Option 5.
Looking back at season 49, I think two teams can have a massive gripe with the sim and those teams are the San Jose Sabercats and the Cape Town Crash. Starting with the crash, the team finished 8-8 on the season, despite having a positive 41 point differential on the season. In comparison, two teams had winning record on the season with smaller point differentials than what the Cape Town Crash were able to achieve. Combine this with the Crash having one of the higher average TPE in the league and it just lead to extreme disappointment from the team with the sim. The player that was most impacted by the rough sim luck for Cape Town was their kicker Bobby Kickerson. Kickerson had solid TPE earned and stats on the season with 88 kick power and 94 kick accuracy. However, kicker within the sim can be a cruel mistress and lead to a subpar performance for Kickerson. The most alarming part of his season was the 66% field goal accuracy which was by far the worst in the league. Even kickers with significantly less TPE spent in accuracy (like Booter McGavin) had much higher percentages on the season.
This horrible field goal percentage manifested itself in ways that severely impacted the outcome of the season for the Cape Town Crash. Looking at even the first game of the season we can see the Crash lost by two points. in this game, Kickerson missed a 30 - 39 yard field goal (one that a kicker with 94 accuracy should make consistently) which cost his team the game. The key is this game was also against the Osaka Kaiju who finished exactly one game ahead of Cape Town in the standings. This bit of unluckiness also reared its' ugly head in the second to last game of the season where again the Cape Town Crash lost be 3 points due to a missed field goal by Kickerson. With just a bit more of sim luck, the Crash would have a been a playoff team.
I have the San Jose Sabercats as my second team that "got simmed" this past season which might seem a bit strange given they finished with 11 wins and 5 losses. But the truth is the Sabercats sim problems really only exist in the playoffs. The team was absolutley dominant during the regular season where they amassed over a 140 point differential in their games. However, the San Jose Sabercats dominance only earned them the second seed as the New Orleans Secondline finished with a 2 game better record and the number one overall seed in the conference. This sim misfortune caused the Sabercats to host a first round playoff game against the always difficult Arizona Outlaws. As you can probably guess based on the prompt, San Jose was unable to beat the outlaws. In fact it was another game that the sim might have gotten the best of the Cats as they lost the game by only 4 points. The unfortunate part for the Cats is the loss was largely due to an outstanding outlaw rushing attack as the team averaged over 5.5 yards a carry. Why is this unfortunate? Well simply because the Sabercats were one of the best defenses against the run all season and they just imploded in the playoffs. So San Jose was just a bully all season, had some unfortunate close losses costing them the top seed and then they fall apart in the playoffs mostly losing to there normal strength. At the end of the day, we are in a sim league and thus are at the mercy of the sim so these things are just par for the course because the sim is always going to sim.
Looking back at season 49, I think two teams can have a massive gripe with the sim and those teams are the San Jose Sabercats and the Cape Town Crash. Starting with the crash, the team finished 8-8 on the season, despite having a positive 41 point differential on the season. In comparison, two teams had winning record on the season with smaller point differentials than what the Cape Town Crash were able to achieve. Combine this with the Crash having one of the higher average TPE in the league and it just lead to extreme disappointment from the team with the sim. The player that was most impacted by the rough sim luck for Cape Town was their kicker Bobby Kickerson. Kickerson had solid TPE earned and stats on the season with 88 kick power and 94 kick accuracy. However, kicker within the sim can be a cruel mistress and lead to a subpar performance for Kickerson. The most alarming part of his season was the 66% field goal accuracy which was by far the worst in the league. Even kickers with significantly less TPE spent in accuracy (like Booter McGavin) had much higher percentages on the season.
This horrible field goal percentage manifested itself in ways that severely impacted the outcome of the season for the Cape Town Crash. Looking at even the first game of the season we can see the Crash lost by two points. in this game, Kickerson missed a 30 - 39 yard field goal (one that a kicker with 94 accuracy should make consistently) which cost his team the game. The key is this game was also against the Osaka Kaiju who finished exactly one game ahead of Cape Town in the standings. This bit of unluckiness also reared its' ugly head in the second to last game of the season where again the Cape Town Crash lost be 3 points due to a missed field goal by Kickerson. With just a bit more of sim luck, the Crash would have a been a playoff team.
I have the San Jose Sabercats as my second team that "got simmed" this past season which might seem a bit strange given they finished with 11 wins and 5 losses. But the truth is the Sabercats sim problems really only exist in the playoffs. The team was absolutley dominant during the regular season where they amassed over a 140 point differential in their games. However, the San Jose Sabercats dominance only earned them the second seed as the New Orleans Secondline finished with a 2 game better record and the number one overall seed in the conference. This sim misfortune caused the Sabercats to host a first round playoff game against the always difficult Arizona Outlaws. As you can probably guess based on the prompt, San Jose was unable to beat the outlaws. In fact it was another game that the sim might have gotten the best of the Cats as they lost the game by only 4 points. The unfortunate part for the Cats is the loss was largely due to an outstanding outlaw rushing attack as the team averaged over 5.5 yards a carry. Why is this unfortunate? Well simply because the Sabercats were one of the best defenses against the run all season and they just imploded in the playoffs. So San Jose was just a bully all season, had some unfortunate close losses costing them the top seed and then they fall apart in the playoffs mostly losing to there normal strength. At the end of the day, we are in a sim league and thus are at the mercy of the sim so these things are just par for the course because the sim is always going to sim.