6. Write 800 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 800 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
For a statistical analysis of the league, I will be looking at the performance of a player/group (how good the QB or defense is) and seeing if that relates back to their record. First, let’s take a look at the best QB, and for that, we’re gonna look at a couple stats. For example, how is the team of the QB with the best rating doing? How about the worst rating? The best rating is owned by Monterey Jack, the QB of San Jose Sabercats. Despite the QB with the best rating in the league, the San Jose Sabercats are not doing well at all, with a 5-11 record, the lowest in their division. The main issue that I can see is despite such a high QB rating, he only has an average number of touchdowns. Combine that with a defense giving up the one of the most points in the league despite Monterey Jack only throwing 8 interceptions, and you have a recipe for a bad win-loss record. Actually, looking at it, it seems their whole team has an issue in the red zone. Their RB1, Jamar Lackson, has over 1000 yards at over 4 yards a carry, but only 6 touchdowns, and their RB2 only has 4, which is honestly extremely not ideal and such an outlier for such a good running game. The issue with SJS is absolutely their red zone issues combined with a fairly bad defense. Now let’s take a look at the lowest QB rating in the league, and that would be... well apparently that’s Dougie Smalls, the New York Silverbacks kicker, who for some reason threw one pass for an incompletion. As for the worst QB in terms of QB rating, that distinction goes to Luke Skywalker, the QB for the Baltimore Hawks, and well.... it’s baltimore, so take a wild guess as to how good the record is. I don’t mean to be mean, but it’s fairly well known that baltimore isn’t the best of teams this year. They beat the Sarasota Sailfish and the Chicago Butchers though, so they have that going for them. But yeah, their team isn’t great. The worst defense by far, combined with the second worst offense, led by a QB with the worst passer rating, most likely isn’t going places. But let’s go into what exactly was so bad about his play. He has a 64% completion rate, not bad at all. The real issue comes from the fact that he’s almost an off-brand Jameis Winston. At least Jameis has 5000 yards and threw for more TDs than INTs, with 32 TDs to 30 INTs. Luke Skywalker, on the other hand, does not have that benefit. He has over 4000 yards, but combine that with a 1:1 touchdown to interception ratio (18 TDs, 18 INTs) and it’s looking pretty dark for the team. So what have we learning from this? Absolutely nothing apparently, because both the highest and lowest QB ratings for players are for QBs on bad teams. But what about total yards? That’s gotta mean something, right? Well let’s check it out. Mattathias Caliban, who if i had to guess will be crowned MVP soon, threw for an insane 5668 yards, with a 95 QB rating, 15 INTs, and an insane 36 TDs. The Butchers, however, are not capitalizing on such amazing play, going 6-10. The main issue, and this seems to be a theme, is their defense. They allowed 22 more points than they scored, which is even worse when you consider they scored 430 points. Now let’s look at the passer with the least yards: Ryan Negs, the QB of the Philadelphia Liberty. Ryan Negs is a rookie passer, so i’ll give him a bit of a pass. He has one of the highest completion percentages as well, so this seems to be a game manager sort of thing. Well actually, calling him a game manager is a bit of a stretch, as a game manager would typically turn the ball over less. Negs’s main issue, other than a lack of yards, is his TD:INT ratio, with 1:1.1 being his ratio at 13 TDs to 14 INTs, which is horrendous. To finish this up, let’s look at the top two teams and see where their QBs stand out. The top 2 QBs are Nick Kaepercolin and Charlemagne Cortez. The thing that stands out to me is, well, the lack of things standing out to me. Both are above average, but there’s none that stand above the others. Cortez has a very high QB rating, second highest in the league, but QB rating absolutely doesn’t decide record, as we saw before. Kaepercolin is top 3 in yards, but same deal of that not deciding win loss record. What have we learned? Probably that WB performance absolutely doesn’t decide team success, as the best QBs seem to have pretty crappy teams around them.
For a statistical analysis of the league, I will be looking at the performance of a player/group (how good the QB or defense is) and seeing if that relates back to their record. First, let’s take a look at the best QB, and for that, we’re gonna look at a couple stats. For example, how is the team of the QB with the best rating doing? How about the worst rating? The best rating is owned by Monterey Jack, the QB of San Jose Sabercats. Despite the QB with the best rating in the league, the San Jose Sabercats are not doing well at all, with a 5-11 record, the lowest in their division. The main issue that I can see is despite such a high QB rating, he only has an average number of touchdowns. Combine that with a defense giving up the one of the most points in the league despite Monterey Jack only throwing 8 interceptions, and you have a recipe for a bad win-loss record. Actually, looking at it, it seems their whole team has an issue in the red zone. Their RB1, Jamar Lackson, has over 1000 yards at over 4 yards a carry, but only 6 touchdowns, and their RB2 only has 4, which is honestly extremely not ideal and such an outlier for such a good running game. The issue with SJS is absolutely their red zone issues combined with a fairly bad defense. Now let’s take a look at the lowest QB rating in the league, and that would be... well apparently that’s Dougie Smalls, the New York Silverbacks kicker, who for some reason threw one pass for an incompletion. As for the worst QB in terms of QB rating, that distinction goes to Luke Skywalker, the QB for the Baltimore Hawks, and well.... it’s baltimore, so take a wild guess as to how good the record is. I don’t mean to be mean, but it’s fairly well known that baltimore isn’t the best of teams this year. They beat the Sarasota Sailfish and the Chicago Butchers though, so they have that going for them. But yeah, their team isn’t great. The worst defense by far, combined with the second worst offense, led by a QB with the worst passer rating, most likely isn’t going places. But let’s go into what exactly was so bad about his play. He has a 64% completion rate, not bad at all. The real issue comes from the fact that he’s almost an off-brand Jameis Winston. At least Jameis has 5000 yards and threw for more TDs than INTs, with 32 TDs to 30 INTs. Luke Skywalker, on the other hand, does not have that benefit. He has over 4000 yards, but combine that with a 1:1 touchdown to interception ratio (18 TDs, 18 INTs) and it’s looking pretty dark for the team. So what have we learning from this? Absolutely nothing apparently, because both the highest and lowest QB ratings for players are for QBs on bad teams. But what about total yards? That’s gotta mean something, right? Well let’s check it out. Mattathias Caliban, who if i had to guess will be crowned MVP soon, threw for an insane 5668 yards, with a 95 QB rating, 15 INTs, and an insane 36 TDs. The Butchers, however, are not capitalizing on such amazing play, going 6-10. The main issue, and this seems to be a theme, is their defense. They allowed 22 more points than they scored, which is even worse when you consider they scored 430 points. Now let’s look at the passer with the least yards: Ryan Negs, the QB of the Philadelphia Liberty. Ryan Negs is a rookie passer, so i’ll give him a bit of a pass. He has one of the highest completion percentages as well, so this seems to be a game manager sort of thing. Well actually, calling him a game manager is a bit of a stretch, as a game manager would typically turn the ball over less. Negs’s main issue, other than a lack of yards, is his TD:INT ratio, with 1:1.1 being his ratio at 13 TDs to 14 INTs, which is horrendous. To finish this up, let’s look at the top two teams and see where their QBs stand out. The top 2 QBs are Nick Kaepercolin and Charlemagne Cortez. The thing that stands out to me is, well, the lack of things standing out to me. Both are above average, but there’s none that stand above the others. Cortez has a very high QB rating, second highest in the league, but QB rating absolutely doesn’t decide record, as we saw before. Kaepercolin is top 3 in yards, but same deal of that not deciding win loss record. What have we learned? Probably that WB performance absolutely doesn’t decide team success, as the best QBs seem to have pretty crappy teams around them.