Task 4: Sim gonna sim
I'm just gonna randomly write about players who I think got the short end of the stick this season.
Wendell Sailor
After three straight seasons with Wendell throwing for over 4000 yards you would expect him to continue at this pace right? He isn't in regression and has multiple >1000 TPE receivers in Kotoni Staggs and Quinton Crash, as well as MVP Jay Cue Jr. You would be wrong in this assumption. While he had a healthy uptick in interceptions this season that statistic wasn't unprecedented as a rough 2%, and is actually below league average, the rest of his statistical profile was downgraded. Reduced passing yards by nearly 700 yards to about 3690, as well his lowest passing touchdowns stat in his career. He had a TD% rate of 4.3%, a half of a percentage point lower than league average, and 1.5 percentage points below his previous career low. This has actually been a trend of Wendell, where his statistical output was at its highest (most yards, touchdowns, highest TD% in career.) This may be due to Jay Cue Jr.'s breakout, not forcing Wendell to throw for 300 yards a game, but his passing attempts have stayed mostly stable in the 500's, which means that Wendell is still getting the same volume of passes throughout the past four years. I remember being told that Arizona is lighter on their offensive line, as well as that they don't have extra blockers. Due to the entire league blitzing like 75% of the time, this pressure might be the culprit.
Dustin Parmalee
Dustin has seemingly been hated by the sim since he was called up to the ISFL in Season 32. In his rookie season he threw 19 interceptions. Then the next two seasons he endured having to throw the ball over 600 times (the sim relented and let him play top tier once.) Finally, in Season 36 his output was good. Just good, not what you would expect from a player with a maxed out build. Also had a healthy uptick in interceptions this season to with a 3.5% INT%. However with Dustin there is a culprit: lower volume. You see, the Yellowknife Wraiths have finally decided to have a running back actually be good in Kumquat Archipelago. This resulted in the lowest pass attempts in a season for Dustin's career (however he had more yards this year than last year despite 30 less pass attempts, woof).
Dexter Zaylren
The sim decided for Dexter to become the absolute definition of mid this year, despite being nearly maxed out and with two receivers over 900 TPE. I guess that doesn't matter when you A) have a 1200 TPE running back that goes for 1700 yards in a season, B) have six players on the defense over 1000 TPE (this team is disgusting istg), and C) win an Ultimus. I guess you can say he did his job when he needed to.
Bayley Cowabunga
I assume this is because of schemeing because despite having like a 500-600 TPE lead over rookie WR br00ker, but had almost the exact same stats. 65 receptions vs br00ker's 67, both ended up with 740 receiving yards. The only big difference is that br00ker got 8 receiving touchdowns vs Bayley's paltry two.
Sal Ami
1300 TPE receiver and WR1 on the best team in football only gets 1000 yards. He is being thrown the ball by a QB over 1200 TPE as well. Compare this to Berlin's Zayne Dangle, who despite not being the top TPE WR for Berlin this season, went for 1300 yards. His quarterback was also Bageshwari Singh who will decent was both incredibly conservative with the ball and was also a rookie who started the season below 700 TPE.
I'm just gonna randomly write about players who I think got the short end of the stick this season.
Wendell Sailor
After three straight seasons with Wendell throwing for over 4000 yards you would expect him to continue at this pace right? He isn't in regression and has multiple >1000 TPE receivers in Kotoni Staggs and Quinton Crash, as well as MVP Jay Cue Jr. You would be wrong in this assumption. While he had a healthy uptick in interceptions this season that statistic wasn't unprecedented as a rough 2%, and is actually below league average, the rest of his statistical profile was downgraded. Reduced passing yards by nearly 700 yards to about 3690, as well his lowest passing touchdowns stat in his career. He had a TD% rate of 4.3%, a half of a percentage point lower than league average, and 1.5 percentage points below his previous career low. This has actually been a trend of Wendell, where his statistical output was at its highest (most yards, touchdowns, highest TD% in career.) This may be due to Jay Cue Jr.'s breakout, not forcing Wendell to throw for 300 yards a game, but his passing attempts have stayed mostly stable in the 500's, which means that Wendell is still getting the same volume of passes throughout the past four years. I remember being told that Arizona is lighter on their offensive line, as well as that they don't have extra blockers. Due to the entire league blitzing like 75% of the time, this pressure might be the culprit.
Dustin Parmalee
Dustin has seemingly been hated by the sim since he was called up to the ISFL in Season 32. In his rookie season he threw 19 interceptions. Then the next two seasons he endured having to throw the ball over 600 times (the sim relented and let him play top tier once.) Finally, in Season 36 his output was good. Just good, not what you would expect from a player with a maxed out build. Also had a healthy uptick in interceptions this season to with a 3.5% INT%. However with Dustin there is a culprit: lower volume. You see, the Yellowknife Wraiths have finally decided to have a running back actually be good in Kumquat Archipelago. This resulted in the lowest pass attempts in a season for Dustin's career (however he had more yards this year than last year despite 30 less pass attempts, woof).
Dexter Zaylren
The sim decided for Dexter to become the absolute definition of mid this year, despite being nearly maxed out and with two receivers over 900 TPE. I guess that doesn't matter when you A) have a 1200 TPE running back that goes for 1700 yards in a season, B) have six players on the defense over 1000 TPE (this team is disgusting istg), and C) win an Ultimus. I guess you can say he did his job when he needed to.
Bayley Cowabunga
I assume this is because of schemeing because despite having like a 500-600 TPE lead over rookie WR br00ker, but had almost the exact same stats. 65 receptions vs br00ker's 67, both ended up with 740 receiving yards. The only big difference is that br00ker got 8 receiving touchdowns vs Bayley's paltry two.
Sal Ami
1300 TPE receiver and WR1 on the best team in football only gets 1000 yards. He is being thrown the ball by a QB over 1200 TPE as well. Compare this to Berlin's Zayne Dangle, who despite not being the top TPE WR for Berlin this season, went for 1300 yards. His quarterback was also Bageshwari Singh who will decent was both incredibly conservative with the ball and was also a rookie who started the season below 700 TPE.