Tier 2 #7: In this league, there is a high abundance of quality, capable talent spread out across both the DSFL. As such, for the end of the year awards, there is a high level of competition for the prestigious awards, most notably that of the Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of The Year awards. For the award that is more applicable to me in the DSFL, the DPOY, I believe that my teammate, Rashad Hillard, overwhelmingly deserves the award! To begin with, looking at his stats for Season 24 in the DSFL, Chainbreaker had a godlike sophomore season recording 74 tackles, 1 tackle-for-loss, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries, 0 sacks but contributed to multiple coverage sacks, and 16 pass deflections all as a cornerback! What makes his sophomore season more impressive is that he not only had to share the defensive side of the field with his fellow playermakers, Brooks, myself, Gleel, and Chainbeaker who all also had great and impressive seasons under each of their own rights, but he single-handedly can cover both sides of the field as a lockdown corner! The biggest reason I believe that Hillard should receive the DSFL DPOY is that practically every time he took the field, he had a high chance of directly causing a turnover or helping to create one by helping our DLine and LBs cause one through his coverage abilities; in essence, Hillard’s presence elevated our whole defense, leading for me to also go as far as to call him our whole team’s MVP for this season! Thus, I believe that Hillard should be awarded the DSFL DPOY!
For the other award, arguably the most distinguished award a player can win, the MVP, I believe that Suleiman Ramza, QB of the Dallas Birddogs, deserves this award. For starters, looking at his stats for Season 24 in the DSFL, Ramza’s stats may not be eye-popping for some, yet when you look deeper into them, there is another story to be told. For instance, out of all the starting QBs in the DSFL, Ramza had the one highest QB completion percentage at 64.2% and the highest QB rating with a 86.2 rating, both indicators of a stable, highly efficient QB. The most important stat, however, is the TD to Int ratio. In this regard, Ramza is clearly the best at this stat. He had 14 TDs compared to 8 Ints, giving him a ratio of 1.75. The aforementioned stats are reflective of why Ramza clearly deserves the MVP as he was able to lead the Dallas Birddogs to the second best record in the DSFL and helped to become a playoff team when no one expected them to be one.
Tier 2 # 8: In this league, as there is an abundance of talent with only a few teams to claim such talent, it stands that in a given year, a few of those teams can be championship contenders while the rest of the teams may struggle or even fail to reach the playoffs. As a member of the Minnesota Grey Ducks, we had some hopes to make the playoffs; unfortunately, we were unable to make the playoffs as we just missed out on them by a full game. With this in mind, we head into Season 25 with a few questions and needs to address.
The two major questions at this offseason draft are: how to improve the offense to not be stagnant moving the ball and to replace a few key playmakers on defense that led a solid, turnover producing unit! On the offensive side of the ball, we have starting QB, a great RB, and very good wide receivers. However, we struggled to move the ball at times during the season. The main reason is that we only have one actual player OL while the rest of the OL are just bots. This would lead to many situations in games where we would have incompletions and stalled drives as our OL would not allow our QB time to throw or let our RB get easily tackled on run plays. I believe that we should draft human OL so as to immediately help our offense produce and to help take pressure of our defense as it was left too many times to dry last season, leading us to blow a few key games down the stretch. On the other side of the ball, we need to replenish the defense as great playmakers like Chainbreaker, Hillard, and myself are going to be drafted into the ISFL, leaving behind a younger core. I believe to counter this we must draft at least a couple players for the DL, LB corps, and DB corps to keep the defense from running out of playmakers and to help keep building this team towards playoff contention. In addition, With regards for the future and next couple of seasons, I think we may have to start from scratch as many of the team’s current playmakers and impact players will be in the ISFL. To mitigate this, I believe that our front office should stock up on picks for the next couple of drafts and to draft a couple of players for each position with those potential picks.
For the other award, arguably the most distinguished award a player can win, the MVP, I believe that Suleiman Ramza, QB of the Dallas Birddogs, deserves this award. For starters, looking at his stats for Season 24 in the DSFL, Ramza’s stats may not be eye-popping for some, yet when you look deeper into them, there is another story to be told. For instance, out of all the starting QBs in the DSFL, Ramza had the one highest QB completion percentage at 64.2% and the highest QB rating with a 86.2 rating, both indicators of a stable, highly efficient QB. The most important stat, however, is the TD to Int ratio. In this regard, Ramza is clearly the best at this stat. He had 14 TDs compared to 8 Ints, giving him a ratio of 1.75. The aforementioned stats are reflective of why Ramza clearly deserves the MVP as he was able to lead the Dallas Birddogs to the second best record in the DSFL and helped to become a playoff team when no one expected them to be one.
Tier 2 # 8: In this league, as there is an abundance of talent with only a few teams to claim such talent, it stands that in a given year, a few of those teams can be championship contenders while the rest of the teams may struggle or even fail to reach the playoffs. As a member of the Minnesota Grey Ducks, we had some hopes to make the playoffs; unfortunately, we were unable to make the playoffs as we just missed out on them by a full game. With this in mind, we head into Season 25 with a few questions and needs to address.
The two major questions at this offseason draft are: how to improve the offense to not be stagnant moving the ball and to replace a few key playmakers on defense that led a solid, turnover producing unit! On the offensive side of the ball, we have starting QB, a great RB, and very good wide receivers. However, we struggled to move the ball at times during the season. The main reason is that we only have one actual player OL while the rest of the OL are just bots. This would lead to many situations in games where we would have incompletions and stalled drives as our OL would not allow our QB time to throw or let our RB get easily tackled on run plays. I believe that we should draft human OL so as to immediately help our offense produce and to help take pressure of our defense as it was left too many times to dry last season, leading us to blow a few key games down the stretch. On the other side of the ball, we need to replenish the defense as great playmakers like Chainbreaker, Hillard, and myself are going to be drafted into the ISFL, leaving behind a younger core. I believe to counter this we must draft at least a couple players for the DL, LB corps, and DB corps to keep the defense from running out of playmakers and to help keep building this team towards playoff contention. In addition, With regards for the future and next couple of seasons, I think we may have to start from scratch as many of the team’s current playmakers and impact players will be in the ISFL. To mitigate this, I believe that our front office should stock up on picks for the next couple of drafts and to draft a couple of players for each position with those potential picks.