6. Write 600 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 600 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
Passing is currently the offensive philosophy that's dominating the football world, and it's been like that for a while now, and with a passing offense, you have to have someone to catch all those passes. I a continuation of looking at both extremes of what's ultimately luck based stats, today we'll be looking at the players with both the most and least amount of catches from each of the following positions: Running Back, Full Back, Tight End, and finally Wide Receiver. Before I get into the write up, I'd like to say that I'm in no way trying to make fun of people or call people's players "bad," when in fact a lot of the highest drop getters also so happen to be some of the leaders in other major receiving categories, but with that out of the way, let's start off with the Running Backs!
The running back with the most amount of drops is the Baltimore Hawks' Dante King, but to be fair to King, they were a major factor in Baltimore's offense, ranking 2nd on the team in rushing and fifth in receiving, the Hawks ended up finishing just outside of the playoffs at 7-9, but the offense is more than good enough to push them over the edge eventually. There's a three way tie for the least amount of drops for a running back between the New York Silverbacks' Brandon Price, the Philadelphia Liberty's, (and captain) Lonnie Jackson, and finally the Berlin Salamanders' Marvin Toledo, but I'll give the edge to Lonnie Jackson. This is because among the three, Jackson had, by far, the most targets of the three at 52, mainly because he is the main running back and a focal point of the offense. Similar to Baltimore, Philadelphia fell just one game short of the playoffs and is looking for their young core to make a bigger impact next season.
The Fullback with the most amount of drops is the Austin Copperhead's Ivan Toastovich with a whopping five, which on top of having 60 targets if very surprising, seeing as teams rarely use fullbacks, but Toastovich is sort of an integral part of the Copperhead's offense racking up almost 1000 yards receiving while with the copperheads. Sadly, Austin weren't able to break the playoff streak of this write up, also barely missing out by a couple of games. There's a two way tie for least amount of drops among Fullbacks between Adebayo Akinfenwa of the Yellowknife Wraiths and Michael Patrick Porkins of the New Orleans Second Line, with the tiebreaker going to Akinfenwa, who had more targets with 17 targets, and impressively catching 11 of them . And for the first time, the playoff drought is broken! The Yellowknife Wraiths ended up making a wildcard spot in the National Simulation Football Conference, but their playoffs would end before they even started, losing 25-22 to the Sarasota Sailfish in the first game.
Now when it comes to Tight Ends and Wide Receivers, this is where you'll see that the drops leaders are among the beast in the league at their position, showing that at the end of the day, drops don't really matter, so I'll be very brief with the last two position groups. The two leaders in drops at the Tight End position, Lucius Salem and American Boot (both with 7), were both leaders in different ways. Salem lead all tight ends in yards, and Boot was one of the leading rookies in the same fashion. Same Goes for the whopping four way tie for most drops, (all with ten), Darius Bailey, Eeeeeeee phenssta. Johnny Patey, and Zayne Dangle were all near the top of the league in major receiving categories. James Wilkinson and Dumais Wells were tied for least amount of drops among Tight Ends and Wide Receivers respectfully, but didn't really have many targets to warrant much attention, while the other half of the ties, Lenard Graf and Escanor Sama both had over 100 targets and had the least amount of drops among their groups. All in all I think this write up proves that drops are basically meaningless and shouldn't really be something to scrutinize people over.
Passing is currently the offensive philosophy that's dominating the football world, and it's been like that for a while now, and with a passing offense, you have to have someone to catch all those passes. I a continuation of looking at both extremes of what's ultimately luck based stats, today we'll be looking at the players with both the most and least amount of catches from each of the following positions: Running Back, Full Back, Tight End, and finally Wide Receiver. Before I get into the write up, I'd like to say that I'm in no way trying to make fun of people or call people's players "bad," when in fact a lot of the highest drop getters also so happen to be some of the leaders in other major receiving categories, but with that out of the way, let's start off with the Running Backs!
The running back with the most amount of drops is the Baltimore Hawks' Dante King, but to be fair to King, they were a major factor in Baltimore's offense, ranking 2nd on the team in rushing and fifth in receiving, the Hawks ended up finishing just outside of the playoffs at 7-9, but the offense is more than good enough to push them over the edge eventually. There's a three way tie for the least amount of drops for a running back between the New York Silverbacks' Brandon Price, the Philadelphia Liberty's, (and captain) Lonnie Jackson, and finally the Berlin Salamanders' Marvin Toledo, but I'll give the edge to Lonnie Jackson. This is because among the three, Jackson had, by far, the most targets of the three at 52, mainly because he is the main running back and a focal point of the offense. Similar to Baltimore, Philadelphia fell just one game short of the playoffs and is looking for their young core to make a bigger impact next season.
The Fullback with the most amount of drops is the Austin Copperhead's Ivan Toastovich with a whopping five, which on top of having 60 targets if very surprising, seeing as teams rarely use fullbacks, but Toastovich is sort of an integral part of the Copperhead's offense racking up almost 1000 yards receiving while with the copperheads. Sadly, Austin weren't able to break the playoff streak of this write up, also barely missing out by a couple of games. There's a two way tie for least amount of drops among Fullbacks between Adebayo Akinfenwa of the Yellowknife Wraiths and Michael Patrick Porkins of the New Orleans Second Line, with the tiebreaker going to Akinfenwa, who had more targets with 17 targets, and impressively catching 11 of them . And for the first time, the playoff drought is broken! The Yellowknife Wraiths ended up making a wildcard spot in the National Simulation Football Conference, but their playoffs would end before they even started, losing 25-22 to the Sarasota Sailfish in the first game.
Now when it comes to Tight Ends and Wide Receivers, this is where you'll see that the drops leaders are among the beast in the league at their position, showing that at the end of the day, drops don't really matter, so I'll be very brief with the last two position groups. The two leaders in drops at the Tight End position, Lucius Salem and American Boot (both with 7), were both leaders in different ways. Salem lead all tight ends in yards, and Boot was one of the leading rookies in the same fashion. Same Goes for the whopping four way tie for most drops, (all with ten), Darius Bailey, Eeeeeeee phenssta. Johnny Patey, and Zayne Dangle were all near the top of the league in major receiving categories. James Wilkinson and Dumais Wells were tied for least amount of drops among Tight Ends and Wide Receivers respectfully, but didn't really have many targets to warrant much attention, while the other half of the ties, Lenard Graf and Escanor Sama both had over 100 targets and had the least amount of drops among their groups. All in all I think this write up proves that drops are basically meaningless and shouldn't really be something to scrutinize people over.