*TIL playing Defensive Tackle makes you ineligible for Defensive Tackle awards

[Eldorian]

Yeah sorry Zamir jumped in there and confused it.

From what I can quickly see you fall into an unfortunate gap that too many players fall into: you were ineligible for all positional awards by rule. Given that OCO pretty much always ran you as DT in Nickel and DE (RDT) in 3-4, you fall into a 50/50 split between the two positions and thus do not meet the 60% requirement for any position. This has consistently happened to more and more of the leagues DTs as the 3-4 scheme has become popular. Additionally, a number of gadget RBs that play 50% at WR and 50% at RB have this same problem, as we saw with KKM. Ideally, with the move to the 3-4/3-3-5 and 4-3 Nickel schemes that teams will be forced to pick between in DDSPF 21, this issue will disappear. To that end, if players will be more consistently forced to play one position almost all of the time, I hope to see the 60% rule abolished by GMs.

I'm sorry to see that you got caught up in this weird in between land that the rules didn't properly prepare for, as many other players have the last few seasons. I've consistently raised concern and disdain for this rule (including the previous version that declared all players that play a single snap out of position to be ineligible, which them required an emergency vote to overturn), but perhaps I should've been more vocal to change the rules earlier.

Thanks for the explanation. Kind of hilarious it works that way, but I wouldn't have guessed that's how it works based on how the ruling is worded and thus why I was so confused by it.

I'm hoping a couple things come from this and the reason why I posted it the way I did (and didn't just DM someone) - because I can't be the only person that is confused by how this works (maybe I am) and this deserves some kind of public attention

1. People at least discuss this and perhaps a rule change comes into play (nothing else, worth a discussion)
2. Players who want to chase any kind of awards will need to know what to look out for when talking to their GMs about what they want to do. As far as I'm aware though, not even my GMs knew playing that way would have made me ineligible for basically everything.