Following on from @timeconsumer's previous articles on running backs, I've decided to take it a small step further.
As a running back I'm very keen to find out what is separating the elite RB's in the league from the rest of us.
Wraith's MVP of the season contender, Bubba @NUCK, currently leads the rushing charts amassing 1135 yards and six touchdowns along the way.
However, while Nuck is sporting a fabulous 4.5 YPC (yards per carry) average, it is the Orange County Otters duo of Omar Wright and Leroy Jenkins are leading the top of the AVG YPC charts with 4..7 YPC each - amassing 936 and 887 total yards on the year respectively.
In comparison to my team's running backs, these three are out-performing us to a great extent.
At first, it's natural to think that it must be down to the players attributes being better than our guys.
So I took a look at what the guide says are the most important features for RB's
Strength: Medium
Agility: High
Arm:
Intelligence: Medium
Throwing Accuracy:
Tackling:
Speed: High
Hands: Medium
So Agility is given high importance - yet it is two Yeti players who are tied with Omar wright for the top Agility stat (70), with Nuck and Jenkins a decent few points back.
Speed is the second stat that is rated as high level of importance.
Here, we also see that the Yeti's Tweed clocks in in second place with a hugely impressive 81 speed, surpassed by Omar Wright with 85, but ahead of MVP contender Bubba Nuck who has 80 speed,
Note that Leroy Jenkins is a fair distance back on 75 speed/
So after looking at the two "highly important" attributes for RB's we see that while Boss Tweed excels in the attribute sheet of booth, and Leroy Jenkins seemingly comes in towards the bottom of our sample group in respect of these "highly imporatnt" attributes - it is Jenkins who is far outperforming Tweed on gameday.
As a result, the only conclusion one can take is that surely it is all down to the heroes on the offensive line.
I looked at the front five (Two guards, two tackles and the centre) of the respective teams, and for added analysis also threw in a TE & the player I assumed was playing in the FB position. I then averaged out the attributes for these players.
For funsies I included the players pancake stats which timeconsumer looked at previously as an indication of good play.
Please note, that I've only included players who have played all of the games this year - I realise that there have been some pick ups over the last 4 or 5 games, but given that we're looking at season long rushing stats, I felt it best to look at Olinemen who have played in all of the seasons games.
The Orange County Otters are the best rushing team in the league, they run it often and they run it well.
The Wraiths run it less than average amount of time int he league, but when they do, their sole back Bubba Nuck does a great job.
The Yeti, rush often, but look to be struggling in comparison to the other two teams.
So let's take a look at the Otters.
Seemingly, they have converted one of their Tackles and are using him as a guard and it's fair to say that they are beasting it in the type five, pancakes galore!
Next to the Wraiths
We can see that their run blocking and strength of their type five lags behind the Otters, and perhaps unsurprisingly, so does their pancake stat.
Finally, onto the Yeti.
The Yeti are joint top when it comes to their run blcoking stats for the tight five, but we see a significant drop off when their FB and Tight End are included, moving them from first to last in terms of the runblocking attribute.
What's also obvious is that their average strength is far behind both the other teams.
When we collate the facts, we see the following.
Teams sorted by strength
Teams sorted by Runblocking
So there you have it, it appears that a lot of the running back's success is unsurprisingly down to the offensive line performance, but more than that it appears that
1) Strength may be a more important factor than Run blocking
2) it's not just the tight five that matter.
3) The team with the fewest computer generated players in their Oline (Otters) is coming out on top and the team with the most computer players (Yeti) is coming out in last place.
Feel free to tag all of the respective Olinemen in this post.
@`xdave2456` @Jiggly_333 @Lainncli @PigSnout
As a running back I'm very keen to find out what is separating the elite RB's in the league from the rest of us.
Wraith's MVP of the season contender, Bubba @NUCK, currently leads the rushing charts amassing 1135 yards and six touchdowns along the way.
However, while Nuck is sporting a fabulous 4.5 YPC (yards per carry) average, it is the Orange County Otters duo of Omar Wright and Leroy Jenkins are leading the top of the AVG YPC charts with 4..7 YPC each - amassing 936 and 887 total yards on the year respectively.
In comparison to my team's running backs, these three are out-performing us to a great extent.
At first, it's natural to think that it must be down to the players attributes being better than our guys.
So I took a look at what the guide says are the most important features for RB's
Strength: Medium
Agility: High
Arm:
Intelligence: Medium
Throwing Accuracy:
Tackling:
Speed: High
Hands: Medium
So Agility is given high importance - yet it is two Yeti players who are tied with Omar wright for the top Agility stat (70), with Nuck and Jenkins a decent few points back.
Speed is the second stat that is rated as high level of importance.
Here, we also see that the Yeti's Tweed clocks in in second place with a hugely impressive 81 speed, surpassed by Omar Wright with 85, but ahead of MVP contender Bubba Nuck who has 80 speed,
Note that Leroy Jenkins is a fair distance back on 75 speed/
So after looking at the two "highly important" attributes for RB's we see that while Boss Tweed excels in the attribute sheet of booth, and Leroy Jenkins seemingly comes in towards the bottom of our sample group in respect of these "highly imporatnt" attributes - it is Jenkins who is far outperforming Tweed on gameday.
As a result, the only conclusion one can take is that surely it is all down to the heroes on the offensive line.
I looked at the front five (Two guards, two tackles and the centre) of the respective teams, and for added analysis also threw in a TE & the player I assumed was playing in the FB position. I then averaged out the attributes for these players.
For funsies I included the players pancake stats which timeconsumer looked at previously as an indication of good play.
Please note, that I've only included players who have played all of the games this year - I realise that there have been some pick ups over the last 4 or 5 games, but given that we're looking at season long rushing stats, I felt it best to look at Olinemen who have played in all of the seasons games.
The Orange County Otters are the best rushing team in the league, they run it often and they run it well.
The Wraiths run it less than average amount of time int he league, but when they do, their sole back Bubba Nuck does a great job.
The Yeti, rush often, but look to be struggling in comparison to the other two teams.
So let's take a look at the Otters.
Seemingly, they have converted one of their Tackles and are using him as a guard and it's fair to say that they are beasting it in the type five, pancakes galore!
Next to the Wraiths
We can see that their run blocking and strength of their type five lags behind the Otters, and perhaps unsurprisingly, so does their pancake stat.
Finally, onto the Yeti.
The Yeti are joint top when it comes to their run blcoking stats for the tight five, but we see a significant drop off when their FB and Tight End are included, moving them from first to last in terms of the runblocking attribute.
What's also obvious is that their average strength is far behind both the other teams.
When we collate the facts, we see the following.
Teams sorted by strength
Teams sorted by Runblocking
So there you have it, it appears that a lot of the running back's success is unsurprisingly down to the offensive line performance, but more than that it appears that
1) Strength may be a more important factor than Run blocking
2) it's not just the tight five that matter.
3) The team with the fewest computer generated players in their Oline (Otters) is coming out on top and the team with the most computer players (Yeti) is coming out in last place.
Feel free to tag all of the respective Olinemen in this post.
@`xdave2456` @Jiggly_333 @Lainncli @PigSnout