09-15-2020, 10:57 AM
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7) Psuedo QB for KoTY
Handing out this award is about as easy as kicking a 40 yard field goal…at least for this player. The Kicker of the Year award for this season should go to Psuedo QB, Kicker for the Portland Pythons. And when I say “should go to,” what I really mean is “will go to (unless numerous voters have been promised real or fake currency/threats in exchange for their vote).” Now I’m a new player to this league, but I’ve got to think a season like this in the DSFL is extremely rare. Psuedo QB was a bunny away…a chip shot away…a layup away from a perfect regular season. The blemish being one extra point miss from a perfect kicking season. This player went 32 of 33 on extra points and a perfect 28 for 28 on field goal attempts on the year. All other kickers on the year with at least 10 attempts on the season missed 3+ field goals. Not only did Psuedo QB knock all of those through the uprights, he also had the most attempts. Of kickers with 10+ attempts, he was the only one to convert all attempts from 40-49 yards and was the only kicker in the league to nail a 50 yarder. In a historical sense, Psuedo QB is right up there with the DSFL’s best. He fell just two made field goals short of tying the all time make record of 30, held by K. Corbett of the Tijuana Luchadores in season 2022.
While I’m not entirely well versed on what’s necessary for a successful field goal, i.e. player overalls, offensive and defensive special teams stats, home/road game sim codes, it seems quite unlikely that a kicker at a 72 overall rating could be this damn good, this early into his career. I guess the real question that comes out of this year’s kicker of the year awards competition is not ‘who will win the award,’ but rather ‘should all kickers going forward just copy Psuedo QB’s update sheet?’
And before I close I would just like to say that, without these incredibly consistent contributions from its kicking game, there is virtually no chance that my team, the Portland Pythons, would have been able to sneak into the playoffs on the last week of the season. So it really is with great regard that I argue on behalf of Psuedo QB to win this award. Thanks for getting me into the playoffs, bud.
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6) Tijuana Luchadores, A Brief Review:
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece in which I analyzed a few of the DSFL teams and compared their actual performance with a pseudo-metric I created. The metric was essentially finding the average grade at each player position, for each team, and then cumulatively grading offense and defense based on those positional grades. Hopefully that made sense…both now and the actual metric itself…Anyways the metrics had some interesting correlations and outlier results. Perhaps the most interesting was the difference between the Tijuana Luchadores’ individual and cumulative metric grades versus where they were, and are now, in the standings. The Luchadores finished the season with a very impressive 10 wins. This team had the best home win/loss record and was one of only two teams to score over 300 points for the season. They also dominated their division, finishing 5-1-0.
The metric placed Tijuana as 6 out of 8 in power rankings. This was a result of grading out third worst offensively, with deficiencies at running back and tight end. This team on paper was reliant on its mediocre-grade QB and line to hold up long enough to get its talented receivers the ball and hope its defense, which was average-to-good on paper could lean towards the latter end of that rating for a whole year.
Well the Luchadores really flipped the script on the entire league. Its of no surprise that they finished with the second most receiving yards in the league and the highest yards per catch, but the team also maintained the third-highest yards per carry number as well. While there’s no real way to put lipstick on this team’s passing attack, finishing second-to-last in overall QB rating, at least you can say they aren’t gun-shy. For better or worse they are going to attempt to get the ball to their playmaking receivers, and more times than not it has worked this year. A lot of kudos to this team’s offensive line for keeping the Luchadores balanced on offense.
On the other side of the ball Tijuana has been everywhere, second in sacks, second in interceptions, and tied for the league lead with two defensive touchdowns. This ball hawking defense has been there to bail out the offense if ever they’ve gotten into trouble.
This team enters the playoffs having won five of its last six games, including a win over the NFC North champs London Royals and a week 14 win over its first round playoff opponent, the Norfolk Seawolves.
Many believe that the Ultimini is still up for grabs for any of the four teams in the playoffs, but wouldn’t that be the cherry on top of the season for Tijuana. Overlooked by some all season and then winning the regular season, only to do it all over again in the playoffs.
7) Psuedo QB for KoTY
Handing out this award is about as easy as kicking a 40 yard field goal…at least for this player. The Kicker of the Year award for this season should go to Psuedo QB, Kicker for the Portland Pythons. And when I say “should go to,” what I really mean is “will go to (unless numerous voters have been promised real or fake currency/threats in exchange for their vote).” Now I’m a new player to this league, but I’ve got to think a season like this in the DSFL is extremely rare. Psuedo QB was a bunny away…a chip shot away…a layup away from a perfect regular season. The blemish being one extra point miss from a perfect kicking season. This player went 32 of 33 on extra points and a perfect 28 for 28 on field goal attempts on the year. All other kickers on the year with at least 10 attempts on the season missed 3+ field goals. Not only did Psuedo QB knock all of those through the uprights, he also had the most attempts. Of kickers with 10+ attempts, he was the only one to convert all attempts from 40-49 yards and was the only kicker in the league to nail a 50 yarder. In a historical sense, Psuedo QB is right up there with the DSFL’s best. He fell just two made field goals short of tying the all time make record of 30, held by K. Corbett of the Tijuana Luchadores in season 2022.
While I’m not entirely well versed on what’s necessary for a successful field goal, i.e. player overalls, offensive and defensive special teams stats, home/road game sim codes, it seems quite unlikely that a kicker at a 72 overall rating could be this damn good, this early into his career. I guess the real question that comes out of this year’s kicker of the year awards competition is not ‘who will win the award,’ but rather ‘should all kickers going forward just copy Psuedo QB’s update sheet?’
And before I close I would just like to say that, without these incredibly consistent contributions from its kicking game, there is virtually no chance that my team, the Portland Pythons, would have been able to sneak into the playoffs on the last week of the season. So it really is with great regard that I argue on behalf of Psuedo QB to win this award. Thanks for getting me into the playoffs, bud.
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6) Tijuana Luchadores, A Brief Review:
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece in which I analyzed a few of the DSFL teams and compared their actual performance with a pseudo-metric I created. The metric was essentially finding the average grade at each player position, for each team, and then cumulatively grading offense and defense based on those positional grades. Hopefully that made sense…both now and the actual metric itself…Anyways the metrics had some interesting correlations and outlier results. Perhaps the most interesting was the difference between the Tijuana Luchadores’ individual and cumulative metric grades versus where they were, and are now, in the standings. The Luchadores finished the season with a very impressive 10 wins. This team had the best home win/loss record and was one of only two teams to score over 300 points for the season. They also dominated their division, finishing 5-1-0.
The metric placed Tijuana as 6 out of 8 in power rankings. This was a result of grading out third worst offensively, with deficiencies at running back and tight end. This team on paper was reliant on its mediocre-grade QB and line to hold up long enough to get its talented receivers the ball and hope its defense, which was average-to-good on paper could lean towards the latter end of that rating for a whole year.
Well the Luchadores really flipped the script on the entire league. Its of no surprise that they finished with the second most receiving yards in the league and the highest yards per catch, but the team also maintained the third-highest yards per carry number as well. While there’s no real way to put lipstick on this team’s passing attack, finishing second-to-last in overall QB rating, at least you can say they aren’t gun-shy. For better or worse they are going to attempt to get the ball to their playmaking receivers, and more times than not it has worked this year. A lot of kudos to this team’s offensive line for keeping the Luchadores balanced on offense.
On the other side of the ball Tijuana has been everywhere, second in sacks, second in interceptions, and tied for the league lead with two defensive touchdowns. This ball hawking defense has been there to bail out the offense if ever they’ve gotten into trouble.
This team enters the playoffs having won five of its last six games, including a win over the NFC North champs London Royals and a week 14 win over its first round playoff opponent, the Norfolk Seawolves.
Many believe that the Ultimini is still up for grabs for any of the four teams in the playoffs, but wouldn’t that be the cherry on top of the season for Tijuana. Overlooked by some all season and then winning the regular season, only to do it all over again in the playoffs.
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