7: To be perfectly honest, for a team that, halfway through last week, looked to miss the playoffs entirely, the Portland Pythons should clean up very nicely on the awards. Let's start with the one I feel is most up in the air. Korbin Brown is either the best or second best player to pick for the Wide Receiver of the Year award. He leads the league in touchdowns and has a tidy 850 yards with one week to go. He will have stiff competition in Howlett and Thorbjornsson, but I would not be surprised to see him hold that award by the end of the day.
Everyone else I'm going to talk about should be considered the obvious choice for their award, starting with our punter, Blago Kokot. Proud holder of the tied longest punt, tied for most punts inside the 20, and the 2nd most yards per punt in the league. By a pretty significant distance too, not counting the young guy who came up late who only has 20 punts and is still a half yard behind. The other person close to him, Melvin Murder Moose, should lose out due to having only 4 punts inside the 20 all year. If Kokot doesn't win it will be clear bias.
Pseudo QB, our kicker, has missed one kick all year, the lowest amount, and also has by far the highest level of difficulty from his kicks, minus maybe the Ducks kicker who is definitely not in contention for this award. 10 kicks taken from 30-39 is the most and he's made all 10. 9 kicks made from 40-49 is tied for the most, although the Ducks kicker does have more attempts. And no one other than Pseudo QB has hit from 50 yards all year. This might be the most clear award I'll talk about, Pseudo QB should definitely win.
If Korbin Brown doesn't win Wide Receiver of the year, he should be able to comfort himself with his Kick Returner of the Year trophy. As one of the only ones with a kick return for a touchdown, he separates himself from the rest with almost 2 yards per return more than everyone else. I can't remember if there is a kick and punt return award or just the two combined, but if there's just one combined, then he could miss out as his punt returns, while not bad, weren't anything amazing.
However, the crown jewel of the award season, the MVP award, should only be slightly more in doubt than the kicker of the year award. Sam Howitzer has the second best completion percentage, with a wide gap between him and third, and has the best passer rating, spurred on by what is easily the best TD/INT ratio in the league. Looking at the ISFL, it's actually the best TD/INT ration of the entire Simulation. 20 TDs to 4 picks is really all that I need to write to say Sam Howitzer deserves the MVP, but it should also be mentioned that his team's running game was the worst in the league, and his receivers outside of Korbin Brown were nonexistent for the vast majority of the year. (530 words)
13: Well, I'm a season 25 rookie, and now that I have one season under my belt, I gotta say that I'm excited about the league. Looking at dots move across the screen has never been so exciting, outside of watching Marble Racing. There has been one fly in the ointment for me, however: Performance. I am the 3rd highest earner of TPE in the entire RB class, and was actually tied for 2nd if I didn't mislink 4 TPE worth of things I've now fixed. I was a consistent high earner, predicted well outside of the first couple of weeks when I wasn't watching games due to being Away from Internet, and yet I was a consistently mediocre to bad running back all year. I'm the only guy who is the leading rusher on a team with a sub 4 ypc, and a number of people have 5 yards or more per carry. It was slightly annoying when my backup running back on my team would outproduce me with 75 less TPE than me. It was more than slightly annoying when one of the best running backs in the entire DSFL had 50 less TPE than me. However, I could handle it when we still won. We were in the playoff spots for the vast majority of the year, and so I was always comfortable with the idea that we would get better. Things came to a head between two Thursdays ago and last Tuesday. Against the Ducks, I rushed for 3.1 yards per carry, and was outperformed by my backup. And we lost to the DUCKS. Against the Coyotes, now with a completed build that should have me run faster...I rush for 2.8 yards per carry as my backup goes for over 6 yards per carry. And we lose again. I finally have a good game, rushing for over 5 yards per carry against the Buccaneers, but we STILL lose.
I'm pretty sure the major problem was my build being extremely poor, as well as, apparently according to our GM, people trying to lock up the Pythons' run game and letting the pass game go off. But it didn't make me feel better during that one week. I was able to take similar games in stride, especially because when I was having games like that they were away and thus were actually yards better than they looked. But no, besides the Ducks game, those were at home. And the big thing was that we had just lost 3 games that we should have easily won. Things only started looking up again when we won a game we should have lost at Tijuana, but I was back under 4 yards per carry and it's still aggravating. Team success has helped a lot, however, and watching the dots is always fun especially when I get to meme at other people's expense. So, hopefully when I start performing a bit better, next season will only go better for me. (497 words)
Everyone else I'm going to talk about should be considered the obvious choice for their award, starting with our punter, Blago Kokot. Proud holder of the tied longest punt, tied for most punts inside the 20, and the 2nd most yards per punt in the league. By a pretty significant distance too, not counting the young guy who came up late who only has 20 punts and is still a half yard behind. The other person close to him, Melvin Murder Moose, should lose out due to having only 4 punts inside the 20 all year. If Kokot doesn't win it will be clear bias.
Pseudo QB, our kicker, has missed one kick all year, the lowest amount, and also has by far the highest level of difficulty from his kicks, minus maybe the Ducks kicker who is definitely not in contention for this award. 10 kicks taken from 30-39 is the most and he's made all 10. 9 kicks made from 40-49 is tied for the most, although the Ducks kicker does have more attempts. And no one other than Pseudo QB has hit from 50 yards all year. This might be the most clear award I'll talk about, Pseudo QB should definitely win.
If Korbin Brown doesn't win Wide Receiver of the year, he should be able to comfort himself with his Kick Returner of the Year trophy. As one of the only ones with a kick return for a touchdown, he separates himself from the rest with almost 2 yards per return more than everyone else. I can't remember if there is a kick and punt return award or just the two combined, but if there's just one combined, then he could miss out as his punt returns, while not bad, weren't anything amazing.
However, the crown jewel of the award season, the MVP award, should only be slightly more in doubt than the kicker of the year award. Sam Howitzer has the second best completion percentage, with a wide gap between him and third, and has the best passer rating, spurred on by what is easily the best TD/INT ratio in the league. Looking at the ISFL, it's actually the best TD/INT ration of the entire Simulation. 20 TDs to 4 picks is really all that I need to write to say Sam Howitzer deserves the MVP, but it should also be mentioned that his team's running game was the worst in the league, and his receivers outside of Korbin Brown were nonexistent for the vast majority of the year. (530 words)
13: Well, I'm a season 25 rookie, and now that I have one season under my belt, I gotta say that I'm excited about the league. Looking at dots move across the screen has never been so exciting, outside of watching Marble Racing. There has been one fly in the ointment for me, however: Performance. I am the 3rd highest earner of TPE in the entire RB class, and was actually tied for 2nd if I didn't mislink 4 TPE worth of things I've now fixed. I was a consistent high earner, predicted well outside of the first couple of weeks when I wasn't watching games due to being Away from Internet, and yet I was a consistently mediocre to bad running back all year. I'm the only guy who is the leading rusher on a team with a sub 4 ypc, and a number of people have 5 yards or more per carry. It was slightly annoying when my backup running back on my team would outproduce me with 75 less TPE than me. It was more than slightly annoying when one of the best running backs in the entire DSFL had 50 less TPE than me. However, I could handle it when we still won. We were in the playoff spots for the vast majority of the year, and so I was always comfortable with the idea that we would get better. Things came to a head between two Thursdays ago and last Tuesday. Against the Ducks, I rushed for 3.1 yards per carry, and was outperformed by my backup. And we lost to the DUCKS. Against the Coyotes, now with a completed build that should have me run faster...I rush for 2.8 yards per carry as my backup goes for over 6 yards per carry. And we lose again. I finally have a good game, rushing for over 5 yards per carry against the Buccaneers, but we STILL lose.
I'm pretty sure the major problem was my build being extremely poor, as well as, apparently according to our GM, people trying to lock up the Pythons' run game and letting the pass game go off. But it didn't make me feel better during that one week. I was able to take similar games in stride, especially because when I was having games like that they were away and thus were actually yards better than they looked. But no, besides the Ducks game, those were at home. And the big thing was that we had just lost 3 games that we should have easily won. Things only started looking up again when we won a game we should have lost at Tijuana, but I was back under 4 yards per carry and it's still aggravating. Team success has helped a lot, however, and watching the dots is always fun especially when I get to meme at other people's expense. So, hopefully when I start performing a bit better, next season will only go better for me. (497 words)