Man I love the index so much. I spend a ton of time in the Index for my work with the Casino Sports book, where I work to set lines that are good enough to trick people into losing money, but not so good such that they win money.
One thing I love to see in the index is what records I was there to watch live. The one that stands out to me the most is the DSFL Rushing Yards record. This has been held by Portland Pythons for the most recent two iterations of the record. Currently it is held by Ben Goodwood, with 275 rushing yards. Previously it was held by Remus Roman, who had something like 250 yards on five carries! That Roman game is one of the most impressive game I have ever seen.
Another fun record is the Def TD record of two: held by Python alum The Laz!
To be completely honest I really do not care all that much about the index or look at it very frequently. Defensive Tackles don’t really get a ton of stats, at least that I have seen, so all I care about is looking at the win/loss column for the Butchers and the over all league standings. I guess one thing that I do find interesting is that I don’t think the league really takes advantage of some of the other features it offers like the power rankings, player of the week awards, or newspaper sections. Honestly I haven’t looked at them much either so maybe there isn’t anything there to work with, but it would be neat to have a weekly ISFL newsletter pushed out. Also I guess one other thing I find weird is that on the team pages under “team stats” it is always like 5/10 or 2/4 when there are 14 teams. What’s up with that?
Generally, I find the league index to be a bit basic, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The standings are easy to read and for someone that does not exactly know football, it is easy to compare different player stats to see who is doing the best in each category. Furthermore, the individual team pages and player pages are easy to understand with the schedule and the player points. Plus, the listed team transactions is very nice and I am certainly very curious on how that is integrated with the transactions being processed on the site. The only few issues I have with the league index is that it is a bit too plain and could use additional team logos and colour on the various pages. Furthermore, there are quite a few pages in the index that as a casual user would not be too interested in looking at; however I assume it is interesting for others.
When looking at the DSFL Index, naturally my eyes gravitate towards the players on my own team, the London Royals. So what I want to point out while looking at the stats so far this season is our Royals QB Nova Montagne and their pursuit of a fairly impressive record. Nova Montagne currently holds a 68.9% competition percentage through 10 games. If this holds it would break the current DSFL record of 67.3% (held by Owen Farrell of the S36 Minnesota Grey Ducks) by almost two percentage points. Now to be fair there may be something in the DSFL water this season, because even the person behind Montagne this season would have been in line to break this record, as Farrell's successor in Minnesota Painted Penguin holds a 67.6% mark. With just four games remaining in the DSFL season, Montagne would need to only complete roughly 64% of his passes the rest of the way (at his current volume pace) to hold onto the record.
Ah, the index. It plays a pretty central part in our league and holds the data that represents some of the greatest feats in the history of the ISFL. Even as someone that was away from the league for a considerable amount of time, I would still check in on the index every so often just to see how the teams were performing; which had taken a step and moved to the next level to challenge Arizona in their division and so forth. Likewise, I’d also look to see who had regressed and found themselves glued to the bottom of the table.
Ultimately, if you find yourself in the ISFL for an extended period of time, you’ve probably got a fairly keen interest in the statistical side of the ISFL. For those players, the index is the Mecca of our league and after every gameday, we’ll all make that pilgrimage — even if only to be hit once again with the grim reality that, we simply cannot compete with Jay Cue Jr.
Well this one might be a tad bit interesting. Upon seeing the prompt (coupled with the fact that I have to decide to do one of my secondary leagues tasks AGAIn this week - usually it's only 1 per season, but I digress..) The index looks and functions ancient. I'll be really excited for an eventual revamp when things like looking up a specific player or position is easy to do. Until that day, let's talk about the index in the current stats. It is the only place to go for things like stats and oh boy does it have stats! I use it in my infrequent media and also from time to time to look up stats for my player, Raphael. Simply go to defensive stats, sort it by position and scroll to DT.
Additionally if you want to get more filters involved, the format of the index is very easy to copy into google sheets or excel, so you can work around with those numbers in a more comfortable environment.
The index preserves the leagues stats and records for anyone to look up at any time.
I love the index, and will hopefully love the next iteration.