Just let us know... :clap: should be very interesting.

Yeah, I'll try to explain that away, but at the same time it's not unreasonable to take stats into account. We just don't want a situation where the winner is decided by stats alone. I think the presence of the entire team will dilute that a little as well, since it'll illustrate that the stats aren't just about the player.

http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorysta...seasonType=REG

ok

It will essentially be a popularity contest IMO, but I thought that before we started it as well.

My team only had 75 TDs....

Of course they had 19 turnovers....

But they forced 40 turnovers (+21) and had 30 sacks on defence...

Did you count all player TDs? I just accounted for the starters on offense.

Just the starters.

Drew Brees 34
Randy Moss 13
Terrell Owens 5
LaDanian Tomlinson 12
Knoshawn Moreno 9
Kelly Washington 2

ok my team love my d o was balanced





Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: manhattan beach, CA
Casino cash: $8865 53 Man Roster for LOs Angeles Purple Cobras:

QB: (3)

7 Matt Cassel
4 Brett Farve
5 Kerry Collins

RB: (3)

28 Chris Johnson
31 Jamal Lewis
29 Glen Coffee

WR: (6)

89 Antonio Bryant
80 Kevin Curtis
87 Nate Washington
86 Reggie Brown
19 Brandon Gibson
15 Michael Crabtree

TE: (2)

81 Dustin Keller
82 Alex Smith

OG: (4)

73 Anthony Herrera
53 Antoine Caldwell
63 Kyle Kosier
78 Mike McGlynn


OT: (4)

70 Donald Penn
67 Kareem Mckenzie
71 Phil Loadholt
74 Winston Justice

C: (1)

63 Jeff Saturday

P: (1)

6 Donnie JOnes

K: (1)

2 Rob bironas

PR/KR: (1)

16 Josh Cribbs

NT: (2)

95 Jason Ferguson
92 Aubrayo Franklin

DE: (5)

90 Trevor Pryce
96 Marcus Spears
77 Matt Shaughnesy
90 Darren Howard
94 Victor Abiamiri

OLB: (6)

92 James Harrison
55 Terrell Suggs
50 Mike Vrabel
51 Marcus Freeman
54 Akeem JOrdan
96 Omar Gaither

ILB: (4)

52 Ray Lewis
58 Rey Maualuga
56 Scott McKilliop
51 Joe Mays


CB: (5)

24 Brandon Flowers
22 Tracy Porter
23 Daunta Robinson
37 Ellis Hobbs
35 Macho Harris

FS (3):

21 Antrel Rolle
39 Quinten Demps
26 Sean JOnes

SS (2):

36 Brandon Merriweather
27 Quintin Mikell


IR :

87 WR Brandon Tate
59 LB Brandon Williams

My team was ****ing decimated by injuries this year.....but here are my starters and their stats. Kenny Phillips was pretty much out the entire year. Calvin Johnson and Sedrick Ellis missed a major amount of time as well. Plus my LT Jordan Gross got put on IR as well.

OFFENSE:

QB:

Jay Cutler - 3666 yards - 27 TDs - 26 INTs

RB:

Steven Jackson -
Rushing: 324 Attempts -1416 yards - 4 TDs
Receiving: 51 receptions - 322 yards

WR:

Calvin Johnson - 67 receptions - 984 yards - 5 TDs
Jerricho Cotchery - 57 receptions - 821 yards - 3 TDs
Earl Bennett - 54 receptions - 717 yards - 2 TDs

TE:

Jason Witten - 94 receptions - 1030 yards - 2 TDs


DEFENSE:

DE:

Elvis Dumervil - 49 tackles - 17 sacks
Cliff Avril - 41 tackles - 5.5 sacks

DT:

Randy Starks - 56 tackles - 7 sacks
Kyle Williams - 66 tackles - 4 sacks

OLB:

Thomas Howard - 79 tackles - 2 sacks
Rocky McIntosh - 94 tackles

MLB:

DeMeco Ryans - 123 tackles - 1 sack

CB:

Leon Hall - 71 tackles - 6 INTs
Eric Wright - 65 tackles - 4 INTs

FS:

Reggie Nelson - 70 tackles

SS:

Tyrone Culver - 32 tackles - 1 INT

I really think that each of your teams sucked... the Butte-Holes were awesome.

Wait. This isn't fantasy football. When your QB throws a TD to your WR, that's ONE touchdown. In real football, you don't get 14 points for that. ROFL

I don't think anyone is really sure what type of football this is ...

How are you going to account for the effect of an outstanding offensive line, for example? A really good offensive line can make a turd like Tony Romo almost seem like an NFL caliber QB. I'm fine with not double counting TDs as long as everyone else does the same. Of course it penalizes teams that drafted good WRs. Essentially WR picks are completely wasted and you can only count the TDs your QB threw. Conversely, if you drafted a crappy QB, but had great recievers, you couldn't really count all of the reciever TDs because your suckass QB wouldn't of gotten them the ball.

There most certainly is a strong element of fantasy to this alternative reality game.

Yeah, aside from looking for people that are "self proclaimed" phenoms on the best way to judge the creation of a team like we've done.... it's going to be difficult to not view it in a fantasy light.

I actually have some ideas about how to separate all the contributions of individual players using available data and then reconstitue a team from the pieces. If I had the data in a good format and a good block of time to work on it, I think I could do something pretty reasonable.