Saturday, December 3, 2016

More History --- Scoring Records

Earlier this year, I documented the highest and lowest-scoring games in the modern era of the TTFFL.  Continuing with the theme of historical research, I would now like to present the records for most/fewest points scored in a season in the modern era.  In fact, I'll present total scores for every team for every year of the modern era:

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Aaron 958 1066 988 973 868 1182 696.8
Adam 1054 1016 972 1153 1046 1044 980.2
Dave 1128 1041 1072 1217 955 1034 1036.3
Jason 981 956 1092 1185 1009 796 772.4
Jody 1108 1175 1021 837 1018 1017 879.6
Kevin 895 964 897 1107 947 1164 886.8
Levi N/A 1003 1095 1059 1081 1003 640.3
Merrill 1086 945 981 1004 1056 1116 693.1
Mex N/A N/A N/A N/A 1036 1069 891.4
Paul 1071 1033 1028 859 1014 916 800.6
Pete 1091 949 891 879 904 991 795.5
Taylor 841 1223 1119 1069 990 929 827.6
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The top scorer for each season is indicated in italics, and the champion for a given season is in bold.  The totals for this year are incomplete, obviously.

Additionally, as I mentioned earlier, now that we're scoring points for every yard gained and lost, each QB, RB, WR and TE is scoring average of about half a point per game more than they did in previous seasons.  So to make a more accurate comparison, the totals prior to 2016 should be normalized upward by 3.5 points per game, or 56 points per season.  After making that adjustment, the totals look as follows:

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Aaron 1014 1122 1044 1029 924 1238 696.8
Adam 1110 1072 1028 1209 1102 1100 980.2
Dave 1184 1097 1128 1273 1011 1090 1036.3
Jason 1037 1012 1148 1241 1065 852 772.4
Jody 1164 1229 1077 893 1074 1073 879.6
Kevin 951 1020 953 1163 1003 1220 886.8
Levi N/A 1059 1151 1115 1137 1059 640.3
Merrill 1142 1001 1037 1060 1112 1172 693.1
Mex N/A N/A N/A N/A 1092 1125 891.4
Paul 1127 1089 1084 915 1070 972 800.6
Pete 1147 1005 947 935 960 1047 795.5
Taylor 897 1279 1175 1125 1046 985 827.6

Now, you may think that I'm only posting this because I'm on track to absolutely CRUSH Taylor's current record of 1279 adjusted points in a season.  And you'd be right about that.  But you can also draw some other conclusions from this data.  For example, winning the title in a year when you score the most points is more common than you might think (me in 2013, Aaron last year).  And also, if you can't score at least 1000 points in a season, you're really fairly worthless.  So nanny-nanny boo-boo Jason, Paul, and Taylor from last year.

Obviously I'm only talking about how worthless you are if you failed to score 1000 total points on the adjusted scale.  Everyone can miss in the old scoring system every now and then.  Like in 2014, for example.

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