Williams once he had 6 successes only had 12 runs. His final 7 runs only had 1 success: a touchdown run from the inch line. Most of Williams successes came in two spurts: he had 3 on the touchdown drive that opened the scoring, then got 2 more on the touchdown drive at the start of the 2nd half. Both of these guys are a bit of an example of longs helping pump up their yards per carry. Williams' yards per carry goes from 5.4 to 3.6, while Torenson has his fall from 4 yards per carry to 2.9. As for Fuzzy Dotson, I believe he now takes the lead for most runs without any successes with 3.
Raphtalia Chan really fell off late. At one point she was 10/16, but then only got 1 successful run in the final 9 attempts in their efforts to chew through the rest of the clock during the 4th quarter. This included getting 1 yard on 3 carries to keep the Sailfish from fully capitalizing on Peter Patterson's clutch interception that stopped the Liberty from taking the lead in the 4th, and getting saved by James Hoffman to keep the drive alive when she went nowhere on 3rd and 3, where he committed unnecessary roughness. Without being the tackler. Taking away her 45 yard run scales her yards per carry back to 3.8 from its 5.4 current. Back, meanwhile, only got the ball 4 times but was inches away from being perfect. His runs were a 28 yard touchdown run, a 7 yard run on 1st and 10, a 5 yard run on 1st and 10, and a 3 yard run on 3rd and 3 that led to a 4th and inches. Even without his 28 yard touchdown run he still has 5 yards per carry. Again, inches away from perfection. Such a shame.
Arizona Outlaws at Berlin Fire Salamanders:
Outlaws Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 6/18
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 3/5
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 6/19
Terry Yaki: 4/10
Nakamura had his worst performance of the young season by far, which doesn't make this one awful, it's more that this is his first time below 50%. It's probably important to mention that one of his runs was partly wiped out by an unnecessary roughness after the play, but it wasn't his fault and it led to a 2nd and 1 anyways, so it'd still be a successful run even taking that penalty into account. You take away his longest run, and he still has 4.4 yards per carry. Looking at his successes versus his failures is more illuminating in my mind. He had 12.3 yards per carry on his successful runs, with his shortest being 5 yards, and just under 2 yards per carry on his 12 unsuccessful runs. Thorbjornsson is the epitome of making his yards count, as his successes are a pair of 4 yard touchdown runs and a 3 yard run on 2nd and 6. Just BARELY getting over the 50% mark for the night, and keeping his average up.
Petrongolo had an OK impact in the passing game, but did not do well rushing the football. His first rush was a -1 yarder on 4th and 4, and yet his early rushes were much better for him than his later rushes. After the turnover, he then succeeded on 4 of his next 5 carries with a long of 6, ran for 4 yards and 5 yards on 2 of the next 5 carries, for 6/11 at that point. His longest run during the last 8 carries for him was 2 yards, and he had a total of 5 yards across those 8 carries. 1.8 yards per carry...at least considering his long was only 6 he couldn't be hurt too bad by taking away his long, he only falls to 1.6. Terry Yaki meanwhile had a long of 5, and all of his successful runs were 1st downs on 3rd and short. Granted, he was getting 4 or more yards per carry on all but one of those runs, so even though he was generally cleaning up on someone else making his job manageable, he at least went through with it on flying colors at least a good portion of the time.
Austin Copperheads at New York Silverbacks:
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 3/10
Jim the Vampire: 0/4
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 10/18
Ashley Owens: 6/10
Buster Bawlls: 1/2
Hey! It's a decent rushing day from Watts! Good to see you! Watts was extremely feast or famine on the day, with the 3 successes combining for all but 7 of her yards on the day. Everything else had 1 yard per carry. Granted, if you took away only 1 carry on the day, you'd end up with 6.9 yards per carry. It appears like the Sim heard Kya's comments on my last post on the subject, and decided to answer by giving her exactly one more boom run than her average. Jim the Vampire, meanwhile, just went nowhere all day. With a long of 3, a total yardage of 1, or 2 if you count the unsuccessful 2 point conversion, him having any success at all would have felt like a bit of a robbery. He did not have any successful run.
The Silverbacks ran extremely well against the Copperheads, and were able to get all 3 of their running backs at or above 50% success rate on the day. Mainly, Rogers got going in the 2nd half, with only 3 successful runs in the 1st half. 7 of his 10 second half runs were successful, although he did get handed a couple of them: gaining 2 yards on a 2nd and inches for a 1st down, gaining 1 yard on a 3rd and -4 due to a neutral zone infraction, and a 3 yard gain on 1st and 10 were his first 3 rushes out of halftime and none of those were exactly good runs, yet 2 of them were technically successful. Then he ran for -2 yards, a short gain at the start of the 4th...and then he was perfect on his final 5 runs, even if 2 of them were 3 yard gains, that doesn't matter too much when they came from his previous good running. Minus his best run on the night, a 19 yard run, he still went for 3.7 yards per carry. With that 19 yard run it goes up to 4.6 yards per carry. Meanwhile, Ashley Owens made the most of his wheelchair, because according to the stream chat and what I feel, wheelchairs are hard to tackle. Half of his successes were short touchdown runs, two 3 yard runs and a 1 yard run. His other 3 successes were a 5 yard run on 2nd and 4, a 36 yard run to set up 1st and goal, and a 5 yard run on 2nd and 5 to help continue to take time off the clock. Actually, in general New York was great with their runs in the 4th, with only 4 unsuccessful runs in the quarter compared to 9 successful ones. Owens took a pretty big hit from the "single long run pumping up the yards per carry" metric, falling to 2.4 yards from 5.8. Finally, Bawlls' success was a 3 yard run on 1st and goal from the 4, setting up Owens' 1 yard touchdown run.
New Orleans Second Line at San Jose Sabercats:
Second Line Rushers:
Mr Forty Two: 7/15
Mike Rotchburns: 5/11
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 2/8
Rando Cardrissian: 1/3
Both Mr Forty Two and Mike Rotchburns have a similar story: They were extremely great up until near the end of the game, where a few bad runs knocked them below 50 percent for the day. Almost half of Mr Forty Two's successful runs were touchdown carries, and he was much better early than he was late; in his first 8 runs he had 6 successful carries including his long 40 yard touchdown run. His last 7 runs had a single success, a 1 yard run from the inch line. Minus that 40 yard touchdown run, his yards per carry fall from 5.5 to 3 yards per carry flat. As for Rotchburns, 4 of his first 5 carries were successful, leaving him to get 1 in his final 6, a 20 yard run to get over midfield in the 4th. Those two late successful runs from each player were New Orleans' only successful runs in the second half. That might have mattered if New Orleans didn't 1. go up 28-10 entering the 2nd half, and 2. if Slothlisberger didn't save some of his best throws for that second half. Rotchburns also suffered pretty hard from removing his longest run, as his yards per carry fall to 2.5 from 4.1.
The Sabercats came off of one of the greatest rushing performances of all time to put up a massive dud. The 3 successes on the entire day were a 12 yard run on 1st and 10 from Lackson, a 2 yard run on 4th and 1 from Lackson, and a 6 yard rush on 3rd and 3 from Cardrissian. Granted, they only ran 11 times in total, but that's BARELY over 25% success rate. In general they were terrible on the ground. Somehow, though, they were even WORSE than their 2.4 and 2.3 yards per carry. Jamar had a long of 12, and once you take that out he is left with 7 yards on 7 carries. And Cardrissian is even worse, with half a yard per carry on his 2 rushes other than his 6 yarder.
Orange County Otters at Honolulu Hahalua:
Otters Rushers:
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/8
Ace Savage: 0/6
Suleiman Ramza: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicolas Ayers: 5/11
Cobra Kai: 2/6
Luke Skywalker: 0/1
Our last game to write up about has shown us one major thing. Moving Jeffrey Phillips over to Running Back might have helped out the Otters' running game, but it certainly hasn't solved all of their issues in that department. Phillips was 0/5 on rushing entering the 4th quarter; then, during the 4th, he rolled off 3 successes in a row to enter the list down below at a respectable position. Those 3 successes, a 5 yard run on 1st and 10, a 15 yard run on 2nd and 1, and a 65 yard run on 1st and 10, account for all but 3 of his yards on the day. Just taking off that 65 yard run brings his yards per carry down to 3.2, which in my opinion is a much more accurate view of his influence on the game than his actual 11 yards per carry, especially considering having literally no successful rushes among the entire team was probably part of why they went down 6-27 before getting the ball in the 4th quarter. Savage, meanwhile...he had a long of 3 yards. He could have gotten a success or two if he was ever set up for it by a fellow teammate but as is, he went 0 for the day and I can't say he didn't deserve it.
Hahalua, I'm happy that you're winning, but could you do it when I pick you to win? You've cost me 2 TPE in the last 2 weeks. Anyways, Ayers did not take the easy route for any of his successes, with none of them being less than 5 yards. He even managed to get a successful run on 1st and 20 by going 8 yards. He does get hit a bit from taking away his longest run of the day, but that only brings him down to 5.1 yards per carry from 10, so still a very good day on his end. Kai's successes are more interesting to talk about: After only getting 1 yard on 1st and 10, he got 9 yards on 2nd and 9 to get a first down, so he made up for an unsuccessful run with a successful one. His other success was more interesting in the academic sense than anything else, he got 4 yards on a 1st and 10 where Orange County also committed a penalty to give them a new set of downs. I decided to give people successes on downs where their runs were successful, and failures where they did not, even if penalties made those runs successes or kept them from being successes. This obviously does not apply to things like Holding, where it could have an impact on the play and leads to the play being nullified anyways.
So how does the master list look now?
100% George O'Donnell 1/1 (+1) CHI
66.6% Forrest Gump 2/3 (+1) NOLA
57.1% Running Back 8/14 (+2) SAR
55.6% Matthias Hanyadi 5/9 (+1) BAL
54.5% Gunner Thorbjornsson 12/22 (+2) ARI
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
50% Mike Boss Jr 1/2 (0) SAR
48.1% Rando Cardrissian 13/27 (-1) SJS
45.3% Baby Yoda 29/64 (-6) CHI
45.2% Tatsu Nakmura 28/62 (-6) ARI
45.2% Jameson Vermillion 14/31 (-3) YKW
41.8% Captain Rogers 23/55 (-9) NYS
40.9% Ashley Owens 9/22 (-4) NYS
38.8% Raphtalia Chan 26/67 (-15) SAR
37.9% Jamar Lackson 11/29 (-7) SJS
37.5% Acura Skyline 18/48 (-12) YKW
37.5% Jeffrey Phillips 3/8 (-1) OCO
37.1% Mr. Forty Two 13/35 (-9) NOLA
37% Cobra Kai 10/27 (-7) HON
35.7% Julio Tirtawidjaja 5/14 (-4) CHI
34.4% Sam Torenson 11/32 (-10) PHI
33.3% Terry Yaki 9/27 (-9) BER
33.3% Buster Bawls 1/3 (-1) NYS
32.6% Joseph Petrongolo 15/46 (-16) BER
32.4% Mike Rotchburns 11/34 (-12) NOLA
31.8% Darrel Williams 14/44 (-16) PHI
30.4% Richard Gilbert 14/46 (-18) COL
29.7% Nicholas Ayers 16/54 (-22) HON
28.6% Jim the Vampire 2/7 (-3) AUS
28.1% Mai Fukushu 16/57 (-25) BAL
22.9% Zoe Watts 8/35 (-19) AUS
17.1% Ace Savage 6/35 (-23) OCO
16.7% Anders Christiansen 1/6 (-4) COL
0% Luke Skywalker 0/2 (-2) HON
0% Sigismund Sternenstaub 0/1 (-1) SAR
0% Zed Keppler 0/2 (-2) CHI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/3 (-3) PHI
0% Chika Fujiwara 0/2 (-2) BAL
0% Monty Jack 0/1 (-1) SJS
0% Colby Jack 0/1 (-1) YKW
Running Back is our new efficiency champ, unless you count Gump's 3 carries or O'Donnell's 1. As for inefficiency, Watts has gotten unstuck from the bottom, leaving Christiansen and Savage to fight it out right now. Again, minus those without at least 5 carries.
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