08-17-2023, 02:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2023, 03:01 PM by ztarwarz. Edited 2 times in total.)
17.161: Negs takes a good player I didn't think about, Borgo San Lorenzo, TE
Borgo is a bit of a mixed bag; he only made 3 Pro Bowls over his 8 year career, a total that would be fine for an LB but is damning for a TE. However, he has a 1st and 2nd team All Pro and two TEotY. Borgo is 13th in yards, 11th in touchdowns, T-9th in Yards per Reception at 10.3, but is pretty mediocre at the blocking front with 280 pancakes and 6 sacks allowed. It's a little notable that one of his TEotY seasons came when he was on the 2nd team and thus arguably shouldn't have won the award in S30. Then again, that was a pretty weak year for TEs as a whole. As a player, I don't think he stands out that much from either a player who ended up not being picked in Zee Rechs, or the player who will be picked in basically the last round in Mister Hogmally. With that said, Borgo is one of the worst TEs taken in the draft, which is fine as the 2nd to last TE picked. But it's less fine as a player picked basically 3 whole rounds before the last TE picked. At this point you save TE to the end and be done with it. D pick.
17.162: Mobi takes a player I'm not entirely sure what to think about, Jacob Small, K
Small has some good awards, with his PotY and 2 KotY, some less impressive All Pro teams with only a single 1st and 2nd team spot each (1st team Kicker, 2nd team punter), and an OK 5 Pro Bowls. His biggest standouts are in sheer volume; playing for 11 seasons mostly in the new sim on a powerhouse Sarasota squad gives him the most punts inside the 20, the 6th most punts and punt yardage, the most extra points made, the 2nd most attempted, and the 2nd most field goals made and attempted. He's good at Extra Points, 97.4% is a fine mark on that volume, even if that ends up being 25th. He also is in the top 10 (specifically 9th) at field goal percentage, with 89.8. That being said, there are a few massive issues. Jacob Small might be the most blessed kicker ever in terms of being handed short field goals. He's 1st in FGs attempted from under 20 yards, 4th in FGs attempted from 20-29 (basically every kicker all time is perfect from these distances) and is 3rd in FGs attempted from 30-39. He's actually awful all time at that last category, T-32nd at 92.6% makes him the 2nd worst HOF kicker (or HOF worthy kicker, for that matter) at that range. Only Dougie Smalls is worse (and actually far worse at 88.6%). Those 3 categories, 2 of which are basically freebies and one of which Small is bad at, contain 220 of his 371 Field Goal attempts. Suffice to say, there's a bit of the Simpson's Paradox to Small's FG% numbers, which makes his 9th feel a little worse in my books. Not that much worse, but suffice to say I don't think he's the best kicker available. Also boosting that feeling are that he got a big boost to punting statistics from the switch to the new sim early on in his career, and didn't exactly make the most of it with only the 35th place yards per punt. Suffice to say, I feel there were some better kickers who should have gone in front of Small. Not too many though, so a C pick.
17.163: Simo takes THE player that I don't believe is all that great all time, Matthias Caliban, QB
"3rd in yards
4th in TD
Lots of awards"
"Simo, if you really wanted a volume over efficiency guy, couldn't you have chosen one that wasn't awful in the playoffs?"
At most one of which I think he earned. He's also 2nd in attempts, lower than both his yard and TDs should give him.
You clicked on this article. If you looked at the draft result and you know me, you knew what was coming when you realized that Caliban was going to be covered now. Caliban is the illegitimate owner of 2 QBotY and at least 2 2nd Team All pro spots. Overall, he has an MVP, a 1st team All Pro, 3 2nd Team berths, and 3 Pro Bowls. Caliban did 2 things well, and one thing decently. He was great at throwing the ball constantly, and at getting awards. He was decent at avoiding picks. The things he was bad at are things that passer rating doesn't cover all that well: mainly, not covering that many yards per attempt, and getting sacked a ton.
If you look at only his raw yards per attempt and passer rating and compare them to the rest of ISFL history, he doesn't look bad. He actually looks good, at 11th in passer rating among people with 50+ games played and 21st in yards per attempt out of 81 players. The problem is that this is basically entirely down to being a New Sim QB. Of the players in his generation, he has the 5th best Passer Rating behind Mike Boss Jr, Jackie Daytona, Colby Jack, and Charlemagne Cortez, and when he retired 3 more players joined that would retire with higher passer ratings as well. It's even worse in yards per attempt, where there are even more players of his generation and the one immediately after in front of him. But he was great in the worst metrics, things like TD% and raw yards and touchdowns, and as a result got a ton of awards he didn't deserve. I am of the strong opinion that Caliban is at best the 3rd greatest QB of his generation, behind Cortez and Jack, and only looks as OK as he does in the worse efficiency metrics due to strategies that force fed him touchdowns over the running back. Hell, I could go much harder; by ANY/A, a metric that actually punishes him holding onto the ball and getting sacked and doesn't reward sheer volume, ALL of his awards are massively fraudulent and he shouldn't have anything more than a single 2nd team All Pro and maybe an OPOY for his performance in S31.
He's not the worst player or QB in the Hall, but he's one of the worst QBs. There's also the problem that he is the 2nd worst playoff QB ever with any volume (The only worse one is Wolfie McDummy), and in the bottom 10 even if you lift volume restrictions entirely. He has a 74.0 passer rating, 6.48 yards per attempt, and only a 10/9 Touchdown-INT ratio. With all that being said, there were worse picks at this slot. Caliban is not the absolute worst QB who ends up being drafted, even if I think the 9th person to draft a QB does end up with a better one. That's still enough to get this a D- pick considering that 9th QB pick is almost 30 picks later.
17.164: Frost picks a pretty good DL to get this late, Grayson Kuusela, DE
"1x DLOTY, 4x pro bowler, 5 seasons of 10 or more sacks and is 1 sack off of being top 10 for all DEs, in an era where they got less sacks"
That last bit is really impressive; the old sim, especially the era after the day and age of players like Jayce Tuck, was when the DEs were for TFLs and the DTs were for sacks. He does, however, suffer immensely in the TFL department, ranking only T-50th despite playing 11 seasons (though granted that's only 147 games). He's 8th all time in tackles, too! As a pick, I think he's definitely worse than Daron Arnold, who was picked 2 rounds ago, and has arguments with D'Pez Poopsie, Son Goku, (I think Grayson's better) and Godfrey King (I think Grayson's worse), and far oustrips Carly Rae Jensen. All of these people were taken multiple rounds ago. A pick.
17.165: Modern Duke picks an inefficient volume player who actually has excuses, Borkus Maximus III, QB
"I was fine waiting on qb til now because I was cool with either borkus or caliban, and now the choice was made for me"
"borkus - I was down to borkus or caliban, and the choice was made for me 2 picks before"
Borkus is the kind of player who I dislike as a matter of how he got to the Hall, as a guy who threw the ball more than anybody else did. He's 2nd in completions, 2nd in yards, 7th in TDs, 5th in picks, and 1st in attempts. He's extremely inefficient, ranking 47th in yards per attempt at just under 7, and 51st in passer rating at 84.2. However, he does have a lot more counterbalancing factors than I would have first thought. For one, he actually has a decent amount of rushing production on over 5 yards per carry, unlike, say, Cooter Bigsby. Over 2000 yards and 18 TDs is nothing to sneeze at, it kind of makes Maximus the equivalent of Fran Tarkenton in that he's the prototype of a rushing QB. Also, while Borkus isn't the best playoff QB of all time, he's arguably the 3rd best and inarguably top 5, with the 10th most yards, the 11th best yards per attempt (jumping to 7.53, over half a yard), and the 3rd best Passer Rating at 98.9. One of two people who beat him didn't play enough playoff games for me to know how well to rate him, too. The other big mitigating factor to Maximus' low efficiency is that this was the old sim, where very, very few players were even close to today's efficiency. He's still below average, even when factoring in time period, but he was at least great in the playoffs. When Infinite put a top 5 QBs in ISFL history early in the draft process, he put Borkus third, and while I wouldn't put him anywhere near there, he's got an argument for 4th after Sailor, Boss, and Armstrong. I'd have him top 10 at the bare minimum. At the very least, he's far better than Caliban and better than any QB who didn't get drafted in this project, which I cannot say for at minimum 2 of the QBs who did get drafted. I'm giving this a B- as a pick, he's too inefficient in the regular season to get higher, but this is an absolute amazing QB.
17.166: Infinite is the last person to Pick Himself, Micycle McCormick, K
"damn he took my #2 guy
you stinkers are gonna make me reach for micycle aren't you"
"yes"
"I’m gonna fuckin do it"
"do it
pick the person you've wanted to pick all along
if you do four people will have picked themselves and I will only have thought one was being tremendously homer"
"SMH micycle a genuinely good kicker/punter"
"you were not the person I was thinking was being tremendously homer
you were legitimately the person I was going to pick if you fell to me this round"
I'm the other person in the conversation above, and as you can see, I think McCormick was legitimately the best kicker available. McCormick has two major flaws. First off, he was actually pretty bad at extra points, only 95.7% ties him for 40th among kickers with at least 50 games. He also only played 70 games, and spent the back half of his career and a time where he regressed heavily as an overall player, at QB. If McCormick played Kicker in the 2nd half of his career the way he played QB in that career, he probably doesn't make the Hall, he was that bad. But that's not how the position, this draft, or the Hall works. Over his 5 seasons, he went to 3 Pro Bowls, won a KotY and 2 PotY, and made field goals at a rate that is just under, but rounds up to, 93%. It's not like this was a Jacob Small situation, either; he's one of 5 people with a greater than 90% make rate at field goals between 40-49 yards, and was still at an OK 70% for field goals over 50 yards. A pick, for sure.
Edit: Somehow I forgot to mention this, but that 93% field goal rate gives him the highest field goal rate in ISFL history. That's one heck of a thing to leave out!
17.167: Rusfan takes a perfectly serviceable player, Gary Goodman, LB
Goodman played 9 seasons at LB, 144 games, and is weirdly entirely absent from the Tackle leaderboard. By my count he's 17 tackles off of 50th. The reason why that's weird is because he's all the way up at 11th in sacks, while also being T-34th in TFLs, 47th in PDs, and T-23rd in FFs. He only made 2 Pro Bowls, but was a 1st team and 2nd team all pro once each. Goodman was someone I had my eye on and might have picked if I didn't feel like I needed the secondary help. B pick, he's fine as an LB3 but unexceptional.
17.168: Zayn picks one of the greatest OL ever*, Manhattan Project, OL
"9 time all pro and top 10 all time in pancakes lol"
Those All Pros are a bit cheap, as in they're for Center. That pancake record is not, especially with only 5 sacks allowed. With a staggering 175/1 pancake to sack allowed ratio, about the only criticism I can have of him is that his pancake rate on its own is pretty low and he was playing Center; he only crested 100 twice in his 10 season career, and that was with 101 and 103. Still, A pick, with 8 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro, plus 7 Pro Bowls. Ignoring position, this is the greatest ratio of seasons as the best player in the league at the position ever, though considering it's center, that's still quite a position to ignore. Easily a Hall of Famer, the asterisk on the pick is entirely because he was a Center the entire time.
17.169: Darkness Rising picks the best Punter ever, Swantavius King, K
There are two ways to take this pick; one way is that King is arguably the best punter ever, or at least has been over his 8 year career. He made the Pro Bowl 4 times, with 2 first team all pros, 2 2nd team all pros, the highest punting average of anyone in ISFL history at 48.67, and a top 10 rate of Punts Inside the 20 at 44%. He just finished up the greatest punting season ever, punting 51.5% of the time inside the 20 while averaging 51.2 yards per punt, the best mark ever in the latter category. The only argument against him being the best punter is that the new sim is much more helpful for punters in yards and the ratio of punts inside the 20 to outside of it, so Matty McDairmid (best punter who split time between sims) and Dean Jackson (as far as I remember, considered the best punter of the old sim) have arguments against him as the best punter. With that in mind, this cannot get higher than an F as a pick, because that's only half of the job of a placekicker. King is the worst kicker in this draft, and it's not particularly close. He's T-12th in XP% at 98.5, and 38th in FG% at 83.9, somewhat reverse splits from Turkleton, but when you miss an extra point you're losing one point and when you miss a field goal, you're missing out on 3. King is T-55th (out of 80) in percentage from 40-49, at 72.7%, and is 38th at 62.2% in field goals from over 50 yards. King also happens to be asked to kick long field goals a lot, only 2 people ever were asked to kick more field goals both from over 50 yards and from 40-49 yards in their career (Sam Sidekick and Blago Kokot), and I would be saying that's a massive mitigating factor to his overall percentage if his percentage from 40-49 specifically wasn't so awful. F as a pick, there are 2 punters who are at least comparable and both are much better kickers. Turk Turkleton, the player who is the 2nd worst kicker by percentage, is almost 5% better, 20 spots, and was significantly better from the 40-49 range.
Edit: Hilariously enough, the night after writing this up was Week 6 of the S43 ISFL season, during which King went 1-2 on Field Goals from 40-49 yards and dropped his percentage to 72.27%.
17.170: Let'splay picks one of what he feels were 2 better OL than much of the picks, Icebox Riposte, OL
"6th all time in pancakes, 9 total sacks given up all time. Riposte is one of the greatest OL ever and I'm glad to get him as the 5th off the board somehow."
"OL OFlex?"
"No"
"then pick the right ones so i dont go crazy"
"riposte is not top 5 ol ?
still a major name missing"
"Rubbe"
"Yeah"
"I was debating between the two
Riposte is statistically better, Rubbe was dealing with the old sim disadvantage
in the end I went with the guy who's 6th all time in pancakes and not in the top 50 in sacks allowed"
Rubbe and Riposte are on the same tier in my mind; above a lot of the OL already picked. Riposte has 3 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro, 5 Pro Bowls, and an OLotY. Riposte is the closest to the marks in my mind that separate the greats from the All Timers: He has nearly 100 pancakes per season for his career, he has less than 10 sacks allowed, and he's also completed his career with the requisite levels of sacks allowed at the end of his career. Rubbe is special because he's from the old sim, and if he had allowed less sacks I'd have gone with him. Either way I consider both Rubbe and Riposte to be A picks at this stage of the draft, considering I think they're both better than at bare minimum 2 of the previous 5 players that have already gone. Granted, there's the requisite bias and possible sunk cost fallacy as the guy who made this decision real time, but I stand by them being comparable and people who I agonized between. A, again, far better than Jaja Ding Dong, and Payne only looks better due to not having finished his career.
18.171: Let'splay picks one of those punters with an argument to be better than King while also being a far better kicker, Matthew McDairmid, K
"Meanwhile, Matty is one of the best punters ever and a great kicker as well; I'm fine with him here."
Matty more than arguably any kicker else is hurt by the team he was attached to in terms of kicking, and by award votes I personally disagree with, some of which I vehemently disagree with. He won 2 PotY, but also got two other 1st team All Pro spots in S28 while not actually getting either award, and a 2nd team spot in S31. We only awarded All Pros for 4 seasons of Matty's career, and he only missed out on them once, sweeping the 1st teams in S28. Matty also made 4 Pro Bowls.
In terms of punting, Matthew's rate of punts inside the 20 is merely average at 28.1%, 42nd all time, though the vast majority of the people above him spent a far larger portion of their career in the new sim. In terms of yards per punt, McDairmid is 3rd, at 48.375. Only King and Booter McGavin have a higher average punt distance. Kicking is a bit of a mixed bag among draftees, though still all time great level; he's T-30th in Extra Point percent at 97.1, and 14th in FG% at 89.2. However, there is a major caveat to this: Matty's percentages range from acceptable to amazing; he's perfect on punts below 30 yards as most are, 98.9% from 30-39 makes him 5th all time (and the most attempts from anyone who has a higher percentage from this range is 19), 27th from 40-49 with 81.7%, and 31st from over 50 yards at 65.2. At worst, these are acceptable rates for a kicker, it's just that Matty was asked to make more 50 yarders than all but 2 other players in ISFL history. And those two players are much worse kickers even accounting for that in Blago Kokot and Sam Sidekick. Simply put, my team will just not be forced to make Matty kick from 50+ yards. A+ pick, better than Turkleton in literally every rate stat and a much better kicker than King, better than about half the kickers in the Hall (which is where he belongs anyways).
18.172: Darkness Rising picks a player who is in the Hall, because he is in the Hall, Mako Mendonca, OFlex
"cause i gotta go and leaving TE/CB to the end
and he is HOF"
Mako's stats are fine, but unexceptional, even when just restricting myself to looking at other Old Sim backs. Over 9 seasons and 123 games, Mendonca made 6 Pro Bowls, and got the 26th most rushing yards and T-35th most rushing touchdowns on the 19th most attempts. Mendonca was also a bit of a dual threat back, with the 18th most receiving yards and T-23rd in receiving touchdowns for an RB on 9.3 yards per reception. However, as you might guess by the attempt ranking vs the yard and touchdown ranking, he wasn't exactly efficient; he's only fractionally above 4 yards per carry. It's extremely fair to say that this is the single worst RB drafted by anyone in the entire draft, but this also happens to be the last RB drafted, so it's not like I'm punishing Darkness for that in my rating. What I am going to mark him down for is that he, specifically, doesn't need Mendonca. There are maybe a couple people who could use him, mostly those with a pair of rushing only RBs, but considering Darkness just picked John Huntsman, who is basically the superior version of Mako Mendonca in every facet including receiving, there's no good reason to pick Mendonca over a multitude of better and more useful 3rd WRs for your OFlex. C- pick.
18.173: Zayn takes a Silverback with less pro bowls than I'd expect, Brick Van Sanzo, DE
"Three time pro bowler two time all pro
8th all time in sack from a DE, and played a relatively shorter career"
Sanzo only played 9 seasons, but I'd still expect more than 3 Pro Bowls. A 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro is fine, especially considering in the early days of the SFWG we ended up with DEs competing against OLBs which was more than a little unfair to the DE position. But still, only 3 Pro Bowls? That's much less excusable. Still, in terms of stats, Sanzo knocks the cover off the ball with sacks. He's only T-50th in TFLs and 40th in tackles, but he's T-4th in FFs and T-7th in FRs. His peak is undoubtedly his S31 season, with 10 sacks and 5 FFs. That said, he really wasn't anything special in the 2nd half of his career; he didn't make the Pro Bowl when he got the 2nd team All Pro spot in S32 and I actually agree with the decision to leave him off. With all that said, this feels like a slightly lesser version of Grayson Kuusela, without the peak of winning a DLotY. So I'm going to give him a slightly worse rating, B. Still great, but doesn't feel like as big of a steal as Kuusela was.
18.174: Rusfan picks the wrong player, Beniri T'Chawama, OL
I can't explain this. I know Rus wasn't above looking over what people were talking about at the time to make his picks, he did that with Dee Walt earlier. Somehow he didn't pick Rubbe. Instead, he decided to pick what is basically Worse Jaja Ding Dong. Beniri has 5 Pro Bowls, two 1st team and three 2nd team, but the problem is in his sack allowed count, and in the number of seasons where he allowed 0 sacks. As in, he had only one season where he allowed 0 sacks and allowed 21 in total over his career. Sure, Beniri is 4th all time in pancakes, but this is a situation which reminds me of the start of the draft; everyone knew who was going 2nd overall, everyone knew who the next QB off the board was going to be, only to be thrown a curveball as someone let recency bias overshadow old legends. D pick, Beniri might be the 2nd best OL still on the board at this point, but the best one is far better and is also really, really obvious.
18.175: Infinite cleans up, Givussafare Rubbe, OL
"Thank you very much"
"cannot believe rus picked Beniri over Rubbe
cannot believe Jaja ding dong went over Rubbe
cannot believe Rubbe in general fell to the 6th OL"
I actually miscounted. Rubbe fell to the 8th OL. And Rubbe is a player so great, so legendary, that at the end of Bruce Buckley's career, the user behind him claimed that Rubbe was the greatest OL of all time. My personal one issue with him was the slightly, and I do mean slightly, higher sack count than Riposte, with 11 over 167 games. But nobody comes anywhere close to Rubbe's pancake count from the old sim. He's 17th, and the next closest guy with anywhere near the proportion of games in the old sim has 250 less pancakes than Rubbe's 745. And that guy, Edmond Beaver-Dantes, gave up twice the amount of sacks. Rubbe is one of a few OL with arguments to be the greatest ever in my book, and as such is definitely getting an A+ after 2 different OL have been drafted that in my estimation have absolutely no argument whatsoever in Ding Dong and Beniri, and another pair that I think have much worse arguments in Project and Jones. A+ A+ A+. Arguably the best value pick considering Rubbe is comparable to Buckley and Infinite is picking him up almost 150 picks later.
18.176: Modern Duke uses the unbeatable strategy of "having the HOF page on the ISFL wiki open", Brian Mills, LB
"Look he’s a hall of famer"
Mills holds the distinct honor of having changed to DT for the last 2 disappointing seasons of his career. So if I just look at him as an LB, he made 5 Pro Bowls over 8 seasons. He's T-11th in picks and T-39th in PDs over 112 games. Brian Mills had 824 tackles, 14 TFLs, and 40 sacks as an LB. I'm going to be frank, even for a guy with only 112 games, those are unimpressive numbers; he's 8 tackles off 50th, sure, but 19 sacks, and an absolutely jawdroppingly awful 23 TFLs behind 50th for LBs. He has a couple good PD defending seasons, but this is a guy who I looked at and compared with dont draft for my pass defending LB and found far, far worse. I still stand by that, this is a D pick.
18.177: Frost picks OL, and I can't say much other than that, Byron Dolls, OL
Dolls was a 7 time Pro Bowler over a 10 season career, though I can't give him too much credit for some of them; it was pretty easy to get to Pro Bowls in the early 20s as an OL. He split time between the old and new sim, with 5 seasons in each. He's 12 in pancakes and only allowed 13 sacks, and holds a 63.5 pancake to sack allowed ratio. He seems fine, but nothing more than that. And I'm going to have to downgrade him to a C pick, because there's one other HOF OL and it's one that I think is just an improvement for one major reason: Dolls doesn't have a good peak, even during his prime in the new sim. His best seasons are an 80 pancake 0 sack season in the old sim, and either a 129 pancake 2 sack season or an 84 pancake 0 sack season in the new one. Over his career, he only allowed 0 sacks 3 times and that 129 mark is the only one of his higher than 93. Unlike Rubbe, who was unimpressive in the new sim as well, Dolls should have still been in the prime of his career at the time. As such I think that Dolls is worse than Mellott, and I will cover why exactly when I break Mellott down in the next part, because this pick ALSO allowed Modern Duke to take him with his final pick of the draft.
18.178: Simo might be a bit Outlaws biased, Glenn Smart, LB
Smart played for 10 seasons, went to 3 Pro Bowls, and got a 1st team All Pro and an LBotY award in S34. Nothing too special on the surface, but actually the best LB pick in terms of accolades in this section of the draft. Heck, it's better than the accolades either of the LBs I picked in rounds 15 and 16, though I still think those two are better, or at least fit better in draft's case. Smart is 42nd in tackles, T-16th in sacks, 15th in TFLs, T-20 in FFs, and T-14th in FRs. I don't love Smart as a pick in a vacuum, but this isn't a vacuum. This is the 2nd to last LB drafted in the entire project, and he's an A with that in mind. I think the last one might be better, but it's not by much.
18.179: Mobi picks a player wholly without accolades, Nathan Meagher, DT
Meagher has only played 7 seasons at this point, so it's definitely possible he could climb the stat charts higher than he currently is. But that's not going to save this pick. Meagher is currently T-26th in TFLs with 23, 29th in Tackles, and T-12th in FFs. Seems OK, but he's notably completely missing from the sack section. If you search his name up on the HOF resume tracker, he shows up with the 20th most TFLs in a game with 4, and the 10th most FFs in a game with 2. That's it. No Pro Bowls, no All Pros, not even in S41 or 42, I checked, and would be even lower than I already consider him if I was counting the S43 games that had already been played, since he has 0 stats at all this season. F pick, easily, one of the worst picks of the entire draft.
18.180: Negs wraps up the 2nd to last part of the draft, Venus Powers, K
Powers has 6 Pro Bowls, 2 KotY and 2 PotY, and a HOF berth. She played for 11 seasons, and put together a career that's more all around than a particularly all time great kicker or a particularly all time great punter, but combined she's one of the best ever. She's T-14th in XP% on the 15th most attempts, is unfortunately one of the few all time great kickers to miss a field goal from 20-29 yards out, making her 36th all time in that category, but makes up for that everywhere else. She's a great 15th in 30-39 FG% at 95.7, is more shaky from 40-49 (25th at 82.47%), but is right back to near top 10 from over 50 yards out at 75.86% and 12th all time. She's 4th in field goals made, 4th in attempts, and T-6th in FG% at 91. Part of that last one is due to a comparatively low number of kicks from 50+, with 29, but I can't put too much emphasis on that considering how good she was when she was asked to do so. She's also pretty good at punting, not King or McDairmid levels, but she's 12th in average distance at 46.96, and a pretty good rate for punts inside the 20 for someone who spent 8 of their 9.5 punting seasons in the old sim at 19%, ranking 47th all time. If not for a pretty bad S26 season where she punted 108 times and had 101 of them fall outside of the 20 yard line, she'd look a whole lot better, but even then she's still amazing and a pick I think is better than King, Turkleton, and arguably McDairmid, though I personally like McDairmid more. A+ as a pick.
Borgo is a bit of a mixed bag; he only made 3 Pro Bowls over his 8 year career, a total that would be fine for an LB but is damning for a TE. However, he has a 1st and 2nd team All Pro and two TEotY. Borgo is 13th in yards, 11th in touchdowns, T-9th in Yards per Reception at 10.3, but is pretty mediocre at the blocking front with 280 pancakes and 6 sacks allowed. It's a little notable that one of his TEotY seasons came when he was on the 2nd team and thus arguably shouldn't have won the award in S30. Then again, that was a pretty weak year for TEs as a whole. As a player, I don't think he stands out that much from either a player who ended up not being picked in Zee Rechs, or the player who will be picked in basically the last round in Mister Hogmally. With that said, Borgo is one of the worst TEs taken in the draft, which is fine as the 2nd to last TE picked. But it's less fine as a player picked basically 3 whole rounds before the last TE picked. At this point you save TE to the end and be done with it. D pick.
17.162: Mobi takes a player I'm not entirely sure what to think about, Jacob Small, K
Small has some good awards, with his PotY and 2 KotY, some less impressive All Pro teams with only a single 1st and 2nd team spot each (1st team Kicker, 2nd team punter), and an OK 5 Pro Bowls. His biggest standouts are in sheer volume; playing for 11 seasons mostly in the new sim on a powerhouse Sarasota squad gives him the most punts inside the 20, the 6th most punts and punt yardage, the most extra points made, the 2nd most attempted, and the 2nd most field goals made and attempted. He's good at Extra Points, 97.4% is a fine mark on that volume, even if that ends up being 25th. He also is in the top 10 (specifically 9th) at field goal percentage, with 89.8. That being said, there are a few massive issues. Jacob Small might be the most blessed kicker ever in terms of being handed short field goals. He's 1st in FGs attempted from under 20 yards, 4th in FGs attempted from 20-29 (basically every kicker all time is perfect from these distances) and is 3rd in FGs attempted from 30-39. He's actually awful all time at that last category, T-32nd at 92.6% makes him the 2nd worst HOF kicker (or HOF worthy kicker, for that matter) at that range. Only Dougie Smalls is worse (and actually far worse at 88.6%). Those 3 categories, 2 of which are basically freebies and one of which Small is bad at, contain 220 of his 371 Field Goal attempts. Suffice to say, there's a bit of the Simpson's Paradox to Small's FG% numbers, which makes his 9th feel a little worse in my books. Not that much worse, but suffice to say I don't think he's the best kicker available. Also boosting that feeling are that he got a big boost to punting statistics from the switch to the new sim early on in his career, and didn't exactly make the most of it with only the 35th place yards per punt. Suffice to say, I feel there were some better kickers who should have gone in front of Small. Not too many though, so a C pick.
17.163: Simo takes THE player that I don't believe is all that great all time, Matthias Caliban, QB
"3rd in yards
4th in TD
Lots of awards"
"Simo, if you really wanted a volume over efficiency guy, couldn't you have chosen one that wasn't awful in the playoffs?"
At most one of which I think he earned. He's also 2nd in attempts, lower than both his yard and TDs should give him.
You clicked on this article. If you looked at the draft result and you know me, you knew what was coming when you realized that Caliban was going to be covered now. Caliban is the illegitimate owner of 2 QBotY and at least 2 2nd Team All pro spots. Overall, he has an MVP, a 1st team All Pro, 3 2nd Team berths, and 3 Pro Bowls. Caliban did 2 things well, and one thing decently. He was great at throwing the ball constantly, and at getting awards. He was decent at avoiding picks. The things he was bad at are things that passer rating doesn't cover all that well: mainly, not covering that many yards per attempt, and getting sacked a ton.
If you look at only his raw yards per attempt and passer rating and compare them to the rest of ISFL history, he doesn't look bad. He actually looks good, at 11th in passer rating among people with 50+ games played and 21st in yards per attempt out of 81 players. The problem is that this is basically entirely down to being a New Sim QB. Of the players in his generation, he has the 5th best Passer Rating behind Mike Boss Jr, Jackie Daytona, Colby Jack, and Charlemagne Cortez, and when he retired 3 more players joined that would retire with higher passer ratings as well. It's even worse in yards per attempt, where there are even more players of his generation and the one immediately after in front of him. But he was great in the worst metrics, things like TD% and raw yards and touchdowns, and as a result got a ton of awards he didn't deserve. I am of the strong opinion that Caliban is at best the 3rd greatest QB of his generation, behind Cortez and Jack, and only looks as OK as he does in the worse efficiency metrics due to strategies that force fed him touchdowns over the running back. Hell, I could go much harder; by ANY/A, a metric that actually punishes him holding onto the ball and getting sacked and doesn't reward sheer volume, ALL of his awards are massively fraudulent and he shouldn't have anything more than a single 2nd team All Pro and maybe an OPOY for his performance in S31.
He's not the worst player or QB in the Hall, but he's one of the worst QBs. There's also the problem that he is the 2nd worst playoff QB ever with any volume (The only worse one is Wolfie McDummy), and in the bottom 10 even if you lift volume restrictions entirely. He has a 74.0 passer rating, 6.48 yards per attempt, and only a 10/9 Touchdown-INT ratio. With all that being said, there were worse picks at this slot. Caliban is not the absolute worst QB who ends up being drafted, even if I think the 9th person to draft a QB does end up with a better one. That's still enough to get this a D- pick considering that 9th QB pick is almost 30 picks later.
17.164: Frost picks a pretty good DL to get this late, Grayson Kuusela, DE
"1x DLOTY, 4x pro bowler, 5 seasons of 10 or more sacks and is 1 sack off of being top 10 for all DEs, in an era where they got less sacks"
That last bit is really impressive; the old sim, especially the era after the day and age of players like Jayce Tuck, was when the DEs were for TFLs and the DTs were for sacks. He does, however, suffer immensely in the TFL department, ranking only T-50th despite playing 11 seasons (though granted that's only 147 games). He's 8th all time in tackles, too! As a pick, I think he's definitely worse than Daron Arnold, who was picked 2 rounds ago, and has arguments with D'Pez Poopsie, Son Goku, (I think Grayson's better) and Godfrey King (I think Grayson's worse), and far oustrips Carly Rae Jensen. All of these people were taken multiple rounds ago. A pick.
17.165: Modern Duke picks an inefficient volume player who actually has excuses, Borkus Maximus III, QB
"I was fine waiting on qb til now because I was cool with either borkus or caliban, and now the choice was made for me"
"borkus - I was down to borkus or caliban, and the choice was made for me 2 picks before"
Borkus is the kind of player who I dislike as a matter of how he got to the Hall, as a guy who threw the ball more than anybody else did. He's 2nd in completions, 2nd in yards, 7th in TDs, 5th in picks, and 1st in attempts. He's extremely inefficient, ranking 47th in yards per attempt at just under 7, and 51st in passer rating at 84.2. However, he does have a lot more counterbalancing factors than I would have first thought. For one, he actually has a decent amount of rushing production on over 5 yards per carry, unlike, say, Cooter Bigsby. Over 2000 yards and 18 TDs is nothing to sneeze at, it kind of makes Maximus the equivalent of Fran Tarkenton in that he's the prototype of a rushing QB. Also, while Borkus isn't the best playoff QB of all time, he's arguably the 3rd best and inarguably top 5, with the 10th most yards, the 11th best yards per attempt (jumping to 7.53, over half a yard), and the 3rd best Passer Rating at 98.9. One of two people who beat him didn't play enough playoff games for me to know how well to rate him, too. The other big mitigating factor to Maximus' low efficiency is that this was the old sim, where very, very few players were even close to today's efficiency. He's still below average, even when factoring in time period, but he was at least great in the playoffs. When Infinite put a top 5 QBs in ISFL history early in the draft process, he put Borkus third, and while I wouldn't put him anywhere near there, he's got an argument for 4th after Sailor, Boss, and Armstrong. I'd have him top 10 at the bare minimum. At the very least, he's far better than Caliban and better than any QB who didn't get drafted in this project, which I cannot say for at minimum 2 of the QBs who did get drafted. I'm giving this a B- as a pick, he's too inefficient in the regular season to get higher, but this is an absolute amazing QB.
17.166: Infinite is the last person to Pick Himself, Micycle McCormick, K
"damn he took my #2 guy
you stinkers are gonna make me reach for micycle aren't you"
"yes"
"I’m gonna fuckin do it"
"do it
pick the person you've wanted to pick all along
if you do four people will have picked themselves and I will only have thought one was being tremendously homer"
"SMH micycle a genuinely good kicker/punter"
"you were not the person I was thinking was being tremendously homer
you were legitimately the person I was going to pick if you fell to me this round"
I'm the other person in the conversation above, and as you can see, I think McCormick was legitimately the best kicker available. McCormick has two major flaws. First off, he was actually pretty bad at extra points, only 95.7% ties him for 40th among kickers with at least 50 games. He also only played 70 games, and spent the back half of his career and a time where he regressed heavily as an overall player, at QB. If McCormick played Kicker in the 2nd half of his career the way he played QB in that career, he probably doesn't make the Hall, he was that bad. But that's not how the position, this draft, or the Hall works. Over his 5 seasons, he went to 3 Pro Bowls, won a KotY and 2 PotY, and made field goals at a rate that is just under, but rounds up to, 93%. It's not like this was a Jacob Small situation, either; he's one of 5 people with a greater than 90% make rate at field goals between 40-49 yards, and was still at an OK 70% for field goals over 50 yards. A pick, for sure.
Edit: Somehow I forgot to mention this, but that 93% field goal rate gives him the highest field goal rate in ISFL history. That's one heck of a thing to leave out!
17.167: Rusfan takes a perfectly serviceable player, Gary Goodman, LB
Goodman played 9 seasons at LB, 144 games, and is weirdly entirely absent from the Tackle leaderboard. By my count he's 17 tackles off of 50th. The reason why that's weird is because he's all the way up at 11th in sacks, while also being T-34th in TFLs, 47th in PDs, and T-23rd in FFs. He only made 2 Pro Bowls, but was a 1st team and 2nd team all pro once each. Goodman was someone I had my eye on and might have picked if I didn't feel like I needed the secondary help. B pick, he's fine as an LB3 but unexceptional.
17.168: Zayn picks one of the greatest OL ever*, Manhattan Project, OL
"9 time all pro and top 10 all time in pancakes lol"
Those All Pros are a bit cheap, as in they're for Center. That pancake record is not, especially with only 5 sacks allowed. With a staggering 175/1 pancake to sack allowed ratio, about the only criticism I can have of him is that his pancake rate on its own is pretty low and he was playing Center; he only crested 100 twice in his 10 season career, and that was with 101 and 103. Still, A pick, with 8 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro, plus 7 Pro Bowls. Ignoring position, this is the greatest ratio of seasons as the best player in the league at the position ever, though considering it's center, that's still quite a position to ignore. Easily a Hall of Famer, the asterisk on the pick is entirely because he was a Center the entire time.
17.169: Darkness Rising picks the best Punter ever, Swantavius King, K
There are two ways to take this pick; one way is that King is arguably the best punter ever, or at least has been over his 8 year career. He made the Pro Bowl 4 times, with 2 first team all pros, 2 2nd team all pros, the highest punting average of anyone in ISFL history at 48.67, and a top 10 rate of Punts Inside the 20 at 44%. He just finished up the greatest punting season ever, punting 51.5% of the time inside the 20 while averaging 51.2 yards per punt, the best mark ever in the latter category. The only argument against him being the best punter is that the new sim is much more helpful for punters in yards and the ratio of punts inside the 20 to outside of it, so Matty McDairmid (best punter who split time between sims) and Dean Jackson (as far as I remember, considered the best punter of the old sim) have arguments against him as the best punter. With that in mind, this cannot get higher than an F as a pick, because that's only half of the job of a placekicker. King is the worst kicker in this draft, and it's not particularly close. He's T-12th in XP% at 98.5, and 38th in FG% at 83.9, somewhat reverse splits from Turkleton, but when you miss an extra point you're losing one point and when you miss a field goal, you're missing out on 3. King is T-55th (out of 80) in percentage from 40-49, at 72.7%, and is 38th at 62.2% in field goals from over 50 yards. King also happens to be asked to kick long field goals a lot, only 2 people ever were asked to kick more field goals both from over 50 yards and from 40-49 yards in their career (Sam Sidekick and Blago Kokot), and I would be saying that's a massive mitigating factor to his overall percentage if his percentage from 40-49 specifically wasn't so awful. F as a pick, there are 2 punters who are at least comparable and both are much better kickers. Turk Turkleton, the player who is the 2nd worst kicker by percentage, is almost 5% better, 20 spots, and was significantly better from the 40-49 range.
Edit: Hilariously enough, the night after writing this up was Week 6 of the S43 ISFL season, during which King went 1-2 on Field Goals from 40-49 yards and dropped his percentage to 72.27%.
17.170: Let'splay picks one of what he feels were 2 better OL than much of the picks, Icebox Riposte, OL
"6th all time in pancakes, 9 total sacks given up all time. Riposte is one of the greatest OL ever and I'm glad to get him as the 5th off the board somehow."
"OL OFlex?"
"No"
"then pick the right ones so i dont go crazy"
"riposte is not top 5 ol ?
still a major name missing"
"Rubbe"
"Yeah"
"I was debating between the two
Riposte is statistically better, Rubbe was dealing with the old sim disadvantage
in the end I went with the guy who's 6th all time in pancakes and not in the top 50 in sacks allowed"
Rubbe and Riposte are on the same tier in my mind; above a lot of the OL already picked. Riposte has 3 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro, 5 Pro Bowls, and an OLotY. Riposte is the closest to the marks in my mind that separate the greats from the All Timers: He has nearly 100 pancakes per season for his career, he has less than 10 sacks allowed, and he's also completed his career with the requisite levels of sacks allowed at the end of his career. Rubbe is special because he's from the old sim, and if he had allowed less sacks I'd have gone with him. Either way I consider both Rubbe and Riposte to be A picks at this stage of the draft, considering I think they're both better than at bare minimum 2 of the previous 5 players that have already gone. Granted, there's the requisite bias and possible sunk cost fallacy as the guy who made this decision real time, but I stand by them being comparable and people who I agonized between. A, again, far better than Jaja Ding Dong, and Payne only looks better due to not having finished his career.
18.171: Let'splay picks one of those punters with an argument to be better than King while also being a far better kicker, Matthew McDairmid, K
"Meanwhile, Matty is one of the best punters ever and a great kicker as well; I'm fine with him here."
Matty more than arguably any kicker else is hurt by the team he was attached to in terms of kicking, and by award votes I personally disagree with, some of which I vehemently disagree with. He won 2 PotY, but also got two other 1st team All Pro spots in S28 while not actually getting either award, and a 2nd team spot in S31. We only awarded All Pros for 4 seasons of Matty's career, and he only missed out on them once, sweeping the 1st teams in S28. Matty also made 4 Pro Bowls.
In terms of punting, Matthew's rate of punts inside the 20 is merely average at 28.1%, 42nd all time, though the vast majority of the people above him spent a far larger portion of their career in the new sim. In terms of yards per punt, McDairmid is 3rd, at 48.375. Only King and Booter McGavin have a higher average punt distance. Kicking is a bit of a mixed bag among draftees, though still all time great level; he's T-30th in Extra Point percent at 97.1, and 14th in FG% at 89.2. However, there is a major caveat to this: Matty's percentages range from acceptable to amazing; he's perfect on punts below 30 yards as most are, 98.9% from 30-39 makes him 5th all time (and the most attempts from anyone who has a higher percentage from this range is 19), 27th from 40-49 with 81.7%, and 31st from over 50 yards at 65.2. At worst, these are acceptable rates for a kicker, it's just that Matty was asked to make more 50 yarders than all but 2 other players in ISFL history. And those two players are much worse kickers even accounting for that in Blago Kokot and Sam Sidekick. Simply put, my team will just not be forced to make Matty kick from 50+ yards. A+ pick, better than Turkleton in literally every rate stat and a much better kicker than King, better than about half the kickers in the Hall (which is where he belongs anyways).
18.172: Darkness Rising picks a player who is in the Hall, because he is in the Hall, Mako Mendonca, OFlex
"cause i gotta go and leaving TE/CB to the end
and he is HOF"
Mako's stats are fine, but unexceptional, even when just restricting myself to looking at other Old Sim backs. Over 9 seasons and 123 games, Mendonca made 6 Pro Bowls, and got the 26th most rushing yards and T-35th most rushing touchdowns on the 19th most attempts. Mendonca was also a bit of a dual threat back, with the 18th most receiving yards and T-23rd in receiving touchdowns for an RB on 9.3 yards per reception. However, as you might guess by the attempt ranking vs the yard and touchdown ranking, he wasn't exactly efficient; he's only fractionally above 4 yards per carry. It's extremely fair to say that this is the single worst RB drafted by anyone in the entire draft, but this also happens to be the last RB drafted, so it's not like I'm punishing Darkness for that in my rating. What I am going to mark him down for is that he, specifically, doesn't need Mendonca. There are maybe a couple people who could use him, mostly those with a pair of rushing only RBs, but considering Darkness just picked John Huntsman, who is basically the superior version of Mako Mendonca in every facet including receiving, there's no good reason to pick Mendonca over a multitude of better and more useful 3rd WRs for your OFlex. C- pick.
18.173: Zayn takes a Silverback with less pro bowls than I'd expect, Brick Van Sanzo, DE
"Three time pro bowler two time all pro
8th all time in sack from a DE, and played a relatively shorter career"
Sanzo only played 9 seasons, but I'd still expect more than 3 Pro Bowls. A 1st team and a 2nd team All Pro is fine, especially considering in the early days of the SFWG we ended up with DEs competing against OLBs which was more than a little unfair to the DE position. But still, only 3 Pro Bowls? That's much less excusable. Still, in terms of stats, Sanzo knocks the cover off the ball with sacks. He's only T-50th in TFLs and 40th in tackles, but he's T-4th in FFs and T-7th in FRs. His peak is undoubtedly his S31 season, with 10 sacks and 5 FFs. That said, he really wasn't anything special in the 2nd half of his career; he didn't make the Pro Bowl when he got the 2nd team All Pro spot in S32 and I actually agree with the decision to leave him off. With all that said, this feels like a slightly lesser version of Grayson Kuusela, without the peak of winning a DLotY. So I'm going to give him a slightly worse rating, B. Still great, but doesn't feel like as big of a steal as Kuusela was.
18.174: Rusfan picks the wrong player, Beniri T'Chawama, OL
I can't explain this. I know Rus wasn't above looking over what people were talking about at the time to make his picks, he did that with Dee Walt earlier. Somehow he didn't pick Rubbe. Instead, he decided to pick what is basically Worse Jaja Ding Dong. Beniri has 5 Pro Bowls, two 1st team and three 2nd team, but the problem is in his sack allowed count, and in the number of seasons where he allowed 0 sacks. As in, he had only one season where he allowed 0 sacks and allowed 21 in total over his career. Sure, Beniri is 4th all time in pancakes, but this is a situation which reminds me of the start of the draft; everyone knew who was going 2nd overall, everyone knew who the next QB off the board was going to be, only to be thrown a curveball as someone let recency bias overshadow old legends. D pick, Beniri might be the 2nd best OL still on the board at this point, but the best one is far better and is also really, really obvious.
18.175: Infinite cleans up, Givussafare Rubbe, OL
"Thank you very much"
"cannot believe rus picked Beniri over Rubbe
cannot believe Jaja ding dong went over Rubbe
cannot believe Rubbe in general fell to the 6th OL"
I actually miscounted. Rubbe fell to the 8th OL. And Rubbe is a player so great, so legendary, that at the end of Bruce Buckley's career, the user behind him claimed that Rubbe was the greatest OL of all time. My personal one issue with him was the slightly, and I do mean slightly, higher sack count than Riposte, with 11 over 167 games. But nobody comes anywhere close to Rubbe's pancake count from the old sim. He's 17th, and the next closest guy with anywhere near the proportion of games in the old sim has 250 less pancakes than Rubbe's 745. And that guy, Edmond Beaver-Dantes, gave up twice the amount of sacks. Rubbe is one of a few OL with arguments to be the greatest ever in my book, and as such is definitely getting an A+ after 2 different OL have been drafted that in my estimation have absolutely no argument whatsoever in Ding Dong and Beniri, and another pair that I think have much worse arguments in Project and Jones. A+ A+ A+. Arguably the best value pick considering Rubbe is comparable to Buckley and Infinite is picking him up almost 150 picks later.
18.176: Modern Duke uses the unbeatable strategy of "having the HOF page on the ISFL wiki open", Brian Mills, LB
"Look he’s a hall of famer"
Mills holds the distinct honor of having changed to DT for the last 2 disappointing seasons of his career. So if I just look at him as an LB, he made 5 Pro Bowls over 8 seasons. He's T-11th in picks and T-39th in PDs over 112 games. Brian Mills had 824 tackles, 14 TFLs, and 40 sacks as an LB. I'm going to be frank, even for a guy with only 112 games, those are unimpressive numbers; he's 8 tackles off 50th, sure, but 19 sacks, and an absolutely jawdroppingly awful 23 TFLs behind 50th for LBs. He has a couple good PD defending seasons, but this is a guy who I looked at and compared with dont draft for my pass defending LB and found far, far worse. I still stand by that, this is a D pick.
18.177: Frost picks OL, and I can't say much other than that, Byron Dolls, OL
Dolls was a 7 time Pro Bowler over a 10 season career, though I can't give him too much credit for some of them; it was pretty easy to get to Pro Bowls in the early 20s as an OL. He split time between the old and new sim, with 5 seasons in each. He's 12 in pancakes and only allowed 13 sacks, and holds a 63.5 pancake to sack allowed ratio. He seems fine, but nothing more than that. And I'm going to have to downgrade him to a C pick, because there's one other HOF OL and it's one that I think is just an improvement for one major reason: Dolls doesn't have a good peak, even during his prime in the new sim. His best seasons are an 80 pancake 0 sack season in the old sim, and either a 129 pancake 2 sack season or an 84 pancake 0 sack season in the new one. Over his career, he only allowed 0 sacks 3 times and that 129 mark is the only one of his higher than 93. Unlike Rubbe, who was unimpressive in the new sim as well, Dolls should have still been in the prime of his career at the time. As such I think that Dolls is worse than Mellott, and I will cover why exactly when I break Mellott down in the next part, because this pick ALSO allowed Modern Duke to take him with his final pick of the draft.
18.178: Simo might be a bit Outlaws biased, Glenn Smart, LB
Smart played for 10 seasons, went to 3 Pro Bowls, and got a 1st team All Pro and an LBotY award in S34. Nothing too special on the surface, but actually the best LB pick in terms of accolades in this section of the draft. Heck, it's better than the accolades either of the LBs I picked in rounds 15 and 16, though I still think those two are better, or at least fit better in draft's case. Smart is 42nd in tackles, T-16th in sacks, 15th in TFLs, T-20 in FFs, and T-14th in FRs. I don't love Smart as a pick in a vacuum, but this isn't a vacuum. This is the 2nd to last LB drafted in the entire project, and he's an A with that in mind. I think the last one might be better, but it's not by much.
18.179: Mobi picks a player wholly without accolades, Nathan Meagher, DT
Meagher has only played 7 seasons at this point, so it's definitely possible he could climb the stat charts higher than he currently is. But that's not going to save this pick. Meagher is currently T-26th in TFLs with 23, 29th in Tackles, and T-12th in FFs. Seems OK, but he's notably completely missing from the sack section. If you search his name up on the HOF resume tracker, he shows up with the 20th most TFLs in a game with 4, and the 10th most FFs in a game with 2. That's it. No Pro Bowls, no All Pros, not even in S41 or 42, I checked, and would be even lower than I already consider him if I was counting the S43 games that had already been played, since he has 0 stats at all this season. F pick, easily, one of the worst picks of the entire draft.
18.180: Negs wraps up the 2nd to last part of the draft, Venus Powers, K
Powers has 6 Pro Bowls, 2 KotY and 2 PotY, and a HOF berth. She played for 11 seasons, and put together a career that's more all around than a particularly all time great kicker or a particularly all time great punter, but combined she's one of the best ever. She's T-14th in XP% on the 15th most attempts, is unfortunately one of the few all time great kickers to miss a field goal from 20-29 yards out, making her 36th all time in that category, but makes up for that everywhere else. She's a great 15th in 30-39 FG% at 95.7, is more shaky from 40-49 (25th at 82.47%), but is right back to near top 10 from over 50 yards out at 75.86% and 12th all time. She's 4th in field goals made, 4th in attempts, and T-6th in FG% at 91. Part of that last one is due to a comparatively low number of kicks from 50+, with 29, but I can't put too much emphasis on that considering how good she was when she was asked to do so. She's also pretty good at punting, not King or McDairmid levels, but she's 12th in average distance at 46.96, and a pretty good rate for punts inside the 20 for someone who spent 8 of their 9.5 punting seasons in the old sim at 19%, ranking 47th all time. If not for a pretty bad S26 season where she punted 108 times and had 101 of them fall outside of the 20 yard line, she'd look a whole lot better, but even then she's still amazing and a pick I think is better than King, Turkleton, and arguably McDairmid, though I personally like McDairmid more. A+ as a pick.
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