I first want to make it very clear that TPE is not and should not be the only factor to consider when ranking people and drafting. This was purely for ease and efficiency since I don’t know the entire draft class and makes the simplest way for me to do it whilst also being able to compare for the future. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy. This was done soley using the updates from the TPE tracker and as such, there is most certianly more players that have came in that would make the numbers different but since i went by the draft and not these extra additions, its kind of correct in its own way.
Hello and welcome to everyone reading this kinda random but interesting analysis about the recent DSFL draft, its prospects, team’s drafting records and overall a lot of different pieces of info that don’t really mean all too much. After the long-awaited updates to majority of players, including the majority of the new rookies who eagerly await the start of preseason in less then two days, I thought it would be good to combine a whole bunch of different statistics and analysis into one, probably convoluted media piece to finally be done with everything from the draft and a nice set-up for the season. I intend to some similar articles or at least updates on this information throughout the season, probably around half-way through and end of season before the NSFL draft just to be able to reflect on how this draft class shook out. Without further ado, let me address what is going to be in this analysis.
The First Part – Top TPE Players. Using the TPE tracker with all the recent updates being done by the updaters, frantically trying to get it all done before the reasons and actual regular seasons hits, I looked into the 20 players with the most TPE. Why 20? Well it worked well for a few reasons, it is just over 25% of the players in the draft that consisted of 78 players as well as also being the marker for all players above 140 TPE, making it a clean number to work with for my analysis. I wanted to look less about the players themselves on top of the board, and in the first section, but look more specifically as to the ability of the DSFL GM’s to pick apparent top prospects. Yes its early on in the season and there is a good chance a couple of these players may be early bloomers and fall off in earning but it’s all that I got to work with and will serve as something interesting to look and compare the positions and numbers later on in the season. Which teams hit? Which teams missed? Which teams got the most value pick? That will all be answered in this section. I would like to end this part saying that some teams also would have had to take GM picks that may not be in the top 20 and a strong preference for veterans and active users over max TPE earners. These are strong reasons as to why certain teams may have looked like they drafted the worse, but in reality, are mostly indifferent to the rest of the teams.
Second Part – Positional Ranks. Whilst some positions were over-filling with talent, some were quite small and also unneeded by teams. As not to rely solely on draft number for value and successful picks, I am also going to look at each positions top 3 TPE earners currently and see when they were picked solely compared to the other users in that position. Again, GM’s also pick on activeness, veterans or rookies as well as a user’s desire to go to a particular team. If a team didn’t take the top prospect in a position, it can also change since the season hasn’t even started or simply they prioritised something else when drafting.
Analysis – Part One
Below is the main table that will be used to hold all of the data for the first part of analysis. As you can see, it contains the ranks of the top 20 TPE players currently, their name, team, position and their draft number. Also included is whether a player has since switched positions from what was listed during the draft (referring to the draft stream, there was 3 players who have since swapped position). This is where I extrapolated most of the data for the analysis in this section, simply using
The TPE tracker and draft stream to collate it all into one table. For future reference, if I refer to a player by player (x) number, it means their rank on this list.
There seems to be a few groups that have already formed comparing TPE numbers. Players 1-6 are within 4 TPE of each other in the low to mid 180’s. Next, Players 6-7 are close in the mid 160’s with 8-14 being across the 150’s. 15-20 round out the list in the 140’s. With that out of the way, time to move onto what I actually wanted to analysis about this table. I wanted to know if teams had picked correctly. First off, 6 players who were drafted in the top 20 are not on this list, meaning 6 players on this list could be an early holder for value pick. Out of this 6, there draft spots were, 22, 23, 24, 26, 35, and 41. It is clear that the first 4 there are very close whilst pick 35 and 41 would be the two early contenders for top value pick, with Pick 35 being Kai Sakura, who sits at number 7, a 28 spot increase and Pick 41 being Datsum PhatBawls, who is tied 19, an increase of 22. Being picked lower means they will of course have more room to grow and increase their TPE number compared to draft number but it’s an indication as to some of the value a team may have gotten, in this case the Grey Ducks with Sakura and the Royals with PhastBawls.
Moving on from value picks, I next looked into how many players each team has in the top 20 players. With 20 players across 8 teams, quick math tells you it should be 2.5 players per team and this trend sticks mostly true. The Buccaneers, Royals, Grey Ducks, Birddogs and Coyotes all have 3 players each that currently sit in the top 20 by TPE. The Pythons and Luchadores have 2, nothing negative against them…not yet at least until the next step…..whilst the interesting one here is that the Sea Wolves only have 1 player in the top 20 TPE earners, seemingly the only team lagging behind.
However, moving onto the next step, with a new table below to make this a little easier to understand then searching through this text, I compared the amount of players a team has in the top 20 with the amount of picks they had in the top 20. In a perfect world, the best players should go first and this will show which teams may have still been as successful as others, but just had less picks in that time span, since 20 picks makes it so only half of the third round was conducted. This new point of analysis is done in red to stand out in the table below
By working out the difference to make it easy to see at a glance, we can see what teams can say have performed well, good or sub-par when looking at just the top 25% of players. Whilst having three players each on the top 20 TPE earners list, the Royals, Grey Ducks, Birddogs had as many picks, essentially equating to that of the Pythons who had 2 picks in the top 20 and two players who made the top 20 list. This brings use to the other four teams. The Buccaneers and Coyotes only had two picks in the top 20 but managed 3 players in the top 20 by TPE, giving them a plus one over the other teams. Whilst saying this, they had picks in the end of the 3rd round which are players in the top 20 list, so it isn’t really a strong indicator that they drafted superior to other teams based on this analysis alone. Finally, we have the Luchadores and SeaWolves. The Luchadores had 3 picks but only 2 make the top 20 list, being their first-rounder who didn’t actually make it, but sits 26th on 131 TPE. Lastly, the SeaWolves had 2 picks but only 1 in the top 20, again with their first rounder not making it but the slimmest of margins, being 21st on the TPE earners list with 138 TPE.
Just to further extend on the data I had on hand, I just looked through a few trends. In the draft, only 3 offensive players were taken in the top 20 in the draft. One has since switched positions from WR to S and takes our number one spot for TPE earner actually, and only of the other two is in the top 20 TPE earners list. When looking at the top 20 by TPE, there are 4 offensive players, 3 not drafted in the top 20. There would be 6 if two didn’t position switch to the defensive side of the ball. This just highlights the priority teams draft and place on defence with 85% of the top 20 draft picks being defence, and teams wouldn’t mind if they aren’t still in the top 20 now as defence is placed with more value come draft time. What I find amusing is that the Grey Ducks actually have two of the four offensive players in the top 20 TPE earners list, both at WR and as such their plan to get weapons in the draft as said by CLG Rampage during the draft stream, has worked whilst being something few teams have followed.
So in reality, no team seemingly busted in their early round picks and with the season not having even started yet, I think any team GM’s that see this post will be happy about their early drafting at least because there was definitely reasons behind their decisions on who they targeted. This is what you want from a draft and from the GM’s of the league, the best players in the high positions, spread around the league to make it more exciting and interesting to watch. Each team has a solid defensive prospect who could anchor the team whilst there is still some love for the offensive side of the ball and names to watch for sure when their team has the ball in hand.
Analysis Part Two
Now, the more time-consuming part of the analysis, looking into every position and seeing if the top TPE earners in that position were the first taken. Its pretty simple really, use the draft stream to see the first three in that position taken and then find them on the TPE tracker and note their rank for their respective position. I will list the top 3 players by TPE value, with the number next to their name representing what pick they were in the draft for that position (i.e. 1 means first in that position, 3 means the third in that position).
Position – Quarter Back – 3 in the draft
1. Reginald Covington III - 1
2.. Charmin Glassley - 3
The easiest position to do and go through. Only one QB was highly prioritised and is the one who sits comfortable atop of their competition by TPE. There was a third QB in the draft, who was in the middle of these two, but has since switched to Linebacker. Not much else to say here but the fact it seems only one QB this season seems to be a serious prospect and that both of these QB’s are on the same team.
Position – Running Back – 8 in the draft
1. Nicholas Ayers – 2
2. Danny King – 4
3. 3’ Jeffery – 3
Again, another position that seems to be quite full and not needed this year. It should be noted the first RB to be drafted has positioned switch to defensive tackle (DT). Ayers was the only other RB picked in the first half of the draft and stands clear as the top RB prospect of this draft. Also interesting is that King and Jeffery was picked in back-to-back picks, maybe a friendly competition between them can see themselves try and close the cap to catch to Ayers in TPE.
Position – Wide Receiver – 13 in the draft
1. Kai Sakura – 5
2. Tychondrius Hood – 2
3. Videl-San – 8
From what I knew coming into this analysis, this was going to be the most interesting position to look at. The first WR drafted is now a Safety and the top TPE earner in class. Hood holds his spot as the number 2 receiver, losing out to his own teammate in Sakura as it currently stands, showing the goal of the ducks to get good receivers is off to a promising start. Videl-San comes in at the number 3 spot, despite being drafted in the bottom half of WR prospects. This is helped by yet another WR position swapping, which would have seen Videl-san regulated to the number 4 spot, or down another spot with Sakura and Hood as well if the top earner also stayed WR. With the position switches at play, as well as a large class of WR, its interesting to see that WR who were drafted in the middle or closer to the end than start of their class, becoming the top prospects in this position.
Position – Tight End – 7 in the draft
1. Ethan Smith – 4
2. Brady Matthis – 7
3. Rick Casey - 6
Another interesting position. The first two TE’s taken in the draft have positioned switched and the best TE currently is a tie, but only sits at 59 TPE with third at 57. The last two in the draft haven’t been updated or don’t have an update page/any updates. Heading into the season, the S23 class doesn’t seem to offer up many high hopes at the TE position though there is plenty of time for this to change and throw a curveball at the league in the NSFL draft.
Position – Offensive Line - 4
1. Kevin Malone – 1
2. Dick Thruster – 2
3. Julio Jones – 3
The last but not least on the offensive side, the OL get to be the first position to be in order, with their order they were taken in the draft reflecting in the order of their TPE, though the only OL left over was in a back-to-back pick with Jones with both heading to the Grey Ducks. As OL becomes more and more a role and position compared to a meme and bots, every time there is some good looking prospects in a class, it gives everyone look into the future league that has changed to treat them as people and athletes just like us.
Position – Defensive Tackle – 8 in the draft
1. Tyler Mountain - 1
2. Bana Ka’ana’ana - 3
3. Carl Wheezer – 4*
As we move to Defence, the Defensive Tackle positions looks to be mostly in order. The main point of interest comes from Carl Wheezer, who went into the draft as a RB and has positioned switch. If he was a DT in the draft, he would have technically been at the 4 spot so that’s what I have him down as for simplicity reasons. Compared to all offensive positions, the top three for DT were taken within the first 3 rounds, including Wheezer.
Position – Defensive End – 7 in the draft
1. Son Goku – 3
2. Tycker Om – 4
3. CJ Riley – 1
Yet again, the Defensive End position sees its top 3 TPE earners drafted within the first three rounds, by pick 20, making it earlier than the DT position. The notable absence from this list is the DE who went second, Walter Chestnut III, who according to the TPE tracker has some catching up to do, almost 50 TPE out of the top three. It seems defence has stayed much more consistent so far
Position – Linebacker – 6 in the draft
1. Henrich Kackpoo - 4
2. Tyrone Woods - 2
3. Hingle McCringleberry – 3
Another defensive position, another consistent result, with Kackpoo jumping up to take the number one spot and making the others slide down. If you thought the DT and DE were snapped up quickly, the top three in the LB position were taken by the end of round two, just 13 picks to see not only these three LB’s taken, but a fourth as well. This just proves that teams have a higher priority on defence and maybe certain position within them, such as LB, compared to offensive or other defensive positions.
Position – Safety – 12 in the draft
1. L’Carpetron Dookmarriot – 5*
2. Greedy Sly – 1
3. DB Jadakiss – 4
With a position swap, Dookmarriot takes the spot as the number one Safety by TPE. If drafted as a safety, he would’ve been the fifth off the board in just two rounds, being pick 16. With a little more variation than the other defensive positions, which can be attributed partially to the position swap, yet again we see many defensive players taken within the early rounds. It seems Safety and Linebacker are two of the most converted positions in the DSFL.
Position – Cornerback – 7 in the draft.
1. Ray-Ray Jackson – 1
2. Mikel van Perkins – 2
3. Jason Young – 3
Just the second position to be in perfect order, it seems teams were on the money when it came to Cornerbacks, just like they were with the OL. What was evident in the draft was that the CB positioned didn’t have the same priority as Safety, Linebackers, Defensive End or Defensive Tackled, as the first CB was taken at 19, where 4 safeties, 5 Linebackers, 3 Defensive Ends and 3 Defensive tackles were already taken by that point.
Position – Kicker/Punter – 1 in the draft
1. Datsum PhastBawls – 1
The easiest position to asses, there is just one. Really, Datsum had no competition in the draft and will be the number 1 kicker easily come NSFL draft as the lead he will have built will just not be passed.
Conclusion
I know I threw a lot of words and numbers your way, but I do really enjoy these types of analysis. As a sort of TLR version of what I found, when it comes to the top 20 players, the teams are usually on the mark or really close to it, only two players can be really considered true outsiders. Teams also didn’t waste any of their early draft picks, even if a top 20 pick isn’t in the top 20 TPE list currently, they are so close its necessarily to still call it a success. On the second part of the analysis, as it is known, Defence is king, but what is new to me is just what positions are wanted more over others apparently, LB and S. Of course, all of this information and analysis comes just as a guide. Teams draft with different intentions, players will not have everything in their update, players will stop updating, the season is far from over, heck it hasn’t even begun, but having this done will make future returns to this topic much easier and a point to compare to the growth of players in the class.
Really, and to be quite honest, this research didn’t find much. Hopefully in the future once the season is underway, there will be more exciting results within the top picks of the draft and top earners of the class. What can be taken away from this at least is that every team’s scouting is pretty much on point, they have identified who are going to be active earners or important to their team’s organisation or LR and that so far that have gotten exactly what they have wanted out of their early picks.
Hello and welcome to everyone reading this kinda random but interesting analysis about the recent DSFL draft, its prospects, team’s drafting records and overall a lot of different pieces of info that don’t really mean all too much. After the long-awaited updates to majority of players, including the majority of the new rookies who eagerly await the start of preseason in less then two days, I thought it would be good to combine a whole bunch of different statistics and analysis into one, probably convoluted media piece to finally be done with everything from the draft and a nice set-up for the season. I intend to some similar articles or at least updates on this information throughout the season, probably around half-way through and end of season before the NSFL draft just to be able to reflect on how this draft class shook out. Without further ado, let me address what is going to be in this analysis.
The First Part – Top TPE Players. Using the TPE tracker with all the recent updates being done by the updaters, frantically trying to get it all done before the reasons and actual regular seasons hits, I looked into the 20 players with the most TPE. Why 20? Well it worked well for a few reasons, it is just over 25% of the players in the draft that consisted of 78 players as well as also being the marker for all players above 140 TPE, making it a clean number to work with for my analysis. I wanted to look less about the players themselves on top of the board, and in the first section, but look more specifically as to the ability of the DSFL GM’s to pick apparent top prospects. Yes its early on in the season and there is a good chance a couple of these players may be early bloomers and fall off in earning but it’s all that I got to work with and will serve as something interesting to look and compare the positions and numbers later on in the season. Which teams hit? Which teams missed? Which teams got the most value pick? That will all be answered in this section. I would like to end this part saying that some teams also would have had to take GM picks that may not be in the top 20 and a strong preference for veterans and active users over max TPE earners. These are strong reasons as to why certain teams may have looked like they drafted the worse, but in reality, are mostly indifferent to the rest of the teams.
Second Part – Positional Ranks. Whilst some positions were over-filling with talent, some were quite small and also unneeded by teams. As not to rely solely on draft number for value and successful picks, I am also going to look at each positions top 3 TPE earners currently and see when they were picked solely compared to the other users in that position. Again, GM’s also pick on activeness, veterans or rookies as well as a user’s desire to go to a particular team. If a team didn’t take the top prospect in a position, it can also change since the season hasn’t even started or simply they prioritised something else when drafting.
Analysis – Part One
Below is the main table that will be used to hold all of the data for the first part of analysis. As you can see, it contains the ranks of the top 20 TPE players currently, their name, team, position and their draft number. Also included is whether a player has since switched positions from what was listed during the draft (referring to the draft stream, there was 3 players who have since swapped position). This is where I extrapolated most of the data for the analysis in this section, simply using
The TPE tracker and draft stream to collate it all into one table. For future reference, if I refer to a player by player (x) number, it means their rank on this list.
There seems to be a few groups that have already formed comparing TPE numbers. Players 1-6 are within 4 TPE of each other in the low to mid 180’s. Next, Players 6-7 are close in the mid 160’s with 8-14 being across the 150’s. 15-20 round out the list in the 140’s. With that out of the way, time to move onto what I actually wanted to analysis about this table. I wanted to know if teams had picked correctly. First off, 6 players who were drafted in the top 20 are not on this list, meaning 6 players on this list could be an early holder for value pick. Out of this 6, there draft spots were, 22, 23, 24, 26, 35, and 41. It is clear that the first 4 there are very close whilst pick 35 and 41 would be the two early contenders for top value pick, with Pick 35 being Kai Sakura, who sits at number 7, a 28 spot increase and Pick 41 being Datsum PhatBawls, who is tied 19, an increase of 22. Being picked lower means they will of course have more room to grow and increase their TPE number compared to draft number but it’s an indication as to some of the value a team may have gotten, in this case the Grey Ducks with Sakura and the Royals with PhastBawls.
Moving on from value picks, I next looked into how many players each team has in the top 20 players. With 20 players across 8 teams, quick math tells you it should be 2.5 players per team and this trend sticks mostly true. The Buccaneers, Royals, Grey Ducks, Birddogs and Coyotes all have 3 players each that currently sit in the top 20 by TPE. The Pythons and Luchadores have 2, nothing negative against them…not yet at least until the next step…..whilst the interesting one here is that the Sea Wolves only have 1 player in the top 20 TPE earners, seemingly the only team lagging behind.
However, moving onto the next step, with a new table below to make this a little easier to understand then searching through this text, I compared the amount of players a team has in the top 20 with the amount of picks they had in the top 20. In a perfect world, the best players should go first and this will show which teams may have still been as successful as others, but just had less picks in that time span, since 20 picks makes it so only half of the third round was conducted. This new point of analysis is done in red to stand out in the table below
By working out the difference to make it easy to see at a glance, we can see what teams can say have performed well, good or sub-par when looking at just the top 25% of players. Whilst having three players each on the top 20 TPE earners list, the Royals, Grey Ducks, Birddogs had as many picks, essentially equating to that of the Pythons who had 2 picks in the top 20 and two players who made the top 20 list. This brings use to the other four teams. The Buccaneers and Coyotes only had two picks in the top 20 but managed 3 players in the top 20 by TPE, giving them a plus one over the other teams. Whilst saying this, they had picks in the end of the 3rd round which are players in the top 20 list, so it isn’t really a strong indicator that they drafted superior to other teams based on this analysis alone. Finally, we have the Luchadores and SeaWolves. The Luchadores had 3 picks but only 2 make the top 20 list, being their first-rounder who didn’t actually make it, but sits 26th on 131 TPE. Lastly, the SeaWolves had 2 picks but only 1 in the top 20, again with their first rounder not making it but the slimmest of margins, being 21st on the TPE earners list with 138 TPE.
Just to further extend on the data I had on hand, I just looked through a few trends. In the draft, only 3 offensive players were taken in the top 20 in the draft. One has since switched positions from WR to S and takes our number one spot for TPE earner actually, and only of the other two is in the top 20 TPE earners list. When looking at the top 20 by TPE, there are 4 offensive players, 3 not drafted in the top 20. There would be 6 if two didn’t position switch to the defensive side of the ball. This just highlights the priority teams draft and place on defence with 85% of the top 20 draft picks being defence, and teams wouldn’t mind if they aren’t still in the top 20 now as defence is placed with more value come draft time. What I find amusing is that the Grey Ducks actually have two of the four offensive players in the top 20 TPE earners list, both at WR and as such their plan to get weapons in the draft as said by CLG Rampage during the draft stream, has worked whilst being something few teams have followed.
So in reality, no team seemingly busted in their early round picks and with the season not having even started yet, I think any team GM’s that see this post will be happy about their early drafting at least because there was definitely reasons behind their decisions on who they targeted. This is what you want from a draft and from the GM’s of the league, the best players in the high positions, spread around the league to make it more exciting and interesting to watch. Each team has a solid defensive prospect who could anchor the team whilst there is still some love for the offensive side of the ball and names to watch for sure when their team has the ball in hand.
Analysis Part Two
Now, the more time-consuming part of the analysis, looking into every position and seeing if the top TPE earners in that position were the first taken. Its pretty simple really, use the draft stream to see the first three in that position taken and then find them on the TPE tracker and note their rank for their respective position. I will list the top 3 players by TPE value, with the number next to their name representing what pick they were in the draft for that position (i.e. 1 means first in that position, 3 means the third in that position).
Position – Quarter Back – 3 in the draft
1. Reginald Covington III - 1
2.. Charmin Glassley - 3
The easiest position to do and go through. Only one QB was highly prioritised and is the one who sits comfortable atop of their competition by TPE. There was a third QB in the draft, who was in the middle of these two, but has since switched to Linebacker. Not much else to say here but the fact it seems only one QB this season seems to be a serious prospect and that both of these QB’s are on the same team.
Position – Running Back – 8 in the draft
1. Nicholas Ayers – 2
2. Danny King – 4
3. 3’ Jeffery – 3
Again, another position that seems to be quite full and not needed this year. It should be noted the first RB to be drafted has positioned switch to defensive tackle (DT). Ayers was the only other RB picked in the first half of the draft and stands clear as the top RB prospect of this draft. Also interesting is that King and Jeffery was picked in back-to-back picks, maybe a friendly competition between them can see themselves try and close the cap to catch to Ayers in TPE.
Position – Wide Receiver – 13 in the draft
1. Kai Sakura – 5
2. Tychondrius Hood – 2
3. Videl-San – 8
From what I knew coming into this analysis, this was going to be the most interesting position to look at. The first WR drafted is now a Safety and the top TPE earner in class. Hood holds his spot as the number 2 receiver, losing out to his own teammate in Sakura as it currently stands, showing the goal of the ducks to get good receivers is off to a promising start. Videl-San comes in at the number 3 spot, despite being drafted in the bottom half of WR prospects. This is helped by yet another WR position swapping, which would have seen Videl-san regulated to the number 4 spot, or down another spot with Sakura and Hood as well if the top earner also stayed WR. With the position switches at play, as well as a large class of WR, its interesting to see that WR who were drafted in the middle or closer to the end than start of their class, becoming the top prospects in this position.
Position – Tight End – 7 in the draft
1. Ethan Smith – 4
2. Brady Matthis – 7
3. Rick Casey - 6
Another interesting position. The first two TE’s taken in the draft have positioned switched and the best TE currently is a tie, but only sits at 59 TPE with third at 57. The last two in the draft haven’t been updated or don’t have an update page/any updates. Heading into the season, the S23 class doesn’t seem to offer up many high hopes at the TE position though there is plenty of time for this to change and throw a curveball at the league in the NSFL draft.
Position – Offensive Line - 4
1. Kevin Malone – 1
2. Dick Thruster – 2
3. Julio Jones – 3
The last but not least on the offensive side, the OL get to be the first position to be in order, with their order they were taken in the draft reflecting in the order of their TPE, though the only OL left over was in a back-to-back pick with Jones with both heading to the Grey Ducks. As OL becomes more and more a role and position compared to a meme and bots, every time there is some good looking prospects in a class, it gives everyone look into the future league that has changed to treat them as people and athletes just like us.
Position – Defensive Tackle – 8 in the draft
1. Tyler Mountain - 1
2. Bana Ka’ana’ana - 3
3. Carl Wheezer – 4*
As we move to Defence, the Defensive Tackle positions looks to be mostly in order. The main point of interest comes from Carl Wheezer, who went into the draft as a RB and has positioned switch. If he was a DT in the draft, he would have technically been at the 4 spot so that’s what I have him down as for simplicity reasons. Compared to all offensive positions, the top three for DT were taken within the first 3 rounds, including Wheezer.
Position – Defensive End – 7 in the draft
1. Son Goku – 3
2. Tycker Om – 4
3. CJ Riley – 1
Yet again, the Defensive End position sees its top 3 TPE earners drafted within the first three rounds, by pick 20, making it earlier than the DT position. The notable absence from this list is the DE who went second, Walter Chestnut III, who according to the TPE tracker has some catching up to do, almost 50 TPE out of the top three. It seems defence has stayed much more consistent so far
Position – Linebacker – 6 in the draft
1. Henrich Kackpoo - 4
2. Tyrone Woods - 2
3. Hingle McCringleberry – 3
Another defensive position, another consistent result, with Kackpoo jumping up to take the number one spot and making the others slide down. If you thought the DT and DE were snapped up quickly, the top three in the LB position were taken by the end of round two, just 13 picks to see not only these three LB’s taken, but a fourth as well. This just proves that teams have a higher priority on defence and maybe certain position within them, such as LB, compared to offensive or other defensive positions.
Position – Safety – 12 in the draft
1. L’Carpetron Dookmarriot – 5*
2. Greedy Sly – 1
3. DB Jadakiss – 4
With a position swap, Dookmarriot takes the spot as the number one Safety by TPE. If drafted as a safety, he would’ve been the fifth off the board in just two rounds, being pick 16. With a little more variation than the other defensive positions, which can be attributed partially to the position swap, yet again we see many defensive players taken within the early rounds. It seems Safety and Linebacker are two of the most converted positions in the DSFL.
Position – Cornerback – 7 in the draft.
1. Ray-Ray Jackson – 1
2. Mikel van Perkins – 2
3. Jason Young – 3
Just the second position to be in perfect order, it seems teams were on the money when it came to Cornerbacks, just like they were with the OL. What was evident in the draft was that the CB positioned didn’t have the same priority as Safety, Linebackers, Defensive End or Defensive Tackled, as the first CB was taken at 19, where 4 safeties, 5 Linebackers, 3 Defensive Ends and 3 Defensive tackles were already taken by that point.
Position – Kicker/Punter – 1 in the draft
1. Datsum PhastBawls – 1
The easiest position to asses, there is just one. Really, Datsum had no competition in the draft and will be the number 1 kicker easily come NSFL draft as the lead he will have built will just not be passed.
Conclusion
I know I threw a lot of words and numbers your way, but I do really enjoy these types of analysis. As a sort of TLR version of what I found, when it comes to the top 20 players, the teams are usually on the mark or really close to it, only two players can be really considered true outsiders. Teams also didn’t waste any of their early draft picks, even if a top 20 pick isn’t in the top 20 TPE list currently, they are so close its necessarily to still call it a success. On the second part of the analysis, as it is known, Defence is king, but what is new to me is just what positions are wanted more over others apparently, LB and S. Of course, all of this information and analysis comes just as a guide. Teams draft with different intentions, players will not have everything in their update, players will stop updating, the season is far from over, heck it hasn’t even begun, but having this done will make future returns to this topic much easier and a point to compare to the growth of players in the class.
Really, and to be quite honest, this research didn’t find much. Hopefully in the future once the season is underway, there will be more exciting results within the top picks of the draft and top earners of the class. What can be taken away from this at least is that every team’s scouting is pretty much on point, they have identified who are going to be active earners or important to their team’s organisation or LR and that so far that have gotten exactly what they have wanted out of their early picks.