Tier 2 - Task 7 - 400+ Words - 5 TPE
Thor Kirkby. A fantastic name, but an even more fantastic stat line. Their stats as a free safety on the season were seventy-five tackles, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, twelve sacks, three interceptions, six passes defended, three safeties, and one touchdown. That is four traditional takeaways, and seven total takeaways if you count safeties as takeaways. Now that by itself makes for a reasonably impressive stat line deserving of recognition for safety of the year in my honest opinion.
The reason I can say that is that only three other safety players had as many takeaways. Shawn Dawkins with five interceptions, a forced fumble, and fumble recovery. Philip Stein with five interceptions, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery, Mason Blaylock with three interceptions, two forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery. So Shawn Dawkins and Philip Stein both have six traditional takeaways, and Mason Blaylock has five. My value of a safety as equal to or greater than a traditional takeaway means I think Thor Kirkby should run away with this. (The reason I value a safety more is that is a play where you get points and possession. Whereas a takeaway touchdown is good; the safety gives you the possibility for more points.)
Now I also think it is worth looking at from a historical perspective as there are only two players in the league this season with multiple safeties. Counting those two the league has only seen ten players achieve multiple safeties in a single season. Now that is just multiple safeties period, but only one other player in league history has had three safeties in a single season. A. Tomlinson set the record there all the way back in S2, and it has only just now been matched. This is also the first season where two players have had multiple sacks in a single season.
That makes a fair case for Thor Kirkby to win safety of the year, but I think they are also deserving of recognition when it comes to defensive player of the year. Going by takeaways first there are only a handful of competitors. Dermot Lavelle Jr with their six interceptions, Andrew Witten with their five interceptions, Brandon Booker with their five interceptions and two forced fumbles, LeSean Paris Crooks with their four interceptions, two forced fumbles, and fumble recovery. Plus the aforementioned Shawn Dawkins and Philip Stein. That puts the top takeaway total at six, but Thor Kirkby if you count safeties has seven
Takeaways I think are the flashiest defensive stat, but Kirkby also comes up in the sacks conversation as there are only five players ahead of them in sack total. That is where I think we find another challenger for the defensive player of the year award though. Derred de Ville had 117 tackles, two for loss, two forced fumbles, thirteen sacks, two interceptions, and led the league with twenty-nine passes defended. Outside of de Ville though there is no one ahead of Kirkby in sacks with a significant amount of takeaways or other stats. Although credit to Big Edd who is in a three way tie for defensive tackles with thirteen, but also has two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery to give them the lead for that award.
In the eight person race I give the lead to Thor Kirkby and given my preference for defense would also then give them the nomination for most valuable player as well. Although I admit that is an argument that rarely gets any response. I can say their season tying a record that has stood for over twenty seasons as well as standing superb by itself should be recognized though.
Tier 3 - Task 23 - 200+ Words - 2.5 TPE
Agent Tesla: Now a new skills competition for the Pro Bowl sounds like a lovely idea and as it does say similar to the NFL I know there are more than a few good ideas that we could take from them. What do you say you help me out with this task Magnus?
Magnus Rikiya: I will help long enough to say we should have a bench press competition. That is the one thing that I would support one hundred percent.
Agent Tesla: Of course the man who competes in all the strongest man competitions wants to be able to flex on the rest of the league by doing a bench press competition. Are you sure there aren't any other fun games you would want to compete in though?
Magnus Rikiya: Any strength competition would be good in my book. Since teamwork is a good thing I will also say tug of war.
Agent Tesla: Tug of war would be wonderful! Now as ridiculous as it might be I would also love to see a mini golf competition just because I have fallen in love with it due to Holey Moley. Plus with the budget that the league has they could come up with some truly amazing obstacles.
Magnus Rikiya: If we are talking ridiculous obstacles have the pro bowl by Midoriyama and see who can do the best there.
Agent Tesla: That would be brilliant! Magnus you are a genius! Okay so our final suggestions are bench press competition, tug of war, mini golf, and Midoriyama also known as Mount Midoriyama in America. Now that we have a few new tasks come up with for our potential pro bowl. What conference would come out on top Magnus?
Magnus Rikiya: If we are just taking the best players from the conferences for the contests than the American Simulation Football Conference will dominate when it comes to the bench press and tug of war thanks to Bruce Buckley of the Arizona Outlaws and myself. Mini golf is a wild card and I will give it to the National Simulation Football Conference. Why? Because I am giving Midoriyama to the American Simulation Football Conference because I bet Rector gets through more of it than anyone else. Most agile player I know and you can just watch some of their returns to see it for yourself.
Agent Tesla: Well said. Due to blind homerism I am going to just say the American Simulation Football Conference for all of them and sign off. Thanks for joining us!
Tier 3 - Task 24 - 200+ Words - 2.5 TPE
My choice for playfoffs MVP is Matthew McDairmid who over the course of the playoffs went four for four on extra point attempts, one for one on 20-29 yard field goal attempts, one for one on 40-49 yard field goal attempts, punted 14 times for 775 yards, an average punt of 55.4 yards, a long of 76 yards, and four punts inside the twenty yard line. Three of which would come in the Ultimus and was a key part of the San Jose SaberCats winning the game.
Now their kicking was terrific as they were perfect on all six kicks they had throughout the playoffs. Especially valuable come the Ultimus as they scored five points in what ended up being a five point game. However none of those kicks by itself was especially exceptional, and so those are not won them the award in my opinion. Although it did keep things in their favor as a kicker winning it I feel has to be perfect as a kicker.
Their punting however was phenomenal and absolutely deserving of recognition. Averaged 55.4 yards against the toughest competition in the league. Of course McDairmid led in the regular season so that is not too absurd, however they increased their average by almost five yards per punt. Regarding punts inside the twenty the league leader hit them about twenty-six percent of the time, but against the toughest competition McDairmid managed over twenty-eight percent.
You might wonder why I focused on efficiency stats there well there is a good reason for that and it makes McDairmid's punting even more impressive for these playoffs. The highest average punts per game during the season was 7.25 punts held by PhastBawl. Number two was Sam Sidekick at 6.5 punts per game. McDairmid kicked 14 across two games for an average of 7 a game, and still was more efficient than anyone else was during the regular season.
Between their hyper efficient punting and their perfect kicking I think it fair to say Matthew is deserving of recognition here, and I am happy to give them credit where it is due. Although I think the Ultimus win is enough for them right now.
Thor Kirkby. A fantastic name, but an even more fantastic stat line. Their stats as a free safety on the season were seventy-five tackles, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, twelve sacks, three interceptions, six passes defended, three safeties, and one touchdown. That is four traditional takeaways, and seven total takeaways if you count safeties as takeaways. Now that by itself makes for a reasonably impressive stat line deserving of recognition for safety of the year in my honest opinion.
The reason I can say that is that only three other safety players had as many takeaways. Shawn Dawkins with five interceptions, a forced fumble, and fumble recovery. Philip Stein with five interceptions, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery, Mason Blaylock with three interceptions, two forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery. So Shawn Dawkins and Philip Stein both have six traditional takeaways, and Mason Blaylock has five. My value of a safety as equal to or greater than a traditional takeaway means I think Thor Kirkby should run away with this. (The reason I value a safety more is that is a play where you get points and possession. Whereas a takeaway touchdown is good; the safety gives you the possibility for more points.)
Now I also think it is worth looking at from a historical perspective as there are only two players in the league this season with multiple safeties. Counting those two the league has only seen ten players achieve multiple safeties in a single season. Now that is just multiple safeties period, but only one other player in league history has had three safeties in a single season. A. Tomlinson set the record there all the way back in S2, and it has only just now been matched. This is also the first season where two players have had multiple sacks in a single season.
That makes a fair case for Thor Kirkby to win safety of the year, but I think they are also deserving of recognition when it comes to defensive player of the year. Going by takeaways first there are only a handful of competitors. Dermot Lavelle Jr with their six interceptions, Andrew Witten with their five interceptions, Brandon Booker with their five interceptions and two forced fumbles, LeSean Paris Crooks with their four interceptions, two forced fumbles, and fumble recovery. Plus the aforementioned Shawn Dawkins and Philip Stein. That puts the top takeaway total at six, but Thor Kirkby if you count safeties has seven
Takeaways I think are the flashiest defensive stat, but Kirkby also comes up in the sacks conversation as there are only five players ahead of them in sack total. That is where I think we find another challenger for the defensive player of the year award though. Derred de Ville had 117 tackles, two for loss, two forced fumbles, thirteen sacks, two interceptions, and led the league with twenty-nine passes defended. Outside of de Ville though there is no one ahead of Kirkby in sacks with a significant amount of takeaways or other stats. Although credit to Big Edd who is in a three way tie for defensive tackles with thirteen, but also has two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery to give them the lead for that award.
In the eight person race I give the lead to Thor Kirkby and given my preference for defense would also then give them the nomination for most valuable player as well. Although I admit that is an argument that rarely gets any response. I can say their season tying a record that has stood for over twenty seasons as well as standing superb by itself should be recognized though.
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Agent Tesla: Now a new skills competition for the Pro Bowl sounds like a lovely idea and as it does say similar to the NFL I know there are more than a few good ideas that we could take from them. What do you say you help me out with this task Magnus?
Magnus Rikiya: I will help long enough to say we should have a bench press competition. That is the one thing that I would support one hundred percent.
Agent Tesla: Of course the man who competes in all the strongest man competitions wants to be able to flex on the rest of the league by doing a bench press competition. Are you sure there aren't any other fun games you would want to compete in though?
Magnus Rikiya: Any strength competition would be good in my book. Since teamwork is a good thing I will also say tug of war.
Agent Tesla: Tug of war would be wonderful! Now as ridiculous as it might be I would also love to see a mini golf competition just because I have fallen in love with it due to Holey Moley. Plus with the budget that the league has they could come up with some truly amazing obstacles.
Magnus Rikiya: If we are talking ridiculous obstacles have the pro bowl by Midoriyama and see who can do the best there.
Agent Tesla: That would be brilliant! Magnus you are a genius! Okay so our final suggestions are bench press competition, tug of war, mini golf, and Midoriyama also known as Mount Midoriyama in America. Now that we have a few new tasks come up with for our potential pro bowl. What conference would come out on top Magnus?
Magnus Rikiya: If we are just taking the best players from the conferences for the contests than the American Simulation Football Conference will dominate when it comes to the bench press and tug of war thanks to Bruce Buckley of the Arizona Outlaws and myself. Mini golf is a wild card and I will give it to the National Simulation Football Conference. Why? Because I am giving Midoriyama to the American Simulation Football Conference because I bet Rector gets through more of it than anyone else. Most agile player I know and you can just watch some of their returns to see it for yourself.
Agent Tesla: Well said. Due to blind homerism I am going to just say the American Simulation Football Conference for all of them and sign off. Thanks for joining us!
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My choice for playfoffs MVP is Matthew McDairmid who over the course of the playoffs went four for four on extra point attempts, one for one on 20-29 yard field goal attempts, one for one on 40-49 yard field goal attempts, punted 14 times for 775 yards, an average punt of 55.4 yards, a long of 76 yards, and four punts inside the twenty yard line. Three of which would come in the Ultimus and was a key part of the San Jose SaberCats winning the game.
Now their kicking was terrific as they were perfect on all six kicks they had throughout the playoffs. Especially valuable come the Ultimus as they scored five points in what ended up being a five point game. However none of those kicks by itself was especially exceptional, and so those are not won them the award in my opinion. Although it did keep things in their favor as a kicker winning it I feel has to be perfect as a kicker.
Their punting however was phenomenal and absolutely deserving of recognition. Averaged 55.4 yards against the toughest competition in the league. Of course McDairmid led in the regular season so that is not too absurd, however they increased their average by almost five yards per punt. Regarding punts inside the twenty the league leader hit them about twenty-six percent of the time, but against the toughest competition McDairmid managed over twenty-eight percent.
You might wonder why I focused on efficiency stats there well there is a good reason for that and it makes McDairmid's punting even more impressive for these playoffs. The highest average punts per game during the season was 7.25 punts held by PhastBawl. Number two was Sam Sidekick at 6.5 punts per game. McDairmid kicked 14 across two games for an average of 7 a game, and still was more efficient than anyone else was during the regular season.
Between their hyper efficient punting and their perfect kicking I think it fair to say Matthew is deserving of recognition here, and I am happy to give them credit where it is due. Although I think the Ultimus win is enough for them right now.
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