(S35) Offseason Task

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"Punter are people too." The legend says that people wondering at night though the basement of their team have been earing these words coming from a dimly lit room. The bravest one, approahching the door, might have seen a pale, ghostly, figure. They were in the presence of a punter. 
Too often, their existence is forgotten. Sure, they're lauded when they step in as a Kicker to kick the ball thought the upright, but that's it. As soon as they have to punt the bal they're forgotten. Their stats are almost inexistant. Their existance meaningless. 
But if I told you their existence was integral to the win of your favorite football team, would you believe me? If I told you they theserve their spotlight too, would acclaim them? I sure would. BUT, and there's a but, that is only if they are indeed primordial to their team win. In this essay I will check if there is a correlation between a punter's performance and the win of its team. 
I'll use two stats to check : Punting avg as well as % of field covered (A 30 yards punt from your opponents 40 would be 75% of the field covered, which would be better than a 30 yards punt from your own 20 (37.5% of field covered))
For the league I picked the Prospect Bowl. Why ? Because I have yet to be drafted and that's where I'm playing right now. Also because I am a very self-centered individual and I hate if theses stats don't affect me directly. 
Before revealing to you the result of each games, I'd like to add that half these punters are actually bot. Some of them have been advocating to change their slogan to "Punters are people.. and bots too." but alas it hasn't caught on yet. 

Week 1) 
Chupacabras vs Devils (Winner in Bold)
PntAvg : 49.8 vs 46.5
%Field : 0.65 vs 0.69

Monsters vs Moth Men 
PntAvg : 43 vs 46
%Field : 0.74 vs 0.60

Drengr vs Serpents 
PntAvg : 45.6 vs 45.7
%Field : 0.70 vs 0.66

Koa vs Lightning 
PntAvg : 40.1 vs 43.1
%Field : 0.59 vs 0.64

So far there seem to be absolutely no correlation whatsoever. The only punter winning in both categories in week 1 is Witchqueen from the Lightnings. Unfortunately for him they still lost. 

Week2):
Monsters vs Chupacabras
PntAvg : 41.1 vs 48.5
%Field : 0.65 vs 0.61

Moth Men vs Devils 
PntAvg : 37.8 vs 43
%Field : 0.67 vs 0.59

Lightning vs Drengr 
PntAvg : 38 vs 38.5
%Field : 0.59 vs 0.49

Serpents vs Koa
PntAvg : 42.6 vs 41.1
%Field : 0.56 vs 0.66

Once again we find no correlation whatsoever and the future seemx bleak, both for the punters and your truly who was really hoping to find something there. Our lowtime of the day are the Drengr, who got a punt blocked and thus get the Worse field% award so far. That's what a 0% of field covered does for you baby. 

Week 3) 
Devils vs Monsters
PntAvg : 36.8 vs 46.7
%Field : 0.46 vs 0.72

Moth Men vs Lightning
PntAvg : 38.3 vs 43.9
%Field : 0.54 vs 0.66

Chupacabras vs Serpents
PntAvg : 47.6 vs 42.6
%Field : 0.63 vs 0.62

Koa vs Drengr
PntAvg : 42.6 vs 43.3
%Field : 0.72 vs 0.56

One again, no relationship between punting and winning seem obvious. The lightning, once again are winner in both categories. Witchqueen is truly giving it's all and it's worth it this time as they win one!

Week4) 
Drengr vs Monster
PntAvg : 36 vs 32.2
%Field : 0.62 vs 0.46

Serpents vs Moth Men
PntAvg : 43 vs 43.1
%Field : 0.55 vs 0.63

Lightning vs Chupacabras
PntAvg : 37.4 vs 45.4
%Field : 0.62 vs 0.69

Devils vs Koa
PntAvg : 43.8 vs 40.2
%Field : 0.62 vs 0.57

Up until the last game I was holding my breath. Finally? Punters were the key to winning games? As I opened the scorebox of the last game i was praying to our lord and savior Johnny Hekker. Was it finally my time to shine? But no. These darn Devils decided to ruin everything. 

Here it is folks. As I am typing this we only have 4 weeks of data but I'll stop there. 

Final result : The team with the best Punting Average wins 7/16 (43%)of the time while the team with the best %of field covered wins 8/16 (50%) of the time. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between punting avg nor field covered when it comes to winning games. Punters are useless and derserve to stay locked in the basement of their team facilities.

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Task 4

"Sim gonna sim" is one of the age-old expressions in the International Sim Football League. Long have General Managers and players architected either a winning team or a losing one and then found their fortunes change as the games actually played out. A few teams in recent seasons have managed to either benefit or suffer from these changes in the tides, leading to glory for one team and utter disappointment for the other. During the course of this essay, I am going to cover the Season 24/25 San Jose SaberCats and the Colorado Yeti of the same seasons.

The San Jose SaberCats are one of the oldest teams in the league, starting as one of the very first teams (along with Colorado, Yellowknife, Baltimore, Arizona, and Orange County). Since then they've had some success as a team, but what they did in Seasons 24 and 25 may never be repeated again, as the San Jose SaberCats won back to back championships despite finishing middle-of-the-road in the regular season in both seasons. We can start with Season 24, where by some strange stroke of luck, four teams finished 9-7 in the conference. San Jose won the tiebreaker in that, having the best conference record. But they were contrasted on the other side of the bracket, where the Colorado Yeti and Sarasota Sailfish finished well above .500 and had extremely impressive point differentials. Fortunately for the SaberCats, Sarasota and Colorado would play each other and eliminated the other, but San Jose still had to play through the gamut of the other 9-7 teams in the ASFC. San Jose managed two relatively close wins over the Arizona Outlaws and Orange County Otters in the first two rounds, before meeting the Colorado Yeti in the championship game. To put things into perspective, San Jose scored 342 points on the season and gave up 308, for a  differential of 34. Colorado on the other hand scored 455 points (most in the league) while giving up 290 (least in the league) for a differential of 165. Colorado went 14-2 in the regular season, losing to Arizona and Sarasota only. The did play San Jose in the regular season and beat them 15-10. Then they met in the Ultimus and San Jose promptly sprinted out to a 17-6 lead in the first half, and while Colorado would make it a game in the fourth, ended up winning 17-12. A huge surprise to be sure.

Not to be out-done, San Jose came back the next season and managed to win in even unlikelier circumstances. In season 25, San Jose finished again with a 9-7 record, but with two teams ahead of them, Orange County and Arizona. On the other side, the Yeti were once again dominant, finishing with a 13-3 record and with Sarasota behind them at 11-5. Once again, San Jose opened up the playoffs against a 9-7 team, this time the Outlaws. They won in overtime, 33-27. Then the SaberCats met the favored Orange County Otters, who finished the season atop the ASFC at 11-5. San Jose promptly beat them, 23-14, and setting up a rematch against the Yeti. San Jose came into this game scoring 370 points and giving up 383, for a differential of negative 13. Colorado scored 432 points and gave up 324, for a differential of 108. When the two teams met in the regular season, Colorado won a close victory, 27-24, but the expectations were that the Yeti would finally win one. So then, it should have been an assured outcome, right? Wrong. San Jose took the lead in the second quarter off a Jamar Lackson run and never looked back, winning the game by a final tally of 34-17. Yeti quarterback McDummy, who had 28 touchdowns and 6 interceptions in the regular season and finished with 4383 total yards and a 96.4 rating (second in the league) promptly went 14/44 for 148 yards and threw two interceptions, finishing with a 31.2 rating.

Teams getting "simmed" happens every season, and isn't uncommon. But it is rare for the great wheel of fate to turn in your favor for two seasons in a row and against the same team. Its not unbelievable to say that the Colorado Yeti should have two more rings to their collection, but the "sim gonna sim" and for every team that is uplifted by chance, another team will lose.


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10.
The story of how Pan Cakes came to play professional football is one full of love, passion, dedication, innovation, but most of all it is a story of hunger.
As we all know, Pan Cakes was created by a former player from the Silverbacks, offensive lineman Marc Hamel. Hamel has played in the ISFL for many seasons and put his name rather high in the leaderboards for season with the most pancakes and most pancakes overall in a career. He was otherwise not known as a great offensive lineman as far as protecting the QB goes, but he did love his pancakes.
He didn’t only love his pancakes on the field. Marc Hamel is an unstoppable eater of actual pancakes and opened a chain of very successful restaurants who serve pancakes 24/7. On top of his pro football earnings, his business model and his massive investment made him a very wealthy man.
It is using all this wealth that Marc Hamel brought one of his dreams to reality. Hamel dreamt of a sentient being made entirely of pancakes who would be big enough to walk in his footsteps and become and even greater offensive lineman than he had ever been. To understand the reasoning behind that, one must know that Marc Hamel could never have children of his own because of a terrible pancake-cooking accident.
It was easier said than done, to create such a thing as the world had never seen before. People mocked him and called his experimentations unethical and/or lunatic. But Marc Hamel had gone to university and still had good contacts with some of the smartest brains in the world. He put up an elite team of scientists and breakfast chefs and together they finally realized what Hamel had hoped for, all of this just in time to enter the pro football scene as Hamel was retiring.

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