Another epic battle with another 16-0 hollyhh2000 team in the championship.
Great game friend. I won with luck and some timely defense. My $128M receiver caught 2 passes for 8 yards and was hurt on the pick-6 I handed you in the first quarter. After that, the algorithm was with me today.
As is my custom, I hereby retire from this league. I enjoy rebuilds, not repeats. Nothing personal to any of you in this league. It has been great fun and I'm sure there will be a worthy owner for the Packers heading into the 2019 season.
To my good friend hkpman7180. It has been fun bartering with you and, of course, I benefited from the trades in building my championship team. I wish you much luck in the upcoming draft.
To all, this is the second time in recent weeks that I've won a championship in a very similar way and I feel it's worth sharing the method to my madness. Read on, if you're interested. If not, fare well and I hope you have luck and success in life.
Early in the pandemic, I made a spreadsheet. I just listed all of the plays and looked at my last however many games (varied by league) to get a picture of what plays worked, and what didn't. Once I ran an offensive play 10 times, or a D play 20 times, I would look at the average yards per play. Offensive plays less than 3 yards and defensive plays more than 5 were "retired" from the spreadsheet and new plays took their place. Plays that averaged more than 10 ypp on O or less than 3 on D were set aside for a master playbook I was building.
I spent three seasons in five leagues (so 15 seasons) running 40 plays in my playbook (offense, 30 on D) and trying to run each one at least once per game. It meant I had to set all of the sliders in the "gameplanning" tab, which was a real pain (especially knowing I was going to get crushed in the upcoming game).
The trick (I think, this is all speculation) is that I built in a factor to account for touchdowns and interceptions, on both sides of the ball. Since I was looking at Yards per play, I realized that a 39-yard touchdown pass could've been a 90-yard (or 7-yd) TD, so I needed to put in a formula to standardize this disparity. Also, importantly, I didn't want the run plays that were good at the goal line or short yardage to get buried because it only went for 3-4 yards each time.
Anyway, in the end, I had 35 plays that I wanted my offense to run every game and 25 defensive plays that would be mathematically the most likely to slow down any crazy skilled offense like hollyhh2000's always are.
Also, a secret I've not revealed on any boards, is that I use just the last 6 games for scouting. On offense, I set it at "Yards Per Play" for six games and scout the top 10 plays with at least 10 uses. On defense, I use "Times Used" and select the top 9 used plays by my opponent and then throw in a random 10th. Very few teams use more than 9 plays often (hollyhh2000 is an exception, he has lots of plays too!)
