*Top 20 Most Unbreakable Records in ISFL History

Yeenoghu · 02-14-2023, 08:56 AM

(02-14-2023, 08:35 AM)nickyvmlp Wrote:
(02-14-2023, 08:31 AM)Yeenoghu Wrote:
(02-14-2023, 08:16 AM)nickyvmlp Wrote: 7. Fumbles recovered in a career - Mike Boss Jr.: 24
Next closest: Melvin Murder-Moose, AJ Lucas, Big Slammu: 17

Is recovering fumbles a skill you can actually cultivate, or is it more about just being in the right place at the right time? If you ask, Mike Boss Jr., it’s the former. The younger Boss made a career out of snagging the ball when it popped to the turf. But here’s the kicker that I didn’t realize until I started writing this part of the article, Mike Boss Jr. was not a defensive player, or at least he wasn’t for most of his career. He was a quarterback, like his old man was. So granted, some of those fumble recoveries were probably due to him fumbling the ball in the first place, but it’s worth pointing out that Boss Jr. is the only QB with more than 10 fumble recoveries. In fact, the first quarterback that I could find on that list after Boss Jr. was Nicholas Pierno, with six. Why do I keep finding that man in my research? However, he’s not the only Boss with an unbreakable record…
Fun quirk about this one. Mike Boss, Jr. swapped to linebacker during the twilight of his career, so that allowed him to meet the threshold in Wolfiebot (1 career tackle) for appearing on the "fumbles recovered" leaderboard. Any other QBs who retired as QB or swapped to another position on offense won't show up in the data, so it's probably more appropriate to say that this record is jointly owned by MMM / Lucas / Slammu as Boss, Jr. only recovered two of his fumbles during his time on defense.
That IS a fun quirk. I'd still expect someone else who played QB but jumped to defense like Ryan Applehort or Gus Showbiz to have at least a few of them, but I'll accept that reasoning.

Those players do appear in the data, but QBs recovered almost none of their own fumbles in DDSPF16, so they are way down the leaderboard. Applehort is T-194th in Wolfiebot with 4 career recoveries, and Showbiz is T-355th with 2.