7) Awards season is a big part of the offseason festivities. Take the stand, in 400 words or more, for one or more players that are not your own, and argue why they should receive awards glory. They can be your teammates or anyone in the league. How did their stats and on the field contribution contribute to their case this year? (400 Words, 5TPE)
A lot of great players earned their awards this season, if they win them or not. But for me personally (and I am biased, I know) Zoe Watts single-handedly needs to win DSFL Most Valuable Player for me. While the Dallas Birddogs (sadly) did not tear up the league and did not win the Ultimini (or did not even reach the Playoffs) no player other than her defined the identity of a team as much as she did.
While for me there is no question she should win Running Back of the Year, our record alone may hold some of the General Managers back to actually vote for her for MVP, but for me the team record does not matter in that discussion, because it is more about what players achieved in a league and less about what the team the player is on achieved and Zoe Watts clearly should lead the league in what she did this season.
Let’s start to look into the stats for her. In the rushing category we have 1303 yards, which leads the league with a slight margin of 22 yards to the next Running Back who is Captain Rogers. With an average that comes down to 4.9 yards per carry she is also in the upper third of all RBs and easily leads the Touchdown category with 10 Touchdowns. And that’s only rushing. Her Receiving yards are not that great with only 49 yards on 8 touches, but she was rarely used in that category in the Dallas offense. What adds her to the discussion of MVP even more is what she did on special teams. While only working on Kick Returns and not Punts, she amassed 763 yards and a touchdown with an amazing 23.1 yard average on kick returns. In a league where field position is extremely important this kick return yardage made sure that Dallas often started out with good field position on their offensive drives.
All together this puts her total All Purpose Yards to 2115 yards in this season, which leads the league easily in this category. Everyone who followed Dallas games should be able to see that in a lot of games Watts WAS the Dallas Offense without any question. While her supporting cast did great things in a lot of games, no one exceeded what she did for this team and she was the greatest impact player of any team in the DSFL, which should totally give her a shot and a deserved MVP award in my opinion.
13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented? (400 Words, 5TPE)
I wrote about the same topic the last time I did the Ultimus task, but it was very basic. I was here for a week then, I had no clue of anything and I didn’t really know anyone but some of my fellow rookies and people in some of the lockers rooms I was invited to. I did not know what to expect yet, I did not even know if I would like it here long term or it was something I would lose interest in pretty quickly. Boy, was I not prepared for what would come in my first season here. At most I thought I would spend some time here per week and make some acquaintances and that would be it. I did not expect I would find people I am actually close to calling friends already. (May also be a pointer to my sad state of friendships I have right now, but still awesome). Basically, when I joined the Dallas Lockerroom after the draft I instantly loved the energy in there. Loved the people and the discussions and the jokes we have going on in there. Everyone is super active and I feel like us Season 25 rookies generally blew a lot of life into the league as a whole which is great to see. But us Birddogs, I feel like we have a special locker room going on. That may be something every team member says, and I can not confirm that we are actually different than other teams, but I could not single out one person in that place that was not enjoyable to talk to.
Even outside of Dallas I met a lot of very special people that make my time in this league super enjoyable, but I want to single out a few different people which make it even more special to be here and to be accepted that quickly.
To my dear captains and GMs at Dallas who let me into their war room so quickly and started to teach me about what it means to be a captain and how to act in a war room and with your team: Thank you, you are a special bunch and I want to thank you for the trust you put in me and everything you taught me.
Being drafted for the first time was super exciting. I did not know what to expect, where I would be drafted and what it would be afterwards, but everything turned out great and while the season did not work out perfectly for us as a team it was still a great year where I put some nice stats on the board.
A lot of great players earned their awards this season, if they win them or not. But for me personally (and I am biased, I know) Zoe Watts single-handedly needs to win DSFL Most Valuable Player for me. While the Dallas Birddogs (sadly) did not tear up the league and did not win the Ultimini (or did not even reach the Playoffs) no player other than her defined the identity of a team as much as she did.
While for me there is no question she should win Running Back of the Year, our record alone may hold some of the General Managers back to actually vote for her for MVP, but for me the team record does not matter in that discussion, because it is more about what players achieved in a league and less about what the team the player is on achieved and Zoe Watts clearly should lead the league in what she did this season.
Let’s start to look into the stats for her. In the rushing category we have 1303 yards, which leads the league with a slight margin of 22 yards to the next Running Back who is Captain Rogers. With an average that comes down to 4.9 yards per carry she is also in the upper third of all RBs and easily leads the Touchdown category with 10 Touchdowns. And that’s only rushing. Her Receiving yards are not that great with only 49 yards on 8 touches, but she was rarely used in that category in the Dallas offense. What adds her to the discussion of MVP even more is what she did on special teams. While only working on Kick Returns and not Punts, she amassed 763 yards and a touchdown with an amazing 23.1 yard average on kick returns. In a league where field position is extremely important this kick return yardage made sure that Dallas often started out with good field position on their offensive drives.
All together this puts her total All Purpose Yards to 2115 yards in this season, which leads the league easily in this category. Everyone who followed Dallas games should be able to see that in a lot of games Watts WAS the Dallas Offense without any question. While her supporting cast did great things in a lot of games, no one exceeded what she did for this team and she was the greatest impact player of any team in the DSFL, which should totally give her a shot and a deserved MVP award in my opinion.
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13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented? (400 Words, 5TPE)
I wrote about the same topic the last time I did the Ultimus task, but it was very basic. I was here for a week then, I had no clue of anything and I didn’t really know anyone but some of my fellow rookies and people in some of the lockers rooms I was invited to. I did not know what to expect yet, I did not even know if I would like it here long term or it was something I would lose interest in pretty quickly. Boy, was I not prepared for what would come in my first season here. At most I thought I would spend some time here per week and make some acquaintances and that would be it. I did not expect I would find people I am actually close to calling friends already. (May also be a pointer to my sad state of friendships I have right now, but still awesome). Basically, when I joined the Dallas Lockerroom after the draft I instantly loved the energy in there. Loved the people and the discussions and the jokes we have going on in there. Everyone is super active and I feel like us Season 25 rookies generally blew a lot of life into the league as a whole which is great to see. But us Birddogs, I feel like we have a special locker room going on. That may be something every team member says, and I can not confirm that we are actually different than other teams, but I could not single out one person in that place that was not enjoyable to talk to.
Even outside of Dallas I met a lot of very special people that make my time in this league super enjoyable, but I want to single out a few different people which make it even more special to be here and to be accepted that quickly.
To my dear captains and GMs at Dallas who let me into their war room so quickly and started to teach me about what it means to be a captain and how to act in a war room and with your team: Thank you, you are a special bunch and I want to thank you for the trust you put in me and everything you taught me.
Being drafted for the first time was super exciting. I did not know what to expect, where I would be drafted and what it would be afterwards, but everything turned out great and while the season did not work out perfectly for us as a team it was still a great year where I put some nice stats on the board.
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