After a convo from Discord ~two weeks ago, I got an idea for this article and finally reminded myself about it. I ignored season 1 in deliberations - the league was just starting with only 6 teams back then.
Let's start with the theoretically most stable stat of them all, with an exception of season 5, that I have no idea what caused a sudden decrease of tackles of that season - slow style of play may be, really low completion rate?
From the tackles for loss chart, we can easily see when offensive lines switch happened, finally allowing run game to thrive.
I thought we would see similar results with sacks as with TFLs, but oh well, while it limited them we had a huge outliner in S7 - I was just starting in the league but wasn't it the year that forced limited option for Blitzes Strategy?
The category, because of which I died a little inside because numbers got visibly lower when I played CB and started to go back a little up when I switched to the WR (obviously that's not the reason unless you believe in pirates <-> global warming inversed correlation). You can also easily see it was far easier to rack up ints in first 5 seasons against inferior QBs back in the day, you simply don't see any nearly as bad nowadays.
The most eye-pleasing chart, showing that secondary and coverage is getting better over the years. Or that you need to deflect the pass/force the drop in this sim to be effective DB, otherwise WR is going to drag you 30 yards after the catch even if you are glued to him.
OL effect visible in full display yet again. QBs getting smarter and smarter also play a role in limiting the number of safeties to just 2 last season.
The flashiest of them all categories shows a really high correlation with interceptions (duh) and similarly the records for this category were established by S1 and are likely unbreakable.
That's it, I'll probably make some edition of defensive stats with the weirdest single-season team results too.
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Let's start with the theoretically most stable stat of them all, with an exception of season 5, that I have no idea what caused a sudden decrease of tackles of that season - slow style of play may be, really low completion rate?
From the tackles for loss chart, we can easily see when offensive lines switch happened, finally allowing run game to thrive.
I thought we would see similar results with sacks as with TFLs, but oh well, while it limited them we had a huge outliner in S7 - I was just starting in the league but wasn't it the year that forced limited option for Blitzes Strategy?
The category, because of which I died a little inside because numbers got visibly lower when I played CB and started to go back a little up when I switched to the WR (obviously that's not the reason unless you believe in pirates <-> global warming inversed correlation). You can also easily see it was far easier to rack up ints in first 5 seasons against inferior QBs back in the day, you simply don't see any nearly as bad nowadays.
The most eye-pleasing chart, showing that secondary and coverage is getting better over the years. Or that you need to deflect the pass/force the drop in this sim to be effective DB, otherwise WR is going to drag you 30 yards after the catch even if you are glued to him.
OL effect visible in full display yet again. QBs getting smarter and smarter also play a role in limiting the number of safeties to just 2 last season.
The flashiest of them all categories shows a really high correlation with interceptions (duh) and similarly the records for this category were established by S1 and are likely unbreakable.
That's it, I'll probably make some edition of defensive stats with the weirdest single-season team results too.
Sheet Link
[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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