Originally posted by Cuivienen
Sure, if you can trust GE, who has a proven history of viewing his players through rose coloured glasses and highly fungible memory. Hell, he just posted a 15 yard pass as a top play, and he's not spamming - he honestly believes it is an amazing play.
Myself, I can't trust GE when he says he only invested in power tackling this season. His player has a marked increase in FFum this season, and the biggest change that happened this season was weather, and most of the bad weather games my players have played in have seen crazy high FFum. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that might be at least a part of what is happening here.
Other things change from season to season too. I don't know if GE's schedule is materially different this season than last, and I can't be bothered to spend the time to find out myself.
Point is, I can easily see this season is an outlier for his player, and I can easily see the changelog. I can't trust GE's opinion on what he has or has not done with the player. Just briefly glancing at the player, he had a 3 FFum game on day 6. If GE was only investing in power tackling this season, he still would have had low power tackling on day 6. So his own player disproves his theory since it looks like you don't need high power tackling to get 3 FFum in a game, if you can trust GE's memory and version of events of course. Which you can't. The other 3 FFum game was on day 28. He would have had time to get power tackling up by then, again, if we can trust him, but look, the weather for that game was rainy.
I can respond to this if you'd like. I have a team in GE's division this season and the Journeyman leagues were consolidated this past offseason.
Last season we had about 8 human teams and 4 CPU teams, 2 of the human teams weren't really full rosters or active owners. During the offseason, thanks to support, we merged the 2 JMan leagues, so that all of the human owned teams were in one league, and the CPU's, and 2 partial roster teams were moved to the other league. So this season, our league is 100% human owned, and it's arguably one of the toughest leagues in the game. So his schedule this season has gotten much harder. I have trouble believing that this season could be a positive outlier for him if you are just looking at league games.
However if you look at ladder games, our ladder schedules at JMan has gotten a LOT easier. The beginning of the season were mostly against the other JMan league which is all CPU's except for the 3 human owned teams with partial rosters or inactive owners. So there were a lot of early ladder blowouts, until the leagues split ladder rankings far enough that we started getting some seasoned teams in ladder, and now we're starting to pull pro and vet teams in our ladder matchups.
So I will say his league matchups have gotten much more competitive and difficult, but his ladder matchups are much easier. In league games Vader has 11 fumbles so far and leads our league in fumbles forced, with the next highest being 9 by the SS on my team, we've played 12 games so far, so that's just under a fumble a game. He forced 3 fumbles a game against a 100% rushing team and the second seed in our league and in general has been a pain to play against. We actually entirely avoided passing over the center of the field just to avoid Vader... and because zone defenses are very weak to outside passing from 3 and 4 WR formations. But I would be hesitant to ignore the results from his player simply because you don't trust GE. If you don't have the time to investigate, thats fine, you aren't forced to investigate everything, but you shoudn't let your prejudices color how you perceive the things you're told. The only real attitudes to have are; to know the answer because you investigated it yourself, or to not know the answer because you didn't investigate it. To claim to have an idea of the answer simply due to your opinion of the person relaying the information is a bad attitude to take up.
