02-13-2021, 09:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2021, 09:18 PM by Asked Madden.)
Frost's Bank Account must be suffering HARD from all those bad bets and Bad Beats. How about rushers, how did running backs perform tonight?
Yellowknife Wraiths at Honolulu Hahalua:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 3/11
Jameson Vermillion: 2/8
Colby Jack: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicholas Ayers: 4/8
Cobra Kai: 1/5
Acura Skyline did not start out very well this game; through his first 7 rushes his long was 4 and that happened once. Granted, during that time he managed to get 2 successes due to being set up for short yardage 1st downs on 2 separate occasions, ironically his 4 yard carry came on 2nd and 23 so he wasn't successful on that carry. Considering he set it up to be 2nd and 23 due to committing a penalty, I think that's fair. One of his short yardage successes was set up by a pass to him, the other had nothing to do with him. Acura Skyline had another 4 yard carry on 1st and 10 that made up his final success. As is, he had an average yards per carry of 2, although it doesn't fall that far minus a single carry since he just never went anywhere. Jameson Vermillion's successes were a 21 yard touchdown run, and a 3 yard run on 3rd and 3. Minus the 21 yard carry, Vermillion takes quite a heavy blow falling from 4.4 yards per carry to a flat 2.
Ayers had a pretty good game that was ALMOST great. He succeeded on 4 of his last 5 carries, and had a carry that failed by an inch and a carry that would have succeeded if not for a poor first down play he had nothing to do with. He had a 4 yard run on 1st down, but it occurred on 1st and 16 unfortunately. He also got hit with a 1 yard gain on 1st and 4 from the 4, leading to a 2nd and 2 from the 2. As is, all of his successes came in the 2nd half of the game, starting with a 73 yard carry to take the Hahalua down to the goal line, and then 3 successful rushes in a period of 4 plays: a 19 yard run to get a goal to go opportunity, a 5 yard run on 2nd and 7, and a 2 yard run to finish that off from the 2. Kai's only success came from earlier in that same drive, a 13 yard run. Minus that carry, he falls from 3.2 yards per carry to 0.75 yards per carry. As for Ayers, his yards per carry falls only to 4.6 once you take out his 73 yard carry. Granted, that is a heavy hit from his current 13.1, but, well, there's only been one or two games where anyone's actually deserved a 13.1 yards per carry.
Chicago Butchers at San Jose Sabercats:
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 9/19
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 0/4
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 9/20
Rando Cardrissian: 1/8
Monty Jack: 0/2
Stop me if you've heard this before. Baby Yoda had one of those days again, where he bolstered his yards per carry with one or two long runs, while also boosting his success rate with one or two short yard successes. Being able to get 1 successes on a pair of 2 yard carries back to back on 2nd and 3 and 3rd and 1 is a huge luxury, especially when you weren't involved in the series beforehand. He also managed to pull off a 3 yard carry on 2nd and 4 and a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches, although these were at least set up by a 6 yard carry on 1st down. So yeah, 4 of his successes had an average of 2 yards per carry. The long of his 10 unsuccessful carries was 3, and he had 3 negative yardage carries. So, obviously his yards per carry suffered on the day, right? It was 8.5. This is mainly boosted by a trio of carries for 38 yards, 44 yards, and 56 yards. Without these 3 carries, his yards per carry falls to 1.4. And remember, he still has 6 successes in this pile of 16 carries. This was an extremely feast or famine day for Yoda, and when he didn't run for 30+ yards on a carry he most likely took it nowhere. I've given people passes for feast or famine days, but not when they only had 3 feast runs.
Jamar Lackson is in a similar boat, although his day doesn't look anywhere near as good as Yoda's, and also doesn't end up looking anywhere near as bad once you take out his double digit carries. This is in part due to having only 2 short yardage successes, a 3 yard carry on 2nd and 3 and a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 4, while also getting robbed once on a 4 yard rush on 2nd and 9. It's also in part due to his 3 double digit carries only taking out about half of his yardage in total, as opposed to 7/8ths of it. Taking his 3 longest runs out only causes him to fall to 3.4 yards per carry from 5.6, and considering that 3 of his failures came from runs at the end of the game I think I'd actually say he had a better day than Yoda despite the disparity in yards per carry and yardage. Cardrissian, meanwhile, opened the day with a 16 yard carry and then promptly did nothing else the entire rest of the day. His long for the rest of the day was 3 yards, he hit that once, and as such suffers IMMENSELY from the remove long method. Taking out his lone 16 yard success drops him to 1.6 yards per carry from his current 3.4. Monty Jack's somewhat interesting, in that one of his runs would have been successful, a 1 yard QB sneak on 3rd and inches. However, he fumbled on it and thus I'm counting it as a failure.
Sarasota Sailfish at Arizona Outlaws:
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 7/23
Running Back: 6/12
Sigismund Sternenstaub: 1/3
Outlaws Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 4/15
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 1/2
Two titans of running backs faced off, and when the dust settled, neither really came out the winner. Raphtalia Chan started out strong with 3 of her first 6 carries being successful. After that, one of Chan's successes came in a way that I can't decide whether she deserves it or not...Her run on 1st down was 3 yards, setting up a 2nd and 6, and she followed that up with another 3 yard run, which counted as a successful run, to get to 3rd and 3. Her only other success the rest of the day from that point was a 9 yard carry on 2nd and 5, and at this point, also known as basically the entire second half, the Sailfish Offense seemed to stall, leading to one of the craziest endings we've seen all year. Her yards per carry fall to 3.1 once you remove her 14 yard long from her current 3.6. Back started out with 3 straight successes, including a 1 yard touchdown run that was set up by a 6 yard run to the inch line from him, and then would not get another success until halfway through the 3rd, when he ran for 1 yard on 3rd and Inches, this time not set up by him in the slightest. He ended up with a 50% success rate, but man does one of his failures stick out like a sore thumb: a -1 yard gain and fumble, recovered by the Outlaws, with enough time for one long play left in the game. Once again, rest in peace Frost's bank account. His yards per carry I think are a bit more emblematic of his performance, where they are a paltry 3.2 and fall to 2.3 once you take out his long of 14.
Well, we've found it. This is the first day that Nakamura's had a bad outing. He had a pretty good run, and in the end I'm surprised he got 4/15 on this day, it felt like he should have had less. He almost had more, but he fumbled the ball away on a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 1. One of his successes came from a 3 yard rush on a 3rd and -4, but I can't blame him for that one considering he set up the short yardage situation with a 4 yard rush on 1st down, and they'd have had a 3rd and 1 without the dumb penalty anyways. His last success was a 50 yard run that made his yards per carry look less awful than it actually should have been. His yards per carry got bumped up all the way from 1.4 to 4.6 with that single carry, making it look like he was the best rusher on the day, which he VERY MUCH wasn't. Thorbjornsson, meanwhile, stays in lockstep with 50% no matter what apparently.
Colorado Yeti at Orange County Otters:
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 5/14
Anders Christiansen: 1/4
Otters Rushers:
Ace Savage: 2/6
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/6
Bronko Mills: 0/1
Gilbert did not start out very well, with only 1 success in the 1st quarter, a 1 yard touchdown run set up by the passing attack. However, he started to break out a bit in the 2nd half, getting 2 successes in a pretty short timespan, most notably being part of the 6 point swing that was Alex Longname missing a field goal into a 50+ yard run into a Silver Banana field goal. That being said, that was his only truly outstanding carry on the day, and he wasn't that efficient either. As such, taking it off causes his yards per carry to fall to just under 3.5 from his current 6.9. However, I can't say that this was an awful day, far from it. He did a good job keeping the chains moving on other scoring drives, scored once, and was generally alright, and you don't need much more than that on a day when your defense and special teams each gift you 7 points. Christiansen, on the other hand, was flat out bad on the day, only gaining positive yardage once, and the only reason he has a success at all is because the passing game gave him a 2nd and 1 for him to bring to a 3rd and Inches with his lone yard on the day. He definitely didn't deserve even the single success he ended up with.
Savage continues to squeeze successes out of short yardage situations. He had a long of 2 on the day, and he didn't get his success on that single 2 yard run. He had a 1 yard touchdown run, and a 1 yard run on 2nd and 2, both of which were set up by the passing game. Savage was extremely flattered by success rate this game, and I think his 0.7 yards per carry is a much more realistic look at his performance today. Jeffrey Phillips strings together another success ridden game, this time getting 3 successes out of pretty similar circumstances. Each time he came into the game on a 3rd and short, he got at least 4 yards and got a 1st down for his team. That was half of his carries, and he got 5 yards combined on his other 3 carries, including a 1 yarder on 4th and 5 that, to be frank, the Otters shouldn't have been running on in the first place. Then again, they were already out of it by that point, so not like it really mattered.
Berlin Fire Salamanders at Austin Copperheads:
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 4/12
Terry Yaki: 1/4
Nick Kaepercolin: 0/1
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 7/16
Jackie Daytona: 2/2
Jim the Vampire: 1/2
Watching this game felt like the Copperheads made a massive choke to lose this game. Going back over it and looking at the stats did nothing to disabuse me of that notion. Petrongolo started out fine, getting one of those 3 yard carries on 2nd and 6 that I mentioned in the Chan section, following it up with a 4 yard carry to get a 1st down, and getting a 7 yard carry on 3rd and -4, all in the first 5 carries of the game for him! Then his lone success during the entire rest of the game was a 6 yard carry on 2nd and 10, and the one place where he could feel like he was robbed, he robbed himself. Getting a 4 yard carry on 2nd and 10 is notable, but not so much when you ran the ball on 1st and 10 and gained nothing in the first place. 2.6 yards per carry and a long of 7 sounds about right for Petrongolo's day. Taking off his 7 yard rush at least only drops him to 2.2. Yaki, similarly, started out strong and then fell off. His first run was a 6 yard carry on 3rd and Inches. He would have 2 yards on 3 carries the rest of the way. Even WITH that 6 yarder he still only had 2 yards per carry.
Watts had a pretty good day, and gets out of the below 33% efficiency group with today's performance. Her first success was a short yardage one, a 2 yard success on 2nd and 3, but after that she earned all of her successes until the last one, a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches. This included a series of runs that got the Copperheads into field goal range at the end of the 1st half, and a series of runs that should have helped get the Copperheads into field goal range at the end of the 4th quarter if not for the offensive line completely forgetting how to block. That being said, she does suffer a lot from the remove long method, as over half of her yards came from a single 53 yard carry. Removing it causes her yards per carry to fall from 5.4 to 2.3. As for the supplementary rushers this week, Jim the Vampire got his first success since week 2 with his 23 yard carry to set up a touchdown, and Jackie Daytona gives us another 100% efficiency rusher just one week after we lost our last one, although he definitely doesn't deserve it. There's nothing wrong with the 9 yard carry on 2nd and 10, but the 1 yard carry on 2nd and -1 was only a success due to the neutral zone infraction on the previous play. By the way, sim team, is there a way to fix this stupid glitch in the system or is this something we're going to have to deal with longer than the reset downs on DPI?
Baltimore Hawks at New York Silverbacks:
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 3/11
Matthias Hanyadi: 2/3
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 6/16
Ashley Owens: 1/5
Buster Bawlls: 2/2
I'm very surprised Mai Fukushu got up to 3/11, and I'm very very surprised that as a team the Hawks got 5 of 14 on the success rate. Considering that she had a sub 2 yard per carry and a long of 8, you might expect that she had a couple short yardage successes, and you'd be right: a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 3, and a 3 yard carry on 3rd and inches. Taking off her long of 8 causes her yards per carry to fall from 1.5 to 0.8. As for Hanyadi, he managed to be successful on a majority of his carries, getting a 6 yard carry on 1st down, and a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches in the same series. This gets him back over 50% on the season.
No wonder this team scored only 20 points against by far the worst defense in the league. 4 of Rogers' 6 successful rushes were short yardage ones, albeit one of those was set up by a previous successful rush from Rogers himself. Another one was a touchdown carry, but the other short yardage carries were all him taking advantage of other parts of the offense. This heavily hit his yards per carry, 3.2 in total, and it falls to 2.2 once you remove his long of 18. Ashley Owens, meanwhile, got 5 of his 5 yards on his lone successful carry. But really, all of those guys pale in Buster Bawlls' night. He only got the ball twice, but managed to score on one of his rushes and get to the 4 yard line on the other rush...from New York's own 25. All hail the blocking Fullback somehow being the best running back this game.
Philadelphia Liberty at New Orleans Second Line:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 5/14
Sam Torenson: 4/10
Fuzzy Dotson: 0/3
Second Line Rushers:
Mike Rotchburns: 1/7
Mr Forty Two: 1/2
Ben Slothlisberger: 0/1
Williams started out extremely strong, with 4 successes in his first 5 carries, each of them being at least 10 yards. He also got another success, also over 10 yards later. These 5 carries took up 108 of his 117 yards. Taking away just his long of 49 causes his yards per carry to only fall to 5.2 from his current 8.4. That being said, he was extremely feast or famine, with just over a third of his runs being his feast. Torenson, meanwhile, did benefit from a 1 yard touchdown carry, but the rest of his successes were very earned, including a 10 yard carry on 2nd and 8 for his long. He did, however, not get many yards on any of his unsuccessful carries and thus got only 2.5 yards per carry, which fell to 1.66 when you take out that 10 yard long. Fuzzy Dotson, meanwhile, retakes the lead I believe for most rushes without a success.
Rotchburns had a long of 2. Not just outside of his success, but in general. His lone success was a 1 yard touchdown carry. His yards per carry of 0.7 is about as impressive as his 1/7 success rate, and neither are pretty in the slightest. As for Mr Forty Two, he had a 9 yard carry on 2nd and 10 for his lone success on the day. Sorry that I didn't say much, I'm just getting kind of tired.
Alright, time for the master list.
100% Jackie Daytona 2/2 (+2) AUS
52% Matthias Hanyadi 13/25 (+1) BAL
50% Gunner Thorbjornsson 20/40 (0) ARI
50% George O'Donnell 1/2 (0) CHI
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
47.6% Anders Christiansen 10/21 (-1) COL
45.8% Jeffrey Phillips 27/59 (-5) OCO
44.4% Buster Bawls 4/9 (-1) NYS
44.3% Jameson Vermillion 31/70 (-8) YKW
42.9% Tatsu Nakmura 72/169 (-18) ARI
40.4% Joseph Petrongolo 42/104 (-20) BER
40% Bronko Mills 2/5 (-1) OCO
40% Forrest Gump 2/5 (-1) NOLA
39.7% Captain Rogers 46/116 (-24) NYS
39.3% Jamar Lackson 48/122 (-26) SJS
39.2% Baby Yoda 62/158 (-3) CHI
38.4% Raphtalia Chan 63/164 (-38) SAR
38.2% Running Back 21/55 (-13) SAR
36.9% Richard Gilbert 45/122 (-32) COL
36.4% Sam Torenson 28/77 (-21) PHI
35.2% Acura Skyline 38/108 (-32) YKW
34.7% Zoe Watts 35/101 (-31) AUS
34.6% Cobra Kai 18/52 (-16) HON
33.3% Mike Boss Jr 1/3 (-1) SAR
33.3% Colby Jack 1/3 (-1) YKW
33.3% Kichwa Jones 1/3 (-1) AUS
33% Chika Fujiwara 2/6 (-2) BAL
32.8% Darrell Williams 39/119 (-41) PHI
31.8% Terry Yaki 14/44 (-16) BER
30.6% Mr. Forty Two 22/72 (-28) NOLA
30.6% Nicholas Ayers 33/108 (-42) HON
29.2% Ace Savage 21/72 (-30) OCO
29.2% Rando Cardrissian 21/72 (-30) SJS
29.2% Mai Fukushu 40/137 (-57) BAL
27.9% Ashley Owens 12/43 (-19) NYS
26.8% Mike Rotchburns 19/71 (-33) NOLA
25.8% Julio Tirtawidjaja 8/31 (-15) CHI
25% Nick Kaepercolin 1/4 (-2) BER
22.2% Sigismund Sternenstaub 2/9 (-5) SAR
20% Monty Jack 1/5 (-3) SJS
20% Jim the Vampire 3/15 (-9) AUS
0% Ben Slothlisberger 0/2 (-2) NOLA
0% Brock Phoenix 0/1 (-1) PHI
0% Sam Howitzer 0/1 (-1) NYS
0% Luke Skywalker 0/3 (-3) HON
0% Charlemagne Cortez 0/2 (-2) ARI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/10 (-10) PHI
0% Zed Keppler 0/8 (-8) CHI
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Yellowknife Wraiths at Honolulu Hahalua:
Wraiths Rushers:
Acura Skyline: 3/11
Jameson Vermillion: 2/8
Colby Jack: 0/1
Hahalua Rushers:
Nicholas Ayers: 4/8
Cobra Kai: 1/5
Acura Skyline did not start out very well this game; through his first 7 rushes his long was 4 and that happened once. Granted, during that time he managed to get 2 successes due to being set up for short yardage 1st downs on 2 separate occasions, ironically his 4 yard carry came on 2nd and 23 so he wasn't successful on that carry. Considering he set it up to be 2nd and 23 due to committing a penalty, I think that's fair. One of his short yardage successes was set up by a pass to him, the other had nothing to do with him. Acura Skyline had another 4 yard carry on 1st and 10 that made up his final success. As is, he had an average yards per carry of 2, although it doesn't fall that far minus a single carry since he just never went anywhere. Jameson Vermillion's successes were a 21 yard touchdown run, and a 3 yard run on 3rd and 3. Minus the 21 yard carry, Vermillion takes quite a heavy blow falling from 4.4 yards per carry to a flat 2.
Ayers had a pretty good game that was ALMOST great. He succeeded on 4 of his last 5 carries, and had a carry that failed by an inch and a carry that would have succeeded if not for a poor first down play he had nothing to do with. He had a 4 yard run on 1st down, but it occurred on 1st and 16 unfortunately. He also got hit with a 1 yard gain on 1st and 4 from the 4, leading to a 2nd and 2 from the 2. As is, all of his successes came in the 2nd half of the game, starting with a 73 yard carry to take the Hahalua down to the goal line, and then 3 successful rushes in a period of 4 plays: a 19 yard run to get a goal to go opportunity, a 5 yard run on 2nd and 7, and a 2 yard run to finish that off from the 2. Kai's only success came from earlier in that same drive, a 13 yard run. Minus that carry, he falls from 3.2 yards per carry to 0.75 yards per carry. As for Ayers, his yards per carry falls only to 4.6 once you take out his 73 yard carry. Granted, that is a heavy hit from his current 13.1, but, well, there's only been one or two games where anyone's actually deserved a 13.1 yards per carry.
Chicago Butchers at San Jose Sabercats:
Butchers Rushers:
Baby Yoda: 9/19
Julio Tirtawidjaja: 0/4
Sabercats Rushers:
Jamar Lackson: 9/20
Rando Cardrissian: 1/8
Monty Jack: 0/2
Stop me if you've heard this before. Baby Yoda had one of those days again, where he bolstered his yards per carry with one or two long runs, while also boosting his success rate with one or two short yard successes. Being able to get 1 successes on a pair of 2 yard carries back to back on 2nd and 3 and 3rd and 1 is a huge luxury, especially when you weren't involved in the series beforehand. He also managed to pull off a 3 yard carry on 2nd and 4 and a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches, although these were at least set up by a 6 yard carry on 1st down. So yeah, 4 of his successes had an average of 2 yards per carry. The long of his 10 unsuccessful carries was 3, and he had 3 negative yardage carries. So, obviously his yards per carry suffered on the day, right? It was 8.5. This is mainly boosted by a trio of carries for 38 yards, 44 yards, and 56 yards. Without these 3 carries, his yards per carry falls to 1.4. And remember, he still has 6 successes in this pile of 16 carries. This was an extremely feast or famine day for Yoda, and when he didn't run for 30+ yards on a carry he most likely took it nowhere. I've given people passes for feast or famine days, but not when they only had 3 feast runs.
Jamar Lackson is in a similar boat, although his day doesn't look anywhere near as good as Yoda's, and also doesn't end up looking anywhere near as bad once you take out his double digit carries. This is in part due to having only 2 short yardage successes, a 3 yard carry on 2nd and 3 and a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 4, while also getting robbed once on a 4 yard rush on 2nd and 9. It's also in part due to his 3 double digit carries only taking out about half of his yardage in total, as opposed to 7/8ths of it. Taking his 3 longest runs out only causes him to fall to 3.4 yards per carry from 5.6, and considering that 3 of his failures came from runs at the end of the game I think I'd actually say he had a better day than Yoda despite the disparity in yards per carry and yardage. Cardrissian, meanwhile, opened the day with a 16 yard carry and then promptly did nothing else the entire rest of the day. His long for the rest of the day was 3 yards, he hit that once, and as such suffers IMMENSELY from the remove long method. Taking out his lone 16 yard success drops him to 1.6 yards per carry from his current 3.4. Monty Jack's somewhat interesting, in that one of his runs would have been successful, a 1 yard QB sneak on 3rd and inches. However, he fumbled on it and thus I'm counting it as a failure.
Sarasota Sailfish at Arizona Outlaws:
Sailfish Rushers:
Raphtalia Chan: 7/23
Running Back: 6/12
Sigismund Sternenstaub: 1/3
Outlaws Rushers:
Tatsu Nakamura: 4/15
Gunner Thorbjornsson: 1/2
Two titans of running backs faced off, and when the dust settled, neither really came out the winner. Raphtalia Chan started out strong with 3 of her first 6 carries being successful. After that, one of Chan's successes came in a way that I can't decide whether she deserves it or not...Her run on 1st down was 3 yards, setting up a 2nd and 6, and she followed that up with another 3 yard run, which counted as a successful run, to get to 3rd and 3. Her only other success the rest of the day from that point was a 9 yard carry on 2nd and 5, and at this point, also known as basically the entire second half, the Sailfish Offense seemed to stall, leading to one of the craziest endings we've seen all year. Her yards per carry fall to 3.1 once you remove her 14 yard long from her current 3.6. Back started out with 3 straight successes, including a 1 yard touchdown run that was set up by a 6 yard run to the inch line from him, and then would not get another success until halfway through the 3rd, when he ran for 1 yard on 3rd and Inches, this time not set up by him in the slightest. He ended up with a 50% success rate, but man does one of his failures stick out like a sore thumb: a -1 yard gain and fumble, recovered by the Outlaws, with enough time for one long play left in the game. Once again, rest in peace Frost's bank account. His yards per carry I think are a bit more emblematic of his performance, where they are a paltry 3.2 and fall to 2.3 once you take out his long of 14.
Well, we've found it. This is the first day that Nakamura's had a bad outing. He had a pretty good run, and in the end I'm surprised he got 4/15 on this day, it felt like he should have had less. He almost had more, but he fumbled the ball away on a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 1. One of his successes came from a 3 yard rush on a 3rd and -4, but I can't blame him for that one considering he set up the short yardage situation with a 4 yard rush on 1st down, and they'd have had a 3rd and 1 without the dumb penalty anyways. His last success was a 50 yard run that made his yards per carry look less awful than it actually should have been. His yards per carry got bumped up all the way from 1.4 to 4.6 with that single carry, making it look like he was the best rusher on the day, which he VERY MUCH wasn't. Thorbjornsson, meanwhile, stays in lockstep with 50% no matter what apparently.
Colorado Yeti at Orange County Otters:
Yeti Rushers:
Richard Gilbert: 5/14
Anders Christiansen: 1/4
Otters Rushers:
Ace Savage: 2/6
Jeffrey Phillips: 3/6
Bronko Mills: 0/1
Gilbert did not start out very well, with only 1 success in the 1st quarter, a 1 yard touchdown run set up by the passing attack. However, he started to break out a bit in the 2nd half, getting 2 successes in a pretty short timespan, most notably being part of the 6 point swing that was Alex Longname missing a field goal into a 50+ yard run into a Silver Banana field goal. That being said, that was his only truly outstanding carry on the day, and he wasn't that efficient either. As such, taking it off causes his yards per carry to fall to just under 3.5 from his current 6.9. However, I can't say that this was an awful day, far from it. He did a good job keeping the chains moving on other scoring drives, scored once, and was generally alright, and you don't need much more than that on a day when your defense and special teams each gift you 7 points. Christiansen, on the other hand, was flat out bad on the day, only gaining positive yardage once, and the only reason he has a success at all is because the passing game gave him a 2nd and 1 for him to bring to a 3rd and Inches with his lone yard on the day. He definitely didn't deserve even the single success he ended up with.
Savage continues to squeeze successes out of short yardage situations. He had a long of 2 on the day, and he didn't get his success on that single 2 yard run. He had a 1 yard touchdown run, and a 1 yard run on 2nd and 2, both of which were set up by the passing game. Savage was extremely flattered by success rate this game, and I think his 0.7 yards per carry is a much more realistic look at his performance today. Jeffrey Phillips strings together another success ridden game, this time getting 3 successes out of pretty similar circumstances. Each time he came into the game on a 3rd and short, he got at least 4 yards and got a 1st down for his team. That was half of his carries, and he got 5 yards combined on his other 3 carries, including a 1 yarder on 4th and 5 that, to be frank, the Otters shouldn't have been running on in the first place. Then again, they were already out of it by that point, so not like it really mattered.
Berlin Fire Salamanders at Austin Copperheads:
Salamanders Rushers:
Joseph Petrongolo: 4/12
Terry Yaki: 1/4
Nick Kaepercolin: 0/1
Copperheads Rushers:
Zoe Watts: 7/16
Jackie Daytona: 2/2
Jim the Vampire: 1/2
Watching this game felt like the Copperheads made a massive choke to lose this game. Going back over it and looking at the stats did nothing to disabuse me of that notion. Petrongolo started out fine, getting one of those 3 yard carries on 2nd and 6 that I mentioned in the Chan section, following it up with a 4 yard carry to get a 1st down, and getting a 7 yard carry on 3rd and -4, all in the first 5 carries of the game for him! Then his lone success during the entire rest of the game was a 6 yard carry on 2nd and 10, and the one place where he could feel like he was robbed, he robbed himself. Getting a 4 yard carry on 2nd and 10 is notable, but not so much when you ran the ball on 1st and 10 and gained nothing in the first place. 2.6 yards per carry and a long of 7 sounds about right for Petrongolo's day. Taking off his 7 yard rush at least only drops him to 2.2. Yaki, similarly, started out strong and then fell off. His first run was a 6 yard carry on 3rd and Inches. He would have 2 yards on 3 carries the rest of the way. Even WITH that 6 yarder he still only had 2 yards per carry.
Watts had a pretty good day, and gets out of the below 33% efficiency group with today's performance. Her first success was a short yardage one, a 2 yard success on 2nd and 3, but after that she earned all of her successes until the last one, a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches. This included a series of runs that got the Copperheads into field goal range at the end of the 1st half, and a series of runs that should have helped get the Copperheads into field goal range at the end of the 4th quarter if not for the offensive line completely forgetting how to block. That being said, she does suffer a lot from the remove long method, as over half of her yards came from a single 53 yard carry. Removing it causes her yards per carry to fall from 5.4 to 2.3. As for the supplementary rushers this week, Jim the Vampire got his first success since week 2 with his 23 yard carry to set up a touchdown, and Jackie Daytona gives us another 100% efficiency rusher just one week after we lost our last one, although he definitely doesn't deserve it. There's nothing wrong with the 9 yard carry on 2nd and 10, but the 1 yard carry on 2nd and -1 was only a success due to the neutral zone infraction on the previous play. By the way, sim team, is there a way to fix this stupid glitch in the system or is this something we're going to have to deal with longer than the reset downs on DPI?
Baltimore Hawks at New York Silverbacks:
Hawks Rushers:
Mai Fukushu: 3/11
Matthias Hanyadi: 2/3
Silverbacks Rushers:
Captain Rogers: 6/16
Ashley Owens: 1/5
Buster Bawlls: 2/2
I'm very surprised Mai Fukushu got up to 3/11, and I'm very very surprised that as a team the Hawks got 5 of 14 on the success rate. Considering that she had a sub 2 yard per carry and a long of 8, you might expect that she had a couple short yardage successes, and you'd be right: a 2 yard carry on 2nd and 3, and a 3 yard carry on 3rd and inches. Taking off her long of 8 causes her yards per carry to fall from 1.5 to 0.8. As for Hanyadi, he managed to be successful on a majority of his carries, getting a 6 yard carry on 1st down, and a 1 yard carry on 3rd and inches in the same series. This gets him back over 50% on the season.
No wonder this team scored only 20 points against by far the worst defense in the league. 4 of Rogers' 6 successful rushes were short yardage ones, albeit one of those was set up by a previous successful rush from Rogers himself. Another one was a touchdown carry, but the other short yardage carries were all him taking advantage of other parts of the offense. This heavily hit his yards per carry, 3.2 in total, and it falls to 2.2 once you remove his long of 18. Ashley Owens, meanwhile, got 5 of his 5 yards on his lone successful carry. But really, all of those guys pale in Buster Bawlls' night. He only got the ball twice, but managed to score on one of his rushes and get to the 4 yard line on the other rush...from New York's own 25. All hail the blocking Fullback somehow being the best running back this game.
Philadelphia Liberty at New Orleans Second Line:
Liberty Rushers:
Darrell Williams: 5/14
Sam Torenson: 4/10
Fuzzy Dotson: 0/3
Second Line Rushers:
Mike Rotchburns: 1/7
Mr Forty Two: 1/2
Ben Slothlisberger: 0/1
Williams started out extremely strong, with 4 successes in his first 5 carries, each of them being at least 10 yards. He also got another success, also over 10 yards later. These 5 carries took up 108 of his 117 yards. Taking away just his long of 49 causes his yards per carry to only fall to 5.2 from his current 8.4. That being said, he was extremely feast or famine, with just over a third of his runs being his feast. Torenson, meanwhile, did benefit from a 1 yard touchdown carry, but the rest of his successes were very earned, including a 10 yard carry on 2nd and 8 for his long. He did, however, not get many yards on any of his unsuccessful carries and thus got only 2.5 yards per carry, which fell to 1.66 when you take out that 10 yard long. Fuzzy Dotson, meanwhile, retakes the lead I believe for most rushes without a success.
Rotchburns had a long of 2. Not just outside of his success, but in general. His lone success was a 1 yard touchdown carry. His yards per carry of 0.7 is about as impressive as his 1/7 success rate, and neither are pretty in the slightest. As for Mr Forty Two, he had a 9 yard carry on 2nd and 10 for his lone success on the day. Sorry that I didn't say much, I'm just getting kind of tired.
Alright, time for the master list.
100% Jackie Daytona 2/2 (+2) AUS
52% Matthias Hanyadi 13/25 (+1) BAL
50% Gunner Thorbjornsson 20/40 (0) ARI
50% George O'Donnell 1/2 (0) CHI
50% Suleiman Ramza 1/2 (0) OCO
47.6% Anders Christiansen 10/21 (-1) COL
45.8% Jeffrey Phillips 27/59 (-5) OCO
44.4% Buster Bawls 4/9 (-1) NYS
44.3% Jameson Vermillion 31/70 (-8) YKW
42.9% Tatsu Nakmura 72/169 (-18) ARI
40.4% Joseph Petrongolo 42/104 (-20) BER
40% Bronko Mills 2/5 (-1) OCO
40% Forrest Gump 2/5 (-1) NOLA
39.7% Captain Rogers 46/116 (-24) NYS
39.3% Jamar Lackson 48/122 (-26) SJS
39.2% Baby Yoda 62/158 (-3) CHI
38.4% Raphtalia Chan 63/164 (-38) SAR
38.2% Running Back 21/55 (-13) SAR
36.9% Richard Gilbert 45/122 (-32) COL
36.4% Sam Torenson 28/77 (-21) PHI
35.2% Acura Skyline 38/108 (-32) YKW
34.7% Zoe Watts 35/101 (-31) AUS
34.6% Cobra Kai 18/52 (-16) HON
33.3% Mike Boss Jr 1/3 (-1) SAR
33.3% Colby Jack 1/3 (-1) YKW
33.3% Kichwa Jones 1/3 (-1) AUS
33% Chika Fujiwara 2/6 (-2) BAL
32.8% Darrell Williams 39/119 (-41) PHI
31.8% Terry Yaki 14/44 (-16) BER
30.6% Mr. Forty Two 22/72 (-28) NOLA
30.6% Nicholas Ayers 33/108 (-42) HON
29.2% Ace Savage 21/72 (-30) OCO
29.2% Rando Cardrissian 21/72 (-30) SJS
29.2% Mai Fukushu 40/137 (-57) BAL
27.9% Ashley Owens 12/43 (-19) NYS
26.8% Mike Rotchburns 19/71 (-33) NOLA
25.8% Julio Tirtawidjaja 8/31 (-15) CHI
25% Nick Kaepercolin 1/4 (-2) BER
22.2% Sigismund Sternenstaub 2/9 (-5) SAR
20% Monty Jack 1/5 (-3) SJS
20% Jim the Vampire 3/15 (-9) AUS
0% Ben Slothlisberger 0/2 (-2) NOLA
0% Brock Phoenix 0/1 (-1) PHI
0% Sam Howitzer 0/1 (-1) NYS
0% Luke Skywalker 0/3 (-3) HON
0% Charlemagne Cortez 0/2 (-2) ARI
0% Fuzzy Dotson 0/10 (-10) PHI
0% Zed Keppler 0/8 (-8) CHI
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