02-10-2023, 10:09 PM
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Quote:2. Tell us about your draft class. Is there anything that makes it special in comparison to other classes? Where did your fellow draftees land, how are they doing? Did anyone turn out to be an unexpected steal of that draft based on what you know today? Do you think anyone in your draft class will become a hall of famer? If you’re new to the league, how do you think your class will do? Where do you think people will get drafted to?
Season 38 Draft Class
I entered this league with the S38 draft class, and was lucky enough to be drafted 5th as an offensive lineman. I feel a strong connection with this class, and love to look up other players in the class to see how they are performing, and coming into their own as a group. This was a great season for the S38 draft class, that finally saw the bulk of their active players get called up and start in the ISFL. There were a total of 28 players from the S38 class represented, including 12 rookies. This season should see the rest of the active players take the field in the big leagues, and by this time next season we’ll really start to see the cream rise to the top.
Differentiation
When I did a similar article last season, I said that what will define the S38 class is it’s very high quality offensive linemen. As an OL myself, I’m super biased in this but if you look at the numbers, no other recent class has more than 2 top linemen make it through. As it stands today, S38 boasts 3 offensive linemen over 500 TPE, and that puts all of them in the top 14 of the entire league last season. To emphasize this impact, all 3 entered the ISFL as rookies, and performed incredibly well, including the 5th and 6th best pancake totals by a human lineman. This bodes well for the future, and I think we’ll see all 3 players dominate the league soon.
Players Still in the DSFL
Starting with the players who are still waiting for a call up, the DSFL S38 TPE leader is Sherwin Blue Jr, who is rocking 588 TPE at last update, and will almost certainly be a call-up this season. The next DSFL player is much further down the TPE list, Painted Penguin at 364 TPE. Given that Painted is currently a quarterback, he’ll need a lot more points to really make a dent in the ISFL, and he’s now a few hundred TPE behind much of the class, so it’s not clear if he’ll be position swapping again, or he’s (hopefully) got a lot of unclaimed TPE sitting waiting to be applied when he gets called up to lead the Chicago offense.
Retirement Comes Knocking
Another aspect of the draft is the players that have already retired. We saw a few notable users like Lane Frost retire their S38 player and re-create in S40, and this past year we saw a First Rounder retire very early, Zavier Perkins. He was the 4th pick in the draft, and this past season was his first in the ISFL, where he was named defensive captain of the Sabrecats. I’m guessing we’ll see this user recreate in the monster upcoming class. Another player that retired is Amanai Barney, who wasn’t exactly a world beater, but I did single him out last season as a standout undrafted player. I’m sure that we’ll see more players retire next season, but it’s statistically unlikely to include any more first rounders.
Overall Metrics
Taking some high level metrics from the 28 players that saw ISFL action this season, things are developing nicely. We saw 2 named as defensive captains of their teams (Caleb Hayden on Honolulu and the earlier mentioned Perkins on San Jose).18 players are earning very well, over the 500 TPE threshold at last check. The team with the most players on their roster from this class are the Baltimore Hawks, which currently tout 6 players. This is double what any other team has, with multiple fielding 3 players. With a lot of contract options up this season, it will be interesting to see if Baltimore doubles down on this draft class and sets up long term contracts to make them the core of their future competitive window.
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