FOF8: Shelter In Place

[MalcPow]

No hook. Fewer puns than usual? I'm just going to try to play some seasons and mess around with a few things. I'm really, really hoping to not get bogged down with screenshots, but there's something helpful about posting season summary info and rosters in one place.

I don't know what exactly this will be, but I'm gonna play a little and we'll see how it grows. Ideally, we roll this thing like a stratonascar thread and I actually work my way through a couple decades of random results.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Martinez, Craig 117 QB 6 81 81 1 yr.
Alley, Jameson 103 QB 2 23 42 ---
Blackburn, Trevor 248 RB 8 56 56 2 yrs.
Bennett, Malachi 221 RB 5 48 48 ---
Emerson, Mack 243 RB 3 38 42 2 yrs.
McWilliams, George 345 FB 12 37 37 1 yr.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 3 39 43 2 yrs.
Cortez, Noah 484 TE 2 17 39 ---
Stargell, Damian 487 TE 2 27 38 ---
Bergmann, Devon 485 TE 12 33 33 1 yr.
Grylicki, J.T. 449 TE 2 18 33 ---
Boyer, J.B. 515 FL 4 32 32 1 yr.
Hudgins, Ricky 512 FL 13 25 25 ---
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE 2 57 63 3 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 SE 4 46 51 1 yr.
Kemper, Carl 583 SE 10 45 45 ---
Marks, B.J. 514 SE 11 30 30 2 yrs.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C 2 47 68 3 yrs.
Quinn, Brian 650 C 8 42 42 1 yr.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 7 70 70 3 yrs.
Minnich, Vince 772 LG 4 53 53 1 yr.
Webb, Blake 761 LG 2 21 39 3 yrs.
Walsh, Jeremy 876 LT 5 30 36 ---
Landry, Thurman 865 LT 13 35 35 1 yr.
Harper, Vincent 863 RT 10 36 36 2 yrs.
Jefferson, Landon 907 P 3 58 58 4 yrs.
Gay, Matt 1019K 16 23 23 ---
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 2 73 76 3 yrs.
Ciervo, Marshall 1171LDE 4 44 44 1 yr.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 4 78 78 1 yr.
Tanner, Roderick 1174RDE 2 20 33 ---
Washington, Ike 1298LDT 9 53 53 1 yr.
Upshaw, Van 1295LDT 6 47 47 2 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Lercius, Leon 1273NT 2 39 54 3 yrs.
Allen, Kent 1352WILB 2 23 48 ---
Ogden, Eddie 1399MLB 5 57 57 ---
McCleary, Dwayne 1394MLB 12 37 37 ---
Warren, Alexander 1496SLB 5 63 63 ---
Auerbach, Quentin 1441SLB 5 34 34 ---
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB 3 78 78 2 yrs.
Armstrong, Junior 1542LCB 4 58 58 1 yr.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 2 38 38 3 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 6 38 38 2 yrs.
Wenger, Gerald 1539RCB 2 21 35 3 yrs.
Tadlock, Tyler 1640SS 5 36 36 ---
Upshaw, Terrell 1634SS 11 30 30 1 yr.
Rodriguez, Bennett 1623SS 5 29 29 ---
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Rice, Kai 1646FS 3 11 11 2 yrs.
Carr, Austin 651 LS 2 12 12 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 33
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 33

Salary Cap: $255,000,000
Cap Room: $116,560,000
Maximum for New Player: $100,740,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,920,000

We're picking up in 2034 after a 15 year auto-history. I'm playing in the IHOF universe as the Hanalei Dragons, a franchise near and dear to my heart that I've still failed to really drag over the line to success in MP play over the years. The version of the franchise in this 15 year universe has never made the playoffs, so we've got some laid back island expectations already firmly established.

I haven't played much SP in a good while, but I generally try to approximate the challenge/discipline of house rules by dropping a pretty substantial cap hit onto things. I don't think I've tried 50% before, but we'll give it a go here. If it doesn't work, we'll adjust. I'll sign a longsnapper in FA1-2 for a contract worth half the cap to make things logistically easy and play from there.

We're already over our $127.5m limit with 33 players as we roll into FA1. A good portion of that is the 81/81 QB we just put the franchise tag on. He's an obvious stud and the second highest scout rating QB in the game at the moment. Setting aside whether it would be interesting or fun to allocate a bunch of resources toward a stud QB with our limitations... we're not going to do it with him. I'm going to see if we can add a few picks or something else interesting by trading him off and we'll start working toward a roster we have some attachment to.

We've got some young DE and LB talent as well, with three 70+ guys who will be looking to make big money very shortly. I'll probably sit tight with those guys for now, but we might need to trade one of them to help kick things off as well.

Overall, we stunk last year even with these guys. We've got the 4th pick in the draft and we're definitely going to stink again when we trade this 81/81 QB.

[MalcPow]

FA1

We're able to trade QB Martinez to Tucker for their 2+3+4+5 picks, which feels pretty shameful for the 2nd best QB in the game in his 6th year. But hey, good for the challenge I guess. Also good for the challenge... this 50% cap reduction foolishness we've set ourselves onto. We did what we had to but this feels like it's going to be difficult. We'll see as it goes, but we really can't afford to do much of anything. Some of the trimming we're doing now is going to hurt us this year and next with lost cap room as well. I guess it will get marginally easier when we've got some of that space in the future.

We bring in QB Caiden Logan (31/39) in this period to compete with holdover backup QB Talley. Neither look like solutions but they sign cheap.

Draft

We probably should just trade down or out for cap reasons (awesome), but we're dumb and really like a CB that's staring at us at 1.4. We ultimately take a weird trade for a 2+3+4+1st next year from Augusta. I'm sure we left some meat on the bone for some kind of all out trade against the AI's bad pick value logic, but we're just DOING THINGS. And the cap reduction has me shook.

2.3 LB Devan Henry
2.5 DT Jace Wolcott
2.7 FS Ted Matthews

Our first pick of this career is a DE-weight LB with big potential. We're gonna be thin at LB this year, and everywhere soon enough, so I like this one. DT Wolcott should be able to help immediately, and FS Matthews is a 211 lb guy who can hopefully shed some weight for a CB move.

We fill out with a bunch of other picks, including a hopefully complete stud punter (who will get plenty of work). We'll see how they hit the roster and what our team looks like when he get through to camp. Probably a bit more detail when we look at position groups then.

Pick #35 Hanalei OLB Devan Henry
Pick #37 Hanalei DT Jace Wolcott
Pick #39 Hanalei S Ted Matthews
Pick #66 Hanalei P Edwin Buchanan
Pick #68 Hanalei TE Michael McWilliams
Pick #70 Hanalei DE Edward Rodgers
Pick #99 Hanalei FB Nathan Glenn
Pick #101 Hanalei RB Rufus Curtis
Pick #103 Hanalei OLB Heath Ferguson
Pick #132 Hanalei T George Ellison
Pick #134 Hanalei QB Francisco Bowles
Pick #165 Hanalei CB Shane Owens
Pick #196 Hanalei S Louis Murray

[MalcPow]

FA2

DE Arnie Blackledge (78/78) is one of our holdover defensive studs. He's going into his last year at a criminally underpaid $1.6m. So he's holding out.

We do have $33m to spend and 34 guys under contract. We could possibly extend him. I value DEs quite a bit, but they're also a spot we seem to be able to spin decent options for pretty cheaply. I think we're likely going to be able to replace those spots with 3-5th round LB types with specialized skillsets in our 4-3 defense. It'll be a nice annoyance to keep this guy around as a nod to our general competitiveness this year and then have him hold out for the duration though. :thumbsup:

We fill out with a bunch of UDFAs. And we still have about $20m in space with a legal roster at the end of it. There really isn't a difference-making upgrade piece out there in the last stages of FA2. I think this is likely where we'll be signing any veteran FAs in future years. Just don't really see that piece this year.

We go ahead and do something likely a little stupid... sign DE Blackledge to a 5yr/$75m flat extension. It's a $15m/yr deal. That's a very large portion of our cap, but we've got the surplus this year and hopefully we'll be able to work our way around it in the future.

We already did this one, but my guess is we're likely playing him out through the year in a non-holdout scenario and then franchising him. That could be something that pops up in this career in the future.

[MalcPow]

TC/Camp

We have a weird situation where our 3rd year stud LB Aidan Benson (78/78) has almost no chance of resigning with us in two years. He also weighs 275 lbs and can only bulk up. We're looking at a move to bulk him up with an eye toward... playing him at DT for the next two years. He was a 1.6 pick a few years ago, and he's already asking for insane money on any kind of extension ($25-30m/yr). That might be good insight again into what does and doesn't make sense for us from a drafting perspective. We might never be able to extend one of those top pick types. The bulk up and DT move is probably just a bizarre curiosity. But I'm curious.

Ultimately, not curious enough. Glad I typed my way through that. We'll leave him at LB and probably a lot of MLB. He's one of the best linebackers in this universe. I probably shouldn't cut his legs off or something just for sport. Maybe next year...

Here's our squad after the pre-season.

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Logan, Caiden 111 QB QB 5 33 36 3 yrs.
Alley, Jameson 103 QB 2 28 45 2 yrs.
##Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 1 15 37 4 yrs.
##Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 1 19 50 2 yrs.
Bates, Archie 243 RB 1 39 47 2 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 221 RB RB 1 35 45 4 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 324 FB FB 1 38 63 4 yrs.
Woodson, Wendell 488 TE 9 30 30 3 yrs.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 3 40 40 2 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE TE 1 36 55 4 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 1 22 42 2 yrs.
Blanchard, Cooper 515 FL FL 1 23 36 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 SE 4 50 52 3 yrs.
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE SE 2 63 63 3 yrs.
Boyd, Amos 510 SE 1 32 46 2 yrs.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C C 2 54 68 3 yrs.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG LG 7 69 69 3 yrs.
Minnich, Vince 772 LG 4 51 51 1 yr.
Houston, Denzel 778 RG RG 1 14 52 2 yrs.
Ellison, George 860 LT LT 1 29 52 4 yrs.
Harper, Vincent 863 RT 10 27 27 2 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT RT 1 24 47 2 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 1 68 71 4 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 1 54 54 2 yrs.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE RDE 2 77 77 4 yrs.
Carlisle, Ruben 1194LDE 1 22 44 2 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 4 78 78 5 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 1 34 64 4 yrs.
Washington, Ike 1298LDT 9 46 46 1 yr.
Southern, Joe 1293LDT 1 22 51 2 yrs.
Buckley, Jeremy 1277LDT 1 28 48 2 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT LDT 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271NT RDT 1 46 72 4 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB MLB 1 37 60 4 yrs.
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB SLB 3 80 80 2 yrs.
Flory, Otis 1453WLB 1 25 28 2 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 1 29 48 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB WLB 1 44 73 4 yrs.
Armstrong, Junior 1542LCB LCB 4 58 58 1 yr.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 2 37 37 3 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538LCB RCB 1 38 54 4 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 6 37 37 2 yrs.
Upshaw, Terrell 1634SS 11 22 22 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS SS 1 43 73 4 yrs.
Krelovich, Marcus 1622SS 1 17 45 2 yrs.
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS FS 3 46 46 2 yrs.
##Welch, Marc 1631FS 1 28 47 2 yrs.
Murray, Louis 1628FS 1 26 54 4 yrs.
Carr, Austin 651 LS 2 12 12 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 49
Inactive: 3
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $255,000,000
Cap Room: $6,820,000
Maximum for New Player: $6,820,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $12,290,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $9,210,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $115,040,000

We have quite a bit of talent, but the QB spot is a killer. We're going to try to run the ball a lot. Too much youth and an offense that's probably going to murder us. We'll look to optimize or mess more with gameplanning in future years. Ready to sim through and get on with this one though.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2034 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2034
Record 5-11
Winning Pct. .312
All-Time 88-167-1
Winning Pct. .345
Playoffs 0-0
Playoff Visits 0
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 5-11
Winning Pct. .312
Off. Coord. B. Baker
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.8 18
Rushing Yards 88.2 31
Yards Per Carry 3.42 32
Pass Attempts 31.3 32
Completions 20.1 26
Completion Pct. 64.1 6
Passing Yards 192.6 30
Yards Per Attempt 6.15 19
Yards Per Catch 9.60 30
Total Yardage Gained 265.8 32
3rd Down Conversions 30.5 26
Points Per Game 15.8 30
Pass Rush Pct. 18.5 24
Pass Defense Pct. 55.6 13
Turnovers 19 10 (T)
Turnover Margin +1 15 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.1 26
Rushing Yards 123.7 27
Yards Per Carry 4.40 22
Pass Attempts 36.7 19 (T)
Completions 22.3 21 (T)
Completion Pct. 60.8 23
Passing Yards 249.6 27
Yards Per Attempt 6.80 27
Yards Per Catch 11.18 28
Total Yardage Gained 362.8 30
3rd Down Conversions 41.5 32
Points Per Game 21.8 24
Pass Rush Pct. 20.1 17
Pass Defense Pct. 47.8 11 (T)
Turnovers 20 18 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 30 at FBK 10
2 14 at MAA 20
3 10 at CHE 12
4 18 at TEX 34
5 24 CDO 19
6 19 MOO 8
8 7 FBK 25
9 20 at OBX 25
10 15 CPC 29
11 3 at OAK 26
12 16 at BOR 41
13 8 IOW 34
14 3 GOT 23
15 13 OAK 6
16 30 PAR 6
17 23 at CDO 30

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
11 C. Logan QB 432 287 2761 6.39 13 7 87.3
3 J. Alley QB 69 34 321 4.65 2 2 60.1
**Team --- 501 321 3082 6.15 15 9 83.6
$$Opp --- 587 357 3993 6.80 16 14 80.2

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
21 R. Curtis RB 275 921 3.35 4 2
43 A. Bates RB 105 370 3.52 2 0
**Team --- 413 1411 3.42 6 21
$$Opp --- 450 1979 4.40 12 13

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
13 D. Neumeyer WR 120 68 998 14.68 8.32 10 2
21 R. Curtis RB 87 60 405 6.75 4.66 3 6
15 C. Blanchard WR 84 54 589 10.91 7.01 5 2
89 I. Ackerman WR 63 38 368 9.68 5.84 4 3
43 A. Bates RB 45 33 185 5.61 4.11 0 1
86 D. Murray TE 34 21 141 6.71 4.15 2 0
88 W. Woodson TE 22 16 128 8.00 5.82 2 1
24 N. Glenn FB 24 16 141 8.81 5.88 2 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
54 A. Benson OLB 125 42 0.0 0 4 14 75.4
59 D. Henry OLB 83 33 3.0 5 0 13 78.4
42 J. Armstrong CB 78 23 0.0 0 0 17 76.6
37 T. Matthews S 78 20 0.0 0 1 7 77.2
55 H. Ferguson ILB 70 24 0.0 0 2 8 77.2
30 J. Foudray S 64 25 0.0 0 4 10 83.3
75 A. Blackledge DE 56 17 14.5 34 0 1 81.4
70 S. Boone DE 49 12 7.5 14 0 0 82.3
98 I. Washington DT 30 10 2.5 6 0 1 82.7
38 S. Owens CB 30 13 0.0 0 1 3 79.5
44 C. Branham CB 29 11 0.0 0 1 3 77.9
71 J. Wolcott DT 28 20 0.0 5 0 1 82.2
91 R. Meche DT 23 12 0.5 6 0 0 82.2
33 R. Roth CB 16 6 0.0 0 1 1 78.7

[MalcPow]

I think that's what we should have expected. The QB play looks a little more solid than it was, with a crazy number of sacks taken hiding in there. And we threw less than anyone.

RB Rufus Curtis, a 4th rounder who really doesn't have much all that interesting about him at this point, won OROY through sheer virtue of workload and being a rookie.

DE Blackledge rewarded our extension with a 1st Team DE season.

We had stretches of interesting play. The defense might have actually been very good if there was an offense on the other side keeping things interesting.

I think something like this will be part of the formula though. We'll likely run the ball quite a bit, cycling through RBs every few years. We need something better resembling an offense and probably a QB too. Maybe we look to see what $7-10m does for us there this offseason.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 2 19 50 1 yr.
Alley, Jameson 103 QB 3 29 45 1 yr.
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 2 15 37 3 yrs.
Logan, Caiden 111 QB 6 36 36 2 yrs.
Bates, Archie 243 RB 2 42 47 1 yr.
Curtis, Rufus 221 RB 2 39 45 3 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 324 FB 2 46 63 3 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 2 42 54 3 yrs.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 4 41 41 1 yr.
Woodson, Wendell 488 TE 10 30 30 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL 5 49 52 2 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 2 22 42 1 yr.
Blanchard, Cooper 515 FL 2 27 36 1 yr.
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE 3 66 66 2 yrs.
Boyd, Amos 510 SE 2 32 46 1 yr.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C 3 60 68 2 yrs.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 8 69 69 2 yrs.
Minnich, Vince 772 LG 5 51 51 ---
Houston, Denzel 778 RG 2 14 52 1 yr.
Ellison, George 860 LT 2 30 52 3 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 2 24 47 1 yr.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 2 71 76 3 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 2 55 55 1 yr.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 3 77 77 3 yrs.
Carlisle, Ruben 1194LDE 2 22 44 1 yr.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 5 78 78 4 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 2 34 64 3 yrs.
Southern, Joe 1293LDT 2 22 51 1 yr.
Buckley, Jeremy 1277LDT 2 28 48 1 yr.
Washington, Ike 1298LDT 10 46 46 ---
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 2 52 72 3 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT 4 47 47 1 yr.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 2 46 60 3 yrs.
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB 4 80 80 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 2 64 73 3 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 2 30 48 1 yr.
Flory, Otis 1453WLB 2 26 28 1 yr.
Owens, Shane 1538LCB 2 43 54 3 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 3 37 37 2 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 7 37 37 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 2 47 73 3 yrs.
Krelovich, Marcus 1622SS 2 17 45 1 yr.
Upshaw, Terrell 1634SS 12 22 22 ---
Murray, Louis 1628FS 2 26 54 3 yrs.
Welch, Marc 1631FS 2 28 47 1 yr.
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS 4 46 46 1 yr.
Carr, Austin 651 LS 3 12 12 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 43
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 43

Salary Cap: $259,400,000
Cap Room: $146,920,000
Maximum for New Player: $125,870,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $9,830,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $80,340,000

We head into this offseason with the 3rd and 13th picks in the coming draft. And then a usual cohort after that. I'm not really looking to make a million picks a draft in this thing, just for my own sanity really. We've got talent on the roster. We lost our best CB from last year, who doesn't even show on the roster screen here because I franchised him, shopped him, and got no interest for some kind of lame late pick trade. So we released him before printing the roster screen. It's a spot of some concern.

SS Ted Matthews couldn't trim weight last summer from his drafted 211 lbs, so we just played him at SS. He's got everything but a zone bar and I think he played well. It's a tough spot to judge, but I think we could just leave him there and let him do his thing. I also think he's got a lot of good looking CB attributes, I'm just not quite comfortable he can play there at that weight.

We were able to sneak an extension onto DE Salvador Boone at the end of TC last year as well. He was going into his 2nd season and we basically got an extra year of control by agreeing to pay him $7m/yr during his rookie deal instead of $3m/yr. I think that was smart. He's a 77/77 guy and we've got high quality DEs at both spots with some solid depth behind them.

We've got LBs. We're in the last year of WLB/MLB Benson though, so maybe we do our DT thing just to be weird. I do feel better about the crew we'd roll out now that they're not all rookies. And I'll almost definitely chase down a few more LBs in the draft. (Note to self: just run a 3-4 one time and stop fighting it.)

Aside from some kind of real QB, we need OL help too. I'm worried it could be a real problem for us in this career because it's a tough spot to churn. Some really talented OLinemen are really undeveloped in the draft, and they take forever to fill out. We aren't going to have that luxury I don't think. We'll either have to eliminate those guys from our sights or patch things together differently. It seems reasonably clear that the positional focus of your coaches works something like mentoring. Our OC Budda Baker has a QB focus, and even our rookies who didn't play last year have taken steps forward. Maybe we try to work some wacky angle and load up on OL coaches?

However we do it, we need better OL play. We might even need dominant OL play to run this career with gimp QBs and the bullshit offenses they can execute. Stud O-Linemen are potential targets if we decide to use our two 1st rounders. I'm even open to trading them for developed players if that's what makes sense. It's reasonably clear to me that 50% cap is going to be challenge. I'll play all out in other ways until it's obvious I shouldn't.

We have some decent WR talent, with two more years of Neumeyer (66/66) and Ackerman (49/49). I'm tempted to dust off some tzach shit and just chuck it around, but I think we'll just go from inept to interceptions.

I don't really want to just draft a QB. We'll see what's there though.

[MalcPow]

FA1

Working through the FA options for our QB issues and old friend Craig Martinez is there at 77/77. He only wants $40m/yr. There's an obvious stud in the draft class and we could trade from 1.3 to 1.1 to take him. There are some other draft options that look intriguing...

We settle on going cheap. And we're going to push hard to bring in a 36/39 guy in his 7th year. I know... didn't we just do that? Yes. Are we doing it again? Yes. Is that incredibly stupid? Not so fast.

QB Buddy Weber has a 96 Sense Rush bar and a big scramble bar. (And, um, a big screen passing bar?) He's a former 5th round pick who has never been given the chance to start. Why is he still here? It's destiny. (He's asking for $1.5m/yr.)

We'll probably try to draft someone as well, but I'm hoping we get Weber who is also a mentor. I don't know exactly how we wouldn't get him, but we'll see what happens. And we'll likely release last year's starter, Caiden Logan, to "make room."

I honestly don't think we're in a place where we can pursue anything else. We're at 43 players, which is nice, but we can't sign all our draft picks and stay under our cap at the end of this. I think we're looking at signing Weber, trying to trim some roster pieces, and heading to the draft. We can look at some lower level fillers in FA2 if we have some wiggle room.

[QuikSand]

Heh, maybe I'll get into political simulations during the shut-in period...

[tzach]

note to self: malcpow is experimenting with running the ball...

[MalcPow]

Draft

There are two top QBs who go off the board immediately. There's maybe the best safety prospect I've ever seen staring us in the face with the third pick. There's a tremendous looking guard there as well. I'm skeptical that we can actually make a top 5 pick work, or that we're not simply better served getting a good player later and still having a little space to do other things with. We decide to trade back, and we get a haul to move the 3rd pick. 2.9+2 future 1sts+another future 2nd from Chicago. We're really hoping the all-world guard gets to us at 1.13 and we can still add a major talent.

He doesn't get to us. G Anthony Fattel goes off the board at #8 to Chesapeake. We dabble with grabbing a good RB but talk ourselves into another trade. This time we just trade out completely. A 1st+2nd next year for 1.13 from North Plainfield. This feels like a slightly weaker draft and I'm not sure it makes sense to just add late round picks now that we've got a base of bodies. Eventually I think we'll have a better sense for who we are with a workable foundation of a good team. Then we can drop some of these first round talents on top and hopefully take off. These high picks are cap gobblers. Maybe it'll never be the best move for us.

So, what do we get...

Pick #35 Hanalei ILB Seth Thomas
Pick #41 Hanalei DE Isaiah Jacobs
Pick #67 Hanalei RB Glenn Scott
Pick #99 Hanalei CB Donnie Young
Pick #131 Hanalei S Alec Sexton
Pick #163 Hanalei TE Justics Rawson
Pick #195 Hanalei WR Clarence West

We go LB and DE with our two 2nds. We don't address the OL at all. I think this was a bad draft to be chasing an LT, and we kind of went where the board took us. There's some good talent here. And I can talk myself into LB Thomas at the top knowing we're losing Benson at the end of the season. We didn't really solve, or start down a path toward solving, the offense though. Next year might be the year where we just have to spend big draft capital on a couple of OL guys and make some progress.

All that said, I like a few of our gets here. The CB Young and S Sexton are likely immediate starters and we got them in the 5th and 6th rounds respectively. RB Glen Scott runs outside the tackles well and should complement our current starter Curtis well. DE Isaiah Jacobs is a run stopping DT waiting to bulk up. I liked the pick at the time but we need to do a better job of accepting we can fill certain roles almost as easily a little later and not burn a high 2nd.

[MalcPow]

Heh, maybe I'll get into political simulations during the shut-in period...

Gotta stay sharp..

[MalcPow]

note to self: malcpow is experimenting with running the ball...

It's not going well!

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

I'm even more frustrated/terrified with our OL situation as we get into FA2 and I'm actually looking at this team. I don't think we're that bad generally, but we're bad enough on the line to just completely sink us.

There's nothing in FA2 out there to really help us, especially at the tackle spot where we're woeful (?)... horrendous (?)... abysmal. We're really bad there. I might sign some mid 40s guards and just play them there.

I'm looking at some potential trades. We do have a million of these picks now. We end up making a bad one, two 1sts and two 2nds in this coming draft. It's most of the bounty we got for our draft day moves this year, with a future 1st from Chicago still lurking around. We end up with a 3rd year RT from Colorado who our scout sees as a 67/74 on the roster. He's a former first rounder so he's got two years left at very low $1-2m salaries when we get him. He's willing to turn those two years into a $30m/4yr deal that we have the wiggle room to execute this year.

I did some funny math eyeballing of the bonuses at the top of the draft before pulling the trigger on this one. I don't think we're ever going to sign a top 5-10 pick, especially that top 5 range. Apples to apples on four year deals, those guys are all making a good chunk more than this 4yr deal we just signed this dude to from a cap hit standpoint.

I'm talking myself into this though. We just traded an absolute haul to not be a dumpster fire on the line this coming year. The cheap extension is a nice trick to think about for the future. Especially since we are suddenly shying away from.. making draft picks. *checks temperature*

T Sean Flowers will be a key part of this thing. I don't need to keep taking 2nd round linebackers. We'll see what happens with this guy. We sprinkle in two veteran stiffs (who are better than our young stiffs) in FA2 as well. We got to camp with 55 and a little cap space. I'll do a roster look at the end of the preseason before we roll forward.

[Young Drachma]

Heh, maybe I'll get into political simulations during the shut-in period...

President Infinity and it's congressional counterpart are good and enduring like FOF.

[MIJB#19]

Especially since we are suddenly shying away from.. making draft picks. *checks temperature*:eek:

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 2 24 51 1 yr.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB QB 7 32 32 3 yrs.
##Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 2 17 31 3 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB RB 1 42 57 4 yrs.
Bates, Archie 243 RB 2 46 47 1 yr.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 2 42 46 3 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB FB 2 52 64 3 yrs.
##Rawson, Justics 449 TE 1 26 53 4 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE TE 2 40 45 3 yrs.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 4 44 44 1 yr.
Woodson, Wendell 488 TE 10 28 28 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL FL 5 51 51 2 yrs.
##West, Clarence 583 FL 1 30 43 4 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 2 26 42 1 yr.
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 2 32 38 1 yr.
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE SE 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Boyd, Amos 510 SE 2 37 46 1 yr.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C C 3 68 68 2 yrs.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG LG 8 64 64 4 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG RG 8 46 46 3 yrs.
##Houston, Denzel 778 RG 2 18 49 1 yr.
Ellison, George 860 LT LT 2 36 49 3 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 3 81 81 4 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 2 29 47 1 yr.
##Hoyle, Kenneth 868 RT 1 24 42 2 yrs.
Cavin, Pete 863 RT 5 32 32 2 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 2 77 77 3 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 2 71 71 1 yr.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE RDE 3 76 76 3 yrs.
##Carlisle, Ruben 1194LDE 2 28 44 1 yr.
Schwartz, Donny 1190LDE 1 24 32 2 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 5 78 78 4 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 2 40 65 3 yrs.
Southern, Joe 1293LDT 2 28 51 1 yr.
Guymon, Lionel 1252LDT 1 25 42 2 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT RDT 2 58 73 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT LDT 1 49 61 4 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT 4 46 46 1 yr.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB MLB 2 54 60 3 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 1 40 67 4 yrs.
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB SLB 4 81 81 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB WLB 2 74 74 3 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 2 37 48 1 yr.
Owens, Shane 1538LCB LCB 2 51 53 3 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 3 38 38 2 yrs.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB RCB 1 44 63 4 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 7 37 37 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS SS 2 54 70 3 yrs.
Murray, Louis 1628FS 2 32 54 3 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS FS 1 33 53 4 yrs.
##Welch, Marc 1631FS 2 33 47 1 yr.
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS 4 46 46 1 yr.
Thornton, Elias 650 LS 8 19 19 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $259,400,000
Cap Room: $3,510,000
Maximum for New Player: $4,200,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $9,900,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $20,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $101,540,000

I'm intrigued by what we'll be. The big thing we can't change is LB Benson is leaving at the end of the year. And he's really good. We'll probably look to franchise and trade him or something. The QB we signed took a little bit of a camp hit but we're rolling with him. The defense is young, but we've got some big talent there. I feel at least like our offense has a chance with some of the OL help.

Overall gut... still too many new faces and cohesion dings to be good. But we should be too talented to be as awful as we were at times last year, despite the record. That could very well lead to a more competent looking 5-11 year or something. (Woohoo!)

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2035 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2035
Record 11-5
Winning Pct. .687
All-Time 99-172-1
Winning Pct. .365
Playoffs 0-0
Playoff Visits 1
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 16-16
Winning Pct. .500
Off. Coord. B. Baker
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.5 32
Rushing Yards 93.9 21
Yards Per Carry 4.18 12
Pass Attempts 39.7 2
Completions 24.8 4
Completion Pct. 62.5 10
Passing Yards 264.0 5
Yards Per Attempt 6.65 12 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.64 16
Total Yardage Gained 347.8 6
3rd Down Conversions 35.0 11
Points Per Game 28.3 1
Pass Rush Pct. 19.9 19
Pass Defense Pct. 46.5 26
Turnovers 20 9 (T)
Turnover Margin -2 20

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.6 10
Rushing Yards 94.8 5
Yards Per Carry 3.71 7
Pass Attempts 38.6 29
Completions 24.0 31
Completion Pct. 62.2 25
Passing Yards 257.8 31
Yards Per Attempt 6.68 24 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.74 17
Total Yardage Gained 338.4 24
3rd Down Conversions 35.2 24
Points Per Game 20.9 21
Pass Rush Pct. 17.9 6
Pass Defense Pct. 41.3 2
Turnovers 18 25 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 48 at OAK 21
2 19 at TOR 13
3 31 at MOO 27
4 42 BKN 20
5 24 at WIL 27
6 31 at FRE 10
7 27 at CDO 23
8 23 CHE 26
10 36 FBK 21
11 51 OAK 13
12 16 at HAR 13
13 28 MIN 29
14 9 ROC 31
15 26 CDO 35
16 12 NPL 3
17 30 at FBK 23

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
5 B. Weber QB 610 384 4050 6.64 34 12 92.6
**Team --- 635 397 4224 6.65 34 14 90.5
$$Opp --- 617 384 4124 6.68 19 10 85.3

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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42 G. Scott RB 114 390 3.42 4 3
20 R. Curtis RB 108 387 3.58 1 1
43 A. Bates RB 83 416 5.01 1 1
5 B. Weber QB 55 310 5.64 2 7
**Team --- 360 1503 4.18 8 16
$$Opp --- 409 1516 3.71 12 16

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
89 I. Ackerman WR 200 135 1595 11.81 7.98 10 5
13 D. Neumeyer WR 207 121 1261 10.42 6.09 11 12
24 C. Blanchard WR 65 40 414 10.35 6.37 7 10
86 D. Murray TE 42 28 317 11.32 7.55 0 2
42 G. Scott RB 39 27 146 5.41 3.74 2 1
81 M. McWilliams TE 33 23 333 14.48 10.09 2 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
54 A. Benson OLB 114 30 0.0 1 2 14 75.9
55 H. Ferguson ILB 104 24 0.0 0 2 6 71.7
37 T. Matthews S 78 34 0.0 0 3 9 81.6
38 S. Owens CB 68 28 0.0 0 1 2 74.6
59 D. Henry OLB 66 25 2.0 4 1 11 78.3
75 A. Blackledge DE 55 10 14.5 30 0 1 81.8
44 C. Branham CB 44 11 0.0 0 0 6 75.0
70 S. Boone DE 42 14 7.5 12 0 0 81.3
27 D. Young CB 41 18 0.0 0 1 7 77.4
45 A. Sexton S 40 13 0.0 0 0 4 77.0
99 I. Jacobs DT 30 21 2.5 3 0 1 81.7
71 J. Wolcott DT 29 14 2.5 7 0 1 82.1
33 R. Roth CB 18 4 0.0 0 0 3 75.9
28 L. Murray S 17 7 0.0 0 0 1 74.6 

So talent plays. I spent a lot of time on playbook/gameplan stuff. We really wanted to maintain some kind of core principle of limiting turnovers and giving ourselves a chance. We did that pretty darn well, all things considered. And we were able to do it without doing what we did last year by just running the ball constantly. Somehow our really talented defense couldn't force any turnovers. :shurg:

We were 9-2 at one point and completely rolling people. QB Weber sort of came back down to earth and we started losing the turnover battle a few times down the stretch. We're also pretty clearly in need of a gameplan look on the defensive side of the ball. Those are the famous last words of basically anyone in FOF, and I'm probably better served going on an Easter hunt for the fountain of youth. But we'll look to tweak whatever we're doing or find an angle there for next year I think.

11-5 is a good for a bye. (Wut.) This feels like too much too fast, no matter what we luck into in the playoffs. But there's a lot for us to clean up. We'll sim the next round and see what happens.

[MalcPow]

We lose 37-24 to Frederick in the divisional round at home. We turn it over 3 times and we get the version of QB Weber (24-42, 2 TDs, 2 Ints) we saw over the last four weeks of the season. No biggie. It would have been weird if we got some good bounces and a shortened run with the bye to some kind of miracle Bowl win. I'll take all the positive steps/seeming developments and go from here.

[QuikSand]

You know it's FOF 8.3 when you see a careful QB with a 6.6 yards per attempt, and say "yeah, that's the stuff right there" lol

[MalcPow]

You know it's FOF 8.3 when you see a careful QB with a 6.6 yards per attempt, and say "yeah, that's the stuff right there" lol

All League 2nd Team bro :D

[MalcPow]

WR Ackerman and DE Blackledge take home 1st Team honors.

QB Weber and WR Neumeyer are 2nd Team guys.

We went from a terrible offense to arguably the league's best offense. I think that's a collection of factors. The QB change was important. Weber was an absolute stud for awhile there, and we shaved basically a sack per game from our total last year. There were some fumbling issues that stacked on top of the sacks last year too.

The trade for OT Sean Flowers was clearly a genius move... (just go with it)

Probably most importantly, we ran a completely different sort of offense, throwing the ball a ton to our two most competent and tenured offensive skill guys. Both WRs are due to depart after next season, which we're not going to be able to handle. We'll see which guy stays depending on demands when we roll things over. I guess it's a happy problem, but we may have screwed ourselves by being really good this year. When your QB/WR/WR all end up on the awards lists, I'm worried it will get pretty tough to avoid holdouts, monster contract asks, and other crap.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 3 24 50 ---
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 8 32 32 2 yrs.
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 3 17 31 2 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 2 46 57 3 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Bates, Archie 243 RB 3 47 47 ---
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB 3 59 64 2 yrs.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 2 26 53 3 yrs.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 5 44 44 ---
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 3 44 44 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL 6 51 51 1 yr.
West, Clarence 583 FL 2 30 43 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 3 26 42 ---
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 3 36 36 ---
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE 4 64 64 1 yr.
Boyd, Amos 510 SE 3 38 45 ---
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C 4 69 69 1 yr.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 9 64 64 3 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG 9 46 46 2 yrs.
Houston, Denzel 778 RG 3 19 49 ---
Ellison, George 860 LT 3 45 49 2 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 4 81 81 3 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 3 31 47 ---
Hoyle, Kenneth 868 RT 2 24 42 1 yr.
Cavin, Pete 863 RT 6 32 32 1 yr.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 3 82 82 2 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 3 62 62 ---
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 4 76 76 2 yrs.
Carlisle, Ruben 1194LDE 3 28 44 ---
Schwartz, Donny 1190LDE 2 24 32 1 yr.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 6 78 78 3 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 3 43 65 2 yrs.
Southern, Joe 1293LDT 3 28 51 ---
Guymon, Lionel 1252LDT 2 26 42 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 3 63 73 2 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT 2 59 61 3 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT 5 46 46 ---
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 2 54 67 3 yrs.
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB 5 81 81 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 3 76 76 2 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 3 37 48 ---
Owens, Shane 1538LCB 3 55 55 2 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 4 38 38 1 yr.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 2 51 63 3 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 8 37 37 ---
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 3 66 70 2 yrs.
Murray, Louis 1628FS 3 33 54 2 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 2 37 54 3 yrs.
Welch, Marc 1631FS 3 33 47 ---
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS 5 46 46 ---
Thornton, Elias 650 LS 9 19 19 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 35
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 35

Salary Cap: $263,800,000
Cap Room: $145,870,000
Maximum for New Player: $136,400,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $270,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $82,800,000

We're at 35 under contract with Benson franchised. We've got 7 draft picks coming. We've got minimal wiggle (~$4m) after the picks, but enough to get to a legal roster I think. Benson wants $27m/yr to extend, but we've got him for $17m under the tag this year. There's a path here where we just keep him and maybe slide out or back with the picks to give us just enough space to bring a few RFAs back with other filler.

WR Neumeyer wants basically $17m/yr. WR Ackerman wants closer to $12m/yr. Both basically require us to move on from Benson right now to have the space to do an extension this year. We can also ride it out and tag one of these guys next offseason.

We're picking 1.27, so that's a pretty enormous change. The picks we traded ended up being 1.20, 1.25, 2.20, and 2.25. I'd say that's as good as we could have hoped really.

We definitely have the depth at that LB spot to move on from Benson. I've been playing LBs Henry and Thomas in some situational DE pass rushing roles as well, but I don't think we're too exposed by losing Benson. I think I'm hesitating here only because it hurts to move on from the BIG BARS sexiness of having this guy on the field for us 1000 times a season.

Keeping him screws us from holding onto some pretty good guys we snagged who are RFAs now as well. So it's all around stupid. (I'll keep mulling it over.) I am very tempted to middle finger those receivers and find some way down a path of burning more high picks on defensive players. Linebacker U baby.

[MalcPow]

FA1/Draft

We can't really afford to do anything in FA. We spend some time sizing up the draft class and I'm generally glad we don't have a lot riding on getting value from this group. There are always players, but there isn't some depth of standout fits that make me wish we had three 1sts and three 2nds. (I'll stop talking about that trade in a few seasons.)

I'm still waffling on Benson. There's some temptation to more or less run this group back. I wish there was a QB in waiting we could take in this class. There's no one that makes sense. Our RFA QB Marlon Pyatt is probably the most sensible candidate of a weak pool, and I just think he'd likely leave us back in the sack-taking place we were a year ago. He has been progressing though.

I'm a little pissed at some of our RFAs too. WR Cooper Blanchard got 16 starts as our slot receiver last year and he thinks he's something special as a 36/36 guy. He caught 10 TDs and we like him, but $3m+ per year would make him our 7th highest paid player. Show some respect man. I guess we'll try to sign him in FA2 if the numbers come down.

The Benson trade market ends up being a late 2nd. So frustrating. The AI does drive a decent bargain on player for pick trades. Picks for picks are another story. But it's a lot tougher to do anything silly on something player focused.

We move him to Colorado for 2.25 (which is one of the picks we.. nevermind..). Ultimately there are some opportunities to extend guys like MLB Ferguson, DT Wolcott, and SS Matthews right now with two years left on their rookie deals. We can keep those guys in that $5-7m range, which seems viable. They're sneaky pretty darn good too. I don't have it all tested out or anything, but it just doesn't seem like we'll have that chance if we let them go into their walk years after this season. LB Devan Henry is as good as gone too. He's basically tracking on the Benson trajectory and asking for pretty darn big money with two years left on his rookie deal.

We're still in a pissy mood and don't really love anything at 1.27. We trade out completely for a 2nd+3rd in next year's draft. I feel like I'm trying to carve a path where I can extend those defensive guys and one of the WRs. We have two 2nd round picks, and I gave myself some "big" "important" speech about taking some offensive players because we're still really thin when it comes down to it. I seem to remember versions of this game where you could spin 2nd round picks into WR gold but those days seem to be gone. Now I can't spin shit except the best damn LB in the game for 2.25. :banghead:

Pick #57 Hanalei ILB Kristopher Cambini
Pick #60 Hanalei WR Donnie Farmer
Pick #91 Hanalei S Nicolas Kurogi
Pick #124 Hanalei C Lee Megna
Pick #155 Hanalei RB Donnell Fleming
Pick #188 Hanalei TE Randall Hopkins
Pick #219 Hanalei CB Kenneth Siefried

We go LB out of the gate. Then we take a perfectly nice WR who looks like he'll settle into something like Ackerman/Neumeyer. A workhorse load carrier who can handle big volume productively, but he's not going to bring real separators. (That's how I talk about 1st/2nd Team All Pro guys apparently.) The Safety Kurogi looks like a good, clean convert to CB. We like the other guys. Good group in the end.

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

WR Ackerman and DE Boone are holding out.

I was probably leaning slightly toward Ackerman as the one of the two guys we might be able to bring back. Boone has two years left. We snuck one of these extensions with two years left on his rookie deal onto him. Now he wants $100m/4yrs. I am noodling on that a little before we run this same extension trick on three more guys during this FA2 phase. Boone at $6m/yr is a steal for our world. We don't really have alternatives for a 76/76 DE at that price, even if he's a better run defender than pass rusher. And even if we've been eyeing him as the one guy who makes any money on this team who we could probably replace with something comparable through the draft or depth.

Bottom line, we're not doing anything new with Boone. He's a great deal on his current contract, but not a perfect fit as a player. For what he's asking, he'd need to play QB for us too.

We're able to bring WR Cooper Blanchard back for about half what he was asking as an RFA during the FA1 period. We also extend, DT Wolcott and MLB Ferguson. We go off script a little bit and extend LB Devan Henry in the same way. He wanted to jump into that $15-$17m world, but we didn't have to quite get there and we were able to cut him a little in year 1 to sneak under for this year. He's a stud and has the versatility to play DE for us if that's where the need takes us.

We're setting up to franchise one of the WRs after this year. Our late 2nd round draftee, WR Donnie Farmer, is sitting on the roster at 42/58 right now in FA2. I don't know exactly how he'll make it through the preseason, but that current number makes me more comfortable we'll have something competent in place next offseason if we had to lose both of our holdover starters.

We're not giving anything to the holdout guys. I hope they come play for us.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 3 31 50 2 yrs.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB QB 8 33 33 2 yrs.
##Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 3 17 27 2 yrs.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB 1 52 64 4 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB RB 2 48 56 3 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Pearson, Andre 226 RB 1 38 43 2 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB FB 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE TE 1 27 54 4 yrs.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 2 30 53 3 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 3 43 43 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL FL 6 51 51 1 yr.
West, Clarence 583 FL 2 33 43 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 3 27 40 1 yr.
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 3 36 36 3 yrs.
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE SE 4 64 64 1 yr.
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE 1 48 62 4 yrs.
Megna, Lee 657 C 1 33 71 4 yrs.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C C 4 68 68 1 yr.
##Measso, K.C. 656 C 1 27 54 2 yrs.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG LG 9 60 60 3 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG RG 9 39 39 2 yrs.
Ellison, George 860 LT LT 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 4 80 80 3 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 3 31 43 1 yr.
##Chadwick, Sean 876 RT 1 21 43 2 yrs.
##Cavin, Pete 863 RT 6 27 27 1 yr.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 3 81 81 2 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 3 61 61 2 yrs.
$$Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 4 75 75 2 yrs.
Schwartz, Donny 1190LDE RDE 2 27 32 1 yr.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 6 76 76 3 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 3 49 63 2 yrs.
Guymon, Lionel 1252LDT 2 29 40 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT RDT 3 71 75 4 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT LDT 2 62 62 3 yrs.
Henry, Nicolas 1277RDT 1 25 52 2 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1398SILB 1 35 69 4 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB MLB 3 59 59 5 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB WLB 2 60 65 3 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB SLB 3 77 77 5 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 3 42 48 2 yrs.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB 1 37 54 4 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 4 37 37 1 yr.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB LCB 2 56 59 3 yrs.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 1 34 57 4 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB RCB 3 55 55 2 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS SS 3 73 73 2 yrs.
Malone, J.R. 1621SS 1 23 40 2 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS FS 2 47 56 3 yrs.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 8 18 18 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 4
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $263,800,000
Cap Room: $1,310,000
Maximum for New Player: $2,020,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $300,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $20,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $118,920,000

Boone is still holding out as we get through to the end of the preseason. We're still generally fine. We have good depth there when we dip into the LBs playing more DE. It's annoying though. The draft class ended up looking like a deep crop of contributors. Very helpful.

We didn't end up really spending as much time as I would have liked on some kind of defensive changes. We scrapped the plan from last year and we'll see if some of the small tweaks help us get lucky.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2036 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2036
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 111-176-1
Winning Pct. .387
Playoffs 0-1
Playoff Visits 2
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 28-21
Winning Pct. .571
Off. Coord. B. Baker
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.8 29
Rushing Yards 103.3 19
Yards Per Carry 4.54 5
Pass Attempts 40.9 2
Completions 25.8 2
Completion Pct. 63.1 7
Passing Yards 271.4 4
Yards Per Attempt 6.63 11
Yards Per Catch 10.51 20
Total Yardage Gained 365.2 5
3rd Down Conversions 37.3 9
Points Per Game 28.0 1
Pass Rush Pct. 22.6 2
Pass Defense Pct. 48.9 22
Turnovers 24 23 (T)
Turnover Margin +3 10 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.6 17
Rushing Yards 110.2 19
Yards Per Carry 4.14 15
Pass Attempts 39.4 29 (T)
Completions 24.0 28
Completion Pct. 60.9 18
Passing Yards 263.9 30
Yards Per Attempt 6.69 27
Yards Per Catch 11.00 25 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 362.8 30
3rd Down Conversions 39.3 29
Points Per Game 19.8 16 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 17.4 7
Pass Defense Pct. 44.0 7
Turnovers 27 4 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 26 CDO 19
2 21 TUC 24
3 34 FRE 16
4 30 at CHI 43
5 10 at KAN 27
6 13 MIN 10
7 40 at CDO 29
8 41 FBK 14
10 23 IOW 10
11 30 at OAK 23
12 33 AUG 7
13 30 at OBX 13
14 19 at SNP 28
15 39 at FBK 24
16 30 at ORL 23
17 29 OAK 6
$$WC BKN

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
5 B. Weber QB 648 409 4306 6.65 33 17 88.4
**Team --- 655 413 4342 6.63 33 17 88.2
$$Opp --- 631 384 4223 6.69 20 15 81.3

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
30 D. Fleming RB 251 1137 4.53 9 4
5 B. Weber QB 63 393 6.24 2 7
**Team --- 364 1653 4.54 12 18
$$Opp --- 426 1763 4.14 12 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
13 D. Neumeyer WR 228 137 1471 10.74 6.45 22 13
89 I. Ackerman WR 172 101 1176 11.64 6.84 10 7
12 D. Farmer WR 63 45 488 10.84 7.75 2 6
30 D. Fleming RB 49 38 267 7.03 5.45 3 2
24 C. Blanchard WR 57 33 374 11.33 6.56 3 3
87 R. Hopkins TE 34 26 250 9.62 7.35 0 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
55 H. Ferguson ILB 111 31 0.0 0 2 7 74.7
59 D. Henry OLB 105 32 0.0 0 4 18 81.7
37 T. Matthews S 85 43 0.0 0 3 7 80.5
27 D. Young CB 84 18 0.0 0 0 6 71.7
38 S. Owens CB 60 10 0.0 0 5 5 79.5
75 A. Blackledge DE 53 17 14.5 25 0 1 80.1
45 A. Sexton S 52 26 0.0 0 1 7 78.8
71 J. Wolcott DT 50 17 5.5 16 0 2 81.4
99 I. Jacobs DT 47 22 4.0 6 0 2 83.0
95 S. Thomas OLB 46 10 1.0 23 0 3 78.5
44 C. Branham CB 30 4 0.0 0 0 5 75.3
36 N. Kurogi CB 22 4 0.0 0 0 1 74.5
98 K. Cambini OLB 19 9 3.5 4 0 2 82.7

Hard to be upset. We miss out on a bye, but we're 12-4. We got dominated a few times, and we had a few wins with some pick-6 TDs and special teams shenanigans. It felt like we couldn't stop the pass at all at times. And we made weird defensive tweaks throughout the season trying to find something.

QB Weber kind of did it again, but it felt a lot shakier this year. We almost made a change when we were sitting at 2-3 early in the season. This was fine. It wasn't exactly a "we'll be fine when we lose our receivers this offseason" kind of performance though. There won't be any awards talk this year. He'll probably hold out next summer. We need to find another option here.

We tried to spread our targets a bit more as the season went on. Neumeyer ended up with even more than last year somehow, but I swear we tried to ease that load a tick. He's very likely to get an award. 22 drops for a guy with a 90 avoid drops rating. Kind of tells me we were pushing into familiars or weird game nerfing territory on his workload. We're likely going to need to work some more TE targets into this plan.

We host Brooklyn in the Wild Card round. Going to run that shortly.

[MalcPow]

Ok, it is what it is.

We beat Brooklyn 20-13 in our place despite getting outgained.

We go play a Chicago team that beat us up early in the year and dominate possession and yardage. 447-205 on the net yards count, and we win 26-14 in their place.

We play the conference game in Chesapeake. Shootout with 800 combined yards between the teams. We do just enough and hold on to win 31-30 after getting a big 4th down stop just outside field goal range in the final minute.

We play the Bowl in the rain, and we dominate Atlanta, winning 29-7 and holding their passing game to 18-38 for 171 yards and 2 picks.

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Hanalei Dragons 2036 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card BROOKLYN FIGHTIN' BUMS W, 20-13 56,900 Rain, 33, 8 mph.
Division at Chicago Norsemen W, 26-14 85,600 Sunny, 55, 2 mph.
League at Chesapeake Chitterlings W, 31-30 86,500 Sunny, 48, 8 mph.
Champ. vs Atlanta Vipers W, 29-7 57,500 Rain, 68, 9 mph.

It's a pretty nifty four game run for a team I hadn't really thought that highly of. I think our underwhelming start made our strong finish feel pretty suspect. This run, admittedly, also feels pretty suspect. I'm curious to see if a couple of the tweaks we made defensively toward the end of the season carry over into good performances next year. Or we'll see if I'm chasing more smoke on that side of the ball.

I'm not completely shocked here. We've got some legit talent on this roster. A sober look probably would have said this was likely to be our best team for a few years as well, so there's nothing really weird about us winning "at this stage" or anything. We inherited some very good players. Two good WRs. Two stud DEs. Two good OL pieces I never really talk about in C Wuagneux and G Shepard. We burned through an all-world LB in Benson. Some of the nice picks we've made have been just cheap enough to line up with those guys.

It's still surprising though. Definitely feels like one of those teams that was good enough to have things go their way. Going to be a fun challenge to keep us from being bad enough that a few tough bounces cause us to embarrass ourselves next year.

WR Neumeyer, C Wuagneux, DE Blackledge, and DT Wolcott are all 2nd Team All Pros. We didn't talk much about RB Donnell Fleming when we took him or this pre-season, but we shoved almost all the workload his way early in the year. He was really good and he probably would have been OROY in a lot of seasons.

We're losing a number of guys this offseason. We're pretty committed salary-wise. But we do have some extra high round pick assets to potentially do something with.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 4 32 50 1 yr.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 9 33 33 1 yr.
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 4 17 27 1 yr.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB 2 62 64 3 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 3 51 55 2 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 4 48 48 1 yr.
Pearson, Andre 226 RB 2 38 43 1 yr.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB 4 64 64 1 yr.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 3 33 53 2 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE 2 30 53 3 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 4 43 43 1 yr.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL 7 51 51 ---
West, Clarence 583 FL 3 35 43 2 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 4 29 40 ---
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 4 36 36 2 yrs.
Shaw, Stephen 510 FL 11 29 29 ---
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE 5 64 64 ---
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE 2 63 63 3 yrs.
Megna, Lee 657 C 2 33 71 3 yrs.
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C 5 68 68 ---
Measso, K.C. 656 C 2 27 53 1 yr.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 10 60 60 2 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG 10 39 39 1 yr.
Ellison, George 860 LT 4 49 49 1 yr.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 5 80 80 2 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 4 33 43 ---
Chadwick, Sean 876 RT 2 21 43 1 yr.
Cavin, Pete 863 RT 7 26 26 ---
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 4 80 80 1 yr.
Winters, Pat 1016K 4 62 62 1 yr.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 5 75 75 1 yr.
Schwartz, Donny 1190LDE 3 27 32 ---
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 7 76 76 2 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 4 60 63 1 yr.
Guymon, Lionel 1252LDT 3 32 40 ---
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 4 74 74 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Henry, Nicolas 1277RDT 2 26 53 1 yr.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 4 59 59 4 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 2 54 69 3 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 4 77 77 4 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 4 44 44 1 yr.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB 2 41 55 3 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 5 37 37 ---
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 2 34 58 3 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB 4 55 55 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 4 72 72 1 yr.
Malone, J.R. 1621SS 2 23 40 1 yr.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 3 57 57 2 yrs.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 9 18 18 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 41
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 41

Salary Cap: $269,100,000
Cap Room: $150,060,000
Maximum for New Player: $134,510,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $20,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $88,090,000

We've got 41 under contract. We should franchise one of the WRs and see if we can get a little value there. C Adrian Wuagneux (68/68) is going to walk away. We might need to look at trading DE Boone (75/75) just for a little cap space, and because he's probably replaceable, and because he sat out the first few games of the season last year being a dick.

CB Shane Owens and SS Ted Matthews are near and dear to our hearts. Those two being in their last year right now is the ripple effect of locking up LB Henry last offseason.

DE Boone and G Shepard are the two guys making money that probably can be replaced. I'm going to have to look at that. And I'm thinking WR Neumeyer will get the tag. I don't think there's a way to keep any of them, so it's just looking at the 64/64 guy as probably having a tick more value. (3rd round pick here we come?)

[QuikSand]

So, forgive my bluntness. You want to try some things...

Are the key things you're fiddling with sort of invisible to us? Like, maybe, using players with certain skill sets, or whatnot? Or gameplan things?

Or, is this really just "play FOF and write it up a bit to while away the time" mode? Which is, of course, fine.

Just curious. Trying to set my expectations fairly.

[MalcPow]

So, forgive my bluntness. You want to try some things...

Are the key things you're fiddling with sort of invisible to us? Like, maybe, using players with certain skill sets, or whatnot? Or gameplan things?

Or, is this really just "play FOF and write it up a bit to while away the time" mode? Which is, of course, fine.

Just curious. Trying to set my expectations fairly.

Good questions. All of the above really. I wanted to sort of get into the career a tick. And I'm trying to thread some needle between capturing some of the quick picture data and not slowing down so much that I'm not even getting through seasons.

We tried really hard to do some kind of heavy running gameplan for one season. I'm not sure I learned anything other than I probably need more talent, and running-focused talent, to push that in the right direction. I see guys with the monster passing attacks pretty clearly managing their target workloads and mixing a lot of different guys through formations. Sometimes their best couple of WRs aren't even getting starts. I think we're a little light on the depth to really bite down there, but I'm watching it closely. I'm probably more dialed into the kind of target distribution I expect from exact spots in the depth chart than I've ever been because of it. Tying that to some kind of route running and endurance combo to optimize workload seems to be where that goes.

Some other things I kind of want to see play out a little. We're playing guys out of position a little on defense. We're running a couple reverses each game with an RB in a WR slot. I'm not sure these are value add yet. I think I'm probably in some kind of "play the game and try to make interesting observations" mode. I'm hoping that having a little runway of these roster snapshots and my rantings will make any trends or responses to tweaks easier to see.

[MalcPow]

FA1/Draft

We get a future 4th+5th for WR Neumeyer. Sick. We also look at extending backup/young QB Pyatt and he's pissed about playing time. That kind of boxes us in. He's got one year left. If we make a change and play him this year, he's gone. So we flip him out for a guy Outer Banks took in the 5th round last year, QB Xavier Frady. He's not really anything at 9/42 right now. Kind of a nothing burger trade but at least this guy will be around for a few years.

We don't have the space to do anything in FA1, unless we liked a QB. I spent a little too much time trying to find a decent fit. A name for the future, QB Sedrick Alvarez. He was a 1.2 pick a few years back and may have taken a vol hit. The AI won't trade him but he should hit FA in a couple years with the right mix of good bars and not all around studliness that makes him useful and in our price range.

There are a few others but nothing that seems worth the contortions at the moment. It's coming though. Now probably is the time. I'm just not sure we line up.

We sim through to the draft without having really done much.

Pick #27 Hanalei S Sherdrick Flannery
Pick #32 Hanalei S Timothy Bordley
Pick #46 Hanalei ILB Donald Reynolds
Pick #77 Hanalei C Mercury Fariman
Pick #96 Hanalei G Winfred Eliopoulos
Pick #128 Hanalei OLB Calvin Hughes
Pick #160 Hanalei WR Oscar Arredondo
Pick #192 Hanalei WR Raymond Finley
Pick #224 Hanalei P Lukas Battle

We've got an extra first in this draft from one of those past deals. It's at 1.27 and we really like two safeties. They're both 6'4" and we might lose Ted Matthews so I just talk myself into going safety-safety with our two 1sts. They also both look like monster zone bar guys. I'm not sure it's one of the things we've been messing with or not, but our safeties in this career have been crap zone bar guys. Matthews in particular has a big overall rating and a lot of big bars, but we've tried to put him in a buzz role because of a low zone bar. My guess is safeties and their zone bars are really one of those WR and route running things. It's likely just some basic FOF math, take your vitamins stuff that there's no need to get cute with.

Then we go LB-C-G-LB to completely play to our skill-chasing non-tendencies. We'll get use out of all of these guys. If the C can take weight, we might play him at G. We may end up doing that with a couple guys. Just play some highly rated C types at G spots and try to save a little cash there. I'm definitely coming around to believing that OL play is extremely important. I'm hopeful we can luck our way to an LT at some point.

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

QB Buddy Weber is holding out. CB Shane Owens too. We'll be at 53 guys when we sign our longsnapper, with about $1m to spare. We need to do something to address the fact that LB Devan Henry is apparently pissing off half the defense as a leader.

DE Boone has gone from holding out a year ago to willing to take a paycut this year. I guess a full year of missing starts will do that. We kept him out of the main early down depth spots when he came back last year. Mostly out of spite, but there's a helpful side effect now apparently. It's a legitimate question whether we want to save $3m and pay him $4m-ish/yr or save his full $7/8m-ish going forward. We also tweaked him back into the starting lineup during our playoff run last year, so maybe he's the secret sauce.

QB Weber is making $1.6m in the last year of his deal. He wants to be making $13m/yr basically. I don't think that's an unreasonable place for us to eventually get to with our QB if we want to sustain anything. I just don't really see it being with him. I think we have to cross our fingers that he ends the holdout before Week 1. We're in trouble otherwise.

We could make this work by moving on from DE Boone (75/75) and G Doug Shepard (60/60) right now. They're both moving in the wrong direction in some underlying indicators like endurance. Shepard is in his 10th season and should be willing to take a little paycut but isn't. We already lost our good C this offseason. This would thin us out quite a bit, even if it's almost an inevitable move a year from now. I think I'd do it if this felt like a "Buddy Weber" career, but it doesn't. We'll chase glory with some other mediocre QB soon enough.

I'm not even talking about CB Owens. A former 6th rounder who's been a multi-year starter and great kick returner. We might do some weird stuff to keep him after the season. He's got a little more affection-factor in his favor.

We end up extending Boone to save enough money to bring in a veteran defensive front leader. We're left with just enough to extend LB Thomas on a 4 yr deal in the $6m/yr range, who's probably going to play a big pass rushing role for us going forward.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
$$Weber, Buddy 105 QB 9 33 33 1 yr.
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 4 18 27 1 yr.
Frady, Xavier 102 QB QB 2 14 43 3 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 4 47 47 1 yr.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 3 53 55 2 yrs.
##Pearson, Andre 226 RB 2 41 45 1 yr.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB RB 2 64 64 3 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB FB 4 64 64 4 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 4 43 43 1 yr.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 3 37 49 2 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE TE 2 38 60 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 4 33 39 1 yr.
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 4 36 36 2 yrs.
West, Clarence 583 FL FL 3 27 29 2 yrs.
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE SE 2 62 62 3 yrs.
##Finley, Raymond 514 SE 1 32 46 4 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 1 32 53 4 yrs.
Measso, K.C. 656 C 2 32 55 1 yr.
Megna, Lee 657 C 2 41 65 3 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 1 44 79 4 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG 10 38 38 1 yr.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG LG 10 59 59 2 yrs.
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG RG 1 35 61 4 yrs.
Ellison, George 860 LT RT 4 50 50 1 yr.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT LT 5 80 80 2 yrs.
##Girling, Keith 873 RT 4 28 33 2 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 4 73 73 1 yr.
Battle, Lukas 915 P 1 49 62 4 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 4 61 61 1 yr.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 5 76 76 3 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 7 77 77 2 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE LDT 4 63 63 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 4 75 75 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT RDT 3 66 66 2 yrs.
##Henry, Nicolas 1277RDT 2 29 52 1 yr.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 4 59 59 4 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 1 58 79 4 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 7 56 56 4 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB WLB 3 65 65 4 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB SLB 2 70 73 3 yrs.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 1 34 48 4 yrs.
##McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 4 45 45 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB RDE 4 77 77 4 yrs.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB RCB 2 47 54 3 yrs.
$$Owens, Shane 1538RCB 4 46 46 1 yr.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 3 59 59 2 yrs.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 2 40 58 3 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS LCB 4 72 72 1 yr.
Malone, J.R. 1621SS 2 26 42 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 1 34 79 4 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 3 57 57 2 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 1 36 65 4 yrs.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 9 18 18 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 5
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $269,100,000
Cap Room: $70,000
Maximum for New Player: $890,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $50,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $119,230,000

QB Weber and CB Owens are both still holding out as we get to Week 1. Strap in.

[MIJB#19]

QB Weber and CB Owens are both still holding out as we get to Week 1. Strap in.Holding out is slightly less worse than suspended, which is what the text below says. :eek:

[MalcPow]

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2037 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2037
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 120-183-1
Winning Pct. .396
Playoffs 4-1
Playoff Visits 3
Bowl Wins 1
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 41-28
Winning Pct. .594
Off. Coord. B. Baker
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.4 29
Rushing Yards 91.2 26
Yards Per Carry 3.89 23
Pass Attempts 40.8 2
Completions 25.6 2
Completion Pct. 62.7 6
Passing Yards 271.2 2
Yards Per Attempt 6.65 12
Yards Per Catch 10.61 12 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 351.7 8
3rd Down Conversions 32.7 20 (T)
Points Per Game 22.6 10
Pass Rush Pct. 24.1 1
Pass Defense Pct. 50.9 16 (T)
Turnovers 30 31 (T)
Turnover Margin -10 32

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.7 6
Rushing Yards 89.6 4
Yards Per Carry 3.78 8
Pass Attempts 35.6 13 (T)
Completions 21.9 18
Completion Pct. 61.6 20 (T)
Passing Yards 222.9 12
Yards Per Attempt 6.26 12
Yards Per Catch 10.16 9
Total Yardage Gained 292.9 3
3rd Down Conversions 29.0 3
Points Per Game 18.7 11
Pass Rush Pct. 19.6 13 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 44.6 7
Turnovers 20 22 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 7 FBK 33
2 22 at SAO 13
3 30 at CHI 31
4 9 at TEX 3
5 15 CDO 30
6 20 MOO 16
8 14 at FBK 27
9 47 at OBX 14
10 42 CPC 14
11 12 OAK 24
12 13 at HOU 20
13 29 CHE 7
14 20 ATL 10
15 30 at OAK 31
16 30 FTW 10
17 22 at CDO 16
$$WC at CDO

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
5 B. Weber QB 603 381 4139 6.86 27 14 88.6
2 X. Frady QB 49 28 200 4.08 1 3 48.0
**Team --- 652 409 4339 6.65 28 17 85.5
$$Opp --- 570 351 3567 6.26 19 12 81.8 
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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
30 D. Fleming RB 304 1058 3.48 2 2
5 B. Weber QB 43 264 6.14 5 7
**Team --- 375 1459 3.89 8 18
$$Opp --- 379 1433 3.78 8 15

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
12 D. Farmer WR 161 84 1081 12.87 6.71 10 9
83 C. West WR 105 69 650 9.42 6.19 6 5
24 C. Blanchard WR 91 61 663 10.87 7.29 3 8
11 O. Arredondo WR 82 56 584 10.43 7.12 2 0
18 L. Jacobs WR 99 55 597 10.85 6.03 5 3
87 R. Hopkins TE 48 30 363 12.10 7.56 1 2
42 G. Scott RB 27 22 95 4.32 3.52 0 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 D. Reynolds ILB 97 37 0.0 0 4 10 75.1
59 D. Henry OLB 92 29 5.0 5 0 7 77.3
37 T. Matthews S 80 30 0.0 0 0 6 75.8
36 N. Kurogi CB 50 14 0.0 0 5 11 81.4
95 S. Thomas OLB 46 25 18.5 16 0 2 80.9
75 A. Blackledge DE 42 25 14.5 25 0 3 82.8
41 T. Bordley S 41 18 0.0 0 0 3 77.9
28 S. Flannery S 37 11 0.0 0 2 4 77.6
71 J. Wolcott DT 33 13 6.0 11 0 0 82.0
70 S. Boone DE 32 11 3.5 7 0 0 81.0
99 I. Jacobs DT 28 8 0.5 5 0 0 81.7
27 D. Young CB 28 6 0.0 0 0 7 76.0
98 K. Cambini OLB 28 7 0.0 4 1 4 81.9
45 A. Sexton S 26 14 0.0 0 0 5 78.0
97 E. Rodgers DE 25 10 5.0 9 0 1 79.9
38 S. Owens CB 22 3 0.0 0 0 4 78.2
94 B. Lynch OLB 20 9 0.0 0 0 2 77.8 

We go on the road to beat Colorado in Week 17 to sneak into the playoffs as a wild card team. It's our only divisional win, which is pretty strange for a playoff team. Colorado (12-4) hosts us again in the WC Round.

We're a turnover factory, losing 13 of 18 fumbles and throwing 17 picks total. The defense is actually good. The points per game is skewed by the turnovers I think. We were really good on yardage and the box scores were much more consistently sub-300 yards allowed with a few inevitable shootouts thrown in. We were really rarely holding anyone under 300 the last few years.

The pass rush was really good. "LB" Seth Thomas was basically our RDE and racked up 18.5 sacks. LDE Blackledge put up 14.5, which is starting to border on bizarre Khris Davis consistency. His last six totals... 14.5, 12.5, 14.5, 14.5, 14.5, 14.5. Four straight years and five of the last six.

We were just a lot better defensively. Definite slight experiment with playing guys in fewer formations, especially the linemen. Can't really say there's anything massively different in the total plays, but it definitely moved some starts to different guys. I made sure we had our best team in there on 3rd downs, and we were good on 3rd downs. Score one for the Captain Obvious logs.

We were playing two rookie OL. We ended up starting C Fariman and G Eliopolous because it looked like they were ready enough and we might as well get their development/cohesion moving.

We definitely tried to spread the targets around offensively. I think that was good. I'm focused on the turnovers, but it was really the fumbles that got us. And maybe that's just some bad rolls? We could probably spread the targets more. Farmer clocked 161, but he's so far and away our best guy that I'm not sure it makes sense to get away from that. He's probably getting doubled a ton but that 52.2% completion rate on our most targeted dude stands out.

We're definitely different. Will see if we can beat Colorado on the road in back to back weeks here shortly.

[MalcPow]

We dominate Colorado 33-7.

We get outgained but return a fumble for a TD in the 4th to beat Kansas 20-17.

We get and Int and Fumble TD. Give up an Int and Punt Return TD. Win 37-27 at Moontown.

We get an Int TD in a low scoring, low gaining Bowl. SS Teddy Mathews, who has been playing a passable LCB all year, goes out a hero in his likely last game with 2 picks and the Bowl MVP. We win 20-3.

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2037 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card at Colorado Cutthroats W, 33-7 50,700 Sunny, 53, calm
Division at Kansas Creationists W, 20-17 83,300 Sunny, 36, 4 mph.
League at Moontown Darksiders W, 37-27 78,400 Sunny, 21, 8 mph.
Champ. vs Maassluis Merchantmen W, 20-3 67,800 Sunny, 58, 6 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 40,700
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Woot.

[MalcPow]

Our playoff performances don't make a ton of sense to me the last two years. Our HC has a high motivation bar. Something weird like that? We'll turn the year over here shortly.

The pass rushers, Thomas and Blackledge, were 1st Team All Pros.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Frady, Xavier 102 QB 3 17 43 2 yrs.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 10 33 33 ---
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 5 18 27 ---
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 4 54 55 1 yr.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 5 47 47 ---
Pearson, Andre 226 RB 3 41 45 ---
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB 5 64 64 3 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE 3 51 60 2 yrs.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 4 38 49 1 yr.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 5 43 43 ---
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 5 39 39 ---
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 5 36 36 1 yr.
West, Clarence 583 FL 4 29 29 1 yr.
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 2 37 52 3 yrs.
Finley, Raymond 514 SE 2 32 45 3 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 2 46 79 3 yrs.
Megna, Lee 657 C 3 41 65 2 yrs.
Measso, K.C. 656 C 3 32 55 ---
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG 2 46 61 3 yrs.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 11 60 60 1 yr.
Barker, Sam 766 LG 11 38 38 ---
Ellison, George 860 LT 5 50 50 ---
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 6 80 80 1 yr.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 5 28 33 1 yr.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 5 77 77 ---
Battle, Lukas 915 P 2 50 60 3 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 5 54 54 ---
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 6 76 76 2 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 8 77 77 1 yr.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 5 63 63 ---
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 5 75 75 2 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT 4 66 66 1 yr.
Henry, Nicolas 1277RDT 3 29 53 ---
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 2 79 79 3 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 5 59 59 3 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 3 75 75 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 4 65 65 3 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 8 56 56 3 yrs.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 2 34 48 3 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 5 77 77 3 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 5 45 45 ---
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB 3 54 54 2 yrs.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 4 59 59 1 yr.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 3 42 58 2 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB 5 46 46 ---
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 2 46 78 3 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 5 72 72 1 yr.
Malone, J.R. 1621SS 3 27 43 ---
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS 2 43 65 3 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 4 57 57 1 yr.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 10 18 18 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 36
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 36

Salary Cap: $274,400,000
Cap Room: $142,030,000
Maximum for New Player: $127,920,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $78,700,000

We franchised SS Matthews. Not sure I'll be able to pull the trigger on that trade. We are definitely hoping QB Weber doesn't sign in FA1 and we have a chance to get him in FA2. He is a 33/33 guy. Magical playoff powers but still, there's a chance he can't get a job asking for $15m/yr.

Same thing with CB Owens. WE like him. He's done fun things for us. But he's a 46/46 CB.

DE Blackledge is going into his walk year. We'll have to look at that.

[MalcPow]

Holding out is slightly less worse than suspended, which is what the text below says. :eek:

Heh, good catch. Something tells me the in game print outputs haven't been looked at in awhile. Getting the job done well enough for us so far at least.

[MalcPow]

FA1/Draft

Should we move on from DE Blackledge? G Doug Shepard is still showing as a 60/60 guy. He's been our Offensive Captain for the last 4 seasons despite not being our Offensive Line Leader. He's heading into year 11 and the last year of a contract that makes him our third highest paid player. DE Blackledge has been our Defensive Captain for the last 4 years as well. And he's never been a leader. It's a different mechanism I know. We almost definitely should move on from Shepard.

We need a QB. There's not much out there. There are 3 starter quality guys in the draft class. They're the top 3 rated guys so fat chance one of them slides to 1.32. Might be time to trade up into the teens or something though if Weber signs.

There's really not much to do in FA1. SS Matthews is not asking for the sun and moon on a contract. I think we'll hold him through the draft and see how things play out. We can cut/trade if we feel good about our depth. We can keep if we end up moving other pieces to clear the way for something real. Maybe we can extend too.

Buddy Weber is not one of the six QBs that make the Grey Sheet. Disrespect. Old friend Marlon Pyatt is though. He's thrown 49 career passes and wants to sign in stage 6.

...

Weber doesn't sign.. :popcorn:

The three draft QBs go off the board in the first six picks. So much for that.

Pick #32 Hanalei T Shane Sawyer
Pick #64 Hanalei TE Christopher Shumate
Pick #84 Hanalei G Colby Shockey
Pick #96 Hanalei WR Gerald Beeson
Pick #107 Hanalei K Kyle Narcisse
Pick #115 Hanalei DE Spencer Padilla
Pick #128 Hanalei DT William Skelton
Pick #138 Hanalei CB Jalen Sewell
Pick #160 Hanalei QB Conrad Shelton
Pick #192 Hanalei DE Theodore McKnight
Pick #224 Hanalei OLB Jermaine Bernstein

We lost our LT Ellison this offseason. (He was playing RT mostly, but still.) We're lucky to get a guy who might actually be a long term LT option for us. This was a little overkill on the mid/late courtesy picks we've built up. You can get a pretty good sense for my excitement level based on where guys went relative to the kicker.

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

Our boy Weber is asking for $3.5m/yr on a 3 year deal in FA2. Man. This might be a Buddy Weber career after all.

We have no holdouts.

We're able to extend T Sean Flowers that doesn't impact his cap this year and adds three years after this at $11m/yr. I think that makes sense for us.

We do what has to be done and cut G Shepard. We then get a little stupid and just won't quite SS Ted Matthews. He was one of our first picks in this thing. He just won the Bowl MVP. We don't have that Belichick gene y'all. This Matthews contract will be debacle next year when it jumps up to $12.5/yr. It's also very likely a ticket out of town for DE Blackledge. We're going to have some turnover.

Adding as many guys as we did in the draft doesn't make sense to do in the future. UDRs are at least on short, no/low bonus contracts. Our late picks are kind of cloggers when every dollar counts.

Being sentimental this year is definitely going to end up costing us in the future.

But the boys are back. QB Weber re-ups on a $11m/3yr deal. We're even able to get our stud punter back for peanuts in FA2.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
##Frady, Xavier 102 QB 3 21 45 2 yrs.
Shelton, Conrad 109 QB 1 22 40 4 yrs.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB QB 10 33 33 3 yrs.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB RB 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 4 56 56 1 yr.
Pearson, Andre 226 RB 3 44 45 2 yrs.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB FB 5 64 64 3 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 1 42 63 4 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE TE 3 57 60 2 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 5 34 34 3 yrs.
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 5 36 36 1 yr.
##West, Clarence 583 FL 4 28 28 1 yr.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE 1 38 70 4 yrs.
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE SE 3 63 63 2 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 2 41 53 3 yrs.
Finley, Raymond 514 SE FL 2 35 47 3 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 2 55 78 3 yrs.
Megna, Lee 657 C 3 44 65 2 yrs.
Measso, K.C. 656 C 3 33 47 2 yrs.
Shockey, Colby 774 LG LG 1 43 63 4 yrs.
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG RG 2 53 61 3 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT RT 1 38 66 4 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT LT 6 80 80 4 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 5 78 78 3 yrs.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 1 49 63 4 yrs.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 6 74 74 2 yrs.
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE 1 36 66 4 yrs.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE 1 24 42 4 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 8 72 72 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 5 77 77 2 yrs.
Skelton, William 1279RDT LDT 1 35 68 4 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT RDT 4 63 63 1 yr.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 2 79 79 3 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB WLB 5 49 49 3 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB RDE 3 74 74 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 4 65 65 3 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 8 56 56 3 yrs.
##Bernstein, Jermaine 1496SLB 1 33 49 4 yrs.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 2 37 48 3 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB SLB 5 78 78 3 yrs.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB RCB 3 54 54 2 yrs.
##Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 1 34 47 4 yrs.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB LCB 4 59 59 1 yr.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 3 50 58 2 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB 5 47 47 2 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 2 54 79 3 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 5 72 72 4 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 2 53 69 3 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 4 57 57 1 yr.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 10 18 18 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 50
Inactive: 4
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $274,400,000
Cap Room: $880,000
Maximum for New Player: $880,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,340,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $40,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $129,420,000

We're really young on the OL, but we've got no holdout shenanigans. We seem to be as good as any team we've had.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2038 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2038
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 132-187-1
Winning Pct. .414
Playoffs 8-1
Playoff Visits 4
Bowl Wins 2
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 57-32
Winning Pct. .640
Off. Coord. B. Baker
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 19.1 32
Rushing Yards 95.4 26
Yards Per Carry 5.00 2
Pass Attempts 45.4 1
Completions 27.7 1
Completion Pct. 60.9 16
Passing Yards 285.3 3
Yards Per Attempt 6.28 18
Yards Per Catch 10.30 23
Total Yardage Gained 365.9 6
3rd Down Conversions 39.6 4
Points Per Game 27.6 2
Pass Rush Pct. 19.2 23
Pass Defense Pct. 45.5 25
Turnovers 32 32
Turnover Margin -5 22 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.1 6
Rushing Yards 100.1 7
Yards Per Carry 3.98 9
Pass Attempts 39.0 30 (T)
Completions 24.4 32
Completion Pct. 62.5 27 (T)
Passing Yards 276.4 32
Yards Per Attempt 7.09 32
Yards Per Catch 11.34 32
Total Yardage Gained 360.8 32
3rd Down Conversions 33.3 9
Points Per Game 21.6 16 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 19.7 16
Pass Defense Pct. 49.3 18
Turnovers 27 4 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 27 OAK 19
2 19 MAA 14
3 20 OBX 14
4 24 BKN 30
5 20 at WIL 17
6 32 at FRE 17
7 33 CDO 23
8 34 CHE 38
10 32 at FBK 19
11 23 at OAK 20
12 27 BOR 28
13 43 at CHI 28
14 30 at GOT 27
15 35 at CDO 17
16 16 at PAR 21
17 27 FBK 13

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
5 B. Weber QB 727 443 4565 6.28 28 21 79.8
**Team --- 727 443 4565 6.28 28 21 79.8
$$Opp --- 624 390 4422 7.09 28 14 89.3

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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30 D. Fleming RB 244 1170 4.80 9 2
5 B. Weber QB 60 356 5.93 4 14
**Team --- 305 1526 5.00 13 23
$$Opp --- 402 1601 3.98 9 25

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
12 D. Farmer WR 224 135 1385 10.26 6.18 17 4
11 O. Arredondo WR 104 72 585 8.13 5.63 3 4
84 G. Beeson WR 132 72 903 12.54 6.84 6 8
24 C. Blanchard WR 85 35 366 10.46 4.31 3 9
14 R. Finley WR 40 32 189 5.91 4.73 1 0
80 C. Shumate TE 41 31 447 14.42 10.90 3 0
26 A. Pearson RB 28 23 197 8.57 7.04 1 1
87 R. Hopkins TE 45 22 287 13.05 6.38 1 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 D. Reynolds ILB 123 29 0.0 0 2 7 70.9
59 D. Henry OLB 117 28 0.0 0 4 13 75.1
37 T. Matthews S 91 19 0.0 0 2 17 81.3
41 T. Bordley S 75 26 0.0 0 0 9 79.0
36 N. Kurogi CB 58 14 0.0 0 2 4 74.9
75 A. Blackledge DE 39 19 11.0 21 0 0 81.8
27 D. Young CB 39 9 0.0 0 2 7 81.3
70 S. Boone DE 36 18 2.0 12 0 1 80.8
71 J. Wolcott DT 33 14 5.5 8 0 0 82.0
99 I. Jacobs DT 29 7 2.5 1 0 0 80.7
95 S. Thomas OLB 27 10 11.0 20 0 0 81.9
55 H. Ferguson ILB 26 11 0.0 0 0 0 68.0
28 S. Flannery S 22 15 0.0 0 1 7 81.3
98 K. Cambini OLB 17 5 3.5 7 0 0 81.0 

Beats me really. Bye week, great. There's some horrendous shit on the card here though. I don't really know what happened to the defense. I would have bet heavily that this team would rush the passer well at least. We were so very bad against the pass this year. It's honestly about as minimal a set of core changes that you could make from one year to the next.

[MalcPow]

We win in the divisional round, 34-17 against Kansas but still give up a ton of yards.

We finally get what we deserve and fall to the Chits in Chesapeake. 30-23 in a game where we allow over 500 yards.

Chesapeake beats Tucker in the Bowl in a rout, 37-6.

WR Donnie Farmer and DE Blackledge are 2nd Team All Pros.

We'll have to go back and check everything. The offense is a house of cards, and we're throwing the ball 45 times a game in a Smashmouth offense just to kind of see if we can. So I get that we're right on the edge of turning to crap there.

The defense is loaded though. I clearly screwed something up.

[tzach]

We win in the divisional round, 34-17 against Kansas but still give up a ton of yards.



HAN is my worst nightmare even in this parallel universe!

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 11 32 32 2 yrs.
Frady, Xavier 102 QB 4 21 45 1 yr.
Shelton, Conrad 109 QB 2 23 40 3 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 5 56 56 ---
Pearson, Andre 226 RB 4 44 45 1 yr.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB 4 65 65 1 yr.
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB 6 64 64 2 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 6 34 34 2 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE 4 59 59 1 yr.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 2 43 63 3 yrs.
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 6 36 36 ---
West, Clarence 583 FL 5 28 28 ---
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE 4 63 63 1 yr.
Finley, Raymond 514 SE 3 38 47 2 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 3 48 54 2 yrs.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE 2 52 70 3 yrs.
Measso, K.C. 656 C 4 36 49 1 yr.
Megna, Lee 657 C 4 47 64 1 yr.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 3 68 77 2 yrs.
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG 3 63 63 2 yrs.
Shockey, Colby 774 LG 2 55 66 3 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT 2 50 65 3 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 7 79 79 3 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 6 78 78 2 yrs.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 2 58 63 3 yrs.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 7 75 75 1 yr.
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE 2 38 66 3 yrs.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE 2 23 42 3 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 9 72 72 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 6 77 77 1 yr.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT 5 64 64 ---
Skelton, William 1279RDT 2 40 67 3 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 6 49 49 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 3 79 79 2 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 9 56 56 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 5 65 65 2 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 4 74 74 1 yr.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 3 37 48 2 yrs.
Bernstein, Jermaine 1496SLB 2 33 49 3 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 6 78 78 2 yrs.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB 4 54 54 1 yr.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 2 34 47 3 yrs.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB 6 47 47 1 yr.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 5 59 59 ---
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 4 53 57 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 6 72 72 3 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 3 65 79 2 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 5 57 57 ---
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS 3 59 69 2 yrs.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 11 18 18 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 43
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 43

Salary Cap: $279,700,000
Cap Room: $129,880,000
Maximum for New Player: $119,970,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $40,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $108,290,000

We franchised Blackledge, but I don't think there's a bizarre path to keeping him like we've executed a few times.

[MalcPow]

HAN is my worst nightmare even in this parallel universe!

Sure, sure, we're giving ourselves nightmares in this one too.

[MalcPow]

FA1/Draft

There are two non-stud QBs that I like a little bit in this draft. They're both affinity fits. (Yeah, I said it.) One is the 5th highest quarterback grade and the other is the 8th. We're going to get one or both of these guys. They look like just the kind of 45-rated losers we can dust up into champions with some dance and voice lessons.

Weber can mentor or something. One more year of Weber? We lost our O-Coordinator this offseason. So we're moving from a really poorly cast Smashmouth setup to the Balanced attack of our new OC Deandre Hopkins. (Correct.) I'm convinced almost anything is possible with Deandre. Strides on the O-Line will help as well.

It's a weird side effect of signing our longsnapper to the monster cap hit contract each year, but we're a perennial bottom 3 team in the staff draft. Our stadium situation also isn't that great, so profitability is pretty marginal even in these last few successful years. Hopkins is solid as an OC, with good development bars. But he's not a stud with everything you'd want.

Pick #30 Hanalei WR Graham Pollinger
Pick #62 Hanalei WR Manuel Woodcock
Pick #94 Hanalei T Glen Horner
Pick #126 Hanalei QB Dominic Ellis
Pick #158 Hanalei CB Jerry Borders
Pick #190 Hanalei DT Donald Mincy
Pick #222 Hanalei WR Jamie Riley

This draft ends up feeling like an old school SP draft. We remade the receiving corps in about three minutes here. T Glen Horner is going to be good as well. Both QBs we had targeted are still there at the end of the 4th. We planned to nab both of them, but the other guy, QB Derek Sanford, goes in front of us in the 5th to Williamsburg. Sanford looks to be the more polished passer.

The guy we got, Dominic Ellis, ran a 4.48, has a big scramble bar, and looks like he'll just be fun to see what happens with in this offense. I don't see big bars in his future, but his combines and the big scramble bar jumped out. He'll either bring a completely different element to what we're doing or sink us with a million fumbles.

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

QB Buddy Weber is holding out. :nono:

He's back to wanting the $13-15m/yr deal he wanted before. Seems like a perfectly reasonable number for a starting QB. It's just not what we do here.

LB Seth Thomas is holding out as well. He was one of the bigger changes in a defense that went from dominant to pedestrian. He went from dominant to pedestrian. Now he's holding out. It's a gut punch because we need him pretty badly with Blackledge leaving. (I still haven't cut/dump traded him but there's no way to make it work. He wants MORE than the tag money.)

Anyway, those are two shitty holdouts. I'm not sure the Dom Ellis era is quite ready. He's hitting the roster at 9/33. (Perfect for us?)

We lost a lot of sneaky good talent this year. DT Isaiah Jacobs was an understated guy with a lot of time on the field. RB Glen Scott was good depth. S Alec Sexton got a little squeezed out of playing time but signed a big FA deal to leave. We're going to be suddenly very thin on the D-Line. I think having Blackledge's body on the roster let my eyes skim past that a little. Thomas is basically a DL for us so that holdout stretches us further. We're obviously continuing to pull good players out of our asses but cycling in undeveloped/no cohesion guys is a bad business to be in.

Guess we waited too long to trade Blackledge too. No General Manager expressed interest in the player. Sweet.

So... we do some truly destructive and weird shit. We're keeping Blackledge. We capped out LB Henry, SS Ted Matthews (who we officially converted to a CB just now), and RT Sean Flowers. None of those moves individually looks terrible, but cumulatively, they add up to some meaningful future year increases. The cherry on top is we're too far over this year still to get anything done with Blackledge other than a massive bonus 3 year deal where his hit balloons to $28m in the two years after this one. We're going to have problems next year and we're already set to lose some absolute favorites like DT Jace Wolcott and WR Donnie Farmer.

I don't know exactly what we're doing. There IS a Steam badge Bruce Smith challenge for trying to get one of your guys 171 sacks in a career. Blackledge is at 100...

It feels like we were gonna turn over in a major way this coming offseason anyway. We're lucky as hell that the last few drafts have turned us toward a OL and WR talent base, and a little bit away from a highly paid DL talent base. The most workable way to do this probably still relies on establishing and spending on the OL to avoid the low dev churn there. Having enough WRs to compete or finding some way to be successful running the ball... which I think we just didn't have the OL for early. If we could get the OL to a place where you could still use the occasional 1st/2nd on the defensive side I think you can stay talented enough there too. The secondary gets tough. I'm not sure you can have truly GOOD CBs picking late, and I really don't think you can by trying to farm mid-rounders. I might start moving toward just getting big interception bars onto the field there to see if we can reverse a career-long trend of bad takeaway numbers.

A lot to unpack there. Plus, holdouts!

[QuikSand]

We're running a couple reverses each game with an RB in a WR slot. I'm not sure these are value add yet.

Thanks for the feedback. On that one tiny thing, I fiddled with reverses in one career... came away with a sense that using WRs on reverses in FOF was just broken and useless. But slotting a RB into the assigned-guy-for-a-reverse in the gameplan was... potentially more promising.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Shelton, Conrad 109 QB 2 27 42 3 yrs.
$$Weber, Buddy 105 QB 11 34 34 2 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB QB 1 12 34 4 yrs.
Fleming, Donnell 230 RB RB 4 65 65 1 yr.
Pearson, Andre 226 RB FB 4 45 45 1 yr.
Fish, Terrence 229 RB 7 28 28 2 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE TE 2 47 62 3 yrs.
Hopkins, Randall 487 TE 4 59 59 1 yr.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 6 26 26 2 yrs.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 1 48 62 4 yrs.
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL FL 1 37 61 4 yrs.
Riley, Jamie 518 FL 1 19 45 4 yrs.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE 2 61 70 3 yrs.
Farmer, Donnie 512 SE SE 4 62 62 1 yr.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Finley, Raymond 514 SE 3 43 46 2 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 3 76 76 2 yrs.
Megna, Lee 657 C 4 44 48 1 yr.
Shockey, Colby 774 LG LG 2 63 67 3 yrs.
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG RG 3 65 65 2 yrs.
##Hendel, Darryl 768 LG 5 40 40 2 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT 1 29 70 4 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 2 56 65 3 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 7 81 81 3 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 6 80 80 2 yrs.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 2 63 63 3 yrs.
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 7 74 74 1 yr.
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE 2 44 68 3 yrs.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE 2 27 41 3 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE LDE 9 69 69 3 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT RDT 6 78 78 5 yrs.
Skelton, William 1279RDT LDT 2 44 67 3 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 1 22 44 4 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 3 79 79 2 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB SLB 6 62 62 2 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB RDE 4 73 73 3 yrs.
$$Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 5 66 66 2 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 9 50 50 2 yrs.
##Bernstein, Jermaine 1496SLB 2 39 49 3 yrs.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 3 41 48 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB WLB 6 78 78 2 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB RCB 6 71 71 3 yrs.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB 1 43 62 4 yrs.
Kurogi, Nicolas 1536LCB LCB 4 54 54 1 yr.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 2 38 48 3 yrs.
Siefried, Kenneth 1540RCB 4 58 58 1 yr.
Owens, Shane 1538RCB 6 45 45 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 3 74 76 2 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 3 66 70 3 yrs.
Nielson, Nicolas 654 LS 11 18 18 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 50
Inactive: 2
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $279,700,000
Cap Room: $440,000
Maximum for New Player: $440,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $270,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $210,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $190,630,000

We jumped the shark a little with contract shenanigans. We extended DT Wolcott on a 5 year albatross too. I think we're just going to clean house next offseason but might as well throw a party if you've already got the red cups strewn all over the place.

We still have the holdouts.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2039 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2039
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 142-193-1
Winning Pct. .424
Playoffs 9-2
Playoff Visits 5
Bowl Wins 2
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 68-39
Winning Pct. .635
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.1 32
Rushing Yards 113.1 11
Yards Per Carry 5.12 1
Pass Attempts 41.7 1
Completions 24.5 1
Completion Pct. 58.8 21 (T)
Passing Yards 231.3 15
Yards Per Attempt 5.55 31
Yards Per Catch 9.44 31
Total Yardage Gained 329.2 9
3rd Down Conversions 37.0 4 (T)
Points Per Game 21.5 6 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 24.9 1
Pass Defense Pct. 49.2 25
Turnovers 26 24 (T)
Turnover Margin -8 27

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.9 8 (T)
Rushing Yards 79.0 1
Yards Per Carry 3.18 1
Pass Attempts 37.8 29
Completions 22.4 24 (T)
Completion Pct. 59.4 16 (T)
Passing Yards 241.0 25
Yards Per Attempt 6.38 19
Yards Per Catch 10.74 18
Total Yardage Gained 306.8 9
3rd Down Conversions 32.9 17
Points Per Game 19.3 16
Pass Rush Pct. 20.5 15
Pass Defense Pct. 53.3 17
Turnovers 18 27 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 6 at CDO 20
2 3 TOR 20
3 29 at CHE 21
4 20 at CHI 17
5 23 at KAN 16
6 26 MIN 3
7 24 CDO 6
8 24 at FBK 21
10 48 IOW 22
11 32 OAK 3
12 33 at HAR 31
13 21 MOO 36
14 13 ROC 23
15 19 FBK 22
16 0 at NPL 34
17 23 at OAK 13
$$WC at CPC

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
10 D. Ellis QB 636 373 3556 5.59 20 16 74.2
**Team --- 667 392 3701 5.55 20 16 74.1
$$Opp --- 604 359 3856 6.38 19 12 80.4

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
30 D. Fleming RB 147 674 4.59 4 4
10 D. Ellis QB 118 755 6.40 5 12
26 A. Pearson RB 83 338 4.07 5 0
**Team --- 353 1809 5.12 14 24
$$Opp --- 398 1264 3.18 5 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
12 D. Farmer WR 250 147 1380 9.39 5.52 14 5
13 G. Pollinger WR 68 45 498 11.07 7.32 4 3
11 O. Arredondo WR 61 35 361 10.31 5.92 1 5
84 G. Beeson WR 63 35 267 7.63 4.24 2 0
19 M. Woodcock WR 63 34 374 11.00 5.94 6 2
87 R. Hopkins TE 34 23 251 10.91 7.38 0 1
14 R. Finley WR 42 22 187 8.50 4.45 3 2
80 C. Shumate TE 39 22 237 10.77 6.08 1 2
30 D. Fleming RB 30 19 80 4.21 2.67 1 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
41 T. Bordley S 107 32 0.0 0 0 8 76.9
59 D. Henry OLB 103 28 0.0 0 0 6 71.1
50 D. Reynolds ILB 96 30 0.0 0 1 14 78.0
28 S. Flannery S 68 26 0.0 0 3 7 78.5
36 N. Kurogi CB 64 16 0.0 0 2 7 75.7
37 T. Matthews CB 60 13 0.0 0 0 8 76.4
71 J. Wolcott DT 51 27 7.5 9 0 0 82.3
40 K. Siefried CB 43 9 0.0 0 4 7 80.2
55 H. Ferguson ILB 35 6 0.0 0 1 3 76.4
70 S. Boone DE 32 12 5.0 14 0 0 81.6
75 A. Blackledge DE 29 12 8.0 35 0 1 82.5
95 S. Thomas OLB 27 8 6.0 23 0 0 81.4
98 K. Cambini OLB 23 14 5.5 19 0 1 81.6 

Weber held out until Week 10. The kid was horrendous the first few games. Then honestly started looking like he could be pretty good, in a less throwing focused way. We were 8-2 or something so we stuck with him. Then a real rough patch hit to end the year and we limped into a wild card berth.

Thomas came back very early. The pass rush was back in a big way too, but the sack totals were down from our salad days.

Just chalk it up as an lol at this point, but yeah, we went on a magical playoff run. The Bowl was probably the one game we really dominated, with good yardage and a clean offense backed up by 5 picks and great defense. The rest were weird ones we just happened to win?

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Hanalei Dragons 2039 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card at Capital City Blues W, 27-24 83,200 Sunny, 54, 1 mph.
Division at Kansas Creationists W, 27-20 83,300 Snow, 32, 20 mph.
League at Brooklyn Fightin' Bums W, 33-17 63,500 Sunny, 45, calm
Champ. vs Bordeaux Vineyards W, 33-10 65,500 Rain, 50, 14 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 43,100
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

I'm kind of punting on the playoff results. The 10-6 team with the QB experiment is who and what we are. The weird return to defensive form? Beats me mostly. Looking back through the logs we may have had some really poor safety play from guys who shouldn't have been out there a year ago. We slotted our two very good ones in almost every formation this year. Does that explain the #1 to #23 to #1 pass rush ranking progression the last three years with a ton of personnel continuity? Maybe.

QB Dom Ellis is the Bowl MVP and WR Donnie Farmer is a 2nd Team All Pro with 250 targets and a 5.52 y/tar mark. *mmm hmm*

[Chas in Cinti]

You are slaughtering... maybe you should have signed the LS to half cap contract and simmed a couple years to truly get in trouble.. :P

[MalcPow]

You are slaughtering... maybe you should have signed the LS to half cap contract and simmed a couple years to truly get in trouble.. :P

Yeah, I mean, the challenge aspect of the cap crunch is definitely annoying me thoroughly and creating a lot of tedium. We're overwhelmingly talented because I keep crushing the draft every year. I think I underestimated just how much more talented we are. Eyeballing even the good teams, and you're looking at 6-10 guys who are future rated 60+ by my scout. We're carrying 28 right now and bottoming out the rest of our roster in the 50s and mid 40s.

We're running a complete mess at QB who might grow into a neutral situation bottom 3rd starter or something. And we have limited cohesion, guys still developing, etc. We've had some mildly positive chemistry going. Trying to avoid conflicts, fixing on the fly to sprinkle in some good vibes without descending into long term planning stuff. (And apologies for the long quote response, Chas, really just talking to any/everyone who's skimming through here.)

I think we're helping on the gameplanning front, or I thought we were until I checked other rosters. I'd like to keep tweaking and focusing there. I don't really want this to morph exactly into a "what can I do with cripple QBs and monster rosters" neverending story. I think that probably means bagging the cap crunch aspect at some point in favor of something simpler. Maybe some kind of 3 Dragons gimmick where we're only adding 3 rookies a year. I really am trying to learn some things and I think I'm stretching into an environment that is a little too unique the further we let this drift into a no cohesion draft crushing churn. I'm not sure anything we learn about gameplanning in this setup is applicable in more normal settings basically.

So we've got a roster in place I've got some attachment to, which is always a good start. I think I'll run this offseason like this:

-3 Dragons, we add three guys from the 4th round of the draft. I think that's the sweet spot of where I can still get mid tier LBs (hell yes), there's an occasional starter quality QB, but the true 70+ type talent is picked through.

-Can reneg anyone with at least 2 years left on a contract. Forcing earlier decisions I guess.

-Nothing in FA1 but we can do whatever in FA2. I'm pretty sure it's a wasteland in SP but if we're killing it here in the future we'll revisit. I see this as depth/leaders/roster fitting. And probably a few UDRs every year.

-No more franchising/trades, beyond what we do to basically pick at 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 every year.

Cool. We can let Blackledge chase 171 sacks. Do other weird stuff. Talk about the little men in the computer like they're my friends, etc. #COVID19

[tzach]

Originally Postedby Malcpow
We're running a couple reverses each game with an RB in a WR slot. I'm not sure these are value add yet.

Thanks for the feedback. On that one tiny thing, I fiddled with reverses in one career... came away with a sense that using WRs on reverses in FOF was just broken and useless. But slotting a RB into the assigned-guy-for-a-reverse in the gameplan was... potentially more promising.


i've been looking at reverses a lot lately. i'll post here if i find anything interesting. what i know so far is that the AI gets 3.1 yd per reverse, so much less than the 4.1 ypc from the running game.

[QuikSand]

There's this sort of funny cat and mouse game in the background of FOF, right?

Developer creates an element that matches up with something in real football. Deion Sanders plays a season or two part time at wide receiver. Users suggest this sort of thing needs to be present in a football sim. Two weeks after the game is released, some assclown is out here running a dynasty thread with a 4,500 yard receiver because for some reason him playing every down at CB is helping and not hurting his endurance, or whatever.

So, with reverses. We know it's kind hard to hit the nail on the head with "familiarity" - a concept we want to mirror what we'd expect a real NFL coaching staff to do, if they were to see (or even scout) an opponent that has overbearing tendencies. That seems, for whatever reason, to be hard to model in this game. Now if you give me the keys to the car for gameplanning, and you give me a chance at putting a WR reverse in as one of my plays as a high-risk high-reward thing... it's just a matter of time until I (or more likely some other asshat) ends up running 40 reverses a game, for 120 points on 700 yards, because or reasons. So, the safest thing for the developer to do, it seems, is put the reverse as an ingredient into the game... neuter it so it really is just for show... and move on to another programming subroutine.

[Chas in Cinti]

Apologies as I'm sure this has been discussed, but does the new version make the old "Island of Misfit Toys" challenge any different?

[MalcPow]

There's this sort of funny cat and mouse game in the background of FOF, right?

Developer creates an element that matches up with something in real football. Deion Sanders plays a season or two part time at wide receiver. Users suggest this sort of thing needs to be present in a football sim. Two weeks after the game is released, some assclown is out here running a dynasty thread with a 4,500 yard receiver because for some reason him playing every down at CB is helping and not hurting his endurance, or whatever.

So, with reverses. We know it's kind hard to hit the nail on the head with "familiarity" - a concept we want to mirror what we'd expect a real NFL coaching staff to do, if they were to see (or even scout) an opponent that has overbearing tendencies. That seems, for whatever reason, to be hard to model in this game. Now if you give me the keys to the car for gameplanning, and you give me a chance at putting a WR reverse in as one of my plays as a high-risk high-reward thing... it's just a matter of time until I (or more likely some other asshat) ends up running 40 reverses a game, for 120 points on 700 yards, because or reasons. So, the safest thing for the developer to do, it seems, is put the reverse as an ingredient into the game... neuter it so it really is just for show... and move on to another programming subroutine.

Yeah no doubt. The game is littered with all kinds of "should I care about this because it's here" stuff. I think reverses are probably the window dressing you're talking about. Unfortunately, the window dressing stuff tends to be less robust at times if there is an effect. And you can find some ways to get the game outside its comfort zone and suddenly that effect becomes powerful. I wouldn't have even messed with this if I didn't see it in some IHOF gamelogs. If somebody having success is doing something, try it on. Oakland runs slot reverse out of 014t multiple times per game, and they're a good offense. Oh the slot guy is an RB. Ok, so we've got multiple layers of somebody making quirky little decisions and they're having success. It's pretty clear this isn't the key driver of their success but whatever. It's fun to chase it down a little and see what shakes out.

tzach does a bunch of cool stuff. He's got a stud WR in an RB spot in the depth chart. You can't even do that in SP as far as I can tell. I'm assuming he position changed the guy, slotted him in the spot, deleted the position change from the edit export screen, and the dude just crushes out of the backfield as a receiver. I love it, that's hilarious.

I like that gameplanning/play construction/etc is out in the open at least. If you're bored enough to stare into the tedium for awhile, you can pick out a lot of interesting things. Staring at tedium is kind of my thing though, so your mileage may vary, etc.

[MalcPow]

Apologies as I'm sure this has been discussed, but does the new version make the old "Island of Misfit Toys" challenge any different?

I don't think so. I think it's still a great challenge. The flow tends to be a build toward leveraging cohesion into the really powerful force that it is and eventually seeing success. I don't really know what I'm doing here. It could turn into something like that. I'm still trying to play while learning a few things that might port over into MP leagues or something, so I haven't bit down completely on "make this SP setting as challenging as possible" or intentionally set play parameters on a path that's going to give me a really weird roster. It's clear I've ended up with something like a really weird roster by overpowering the draft, so tweak it a little I guess.

Misfit Toys is great. I'll probably play one again soon. 2020 is the best.

[tzach]

He's got a stud WR in an RB spot in the depth chart. You can't even do that in SP as far as I can tell. I'm assuming he position changed the guy, slotted him in the spot, deleted the position change from the edit export screen, and the dude just crushes out of the backfield as a receiver. I love it, that's hilarious.


i don't like where this thread is going! :-P

i swear this is realistic

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/article122957799.html

[MalcPow]

So I think the 4th round part was a good idea. Our first 3 Dragons...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnvdpm69nrezi6r/2090LbThomasRhodes.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0fdtlbjtagjsyf/2090QbRyanRichey.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vziyr8ukg2h0c8p/2090LtAllenVolek.PNG?dl=1

These guys all look like future contributors without being studs. QB Richey seems like he could grow into something. Honestly took him as much because there weren't clear standouts at other positions, but I think he would be our most talented QB yet if we let him develop.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 1 27 51 4 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB QB 2 26 35 3 yrs.
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 12 27 27 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 1 43 51 2 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 1 45 48 2 yrs.
Fish, Terrence 229 RB 8 24 24 1 yr.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE TE 3 57 62 4 yrs.
Ventura, Griffin 489 TE FB 11 41 41 2 yrs.
##Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 1 23 38 2 yrs.
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 7 19 19 1 yr.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 2 62 63 3 yrs.
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL FL 2 45 61 3 yrs.
##Riley, Jamie 518 FL 2 25 48 3 yrs.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE SE 3 69 69 3 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 4 51 51 3 yrs.
Finley, Raymond 514 SE 4 46 46 1 yr.
##Boireau, Louie 588 SE 1 29 41 2 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 4 77 77 5 yrs.
##McGregor, Erick 654 C 1 25 47 2 yrs.
Shockey, Colby 774 LG LG 3 65 65 2 yrs.
Eliopoulos, Winfred 772 LG RG 4 61 61 1 yr.
##Hendel, Darryl 768 LG 6 39 39 1 yr.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 1 28 51 4 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT 2 34 70 3 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 3 67 67 5 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 8 81 81 4 yrs.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 7 79 79 1 yr.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 3 65 65 2 yrs.
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE LDE 3 57 69 2 yrs.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE LDT 3 31 43 2 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 10 65 65 3 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT RDT 7 78 78 4 yrs.
Skelton, William 1279RDT 3 59 64 2 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 2 27 44 3 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 4 80 80 4 yrs.
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 7 62 62 1 yr.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB RDE 5 74 74 4 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 6 66 66 4 yrs.
##Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 1 35 51 2 yrs.
##Bernstein, Jermaine 1496SLB 3 44 47 2 yrs.
Lynch, Brody 1494SLB 10 42 42 1 yr.
Hughes, Calvin 1493SLB 4 38 42 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB SLB 7 70 70 4 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB WLB 1 54 68 4 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB RCB 7 71 71 4 yrs.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB LCB 2 53 60 3 yrs.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 3 45 48 2 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 1 24 46 2 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 4 76 76 5 yrs.
Singleton, Earl 1644SS 1 20 46 2 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 4 62 62 3 yrs.
Gunderson, Levon 1640FS 6 28 28 1 yr.
Shea, Gino 657 LS 6 15 15 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $285,000,000
Cap Room: $27,670,000
Maximum for New Player: $28,430,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $410,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $310,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $248,100,000

We're still pretty loaded outside of a few positions. We will probably expedite that with some thinning after this year. We should look pretty different a few years from now, with likely a couple sentimental holdovers. I'm not totally sure who to play at QB this year. The rookie Richey got a lot of reps in preseason. Ellis obviously played the spot last year. Weber is still in the picture. We'll flip a coin..

[MalcPow]

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2040 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2040
Record 14-2
Winning Pct. .875
All-Time 156-195-1
Winning Pct. .444
Playoffs 13-2
Playoff Visits 6
Bowl Wins 3
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 86-41
Winning Pct. .677
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.0 31 (T)
Rushing Yards 107.6 16
Yards Per Carry 4.89 3
Pass Attempts 42.0 1
Completions 26.1 2
Completion Pct. 62.1 12
Passing Yards 296.5 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.06 3
Yards Per Catch 11.38 4
Total Yardage Gained 390.1 1
3rd Down Conversions 36.2 7
Points Per Game 31.6 1
Pass Rush Pct. 20.6 10 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 72.0 1
Turnovers 23 16 (T)
Turnover Margin +6 6 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.5 3
Rushing Yards 77.9 1
Yards Per Carry 3.32 1
Pass Attempts 42.0 32
Completions 23.2 28
Completion Pct. 55.2 1
Passing Yards 250.7 26
Yards Per Attempt 5.97 5
Yards Per Catch 10.81 19 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 314.4 10
3rd Down Conversions 34.2 21
Points Per Game 16.3 1
Pass Rush Pct. 16.9 4
Pass Defense Pct. 49.1 13
Turnovers 29 4

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 17 at FBK 10
2 44 TUC 28
3 24 at CHE 30
4 33 at TEX 17
5 31 at CDO 19
6 41 MOO 6
8 30 FBK 3
9 28 at OBX 21
10 36 CPC 3
11 27 at OAK 30
12 26 AUG 20
13 23 IOW 3
14 46 at SNP 21
15 45 OAK 23
16 21 at ORL 13
17 34 CDO 14

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 652 407 4648 7.13 40 16 94.0
**Team --- 672 417 4744 7.06 40 16 93.1
$$Opp --- 672 371 4011 5.97 17 25 65.8

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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33 J. Sivela RB 162 749 4.62 4 0
25 M. Howe RB 88 326 3.70 2 2
3 R. Richey QB 73 471 6.45 6 4
**Team --- 352 1721 4.89 12 15
$$Opp --- 376 1247 3.32 8 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
84 G. Beeson WR 193 123 1340 10.89 6.94 10 17
11 O. Arredondo WR 141 82 710 8.66 5.04 8 14
13 G. Pollinger WR 108 75 978 13.04 9.06 4 0
89 G. Ventura TE 52 32 507 15.84 9.75 4 3
19 M. Woodcock WR 62 32 367 11.47 5.92 3 2
80 C. Shumate TE 54 31 525 16.94 9.72 5 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 D. Reynolds ILB 108 34 0.0 0 3 22 81.3
59 D. Henry OLB 101 35 1.0 0 3 13 77.6
41 T. Bordley S 98 27 0.0 0 0 14 78.9
48 J. Borders CB 73 21 0.0 0 5 11 78.9
28 S. Flannery S 58 26 0.0 0 4 11 81.8
37 T. Matthews CB 57 12 0.0 0 3 16 82.4
71 J. Wolcott DT 46 22 6.5 15 0 1 82.5
79 W. Skelton DT 32 16 2.0 15 0 1 81.6
75 A. Blackledge DE 28 8 11.0 22 0 0 82.3
52 T. Rhodes OLB 28 4 0.0 0 0 1 73.3
95 S. Thomas OLB 27 13 10.0 22 1 1 82.9
98 K. Cambini OLB 25 11 3.0 4 0 0 80.7
40 L. Gunderson S 24 12 0.0 0 3 6 83.1 

Ok, right. THAT'S A GOOD TEAM. We just handed the rookie the keys and he was an absolute stud. We actually won the turnover battle. That might be a first for this career. We tie Outer Banks for the best record in the conference at 14-2, but we beat them during the year so we are the #1 seed. We'll watch this team morph as we cycle out parts of this thing, but it's nice to see a clean looking dominant campaign out of them first. Note to self that good QB play is a value add.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons 2040 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 29-7 60,900 Sunny, 43, 4 mph.
League OUTER BANKS OSPREYS W, 31-24 60,900 Sunny, 68, 1 mph.
Champ. vs Orlando Talons W, 48-13 58,200 Sunny, 43, 8 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 46,500
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

So that was fun. Here's a screenie of our Bowl MVP, where he went 35-43 for 389 yards, 6 passing TDs and 1 rushing TD.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/asqb4r0eroi4w9g/2090QbRyanRicheyEnd.PNG?dl=1

Monster rookie season. Dude was definitely more developed than most when he hit the roster as a 24 year old draftee, but that was tremendous. Only "1 Late Heroics" but it was in the conference title game so he made it count.

He also won League MVP, OPOY, OROY, and 1st Team QB.

WR Gerald Beeson was also a 1st Team All Pro.

DE Arnie Blackledge added 11 more sacks and is sitting at 119 for his Hanalei career.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsih7khtp61wqdy/2090DeArnieBlackledgeEnd.PNG?dl=1

He's held his ratings pretty well. 10th year though. 52 sacks away from 171. We'll let him die on the field but it feels like a long shot.

[MalcPow]

2041 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8iohifo2s7xpm5v/2091WrTyrusAguiar.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ui7jxdnoo9spjeu/2091RtLesterRayburn.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgb465fro20vvdo/2091WrMercuryBotta.PNG?dl=1

It's obvious that as our stud crew moves on that we're going to have the hardest time getting WR talent in the UDR pool I think. Maybe there will be some 40 rated veterans in the pool at the end of FA2, but we're probably well-served taking shots on receivers if we like guys with these picks. We like these guys. The tackle looks fun too. We'll find a spot for him.

We didn't break them down, but our crop of UDRs was kind of interesting last year. And yet they were such a far cry from our beautiful star babies that we're going to have to set free over the next season or two. QB Richey will turn water into wine in the next phase of his career. Right now he's turning wine into a drunken orgy.

I think we'll be able to find RBs in that pool. We did last year. I think we'll be able to get by with marginal TE talent. We'll need to draft some defensive players eventually but I'm going to keep moving the goal posts on when and how I let those guys walk away. (I swear I'm not extending anyone this year. Maybe Blackledge to keep retirement out of his head.) I don't think we'll be able to get legit pass rushers from the UDR pool but we might be able to cobble some position switch starters from the safeties and corners floating around. We'll see what happens. It's a problem for the future, but we're slowly losing pieces from the juggernaut.

[Squirrel]

Great thread this. Almost persuading me to give SP a whirl in this lockdown

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 3 26 30 2 yrs.
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 2 46 55 3 yrs.
##Williamson, Lenny 108 QB 1 11 41 2 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 2 48 48 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 2 52 52 1 yr.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 1 30 38 2 yrs.
Ventura, Griffin 489 TE FB 12 34 34 1 yr.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE TE 4 62 62 3 yrs.
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 2 27 39 1 yr.
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL FL 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 3 63 63 2 yrs.
##Greenwood, Al 587 FL 1 19 39 2 yrs.
$$Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 5 51 51 2 yrs.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE SE 4 70 70 2 yrs.
##Boireau, Louie 588 SE 2 33 41 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 1 37 62 4 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 1 33 60 4 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 5 75 75 4 yrs.
##McGregor, Erick 654 C 2 29 50 1 yr.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 1 28 66 2 yrs.
Shockey, Colby 774 LG LG 4 65 65 1 yr.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 2 33 53 3 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 4 67 67 4 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT RG 3 35 62 2 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 9 71 71 3 yrs.
##Michalske, Emmitt 870 RT 1 17 41 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 1 24 60 4 yrs.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 1 58 58 2 yrs.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 4 63 63 1 yr.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 1 51 68 2 yrs.
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE LDE 4 68 70 1 yr.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE 4 38 40 1 yr.
Prigge, Avery 1178LDE 1 26 42 2 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 11 61 61 3 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT RDT 8 69 69 3 yrs.
Skelton, William 1279RDT 4 64 64 1 yr.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT LDT 3 33 44 2 yrs.
##Glymph, Kendall 1355WILB 1 18 35 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 5 80 80 3 yrs.
Corbett, Darryl 1492SLB 11 39 39 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 7 66 66 3 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB RDE 6 74 74 3 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB SLB 2 39 51 1 yr.
##Nason, Samuel 1490SLB 1 21 42 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 8 61 61 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB WLB 2 69 69 3 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB RCB 8 67 67 3 yrs.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 4 47 47 1 yr.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB LCB 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 2 29 43 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 5 76 76 4 yrs.
Gunderson, Levon 1640FS 7 28 28 1 yr.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 5 62 62 2 yrs.
Shea, Gino 657 LS 7 15 15 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 54
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $290,300,000
Cap Room: $30,120,000
Maximum for New Player: $30,900,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $730,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $390,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $228,280,000

WR Arredondo is holding out. We've basically stopped giving contracts to the "older" guys until they fade off the team. My guess is that keeps us good to very good for at least two more years. We should be good this year. The depth is thinning quickly but we still have a lot of very good players across the starting spots.

Blackledge with a little step back in camp but he's on scholarship.

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2041 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2041
Record 14-2
Winning Pct. .875
All-Time 170-197-1
Winning Pct. .463
Playoffs 16-2
Playoff Visits 7
Bowl Wins 4
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 103-43
Winning Pct. .705
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.4 29
Rushing Yards 115.1 11
Yards Per Carry 4.91 3
Pass Attempts 42.0 1
Completions 26.4 1
Completion Pct. 62.9 8
Passing Yards 306.7 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.30 2
Yards Per Catch 11.60 1 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 411.9 1
3rd Down Conversions 42.1 1
Points Per Game 37.1 1
Pass Rush Pct. 22.2 7
Pass Defense Pct. 57.2 8
Turnovers 24 20 (T)
Turnover Margin -2 16 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.9 3
Rushing Yards 82.4 1
Yards Per Carry 3.45 2
Pass Attempts 38.1 30
Completions 22.5 24
Completion Pct. 59.0 11
Passing Yards 247.8 25 (T)
Yards Per Attempt 6.50 19 (T)
Yards Per Catch 11.01 25
Total Yardage Gained 316.2 11
3rd Down Conversions 30.5 8
Points Per Game 17.9 5
Pass Rush Pct. 17.2 2
Pass Defense Pct. 43.9 8
Turnovers 22 12 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 31 at OAK 21
2 40 at SAO 7
3 54 MIN 20
4 39 BKN 13
5 21 at WIL 33
6 23 at FRE 10
7 41 at CDO 27
8 46 CHE 17
10 40 FBK 20
11 44 OAK 17
12 40 at HOU 16
13 23 at OBX 30
14 45 ATL 13
15 59 CDO 6
16 22 FTW 16
17 26 at FBK 21

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 640 405 4692 7.33 44 12 100.5
10 D. Ellis QB 32 18 215 6.72 3 0 108.1
**Team --- 672 423 4907 7.30 47 12 100.8
$$Opp --- 610 360 3964 6.50 16 14 77.5

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
33 J. Sivela RB 230 925 4.02 5 4
3 R. Richey QB 82 549 6.70 6 6
25 M. Howe RB 51 333 6.53 4 2
**Team --- 375 1841 4.91 15 19
$$Opp --- 382 1318 3.45 11 15

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
84 G. Beeson WR 247 147 1513 10.29 6.13 13 13
11 O. Arredondo WR 79 53 487 9.19 6.16 3 12
13 G. Pollinger WR 67 52 674 12.96 10.06 2 5
19 M. Woodcock WR 78 37 373 10.08 4.78 6 3
82 T. Aguiar WR 60 35 460 13.14 7.67 6 2
80 C. Shumate TE 40 29 445 15.34 11.13 3 5
89 G. Ventura TE 38 27 502 18.59 13.21 2 0
33 J. Sivela RB 35 27 249 9.22 7.11 0 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 D. Reynolds ILB 104 28 0.0 0 1 14 75.0
41 T. Bordley S 101 28 0.0 0 2 19 83.2
59 D. Henry OLB 79 19 0.0 0 2 6 73.6
48 J. Borders CB 66 29 0.0 0 5 13 81.5
37 T. Matthews CB 65 15 0.0 0 0 6 75.2
28 S. Flannery S 46 15 0.0 0 0 2 75.8
71 J. Wolcott DT 37 22 2.0 15 0 0 81.7
95 S. Thomas OLB 36 14 10.0 19 1 0 81.5
79 W. Skelton DT 36 9 5.0 8 0 0 81.8
52 T. Rhodes OLB 32 14 0.0 0 1 6 79.5
58 S. Sayre OLB 27 7 0.0 0 1 3 76.4
75 A. Blackledge DE 26 6 9.0 24 0 2 82.4
97 S. Padilla DE 24 5 6.5 7 0 0 81.4
98 K. Cambini OLB 22 7 6.0 3 0 0 80.0
22 J. Sewell CB 18 8 0.0 0 1 8 82.8
99 D. Mincy DT 17 9 1.5 5 0 1 82.4 

Yep. Enjoy it while it lasts. Really impressive stuff and we're the #1 seed again. Back to the negative turnover differential because it's just a philosophy we have.

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Hanalei Dragons 2041 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division CHICAGO NORSEMEN W, 24-16 60,900 Sunny, 70, 1 mph.
League CHESAPEAKE CHITTERLINGS W, 24-20 60,900 Sunny, 53, 8 mph.
Champ. vs Paris Musketeers W, 51-0 55,200 Rain, 62, 1 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 48,000
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

It was tough going in the first two games, and Richey had to bring us back from the brink in the 4th against Chesapeake. Then the Bowl was silliness with great play on both sides of the ball. Two punt return TDs from Pollinger just to get weird too.

QB Richey wins all the awards he can win again. WR Beeson is a 1st Team All Pro.

9 more sacks for Blackledge on the year. He is up to 128 for the career. The career record for this universe is currently 136, so I'm hoping Arnie comes back to at least grab that. I think we've helped his productivity by slimming some of his workload, but he was on the field for fewer plays than the year before by a pretty good chunk. Helped his PRPct, but if we're chasing sacks I probably need to look at making sure he's out there a tick more.

We've got one more year with Beeson and some of the other holdover WR talents. After that we'll have to rely on the guys we just drafted. The defense will have some key names but we're thinning quickly. Hopefully there's some draft talent we can grab to be ready/patch it together. The DL could be weak/thin as hell as early as next year.

I would guess we step back from what this was but are still very good next year. It's tough to build on 37 points per game and 17 allowed. We'll get mortal pretty quickly after next year though, if it doesn't happen sooner with some ageing dings.

[tzach]

this is getting more and more interesting.

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Williamson, Lenny 108 QB 2 11 41 1 yr.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 4 26 30 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 3 52 52 3 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 3 48 48 3 yrs.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 2 31 37 1 yr.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 5 62 62 2 yrs.
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 3 28 39 1 yr.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 4 63 63 1 yr.
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL 4 60 60 1 yr.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 2 19 39 1 yr.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE 5 69 69 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 2 43 62 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 2 37 60 3 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 6 51 51 1 yr.
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 3 33 42 1 yr.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 6 75 75 3 yrs.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 2 28 66 1 yr.
McGregor, Erick 654 C 3 29 50 ---
Shockey, Colby 774 LG 5 65 65 ---
Volek, Allen 777 RG 3 34 54 2 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT 5 67 67 3 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT 4 41 62 1 yr.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 10 71 71 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 2 26 60 3 yrs.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 2 65 65 1 yr.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 2 50 67 1 yr.
Narcisse, Kyle 1016K 5 62 62 ---
Padilla, Spencer 1197LDE 5 70 70 ---
Prigge, Avery 1178LDE 2 28 42 1 yr.
McKnight, Theodore 1191LDE 5 38 40 ---
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 12 61 61 2 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 9 69 69 2 yrs.
Skelton, William 1279RDT 5 64 64 ---
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 4 40 44 1 yr.
Glymph, Kendall 1355WILB 2 18 36 1 yr.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 6 80 80 2 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 7 74 74 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 8 66 66 2 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 3 47 51 2 yrs.
Nason, Samuel 1490SLB 2 21 42 1 yr.
Corbett, Darryl 1492SLB 12 39 39 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB 3 69 69 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 9 61 61 2 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB 9 67 67 2 yrs.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB 4 63 63 1 yr.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 5 47 47 ---
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 3 30 43 2 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 6 76 76 3 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS 6 63 63 1 yr.
Gunderson, Levon 1640FS 8 28 28 ---
Shea, Gino 657 LS 8 15 15 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 43
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 43

Salary Cap: $295,600,000
Cap Room: $56,980,000
Maximum for New Player: $46,700,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $400,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $201,940,000

Yeah, it starts this year with losing DE Padilla (70/70) and DT Skelton (64/64) from the D-line. G Colby Shockey (65/65) has been a starter for us all four years with the team as well. The defensive guys were a bit of an embarrassment of riches for a stretch there, and they were getting most of their time in lesser formations. They were key for us last year though and the year before as well. Next man up in those spots is not looking good enough. We're probably nabbing a couple bodies at the end of FA2 for the D-line.

The secondary is about to get extremely shaky too. I think this needs to be a D year for our draft picks. Hope we get a little lucky on what's there for us.

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2042 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/31slkqtnn6km8tw/2042LbHaydenWells.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1zrauwgyin2lp2/2042LbTroyPelletier.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7oq9ltm7urq928/2042LbDevinMills.PNG?dl=1

There's stuff to like about all three of these guys. I think they'll all be big enough to have LB/DE versatility for us. Pelletier should be a pass rusher. We will need one soon. The other two have very little pass rush potential that I can see. A little disappointed with what was there for us this year. I felt like this was kind of just going for some value/BPA, especially taking Mills as the third LB for this class. We will need the depth/bodies but there are some other spots where we will need real players and they just weren't there.

So far I think it's bearing out that the secondary might be a spot we just can't add a real player to without some big time luck. Late FA2 veteran scrubs and patching it together look like the path there. Fine for now, but we're gonna lose our safeties and Ted Matthews soon. Will be a wasteland then.

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FA2/Camp

We get holdouts from LB Seth Thomas and CB Jerry Borders. The Thomas holdout sort of clears the way for SLB Kristopher Cambini to take over as the primary DE pass rusher opposite Blackledge. The CB Borders holdout is a bit of a dagger. With him, we mostly hold together a pretty good core four back there. Without him, we're probably weak and rotating multiple spots. Not enough to kill us but stretches us in the wrong matchup for sure. He's only got a year left with us but was hoping to get the full season.

We sign a few veteran CBs to try to cover over some of this. We're able to bring CB Jalen Sewell back in FA2, so we do. We sign two outsiders in CB Javier Tirado and CB Aiden Frederick. They're all mid-40s guys and I'm hoping they kind of blend into the background but this is probably the future of how we solve the secondary going forward. It could be worse, but it could be better.

We bring some big future rating UDR Centers into camp. Going to look to bulk them up and convert them. Just play them out of position? I don't really know what the right answer is exactly and we probably won't learn this year anyway. We've got better solutions in place for another season or two.

I think we bring 12 LBs to camp.

LB Thomas and CB Borders both come back for the last week of preseason.

Here's the roster ahead of Week 1:


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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 4 29 32 1 yr.
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 3 48 48 3 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 3 53 53 3 yrs.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 2 33 37 1 yr.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE TE 5 61 61 2 yrs.
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 3 32 38 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE FB 1 31 49 2 yrs.
##Rogers, Trey 518 FL 12 28 28 2 yrs.
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL FL 4 61 61 1 yr.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 4 62 62 1 yr.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 2 22 38 1 yr.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 6 51 51 1 yr.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE SE 5 70 70 1 yr.
##Boireau, Louie 588 SE 3 29 33 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 2 48 62 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 2 37 55 3 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 6 77 77 3 yrs.
##Mugford, Jorge 656 C 2 34 67 1 yr.
##Shea, Greg 760 LG 1 27 59 2 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 3 35 51 2 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 1 37 66 2 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 5 69 69 3 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT RG 4 47 64 1 yr.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 10 61 61 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 2 33 62 3 yrs.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 2 68 68 1 yr.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 2 58 65 1 yr.
Prigge, Avery 1178LDE 2 31 41 1 yr.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 1 23 46 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE LDE 1 33 47 4 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 12 57 57 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE LDT 1 37 47 4 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 9 60 60 2 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT RDT 4 45 45 1 yr.
##Porter, Moe 1396SILB 1 29 49 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB MLB 6 79 79 2 yrs.
##Corbett, Darryl 1492SLB 12 32 32 1 yr.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 8 65 65 2 yrs.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB SLB 7 75 75 2 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 9 55 55 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB WLB 3 70 70 2 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB RDE 1 32 50 4 yrs.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB LCB 9 57 57 2 yrs.
Frederick, Aiden 1523LCB 8 48 48 2 yrs.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 5 47 47 2 yrs.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 5 37 37 2 yrs.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB RCB 4 70 70 1 yr.
##Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 3 35 46 2 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 6 78 78 3 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS FS 6 63 63 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 2 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $295,600,000
Cap Room: $42,520,000
Maximum for New Player: $43,320,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $430,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $223,250,000

Unless something strange happens, we should be pretty good again. RT Sean Flowers, whose trade bloomed a thousand Bowl wins, has taken a step back in camp this year. Old friend LB Devan Henry continue a fade that started a year ago. We will lose a bunch of receivers and Borders and FS Flannery from the secondary. I think this is our last great team from a raw talent standpoint.

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2042 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2042
Record 15-1
Winning Pct. .937
All-Time 185-198-1
Winning Pct. .483
Playoffs 19-2
Playoff Visits 8
Bowl Wins 5
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 121-44
Winning Pct. .733
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.7 28
Rushing Yards 108.3 19
Yards Per Carry 4.77 10
Pass Attempts 42.8 1
Completions 26.7 1
Completion Pct. 62.3 9
Passing Yards 302.1 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.06 3
Yards Per Catch 11.32 6
Total Yardage Gained 401.8 1
3rd Down Conversions 37.1 10
Points Per Game 32.4 1
Pass Rush Pct. 20.7 12
Pass Defense Pct. 67.1 1
Turnovers 24 21 (T)
Turnover Margin +7 5 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.9 2
Rushing Yards 86.7 2
Yards Per Carry 3.95 5
Pass Attempts 43.7 32
Completions 24.5 30
Completion Pct. 56.1 1
Passing Yards 276.9 32
Yards Per Attempt 6.34 17
Yards Per Catch 11.30 28
Total Yardage Gained 349.7 26
3rd Down Conversions 31.3 6
Points Per Game 18.6 9
Pass Rush Pct. 16.7 2
Pass Defense Pct. 48.2 12 (T)
Turnovers 31 1

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 27 CDO 0
2 36 MAA 10
3 28 CHE 23
4 38 at CHI 28
5 20 at KAN 32
6 40 MIN 17
7 36 at CDO 28
8 30 FBK 17
10 42 IOW 15
11 22 at OAK 16
12 30 BOR 22
13 31 at OBX 23
14 31 at GOT 10
15 26 at FBK 22
16 48 at PAR 3
17 34 OAK 31

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 678 424 4808 7.09 31 21 86.1
**Team --- 685 427 4833 7.06 31 21 85.7
$$Opp --- 699 392 4431 6.34 22 21 73.2

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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33 J. Sivela RB 146 643 4.40 8 0
25 M. Howe RB 134 481 3.59 4 2
3 R. Richey QB 73 566 7.75 6 4
**Team --- 363 1733 4.77 21 11
$$Opp --- 351 1387 3.95 8 18

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
84 G. Beeson WR 198 127 1409 11.09 7.12 8 6
17 M. Botta WR 84 63 663 10.52 7.89 5 6
11 O. Arredondo WR 95 53 566 10.68 5.96 6 6
13 G. Pollinger WR 71 48 639 13.31 9.00 4 3
80 C. Shumate TE 48 33 483 14.64 10.06 3 4
19 M. Woodcock WR 43 25 257 10.28 5.98 1 1
82 T. Aguiar WR 50 23 180 7.83 3.60 6 1
85 E. Anthony TE 38 21 302 14.38 7.95 3 2
33 J. Sivela RB 27 20 190 9.50 7.04 2 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 D. Reynolds ILB 111 20 0.0 0 1 19 75.1
52 T. Rhodes OLB 101 32 0.0 0 1 14 75.7
41 T. Bordley S 87 28 0.0 0 0 10 79.0
37 T. Matthews CB 83 20 0.0 0 3 16 79.0
98 K. Cambini OLB 65 22 6.0 29 0 7 80.9
48 J. Borders CB 54 13 0.0 0 6 16 83.6
28 S. Flannery S 49 12 0.0 0 8 14 86.0
71 J. Wolcott DT 30 11 1.0 11 0 0 81.3
99 D. Mincy DT 28 21 7.0 7 0 0 82.0
75 A. Blackledge DE 23 15 11.5 26 0 0 81.5
22 J. Sewell CB 23 5 0.0 0 1 2 79.3
97 H. Wells DE 19 5 1.0 2 0 0 81.3
93 D. Mills DE 16 1 3.0 4 0 0 80.9 

15-1 and the #1 seed. We still ended up with an impressive 32.8/18.6 ratio on points scored/allowed. We didn't feel as dominant and Richey had a lesser year than his first two campaigns. We made a conscious effort to try to involve our future generation of WRs, and I guess there's probably some loss of efficiency there by trying to get Botta and Aguiar more involved at the expense of more talented/developed/cohesed options.

The defensive numbers jump out when the yardage stuff makes us look awful. I thought they held their own. We play high possession games with this group. Number 1 in completion percentage against and middle of the pack on YPA. 18.6 points allowed per game. The bottom didn't fall out. We lost a step, but not two.

Blackledge got the career sack record in Week 14. His 11.5 are his highest total in the last five seasons. At 139.5 in his 12th year... well, 171 will keep looking a little impossible unless he keeps coming back.

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Hanalei Dragons 2042 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division KANSAS CREATIONISTS W, 33-13 60,900 Sunny, 67, calm
League FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 31-9 60,900 Rain, 65, 13 mph.
Champ. vs Tucker Tigers L, 34-35 60,400 Sunny, 33, 4 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,700
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Clean wins early, and then a tough one for the boys. Up late, Richey threw a pick-6 with under 3 minutes to play to give Tucker a one point lead in the Bowl. They drove back on the next possession and had a chance, but a 56 yard field goal went wide right.

WR Gerald Beeson was a 1st Team All Pro and CB Ted Matthews earned 2nd Team honors.

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Blackledge comes back.

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 4 53 53 1 yr.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 5 29 32 ---
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 4 53 53 2 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 3 34 37 3 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 6 61 61 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 2 33 49 1 yr.
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 4 32 38 2 yrs.
Pollinger, Graham 513 FL 5 63 63 ---
Woodcock, Manuel 519 FL 5 60 60 ---
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 3 23 38 2 yrs.
Rogers, Trey 518 FL 13 28 28 1 yr.
Beeson, Gerald 584 SE 6 70 70 ---
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 3 58 61 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 3 42 55 2 yrs.
Arredondo, Oscar 511 SE 7 51 51 ---
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 4 29 33 2 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 7 77 77 2 yrs.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 3 34 66 3 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 2 28 58 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG 2 48 66 1 yr.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 4 36 51 1 yr.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT 6 69 69 2 yrs.
Horner, Glen 865 LT 5 56 64 ---
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 11 62 62 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 3 38 62 2 yrs.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 3 67 67 4 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 3 65 65 3 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 2 37 47 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 2 25 46 1 yr.
Prigge, Avery 1178LDE 3 33 41 ---
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 13 57 57 1 yr.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 2 43 47 3 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 10 60 60 1 yr.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 5 45 45 ---
Porter, Moe 1396SILB 2 29 49 1 yr.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 7 79 79 1 yr.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 8 75 75 1 yr.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 9 65 65 1 yr.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 4 50 50 1 yr.
Corbett, Darryl 1492SLB 13 32 32 ---
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB 4 71 71 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 10 55 55 1 yr.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 2 41 50 3 yrs.
Borders, Jerry 1548LCB 5 70 70 ---
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB 10 57 57 1 yr.
Frederick, Aiden 1523LCB 9 48 48 1 yr.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 6 47 47 1 yr.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 6 37 37 1 yr.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 4 35 46 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 7 78 78 2 yrs.
Flannery, Sherdrick 1628FS 7 63 63 ---
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 3 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 42
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 42

Salary Cap: $298,500,000
Cap Room: $64,010,000
Maximum for New Player: $53,550,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $79,110,000

We're thinning out for sure. I know we had some kind of new rules declaration back there a few offseasons ago, but we've really just stopped giving contracts to anyone who was here "before." I think we'll hold tight forever to QB Richey and LB Rhodes and anyone we want to really from the transition onward, but we've had a good mix of contract timing and aging bringing our monster roster down to a more normal place. I probably would have made an exception for T Sean Flowers or LBs Seth Thomas/Devan Henry, but they're all either breaking down or pulling holdout bullshit. The last few guys on the roster with some sentimental exception candidacy are CB Ted Matthews, LB Cambini, and C Fariman. I would have loved to hang onto one of the safeties we took in the 1st awhile back, but we're losing Flannery right now and Bordley never really grabbed the hearts of the fans you know. I'm guessing those two were critical at the back of our defense and we can learn something from losing them too.

It truly sucks losing CB Borders. We did get him in the 5th round in 2039. Maybe that means we can pull another 70 CB out of our, um, hats in this draft.

[MalcPow]

2043 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6zbad9imosmn882/2043DeLamarTanner.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5zn1dwcgu9uku6/2043NtKurtLynn.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/52b6tpqr3krj6ds/2043LbTreyHowe.PNG?dl=1

More D. We're resigned to vet retreads in the secondary I think. We need more rotation pieces up front. I think we'll get an RB or two out of the UDR pile too.

[MalcPow]

FA2/Camp

We filled out with some veteran secondary scrubs. Signed Richey to a big extension. LB Rhodes held out but we signed him to a big extension too. We're so nice now.

I'm sort of glad that this is LB Devan Henry's last ride with the squad. He was an early pick of ours and extremely talented, but he has been fading and the last few years he's popped up as the D Front leader every offseason. It's been an annoying problem. Teammates HATE him. (Learn this one weird trick that...) So we're glad to be done with that.

We're also going to lose MLB Donald Reynolds who has remained a mega-stud from a ratings standpoint. What does he actually do? I have no idea. Would the game engine just squirt lemon juice in my eyes if I ever got a peek at how LBs actually impact things? Probably.

I don't know if years left on the deal matter, but we signed Blackledge to a 3 year deal just to give this thing a chance. 32 sacks in 3 years? We've got a shot. 32 sacks in 2 years? Not bloody likely. 32 sacks this year? Never tell me the odds.

Here's the roster as we get through the Pre-Season.


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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 4 54 54 4 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 5 31 31 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB FB 1 37 56 2 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 4 53 53 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 1 39 53 2 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 4 48 48 2 yrs.
##Tuten, Colin 230 RB 3 35 37 3 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE TE 6 60 60 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 2 36 48 1 yr.
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 4 36 38 2 yrs.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL FL 3 21 29 2 yrs.
##Rogers, Trey 518 FL 13 12 12 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 3 47 55 2 yrs.
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 4 25 27 2 yrs.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 7 76 76 2 yrs.
##Mugford, Jorge 656 C 3 35 61 3 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG RG 2 31 57 2 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 2 53 67 4 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 4 31 37 2 yrs.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 6 68 68 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 3 41 53 2 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT RT 11 50 50 1 yr.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 3 67 67 4 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 3 52 52 3 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE 1 38 58 4 yrs.
##Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 2 27 48 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 2 41 48 3 yrs.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 13 50 50 3 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE LDT 2 44 44 3 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 10 60 60 1 yr.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT RDT 1 33 55 4 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 5 38 38 2 yrs.
##Porter, Moe 1396SILB 2 34 49 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 7 79 79 1 yr.
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB RDE 8 73 73 1 yr.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 9 55 55 1 yr.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB WLB 1 36 49 4 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB SLB 4 41 41 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB MLB 4 70 70 5 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 10 56 56 1 yr.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB LDE 2 46 51 3 yrs.
##Brandon, Francisco 1491WLB 11 29 29 1 yr.
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB LCB 10 56 56 1 yr.
Frederick, Aiden 1523LCB RCB 9 48 48 1 yr.
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 6 47 47 1 yr.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB FS 6 38 38 1 yr.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 5 46 46 3 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 4 38 46 2 yrs.
##Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 1 23 37 2 yrs.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 7 77 77 2 yrs.
Hartman, Manuel 1624FS 6 43 43 2 yrs.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 3 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $298,500,000
Cap Room: $16,950,000
Maximum for New Player: $17,750,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $164,720,000

We kind of boxed ourselves in by not adding WR talent. I could probably scramble now and throw some bad veterans at the problem. But it might just be a learning experience to see how much it sets us back.

21/29 Al Greenwood is in line for a bunch of targets. Just bad by me. Sort of forgot we hadn't finished working through everything and picked up today thinking I could just advance on through. We'll see what happens.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2043 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2043
Record 11-5
Winning Pct. .687
All-Time 196-203-1
Winning Pct. .491
Playoffs 21-3
Playoff Visits 9
Bowl Wins 5
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 134-50
Winning Pct. .728
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 19.8 32
Rushing Yards 92.4 23
Yards Per Carry 4.67 6
Pass Attempts 45.3 1
Completions 28.3 1
Completion Pct. 62.5 8 (T)
Passing Yards 300.0 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.62 10
Yards Per Catch 10.60 16
Total Yardage Gained 377.1 3
3rd Down Conversions 36.9 5
Points Per Game 26.7 2
Pass Rush Pct. 24.5 1
Pass Defense Pct. 61.0 5
Turnovers 26 19 (T)
Turnover Margin -4 26

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.7 11
Rushing Yards 91.0 3
Yards Per Carry 3.54 1
Pass Attempts 36.5 17
Completions 20.4 3
Completion Pct. 56.0 1
Passing Yards 223.6 9
Yards Per Attempt 6.13 8 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.94 28
Total Yardage Gained 299.7 4
3rd Down Conversions 32.1 11
Points Per Game 14.3 1
Pass Rush Pct. 19.0 8
Pass Defense Pct. 49.3 13
Turnovers 22 23 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 48 FBK 0
2 17 TOR 10
3 23 at MIN 17
4 22 at TEX 16
5 42 CDO 10
6 27 MOO 6
8 14 at FBK 28
9 34 at OBX 13
10 44 CPC 6
11 16 at OAK 21
12 33 HAR 6
13 17 FRE 13
14 16 at ROC 26
15 14 OAK 20
16 16 at NPL 30
17 44 at CDO 7
$$WC at CHI

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 688 432 4629 6.73 28 18 85.1
10 D. Ellis QB 37 21 171 4.62 1 1 66.4
**Team --- 725 453 4800 6.62 29 19 84.2
$$Opp --- 584 327 3577 6.13 11 13 71.3 
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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
33 J. Sivela RB 195 662 3.39 5 2
3 R. Richey QB 53 432 8.15 3 8
25 M. Howe RB 49 281 5.73 3 0
**Team --- 317 1479 4.67 14 18
$$Opp --- 411 1456 3.54 8 14

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
82 T. Aguiar WR 209 135 1272 9.42 6.09 10 16
17 M. Botta WR 199 118 1183 10.03 5.94 11 4
87 A. Greenwood WR 102 66 828 12.55 8.12 7 4
80 C. Shumate TE 55 38 500 13.16 9.09 4 4
88 L. Boireau WR 50 27 349 12.93 6.98 0 1
33 J. Sivela RB 33 23 217 9.43 6.58 1 0
85 E. Anthony TE 39 18 200 11.11 5.13 1 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
52 T. Rhodes OLB 109 37 0.0 1 2 10 76.9
41 T. Bordley S 99 37 0.0 0 3 16 84.6
37 T. Matthews CB 67 26 0.0 0 2 13 79.7
50 D. Reynolds ILB 61 15 0.0 0 1 8 77.5
71 J. Wolcott DT 43 12 8.0 9 0 0 81.1
23 A. Frederick CB 43 5 0.0 0 1 10 79.1
95 S. Thomas OLB 35 9 7.5 31 0 1 80.2
34 J. Tirado CB 33 4 0.0 0 1 6 79.3
54 T. Howe OLB 33 6 0.0 0 0 2 71.9
24 M. Hartman S 27 9 0.0 0 0 1 77.4
58 S. Sayre OLB 27 9 0.0 0 0 2 70.7
75 A. Blackledge DE 26 7 9.5 15 0 0 80.3
93 D. Mills DE 24 13 2.0 8 0 1 82.2
22 J. Sewell CB 21 7 0.0 0 2 5 82.4
97 H. Wells DE 21 8 1.0 1 0 0 80.4
98 K. Cambini OLB 19 5 4.0 11 0 1 80.7 

We were 10-2 at one point. Feet up on the desk. Then we kind of came back to earth the last four games of the season. Lost our chance at the division (and a bye) to an 11-5 Oakland team that beat us twice.

WR Al Greenwood was an absolute bright spot. 66 catches on 102 targets, 8.12 ypt.

We were solid. I think the offense taking a step back helped the defense show a tick better. Fewer possessions, fewer complete shootouts where they're defending 50 passes, etc. We faced 43.7 pass attempts per game last year. This year it was 36.5. That helps all the yardage stuff for sure.

Blackledge got 9.5 sacks. He's at 149 and this little side quest is setting up to come short of anything that matters. Another participation trophy for the lobby.

We've got Chicago on the road in the Wild Card round.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2043 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card at Chicago Norsemen W, 28-16 85,600 Sunny, 47, 1 mph.
Division at Chesapeake Chitterlings L, 28-31 87,900 Sunny, 70, 5 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 57,000
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

We win in the WC Round. Then we take on the Conference #1 Seed in their place. The Chits beat us with a late field goal. A little bit the end of an era, but we will build back. Chesapeake, as is their custom, lose the Bowl game.

WR Tyrus Aguiar is a 1st Team All Pro and WR Mercury Botta is a 2nd Teamer. They both broke 1000 yards and probably suffered a little from all the volume we had to send their way. If performance counts for anything in development, Al Greenwood should explode after this.

QB Richey snuck onto the 2nd Team as well. We're definitely in the version 8.3 world when an 85 rated passer jumps onto the Awards list. He had a sneaky good year rushing, and he led the league in yardage for the 4th straight year.

[MalcPow]

Herb is starting to get a little cheeky. He dropped a "4" on our roster strength at the end of last year. End of an era indeed.

Along the same lines, RT Sean Flowers, who played a lot of LT for us and dominated all manner of trade musings, hung them up after 11 seasons. He's one of the guys who won 5 rings with us. We made the playoffs every year after he came aboard. I don't know if he'll get HOF consideration but he was a big part of what we did.

Also...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14ykyfmsmroo819/2043DeArnieBlackledgeEndCareer.PNG?dl=1

Blackledge called it quits too. He retires with 149 sacks, and he's the career record holder for sacks and hurries in this universe. We were chasing 171, and he had 22 in his playoff career if you want be a little expansive. I guess that was enough of an excuse for him to wriggle out of his fundamental duty to wither away chasing stats for my amusement.

He'll be a surefire Hall of Famer and we'll clap politely. On to the next one. There might be a new 171 challenger in this draft.

[QuikSand]

Chesapeake, as is their custom, lose the Bowl game.

eat a bag of dicks

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 5 54 54 3 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 6 31 31 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 2 37 56 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 5 53 53 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 2 41 53 1 yr.
Howe, Max 225 RB 5 48 48 1 yr.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 4 35 37 2 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 7 60 60 ---
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 3 38 48 ---
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 5 37 38 1 yr.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 4 27 29 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 4 62 62 1 yr.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 4 55 55 1 yr.
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 5 26 26 1 yr.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 8 76 76 1 yr.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 4 35 61 2 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 3 31 57 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG 3 59 67 3 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 5 31 37 1 yr.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT 7 68 68 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 4 51 53 1 yr.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 4 67 67 3 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 4 52 52 2 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE 2 40 58 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 3 27 48 1 yr.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 3 44 44 2 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 11 60 60 ---
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 2 37 55 3 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 6 38 38 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1396SILB 3 34 49 1 yr.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 8 79 79 ---
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 9 73 73 ---
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 10 55 55 ---
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 2 45 49 3 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 5 40 40 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB 5 70 70 4 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 11 56 56 ---
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Brandon, Francisco 1491WLB 12 28 28 ---
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB 11 56 56 ---
Frederick, Aiden 1523LCB 10 48 48 ---
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 7 47 47 ---
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 7 38 38 ---
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 6 47 47 2 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 5 38 45 1 yr.
Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 2 23 37 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 8 77 77 1 yr.
Hartman, Manuel 1624FS 7 42 42 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 4 20 20 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 37
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 37

Salary Cap: $301,400,000
Cap Room: $142,840,000
Maximum for New Player: $132,000,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $10,380,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $72,670,000

Tough roster snapshot. We're losing a bunch of guys, but they've also faded quite a bit too. That's just as tough really. Our precious little ones, walking away and a bunch of them probably a crappy camp from dropping below 50.

CB Ted Matthews. LBs Seth Thomas and Devan Henry. DT Jace Wolcott. That crew was right in the middle of things for us, and they're starting to see the end.

LBs Donald Reynolds and Kristopher Cambini are still pretty studly. We'll miss them because they're still really good.

If somehow one of these guys makes it to FA2, you can bet pretty big we'll sign them. (We even made one-time hero QB Dom Ellis suffer the indignity of ending up in FA2 before getting his courtesy deal to hold a clipboard.) I don't think that's happening though. I'm going to think about treating the guys left on the roster as fair game for extensions when we see where we are in FA2. It's LT Sawyer (68/68), C Fariman (76/76), and SS Bordley (77/77) that are left. I can't tell if I'll want to keep them to satisfy some mix of sentiment and staying reasonably competitive. We're losing a lot of guys this offseason. I think we'll be in a better spot as time goes on for some of our shitbirds to develop some continuity to help us through.

[MalcPow]

eat a bag of dicks

:D

[tzach]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 5 54 54 3 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 6 31 31 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 2 37 56 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 5 53 53 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 2 41 53 1 yr.
Howe, Max 225 RB 5 48 48 1 yr.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 4 35 37 2 yrs.
Shumate, Christopher 480 TE 7 60 60 ---
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 3 38 48 ---
Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 5 37 38 1 yr.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 4 27 29 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 4 62 62 1 yr.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 4 55 55 1 yr.
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 5 26 26 1 yr.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C 8 76 76 1 yr.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 4 35 61 2 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 3 31 57 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG 3 59 67 3 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 5 31 37 1 yr.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT 7 68 68 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 4 51 53 1 yr.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 4 67 67 3 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 4 52 52 2 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE 2 40 58 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 3 27 48 1 yr.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 3 44 44 2 yrs.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 11 60 60 ---
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 2 37 55 3 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 6 38 38 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1396SILB 3 34 49 1 yr.
Reynolds, Donald 1350MLB 8 79 79 ---
Cambini, Kristopher 1498SLB 9 73 73 ---
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 10 55 55 ---
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 2 45 49 3 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 5 40 40 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB 5 70 70 4 yrs.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 11 56 56 ---
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Brandon, Francisco 1491WLB 12 28 28 ---
Matthews, Ted 1537LCB 11 56 56 ---
Frederick, Aiden 1523LCB 10 48 48 ---
Sewell, Jalen 1522LCB 7 47 47 ---
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 7 38 38 ---
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 6 47 47 2 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 5 38 45 1 yr.
Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 2 23 37 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS 8 77 77 1 yr.
Hartman, Manuel 1624FS 7 42 42 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 4 20 20 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 37
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 37

Salary Cap: $301,400,000
Cap Room: $142,840,000
Maximum for New Player: $132,000,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $10,380,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $72,670,000



i feel a bit silly to ask, but how do you produce these outputs?

[MIJB#19]

i feel a bit silly to ask, but how do you produce these outputs?Most likely by using the print button on the bottom left of the roster overview screen (first pick the view you like, in this case the scout overview), after clicking print choose print to file/print to pdf, whichever option you have available on your pc and eventually copy paste the content.

[MIJB#19]

:DAlbeit their 'official' track record being a very healthy .500, I couldn't help but laugh. (Sorry, QS.)

[MalcPow]

Most likely by using the print button on the bottom left of the roster overview screen (first pick the view you like, in this case the scout overview), after clicking print choose print to file/print to pdf, whichever option you have available on your pc and eventually copy paste the content.

Yep exactly this. Print button in the bottom left of the roster screen. Select/set up a generic text printer. Open the file it produces in notepad. Copy/paste into the post box. Put CODE tags (# button) around it all.

[tzach]

Yep exactly this. Print button in the bottom left of the roster screen. Select/set up a generic text printer. Open the file it produces in notepad. Copy/paste into the post box. Put CODE tags (# button) around it all.


thanks guys -- i'm using an oracle virtual machine for windows, so i'll have to figure out how to get the text output. seems more handy than running my scripts sometimes (as it involves copying the files from windows to mac).

[MalcPow]

2044 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nfgfeclqe21ai1s/2044CbAutryTaliancich.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/el4eq3r1y4cd9j4/2044TristanKlicker.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y5uxb7u1ha9qkz/2044FbJeffreyDennis.PNG?dl=1

I think both of the CBs are starters for us. They both look like they're going to tend toward being ballhawks over pure cover guys, with a heavier lean toward interceptions/punishing hitter/endurance than the standard coverage bars. I'm hoping they're solid enough to survive in the coverage stuff. I'm curious to kind of see if we can impact our lack of takeaways in this career by just flooding the secondary with interception bars. We've faced as many passes as any team in the league and our pick totals have ranged from pedestrian to putrid. The FB is looking at a conversion. I looked at a few different guys, and we really haven't utilized the TE spot a ton. Just seemed clear that Dennis was the most talented guy on the board. Anybody else was likely to be comparable to our FA2/UDR options.

We haven't really taken a fresh look at the offense in a bit either. Might be time to do that and bring our TE spot back to life as well. OC Deandre Hopkins is a 68 play capacity genius, even if his playcalling bar is below average. We've got the flexibility in our balanced attack to try some new stuff. (Or we'll be lazy and roll it over again. There's probably 60-70 TE targets in there if we just set the personnel screens right.)

[MalcPow]

2044 FA2/Camp

WR Al Greenwood (rated 27/29!!!) is holding out and I'm dying. I'm signing the dude to a 5 year deal no matter what it takes. (It ends up taking quite a bit, damn.)

LB Seth Thomas made it through to FA2. Seth has held out twice. We have still played him a ton and let him steal sacks from Blackledge. He honestly had his best year in a while last year with a 10.1% PRPct and 7.5 sacks. His Loyalty rating is a really exuberant "1". We're gonna make it worth his while and bring him back.

Side note, my draft stuff felt like this guy was one of the best prospects I've ever seen, so I thought I'd flag him:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjccmirm4wetmdw/2044CbRiddickKisbanyOBX.PNG?dl=1

I swear I'm not looking for some bullshit excuse to trade all our worthless draft picks for a generational talent. UNLESS... I mean really if the people demand it....

*crickets*

Right. What a great idea to just sort of follow him from afar while we lose games. Very intriguing.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 5 54 54 3 yrs.
Ellis, Dominic 110 QB 6 31 31 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB FB 2 40 54 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 5 52 52 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 2 44 52 1 yr.
##Howe, Max 225 RB 5 47 47 1 yr.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 4 31 31 2 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 1 29 58 4 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 3 42 50 3 yrs.
Caudill, Josue 446 TE 8 47 47 3 yrs.
##Moffatt, Moe 443 TE 5 38 38 1 yr.
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 4 40 40 2 yrs.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL FL 4 29 29 5 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 4 63 63 1 yr.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 4 50 50 1 yr.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 2 28 34 2 yrs.
##Boireau, Louie 588 SE 5 26 26 1 yr.
Fariman, Mercury 653 C C 8 77 77 1 yr.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 4 40 54 2 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG LG 3 31 51 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG RG 3 65 65 3 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 5 33 36 1 yr.
Sawyer, Shane 864 LT LT 7 67 67 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT RT 4 53 53 1 yr.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 1 75 75 2 yrs.
##Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 4 55 55 3 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 4 64 64 2 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE LDE 2 46 58 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 3 33 48 1 yr.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE RDE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE LDT 3 42 42 2 yrs.
##Henson, Stephen 1271LDT 1 26 30 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 2 45 56 3 yrs.
Lester, J.B. 1278RDT 1 29 39 2 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT RDT 6 38 38 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1396SILB MLB 3 39 47 1 yr.
##Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 1 21 54 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 10 50 50 3 yrs.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB WLB 2 50 50 3 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 5 40 40 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB SLB 5 70 70 4 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB LCB 1 38 51 4 yrs.
Peters, Cedric 1522LCB 5 42 42 3 yrs.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 7 30 30 3 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB RCB 1 29 49 4 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 6 46 46 2 yrs.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 5 43 43 1 yr.
##Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 2 27 37 1 yr.
Bordley, Timothy 1641SS SS 8 78 78 1 yr.
Irwin, Cesar 1631FS FS 5 46 46 2 yrs.
Hartman, Manuel 1624FS 7 42 42 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 4 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $301,400,000
Cap Room: $114,270,000
Maximum for New Player: $115,080,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $10,380,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $108,550,000

Roster look after the Pre-Season. I don't hate us. I'm not really sure where our separators are, and we're suddenly thin in places I didn't really expect until we were putting depth charts together. Moe Porter at MLB is a key spot for us manned by a flawed, not completely developed player. I'm not used to being short LBs but I see how we got here.

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2044 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2044
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 208-207-1
Winning Pct. .501
Playoffs 22-4
Playoff Visits 10
Bowl Wins 5
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 147-55
Winning Pct. .727
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. C. Burke
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. K. Ellison

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.1 31
Rushing Yards 108.3 16
Yards Per Carry 5.12 2
Pass Attempts 43.6 1
Completions 26.6 1
Completion Pct. 61.1 12
Passing Yards 293.4 2
Yards Per Attempt 6.73 7
Yards Per Catch 11.02 6
Total Yardage Gained 388.4 1
3rd Down Conversions 36.6 6
Points Per Game 30.9 1
Pass Rush Pct. 21.9 9
Pass Defense Pct. 49.3 24
Turnovers 22 13 (T)
Turnover Margin +7 5 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.1 2
Rushing Yards 74.9 2
Yards Per Carry 3.24 2
Pass Attempts 43.5 32
Completions 25.9 32
Completion Pct. 59.6 16 (T)
Passing Yards 284.9 32
Yards Per Attempt 6.55 26
Yards Per Catch 10.98 29
Total Yardage Gained 347.1 25
3rd Down Conversions 30.7 7
Points Per Game 19.8 13
Pass Rush Pct. 19.9 15
Pass Defense Pct. 46.6 10
Turnovers 29 2 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 26 OAK 14
2 29 at TUC 30
3 40 TEX 10
4 35 BKN 10
5 21 at WIL 24
6 30 at FRE 41
7 31 CDO 17
8 36 CHE 19
10 36 at FBK 20
11 20 at OAK 24
12 26 at AUG 21
13 40 at MIN 8
14 27 SNP 3
15 23 at CDO 20
16 33 ORL 27
17 41 FBK 28

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 680 417 4644 6.83 29 14 87.3
**Team --- 697 426 4694 6.73 29 15 85.9
$$Opp --- 696 415 4558 6.55 19 17 77.9

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
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33 J. Sivela RB 109 448 4.11 6 2
42 J. Oliver RB 90 392 4.36 3 2
3 R. Richey QB 68 505 7.43 9 3
45 C. Newsome RB 63 319 5.06 4 0
**Team --- 338 1732 5.12 22 15
$$Opp --- 370 1199 3.24 11 23

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
17 M. Botta WR 229 148 1598 10.80 6.98 14 11
82 T. Aguiar WR 192 121 1344 11.11 7.00 11 11
87 A. Greenwood WR 63 36 414 11.50 6.57 4 1
18 C. Speer WR 55 31 459 14.81 8.35 4 1
26 J. Dennis TE 44 25 267 10.68 6.07 5 4
85 E. Anthony TE 43 22 212 9.64 4.93 4 0
33 J. Sivela RB 28 21 136 6.48 4.86 2 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
52 T. Rhodes OLB 125 37 0.0 0 1 13 72.2
41 T. Bordley S 108 44 0.0 0 1 10 77.1
96 M. Porter ILB 91 29 0.0 0 1 13 76.1
48 A. Taliancich CB 87 29 0.0 0 5 6 77.1
31 C. Irwin S 64 21 0.0 0 3 9 80.2
27 T. Klicker CB 45 12 0.0 0 2 6 78.5
21 K. Dillon CB 35 9 0.0 0 4 8 82.8
74 L. Tanner DE 34 16 4.0 12 0 1 81.4
90 K. Lynn DT 32 5 7.0 13 0 0 81.8
95 S. Thomas OLB 31 12 5.0 19 0 1 80.2
94 T. Pelletier OLB 30 17 12.0 46 0 0 81.5
54 T. Howe OLB 29 12 0.0 2 0 1 73.4
97 H. Wells DE 23 4 1.5 0 0 0 79.4
99 D. Mincy DT 18 13 3.0 8 0 0 81.1

We end up with the 1 seed. Hard to complain about that or going 12-4. The defense was a different flavor than some of our teams. #2 in takeaways. We've mostly been in the bottom half of the league there it feels like. So we ended up +7 in TO margin. We were extremely soft on the yardage allowed front. Some of our numbers and how we got there make me pretty wary of our playoff chances. We didn't, and don't, really have an answer for a good QB. I'm glad we have the bye because there are only so many shootouts you can hope to win. The pass rush took a step back but we got a monster season out of LB Troy Pelletier, who basically took over Blackledge's spots in the depth chart. 12 sacks, 46 hurrries, and a 12.1 PRPct. Good stuff, even if it came at the expense of Seth Thomas fading into Bolivian at the RDE spot (5.1 PRPct).

The offense has held. We've sort of sneakily become a hyper-efficient running team, with QB Richey bringing 500+ yards and 9 TDs to the table this year. We spent some time trying to get better red zone passing in the last few years. We've ended up with excellent production (5.2+ pts per visit the last three years and 5.5 per visit this year) by having a lot more balance down there. We were basically an even split this year between pass/rush there, but some of that is Richey taking off on his own. His rushing in general could also be a little bit of a function of a slight decline in our pass blocking the last few years. We need to bring somebody in there this offseason, especially if we let LT Sawyer and C Fariman walk.

We'll take the bye. Cross our fingers on running into any good QBs. We were undefeated at home this year. Another sign we're probably a little soft with the 4-4 road record, but we're not complaining.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons 2044 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division OAKLAND BLACK PANTHERS W, 41-16 60,900 Sunny, 56, 1 mph.
League FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 48-13 60,900 Sunny, 70, 1 mph.
Champ. vs Houston Mustangs W, 27-7 53,100 Sunny, 61, calm

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 58,200
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

The home games really helped. We also clearly have some kind of playoff juju at this point. We just were not this good during the regular season. Richey only had two games with 3 passing TDs all year. Then he went 4-4-3 in the playoffs and the Divisional and Conference rounds were hyper efficient where we were this dominant 500 yards team. The defense found another gear as well. If there are any effects for playoff experience, either on the player or staff side, we're going to be in a good place. (There was once some kind of staff continuity effect, and we've had this exact same crew for many years. The only change in the entire career was when we lost our OC a number of years ago to a HC job. If Devin McCourty is ever a head coach, I'm probably betting the money line on his boys in the playoffs.)

Former Dragon CB Jerry Borders ended up with the Bowl MVP by picking Richey off twice.

Richey ended up winning MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team QB. There were better passing seasons in the league, but the rushing value must have put him over.

WRs Botta and Aguiar were 2nd Team All Pros. Big years from these guys and I think we found a better target balance.

LB Troy Pelletier gets shut out, probably because of positional stuff but there were some very good pass rush seasons this year.

We're set to lose the last of our holdover guys in C Fariman (77/77), LT Sawyer (67/67), and SS Bordley (78/78). I'm still conflicted about letting all three walk, but we've weathered the bulk of these departures so far. In a somewhat odd twist, LB Seth Thomas is the only player who has been a part of all 6 Bowl wins.

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 6 54 54 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 3 45 54 3 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 6 52 52 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 3 46 52 3 yrs.
Howe, Max 225 RB 6 47 47 3 yrs.
Tuten, Colin 230 RB 5 31 31 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 2 43 58 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 4 43 50 2 yrs.
Caudill, Josue 446 TE 9 47 47 2 yrs.
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 5 40 40 1 yr.
Greenwood, Al 587 FL 5 29 29 4 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 5 63 63 5 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 5 50 50 5 yrs.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 3 31 34 1 yr.
Boireau, Louie 588 SE 6 26 26 ---
Mugford, Jorge 656 C 5 39 54 1 yr.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 4 37 51 3 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG 4 65 65 2 yrs.
Volek, Allen 777 RG 6 33 36 ---
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 5 53 53 4 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 2 83 83 1 yr.
Lukac, Lincoln 905 P 5 54 54 2 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 5 64 64 1 yr.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 4 35 48 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 4 47 47 1 yr.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 4 42 42 1 yr.
Henson, Stephen 1271LDT 2 26 30 1 yr.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 3 56 56 2 yrs.
Mincy, Donald 1299RDT 7 39 39 ---
Lester, J.B. 1278RDT 2 30 39 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1396SILB 4 46 46 2 yrs.
Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 2 21 54 1 yr.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 11 50 50 2 yrs.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Sayre, Sergio 1458SLB 6 40 40 ---
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB 6 70 70 3 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 4 53 53 1 yr.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 2 49 51 3 yrs.
Peters, Cedric 1522LCB 6 42 42 2 yrs.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 8 30 30 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 2 42 49 3 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 7 46 46 1 yr.
Bemont, Joe 1549RCB 6 43 43 ---
Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 3 27 36 1 yr.
Irwin, Cesar 1631FS 6 46 46 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 5 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 42
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 42

Salary Cap: $304,300,000
Cap Room: $132,350,000
Maximum for New Player: $121,720,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $175,990,000

We lose C Fariman, LT Sawyer, and SS Bordley. We even lose QB Dom Ellis and some backup types. So we're a very different roster heading into the draft.

I think we're all generally convinced at this point that if we've got QB Richey and two competent WRs (Botta and Aguiar in this case), we're probably going be at least ok. We can fill RB after the draft pretty consistently it looks like, and we're stocked up already. FB/TE is not a priority unless we really turn the ship in a different direction. We could use another WR target. We got 6.57 ypt production out of Al Greenwood again, but a third real WR would probably stabilize us going forward. We need to address the OL.

We can be opportunistic at any level on the defense. A nice way of saying we're kind of mediocre across the board. Losing SS Bordley at the back is a big blow to a secondary that had already drifted beyond bend-but-don't-break territory and into break-but-don't-break-every-time. I'm not totally sure what will happen there. He was a stud run defender too. I don't think we'll be able to come even close to replacing the big time run/zone/everything but interceptions bars he had. We might have to patch it together by getting better run D out of the MLB spot, and then looking for more traditional safety skills for our SS. If anybody feels like they've got the secondary figured out, I'm all ears. We've basically thrown talent at the problem for most of this career. Probably going to have to settle for targeting complementary skillsets from here on out or a system of some kind.

[MalcPow]

2045 Draft

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/8pwoqiepzsdsipk/2045DeKennyBradford.PNG?dl=1

I think we land our WR3 here. I'm not totally sure Riley is a long term answer at safety, but I think he's as good as we've got with the chance to maybe pop. Bradford will play a tackle spot for us, even if he's a bit undersized.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 6 54 54 2 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 1 16 40 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 3 49 54 3 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 6 53 53 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 3 49 53 3 yrs.
##Howe, Max 225 RB 6 36 36 3 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 2 48 57 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 4 46 48 2 yrs.
Caudill, Josue 446 TE FB 9 40 40 2 yrs.
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 5 40 40 3 yrs.
##Greenwood, Al 587 FL 5 28 28 4 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 5 63 63 5 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 1 36 56 4 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE FL 5 50 50 5 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 7 43 43 3 yrs.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 3 34 34 1 yr.
Mugford, Jorge 656 C C 5 38 47 1 yr.
Mathews, Charles 655 C 5 38 38 2 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG RG 4 41 48 3 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 4 65 65 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 1 21 50 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT RT 5 52 52 4 yrs.
Hernandez, Kendrick 876 RT LT 5 25 28 2 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 2 66 66 4 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 5 64 64 4 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1170LDE RDE 1 41 66 4 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE LDE 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE LDT 4 46 46 4 yrs.
Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 4 38 41 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE RDT 4 39 39 3 yrs.
##Drake, Wes 1192RDE 1 27 39 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 3 56 56 2 yrs.
Lester, J.B. 1278RDT 2 32 40 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1396SILB MLB 4 46 46 2 yrs.
Lane, Ernie 1398WILB 1 24 46 2 yrs.
##Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 2 26 53 1 yr.
##Greene, Wes 1357MLB 1 28 49 2 yrs.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 3 51 51 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 11 42 42 2 yrs.
##Foley, Pete 1491SLB 1 26 32 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1452WLB SLB 6 69 69 3 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB WLB 4 53 53 5 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 1 39 54 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB LCB 2 52 52 3 yrs.
Peters, Cedric 1522LCB 6 43 43 2 yrs.
Tirado, Javier 1534LCB 8 30 30 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB RCB 2 49 49 3 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 7 46 46 4 yrs.
##Irwin, Chandler 1532RCB 3 31 36 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS SS 1 27 55 4 yrs.
Liu, Tracy 1620SS 1 22 40 2 yrs.
Irwin, Cesar 1631FS FS 6 46 46 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 5 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $304,300,000
Cap Room: $106,180,000
Maximum for New Player: $106,990,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $910,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $880,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $229,010,000

We brought in a fringey vet to possibly help us at tackle this year and he busted out in camp, dropping from the high 40s to the high 20s. I'm pretty concerned with what we're going to do at LT this year. Will be a great referendum on the value of that spot. We're going to go from a top 5 guy in Sawyer with a lot of cohesion to a converted rookie with sub-10 current blocking ratings and a lot of green. Would be a desperation move really. I think we're going to have to play our massive RT at LT and move the rook to the other side.

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2045 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2045
Record 11-5
Winning Pct. .687
All-Time 219-212-1
Winning Pct. .508
Playoffs 25-4
Playoff Visits 11
Bowl Wins 6
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 161-60
Winning Pct. .728
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach D. Kilgore
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 19.9 32
Rushing Yards 86.8 29
Yards Per Carry 4.35 13
Pass Attempts 42.1 1
Completions 26.8 1
Completion Pct. 63.5 7
Passing Yards 291.9 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.93 7
Yards Per Catch 10.91 11
Total Yardage Gained 362.4 8
3rd Down Conversions 35.1 18
Points Per Game 23.3 6
Pass Rush Pct. 22.4 4
Pass Defense Pct. 42.0 26
Turnovers 24 23 (T)
Turnover Margin -7 27 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.8 9
Rushing Yards 126.9 24
Yards Per Carry 4.93 29
Pass Attempts 39.0 28
Completions 23.6 25
Completion Pct. 60.4 15 (T)
Passing Yards 217.9 5
Yards Per Attempt 5.59 2
Yards Per Catch 9.25 1
Total Yardage Gained 333.4 12
3rd Down Conversions 36.5 22
Points Per Game 19.6 10
Pass Rush Pct. 17.9 4
Pass Defense Pct. 49.1 17
Turnovers 17 24 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 21 at CDO 28
2 25 SAO 22
3 20 at FRE 3
4 24 at CHI 31
5 31 at KAN 28
6 26 MIN 21
7 25 CDO 20
8 31 at FBK 6
10 37 IOW 17
11 23 OAK 16
12 13 HOU 23
13 23 CPC 21
14 18 at ATL 17
15 14 FBK 23
16 26 at FTW 7
17 16 at OAK 31
$$WC at MIN

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 669 426 4649 6.95 27 17 86.9
**Team --- 674 428 4670 6.93 27 17 86.7
$$Opp --- 624 377 3487 5.59 15 8 78.3

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
33 J. Sivela RB 128 470 3.67 6 2
45 C. Newsome RB 75 279 3.72 3 1
3 R. Richey QB 64 418 6.53 3 4
42 J. Oliver RB 48 214 4.46 1 0
**Team --- 319 1389 4.35 14 14
$$Opp --- 412 2031 4.93 17 17

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
17 M. Botta WR 213 144 1404 9.75 6.59 12 6
82 T. Aguiar WR 170 114 1443 12.66 8.49 13 6
10 R. Replogle WR 100 60 603 10.05 6.03 6 7
26 J. Dennis TE 59 34 481 14.15 8.15 0 6
33 J. Sivela RB 36 24 259 10.79 7.19 0 1
81 L. Collier WR 37 21 185 8.81 5.00 4 1
85 E. Anthony TE 33 20 214 10.70 6.48 3 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
52 T. Rhodes OLB 117 38 0.0 0 2 6 73.0
96 M. Porter ILB 104 34 0.0 0 0 16 75.0
48 A. Taliancich CB 93 27 0.0 0 1 9 75.1
31 C. Irwin S 75 19 0.0 0 2 8 78.6
94 T. Pelletier OLB 70 17 6.5 25 0 1 75.1
35 T. Riley S 42 15 0.0 0 0 3 76.0
70 K. Bradford DE 38 11 3.0 8 0 0 81.2
90 K. Lynn DT 36 14 6.5 14 0 0 81.8
27 T. Klicker CB 32 8 0.0 0 1 3 79.0
21 K. Dillon CB 28 9 0.0 0 2 10 82.8
93 D. Mills DE 25 7 1.5 0 0 0 81.0
95 S. Thomas OLB 23 8 5.5 18 0 0 81.5
97 H. Wells DE 19 7 1.0 2 0 2 82.2
74 L. Tanner DE 19 12 6.5 22 0 1 82.8
20 T. Liu S 17 8 0.0 0 0 1 79.6 

We make the playoffs. Miss out on the division. I don't think the story of this team is as easy to see in the summary screen. I think there's a definite validation of the concept that adding a third WR to this offense is a big benefit. There's definitely a lot under the hood that points to how devastating our OL flaws were too. Richey got knocked down 68 times, pretty comfortably the most in the league and more than four times where we were a couple years ago before we started losing everybody. 4th most sacks allowed in the league too. And we fell off a cliff running the ball, which I think had been a nice little efficiency benefit we had going the last number of years.

We were a 30 ppg team last year. I think we got better as a WR corps. I think it's probably likely that losing our very good LT and very good C cost us like 10 ppg or something. Gonna have to dig in there and it's a tough spot to fix quickly. We still magically threw for 4600 yards again for the umpteenth time in the Richey era. I think we sneakily or not sneakily kind of stunk though, and it's just confirmation that solid to good WR/QB play is enough to be a 9-11 win team.

The defense... we couldn't stop the run. We have some deceptively good numbers on some of the passing metrics. It's reasonably clear we're in that spot as a team where a good QB drops one of those 29/34 376 yards 4 TDs games on us and we hold serve statistically by beating the scrubs. We started two rookies at safety quite a bit. We've got flaws all over the place. We asked way too much of Pelletier, putting him on the DL in some key formations and then asking him to cover in others. Ended up on the field for over 1100 plays. Seth Thomas might be on fumes. Somehow we were top 4 PRPct.

Ok, playoffs coming. We stink but I think we've got more parts in place and we can build on this. The studs are gone. Matthews is walking through that door. Reynolds isn't walking through that door. Seth Thomas continues to walk through that door...

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Hanalei Dragons 2045 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card at Minnesota Miners W, 23-17 79,200 Sunny, 14, 1 mph.
Division at Fairbanks Northstars W, 35-13 67,100 Sunny, 68, calm
League at Frederick Red Menace W, 27-24 71,300 Sunny, 45, calm
Champ. vs Rochester Razorbacks W, 32-14 51,200 Sunny, 38, 5 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 60,800
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

I simmed pretty quickly. We generally flipped the script on the turnover battle. Whatever. We have a lot to improve and I'm looking forward to it.

[MalcPow]

WR Botta was 1st Team All Pro. WR Aguiar was 2nd Team. Richey didn't win a damn thing because we were mediocre and the losing QB was the Bowl MVP.

DT Jace Wolcott and LB Kristopher Cambini caught my eye on the retirements list. Our franchise still hasn't had a Hall of Famer, and I'm guessing Blackledge will be the first when eligible.

We've had a lot of playoff success. I'll be curious how that impacts somebody like our boy Seth Thomas in the end. He's an LB who is going to end up a Top 15 or so sack total guy. He's got 7 rings. He had one standout awards season with 18.5 sacks. Maybe he sneaks in. He's back for more by the way.

I also get that it's likely not amazing to follow, but we're gonna ride Richey's career out with a passing-focused attack. I rarely play a career out like this. For whatever reason, I'm enjoying it, despite the kind of randomly insane playoff success. And I want to see if we can get Richey the career passing yards record, which I think he's in good shape for provided it stays generally in the low 60k range like it is now. There's a Steam Achievement there too (what the fuck is wrong with me), and so yeah, wow, maybe I'll screengrab my laptop when that little pop up comes on. Amazing. Hoo-rah.

We need to address the OL.

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2046 Draft

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We also really liked two players I was hoping could slide out of the draft. T Calvin Brandon and CB Curtis Stringer. They both made it through and we'll be making sure we land them in FA2. This is a good class for us. It would have been great to stumble into a 70+ LT, but these are all interesting guys and LB Grice has a chance to be a monster pass rusher for us just as we were starting to look for one.

I'm also convinced that nobody with a bizarre nickname first name like "Toenails" is a complete scrub in the FOF generation algorithm. It's not necessarily an indicator a guy is a stud, but he's a 50 or something. Here in the 4th with solid bars, that counts for something.

[MalcPow]

We've had some good finds in FA2 where an undrafted Center or two is floating there who shows up looking really good. Our 65/65 RG Mason King is one of those guys. We've been signing these guys every year or two and trying conversions and bulk ups, etc. Our rookie LT that we played at RT last year, Harry Abrams, was probably a bridge too far. Signed him as an UDR C then tried to convert him to LT before camp while bulking him in camp. He's sitting on the roster now as a 31/50 LT in his 2nd season, with a profile that looks like he'll end up 50-50-50 in the blocking categories and 80+ in endurance. Nothing to sneeze at exactly, but I'm not sure the LT spot is where you're ever going to play your 50-50-50 guy. We should have gone down a path toward being a good G or really good C, or at most aggressive, an RT. Those conversions are like 90%+ skill transfers, and we basically turned what was apparently a 65+ type player into some 50 guy that we're never going to really trust to play the spot we moved him too.

Good lesson. Good experiment too. A good LT is another spot to circle as a challenge for us without the ability to make a top 100 draft pick. We've got offers to bring in a good batch of UDR OL and we'll probably run a good number of them through the position switch options to see how much juice we can squeeze out of these marginal assets. We're almost definitely a year or two late on this, but OL guys kind of have to play to develop. It's tough to have ready-made replacements waiting when you turn over as many spots as we have in the last few seasons.

G Mason King and RT Lester Rayburn are the two guys we can lock in for the next four years or so. Our other spots are kind of up for grabs.

[tzach]

this thread is awesome. it's pretty impressive what you do. i'm watching carefully that HAN offense!

[QuikSand]

Great thread this. Almost persuading me to give SP a whirl in this lockdown

+1

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 7 55 55 3 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 2 20 41 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 4 54 54 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 4 53 53 2 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB RB 7 45 45 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 3 56 56 2 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 5 48 48 3 yrs.
Liwienski, Nolan 488 TE FB 8 38 38 3 yrs.
##Speer, Clayton 518 FL 6 40 40 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 6 64 64 4 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 2 55 56 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE FL 6 49 49 4 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 8 42 42 2 yrs.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 4 30 30 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 1 34 75 2 yrs.
##Brooking, Geoff 667 C 1 24 47 2 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 5 49 49 2 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 5 66 66 5 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG RG 1 26 48 4 yrs.
##Whitfield, Bucky 758 RG 1 14 43 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 2 37 51 2 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT RT 1 23 44 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 6 53 53 3 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 3 73 73 3 yrs.
Nixon, Matt 1004K 6 56 56 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1170LDE LDE 2 60 65 3 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1174LDE RDT 4 60 60 4 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE LDT 5 46 46 3 yrs.
##Rhodes, Levon 1179LDE 5 42 42 1 yr.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 5 38 38 2 yrs.
##Drake, Wes 1192RDE 2 30 35 1 yr.
Martinez, Dennis 1272LDT 1 23 44 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 4 45 45 4 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB MLB 7 70 70 2 yrs.
##Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 3 32 53 2 yrs.
##Greene, Wes 1357MLB 2 34 50 1 yr.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB WLB 4 51 51 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB RDE 1 39 45 4 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 12 34 34 2 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB SLB 5 54 54 4 yrs.
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 5 46 46 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 1 44 59 4 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB LCB 3 51 51 2 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB RCB 2 51 51 3 yrs.
Peters, Cedric 1522LCB 7 43 43 1 yr.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 1 36 62 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 3 49 49 2 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 8 42 42 3 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS SS 2 39 59 3 yrs.
Fair, Stanley 1647SS 5 48 48 2 yrs.
Liu, Tracy 1620SS 2 30 40 2 yrs.
Whalen, Toby 1646FS FS 5 40 40 2 yrs.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 6 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $307,200,000
Cap Room: $79,500,000
Maximum for New Player: $80,320,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $4,600,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $3,560,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $229,920,000

So some good here. I think we have enough volume in the secondary to be OK. We still are probably playing a little too fast and loose with the basics, namely just get some big zone bars at safety.

LB Terrance Grice is going to get a chance to be our next great pass rusher. He's 79/97 PRTech bar right now with a 86 PRStr. Only 49 endurance but I think I can just leave him out of all the short yardage type stuff and be ok. He's not triggering any concerns in the depth chart, but I'm not totally sure a lack of those warnings doesn't mean you're not overplaying a guy if you really want to get the most out of him.

We moved our best LB Rhodes into the middle this year. Should help the run defense and the defense generally.

WR Aguiar took a little hit, just as it looks like we might have a good trio lined up for a stretch.

We have a major hit in new UDR C Jackie Bennett (34/75). He was just sitting there among the chaff with no bad flags and a big future rating. And he bumped a little post-reveal. We'll take it, and live with some growing pains this year.

The G we took in the draft, Doug Jordan, and the UDR T we mentioned, Calvin Brandon, both look like maybes. Fringey. Probably should not play this year and I think we'll give them a year and only try to break in one new guy. I go back and forth on just playing Jordan. I thought he was a 60 in the draft and he's showing as a 26/48. I'm just sick of playing G Shea, who is one of those solid run bar/near void pass bar/solid other bars interior linemen. I don't think we can play a guy like that with shaky tackle play. I've talked myself into playing the rookie while typing this.

We will play RT Rayburn out of position again at LT. And 2nd year guy Abrams will bring his meh-ness over to RT again. We're still shaky here but Bennett is a huge get, and we'll keep messing our way forward.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2046 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2046
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 231-216-1
Winning Pct. .516
Playoffs 29-4
Playoff Visits 12
Bowl Wins 7
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 177-64
Winning Pct. .734
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach B. Howe
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.3 32
Rushing Yards 78.1 31
Yards Per Carry 3.66 30
Pass Attempts 42.8 1
Completions 26.1 2
Completion Pct. 61.0 21
Passing Yards 298.2 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.96 7
Yards Per Catch 11.41 8
Total Yardage Gained 363.5 8
3rd Down Conversions 33.8 18
Points Per Game 27.9 1
Pass Rush Pct. 23.4 2 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 51.7 16
Turnovers 24 18 (T)
Turnover Margin +10 2 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.3 12
Rushing Yards 109.4 18
Yards Per Carry 4.33 21
Pass Attempts 36.6 19
Completions 21.6 7
Completion Pct. 59.1 3 (T)
Passing Yards 231.8 12
Yards Per Attempt 6.34 13 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.72 21
Total Yardage Gained 331.4 16
3rd Down Conversions 29.0 1
Points Per Game 19.4 9
Pass Rush Pct. 19.6 15 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 50.8 21
Turnovers 34 1

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 29 at FBK 23
2 37 at MAA 36
3 29 at BKN 23
4 10 at TEX 23
5 23 CDO 10
6 37 MOO 13
8 27 FBK 32
9 37 at OBX 6
10 30 CPC 24
11 31 at OAK 23
12 0 at BOR 17
13 37 CHI 13
14 40 GOT 11
15 44 OAK 17
16 19 PAR 34
17 17 at CDO 6

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 625 388 4497 7.20 29 15 89.2
7 S. Smith QB 60 30 274 4.57 2 2 60.0
**Team --- 685 418 4771 6.96 31 17 86.7
$$Opp --- 585 346 3708 6.34 19 23 72.2

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
42 J. Oliver RB 116 183 1.58 2 1
33 J. Sivela RB 85 328 3.86 4 2
3 R. Richey QB 70 469 6.70 3 3
45 C. Newsome RB 60 259 4.32 2 1
**Team --- 341 1249 3.66 11 14
$$Opp --- 404 1751 4.33 8 20

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
82 T. Aguiar WR 207 127 1555 12.24 7.51 16 5
17 M. Botta WR 190 112 1256 11.21 6.61 8 4
10 R. Replogle WR 93 51 567 11.12 6.10 9 11
26 J. Dennis TE 51 34 414 12.18 8.12 3 2
33 J. Sivela RB 32 29 224 7.72 7.00 0 2
81 L. Collier WR 51 22 279 12.68 5.47 4 3
85 E. Anthony TE 32 22 239 10.86 7.47 1 3

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
52 T. Rhodes ILB 104 25 0.0 0 1 10 74.9
35 T. Riley S 69 26 0.0 0 1 3 79.0
94 T. Pelletier OLB 64 17 9.5 24 0 4 78.7
70 K. Bradford DE 58 20 4.5 11 0 1 81.1
96 M. Porter OLB 56 29 0.0 0 2 4 76.3
48 A. Taliancich CB 53 14 0.0 0 4 3 78.7
49 T. Reilly CB 44 11 0.0 0 1 3 73.6
46 T. Whalen S 39 11 0.0 0 0 1 78.2
36 B. McDonald CB 33 6 0.0 0 5 5 81.9
54 T. Howe OLB 31 13 1.0 0 1 4 77.9
90 K. Lynn DT 27 22 1.0 11 0 0 82.3
74 L. Tanner DE 26 5 2.5 11 0 1 81.3
50 T. Grice OLB 24 10 6.5 28 0 1 82.6
47 S. Fair S 20 8 0.0 0 0 0 75.8
93 D. Mills DE 19 7 1.0 2 0 0 80.9
44 C. Stringer CB 19 4 0.0 0 2 2 77.2
21 K. Dillon CB 18 10 0.0 0 4 2 85.6
22 C. Peters CB 16 0 0.0 0 0 0 60.8 

We are the 2 seed. It's funny what an absolute straight line it is between the quality/development of our OL and our success running the ball. It's the same group of backs without a loss of ability. We went from tremendous to terrible the last couple of years. This isn't rocket science, but it's a good reminder.

We rushed the passer well. Grice only ended up with 6.5 sacks but 37 Knockdowns put him at 4th in the league and the three other guys up there around him are the best pass rushers in this universe. He came on late once he hit full dev too. I'm pretty convinced that a young guy's value to the overall pass rush doesn't change all that much as he's developing, but the stat assignment seems to lean pretty heavily toward the guys that have reached maturity. Once they reach full dev, suddenly they're gobbling up sacks that were going to teammates before that. Troy Pelletier broke the single game sack record early in the season with 6.5 against Moontown. Something tells me Grice helped a little there.

We were solid. We're wasting years of Richey's life on this OL development. At least the C Bennett looks like it will be time well spent.

[MalcPow]

this thread is awesome. it's pretty impressive what you do. i'm watching carefully that HAN offense!


Great thread this. Almost persuading me to give SP a whirl in this lockdown

+1

Thanks fellas, not a bad little side thing to have going in the background these days.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2046 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division CAPITAL CITY BLUES L, 20-23 60,900 Sunny, 74, 1 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,100
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

First round exit for the good guys in the Divisional. Most of our losses this year had a kind of "4 picks, bunch of sacks" superficial formula. This was kind of a straight up loss, with some of the markers of our "just ok" general vibe. No picks, short field goals, chance to win the game late in the 4th but settle for a short field goal to tie. Lose in OT.

[MalcPow]

WR Aguiar is a 1st Team All Pro. WR Botta is a 2nd Teamer. I swear they're alternating.

Kicker Matt Nixon is a 1st Team All Pro. 43 of 49 on field goals. It's a pretty big spike in the attempts which is probably another symptom to look at as we assess a little decline for the group.

Our OL and Secondary cohesion were bottom of the league and we're surviving. We still need to add some talent but we should hopefully be able to build more continuity.

I haven't really bit down on a fresh gameplan look in a while in this career either. We'll see.

[MalcPow]

LB Seth Thomas retired and I didn't say a word about it. He's a 7-time champion and went out with a whimper after a ratings hit left him outside of our key spots in the depth chart. No sacks and only 7 tackles. The game can be cold.

[Chas in Cinti]

It's amazing how attached you can get to some of these players. I do a lot of historical OOTP and get attached to players, especially if they overperform their "real stats". I once had Johnny Bench keep playing until 1990... at like 42 years old... that's one of the things I love about these games, is the attachment, more than even the "winning".

[MalcPow]

2047 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2y2ax2nb4ll76n/2047LbRileyMansker.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6wfdys07fpps83/2047LbEdwardTaylor.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz0m6r35arahcpl/2047CBarryJennings.PNG?dl=1

There's not a lot that's incredibly intriguing there for us, so we stick to our fundamentals. Big LBs who can play some different roles for us. Taylor in particular should help us is some coverage as he develops. Mansker is another pass rusher who may not get as clear a path to start now that we've got some guys in front of him. The C Jennings looks like another gamble on a long term G solution after it looks like we whiffed on one of three picks last year, Doug Jordan. I'm tempted to just play Jennings out of position as a new wrinkle on the crap we're throwing at the wall to patch the line together.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 8 56 56 2 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 3 25 43 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB RB 5 53 53 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 5 53 53 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB FB 8 37 37 2 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 4 56 56 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 6 49 49 2 yrs.
Liwienski, Nolan 488 TE 9 38 38 2 yrs.
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 7 31 31 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE FL 3 56 56 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 7 55 55 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 7 50 50 3 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 9 42 42 3 yrs.
##Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 5 31 31 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 2 49 78 3 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 1 48 71 4 yrs.
##Brooking, Geoff 667 C 2 27 49 1 yr.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 6 44 44 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 6 59 59 4 yrs.
##Jordan, Doug 768 RG 2 36 48 3 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT RT 3 51 51 4 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 2 30 46 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 7 54 54 2 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 4 80 80 2 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 1 71 77 2 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1170LDE 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 6 47 47 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE LDT 6 39 39 4 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274LDT 5 58 58 3 yrs.
##Martinez, Dennis 1272LDT 2 27 47 1 yr.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT RDT 5 45 45 3 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 1 31 62 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB MLB 8 58 58 3 yrs.
##Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 4 38 55 1 yr.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB SLB 1 32 53 4 yrs.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB WLB 5 50 50 2 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB RDE 2 45 45 3 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 1 32 45 4 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB LDE 6 54 54 3 yrs.
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 6 47 47 3 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB RCB 2 55 56 3 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB LCB 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 4 51 51 4 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 2 45 64 3 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 4 47 47 3 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 9 41 41 2 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS FS 1 38 63 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS SS 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Fair, Stanley 1647SS 6 48 48 2 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 1 33 40 2 yrs.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 7 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 5
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $310,100,000
Cap Room: $58,710,000
Maximum for New Player: $59,540,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,390,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $900,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $257,020,000

Roster look on the eve of the season. We'll see how Jennings does playing RG without a position change. We made a little bit of a conscious choice of taking some more developed rookies this year as kind of a tiebreaker looking at some similar talents. All of these guys should get on the field a little. We'll see if that messes with our already fragile cohesion. WR Replogle looks to have moved ahead of Aguiar for now so he's going to steal that volume role from him. We're clearing the way for Grice and Pelletier to pin their ears back. We'll see what they do.

[MalcPow]

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2047 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2047
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 241-222-1
Winning Pct. .520
Playoffs 29-5
Playoff Visits 13
Bowl Wins 7
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 187-71
Winning Pct. .724
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 18.2 32
Rushing Yards 69.6 32
Yards Per Carry 3.82 30
Pass Attempts 41.6 1
Completions 25.7 1
Completion Pct. 61.8 11
Passing Yards 312.2 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.51 2
Yards Per Catch 12.15 2
Total Yardage Gained 371.2 6
3rd Down Conversions 34.2 24
Points Per Game 29.0 1
Pass Rush Pct. 24.7 2
Pass Defense Pct. 60.3 3
Turnovers 27 22 (T)
Turnover Margin +6 6 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.4 21
Rushing Yards 115.8 18
Yards Per Carry 4.22 16
Pass Attempts 40.4 32
Completions 23.1 23
Completion Pct. 57.0 4
Passing Yards 271.1 32
Yards Per Attempt 6.70 20
Yards Per Catch 11.75 32
Total Yardage Gained 372.1 28
3rd Down Conversions 38.8 26
Points Per Game 22.6 26
Pass Rush Pct. 18.3 6 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 50.6 16
Turnovers 33 1

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 40 at OAK 16
2 26 at TOR 21
3 23 CHI 27
4 29 BKN 32
5 17 at WIL 28
6 37 at FRE 32
7 20 at CDO 27
8 27 CHE 7
10 34 FBK 20
11 34 OAK 24
12 30 at HAR 10
13 27 at CPC 19
14 40 ROC 17
15 24 CDO 31
16 40 NPL 41
17 16 at FBK 10
$$WC KAN

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 665 411 4995 7.51 33 20 88.9
**Team --- 665 411 4995 7.51 33 20 88.9
$$Opp --- 647 369 4337 6.70 23 21 75.9

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
42 J. Oliver RB 91 199 2.19 2 2
33 J. Sivela RB 69 153 2.22 0 1
3 R. Richey QB 68 464 6.82 4 4
45 C. Newsome RB 59 269 4.56 2 1
**Team --- 291 1113 3.82 9 12
$$Opp --- 439 1853 4.22 12 17

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
10 R. Replogle WR 194 115 1635 14.22 8.43 12 10
17 M. Botta WR 195 113 1206 10.67 6.18 12 10
82 T. Aguiar WR 106 62 804 12.97 7.58 6 7
26 J. Dennis TE 53 40 510 12.75 9.62 2 5
85 E. Anthony TE 27 22 246 11.18 9.11 0 1
81 L. Collier WR 37 21 191 9.10 5.16 3 0
42 J. Oliver RB 30 21 219 10.43 7.30 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
35 T. Riley S 113 29 0.0 0 1 17 81.8
52 T. Rhodes ILB 103 27 0.0 0 3 7 74.4
95 R. Mansker OLB 90 34 0.0 0 5 9 77.2
44 C. Stringer CB 57 15 0.0 0 4 10 79.2
31 S. Dole S 57 21 0.0 0 0 9 78.9
94 T. Pelletier OLB 52 14 16.0 40 0 1 81.9
49 T. Reilly CB 46 17 0.0 0 1 9 79.3
36 B. McDonald CB 44 15 0.0 0 3 8 80.6
54 T. Howe OLB 41 12 0.0 0 1 2 78.2
50 T. Grice OLB 41 19 13.5 35 1 0 81.7
74 L. Tanner DT 39 23 2.0 14 0 0 81.4
93 D. Mills DE 31 13 1.5 6 0 0 80.6
97 H. Wells DE 28 9 2.5 7 0 1 81.6
90 K. Lynn DT 23 9 1.5 3 0 1 82.8 

We got sacks from Grice (13.5) and Pelletier (16). We made some light tweaks in the offensive gameplan that are tough to see in the overall numbers, but that I do think had an impact. We just had a few spots where we were trying to force some deep balls to TEs and some other oddball stuff that we swapped out for more efficient attempts. Yardage jumped, YPA, first downs, completion percentage a little. Somehow the Ints popped up a little too on the year, but we also had a four game stretch where Richey didn't throw one. It felt like I hadn't seen that in years. The sacks and knockdowns have stabilized down into a much more acceptable place too. The 7.5 ypa is the highest of Richey's career, so we'll count it as effective gameplan tweaking and move on.

The defense... well yeah, we got those sacks. The numbers are pretty shaky. But we led the league in takeaways. We started checking the D Personnel screen the last two weeks of the season just thinking about tweaks. The trusty Analyze button apparently had some serious playing time concerns that it didn't have at the start of the season. Guess that's something to check more frequently that might be a cue for some cumulative effects. I tended to think it was just a quick check on endurance and some kind of weighted formation formula. Valuable or not, there's more going on there. Something to keep an eye on in the future.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2047 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card KANSAS CREATIONISTS L, 19-45 60,900 Sunny, 40, 7 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 51,900
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

We got blown out.

[QuikSand]

So... LB Grice and Pelletier stay officially at OLB but slot in as a DE here, correct? (I'm doing that often too, just making sure I'm seeing that correctly)

[MalcPow]

WR Replogle was a 1st Team All Pro. LB Pelletier was a 1st Team All Pro. LB Grice was a 2nd Teamer. We got those sacks.

Quick thoughts as we roll over... OL still, we're making progress but we need to keep building there. Somehow, at some point, we need to pull an LT from somewhere. I think our run game could return as early as next year. Those guys in the middle should get up close enough to development that we're looking at three 60+ dudes on the interior. Not elite by some standards, but much better than we've been.

And then stopping the run. We've probably let our DT spots slide into some "versatile" guys who can pass rush a little too and we might need to just load on run stopping to shore that up. We were terrible on 3rd downs last year, and I think that's a trickle effect of yards to go and how we haven't controlled the opposing run game. We'll shuffle that up, most likely at the DT spots specifically.

[MalcPow]

DE Arnie Blackledge joins Tom Brady and Jason Witten as the only HOF inductees with 100% of the vote. His #75 is retired.

[MalcPow]

It's amazing how attached you can get to some of these players. I do a lot of historical OOTP and get attached to players, especially if they overperform their "real stats". I once had Johnny Bench keep playing until 1990... at like 42 years old... that's one of the things I love about these games, is the attachment, more than even the "winning".

For sure. I think a game like FBCB back in the day struck the perfect balance between being fast moving while still capturing the attachment factor. Some of that is the structure of college basketball with 4-5 year careers and small rosters. But some of that was just good clean design and not getting in the way of letting the player fill in their own blanks with "storylines" or narrative or whatever.

I have a puzzle-solving, break shit bent in my personality that kind of eventually forces me to figure the damn thing out. But the attachment is the true give a crap factor of playing a career for me.

[MalcPow]

So... LB Grice and Pelletier stay officially at OLB but slot in as a DE here, correct? (I'm doing that often too, just making sure I'm seeing that correctly)

Yeah, we've got Grice in the RDE spot of our 43 Over. Pelletier is playing a lot of LDE. Blackledge, oddly enough, was in that LDE spot his entire run with us. We had some bigger individual seasons here and there from Seth Thomas as the RDE, but the LDE spot has been more consistently productive. And Pelletier had the bigger year this year.

I've always assumed and the game docs seem to imply the RDE should be the bigger producer. Seems like that's been the trend in the past as well but I'm open to other thoughts. I'm probably going to look to solve our run stopping with some smaller DEs playing the DT spots. Might be misguided, but the skillsets are there, so we're gonna go for it if they don't bust in the preseason.

[tzach]

I've always assumed and the game docs seem to imply the RDE should be the bigger producer.


interesting, i've never tested this -- i assume it holds for a large sample (full season) because LTs are in general better pass protectors that RTs, but it could also be hardwired.



i've seen the 43 over LDE having phenomenal production in a few games where the RT was awful in pass protection. so there's that.

[MalcPow]

interesting, i've never tested this -- i assume it holds for a large sample (full season) because LTs are in general better pass protectors that RTs, but it could also be hardwired.



i've seen the 43 over LDE having phenomenal production in a few games where the RT was awful in pass protection. so there's that.

That makes sense. Yeah, I wonder if the RDE/LT "matchup" has a greater impact on overall rush/protect effectiveness, but I could see the LDE/RT having more lopsided skill differentials and maybe that leads to the LDE getting more stats. We'll keep an eye on it, especially if I'm chasing those sack numbers (which I am).

[MalcPow]

We make a stadium proposal for a new retractable roof, high quality construction firm stadium because why not.

It's also a little humorous going through the staff draft. I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'm convinced the various positional focus attributes of your staff play a role in the development and ratings maintenance of those positional groups. Sounds obvious right? I'm guessing performance as well, but no testing, just saying shit. Anyway, Devin McCourty has been our Head Coach since we took over. He's been pretty successful. I've assumed he's been helping our secondary. Devin's true gift, however, is working with D-Lineman. The more you know. We might actually convert a few more of these LBs to DEs now or something.

Roster look:


Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 9 56 56 1 yr.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 4 25 43 1 yr.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 9 37 37 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 6 53 53 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 6 53 53 3 yrs.
Liwienski, Nolan 488 TE 10 38 38 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 7 49 49 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 5 56 56 2 yrs.
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 8 31 31 1 yr.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 10 42 42 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 8 55 55 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 8 50 50 2 yrs.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 6 30 30 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 4 56 56 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 3 58 78 2 yrs.
Brooking, Geoff 667 C 3 27 49 ---
Jennings, Barry 655 C 2 56 71 3 yrs.
Shea, Greg 760 LG 7 44 44 ---
King, Mason 751 RG 7 59 59 3 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 3 36 48 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 4 51 51 3 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 3 32 46 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 8 54 54 1 yr.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 5 80 80 1 yr.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 2 90 90 1 yr.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 7 47 47 1 yr.
Bradford, Kenny 1170LDE 4 64 64 1 yr.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 7 39 39 3 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274LDT 6 58 58 2 yrs.
Martinez, Dennis 1272LDT 3 27 47 ---
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 6 45 45 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 9 58 58 2 yrs.
Wordehoff, Renaldo 1359MLB 5 38 55 ---
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 2 34 62 1 yr.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 6 50 50 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 3 45 45 2 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB 2 47 53 3 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 2 39 45 3 yrs.
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 7 46 46 2 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 7 54 54 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 5 51 51 3 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 4 52 52 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 10 41 41 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 5 47 47 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 3 56 64 2 yrs.
Fair, Stanley 1647SS 7 48 48 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 4 58 58 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 2 53 63 1 yr.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 2 34 40 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 8 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 47
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 47

Salary Cap: $313,000,000
Cap Room: $49,970,000
Maximum for New Player: $38,310,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $900,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $175,660,000

I sort of missed that MLB Thomas Rhodes took a dive from 70 or so down to 58 last camp. Not the end, but it's a big move and another spot for us to address if we want to be able to control the running game a little more going forward. We signed a UDR in MLB Cedric Maxwell last year who looks like our best in-house option to take on a lot of that role. But he mostly looks like he'll develop into what Rhodes is now, and Rhodes at his best is probably more than we can hope to find without some randomness. We basically had a 70 LB for like 8 years. We've spent as much capital in the draft on that spot as any other and we haven't done that well since taking him in our first class of "Dragons" with QB Richey.

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2048 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwlnhf294btvavx/2048DeDougClayton.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwkmiw5ctpej7ma/2048DeKevinHarris.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jry5v526mnyb33b/2048DeTimVance.PNG?dl=1

Very weird draft as the top of the raw grade board was packed with DEs when we finally came up. That has not been the case really. We liked these three best.

Our stadium construction vote failed.

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 9 56 56 2 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 4 30 41 2 yrs.
##Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 9 24 24 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB RB 6 44 44 3 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 6 49 49 3 yrs.
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB FB 1 38 55 2 yrs.
Liwienski, Nolan 488 TE 10 32 32 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 7 43 43 3 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 5 56 56 2 yrs.
##Speer, Clayton 518 FL 8 26 26 1 yr.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 10 33 33 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE FL 8 55 55 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 8 42 42 2 yrs.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 6 22 22 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE SE 4 55 55 3 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 3 70 77 2 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 2 62 70 3 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 7 59 59 3 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 3 40 49 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT RT 4 49 49 3 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 3 29 39 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 8 53 53 4 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 5 68 68 4 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 2 89 89 4 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 7 47 47 4 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 1 48 77 4 yrs.
##Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 7 35 35 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 4 66 66 1 yr.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT RDT 1 32 56 4 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 1 46 77 4 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT LDT 6 59 59 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 6 45 45 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 9 56 56 2 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB MLB 2 41 63 2 yrs.
##Howe, Trey 1454SLB 6 49 49 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB RDE 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB SLB 2 52 52 3 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB WLB 2 44 47 3 yrs.
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 7 37 37 2 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB LDE 7 54 54 2 yrs.
##Biernoth, Tristan 1457WLB 1 17 43 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB RCB 5 46 46 3 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 4 52 52 3 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB LCB 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Dillon, K.C. 1521RCB 10 37 37 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 5 39 39 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 3 62 62 2 yrs.
##Fair, Stanley 1647SS 7 47 47 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 4 64 64 3 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 2 59 66 3 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 2 38 43 2 yrs.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 8 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 52
Inactive: 6
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $313,000,000
Cap Room: $32,270,000
Maximum for New Player: $33,130,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $900,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $281,620,000

Roster snapshot before the season. This DE class looks like two major hits for us. DE Vance is going to move over play the LDE spot for us as a guy with a bit bigger body and more versatile skills. He honestly looks a lot like Blackledge. We moved the other two guys inside to DT, and Harris at least looks like he might be a stud in there with a near-maxed run bar. They both have 77 futures by our scouting group. That's almost definitely high but we've got good scouting and a HC who specializes on the DL (apparently).

MLB Rhodes held which is big for us as we try to develop Blackwell to step in behind him.

We feel better than we've looked in a few years at this stage, but we're probably giving playing time to multiple rookies and some still developing guys at multiple spots. Our RBs are fading but we picked up a decent UDR in Brandon Adamo. We just need RT (who plays LT) Lester Rayburn to keep hanging in. Those tackle spots have just been impossible for us to address.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2048 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2048
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 253-226-1
Winning Pct. .528
Playoffs 29-6
Playoff Visits 14
Bowl Wins 7
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 199-76
Winning Pct. .723
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 17.8 32
Rushing Yards 68.5 32
Yards Per Carry 3.85 30
Pass Attempts 45.6 1
Completions 28.9 1
Completion Pct. 63.4 9
Passing Yards 328.0 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.20 5
Yards Per Catch 11.36 4
Total Yardage Gained 385.1 2
3rd Down Conversions 40.4 3
Points Per Game 28.7 1
Pass Rush Pct. 21.8 6 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 46.2 21
Turnovers 26 23 (T)
Turnover Margin -6 23

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.8 14 (T)
Rushing Yards 130.4 26
Yards Per Carry 5.07 29
Pass Attempts 39.7 29
Completions 24.4 32
Completion Pct. 61.6 16
Passing Yards 258.9 28
Yards Per Attempt 6.52 16
Yards Per Catch 10.60 15 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 378.8 32
3rd Down Conversions 41.0 31
Points Per Game 23.6 22
Pass Rush Pct. 16.8 4
Pass Defense Pct. 47.7 15
Turnovers 20 20 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 30 CDO 24
2 23 TUC 30
3 23 FRE 27
4 33 at CHI 27
5 27 at KAN 24
6 10 MIN 34
7 20 at CDO 16
8 30 FBK 17
10 35 IOW 23
11 20 at OAK 17
12 47 AUG 19
13 31 at CPC 18
14 41 at SNP 18
15 19 at FBK 14
16 21 at ORL 36
17 49 OAK 34

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 721 457 5226 7.25 42 19 93.5
**Team --- 729 462 5248 7.20 42 19 93.2
$$Opp --- 635 391 4143 6.52 28 13 86.7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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42 J. Oliver RB 121 432 3.57 2 0
45 C. Newsome RB 98 283 2.89 2 1
3 R. Richey QB 62 362 5.84 1 4
**Team --- 285 1096 3.85 5 10
$$Opp --- 412 2087 5.07 11 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
10 R. Replogle WR 204 124 1431 11.54 7.01 14 16
17 M. Botta WR 179 107 1338 12.50 7.47 8 8
82 T. Aguiar WR 122 83 817 9.84 6.70 10 5
81 L. Collier WR 56 42 532 12.67 9.50 2 5
26 J. Dennis TE 72 42 498 11.86 6.92 3 6
85 E. Anthony TE 39 23 333 14.48 8.54 2 1
42 J. Oliver RB 25 18 148 8.22 5.92 0 1
45 C. Newsome RB 20 16 123 7.69 6.15 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
35 T. Riley S 83 29 0.0 0 0 11 79.7
94 T. Pelletier OLB 79 18 2.0 17 0 5 75.6
49 T. Reilly CB 76 21 0.0 0 5 9 77.9
52 T. Rhodes ILB 75 19 0.0 0 0 11 73.9
31 S. Dole S 68 14 0.0 0 1 6 77.2
44 C. Stringer CB 63 13 0.0 0 3 9 77.2
95 R. Mansker OLB 52 10 2.0 1 1 1 76.5
91 C. Blackwell ILB 50 23 0.0 0 1 2 72.5
70 K. Bradford DT 33 16 2.5 8 0 0 82.2
74 L. Tanner DT 31 8 1.0 7 0 1 82.5
99 E. Taylor OLB 30 10 0.0 1 0 2 69.9
50 T. Grice OLB 26 12 12.5 44 0 0 81.7
76 K. Harris DT 23 4 1.5 5 0 1 82.1
25 A. Carrillo S 22 8 0.0 0 1 4 79.4
36 B. McDonald CB 17 5 0.0 0 1 2 79.7
98 T. Vance DE 17 7 4.0 4 0 1 82.5 

So I think we were better. Some fairly massive swings all things considered on the offensive side. We are throwing the ball an insane amount, and we were better at it. Richey with probably his best passing season in awhile, certainly since his first few years when he was basically playing on an All Star team. Can't say this was really intended though, so I'm a little curious. Might just be slightly better protection from a now more fully developed line crew.

The defense looks like a complete dumpster fire. I've got some personnel questions to think about for next year apparently. DE Vance was not all that productive as a rookie, and we seemed to go on a little run in the second half when we brought Pelletier back into a couple formations opposite Grice.

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Hanalei Dragons 2048 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division IOWA COBBERS W, 31-13 60,900 Sunny, 44, 5 mph.
League FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 28-21 60,900 Rain, 58, 6 mph.
Champ. vs Maassluis Merchantmen L, 23-29 60,500 Sunny, 60, 7 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,700
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Good solid run but the Merchantmen get us in the Bowl. Another playoff loss where we just get beat, no turnover craziness or anything. We did have a bunch of penalties. Ah well, just short for the boys.

[MalcPow]

QB Richey sweeps again with MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team All Pro in his bounceback campaign.

WR Replogle is our 1st Team All Pro WR. Mercury Botta stays in the mix as a 2nd Teamer. LB Grice nabs 2nd Team honors as well.

[MIJB#19]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2048 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division IOWA COBBERS W, 31-13 60,900 Sunny, 44, 5 mph.
League FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 28-21 60,900 Rain, 58, 6 mph.
Champ. vs Maassluis Merchantmen L, 23-29 60,500 Sunny, 60, 7 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,700
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Good solid run but the Merchantmen get us in the Bowl. Another playoff loss where we just get beat, no turnover craziness or anything. We did have a bunch of penalties. Ah well, just short for the boys.How about that. :lol:

[triplykely]

Enjoy following this. How do you retain formatting when copy/pasting to code on the forums? When I do it it all jumbles together. Look forward to following more, thanks

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Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 10 56 56 1 yr.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 5 30 41 1 yr.
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 2 38 55 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 7 49 49 2 yrs.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 7 44 44 2 yrs.
Sivela, Jordan 233 RB 10 23 23 ---
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 6 56 56 1 yr.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 8 43 43 2 yrs.
Liwienski, Nolan 488 TE 11 32 32 ---
Speer, Clayton 518 FL 9 26 26 ---
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 9 55 55 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 5 55 55 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 9 42 42 1 yr.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 11 33 33 1 yr.
Guthrie, Lincoln 514 SE 7 22 22 ---
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 4 78 78 1 yr.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 3 70 70 2 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG 8 60 60 2 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 4 40 49 1 yr.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 5 49 49 2 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 4 31 38 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 9 54 54 3 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 6 68 68 3 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 3 89 89 3 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 2 60 77 3 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 8 47 47 3 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 8 35 35 2 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 2 56 77 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 5 66 66 ---
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 2 37 56 3 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT 7 59 59 1 yr.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 7 45 45 1 yr.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 3 54 63 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 10 56 56 1 yr.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Howe, Trey 1454SLB 7 49 49 ---
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 4 46 46 1 yr.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 8 54 54 1 yr.
Biernoth, Tristan 1457WLB 2 17 43 1 yr.
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 8 37 37 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 4 58 58 1 yr.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 5 52 52 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 6 46 46 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 4 63 63 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 6 39 39 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 3 65 65 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 5 64 64 2 yrs.
Fair, Stanley 1647SS 8 46 46 ---
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 3 40 40 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 9 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 44
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 44

Salary Cap: $319,700,000
Cap Room: $40,990,000
Maximum for New Player: $29,770,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $910,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $115,090,000

Offseason look.

[MalcPow]

How about that. :lol:

:mad:

[MalcPow]

Enjoy following this. How do you retain formatting when copy/pasting to code on the forums? When I do it it all jumbles together. Look forward to following more, thanks

My process is I copy from notepad and then paste into the vbulletin editor that comes up when you hit the "Go Advanced" button to post. Then I highlight what I pasted in and click the "#" button at the top of the editor box to put CODE tags around everything. I don't know if that's the exact necessary sequence, but that's what is working for me.

[QuikSand]

I think I'll run this offseason like this:

-3 Dragons, we add three guys from the 4th round of the draft. I think that's the sweet spot of where I can still get mid tier LBs (hell yes), there's an occasional starter quality QB, but the true 70+ type talent is picked through.

So, when I went back and read this, I momentarily forgot that you were playing this particular franchise from this league.

...and I thought you had coined a term for "best player available on day three of the draft" as heretofore known as a Dragon.

Then, I realized what you meant.



Regardless, it should stick. For anyone playing under house rules, this line drawn at the start of round 4 seems like a good rule to use. From this day forward, a player we target in round 4 because of house rules saying we can't target anyone earlier (or somesuch similar constraint) is hereby known as a "dragon."

Seeing no opposition, the ayes have it.

[MIJB#19]

So, when I went back and read this, I momentarily forgot that you were playing this particular franchise from this league.

...and I thought you had coined a term for "best player available on day three of the draft" as heretofore known as a Dragon.

Then, I realized what you meant.



Regardless, it should stick. For anyone playing under house rules, this line drawn at the start of round 4 seems like a good rule to use. From this day forward, a player we target in round 4 because of house rules saying we can't target anyone earlier (or somesuch similar constraint) is hereby known as a "dragon."

Seeing no opposition, the ayes have it.Aye.
I actually thought the exact same thing (except for the houseruling thing).

[MalcPow]

2049 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h1tikhb5m1e5yxu/2049LbDamianMcKenzie.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/44kdlpu1jw4j5p1/2049LbVictorGerth.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgl2yttfkd2m774/2049RbMiguelSaba.PNG?dl=1

We take two LBs that I think will actually play LB for us. And then we go RB. I don't really think Saba has any superlative talent that makes him worthy of burning a pick vs taking what's left in the UDR pile. But I think he's pretty good and our guys are aging. We may change that gameplan some day..

[MalcPow]

So, when I went back and read this, I momentarily forgot that you were playing this particular franchise from this league.

...and I thought you had coined a term for "best player available on day three of the draft" as heretofore known as a Dragon.

Then, I realized what you meant.



Regardless, it should stick. For anyone playing under house rules, this line drawn at the start of round 4 seems like a good rule to use. From this day forward, a player we target in round 4 because of house rules saying we can't target anyone earlier (or somesuch similar constraint) is hereby known as a "dragon."

Seeing no opposition, the ayes have it.

I like it.

I feel good about where we ended up from a talent level standpoint. The 4th has been a frustrating place to try to play my typical soviet big red bars army style from. I feel like we've had meaningful holes every year. I haven't made as many interesting adjustments to them as I might have wished, but I think I'm seeing them show up in different ways.

I'm dangerously close to going full affinity structure in the secondary to see how it transforms us. We're playing fungible talent regardless.

[QuikSand]

I'm dangerously close to going full affinity structure in the secondary to see how it transforms us. We're playing fungible talent regardless.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/5d2ace03ceb97cebc6749f1efc81a942/tenor.gif?itemid=12447951

[MalcPow]

https://media1.tenor.com/images/5d2ace03ceb97cebc6749f1efc81a942/tenor.gif?itemid=12447951

:D

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 10 56 56 2 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 5 35 42 2 yrs.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB FB 1 44 60 4 yrs.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 1 44 58 2 yrs.
##Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 2 40 54 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB RB 7 49 49 2 yrs.
##Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 7 38 38 2 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 6 56 56 4 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 8 38 38 2 yrs.
Craig, Dylan 446 TE 7 28 28 3 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE FL 5 56 56 5 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 9 48 48 4 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 9 38 38 4 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 11 30 30 3 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 4 79 79 4 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 3 70 70 2 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 8 58 58 2 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 4 37 37 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT RT 5 50 50 2 yrs.
##Antonius, Jalen 864 LT 1 21 46 2 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 4 32 35 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 9 49 49 3 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 6 82 82 3 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 3 77 77 3 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 2 66 76 3 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 8 47 47 3 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 8 30 30 2 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 2 64 77 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT LDT 5 67 67 4 yrs.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 2 41 56 3 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT 7 59 59 3 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 7 44 44 3 yrs.
Gerth, Victor 1358WILB 1 37 72 4 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB MLB 3 61 61 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 10 55 55 3 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB SLB 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB RDE 4 45 45 2 yrs.
##Carr, Chester 1454SLB 1 16 40 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 1 43 67 4 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB WLB 8 47 47 4 yrs.
##Biernoth, Tristan 1457WLB 2 22 40 1 yr.
##Porter, Moe 1496WLB 8 28 28 2 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB SS 4 58 58 4 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB LCB 5 51 51 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 6 46 46 2 yrs.
##Adams, Joseph 1532LCB 1 26 38 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB FS 4 62 62 4 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 6 34 34 2 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS RCB 3 66 66 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 5 64 64 2 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 3 40 40 2 yrs.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 9 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $319,700,000
Cap Room: $31,170,000
Maximum for New Player: $32,030,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $920,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $10,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $298,190,000

Snapshot before Week 1. The WRs are starting to fade. That's a nice new hole in the damn to try to find some fingers for. There should be one more year in there. We didn't bring in any depth at all there though. And I see some endurance bars fading on the guys who get more targets than anyone in the league. We were lucky to get Botta and Aguiar. We're probably going to have to take a committee approach to our style of attack if those guys can't hang on for a few more years as primary target types. I'm cautiously optimistic on the D even if our numbers tend to look weird even in good years. We've got good talent and no rookies starting or even playing much.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2049 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2049
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 265-230-1
Winning Pct. .535
Playoffs 31-7
Playoff Visits 15
Bowl Wins 7
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 213-81
Winning Pct. .724
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 19.4 32
Rushing Yards 95.1 27
Yards Per Carry 4.89 5
Pass Attempts 44.5 1
Completions 27.5 1
Completion Pct. 61.8 12
Passing Yards 330.9 1
Yards Per Attempt 7.44 4
Yards Per Catch 12.03 1
Total Yardage Gained 413.0 1
3rd Down Conversions 43.5 1
Points Per Game 31.9 1
Pass Rush Pct. 22.3 2 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 42.2 27
Turnovers 30 31
Turnover Margin -10 31 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.1 6
Rushing Yards 102.0 6
Yards Per Carry 4.06 9
Pass Attempts 42.8 32
Completions 26.6 32
Completion Pct. 62.0 18 (T)
Passing Yards 289.1 32
Yards Per Attempt 6.75 21
Yards Per Catch 10.88 20 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 376.1 30
3rd Down Conversions 37.8 26 (T)
Points Per Game 25.1 30 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 19.8 14 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.7 14
Turnovers 20 21

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 33 FBK 27
2 19 at SAO 28
3 27 at MIN 20
4 34 at TEX 17
5 29 CDO 13
6 41 MOO 15
8 34 at FBK 41
9 31 at OBX 21
10 30 CPC 24
11 54 OAK 37
12 22 at HOU 30
13 45 BKN 37
14 16 AKR 29
15 27 at OAK 24
16 41 FTW 15
17 27 at CDO 24

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 687 429 5165 7.52 39 19 92.8
**Team --- 712 440 5294 7.44 39 20 91.1
$$Opp --- 685 425 4626 6.75 31 15 87.9

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
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20 M. Saba RB 84 311 3.70 2 5
41 E. Villarreal RB 79 299 3.78 4 1
45 C. Newsome RB 75 401 5.35 1 1
3 R. Richey QB 73 510 6.99 5 4
**Team --- 311 1521 4.89 12 23
$$Opp --- 402 1632 4.06 11 13

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
17 M. Botta WR 204 133 1472 11.07 7.22 9 5
10 R. Replogle WR 217 115 1706 14.83 7.86 14 15
82 T. Aguiar WR 104 66 760 11.52 7.31 10 10
26 J. Dennis TE 62 42 530 12.62 8.55 2 4
81 L. Collier WR 54 31 324 10.45 6.00 3 3
20 M. Saba RB 23 20 95 4.75 4.13 0 1
85 E. Anthony TE 24 17 267 15.71 11.13 1 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
95 R. Mansker OLB 97 31 0.0 0 0 4 67.3
91 C. Blackwell ILB 83 30 0.0 0 2 5 77.9
49 T. Reilly CB 78 24 0.0 0 1 8 78.3
31 S. Dole S 78 15 0.0 0 2 6 75.6
35 T. Riley S 68 11 0.0 0 4 9 79.8
36 B. McDonald CB 58 23 0.0 0 1 7 75.9
44 C. Stringer CB 55 17 0.0 0 2 9 78.2
50 T. Grice OLB 51 17 20.0 32 0 2 81.1
98 T. Vance DE 46 14 6.0 15 0 1 82.2
70 K. Bradford DT 42 27 3.0 7 0 1 81.4
76 K. Harris DT 42 14 2.5 7 0 0 80.6
94 T. Pelletier OLB 40 16 1.5 12 0 2 72.3
99 E. Taylor OLB 24 5 0.5 2 1 3 77.7

This felt like our best team in a bit. Last year and this year were both better teams than the years before that. This team had a little extra gear offensively. The 500+ yard games, 40+ points numerous times, we could just beat people. And the run game, kind of on cue returned to efficiency. Not sure which side of the combo of full dev on the line and fresh legs at the RB spots to give all the credit to there.

Richey with another big year. T. Grice with our best pass rushing year in awhile, 20 sacks to put himself maybe on a trajectory toward something.

We were decidedly atrocious doing the one thing we were asked to do 40+ times a game on D though, stop the effing pass. The rush was just solid really by our standards. The secondary didn't seem to really respond to further tweaks. We've been too lazy to really solve this situation by trying to understand it. We will likely persist in that laziness. We stink though back there, and we're just hoping we bring more bullets than the other guy offensively.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons 2049 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division MOONTOWN DARKSIDERS W, 32-13 60,900 Sunny, 51, 7 mph.
League BROOKLYN FIGHTIN' BUMS W, 37-34 60,900 Sunny, 50, calm
Champ. vs Augusta Greenjackets W, 31-17 58,400 Sunny, 74, 4 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 53,000
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

The Conference title game was our requisite fight fire with fire shootout where we won on a last second field goal. I don't know what the Bowl was, we got multiple return TDs in an ugly one that ended up with a comfortable scoreline.

I think this was the most talent we threw out there in awhile, even if we weren't necessarily stacked at key spots like WR.

We tried to play some seemingly more bar-appropriate shuffling in the secondary, but I think a few of the CBs we played at S and vice versa might have had some fairly significant weight issues affecting them. I want to believe that I'm doing something terrible in the gameplan screen but I'm worried about crawling back out of there alive if I go too far down into the abyss. As somebody smart said to me recently, "every time I do any testing I figure out I get more from an exceptional affinity than anything else."

I thought last year's team was better than at least half of our previous Bowl winners, so I felt for the guys when they came up short. Nice to see the bounce back this year.

[MalcPow]

Lot of red on the top half of the Awards page.

Richey going treble with the MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team QB. (CB Buddy McDonald with the requisite weird game Bowl MVP for a pick-6, etc.)

LB Grice goes 1st Team All Pro and snags DPOY as well, a first for us in this career. He's at 52.5 sacks through 4 seasons. Blackledge was at 45.5 through 4 seasons. It's a sneaky thing that is leeching some of the glory from our guys, but Blackledge was also a stud. Grice is some high-40s, got the right bars specialist guy who we can get monster production out of. The stud guys tend to survive those camp hits much deeper into their careers than the fringey guys with the right skills. I'd love to be wrong but I'm guessing Grice slips on a banana peel in a few years and suddenly can't do anything. We're sort of seeing it with the ratings decline of our WRs. They're good players, but they're fading earlier and from a level a little closer to earth already than the true studs.

WRs Replogle and Botta sweep the 1st Team All Pro spots. (They're still fine.)

[MalcPow]

CB Ted Matthews makes the Hall of Fame with 82% of the vote. He started as a safety with us and eventually ended up playing a bunch of CB. He's still the franchise leader in passes defensed. He had one year with a 2nd Team All Pro finish and a Bowl MVP. I don't know if it's HOF-worthy, but I'm guessing the five rings helped.

Richey is at 47,953 passing yards after 10 seasons. If he plays three more years we should get to where we want to and the good QBs in this universe are tending to play 15-17 seasons. The current career record is 62,893, so he might need to play four more years to get there at this pace. We should be fine but he's still this 55ish rated guy who only wants one extra year on his contract with the renegs each offseason. We'll see.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 11 56 56 3 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 6 35 42 1 yr.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB 2 48 60 3 yrs.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 2 47 58 1 yr.
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 3 40 54 1 yr.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 8 49 49 1 yr.
Oliver, Jalen 242 RB 8 37 37 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 7 56 56 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 9 38 38 1 yr.
Craig, Dylan 446 TE 8 28 28 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 6 56 56 4 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 10 48 48 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 10 38 38 3 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 12 30 30 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 5 80 80 3 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 4 69 69 1 yr.
King, Mason 751 RG 9 58 58 1 yr.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 5 37 37 1 yr.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 6 50 50 1 yr.
Antonius, Jalen 864 LT 2 21 46 1 yr.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 5 32 35 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 10 49 49 2 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 7 81 81 2 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 4 77 77 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 3 66 76 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 9 47 47 2 yrs.
Wells, Hayden 1197RDE 9 29 29 1 yr.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 3 80 80 2 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 6 67 67 3 yrs.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 3 41 56 2 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT 8 59 59 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 8 44 44 2 yrs.
Gerth, Victor 1358WILB 2 37 72 3 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 4 61 61 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 11 55 55 2 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB 4 52 52 1 yr.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 4 47 47 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 5 45 45 1 yr.
Carr, Chester 1454SLB 2 16 40 1 yr.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 2 56 67 3 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 9 47 47 3 yrs.
Biernoth, Tristan 1457WLB 3 22 40 ---
Porter, Moe 1496WLB 9 28 28 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 5 58 58 3 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 6 51 51 1 yr.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 7 46 46 1 yr.
Adams, Joseph 1532LCB 2 26 38 1 yr.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 5 62 62 3 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 7 34 34 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 4 66 66 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 6 64 64 1 yr.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 4 40 40 1 yr.
Turner, Dwight 663 LS 10 19 19 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 51

Salary Cap: $326,400,000
Cap Room: $27,200,000
Maximum for New Player: $16,830,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $10,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $216,650,000

Offseason snap. We're starting to become an above average across the board cohesion squad. I don't know if we'll ever really run into cap trouble, we're sort of just blindly extending everyone and guys who play want to get paid. But we've crept closer to the cap over time.

We need WRs.

[MIJB#19]

I'm counting 11 LB and 19 DL/LB players in the 2049 season. That's quite a lot. Sensing that depth and/or endurance forces your hand here to double up on each starter position to keep fresh players on the field? The end of season stats suggest that only 8 front7 guys were heavily used and 5 DB. Or is it a result of continuing to draft projects?

[MalcPow]

2050 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ihsvp2wvb7jdrby/2050DeCrisBerry.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7w6hye6ppnlpvk/2050DtLouieBrunell.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibruwxogt9xdbox/2050CbChristianFord.PNG?dl=1

We end up taking two more D-Linemen. I think they are both DTs for us. We like the CB a fair amount and I'm really still searching back there.

We didn't force it on the WRs. Going to look to sign at least one in FA2 but we're stretching this group as far as we can.

[MalcPow]

I'm counting 11 LB and 19 DL/LB players in the 2049 season. That's quite a lot. Sensing that depth and/or endurance forces your hand here to double up on each starter position to keep fresh players on the field? The end of season stats suggest that only 8 front7 guys were heavily used and 5 DB. Or is it a result of continuing to draft projects?

Yeah, no kidding. I shake my head every year when we get to final roster tweaking. Our LBs have seen some heavy workload at DE over the years, but we've gone overboard. We have really good scouting and I feel good about being able to identify good front 7 guys generally... so I think this is mostly a function of me seeing shiny objects and just dumping them on the roster. The two LBs we took last year may not have played, and they both still look good.

I wish it was a superstrat of some kind. It's just me not liking what I see at the other spots really. Sick of missing on shitty OL guys too. I was going to take a WR this year but really just felt like having our pick of whatever 42/42 guys are in FA2 was the better play.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 11 56 56 3 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 6 39 45 1 yr.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB RB 2 50 58 3 yrs.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB FB 2 43 49 2 yrs.
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 8 43 43 1 yr.
##Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 3 35 41 2 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 7 57 57 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 9 28 28 3 yrs.
Craig, Dylan 446 TE 8 27 27 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE SE 6 54 54 4 yrs.
Montgomery, Shannon 515 SE 5 43 43 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE FL 10 42 42 3 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 10 32 32 3 yrs.
Collier, Leland 581 SE 12 26 26 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 5 79 79 3 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 4 71 71 5 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 9 53 53 3 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 5 23 23 1 yr.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT LT 6 47 47 5 yrs.
##Antonius, Jalen 864 LT 2 26 44 2 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 5 36 36 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT RT 10 49 49 2 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 7 69 69 2 yrs.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 4 77 77 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 3 66 77 2 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 9 46 46 2 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 1 36 60 4 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 3 80 80 2 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT LDT 6 67 67 3 yrs.
##Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 3 45 58 2 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 1 38 69 4 yrs.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT 8 49 49 2 yrs.
##Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 8 44 44 2 yrs.
Gerth, Victor 1358MLB MLB 2 47 72 3 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 4 61 61 4 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 11 57 57 2 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB WLB 4 51 51 1 yr.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 4 50 50 3 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB RDE 5 45 45 3 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB SLB 2 68 68 3 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 9 46 46 3 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB RCB 5 58 58 3 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB LCB 6 51 51 3 yrs.
##Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 7 47 47 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 5 62 62 3 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 7 26 26 2 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 4 65 65 5 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 6 64 64 3 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 1 29 51 4 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 4 41 41 2 yrs.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 1 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 5
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $326,400,000
Cap Room: $5,720,000
Maximum for New Player: $6,590,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,850,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $327,540,000

Roster shot before Week 1... here we go. Our WRs are dying.

[MalcPow]

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2050 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2050
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 275-236-1
Winning Pct. .538
Playoffs 34-7
Playoff Visits 16
Bowl Wins 8
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 226-87
Winning Pct. .722
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.5 31
Rushing Yards 108.5 16 (T)
Yards Per Carry 5.05 3
Pass Attempts 44.8 1
Completions 27.6 1
Completion Pct. 61.5 12
Passing Yards 303.8 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.78 13
Yards Per Catch 11.02 15
Total Yardage Gained 398.9 1
3rd Down Conversions 32.9 22
Points Per Game 31.3 1
Pass Rush Pct. 24.6 2
Pass Defense Pct. 58.8 4
Turnovers 15 3 (T)
Turnover Margin +9 4 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.4 10
Rushing Yards 106.1 10
Yards Per Carry 4.34 18
Pass Attempts 40.1 28
Completions 22.6 17
Completion Pct. 56.3 1
Passing Yards 269.6 30
Yards Per Attempt 6.73 23
Yards Per Catch 11.95 32
Total Yardage Gained 359.7 25
3rd Down Conversions 34.3 19 (T)
Points Per Game 21.4 13
Pass Rush Pct. 19.4 12 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 46.1 10
Turnovers 24 9 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 38 OAK 20
2 47 MAA 3
3 23 at KAN 26
4 24 BKN 34
5 41 at WIL 14
6 20 at FRE 24
7 20 CDO 30
8 53 CHE 19
10 29 at FBK 26
11 29 at OAK 23
12 45 BOR 17
13 23 OBX 17
14 15 at GOT 13
15 43 at CDO 21
16 20 at PAR 23
17 31 FBK 33
$$WC MOO

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 675 418 4598 6.81 38 10 94.6
7 S. Smith QB 42 23 263 6.26 2 0 89.7
**Team --- 717 441 4861 6.78 40 10 94.3
$$Opp --- 641 361 4314 6.73 24 17 78.5 
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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
41 E. Villarreal RB 95 346 3.64 2 4
20 M. Saba RB 89 471 5.29 4 0
45 C. Newsome RB 83 366 4.41 1 0
3 R. Richey QB 72 547 7.60 4 5
**Team --- 344 1736 5.05 11 13
$$Opp --- 391 1697 4.34 7 16

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
10 R. Replogle WR 218 134 1540 11.49 7.06 11 11
17 M. Botta WR 184 105 1356 12.91 7.37 12 7
15 S. Montgomery WR 97 54 424 7.85 4.37 8 8
26 J. Dennis TE 64 41 522 12.73 8.16 2 12
20 M. Saba RB 47 37 283 7.65 6.02 2 0
82 T. Aguiar WR 30 20 194 9.70 6.47 0 1
85 E. Anthony TE 31 19 226 11.89 7.29 1 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
31 S. Dole S 96 33 0.0 0 1 8 79.5
91 C. Blackwell ILB 69 14 0.0 0 1 8 74.1
49 T. Reilly CB 61 11 0.0 0 3 10 78.0
36 B. McDonald CB 59 9 0.0 0 6 7 81.0
35 T. Riley S 58 24 0.0 0 1 9 82.7
76 K. Harris DT 56 23 4.0 10 0 0 81.7
44 C. Stringer CB 53 16 0.0 0 3 13 81.1
70 K. Bradford DT 40 19 4.0 15 0 0 81.8
59 D. McKenzie OLB 39 14 0.5 3 0 2 74.7
29 C. Ford S 37 15 0.0 0 1 4 76.9
58 V. Gerth ILB 36 9 0.0 0 1 6 78.6
50 T. Grice OLB 29 7 17.0 41 0 1 82.1
98 T. Vance DE 29 11 7.0 23 0 0 81.7
52 T. Rhodes ILB 22 8 0.0 0 0 2 77.2
25 A. Carrillo S 18 4 0.0 0 0 5 79.0
95 R. Mansker OLB 16 5 1.0 0 0 1 70.6 

I mean... I think we were better. I think this is what pretty good defense looks like as long as we're playing this way. Top 5 in PRPct and PDefPct, facing 40 passes per game. It's just too many possessions to look at yardage or points without context. We've had better defenses, but this one is less of a disaster than some of our recent ones.

I have no idea why Richey had a drastic cut in the interceptions. More checkdowns as our WRs slowly disintegrate around him?

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons 2050 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card MOONTOWN DARKSIDERS W, 24-16 60,900 Sunny, 69, 1 mph.
Division at Frederick Red Menace W, 31-21 71,300 Sunny, 63, calm
League MINNESOTA MINERS W, 24-17 60,900 Rain, 58, 8 mph.
Champ. vs Fort Wayne Fury W, 34-20 56,400 Sunny, 47, 2 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 54,700
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Cool, yeah. We're back on our playoff juice. Fascinating only because our sling-it-around offense kind of settled down and the D stepped up. Richey won the Bowl MVP but we sacked them 8 times too. Go figure.

[MalcPow]

Richey goes quad... Bowl MVP, MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team All Pro.

WR Replogle is a 1st Team All Pro. First time in years we only had one WR make it. Botta had a good year but he's on fumes as he crosses the 1000 career reception line.

Our kicker, Vincent Sherman, is a 1st Teamer.

LB Terrance Grice gets another 1st Team nod after a 17 sack season.

[MalcPow]

We put in for a maxed out stadium last year and I did not notice it had been approved. We are getting absolutely destroyed financially while it is being built. Will be cool when it's done though!

It sucks to see the WR crew on its last legs like this. This year, we need to bring in a couple bodies. I'm going to try to milk as many years out of Botta as I can, but it was different last year. Replogle still looks like a WR1 for us but he's a tough camp away from the same story.

Richey broke the career passing touchdowns record this past season in this universe and sits at 380. If he's got 3-4 more years left and can get over 500 that's pretty respectable.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 12 56 56 2 yrs.
Smith, Sawyer 107 QB 7 39 44 ---
Newsome, Claude 245 RB 9 43 43 ---
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 4 35 41 1 yr.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 3 48 49 1 yr.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB 3 54 58 2 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 10 28 28 2 yrs.
Craig, Dylan 446 TE 9 27 27 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 8 57 57 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 11 42 42 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 11 32 32 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 7 54 54 3 yrs.
Montgomery, Shannon 515 SE 6 43 43 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 6 79 79 2 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 5 71 71 4 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG 10 53 53 2 yrs.
Jordan, Doug 768 RG 6 23 23 ---
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 7 47 47 4 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 6 36 36 1 yr.
Antonius, Jalen 864 LT 3 26 44 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 11 49 49 1 yr.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 8 70 70 1 yr.
Sherman, Vincent 1008K 5 77 77 1 yr.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 10 46 46 1 yr.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 4 66 77 1 yr.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 2 40 60 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 7 67 67 2 yrs.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 4 45 58 1 yr.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 4 80 80 1 yr.
Tanner, Lamar 1274RDT 9 49 49 1 yr.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 9 43 43 1 yr.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 2 41 69 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 12 57 57 1 yr.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 5 61 61 3 yrs.
Gerth, Victor 1358MLB 3 56 72 2 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 6 45 45 2 yrs.
Mansker, Riley 1495SLB 5 51 51 ---
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 5 50 50 2 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 10 46 46 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 3 70 70 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 8 46 46 1 yr.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 7 51 51 2 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 6 58 58 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 8 26 26 1 yr.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 6 62 62 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 7 64 64 2 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 5 65 65 4 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 2 38 51 3 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 5 41 41 1 yr.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 2 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 46
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $333,100,000
Cap Room: $9,310,000
Maximum for New Player: ($2,340,000)
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,180,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $264,680,000

[MalcPow]

As a sidenote, I'm annoyed by guys like DE Tim Vance that we were SO LUCKY to stumble into with our 4th round picks. The dude is clearly a blessed child of the FOF algorithms but he's entering year 4 and still not fully developed at 66/77. T-Grice will have 80 sacks and die before this guy hits full dev.

[QuikSand]

As a sidenote, I'm annoyed by guys like DE Tim Vance that we were SO LUCKY to stumble into with our 4th round picks. The dude is clearly a blessed child of the FOF algorithms but he's entering year 4 and still not fully developed at 66/77. T-Grice will have 80 sacks and die before this guy hits full dev.

That guy goes all the way back to TCY, I think. Hard-coded as low development, even with high ceiling. In TCY, there would be schools you'd notice if you recruited really heavily in your home/focus state where they'd just spew out all these 19/85 talents, and even after four years the guy would still be 38/85. I'm not sure what that was supposed to mirror real from real life... but it's been a Solecismic thing for quite some time.

(Fun aside...when you exported a FOF draft file from TCY, you'd see gobs of these high-upside guys end up as tip-top NFL prospects...some kid to goes to Auburn and gets 200 snaps his whole career on account of low development, so he never develops, he graduates rated 29/90 and then gets drafted ahead of the Heisman winner, who was rated 66/66)

[MalcPow]

That guy goes all the way back to TCY, I think. Hard-coded as low development, even with high ceiling. In TCY, there would be schools you'd notice if you recruited really heavily in your home/focus state where they'd just spew out all these 19/85 talents, and even after four years the guy would still be 38/85. I'm not sure what that was supposed to mirror real from real life... but it's been a Solecismic thing for quite some time.

(Fun aside...when you exported a FOF draft file from TCY, you'd see gobs of these high-upside guys end up as tip-top NFL prospects...some kid to goes to Auburn and gets 200 snaps his whole career on account of low development, so he never develops, he graduates rated 29/90 and then gets drafted ahead of the Heisman winner, who was rated 66/66)

For sure. I loved that quirk. I'm guessing we're still weeks or months away from me dusting off TCY and cackling to myself at the imported draft classes in the middle of the night.

Vance has been playing. A ton. I guess we're having enough success, but come on dude. I just want to feel like I've got one of them real live 75+ guys on the roster, even if it's scout error drunkenness.

[MalcPow]

2051 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikpwy593fsk95fq/2051RtBraydenLand.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5153rqvpf50i39b/2051LbIsaacSwift.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dau8wk1gge06dhc/2051WrTyJalove.PNG?dl=1

Solid tackle. Good LB. Competent WR. We'll take it.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 12 49 49 2 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 1 16 34 2 yrs.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB RB 3 59 59 2 yrs.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 3 48 48 3 yrs.
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 4 33 35 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 8 56 56 2 yrs.
Booker, Terrence 484 TE FB 10 46 46 3 yrs.
Anthony, Emmitt 485 TE 10 27 27 2 yrs.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 1 41 50 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE FL 7 56 56 3 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 1 41 47 4 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 11 39 39 2 yrs.
Aguiar, Tyrus 582 SE 11 29 29 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 6 80 80 2 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 5 69 69 4 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG LG 10 47 47 2 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 3 19 39 2 yrs.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT RT 7 47 47 4 yrs.
##Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 6 36 36 2 yrs.
Land, Brayden 869 RT 1 32 64 4 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 11 50 50 3 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 8 81 81 1 yr.
Alcott, Owen 1015K 1 55 57 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 4 66 79 4 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE RDE 10 46 46 1 yr.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 2 45 59 3 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 4 80 80 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT LDT 7 67 67 2 yrs.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 4 46 47 1 yr.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 2 50 69 3 yrs.
##Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 9 32 32 1 yr.
Gerth, Victor 1358MLB MLB 3 70 70 2 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 5 62 62 3 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 12 52 52 2 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 5 50 50 2 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 6 46 46 2 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB WLB 1 45 70 4 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB SLB 3 70 70 2 yrs.
##Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 10 41 41 2 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 7 51 51 2 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB RCB 6 51 51 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 8 37 37 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB LCB 6 62 62 2 yrs.
##Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB 1 39 57 2 yrs.
##Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 1 30 55 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 8 29 29 2 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 5 66 66 4 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 7 64 64 2 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 2 50 50 3 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 5 40 40 1 yr.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 2 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 5
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $333,100,000
Cap Room: $2,400,000
Maximum for New Player: $3,290,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $3,420,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $365,120,000

This is actually at the end of the season. I forgot to do a Week 1 grab. I'll post our summary shortly. Richey AND the WRs sliding back in camp was the story of our roster heading into the season.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2051 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2051
Record 11-5
Winning Pct. .687
All-Time 286-241-1
Winning Pct. .542
Playoffs 38-7
Playoff Visits 17
Bowl Wins 9
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 241-92
Winning Pct. .723
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 19.4 32
Rushing Yards 100.8 21
Yards Per Carry 5.20 1
Pass Attempts 43.1 1
Completions 27.6 1
Completion Pct. 64.1 8
Passing Yards 283.3 2
Yards Per Attempt 6.57 16
Yards Per Catch 10.26 26
Total Yardage Gained 369.6 4
3rd Down Conversions 42.6 1
Points Per Game 26.8 1
Pass Rush Pct. 20.0 18
Pass Defense Pct. 50.4 19
Turnovers 28 29
Turnover Margin -6 23 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.2 20 (T)
Rushing Yards 84.7 1
Yards Per Carry 3.23 1
Pass Attempts 34.6 4
Completions 21.4 6
Completion Pct. 61.8 20
Passing Yards 244.4 19
Yards Per Attempt 7.07 29
Yards Per Catch 11.44 28
Total Yardage Gained 320.4 10
3rd Down Conversions 36.4 23
Points Per Game 21.1 16 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 19.5 14 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 42.8 5
Turnovers 22 16 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 26 at CDO 28
2 33 TOR 12
3 10 at FRE 30
4 11 at CHI 34
5 21 at KAN 10
6 26 MIN 13
7 24 CDO 21
8 30 at FBK 27
10 34 IOW 0
11 24 OAK 41
12 24 at HAR 27
13 36 CPC 16
14 35 ROC 10
15 24 FBK 17
16 31 at NPL 17
17 40 at OAK 35

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 646 424 4459 6.90 37 16 94.3
13 L. Lofberg QB 44 18 74 1.68 1 2 37.3
**Team --- 690 442 4533 6.57 38 18 90.3
$$Opp --- 553 342 3911 7.07 23 15 85.6

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
20 M. Saba RB 154 671 4.36 0 1
41 E. Villarreal RB 95 551 5.80 4 0
3 R. Richey QB 54 365 6.76 2 7
**Team --- 310 1612 5.20 6 21
$$Opp --- 419 1355 3.23 6 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
10 R. Replogle WR 187 113 1262 11.17 6.75 10 12
19 T. Jalove WR 119 77 549 7.13 4.61 9 9
17 M. Botta WR 115 75 808 10.77 7.03 3 4
82 T. Aguiar WR 74 49 433 8.84 5.85 4 6
26 J. Dennis TE 56 36 438 12.17 7.82 2 2
20 M. Saba RB 39 32 266 8.31 6.82 2 2
86 J. Flannery WR 61 32 455 14.22 7.46 1 2
84 T. Booker TE 22 17 223 13.12 10.14 1 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
58 V. Gerth ILB 115 34 0.0 0 1 14 73.7
31 S. Dole S 102 25 0.0 0 0 7 76.5
59 D. McKenzie OLB 76 37 2.0 3 1 5 76.5
44 C. Stringer CB 74 33 0.0 0 6 12 82.4
76 K. Harris DT 58 25 1.0 9 0 0 81.3
35 T. Riley S 47 17 0.0 0 1 2 75.2
70 K. Bradford DT 43 11 3.0 7 0 0 80.4
49 T. Reilly CB 41 13 0.0 0 2 5 78.8
36 B. McDonald CB 34 6 0.0 0 1 7 78.4
97 I. Swift OLB 31 3 0.0 1 1 1 74.5
98 T. Vance DE 27 18 4.5 13 0 0 81.1
50 T. Grice OLB 26 4 9.5 26 0 2 82.1
99 E. Taylor OLB 19 3 0.0 7 0 2 73.6
25 A. Carrillo S 18 2 0.0 0 0 4 78.8 

I think there's a fair amount here that could look promising, but it feels mostly as though we've lost the mildly explosive element that made us a dominant offense. We led the league in scoring, but the 26.8 ppg number is pretty pedestrian. On the flip side, the less explosive element made us more efficient as a ball control offense? Richey's personal completion percentage was 65.6%, far and away his best in a long career. Yards per completion the lowest in his career. Our longest passing play of the year was a 39 yard reception. That feels a tick flukey, but still, I think this is the end game of watching our receiving corps erode down into the 40s and below.

We look kind of bad defensively. The yardage and some of the totals come down with the offense slowing and possessions becoming less of an issue. We stopped the run. We were a bottom third team against the pass, maybe worse, with no separating performances on the defensive side of the ball.

DE Vance is somehow still showing as 66/79 with 7 dev. It's mocking me really.

We get a bye and actually appear to be the 1 seed in a conference where the other division winners all went 10-6. I do wonder if we're seeing too much general parity. That could be contributing to our playoff success. If we were running into a few very good teams every year in the playoffs, I think we'd have a very different track record. Instead, we're kind of facing the .500 type teams that got a couple good bounces and won their division without much separation. (It feels like that at least. Some quick clicking back makes this seem like potentially an issue but not a large one. It would be fun to see stretches of true dominance from an AI squad though.)

We will get smoked now that I'm talking this way, but it will be deserved.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2051 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division FREDERICK RED MENACE W, 44-16 60,900 Sunny, 33, 1 mph.
League TEXAS SHARKS W, 37-10 60,900 Sunny, 70, 2 mph.
Champ. vs Harlem Apollos L, 25-38 65,500 Rain, 39, 3 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 57,600
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

We play really well in the first two games. We get completely killed in the Bowl. It doesn't really matter, but Richey got pulled in the third quarter after throwing 3 picks and looking like crap. I would argue that our maximum setting for his playing time in the game plan probably means he should stay in there, but sure, yeah, get the undrafted rookie backup some Bowl reps. We deserved our fate.

[MalcPow]

WR Replogle is a 2nd Team All Pro. CB Curtis Stringer, who had 6 picks, sneaks onto the 2nd Team as well.

QB Richey is the League MVP. He is not 1st or 2nd Team QB. He is not the OPOY. I don't track this sort of thing that closely, but that stands out for me at least in my easily retrievable memory. Chalk one up for the reputation vote. It is his seventh MVP award.

He's at 57,010 passing yards. 61,655 is the Brett Favre Award Steam Achievement we are basically chasing at this point. I still think it's pretty much there for us, but I had sort of assumed he'd break through that mark next season. 4600+ is definitely not a lock with where we're trending. And next year will be his 13th season. I think he'd come back, but we're suddenly at least in a mildly plausible scenario where he takes another -7 in camp and walks away.

We also need to feed Mercury Botta if he comes back next year as well. He's falling off a cliff, playing the year at 39/39 but he's got a look at 1300 career catches if we force it. (He's sitting at 1126 through eleven seasons.)

It feels like we've got two more years of chasing the dying chapters of our stat whore guys. I think I'm ready to flip the gameplan around and try something fresh at that point.

[MalcPow]

WR Tyrus Aguiar retires. He's got 5 rings and 4 1st/2nd Team All Pro years. He didn't quite get to 10k receiving yards and ended with 835 catches. He had a little resurgence for us last year with 49 catches but he was sub-30 on the overall rating. I think it's probably a HOF career.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 13 48 48 1 yr.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 2 17 34 1 yr.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB 4 59 59 1 yr.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Adamo, Brandon 238 RB 5 34 35 ---
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 9 56 56 1 yr.
Booker, Terrence 484 TE 11 46 46 2 yrs.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 2 42 50 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 8 56 56 2 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 2 41 47 3 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 12 39 39 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 7 80 80 1 yr.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 6 70 70 3 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG 11 47 47 1 yr.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 4 19 40 1 yr.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 8 47 47 3 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 7 35 35 1 yr.
Land, Brayden 869 RT 2 32 64 3 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 12 50 50 2 yrs.
Mueller, Pedro 911 P 9 80 80 ---
Alcott, Owen 1015K 2 57 57 1 yr.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 5 66 66 3 yrs.
Mills, Devin 1193LDE 11 46 46 ---
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 3 45 59 2 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 5 80 80 2 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 8 67 67 1 yr.
Clayton, Doug 1292LDT 5 47 47 ---
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 3 50 69 2 yrs.
Lynn, Kurt 1290RDT 10 32 32 ---
Gerth, Victor 1358MLB 4 70 70 1 yr.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 6 62 62 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 13 52 52 1 yr.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 6 50 50 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 7 46 46 1 yr.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 4 70 70 1 yr.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB 2 47 70 3 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 11 41 41 1 yr.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 8 51 51 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 7 51 51 1 yr.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 9 37 37 1 yr.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 7 62 62 1 yr.
Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB 2 39 57 1 yr.
Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 2 30 55 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 9 29 29 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 6 66 66 3 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 8 64 64 1 yr.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 3 51 51 2 yrs.
Carrillo, Andy 1625FS 6 40 40 ---
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 3 20 20 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 42
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 42

Salary Cap: $339,800,000
Cap Room: ($13,820,000)
Maximum for New Player: ($25,770,000)
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,860,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $163,080,000

We're going to lose some guys to FA this year. We're also in something heading toward cap hell. We'll need to throw a few cap outs into the mix to keep the group together. I don't think we're in a place where I need to go back into the accounting weeds of the first few years of this career, but we're definitely up against the cap now.

The lack of WR talent is obvious. We're fading or thinning at a bunch of spots though. The OL feels perpetually meh, and we might have to play some of these low end tackles we've been hoarding when RT Rayburn finally dies. The DL is suddenly expensive. DE Vance is suddenly a 66/66 with 7 dev. We might have to call in Columbo, a priest, Holmes/Watson, etc, to crack that one.

Rome isn't quite burning but it might be boring. We'll try to find some additions and run most of this crew back.

[QuikSand]

Boring > Burning when it comes to career threats...

[MalcPow]

2052 Draft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpjl2jp9tm77yeu/2052LbMercuryShanks.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/77aaspdpqd60w3j/2052WrShermanAshe.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jusrilwjnbakah1/2052DeJrReagor.PNG?dl=1

I know, I know. I'm in on Shanks though. I think he's our next great pass rusher and he's not as one-dimensional as Grice. Cool name too.

The WR is another competent piece. Chasing need a little. Same with the DE, we're suddenly light on bigger bodies.

[MalcPow]

Huh. So tackle Harry Abrams is suspended for off-field conduct. He's started for us at one or both spots for the last seven seasons. If RT Rayburn takes a hit here in year 12, we will be on shaky footing. We took a tackle, RT Brayden Land, in the draft last year and he's in line to play a ton now no matter what happens.

Our two very good 4th year LBs are holding out in the last year of their contracts. I think we have the cash to extend one and it will probably be WLB McKenzie. I guess we're back to the part of the program where we let 70/70 LBs walk away.

Pre-Season snapshot:


Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 13 42 42 3 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 2 20 35 1 yr.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Saba, Miguel 220 RB RB 4 59 59 1 yr.
Ackerman, Perry 245 RB 1 38 55 2 yrs.
Booker, Terrence 484 TE FB 11 41 41 2 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 9 56 56 3 yrs.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 1 26 42 2 yrs.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 2 46 50 1 yr.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL 1 34 46 4 yrs.
Gelis, Tre 582 FL 1 22 45 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 12 37 37 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE FL 8 55 55 3 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 2 47 47 3 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 7 78 78 3 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C LG 6 71 71 5 yrs.
King, Mason 751 RG RG 11 42 42 2 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 4 23 39 1 yr.
$$Abrams, Harry 853 LT 8 49 49 3 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 7 30 30 1 yr.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 12 49 49 2 yrs.
Land, Brayden 869 RT RT 2 34 56 3 yrs.
Cote, Frank 911 P 1 51 66 2 yrs.
Levens, Calvin 1002K 1 41 61 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 5 66 66 3 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE RDE 3 51 60 2 yrs.
Reagor, J.R. 1196RDE 1 39 57 4 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT LDT 8 60 60 4 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 5 78 78 2 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 3 56 69 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 13 42 42 2 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB MLB 6 53 53 2 yrs.
$$Gerth, Victor 1358MLB 4 71 71 1 yr.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 7 45 45 3 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 6 50 50 1 yr.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB 1 39 68 4 yrs.
Pelletier, Troy 1494WLB 11 30 30 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB SLB 4 70 70 4 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB WLB 2 56 69 3 yrs.
##Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 9 35 35 1 yr.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB RCB 8 41 41 3 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 7 51 51 3 yrs.
##Erickson, Kenneth 1543LCB 1 31 53 2 yrs.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 9 28 28 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB LCB 7 61 61 3 yrs.
##Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 2 35 54 1 yr.
Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB 2 46 58 1 yr.
##Crawford, Tyrell 1532RCB 1 29 52 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 8 64 64 3 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 6 65 65 3 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 3 20 20 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 52
Inactive: 4
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $339,800,000
Cap Room: $2,370,000
Maximum for New Player: $3,280,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,870,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $320,590,000

Richey goes -7. Ok. Some of our LBs start fading too. MLB Blackwell is supposed to cover for losing the holdout Gerth, but he drops.

WR Mercury Botta kind of holds in at 37/37 and we've got him slated to get targets.

Eh. We've got questions. Richey fading. Should have some things going for us to break our fall a little.

[MalcPow]

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2052 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2052
Record 14-2
Winning Pct. .875
All-Time 300-243-1
Winning Pct. .552
Playoffs 40-8
Playoff Visits 18
Bowl Wins 9
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 257-95
Winning Pct. .730
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.8 32
Rushing Yards 105.1 19
Yards Per Carry 4.83 3
Pass Attempts 43.9 1
Completions 28.1 1
Completion Pct. 64.0 7
Passing Yards 300.2 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.83 5 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.67 14
Total Yardage Gained 395.4 2
3rd Down Conversions 37.3 10
Points Per Game 29.2 1
Pass Rush Pct. 22.4 4
Pass Defense Pct. 59.5 5
Turnovers 22 17 (T)
Turnover Margin -1 16 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.8 4 (T)
Rushing Yards 83.1 1
Yards Per Carry 3.49 2
Pass Attempts 39.1 28
Completions 22.5 19
Completion Pct. 57.6 3
Passing Yards 225.8 9
Yards Per Attempt 5.78 3
Yards Per Catch 10.03 7
Total Yardage Gained 296.1 1
3rd Down Conversions 31.2 6
Points Per Game 18.3 5
Pass Rush Pct. 15.8 2
Pass Defense Pct. 44.4 8
Turnovers 21 14 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 37 at FBK 24
2 19 TUC 16
3 23 MIN 29
4 26 at TEX 13
5 36 at CDO 31
6 37 MOO 27
8 19 FBK 26
9 20 at OBX 12
10 20 CPC 10
11 27 at OAK 24
12 45 AUG 14
13 20 at FRE 17
14 38 at SNP 7
15 29 OAK 23
16 30 at ORL 10
17 41 CDO 10

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 701 449 4800 6.85 34 16 90.6
**Team --- 703 450 4803 6.83 34 16 90.5
$$Opp --- 625 360 3612 5.78 16 13 74.0

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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20 M. Saba RB 174 839 4.82 5 4
41 E. Villarreal RB 108 473 4.38 2 0
3 R. Richey QB 62 326 5.26 4 5
**Team --- 348 1681 4.83 12 14
$$Opp --- 381 1329 3.49 8 16

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
17 M. Botta WR 208 142 1242 8.75 5.97 10 11
10 R. Replogle WR 175 105 1423 13.55 8.13 9 5
19 T. Jalove WR 85 52 425 8.17 5.00 6 4
86 J. Flannery WR 67 37 569 15.38 8.49 2 0
26 J. Dennis TE 56 36 494 13.72 8.82 2 11
84 T. Booker TE 33 25 254 10.16 7.70 2 2
20 M. Saba RB 24 19 149 7.84 6.21 0 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
59 D. McKenzie OLB 94 26 2.0 4 1 5 75.6
31 S. Dole S 89 25 0.0 0 1 9 77.1
35 T. Riley S 75 19 0.0 0 1 11 77.6
44 C. Stringer CB 70 15 0.0 0 3 17 81.2
76 K. Harris DT 56 15 3.5 11 0 1 82.0
91 C. Blackwell ILB 54 15 0.0 0 1 10 77.5
70 K. Bradford DT 43 26 6.0 12 0 0 81.2
58 V. Gerth ILB 43 13 0.0 1 0 4 72.5
49 T. Reilly CB 41 12 0.0 0 3 13 83.3
36 B. McDonald CB 33 10 0.0 1 2 6 80.4
98 T. Vance DE 29 11 7.5 16 0 1 81.2
97 I. Swift OLB 25 10 2.0 1 0 1 76.0
50 T. Grice OLB 23 7 5.5 35 0 2 80.8
99 E. Taylor OLB 22 12 3.0 3 1 5 80.4 

First off, the important stuff... Richey threw for 4800 yards and hit the number he needed in Week 17. :banana:

We may have overdone it a little with the "get Botta some targets" approach as he had 142 catches. 5.97 ypt makes that look a little inefficient, but I'm going to take the 68%+ completion percentage and move on. He's at 1268 catches now and in really good position to get over 1300.

There's a lot here that makes this look like our best team in quite awhile. Richey cleaned up some turnover stuff in the second half of the season and we're riding a nine game winning streak.

The defense looks much improved. We've continued to tweak there, but I'm generally of the mind we had better offense or something else going. The sack bonanzas seem to have fallen off the last two years. We slimmed Grice's formations a tick over that time, and he's still been very productive on hurries etc. Fewer sacks though. Something for me to think on if I dare.

Maybe we're good. We look kind of good.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2052 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division MINNESOTA MINERS W, 48-13 60,900 Sunny, 56, 7 mph.
League FREDERICK RED MENACE L, 30-35 60,900 Sunny, 72, 9 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 60,100
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

Frederick nips us in the Conference round. We were inside their 20 with a chance to win it but came up short. No tears. A lot of good stuff in what felt like it could be a total dud year.

[MalcPow]

Richey wins another MVP, and he gets OPOY and 1st Team QB this year as well.

WR Mercury Botta makes a triumphant return to the Awards page with a 1st Team selection. WR Replogle is a 2nd Teamer. Our UDR kicker Calvin Levens sneaks onto the 2nd Team as well. Nice debut.

[MalcPow]

G Mason King and LB Troy Pelletier retire. King has been a stalwart for us. Our one truly successful C to another spot position change. He was a 60+ G for us for almost the entirety of his 11 year career before dipping at the end. He was a starter for us that whole stretch and won 4 rings. Pelletier had a little run as a big time part of our edge rush and then just kind of kept coming back the last four years in a marginal role. He won four rings as well.

QB Richey and WR Botta are back. So is LB Thomas Rhodes, who is another of our once defensive centerpieces who hasn't done much in about four years. It's cool to see him come back. He and Richey were in that first class of Dragons. They're both coming back for season 14. I like the symmetry there, even if I'm probably ultimately rooting for Richey to outlast him.

Richey is a little over a thousand passing yards shy of the career record in this universe. There's basically zero chance we don't get him there unless he loses multiple appendages.

Botta put himself in some kind of outside chance position to get to the career receptions mark if we force it as well. 1397 is the current record and he's at 1268. I would have written him off but 129 doesn't seem so far-fetched coming off a 142 catch season. We're definitely stat-chasing if he gets there. I don't really love any of our next generation of WRs yet, but one or two are ready to take the baton if we're being impartial. (We're not.)

The Frederick team that beat us in the conference final has been the most consistently successful AI team. The best overall record at 332-208-4, a .613 winning percentage. They've been to the playoffs 21 times and won 2 Bowls. They lost the Bowl last year to Toronto. Not surprisingly, their success has been riding pretty heavily on a smooth transition between two good QBs and 12+ year runs with each of them. It's probably at least another 15 years of similar play by us to get to the top of the Team Performances board.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 14 42 42 2 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 3 22 35 ---
Saba, Miguel 220 RB 5 59 59 ---
Ackerman, Perry 245 RB 2 38 55 1 yr.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 5 48 48 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 10 56 56 2 yrs.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 2 28 42 1 yr.
Booker, Terrence 484 TE 12 41 41 1 yr.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL 2 38 46 3 yrs.
Gelis, Tre 582 FL 2 24 45 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 9 55 55 2 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 13 37 37 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 8 78 78 2 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 7 71 71 4 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 5 24 38 ---
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 9 48 48 2 yrs.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 8 30 30 ---
Land, Brayden 869 RT 3 44 56 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT 13 49 49 1 yr.
Cote, Frank 911 P 2 57 57 1 yr.
Levens, Calvin 1002K 2 57 60 1 yr.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 6 66 66 2 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 4 57 60 1 yr.
Reagor, J.R. 1196RDE 2 39 57 3 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 6 78 78 1 yr.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 9 60 60 3 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 4 61 69 1 yr.
Gerth, Victor 1358MLB 5 71 71 ---
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 7 53 53 1 yr.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 14 42 42 1 yr.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB 2 43 68 3 yrs.
Taylor, Edward 1499SLB 7 50 50 ---
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 8 45 45 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 5 70 70 3 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB 3 69 69 2 yrs.
Erickson, Kenneth 1543LCB 2 31 53 1 yr.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 8 51 51 2 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 9 41 41 2 yrs.
Taliancich, Autry 1548LCB 10 34 34 ---
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 8 61 61 2 yrs.
Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB 3 46 58 3 yrs.
Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 3 35 54 2 yrs.
Crawford, Tyrell 1532RCB 2 29 52 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 10 28 28 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 7 65 65 2 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 9 64 64 2 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 4 50 50 1 yr.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 4 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 43
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 43

Salary Cap: $342,600,000
Cap Room: $21,130,000
Maximum for New Player: $8,980,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,370,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $232,630,000

Offseason look. We're going to lose RB Miguel Saba and MLB Victor Gerth. Gerth held out, and we sort of cut his playing time just by virtue of knowing he'd be leaving and wanting to see if other guys could handle things. RB Saba has been really productive in an offense that really wasn't all that RB-friendly in the past. I don't know how that will shake out. Is he a special talent? Right place right time with some of our other good things going? Unfortunately, we're going to find out.

[MalcPow]

2053 Draft

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjgdfpe85hdxjd1/2053LgKerryDiaz.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/auacfkxus8km5ac/2053LbSilasYoung.PNG?dl=1

He done did it again. We need the DE bodies, especially as a run stopper with some of these edge rush one trick ponies we're obsessed with. Adams looks like if nothing else he can line up at all of our DL spots and help balance our group.

I'm worried about the OL perpetually, but with King retiring I'm chasing a really developed G in Kerry Diaz here. He needs to start immediately. As long as he's a 50+ future guy who is very developed, we're happy.

And I just get underwhelmed by the skill talent at these spots. An LB named Silas Young who can rush the passer. A year after we took another one named Mercury Shanks? I mean these are COOL names. These are LINEBACKERS. I start drinking in the MID TO LATE AFTERNOON/MORNING.

[MalcPow]

Mercury Botta is holding out. 142 catches. 1st Team All Pro. (You thought I was dead.) And he really just wants some courtesy year tacked on. By all means big fella. We want you back. Stay as long as you like. I don't even care that you're already booked on a non-refundable flight to -8CampCrashCity. It is all good. Come chase that receptions record with us.

SS Todd Riley holds out too. We have a little money this year so he gets paid as well.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 14 41 41 3 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 3 27 35 1 yr.
Adamo, Brandon 240 RB 6 28 28 1 yr.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB RB 5 49 49 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Perry 245 RB 2 35 47 1 yr.
Booker, Terrence 484 TE FB 12 33 33 1 yr.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 10 51 51 2 yrs.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 2 33 42 1 yr.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL 2 42 45 3 yrs.
##Gelis, Tre 582 FL 2 25 42 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE SE 13 29 29 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE FL 9 54 54 2 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 8 79 79 2 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 7 70 70 4 yrs.
Diaz, Kerry 765 LG LG 1 46 64 4 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 5 21 30 1 yr.
Abrams, Harry 853 LT 9 42 42 2 yrs.
##Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 8 21 21 2 yrs.
Rayburn, Lester 873 RT LT 13 45 45 2 yrs.
Land, Brayden 869 RT RT 3 54 58 2 yrs.
Cote, Frank 911 P 2 56 56 1 yr.
Levens, Calvin 1002K 2 60 60 3 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 6 66 66 2 yrs.
Adams, T.J. 1190LDE 1 36 52 4 yrs.
##Hudson, Jason 1194LDE 1 31 55 2 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 4 61 61 2 yrs.
Reagor, J.R. 1196RDE 2 45 59 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 9 61 61 3 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 6 78 78 4 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT LDT 4 67 70 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Thomas 1352MLB 14 34 34 2 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB MLB 7 54 54 4 yrs.
Grice, Terrance 1450SLB 8 33 33 2 yrs.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB RDE 2 42 69 3 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB SLB 5 70 70 3 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB WLB 3 69 69 2 yrs.
Young, Silas 1499WLB 1 30 45 4 yrs.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 9 38 38 2 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 8 43 43 2 yrs.
##Erickson, Kenneth 1543LCB 2 35 53 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 10 28 28 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB LCB 8 57 57 2 yrs.
Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 3 41 57 2 yrs.
Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB RCB 3 53 57 3 yrs.
##Crawford, Tyrell 1532RCB 2 34 52 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 9 64 64 4 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 7 66 66 2 yrs.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 4 50 50 1 yr.
##Mare, Jason 1638SS 1 24 55 2 yrs.
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 4 20 20 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 52
Inactive: 6
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $342,600,000
Cap Room: $12,410,000
Maximum for New Player: $13,330,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,370,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $321,100,000

Botta literally goes -8 which means the little men in the computer are reading my posts again. Not good.

We look competent. The rookie Guard looks good enough to do what we're asking him to do. I'm also blown away by RT(LT) Lester Rayburn who has basically held serve as this 50ish dude with a big pass blocking bar for 13 seasons.

I think we're going to force feed Botta until the early results are bad. Cohesion. Let's go.

Mercury Shanks is getting his chance to be the RDE of the future.

DE Tim Vance is a completely WTFable 66/66 with 7 dev still. He's in year 6 with 80 games and 67 starts under his belt. He has 11 intelligence? He has DEVIN MCCOURTY, the greatest DL mind of his generation, as a Head Coach and still can't find his way to full dev. I don't want to understand. 76% Developed on the player card. He's an asshole and slated to play quite a bit.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2053 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2053
Record 13-3
Winning Pct. .812
All-Time 313-246-1
Winning Pct. .559
Playoffs 41-9
Playoff Visits 19
Bowl Wins 9
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 271-99
Winning Pct. .732
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 18.9 32
Rushing Yards 97.4 23 (T)
Yards Per Carry 5.15 2
Pass Attempts 43.3 1
Completions 26.6 2
Completion Pct. 61.5 14 (T)
Passing Yards 299.6 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.92 11 (T)
Yards Per Catch 11.25 7
Total Yardage Gained 379.8 2
3rd Down Conversions 37.4 8
Points Per Game 26.9 2
Pass Rush Pct. 21.3 10
Pass Defense Pct. 54.2 12
Turnovers 36 32
Turnover Margin -19 32

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.6 5 (T)
Rushing Yards 76.1 3
Yards Per Carry 3.22 1
Pass Attempts 40.4 32
Completions 24.3 28
Completion Pct. 60.2 10 (T)
Passing Yards 255.0 25
Yards Per Attempt 6.32 10
Yards Per Catch 10.49 13
Total Yardage Gained 314.5 5
3rd Down Conversions 31.6 6 (T)
Points Per Game 16.9 2
Pass Rush Pct. 21.2 23 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.6 13
Turnovers 17 25 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 22 at OAK 16
2 17 at SAO 41
3 38 MIN 23
4 30 BKN 13
5 27 at WIL 10
6 27 at FRE 3
7 21 at CDO 9
8 16 CHE 28
10 41 FBK 12
11 30 OAK 9
12 20 at HOU 13
13 31 at TEX 19
14 17 AKR 9
15 33 CDO 15
16 38 FTW 28
17 22 at FBK 23

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 669 412 4659 6.96 34 21 86.3
**Team --- 693 426 4793 6.92 34 21 85.8
$$Opp --- 646 389 4080 6.32 20 14 79.8

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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45 P. Ackerman RB 166 781 4.70 5 2
41 E. Villarreal RB 84 449 5.35 3 4
3 R. Richey QB 52 313 6.02 2 7
**Team --- 303 1559 5.15 11 24
$$Opp --- 378 1218 3.22 4 11

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
17 M. Botta WR 170 99 929 9.38 5.46 6 9
10 R. Replogle WR 144 97 1267 13.06 8.80 9 6
14 S. Ashe WR 147 86 869 10.10 5.91 8 9
86 J. Flannery WR 108 59 813 13.78 7.53 8 3
26 J. Dennis TE 41 29 345 11.90 8.41 1 4
41 E. Villarreal RB 29 22 238 10.82 8.21 1 1
42 C. Patton TE 23 16 174 10.88 7.57 2 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
59 D. McKenzie OLB 105 40 1.5 2 2 6 75.1
91 C. Blackwell ILB 102 36 0.0 0 2 19 79.2
31 S. Dole S 81 39 0.0 0 3 7 80.6
44 C. Stringer CB 74 15 0.0 0 0 19 77.3
97 I. Swift OLB 65 14 4.0 2 1 7 72.0
34 B. Byzewski CB 65 12 0.0 0 2 8 77.1
35 T. Riley S 62 27 0.0 0 1 6 77.1
78 L. Brunell DT 52 19 3.5 16 0 0 80.4
76 K. Harris DT 35 19 4.5 8 0 1 82.5
98 T. Vance DE 34 10 9.5 14 0 1 81.8
93 M. Shanks OLB 32 15 8.0 19 0 0 81.5
49 T. Reilly CB 29 3 0.0 0 1 8 80.6 

13-3. Check that turnover differential. What in the ever loving hell are we looking at here?

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons 2053 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Division FAIRBANKS NORTHSTARS W, 25-3 60,900 Rain, 47, 3 mph.
League WILLIAMSBURG COLONIALS W, 30-17 60,900 Sunny, 37, 1 mph.
Champ. vs Tucker Tigers L, 13-47 51,300 Sunny, 64, 2 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 60,800
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

I thought we had it going again for a minute there.

Tucker in the Bowl. :banghead:

[MalcPow]

We were completely shut out of the Awards.

We were apparently not very good despite going 13-3.

Mercury Botta is at 1367 catches and 30 short of the career record in this universe. We dialed down his targets in the second half of the season because he was at 4.7 ypt in the first half. And that's below average. He might come back to break the record. He's sub-30 overall by our grades at this point.

Our pass rush took a step back this year. Mercury Shanks got outsacked by Tim "Can't Ad" Vance. The defense was a quite good 16.9 points allowed/game. I'm a bit mystified by the insane turnover situation.

Richey seemed to lose a little. The "running game" didn't skip a beat after losing Saba.

We were a weird good team that got stomped in the Bowl. That's my story.

[MalcPow]

Lot of retirements.

LB Thomas Rhodes is finally done. RIP Original Dragon.

RT Lester Rayburn goes out exactly as he played every other year.

LT Harry Abrams hangs them up after a lot of starts and a weird final chapter with a suspension/bench role.

LB Terrance Grice. He burned hot. Still got to 93 sacks even after we gutted his playing time this year. Career PRPct of 9.5%. Pretty good man. 7th All Time in Blocked Passes. Ok. 4 times on that All Pro list. Money. DPOY in 2049. 2 Rings. I mean there's a chance he turns this 8 year career into a mustard jacket. We could have squeezed a little more here. I thought Shanks was ready.

Everyone else comes back. Botta is shameless.

[QuikSand]

I thought we had it going again for a minute there.

Tucker in the Bowl. :banghead:

#SameOldStory

[MalcPow]

#SameOldStory

*shakes fist*

[MIJB#19]

Everyone else comes back. Botta is shameless.Give him the 30 catches and be done with him. 5 or 6 games should be sufficient, or just 5 targets per game.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB 15 41 41 2 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 4 28 35 ---
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 6 49 49 1 yr.
Ackerman, Perry 245 RB 3 39 47 ---
Adamo, Brandon 240 RB 7 28 28 ---
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE 11 51 51 1 yr.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 3 37 42 ---
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 4 51 51 1 yr.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Gelis, Tre 582 FL 3 25 42 1 yr.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE 10 54 54 1 yr.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 4 47 47 1 yr.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 14 29 29 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 9 80 80 1 yr.
Jennings, Barry 655 C 8 69 69 3 yrs.
Diaz, Kerry 765 LG 2 55 65 3 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 6 21 29 ---
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 9 21 21 1 yr.
Land, Brayden 869 RT 4 59 59 1 yr.
Cote, Frank 911 P 3 57 57 ---
Levens, Calvin 1002K 3 61 61 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE 7 66 66 1 yr.
Hudson, Jason 1194LDE 2 31 55 1 yr.
Adams, T.J. 1190LDE 2 36 52 3 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE 5 61 61 1 yr.
Reagor, J.R. 1196RDE 3 45 59 2 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 7 78 78 3 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 10 61 61 2 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 5 72 72 1 yr.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB 8 54 54 3 yrs.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB 3 42 69 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB 6 70 70 2 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB 4 69 69 1 yr.
Young, Silas 1499WLB 2 33 45 3 yrs.
Erickson, Kenneth 1543LCB 3 35 53 ---
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 9 43 43 1 yr.
McDonald, Buddy 1536LCB 10 38 38 1 yr.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 9 57 57 1 yr.
Shelton, Deion 1523RCB 4 42 57 1 yr.
Byzewski, Brody 1534RCB 4 57 57 2 yrs.
Crawford, Tyrell 1532RCB 3 34 52 ---
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 11 28 28 1 yr.
Dole, Skip 1631SS 8 66 66 1 yr.
Riley, Todd 1635SS 10 64 64 3 yrs.
Mare, Jason 1638SS 2 24 55 1 yr.
Ford, Christian 1629SS 5 50 50 ---
Vaughn, Mercury 654 LS 5 20 20 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 37
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 37

Salary Cap: $345,400,000
Cap Room: $49,650,000
Maximum for New Player: $37,490,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,530,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $138,970,000

It's been coming for awhile (so long we kind of forgot about it), but we're finally looking at a complete void at LT. I'm convinced that spot really matters, and not just for a heavy passing team. We'll see how we patch that one and if we're able to weather it.

Richey in year 15. Botta chasing his 30 catches. The last year before we move into our new stadium. Ch-ch-ch-changes. (Vance is 76% developed.)

[MalcPow]

Give him the 30 catches and be done with him. 5 or 6 games should be sufficient, or just 5 targets per game.

Yeah, I think so. It's been fun.

[MalcPow]

2054 Draft

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/mulrxte5lnlaygz/2054SsBuckyGillette.PNG?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/idqy63xssfooxta/2054LtQuentinAckerman.PNG?dl=1

We knew we had to take at least one LT. Ackerman was the guy most ready to play. I think there's a UDR or two we'll pursue as well. DT St John looks like he might be really good in limited use. And the safety is a potential CB convert we're toying with. Just a huge guy we might play at RCB and see what happens.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Richey, Ryan 103 QB QB 15 35 35 2 yrs.
Lofberg, Leland 113 QB 4 32 35 2 yrs.
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB RB 6 48 48 3 yrs.
Lane, Troy 224 RB 5 40 40 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Perry 245 RB 3 42 44 3 yrs.
Dennis, Jeffrey 426 TE TE 11 45 45 2 yrs.
Burton, Devin 487 TE FB 8 49 49 2 yrs.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 3 43 43 3 yrs.
Singleton, Les 447 TE 1 28 44 2 yrs.
Flannery, Jumbo 586 FL 4 50 50 2 yrs.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL FL 3 46 46 2 yrs.
##Gelis, Tre 582 FL 3 25 36 1 yr.
##Cornyn, Abraham 588 FL 1 27 49 2 yrs.
Botta, Mercury 517 SE 14 26 26 2 yrs.
Replogle, Rich 510 SE SE 10 44 44 3 yrs.
Jalove, Ty 519 SE 4 48 48 3 yrs.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C C 9 80 80 3 yrs.
Jennings, Barry 655 C RG 8 66 66 3 yrs.
Diaz, Kerry 765 LG LG 2 62 62 3 yrs.
Antonius, Jalen 764 RG 6 20 25 1 yr.
Brandon, Calvin 877 LT 9 18 18 2 yrs.
##Saucier, Richard 867 LT 1 16 45 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Quentin 866 LT LT 1 38 49 4 yrs.
Land, Brayden 869 RT RT 4 53 53 5 yrs.
##Cole, Emmett 879 RT 1 26 39 2 yrs.
Cote, Frank 911 P 3 66 66 3 yrs.
Levens, Calvin 1002K 3 70 70 2 yrs.
Vance, Tim 1198LDE LDE 7 60 60 4 yrs.
Adams, T.J. 1190LDE 2 41 52 3 yrs.
Berry, Cris 1172RDE RDE 5 61 61 1 yr.
Reagor, J.R. 1196RDE 3 50 57 2 yrs.
Bradford, Kenny 1270LDT 10 52 52 2 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT RDT 7 77 77 3 yrs.
St. John, Daquan 1274LDT 1 33 74 4 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT LDT 5 71 71 5 yrs.
Blackwell, Cedric 1391MLB MLB 8 53 53 3 yrs.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB 3 42 69 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1459WLB SLB 6 69 69 2 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB WLB 4 71 71 4 yrs.
Young, Silas 1499WLB 2 40 45 3 yrs.
##Mayes, Abel 1454WLB 1 35 46 2 yrs.
Reilly, Toenails 1549LCB 9 39 39 3 yrs.
Shelton, Deion 1523LCB 4 46 58 2 yrs.
Byzewski, Brody 1534LCB LCB 4 57 57 2 yrs.
##Erickson, Kenneth 1543LCB 3 38 53 2 yrs.
##Crawford, Tyrell 1532LCB 3 39 52 1 yr.
Klicker, Tristan 1527RCB 11 23 23 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 9 52 52 3 yrs.
Gillette, Bucky 1528RCB RCB 1 27 46 4 yrs.
Riley, Todd 1635SS FS 10 65 65 3 yrs.
Dole, Skip 1631SS SS 8 65 65 3 yrs.
Mare, Jason 1638SS 2 28 56 2 yrs.
Paulson, Francisco 651 LS 4 15 15 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $345,400,000
Cap Room: $16,490,000
Maximum for New Player: $17,410,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $8,910,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $1,080,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $310,990,000

Getting back in. Not a bad thing to squint our way back into this roster and hopefully look to shake it up a little after this year with some retirements.

Here's the group before Week 1. WR Botta is gonna get some targets early. We'll see where we go with some of the other spots. I think we're a solid team. Richey dropping to 35/35 and Botta to 26/26 is a definite storyline.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2054 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2054
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 322-253-1
Winning Pct. .559
Playoffs 43-10
Playoff Visits 20
Bowl Wins 9
Head Coach Devin McCourty
Record 282-107
Winning Pct. .724
Off. Coord. D. Hopkins
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 17.9 32
Rushing Yards 81.5 30
Yards Per Carry 4.56 6
Pass Attempts 45.3 1
Completions 27.3 1
Completion Pct. 60.4 16
Passing Yards 287.5 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.35 14 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.53 14 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 352.6 10
3rd Down Conversions 34.9 15
Points Per Game 26.6 4
Pass Rush Pct. 19.4 23
Pass Defense Pct. 53.4 17
Turnovers 37 31
Turnover Margin -9 27

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.1 4
Rushing Yards 89.1 2
Yards Per Carry 3.70 5
Pass Attempts 40.4 27
Completions 25.2 32
Completion Pct. 62.3 28
Passing Yards 264.8 29
Yards Per Attempt 6.55 25
Yards Per Catch 10.51 19
Total Yardage Gained 341.8 20
3rd Down Conversions 28.8 1
Points Per Game 20.1 13
Pass Rush Pct. 19.1 9
Pass Defense Pct. 56.6 20
Turnovers 28 8 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 38 CDO 10
2 44 MAA 10
3 24 CHE 22
4 23 at CHI 27
5 34 at ARI 33
6 26 MIN 20
7 24 at CDO 10
8 17 FBK 28
10 45 IOW 0
11 30 at OAK 13
12 24 BOR 10
13 17 at MOO 25
14 24 at GOT 31
15 23 at FBK 27
16 10 at PAR 30
17 23 OAK 26
$$WC at CPC

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
3 R. Richey QB 706 428 4528 6.41 37 25 82.0
**Team --- 724 437 4600 6.35 39 25 82.4
$$Opp --- 647 403 4236 6.55 17 17 79.1

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
41 E. Villarreal RB 115 362 3.15 3 0
45 P. Ackerman RB 72 315 4.38 1 1
24 T. Lane RB 48 291 6.06 0 0
3 R. Richey QB 47 318 6.77 0 8
**Team --- 286 1304 4.56 5 18
$$Opp --- 385 1425 3.70 8 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
10 R. Replogle WR 201 130 1476 11.35 7.34 11 12
86 J. Flannery WR 134 84 853 10.15 6.37 7 4
14 S. Ashe WR 138 76 933 12.28 6.76 6 8
17 M. Botta WR 83 43 299 6.95 3.60 4 11
26 J. Dennis TE 56 28 393 14.04 7.02 1 2
41 E. Villarreal RB 35 27 152 5.63 4.34 3 0
87 D. Burton TE 32 22 280 12.73 8.75 1 2
19 T. Jalove WR 27 16 115 7.19 4.26 3 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
91 C. Blackwell ILB 125 32 0.0 1 2 11 72.2
59 D. McKenzie OLB 95 34 5.5 2 1 4 71.2
31 S. Dole S 88 29 0.0 1 3 15 82.2
34 B. Byzewski CB 79 20 0.0 1 1 17 79.2
97 I. Swift OLB 63 14 1.0 4 2 5 76.9
76 K. Harris DT 56 18 2.5 7 0 1 81.8
35 T. Riley S 55 21 0.0 0 1 12 80.3
78 L. Brunell DT 54 17 5.0 10 0 1 81.3
44 C. Stringer CB 40 6 0.0 0 2 8 77.1
98 T. Vance DE 36 18 10.5 20 0 0 81.3
49 T. Reilly CB 27 5 0.5 0 3 4 80.4
28 B. Gillette CB 20 3 0.0 0 0 3 77.7
93 M. Shanks OLB 17 14 6.5 13 2 2 84.5 

We close the year with 5 straight losses. I have a hard time believing it's coincidence. Botta finally got the career receptions record and we were sitting at 9-2. I took him out of some formations and we went to crap. Cohesion?

Botta ended this year with an insane 43 catches and 3.6 ypt. We put him back into his early season slots for the last game of the year. We still lost. This is a weird team.

Richey got to 70k passing yards this year and over 500 passing TDs. Cool milestones. He might be a corpse propped up by a decent system at this point.

The D stinks. No identity. No standouts. We've tried to force Mercury Shanks into a star role and he hasn't come through. He seems to be developing slowly as well. DE Vance or my install is obviously broken too, he's still at 76% developed.

I'm looking forward to flipping it around here. It's time.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons 2054 Playoff Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
W. Card at Capital City Blues L, 24-31 83,200 Sunny, 59, 10 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 58,600
Stadium Capacity: 60,900

One and done for the boys. The defense held pretty well. We didn't give up a point in the second half other than a pair of strip sack fumble return TDs.

[MalcPow]

WR Rich Replogle is a 2nd Team All Pro.

[MalcPow]

WR Mercury Botta retires. He goes out as the All-Time Receptions leader with 1410. He won 5 rings in his career. It was definitely a weird end. He died doing what he loved, catching little dink passes and going nowhere.

TE Jeffrey Dennis also retires. He had a sneaky 11 seasons and 4 rings with us as well.

Head Coach Devin McCourty calls it quits. Everyone has the good sense to ride off into the sunset except QB Richey apparently. He ends up with 21 years of HC experience, and 20 straight playoff appearances. He won 9 Bowls and appeared in 4 others. 282-108 career record. Good run.

[MalcPow]

Former SS Timothy Bordley makes the Hall of Fame. He goes in as a Dragon. Two other Hanalei draftees go in as part of the 2055 class as well. CB Jerry Borders and WR Gerald Beeson. Both spent more years with another team, but Beeson, especially, had his best years in Hanalei.

Our new stadium is done, and it's spectacular. It has also destroyed our finances and we'll have to try to replace HC McCourty from the #32 spot in the Staff Draft.

[Squirrel]

Nice run given the house rules. Looking forward to seeing what you can find to replenish the offense

[QuikSand]

errbody comin outta hibernation yo

[MalcPow]

Might dust this old boy off

[MalcPow]

Toying with a straight misfit run, or something where renegotiations aren't allowed with some kind of cap crunch. The elusive SP house rules that are kind of simple but don't feel like a complete contortionist act and I can still kind of fall in love with some goofy guys and follow a career.

Leaning misfit. I'm not sure anyone really wants to follow me playing the game without draft shenanigans but posting little team summary text grabs seems to keep some kind of wind behind me.

[tzach]

Leaning misfit. I'm not sure anyone really wants to follow me playing the game without draft shenanigans but posting little team summary text grabs seems to keep some kind of wind behind me.


i'll be following, and i'm sure i won't be the only one!

[QuikSand]

+1

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Terrell, Percy 101 QB 2 30 47 3 yrs.
Wedge, Bradley 226 RB 3 55 55 2 yrs.
Guess, Kim 240 RB 3 48 50 ---
Villarreal, Emmett 241 RB 9 42 42 ---
McGee, Kelvin 230 RB 8 26 26 2 yrs.
Lang, Eugene 446 TE 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Bismo, Joel 447 TE 10 57 57 2 yrs.
Patton, Caleb 442 TE 6 30 30 ---
Gentala, Carl 480 TE 9 30 30 1 yr.
Olivera, Chandler 482 TE 10 25 25 2 yrs.
O'Neal, Ike 484 TE 9 25 25 2 yrs.
Severson, Jerry 583 FL 2 43 59 3 yrs.
Ashe, Sherman 514 FL 6 44 44 2 yrs.
Cornyn, Abraham 588 FL 4 32 40 ---
Barlow, Noah 516 SE 1 28 55 4 yrs.
Szilter, Denzel 512 SE 7 36 36 1 yr.
Bennett, Jackie 656 C 12 73 73 2 yrs.
Riley, Kelly 657 C 12 14 14 1 yr.
McReynolds, Francisco 773 RG 5 92 92 4 yrs.
Stone, Bruce 764 RG 1 22 55 4 yrs.
Bui, Alonzo 760 RG 1 13 52 4 yrs.
Ackerman, Quentin 866 LT 4 43 43 1 yr.
Sanderson, Joel 861 LT 10 25 25 1 yr.
Land, Brayden 869 RT 7 57 57 2 yrs.
Owens, Bo 915 P 2 62 82 3 yrs.
Levens, Calvin 1002K 6 68 68 4 yrs.
Adams, T.J. 1190LDE 5 40 43 ---
Downs, Shaun 1177LDE 12 29 29 1 yr.
St. John, Daquan 1274LDT 4 58 79 3 yrs.
Harris, Kevin 1276LDT 10 77 77 3 yrs.
Brunell, Louie 1278RDT 8 71 71 2 yrs.
Bello, A.J. 1295RDT 3 50 60 2 yrs.
McKenzie, Damian 1359MLB 9 73 73 2 yrs.
Conway, Avery 1391MLB 3 35 53 2 yrs.
Mueting, Russell 1450SLB 3 77 77 2 yrs.
Shanks, Mercury 1493SLB 6 42 42 2 yrs.
Swift, Isaac 1497WLB 7 68 68 4 yrs.
Mayes, Abel 1454WLB 4 49 49 3 yrs.
Byzewski, Brody 1534LCB 7 65 65 3 yrs.
Crawford, Tyrell 1532LCB 6 41 41 ---
Barlow, Kenyon 1548RCB 3 49 66 2 yrs.
Stringer, Curtis 1544RCB 12 36 36 ---
Dole, Skip 1631SS 11 65 65 3 yrs.
Gillette, Bucky 1628SS 4 45 52 1 yr.
Mare, Jason 1638SS 5 39 52 2 yrs.
Bryant, Tommy 1622SS 3 35 42 2 yrs.
Blanchard, Marcos 1623SS 2 24 33 3 yrs.
Bobro, J.R. 1621FS 2 20 44 3 yrs.
Paulson, Francisco 651 LS 7 15 15 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 42
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 42

Salary Cap: $353,800,000
Cap Room: $99,410,000
Maximum for New Player: $99,410,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $8,100,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $258,460,000

Looks like I simmed a season or two forward from the thread. Monster 29 sack season from the LB Mueting and the QB is a triple Exceptional Affinity guy so I was clearly doing hard drugs.

It's in late FA so I'll sim through a bit and blast the season. Last ride of whoever these guys are and wipe the slate.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2057 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2057
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 358-265-1
Winning Pct. .574
Playoffs 46-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 9
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 39-14
Winning Pct. .735
Off. Coord. G. Moss
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 36.9 1
Rushing Yards 168.4 1
Yards Per Carry 4.57 4
Pass Attempts 23.8 32
Completions 13.8 32
Completion Pct. 58.2 28
Passing Yards 150.2 32
Yards Per Attempt 6.32 21
Yards Per Catch 10.87 9 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 303.8 26
3rd Down Conversions 37.4 6
Points Per Game 22.7 4 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 23.5 4
Pass Defense Pct. 46.2 27
Turnovers 24 19 (T)
Turnover Margin +1 14 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.9 4
Rushing Yards 72.2 1
Yards Per Carry 3.02 2
Pass Attempts 33.2 1
Completions 19.9 1
Completion Pct. 59.9 11
Passing Yards 215.8 3
Yards Per Attempt 6.50 20 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.86 23 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 271.6 1
3rd Down Conversions 33.0 8 (T)
Points Per Game 16.7 3 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 24.3 32
Pass Defense Pct. 57.2 26
Turnovers 25 9 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 43 at CDO 35
2 6 SAO 16
3 14 at BKN 17
4 21 at CHI 11
5 26 at ARI 20
6 38 MIN 7
7 10 CDO 9
8 30 at FBK 0
10 19 IOW 24
11 27 OAK 0
12 25 HOU 13
13 44 CPC 20
14 30 at AKR 23
15 10 FBK 34
16 14 at FTW 17
17 6 at OAK 21

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
1 P. Terrell QB 365 212 2327 6.38 16 10 80.2
**Team --- 380 221 2403 6.32 16 10 79.9
$$Opp --- 531 318 3453 6.50 20 13 81.4

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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26 B. Wedge RB 261 1209 4.63 3 5
40 K. Guess RB 169 694 4.11 4 3
1 P. Terrell QB 109 591 5.42 7 13
41 E. Villarreal RB 35 133 3.80 1 0
**Team --- 590 2694 4.57 15 31
$$Opp --- 383 1155 3.02 5 18

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
46 E. Lang TE 85 41 521 12.71 6.13 4 3
88 D. Stephenson WR 56 37 366 9.89 6.54 1 3
26 B. Wedge RB 44 30 262 8.73 5.95 3 2
81 B. Horan WR 34 25 190 7.60 5.59 2 0
47 J. Bismo TE 34 22 217 9.86 6.38 1 4
40 K. Guess RB 27 20 145 7.25 5.37 0 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
59 D. McKenzie ILB 107 34 0.0 0 3 3 74.5
97 I. Swift OLB 92 30 0.5 3 2 7 75.1
34 B. Byzewski CB 87 23 0.0 0 0 13 76.2
31 S. Dole S 72 24 0.0 0 2 9 80.8
48 K. Barlow CB 56 12 0.0 0 2 4 74.2
50 R. Mueting DE 51 19 16.5 30 1 0 82.2
76 K. Harris DT 47 18 4.0 7 0 0 81.1
28 B. Gillette S 45 18 0.0 0 1 2 78.4
78 L. Brunell DT 23 13 2.5 2 0 0 81.9
93 M. Shanks OLB 23 10 0.0 0 1 5 79.8
29 M. Tomaceski CB 23 8 0.0 0 0 3 77.7
74 D. St. John DT 21 11 3.5 11 0 0 81.4
98 R. Ford DE 18 13 5.0 9 0 0 80.6 

10-6 for the sunset crew. Bon voyage fellas.

(10-6 was good for a bye and these dorks won three games and the Bowl to go out heroes. I forgot how absolutely blessed this save game was.)

[MalcPow]

It's a cool point for us to knife this squad. We're 14 wins short of topping the all-time franchise list behind a very consistent Frederick org (pour one out for cuerv). This run of complete suck should bring us back to the pack a little.

We have a good staff, running a Smash offense and 43 D. I'm bringing them back for the sake of convenience.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Klaes, Sherman 106 QB 1 16 40 2 yrs.
Arredondo, Buddy 107 QB 1 14 29 2 yrs.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 1 16 30 2 yrs.
Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 1 43 54 2 yrs.
Curry, Luke 229 RB 1 45 55 2 yrs.
Hand, Braxton 232 RB 1 27 38 2 yrs.
McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB 1 34 51 2 yrs.
Benge, Santiago 485 TE 1 28 38 2 yrs.
Givens, Ellis 444 TE 1 19 29 2 yrs.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE 1 24 41 2 yrs.
Wooden, Damian 480 TE 1 17 39 2 yrs.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL 1 28 50 2 yrs.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 1 19 33 2 yrs.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE 1 25 44 2 yrs.
Freeman, Thomas 589 SE 1 18 37 2 yrs.
Sikkenga, Toby 513 SE 1 18 38 2 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C 1 24 58 2 yrs.
Hollier, Shannon 651 C 1 23 48 2 yrs.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG 1 22 47 2 yrs.
Kegley, Brent 768 LG 1 19 40 2 yrs.
Pritchett, Keegan 760 LG 1 23 45 2 yrs.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 RT 1 27 52 2 yrs.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT 1 12 35 2 yrs.
Sherman, Gary 904 P 1 39 53 2 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 1 52 52 2 yrs.
Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 1 18 39 2 yrs.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 1 20 37 2 yrs.
Blackshear, Tristan 1193LDE 1 20 34 2 yrs.
Page, Troy 1190RDE 1 24 44 2 yrs.
Kegley, Deron 1191RDE 1 24 29 2 yrs.
Brown, Glen 1297LDT 1 23 44 2 yrs.
Flores, Wally 1296LDT 1 23 41 2 yrs.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 1 28 43 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT 1 23 50 2 yrs.
Crane, Marcos 1353WILB 1 23 43 2 yrs.
Bell, Scott 1499SLB 1 35 48 2 yrs.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB 1 33 44 2 yrs.
Fraaije, D.J. 1494WLB 1 24 42 2 yrs.
Randle El, Sherman 1459WLB 1 22 39 2 yrs.
Duncan, Doug 1540LCB 1 32 45 2 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1523LCB 1 26 49 2 yrs.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 1 37 43 2 yrs.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 1 25 44 2 yrs.
Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 1 24 34 2 yrs.
Rogers, Malik 1543RCB 1 27 39 2 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 1 28 44 2 yrs.
Sanders, Adam 1524RCB 1 24 37 2 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB 1 30 47 2 yrs.
Ford, Melvin 1642SS 1 31 42 2 yrs.
Ellis, C.J. 1634FS 1 10 34 2 yrs.
Blanchard, Lamar 650 LS 1 12 12 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 51

Salary Cap: $356,600,000
Cap Room: $252,990,000
Maximum for New Player: $253,940,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $55,160,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $41,350,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $96,940,000

This is the roster snap as we get through training camp. This is before any preseason games so it's not perfect. I think a few of the guys who look pretty might take dives and a few that don't might get their creep on. I'm debating walking through the position groups before the season but I might just sim through fairly quickly. As many know well, it takes a long while to build out this first misfit roster, but a lot of these guys have one foot in the grave already. It might make sense to highlight the guys who step up as we go.

(For those who aren't completely following what's happening... An "Island of Misfit Toys" dynasty is built around only using undrafted rookie free agents. All of the guys on this roster are rookies for now, but some of them will stick with us as the career plays out. We will only be able to add new groups of undrafted rookies to the team each year. Historically speaking, the team tends to be horrendous for the first few seasons, but as the years go by you tend to find success as cohesion advantages start to really pile up by maintaining a lot of continuity. I haven't played one of these even remotely recently, so I'm hoping it's not somehow a lost cause in the current universe. I'm willing to bet we'll eventually start building momentum and we'll see where it goes.)

[MalcPow]

My keys on building this first group were basically ->

QB: Scrambling, Accuracy, Sense Rush, Passing bars as a bonus
RB: Hole Recognition
TE/WR: Route Running
OL: One big blocking bar without an apparent zero in the other
D7: Big bar hunt with an eye toward two lines, one normal and one pass-focused, and we'll likely look to split them up completely
DB: Current value, as much red barz as we can throw in the mix with no philosophy or scheme filtering

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2058 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2058
Record 3-13
Winning Pct. .187
All-Time 361-278-1
Winning Pct. .564
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 45-27
Winning Pct. .625
Off. Coord. G. Moss
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.3 31
Rushing Yards 78.9 31
Yards Per Carry 3.54 29
Pass Attempts 35.4 23 (T)
Completions 18.3 32
Completion Pct. 51.7 32
Passing Yards 149.1 32
Yards Per Attempt 4.21 32
Yards Per Catch 8.14 32
Total Yardage Gained 206.8 32
3rd Down Conversions 25.7 32
Points Per Game 12.7 32
Pass Rush Pct. 18.2 29
Pass Defense Pct. 52.7 7
Turnovers 24 22 (T)
Turnover Margin +3 10 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 29.6 32
Rushing Yards 150.5 32
Yards Per Carry 5.09 32
Pass Attempts 35.6 10 (T)
Completions 21.4 8 (T)
Completion Pct. 60.1 9 (T)
Passing Yards 236.1 14
Yards Per Attempt 6.64 20
Yards Per Catch 11.04 24
Total Yardage Gained 377.3 31
3rd Down Conversions 38.2 30
Points Per Game 25.2 30
Pass Rush Pct. 28.6 32
Pass Defense Pct. 69.1 32
Turnovers 27 6 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 3 at FBK 31
2 6 at MAA 31
3 10 CHI 23
4 0 at TEX 24
5 16 CDO 34
6 27 MOO 34
8 15 FBK 30
9 20 at OBX 23
10 9 CPC 13
11 3 at OAK 34
12 25 at BOR 24
13 10 at BKN 27
14 20 GOT 15
15 13 OAK 10
16 10 PAR 30
17 16 at CDO 20

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
7 B. Arredondo QB 355 177 1498 4.22 5 11 52.9
8 K. Tate QB 212 116 887 4.18 5 7 59.2
**Team --- 567 293 2385 4.21 10 18 55.3
$$Opp --- 569 342 3777 6.64 28 16 84.5

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
29 L. Curry RB 208 687 3.30 2 0
22 J. Shultz RB 97 249 2.57 0 1
**Team --- 357 1263 3.54 3 12
$$Opp --- 473 2408 5.09 15 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 123 64 518 8.09 4.21 5 5
16 J. Cheramie WR 126 64 592 9.25 4.70 3 2
47 J. Farmer TE 75 35 359 10.26 4.79 5 1
29 L. Curry RB 61 34 162 4.76 2.66 2 0
83 R. Conway WR 79 34 240 7.06 3.04 6 1
31 C. McIndoe FB 31 19 166 8.74 5.35 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
56 I. Runyon OLB 103 42 0.0 1 0 6 72.2
99 S. Bell OLB 101 32 1.5 5 0 7 72.0
42 M. Ford S 91 38 0.0 0 1 7 78.5
53 M. Crane ILB 70 24 0.0 0 2 5 77.4
23 I. Sanaee CB 55 22 0.0 0 2 6 79.3
41 M. Meyer CB 54 19 0.0 0 2 6 78.2
77 A. Bushell DT 36 4 3.5 1 0 1 81.4
94 D. Fraaije OLB 36 4 0.0 1 0 1 66.4
46 R. Hartmann CB 33 11 0.0 0 3 7 83.1
90 T. Page DE 27 11 3.5 18 0 0 81.0
21 J. McCarthy CB 27 3 0.0 0 4 6 84.9
91 D. Kegley DE 23 16 4.5 11 0 2 82.0
43 M. Rogers CB 22 7 0.0 0 1 5 82.4
93 T. Blackshear DE 19 4 0.0 4 0 0 81.7
59 S. Randle El OLB 19 7 0.5 2 0 0 78.8
76 F. Coats DE 18 9 6.5 8 0 0 81.7

Ok, so, yeah. Definitely atrocious. We went with QB Arredondo for the first 10 games of the season, mostly because he looked like he might have had a slightly better move in camp than the others. He went 0-10.

We switched it up and went to QB Tate to finish the year and he went 3-3. Tate has the much bigger scrambling bar, and I think he likely just did a slightly better job of running out of some bad throws. I'm pretty convinced that the scramble bar can save a guy who is not very good at throwing the ball from trying to throw the ball. If that ends up being a few more positive yardage plays each game, you're probably moving the needle.

We didn't get good rushing production necessarily, but it's hard to adjust for how absolutely putrid we are. We have a couple of RBs who actually look like useful pieces on a normal team but there's not a lot to help them.

The passing game was disastrous. There's really no way to overcome our particular recipe here. No talent, no experience, no cohesion, no soup for you.

I'm all ears if someone sees something interesting defensively. We seemed to actually kind of hold up when we were in games where the offense was competitive.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Klaes, Sherman 106 QB 2 15 39 1 yr.
Arredondo, Buddy 107 QB 2 15 26 1 yr.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 2 19 31 1 yr.
Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 2 47 49 1 yr.
Curry, Luke 229 RB 2 52 58 1 yr.
Hand, Braxton 232 RB 2 27 38 1 yr.
McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB 2 44 52 1 yr.
Benge, Santiago 485 TE 2 37 41 1 yr.
Givens, Ellis 444 TE 2 19 30 1 yr.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE 2 32 44 1 yr.
Wooden, Damian 480 TE 2 20 34 1 yr.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL 2 34 47 1 yr.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 2 24 38 1 yr.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE 2 36 48 1 yr.
Freeman, Thomas 589 SE 2 22 36 1 yr.
Sikkenga, Toby 513 SE 2 22 38 1 yr.
Walker, Damian 658 C 2 33 57 1 yr.
Hollier, Shannon 651 C 2 24 49 1 yr.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG 2 27 48 1 yr.
Kegley, Brent 768 LG 2 17 38 1 yr.
Pritchett, Keegan 760 LG 2 32 47 1 yr.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT 2 30 51 1 yr.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT 2 19 35 1 yr.
Sherman, Gary 904 P 2 44 59 1 yr.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 2 66 66 1 yr.
Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 2 22 41 1 yr.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 2 27 36 1 yr.
Blackshear, Tristan 1193LDE 2 23 34 1 yr.
Page, Troy 1190RDE 2 34 48 1 yr.
Kegley, Deron 1191RDE 2 30 30 1 yr.
Brown, Glen 1297LDT 2 27 41 1 yr.
Flores, Wally 1296LDT 2 25 43 1 yr.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 2 33 46 1 yr.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT 2 28 52 1 yr.
Crane, Marcos 1353WILB 2 38 46 1 yr.
Bell, Scott 1499SLB 2 46 46 1 yr.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB 2 42 44 1 yr.
Fraaije, D.J. 1494WLB 2 31 46 1 yr.
Randle El, Sherman 1459WLB 2 31 43 1 yr.
Duncan, Doug 1540LCB 2 33 47 1 yr.
Sanaee, Ike 1523LCB 2 37 45 1 yr.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 2 46 46 1 yr.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 2 34 49 1 yr.
Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 2 30 40 1 yr.
Rogers, Malik 1543RCB 2 31 39 1 yr.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 2 32 47 1 yr.
Sanders, Adam 1524RCB 2 25 39 1 yr.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB 2 37 51 1 yr.
Ford, Melvin 1642SS 2 44 49 1 yr.
Ellis, C.J. 1634FS 2 14 35 1 yr.
Blanchard, Lamar 650 LS 2 12 12 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 51

Salary Cap: $360,800,000
Cap Room: $263,350,000
Maximum for New Player: $240,330,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $41,350,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $0

Here's our roster as we get to the draft class reveal in the offseason. The guys who are giving off some longer term vibes right now:

RBs Schultz and Curry
WR Brennan
TE Farmer
C Walker
A good number of guys defensively

I'd say we really need to get lucky on some OL. That was a bit of a theme even when we were drafting "dragons" in the 4th. We're also kind of dabbling with only adding guys with high intelligence on the OL. One nice advantage of the post-draft world we're signing guys in is that you can at least peek at those traits. Our talent level is really bad here though, and it's impactful. We need some luck.

QB... I was impressed with Tate winning a few games. I'm resigned to us rolling with a gimp here. You need WR cohesion to put together any kind of passing attack in our circumstances, and that's going to take some time. I am ok with Tate heading into next year if it comes to that.

We'll see what we get. Just jotting some thoughts before we dig into the next class. There's always some inertia and real advantages to sticking with the guys in place. Hopefully there are a couple guys out there who make it easy for us.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Klaes, Sherman 106 QB 2 19 36 1 yr.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB QB 2 23 33 1 yr.
##Burroughs, Greg 102 QB 1 7 46 2 yrs.
Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 2 39 39 1 yr.
Curry, Luke 229 RB RB 2 54 57 1 yr.
McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB FB 2 48 54 1 yr.
Benge, Santiago 485 TE 2 40 40 1 yr.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE TE 2 36 44 1 yr.
Wooden, Damian 480 TE 2 23 34 1 yr.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL FL 2 37 47 1 yr.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 2 27 38 1 yr.
##Merritt, Joe 518 FL 1 29 45 2 yrs.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE SE 2 41 50 1 yr.
Freeman, Thomas 589 SE 2 21 30 1 yr.
Sikkenga, Toby 513 SE 2 23 35 1 yr.
Walker, Damian 658 C C 2 41 57 1 yr.
Hollier, Shannon 651 C 2 28 49 1 yr.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG LG 2 31 48 1 yr.
Pritchett, Keegan 760 LG RG 2 34 50 1 yr.
Rivers, Rick 761 LG 1 18 31 2 yrs.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT LT 2 33 50 1 yr.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT RT 2 23 38 1 yr.
Sherman, Gary 904 P 2 54 54 1 yr.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 2 66 66 1 yr.
Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 2 26 41 1 yr.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 2 32 38 1 yr.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE RDE 1 24 57 2 yrs.
Page, Troy 1190RDE 2 37 41 1 yr.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE LDE 2 37 46 1 yr.
Hudson, Ruben 1178RDE 1 32 54 2 yrs.
Brown, Glen 1297LDT 2 31 37 1 yr.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT LDT 2 37 46 1 yr.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT 1 34 66 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT RDT 2 33 50 1 yr.
##Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 1 31 53 2 yrs.
Crane, Marcos 1353WILB 2 45 49 1 yr.
##Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB 1 24 62 2 yrs.
Bell, Scott 1499SLB MLB 2 37 37 1 yr.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB WLB 2 44 44 1 yr.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB SLB 1 42 60 2 yrs.
Randle El, Sherman 1459WLB 2 36 43 1 yr.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB LCB 2 45 45 1 yr.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 2 40 48 1 yr.
##Linquist, Bryan 1525LCB 1 25 42 2 yrs.
Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 2 33 37 1 yr.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 2 38 47 1 yr.
##Sanders, Adam 1524RCB 2 27 39 1 yr.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB RCB 2 42 52 1 yr.
Ford, Melvin 1642SS SS 2 46 46 1 yr.
##McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 1 30 49 2 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS FS 2 48 53 1 yr.
Franklin, Kai 1636FS 1 31 44 2 yrs.
Blanchard, Lamar 650 LS 2 12 12 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $360,800,000
Cap Room: $264,610,000
Maximum for New Player: $265,570,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $41,490,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $40,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $13,240,000

We took 67 guys through camp. This a snap after Pre3, and we made basically our final cutdowns after seeing those moves.

Some intriguing new faces, and we did some position moving to get guys into spots where there skills show some shiny Cur/Fut numbers as well. I'm not even sure I like DT Ezekiel Sanderson but he's our highest rated player after some weight training and a move from DE.

It looks like it's gonna be QB Tate to start. I'll probably rearrange a few depth charts and get some of these rookies in there as well. The offense looks like it's going to be almost entirely the same crew from last year. Let's cohese a little.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2059 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2059
Record 6-10
Winning Pct. .375
All-Time 367-288-1
Winning Pct. .560
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 51-37
Winning Pct. .579
Off. Coord. G. Moss
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.8 30
Rushing Yards 82.2 31
Yards Per Carry 3.60 30
Pass Attempts 36.4 13 (T)
Completions 20.3 31 (T)
Completion Pct. 55.7 32
Passing Yards 231.9 16
Yards Per Attempt 6.37 17
Yards Per Catch 11.45 4
Total Yardage Gained 291.0 31
3rd Down Conversions 28.3 31 (T)
Points Per Game 19.1 26
Pass Rush Pct. 18.4 28
Pass Defense Pct. 54.0 8
Turnovers 23 18 (T)
Turnover Margin -1 19 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.1 27
Rushing Yards 136.3 30
Yards Per Carry 4.86 29
Pass Attempts 36.5 18
Completions 21.9 11
Completion Pct. 59.9 8 (T)
Passing Yards 215.8 2
Yards Per Attempt 5.91 3
Yards Per Catch 9.86 3
Total Yardage Gained 339.1 20
3rd Down Conversions 32.8 4
Points Per Game 22.8 28
Pass Rush Pct. 25.8 32
Pass Defense Pct. 58.5 27
Turnovers 22 13 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 16 at OAK 37
2 3 at TOR 29
3 9 at TEX 38
4 6 BKN 31
5 16 at WIL 37
6 24 at FRE 28
7 16 at CDO 17
8 28 CHE 13
10 14 FBK 6
11 24 OAK 12
12 20 at HAR 24
13 55 IOW 20
14 10 ROC 13
15 31 CDO 30
16 20 NPL 10
17 13 at FBK 20

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
8 K. Tate QB 571 317 3648 6.39 20 16 74.9
**Team --- 582 324 3710 6.37 20 16 75.0
$$Opp --- 584 350 3452 5.91 21 14 78.6

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29 L. Curry RB 177 505 2.85 1 4
22 J. Shultz RB 105 352 3.35 1 1
8 K. Tate QB 81 443 5.47 5 6
**Team --- 365 1315 3.60 7 15
$$Opp --- 449 2180 4.86 15 13

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 174 91 1082 11.89 6.22 5 4
16 J. Cheramie WR 132 72 793 11.01 6.01 11 2
83 R. Conway WR 72 37 339 9.16 4.71 7 6
47 J. Farmer TE 55 35 363 10.37 6.60 5 3
29 L. Curry RB 39 24 243 10.13 6.23 2 3
85 S. Benge TE 43 19 335 17.63 7.79 3 1
31 C. McIndoe FB 27 17 235 13.82 8.70 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
55 E. Brennan OLB 111 45 0.0 0 2 7 74.4
95 J. Newsome ILB 88 17 0.0 0 0 7 73.1
42 M. Ford S 87 20 0.0 0 1 6 78.1
23 I. Sanaee S 65 25 0.0 0 0 8 78.1
77 A. Bushell DT 54 22 4.0 2 0 1 82.1
56 I. Runyon OLB 44 17 2.0 1 0 2 73.0
46 R. Hartmann CB 42 15 0.0 0 3 6 80.1
21 J. McCarthy CB 38 10 0.5 0 2 11 81.2
41 M. Meyer CB 32 17 0.0 0 2 7 80.9
35 D. Jordan CB 30 8 0.0 0 2 5 78.0
33 A. Schwartz CB 25 6 0.0 0 1 4 77.8
98 B. Schroeder ILB 22 7 0.0 0 1 3 79.4
90 T. Page DE 21 8 2.5 10 0 3 84.6
79 A. Grayek DE 21 13 3.5 13 0 0 81.4
72 E. Sanderson DT 21 9 2.0 5 0 1 82.0
92 G. Roberts DT 20 6 3.5 10 0 1 82.9
94 D. Fraaije DE 17 8 8.5 9 0 0 80.3 

I'm kind of thrilled with this. We also made a pretty big overhaul of our depth charts after the 0-5 start. We were getting absolutely annihilated before that point. I want to see it play out next year, but there's a chance we're an ugly 7-9 team next year or something if we keep the personnel stuff straight. We're clearly not good, but the 3rd down "line" defensively seems to be a viable concept with our limitations. I don't know if going pure specialist there is the driver for these results but it's kind of huge considering we don't do anything else all that well.

Tate was solid. I'm still keeping an eye on things there but this was light years ahead of last year. Run game kind of stinks. Stuff to think about.

[Pyser]

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[MalcPow]

Old friend Mercury Botta, the universe's all time receptions leader, went into the Hall of Fame at 99%. His #17 is retired.

[MalcPow]

We land a CB, Carter Wallin, who honestly looks like a late first round talent. He might be a 60+ corner which really fits our "scheme."

We also add MLB Bob Mascorella who I think might be one of the MLB->DE conversion profiles that leave us with a good all around edge guy. Those ILBs are a great place to shop for guys with good run, pass technique, and endurance (and as many other red bar goodies as you can find). They might lack the coverage skills to really fit as LBs but you can find some real diamonds in a conversion.

We mix in a few more CBs, a WR Dancy, a flyer G. There are no QB candidates. I'm still pretty concerned about the OL, and it's clearly going to be a compounding problem because those guys just develop so damn slowly. Our current RT completely sucks but I'm going to keep playing him because I don't know if I'll ever stumble into a 30ish current guy.

The DL is a secondary concern as well. I think we're in a better spot there by being able to throw a lot of bodies at the problem.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Burroughs, Greg 102 QB 2 13 44 1 yr.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB QB 3 31 33 3 yrs.
Curry, Luke 229 RB RB 3 56 56 4 yrs.
Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 3 40 40 3 yrs.
McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB FB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE TE 3 47 47 2 yrs.
Benge, Santiago 485 TE 3 40 40 2 yrs.
Wooden, Damian 480 TE 3 25 33 2 yrs.
Dancy, Kody 514 FL 1 28 50 2 yrs.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL FL 3 47 47 3 yrs.
##Merritt, Joe 518 FL 2 32 47 1 yr.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 3 34 37 3 yrs.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE SE 3 49 49 3 yrs.
Sikkenga, Toby 513 SE 3 27 38 2 yrs.
Freeman, Thomas 589 SE 3 28 31 2 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C C 3 56 56 1 yr.
Hollier, Shannon 651 C 3 30 45 1 yr.
Pritchett, Keegan 760 LG RG 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG LG 3 43 48 3 yrs.
Rivers, Rick 761 LG 2 19 30 1 yr.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT LT 3 41 47 3 yrs.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT RT 3 37 37 3 yrs.
Sherman, Gary 904 P 3 47 47 3 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 3 66 66 5 yrs.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE LDE 2 41 58 1 yr.
Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 3 34 42 2 yrs.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 3 37 37 3 yrs.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE RDE 1 36 62 2 yrs.
##Hudson, Ruben 1178RDE 2 36 56 1 yr.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 3 46 46 2 yrs.
##Page, Troy 1190RDE 3 41 41 3 yrs.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT RDT 2 48 63 1 yr.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Brown, Glen 1297LDT 3 37 37 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT LDT 3 44 49 2 yrs.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 2 47 52 1 yr.
Crane, Marcos 1353WILB 3 48 48 1 yr.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB MLB 2 48 62 1 yr.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB SLB 2 64 64 1 yr.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB WLB 3 44 44 3 yrs.
##Randle El, Sherman 1459WLB 3 42 42 2 yrs.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 3 48 48 2 yrs.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 3 46 46 4 yrs.
##Linquist, Bryan 1525LCB 2 28 44 1 yr.
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB LCB 1 37 65 2 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB RCB 3 52 52 2 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 3 47 47 3 yrs.
Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 3 37 37 4 yrs.
##McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 2 34 53 1 yr.
##Braxton, Chester 1634SS 1 28 49 2 yrs.
Ford, Melvin 1642SS SS 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS FS 3 53 53 3 yrs.
Blanchard, Lamar 650 LS 3 12 12 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $365,000,000
Cap Room: $245,240,000
Maximum for New Player: $246,220,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $110,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $60,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $128,150,000

Roster snap before the year starts.

[MalcPow]

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2060 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2060
Record 5-11
Winning Pct. .312
All-Time 372-299-1
Winning Pct. .554
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 56-48
Winning Pct. .538
Off. Coord. G. Moss
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach T. Landry
Stren. Coord. T. Ellis

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.6 30
Rushing Yards 100.2 25
Yards Per Carry 4.63 6
Pass Attempts 38.3 2
Completions 21.9 17 (T)
Completion Pct. 57.4 29
Passing Yards 237.7 18
Yards Per Attempt 6.21 27
Yards Per Catch 10.83 17 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 312.2 25
3rd Down Conversions 32.5 26
Points Per Game 19.7 21
Pass Rush Pct. 19.2 22
Pass Defense Pct. 45.4 19
Turnovers 23 23 (T)
Turnover Margin -3 18 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 30.0 30
Rushing Yards 125.9 28
Yards Per Carry 4.20 14
Pass Attempts 33.0 4 (T)
Completions 21.4 10
Completion Pct. 64.8 29
Passing Yards 232.8 13
Yards Per Attempt 7.05 28
Yards Per Catch 10.89 16
Total Yardage Gained 345.9 21
3rd Down Conversions 38.6 28
Points Per Game 25.0 32
Pass Rush Pct. 26.8 32
Pass Defense Pct. 53.2 28
Turnovers 20 12 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 18 CDO 34
2 27 TUC 6
3 38 FRE 14
4 7 at CHI 24
5 27 at ARI 21
6 26 MIN 28
7 28 at CDO 22
8 33 FBK 27
10 9 IOW 16
11 11 at OAK 30
12 23 AUG 27
13 6 at TEX 22
14 24 at SNP 31
15 0 at FBK 31
16 25 at ORL 43
17 13 OAK 24

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
8 K. Tate QB 611 351 3803 6.22 22 12 79.7
**Team --- 612 351 3803 6.21 22 12 79.5
$$Opp --- 528 342 3724 7.05 24 9 93.5

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 
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29 L. Curry RB 203 951 4.68 6 3
22 J. Shultz RB 73 192 2.63 2 0
8 K. Tate QB 69 456 6.61 1 14
**Team --- 346 1603 4.63 9 27
$$Opp --- 480 2015 4.20 12 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 119 66 804 12.18 6.76 11 8
83 R. Conway WR 81 57 717 12.58 8.85 4 1
13 T. Sikkenga WR 105 53 444 8.38 4.23 9 5
16 J. Cheramie WR 72 43 494 11.49 6.86 1 2
47 J. Farmer TE 73 35 494 14.11 6.77 8 1
29 L. Curry RB 48 31 213 6.87 4.44 3 1
14 K. Dancy WR 47 26 224 8.62 4.77 3 2
31 C. McIndoe FB 29 16 198 12.38 6.83 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
55 E. Brennan OLB 114 38 2.0 1 1 12 76.7
95 J. Newsome ILB 87 24 0.0 1 1 6 73.1
42 M. Ford S 82 34 0.0 0 0 7 78.6
40 C. Wallin CB 59 12 0.5 0 0 5 71.4
23 I. Sanaee S 58 29 0.0 0 2 3 79.7
56 I. Runyon OLB 44 9 0.0 0 0 2 67.1
77 A. Bushell DT 43 11 1.0 2 0 1 80.5
41 M. Meyer CB 39 12 0.0 0 1 3 75.8
72 E. Sanderson DT 39 14 1.5 4 0 0 81.2
46 R. Hartmann CB 38 10 0.0 0 3 8 81.7
53 M. Crane ILB 34 10 0.0 0 1 5 73.6
79 A. Grayek DE 34 14 5.5 10 0 1 82.0
91 B. Mascorella DE 31 9 2.5 6 0 0 80.9
94 D. Fraaije DE 22 8 10.0 10 0 0 80.4
92 G. Roberts DT 19 6 6.0 14 0 0 82.5
35 D. Jordan CB 19 2 0.0 0 0 6 79.1
21 J. McCarthy CB 19 6 0.0 0 0 5 77.9 

Big regression defensively seems to be the story. I think I may have strayed a tick from our pure division of labor approach situationally. We were also trying to get some of the rookies who are definitely a part of our future like CB Wallin and DE Mascorella on the field a lot to develop. Might have held us back.

The offense looks dangerously competent. Tried to really dial into spreading the targets around and making sure none of our WRs end up being the 8-10+ targets per game guys that they're just not built to be. That was clearly helpful.

We flipped the script a little by getting off to a decent start and then sliding down the stretch. I think the defense is largely a talent issue that we can only solve by slowly adding a couple more real players each year. A not so sneaky subplot with the offense was a fairly massive issue with sacks. We had 67 of them, comfortably the worst in the league. I'm not sure how to solve that one without a gift from the dice roll gods and a new QB.

[MalcPow]

QB Richey was inducted to the Hall of Fame with 100% of the vote last year. WR Rich Replogle got in this year. Both have their numbers retired.

[MalcPow]

2061 UDRs

G Devin Sanford - looks like an actual 55ish starting caliber interior lineman.(!!!)
RB Deron Rogers - elite receiving look, will be a great fit for us.
RB Corwin Koski - not quite as good as our current starter Curry, but should be our new backup runner.
TE Mitchell Fisk - just looks like well-rounded quality depth.
WR Zane McClellan - big RR bar.
DEs Toll/Graham - depth

Not sure all of these guys will even make it to the roster snap.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Tate, Kenny 108 QB QB 4 32 32 4 yrs.
Pritchett, Tony 115 QB 1 21 44 2 yrs.
##Bush, Ray 107 QB 1 9 47 2 yrs.
##Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 4 42 42 2 yrs.
Curry, Luke 229 RB 4 55 55 3 yrs.
Rogers, Deron 244 RB RB 1 41 51 2 yrs.
Koski, Corwin 228 RB FB 1 47 54 2 yrs.
##McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB 4 54 54 1 yr.
Benge, Santiago 485 TE 4 39 39 1 yr.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE TE 4 50 50 1 yr.
Fisk, Mitchell 443 TE 1 28 49 2 yrs.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL FL 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 4 38 38 2 yrs.
Merritt, Joe 518 FL 3 29 38 2 yrs.
Dancy, Kody 514 FL 2 35 50 1 yr.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE SE 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Sikkenga, Toby 513 SE 4 36 37 1 yr.
Walker, Damian 658 C C 4 55 55 3 yrs.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG LG 4 46 46 2 yrs.
Pritchett, Keegan 760 LG 4 50 50 1 yr.
Sanford, Devin 768 LG RG 1 28 59 2 yrs.
Bugden, Ashton 770 LG 1 26 64 1 yr.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT LT 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT RT 4 36 36 2 yrs.
Newton, Jamie 909 P 1 57 72 2 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 4 60 60 4 yrs.
##Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 4 31 34 1 yr.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 4 36 36 2 yrs.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE LDE 3 55 56 3 yrs.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 4 45 45 1 yr.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE RDE 2 51 62 1 yr.
Brown, Glen 1297LDT 4 36 36 1 yr.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 4 47 47 1 yr.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT RDT 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT LDT 4 49 49 1 yr.
##Toll, Enrique 1293RDT 1 40 53 2 yrs.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB MLB 3 61 61 3 yrs.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB WLB 4 44 44 2 yrs.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB SLB 3 64 64 3 yrs.
Randle El, Sherman 1459WLB 4 29 29 1 yr.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 4 45 45 3 yrs.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 4 49 49 1 yr.
Linquist, Bryan 1525LCB 3 33 43 1 yr.
##Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 4 37 37 3 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 4 46 46 2 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB RCB 4 50 50 1 yr.
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB LCB 2 55 65 1 yr.
##Ford, Melvin 1642SS 4 46 46 2 yrs.
McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 3 40 50 1 yr.
Braxton, Chester 1634SS FS 2 33 52 1 yr.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS SS 4 53 53 2 yrs.
Blanchard, Lamar 650 LS 4 12 12 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $369,200,000
Cap Room: $201,460,000
Maximum for New Player: $202,450,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,060,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $730,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $141,170,000

Week 1 snap.

We tried to bring a few rookie QBs in to see who might pop or appear interesting after camp. I think we brought 4 in. We're going to keep a couple but I'm not sure I'm ready to jump from Tate. Inertia man.

We also made a few coordinator/coaching changes last offseason. I'm not sure if our scouting is better or worse but these guys seem to like the roster more. We've got a few 60+ type players in their eyes.

Don't know what to expect, but I'm sticking with Tate mostly to see if we've taken a step forward. Want to see how we play before watching a rookie QB.

[MalcPow]

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2061 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2061
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
All-Time 380-307-1
Winning Pct. .553
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 64-56
Winning Pct. .533
Off. Coord. K. Hines
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach H. Slusarczyk
Stren. Coord. D. Norton

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.8 27
Rushing Yards 105.6 17
Yards Per Carry 4.45 7
Pass Attempts 41.0 2
Completions 23.4 8
Completion Pct. 57.2 30
Passing Yards 238.1 11
Yards Per Attempt 5.81 27 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.16 21
Total Yardage Gained 325.9 19
3rd Down Conversions 32.6 20
Points Per Game 19.7 19
Pass Rush Pct. 20.6 14 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 58.1 1
Turnovers 26 27 (T)
Turnover Margin -2 16 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.8 15
Rushing Yards 110.9 22
Yards Per Carry 4.31 21
Pass Attempts 34.3 10
Completions 20.1 1
Completion Pct. 58.7 3
Passing Yards 211.4 3
Yards Per Attempt 6.16 7
Yards Per Catch 10.50 14
Total Yardage Gained 310.6 5
3rd Down Conversions 30.4 2
Points Per Game 20.5 19 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 24.6 32
Pass Defense Pct. 54.0 25
Turnovers 24 11

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 17 FBK 28
2 27 at SAO 6
3 20 WIL 13
4 20 at TEX 26
5 10 CDO 17
6 26 MOO 10
8 6 at FBK 24
9 36 at OBX 14
10 22 CPC 13
11 27 OAK 20
12 34 at HOU 31
13 16 at ARI 38
14 27 AKR 17
15 6 at OAK 24
16 15 FTW 33
17 6 at CDO 14

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
8 K. Tate QB 653 374 3804 5.83 18 14 74.3
**Team --- 656 375 3810 5.81 18 14 74.1
$$Opp --- 549 322 3382 6.16 16 15 74.9

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29 L. Curry RB 266 1080 4.06 8 7
8 K. Tate QB 58 369 6.36 2 8
28 C. Koski RB 43 185 4.30 0 1
**Team --- 380 1690 4.45 10 25
$$Opp --- 412 1775 4.31 12 18

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 119 64 736 11.50 6.18 5 4
18 J. Merritt WR 67 45 430 9.56 6.42 3 6
16 J. Cheramie WR 84 44 654 14.86 7.79 3 3
14 K. Dancy WR 70 39 344 8.82 4.91 1 0
29 L. Curry RB 48 32 185 5.78 3.85 1 1
47 J. Farmer TE 70 32 442 13.81 6.31 10 2
83 R. Conway WR 52 32 288 9.00 5.54 1 2
44 D. Rogers RB 45 28 229 8.18 5.09 2 0
13 T. Sikkenga WR 48 25 181 7.24 3.77 4 0
43 M. Fisk TE 29 17 170 10.00 5.86 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
55 E. Brennan OLB 93 24 1.0 0 0 9 75.1
95 J. Newsome ILB 89 31 0.0 0 2 11 78.1
40 C. Wallin CB 77 28 0.0 0 4 12 81.3
23 I. Sanaee S 76 48 0.0 0 0 4 77.9
34 C. Braxton S 44 13 0.0 0 0 2 76.1
77 A. Bushell DT 43 20 3.0 1 0 2 82.6
72 E. Sanderson DT 43 10 1.0 5 0 0 81.5
46 R. Hartmann CB 41 14 0.0 0 5 7 82.1
56 I. Runyon OLB 32 5 0.0 0 0 5 76.1
79 A. Grayek DE 32 13 6.0 20 0 1 81.4
21 J. McCarthy CB 25 8 0.5 0 2 4 80.0
91 B. Mascorella DE 25 12 10.0 11 0 2 82.4
35 D. Jordan CB 19 3 0.0 0 0 4 75.8
98 B. Schroeder ILB 19 6 0.0 0 0 3 78.2
59 S. Randle El OLB 18 6 0.0 0 1 0 76.3 

And now the defense is very good...

The running game is very respectable. We tried to play two rookies on the right side of our line this year, with Budgell playing RG and Sanford playing out of position at RT. I don't have any reason to think that killed us. We're still really short on line talent, but I think we have a group of guys that can stay/grow into respectability.

I probably should have tweaked some WR usage even more to bring Brennan down into a sub 100 targets for the season place. I think the passing game will continue to improve simply because of cohesion, but Tate is obviously limited and the WRs aren't particularly good either. We started playing the receiving back rookie (Rogers) in a WR slot for a stretch there. He was better than the guy he replaced but we were still pretty shaky there.

We are actually kind of talented on the defensive side now. We will likely never have a stud of any kind, but it seems to be reasonable to think we can scatter a lot of 50ish guys around and try to play some specialist role angles.

I think to actually be good we need to unlock something in the passing game. I'll keep hoping for an intriguing QB but we're probably going to get to watch how cohesion brings a bit more production out of these guys.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 5 32 32 3 yrs.
Pritchett, Tony 115 QB QB 2 26 45 1 yr.
##Bush, Ray 107 QB 2 13 43 1 yr.
##Samuels, Drake 111 QB 1 12 33 2 yrs.
##Lynn, Gavin 101 QB 1 18 46 2 yrs.
##Shultz, Jorge 222 RB 5 35 35 1 yr.
Curry, Luke 229 RB 5 60 60 2 yrs.
Rogers, Deron 244 RB RB 2 47 50 1 yr.
##Koski, Corwin 228 RB 2 51 54 1 yr.
McIndoe, Clifton 331 FB FB 5 44 44 4 yrs.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE TE 5 50 50 3 yrs.
Applegate, Trevor 445 TE 3 25 25 1 yr.
Fisk, Mitchell 443 TE 2 35 51 1 yr.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL 5 47 47 5 yrs.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 5 36 36 2 yrs.
Merritt, Joe 518 FL 4 37 41 1 yr.
Dancy, Kody 514 FL FL 3 50 50 3 yrs.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE SE 5 47 47 5 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C C 5 57 57 2 yrs.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG 5 49 49 4 yrs.
Sanford, Devin 768 LG RG 2 41 59 3 yrs.
Bugden, Ashton 770 LG LG 2 43 59 3 yrs.
##Kanyuh, Abraham 778 LG 1 14 45 2 yrs.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT LT 5 49 49 5 yrs.
Jordan, Thomas 863 RT 5 36 36 1 yr.
Chaffin, Arnold 862 RT RT 1 18 38 2 yrs.
Newton, Jamie 909 P 2 67 67 1 yr.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 5 55 55 3 yrs.
##Wooden, Andre 1174LDE 5 28 28 2 yrs.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 5 36 36 1 yr.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE LDE 4 59 59 4 yrs.
##Brock, Branden 1196LDE 1 28 41 2 yrs.
Gilmore, Victor 1199LDE 1 25 52 2 yrs.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 5 46 46 2 yrs.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE RDE 3 59 59 3 yrs.
##Garcia, J.J. 1171RDE 1 31 50 2 yrs.
##Brown, Glen 1297LDT 5 36 36 4 yrs.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 5 46 46 2 yrs.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT RDT 4 64 64 1 yr.
Dellinger, Rondell 1290LDT 1 24 58 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT LDT 5 41 41 2 yrs.
##Toll, Enrique 1293RDT 2 45 54 1 yr.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 4 53 53 3 yrs.
Pedigo, William 1354WILB 1 37 51 2 yrs.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB MLB 4 62 62 4 yrs.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB WLB 5 44 44 1 yr.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB SLB 4 64 64 2 yrs.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 5 45 45 2 yrs.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 5 49 49 3 yrs.
Linquist, Bryan 1525LCB 4 36 43 1 yr.
##Schwartz, Andrew 1533RCB 5 27 27 2 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 5 46 46 3 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB RCB 5 52 52 5 yrs.
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB LCB 3 65 65 5 yrs.
##Ford, Melvin 1642SS 5 37 37 1 yr.
McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 4 49 55 2 yrs.
Braxton, Chester 1634SS SS 3 45 48 3 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS FS 5 53 53 4 yrs.
Mangrum, Hayden 651 LS 4 15 15 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 59
Inactive: 13
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $373,400,000
Cap Room: $122,070,000
Maximum for New Player: $123,070,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $730,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $253,520,000

Week 1 snap.

[MalcPow]

We've been starting QB Pritchett in the preseason and he's been very good. We're gonna try it out early.

[MalcPow]

Front Office Football Eight
2062 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2062
Record 7-9
Winning Pct. .437
All-Time 387-316-1
Winning Pct. .550
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 23
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 71-65
Winning Pct. .522
Off. Coord. K. Hines
Def. Coord. J. Gervase
Asst. Coach H. Slusarczyk
Stren. Coord. D. Norton

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.4 30
Rushing Yards 105.9 21
Yards Per Carry 4.53 14
Pass Attempts 37.7 7
Completions 21.1 26
Completion Pct. 55.9 32
Passing Yards 218.6 25
Yards Per Attempt 5.80 30
Yards Per Catch 10.38 20
Total Yardage Gained 307.6 27
3rd Down Conversions 35.8 13 (T)
Points Per Game 21.8 12 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 17.7 29
Pass Defense Pct. 60.5 2
Turnovers 24 24 (T)
Turnover Margin -3 17 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.6 18 (T)
Rushing Yards 116.4 17
Yards Per Carry 4.37 21
Pass Attempts 39.6 31
Completions 23.1 27
Completion Pct. 58.5 3
Passing Yards 230.5 14
Yards Per Attempt 5.83 4
Yards Per Catch 9.97 5
Total Yardage Gained 338.3 19
3rd Down Conversions 32.1 8
Points Per Game 19.6 11 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 25.6 32
Pass Defense Pct. 55.5 24
Turnovers 21 13 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 41 OAK 10
2 40 MAA 10
3 26 MOO 3
4 17 BKN 23
5 33 at WIL 16
6 17 at FRE 20
7 24 CDO 27
8 27 CHE 35
10 15 at FBK 10
11 20 at OAK 26
12 6 BOR 24
13 3 at IOW 9
14 7 at GOT 27
15 14 at CDO 36
16 25 at PAR 19
17 34 FBK 19

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
15 T. Pritchett QB 582 324 3298 5.67 18 14 72.4
**Team --- 603 337 3497 5.80 19 14 73.6
$$Opp --- 633 370 3688 5.83 12 16 70.8

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29 L. Curry RB 208 1010 4.86 8 0
15 T. Pritchett QB 83 470 5.66 2 10
44 D. Rogers RB 80 200 2.50 1 3
**Team --- 374 1694 4.53 11 23
$$Opp --- 426 1863 4.37 17 11

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
83 R. Conway WR 134 69 619 8.97 4.62 11 2
14 K. Dancy WR 108 66 793 12.02 7.34 1 6
19 E. Brennan WR 98 46 573 12.46 5.85 6 3
16 J. Cheramie WR 71 38 274 7.21 3.86 4 2
47 J. Farmer TE 64 36 622 17.28 9.72 4 3
44 D. Rogers RB 42 25 131 5.24 3.12 4 3
43 M. Fisk TE 26 18 188 10.44 7.23 1 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
55 E. Brennan OLB 114 23 0.0 0 4 9 72.3
95 J. Newsome ILB 111 43 0.0 0 2 16 77.2
48 D. McGuire S 83 28 0.0 0 2 12 81.7
40 C. Wallin CB 80 22 0.0 0 0 19 80.3
23 I. Sanaee S 66 33 0.0 0 1 4 75.9
56 I. Runyon OLB 57 18 0.0 0 1 5 74.5
46 R. Hartmann CB 35 14 0.0 0 4 8 85.1
77 A. Bushell DT 33 14 1.5 5 0 0 81.2
79 A. Grayek DE 33 11 7.5 14 0 0 81.9
72 E. Sanderson DT 31 17 3.0 13 0 0 82.0
91 B. Mascorella DE 29 6 7.0 10 0 0 82.2
41 M. Meyer CB 26 3 0.0 0 1 6 79.2
21 J. McCarthy CB 25 10 0.0 0 1 5 81.0
35 D. Jordan CB 16 5 0.0 0 0 7 81.7 

File it as a good solid meh.

Pritchett takes off quite a bit and scrambles. I'm not sure there were net gains there over Tate. I'm going to count this season as a general confirmation that we still need to find a quarterback. Helpful that we kind of broke the seal on trying a new guy instead of just riding the cohesion train with Tate.

WR Dancy is starting to look good and perform well.

Defense was solid.

There's a lot of zombie parts taped together in this gameplan/playbook. I might start fresh and mess around there.

[MalcPow]

Couple of new coordinators with a retirement and a fresh start on offense. We go with a young up and comer with a spread focus. We're moving from 4-3 Over to a 4-3 Under. Somebody jump in if I should expect massive changes in anything there.

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Samuels, Drake 111 QB QB 2 18 37 1 yr.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 6 25 25 2 yrs.
Koski, Corwin 228 RB FB 3 54 54 2 yrs.
Rogers, Deron 244 RB RB 3 50 50 2 yrs.
Curry, Luke 229 RB 6 48 48 1 yr.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE TE 6 50 50 2 yrs.
Fisk, Mitchell 443 TE 3 45 48 3 yrs.
Applegate, Trevor 445 TE 4 31 31 1 yr.
Dancy, Kody 514 FL SE 4 49 49 4 yrs.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL 6 47 47 4 yrs.
Hawkins, Joe 512 FL 1 37 44 2 yrs.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 6 37 37 1 yr.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE FL 6 48 48 4 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C C 6 58 58 1 yr.
Bugden, Ashton 770 LG LG 3 61 61 2 yrs.
Sanford, Devin 768 LG 3 56 59 2 yrs.
##Gray, Mike 778 LG 1 23 49 2 yrs.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG RG 6 39 39 3 yrs.
##Foreman, Edward 761 RG 1 22 50 2 yrs.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT LT 6 50 50 4 yrs.
Brandon, Will 869 LT RT 1 37 44 2 yrs.
Chaffin, Arnold 862 RT 2 30 37 1 yr.
Newton, Jamie 909 P 3 76 76 4 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 6 57 57 2 yrs.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE LDE 5 59 59 3 yrs.
Gilmore, Victor 1199LDE 2 37 52 1 yr.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 6 36 36 2 yrs.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE RDE 4 61 61 3 yrs.
##Garcia, J.J. 1171RDE 2 33 51 1 yr.
##Poole, Colin 1159RDE 1 34 45 2 yrs.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 6 38 38 1 yr.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT LDT 5 65 65 5 yrs.
Dellinger, Rondell 1290LDT 2 36 49 1 yr.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 6 46 46 1 yr.
Toll, Enrique 1293RDT RDT 3 55 55 3 yrs.
##Ferguson, Claude 1252RDT 1 25 44 2 yrs.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT 6 41 41 1 yr.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 5 53 53 2 yrs.
Pedigo, William 1354WILB 2 46 55 1 yr.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB MLB 5 62 62 3 yrs.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB SLB 5 64 64 1 yr.
Runyon, Irving 1456SLB WLB 6 43 43 1 yr.
##Strauser, Scott 1450WLB 1 25 43 2 yrs.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 6 49 49 2 yrs.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 6 36 36 1 yr.
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB LCB 4 64 64 4 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB RCB 6 51 51 4 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 6 39 39 2 yrs.
McGuire, Donnell 1648SS FS 5 52 52 1 yr.
Braxton, Chester 1634SS 4 51 51 2 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS SS 6 53 53 3 yrs.
##Carrillo, Cedric 1632FS 1 28 44 2 yrs.
Mangrum, Hayden 651 LS 5 15 15 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $377,600,000
Cap Room: $80,340,000
Maximum for New Player: $81,350,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $3,510,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $5,430,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $267,180,000

Roster snap. (It's actually Week 17 but roll with it.) We switched QBs again, giving another scrambler a twirl but one with slightly better Sense Rush.

[MalcPow]

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2063 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2063
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 396-323-1
Winning Pct. .550
Playoffs 49-13
Playoff Visits 24
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 80-72
Winning Pct. .526
Off. Coord. R. Norris
Def. Coord. R. Crawford
Asst. Coach H. Slusarczyk
Stren. Coord. D. Norton

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.9 5
Rushing Yards 135.1 5
Yards Per Carry 4.67 6
Pass Attempts 35.8 24 (T)
Completions 21.4 23 (T)
Completion Pct. 59.7 18
Passing Yards 213.5 28
Yards Per Attempt 5.96 28
Yards Per Catch 9.99 29
Total Yardage Gained 338.9 16
3rd Down Conversions 35.9 12
Points Per Game 22.6 5
Pass Rush Pct. 22.8 2
Pass Defense Pct. 58.3 5
Turnovers 25 22 (T)
Turnover Margin 0 15 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.9 7
Rushing Yards 107.4 11
Yards Per Carry 4.32 21
Pass Attempts 39.4 30
Completions 22.8 24
Completion Pct. 57.7 5
Passing Yards 250.7 30
Yards Per Attempt 6.36 16
Yards Per Catch 11.02 26
Total Yardage Gained 343.8 19
3rd Down Conversions 33.6 10 (T)
Points Per Game 20.6 21
Pass Rush Pct. 19.3 13
Pass Defense Pct. 50.1 14 (T)
Turnovers 25 6 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 24 at CDO 20
2 26 TOR 13
3 38 CPC 14
4 31 at CHI 16
5 26 at ARI 6
6 28 MIN 10
7 3 CDO 27
8 22 at FBK 20
10 17 IOW 23
11 9 OAK 24
12 20 at HAR 37
13 28 at WIL 31
14 35 ROC 21
15 14 FBK 23
16 24 at NPL 35
17 16 at OAK 10
$$WC at FBK

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
11 D. Samuels QB 573 342 3416 5.96 24 14 80.4
**Team --- 573 342 3416 5.96 24 14 80.4
$$Opp --- 631 364 4011 6.36 23 15 78.9

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
29 L. Curry RB 189 922 4.88 1 0
11 D. Samuels QB 155 834 5.38 5 10
44 D. Rogers RB 76 266 3.50 1 1
28 C. Koski RB 42 138 3.29 1 2
**Team --- 463 2162 4.67 8 18
$$Opp --- 398 1719 4.32 11 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
14 K. Dancy WR 148 87 847 9.74 5.72 6 8
19 E. Brennan WR 97 63 653 10.37 6.73 5 3
47 J. Farmer TE 105 60 531 8.85 5.06 8 2
16 J. Cheramie WR 86 41 400 9.76 4.65 5 1
44 D. Rogers RB 46 37 507 13.70 11.02 1 4
28 C. Koski RB 21 17 165 9.71 7.86 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
95 J. Newsome ILB 108 34 0.0 1 2 20 78.1
55 E. Brennan OLB 103 35 0.5 2 3 9 77.8
40 C. Wallin CB 93 23 0.0 0 2 16 76.2
23 I. Sanaee S 84 26 0.0 0 1 4 79.9
48 D. McGuire S 65 14 0.0 0 0 5 75.0
72 E. Sanderson DT 44 15 7.5 13 0 0 81.3
46 R. Hartmann CB 39 6 0.0 0 5 6 82.6
79 A. Grayek DE 34 13 7.0 14 0 1 81.2
91 B. Mascorella DE 34 14 9.5 25 0 0 81.2
93 E. Toll DT 27 20 2.0 6 0 0 81.1
56 I. Runyon OLB 26 11 0.0 0 0 7 81.5
21 J. McCarthy CB 25 4 0.0 0 1 6 80.3
41 M. Meyer CB 23 2 0.0 0 0 2 79.0
35 D. Jordan CB 17 6 0.0 0 1 7 85.4 

We got off to a tremendous start and I thought I was a genius.

Ultimately, we snagged a Wild Card spot on the last day of the season. We head to division rival Fairbanks to start the playoffs.

Big picture I think the tedium of building out a new playbook yielded some positives. I think I probably wish I'd kept a few of the old passing game parts. Might need to tweak/add there. I also might be getting a tick greedy. There might be some gains to be add with some personnel tweaks or something. And Samuels was a first year starter so there should be cohesion benefits with time. He was very effective as a scrambler. Pretty good year really. The defensive numbers are skewed by actually having some offensive competence I think.

We'll see if the playoff magic has carried over...

[MalcPow]

One and done as Fairbanks drops us 23-20 in OT. (Our third OT loss of the year.) No real complaints.

[MalcPow]

LG Ashton Bugden is a 1st Team All Pro. He allowed 0 sacks.

Part of the move to QB Drake Samuels was at least some hope we could cut down on our 60+ sacks each year. The drop to 29 this year was enormous. Maybe I shouldn't be in such a rush to overhaul this passing attack...

[Chas in Cinti]

+1

[MalcPow]

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Samuels, Drake 111 QB 3 19 37 2 yrs.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 7 25 25 1 yr.
Stapleton, Otis 226 RB 1 39 55 2 yrs.
Koski, Corwin 228 RB 4 54 54 1 yr.
Rogers, Deron 244 RB 4 50 50 1 yr.
Jennings, J.J. 237 RB 1 40 47 2 yrs.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE 7 50 50 1 yr.
Fisk, Mitchell 443 TE 4 45 48 2 yrs.
Cunningham, Rodney 485 TE 1 22 45 2 yrs.
Grier, Karl 449 TE 1 33 43 2 yrs.
Applegate, Trevor 445 TE 5 31 31 ---
Dancy, Kody 514 FL 5 49 49 3 yrs.
Cheramie, Jim 516 FL 7 47 47 3 yrs.
Hawkins, Joe 512 FL 2 38 44 1 yr.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 7 37 37 2 yrs.
Tate, Zane 515 FL 1 15 36 2 yrs.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE 7 48 48 3 yrs.
Burton, Cris 589 SE 1 26 45 2 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C 7 58 58 5 yrs.
Bugden, Ashton 770 LG 4 61 61 1 yr.
Sanford, Devin 768 LG 4 56 59 1 yr.
Gray, Mike 778 LG 2 23 49 1 yr.
Andrews, Maxwell 765 LG 7 39 39 2 yrs.
Foreman, Edward 761 RG 2 22 50 1 yr.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT 7 50 50 3 yrs.
Seymore, Gene 864 LT 1 23 46 2 yrs.
Brandon, Will 869 LT 2 37 44 1 yr.
Chaffin, Arnold 862 RT 3 30 37 2 yrs.
Newton, Jamie 909 P 4 65 65 3 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 7 56 56 1 yr.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE 6 59 59 2 yrs.
Gilmore, Victor 1199LDE 3 37 52 1 yr.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 7 36 36 1 yr.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE 5 61 61 2 yrs.
Deaton, Mel 1157RDE 1 25 56 2 yrs.
Garcia, J.J. 1171RDE 3 33 51 1 yr.
Stills, Salvador 1196RDE 1 25 51 2 yrs.
Poole, Colin 1159RDE 2 34 45 1 yr.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 7 38 38 3 yrs.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT 6 65 65 4 yrs.
Dellinger, Rondell 1290LDT 3 36 49 2 yrs.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 7 46 46 2 yrs.
Toll, Enrique 1293RDT 4 55 55 2 yrs.
Ferguson, Claude 1252RDT 2 25 44 1 yr.
Bushell, Alfredo 1277RDT 7 41 41 3 yrs.
Bryant, Jerome 1274RDT 1 26 36 2 yrs.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 6 52 52 1 yr.
Mattis, Tyrell 1353WILB 1 25 55 2 yrs.
Lynch, Lee 1397WILB 1 18 45 2 yrs.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB 6 62 62 2 yrs.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB 6 63 63 5 yrs.
Strauser, Scott 1450WLB 2 25 43 1 yr.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 7 49 49 1 yr.
Fields, Justics 1539LCB 1 25 46 2 yrs.
McCarthy, Jonathan 1521LCB 7 36 36 ---
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB 5 64 64 3 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB 7 51 51 3 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 7 39 39 1 yr.
McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 6 52 52 3 yrs.
Braxton, Chester 1634SS 5 51 51 1 yr.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS 7 53 53 4 yrs.
Carrillo, Cedric 1632FS 2 28 44 1 yr.
Perry, Chase 1627FS 1 14 38 2 yrs.
Mangrum, Hayden 651 LS 6 15 15 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 62
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 62

Salary Cap: $381,800,000
Cap Room: $54,350,000
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Maximum for New Player: $55,370,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,430,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $274,180,000

Pre-Camp Look. We try to add some fresh blood. Our original guys are 7th year players now. Some of them are fading just a tick (or fast), which we could really do without. It's not really a bad roster. We have a good base of solid players. We lack impact throughout really and we lack generally at QB/WR/OL. Tough place to lack in those three spots. We can get by with fringe average at a lot of spots or try to play situationally on defense. QB/WR/OL (QWOL?) are important spots and having a collection of mediocrity there probably pins a lot of hopes on a cohesion snowball.

All that said, new RB Otis Stapleton is one of the more interesting pickups we've had. He's got some absolutely dynamic combines and he's pretty good at almost all the bars other than Hole Rec (cringe). We'll see where that goes. We were getting good production out of RB Curry for years, but he was quickly losing steps. It seems to be a spot where we can find replacements.

[MalcPow]

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2064 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2064
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 405-330-1
Winning Pct. .550
Playoffs 49-14
Playoff Visits 25
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Ryan Frase
Record 89-80
Winning Pct. .526
Off. Coord. R. Norris
Def. Coord. R. Crawford
Asst. Coach H. Slusarczyk
Stren. Coord. B. Derr

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.8 26
Rushing Yards 94.6 27
Yards Per Carry 3.97 24
Pass Attempts 36.1 19
Completions 24.1 3
Completion Pct. 66.9 1
Passing Yards 258.1 5
Yards Per Attempt 7.16 4
Yards Per Catch 10.70 12
Total Yardage Gained 338.6 14
3rd Down Conversions 34.9 17
Points Per Game 22.7 12 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 20.4 14
Pass Defense Pct. 66.3 1
Turnovers 22 15 (T)
Turnover Margin +3 9

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.3 20
Rushing Yards 109.8 18
Yards Per Carry 4.03 12
Pass Attempts 35.8 12 (T)
Completions 20.4 3
Completion Pct. 57.1 2
Passing Yards 224.9 7
Yards Per Attempt 6.28 10
Yards Per Catch 11.00 29
Total Yardage Gained 321.9 8
3rd Down Conversions 37.2 23
Points Per Game 19.5 13 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 17.3 2 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 36.6 1
Turnovers 25 9 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 20 at FBK 31
2 17 TUC 24
3 23 at BKN 19
4 17 at TEX 13
5 17 at CDO 9
6 17 MOO 13
8 34 FBK 37
9 41 at OBX 20
10 20 CPC 10
11 37 at OAK 27
12 17 AUG 23
13 18 IOW 28
14 21 at SNP 14
15 13 OAK 16
16 7 at ORL 21
17 44 CDO 7
$$WC at FBK

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
11 D. Samuels QB 575 385 4126 7.18 23 11 93.1
**Team --- 577 386 4130 7.16 23 11 93.0
$$Opp --- 573 327 3598 6.28 18 20 71.7

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
11 D. Samuels QB 177 745 4.21 8 11
28 C. Koski RB 176 708 4.02 4 0
**Team --- 381 1514 3.97 13 19
$$Opp --- 436 1756 4.03 8 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 115 78 783 10.04 6.81 5 4
14 K. Dancy WR 108 70 720 10.29 6.67 7 2
44 D. Rogers RB 95 69 798 11.57 8.40 3 4
12 J. Hawkins WR 57 42 516 12.29 9.05 2 7
26 O. Stapleton RB 52 38 456 12.00 8.77 2 2
47 J. Farmer TE 58 36 355 9.86 6.12 3 0
43 M. Fisk TE 34 22 202 9.18 5.94 3 1
83 R. Conway WR 34 20 210 10.50 6.18 3 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
40 C. Wallin CB 101 25 0.0 1 2 23 80.7
23 I. Sanaee S 96 24 1.0 0 3 7 80.3
95 J. Newsome ILB 91 24 1.0 1 3 4 79.3
55 E. Brennan OLB 86 37 0.0 0 5 7 78.6
48 D. McGuire S 63 13 0.0 0 1 12 81.5
72 E. Sanderson DT 46 26 5.0 10 0 0 82.2
41 M. Meyer CB 39 9 0.0 0 2 12 80.5
91 B. Mascorella DE 36 15 9.5 21 0 0 81.3
46 R. Hartmann CB 33 3 0.0 0 3 6 82.5
98 B. Schroeder ILB 31 7 0.0 0 0 1 67.5
53 T. Mattis OLB 31 6 1.0 1 1 2 77.8
79 A. Grayek DE 29 15 3.0 11 0 1 80.0
93 E. Toll DT 18 12 2.0 6 0 0 82.5 

Pretty clearly our best team by my eyes. The offense is constructed around this particular group of losers, and there are some real gains from spreading the targets around when your guys are fringey former bag boys. QB Drake Samuels also continues to save us from some bad plays by just taking off.

D was solid. I'm honestly not doing a whole there other than trying to rotate our DL situationally. CB Wallin had a massive year.

I'm pretty happy with this. We still feel like we're not quite good enough to put together a 12 win season or something. And I'm not really sure what the path there might be. Samuels is just finishing year 2. I don't think we're going to stumble into a stud receiver. We're gonna push the "spread it around" lever even further next year with more formations I guess. Get all these guys under 100 targets or something.

We get Fairbanks on the road again as a Wild Card team.

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We lose 23-20 in OT. Which is exactly the final score, team, and circumstances of our season's end a year ago. I liked it better when we just won the Bowl every trip to the playoffs.

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CB Carter Wallin was a 1st Team All Pro.

Nobody else. I honestly think there's a chance Samuels could get there with the Pass+Rush combo production.

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I think we need to clean up some loose ends this offseason. We're kind of in range of the sort of team where really dialing in our special teams as much as possible could be really helpful. We had bad returners last year and that's basically unacceptable in these circumstances. Those guys are floating out there and we had some good ones early, just let it slip last year.

Hoping for some OL talent too.

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Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Samuels, Drake 111 QB 4 24 40 4 yrs.
Beliveau, Joseph 116 QB 1 9 34 2 yrs.
Tate, Kenny 108 QB 8 20 20 3 yrs.
Stapleton, Otis 226 RB 2 46 66 3 yrs.
McNeil, Thurman 242 RB 1 34 55 2 yrs.
Ostroski, Freddie 245 RB 1 39 54 2 yrs.
Rogers, Deron 244 RB 5 52 52 2 yrs.
Koski, Corwin 228 RB 5 50 50 3 yrs.
Jennings, J.J. 337 FB 2 24 43 1 yr.
Cunningham, Rodney 485 TE 2 26 51 1 yr.
Farmer, J.R. 447 TE 8 48 48 3 yrs.
Fisk, Mitchell 443 TE 5 48 48 1 yr.
Ingram, Jameson 481 TE 3 43 43 3 yrs.
Reed, Leo 484 TE 1 21 42 2 yrs.
Hutton, Randall 486 TE 3 32 36 3 yrs.
Grier, Karl 449 TE 2 35 35 1 yr.
Gaylor, Horace 487 TE 1 12 23 2 yrs.
Tate, Zane 515 FL 2 19 51 1 yr.
Dancy, Kody 514 FL 6 47 47 2 yrs.
Hawkins, Joe 512 FL 3 42 42 2 yrs.
Conway, Rob 583 FL 8 36 36 1 yr.
Burton, Cris 589 SE 2 34 45 1 yr.
Brennan, Ethan 519 SE 8 44 44 2 yrs.
Freeman, Archie 518 SE 1 24 31 2 yrs.
Rogers, J.C. 510 SE 1 15 22 2 yrs.
Walker, Damian 658 C 8 56 56 4 yrs.
Bugden, Ashton 770 LG 5 56 56 4 yrs.
Sanford, Devin 768 LG 5 51 51 2 yrs.
Foreman, Edward 761 RG 3 24 56 1 yr.
Mughelli, Lamont 873 LT 8 50 50 2 yrs.
Brandon, Will 869 LT 3 36 36 4 yrs.
James, Myles 860 RT 1 20 39 2 yrs.
Chaffin, Arnold 862 RT 4 35 35 1 yr.
Newton, Jamie 909 P 5 67 67 2 yrs.
Chapman, Desmond 1005K 8 56 56 2 yrs.
Grayek, Albert 1179LDE 7 51 51 3 yrs.
Gilmore, Victor 1199LDE 4 43 43 3 yrs.
Coats, Francisco 1176LDE 8 38 38 2 yrs.
Mascorella, Bob 1191RDE 6 60 60 4 yrs.
Garcia, J.J. 1171RDE 4 37 45 2 yrs.
Fraaije, D.J. 1194RDE 8 38 38 2 yrs.
Sanderson, Ezekiel 1272LDT 7 70 70 3 yrs.
Dellinger, Rondell 1290LDT 4 35 52 1 yr.
Deaton, Mel 1257LDT 2 40 46 3 yrs.
Roberts, Glenn 1292LDT 8 44 44 1 yr.
Toll, Enrique 1293RDT 5 53 53 1 yr.
Ferguson, Claude 1252RDT 3 26 45 1 yr.
Schroeder, Butch 1398SILB 7 53 53 2 yrs.
Wesley, Dustin 1356WILB 1 21 41 2 yrs.
Newsome, Joseph 1395MLB 7 60 60 4 yrs.
Brennan, Enrique 1455SLB 7 53 53 4 yrs.
Mattis, Tyrell 1453WLB 2 48 60 2 yrs.
Strauser, Scott 1450WLB 3 30 47 ---
Lynch, Lee 1497WLB 2 24 41 1 yr.
Meyer, Mel 1541LCB 8 58 58 3 yrs.
Fields, Justics 1539LCB 2 39 54 2 yrs.
Torello, Miles 1538LCB 1 16 27 2 yrs.
Wallin, Carter 1540RCB 6 65 65 2 yrs.
Hartmann, Roger 1546RCB 8 54 54 2 yrs.
Creech, Peter 1520RCB 1 23 46 2 yrs.
Jordan, Damian 1535RCB 8 38 38 2 yrs.
McGuire, Donnell 1648SS 7 58 58 2 yrs.
Braxton, Chester 1634SS 6 49 49 2 yrs.
Sanaee, Ike 1623FS 8 52 52 3 yrs.
Perry, Chase 1627FS 2 18 44 1 yr.
Mangrum, Hayden 651 LS 7 15 15 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 65
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 65

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Salary Cap: $386,000,000
Cap Room: $41,530,000
Maximum for New Player: $42,700,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,060,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $350,700,000

Pre-Camp look. Didn't really hit the lottery with the available pool of players. Added some return guys. Hoping to hit on another RB or something. We're starting to shed a few of the fading guys and we'll likely shed a few more post-camp. Think there are real pressures to keep some passing game cohesion but otherwise we'll probably have to rotate new guys in as our dudes approach years 8-10.

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2065 Summary for Hanalei Dragons

Year 2065
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 415-336-1
Winning Pct. .552
Playoffs 49-15
Playoff Visits 26
Bowl Wins 10
Head Coach Danny Mejia
Record 68-62
Winning Pct. .523
Off. Coord. R. Norris
Def. Coord. R. Crawford
Asst. Coach G. Horner
Stren. Coord. B. Derr

Hanalei Dragons Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.3 25
Rushing Yards 114.2 17
Yards Per Carry 4.70 5
Pass Attempts 36.6 14 (T)
Completions 23.8 6
Completion Pct. 65.0 5
Passing Yards 266.6 4
Yards Per Attempt 7.28 3
Yards Per Catch 11.19 5
Total Yardage Gained 370.6 6
3rd Down Conversions 39.6 5 (T)
Points Per Game 25.4 6
Pass Rush Pct. 21.5 5
Pass Defense Pct. 45.3 21
Turnovers 27 29
Turnover Margin -12 30

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.3 14
Rushing Yards 106.2 11
Yards Per Carry 4.05 12
Pass Attempts 40.3 32
Completions 23.9 27 (T)
Completion Pct. 59.4 3
Passing Yards 261.6 31
Yards Per Attempt 6.49 13 (T)
Yards Per Catch 10.93 25
Total Yardage Gained 355.8 24
3rd Down Conversions 43.6 32
Points Per Game 22.4 20
Pass Rush Pct. 19.1 13
Pass Defense Pct. 39.2 6
Turnovers 15 24 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 26 at OAK 20
2 34 at SAO 37
3 31 at TEX 33
4 45 BKN 37
5 9 at WIL 20
6 13 at FRE 34
7 19 at CDO 14
8 17 CHE 25
10 27 FBK 19
11 19 OAK 20
12 22 at HOU 13
13 22 MIN 17
14 34 AKR 16
15 26 CDO 10
16 29 FTW 23
17 34 at FBK 20
$$WC FRE

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
11 D. Samuels QB 586 381 4265 7.28 17 16 84.8
**Team --- 586 381 4265 7.28 17 16 84.8
$$Opp --- 645 383 4186 6.49 21 9 83.6

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Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
11 D. Samuels QB 210 1038 4.94 16 7
45 F. Ostroski RB 141 612 4.34 5 1
**Team --- 389 1827 4.70 23 22
$$Opp --- 420 1699 4.05 11 15

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
19 E. Brennan WR 109 74 768 10.38 7.05 8 3
44 D. Rogers RB 96 65 750 11.54 7.81 2 2
14 K. Dancy WR 92 60 692 11.53 7.52 2 2
43 M. Fisk TE 63 42 530 12.62 8.41 1 1
47 J. Farmer TE 55 38 521 13.71 9.47 2 3
26 O. Stapleton RB 54 32 322 10.06 5.96 4 2
89 C. Burton WR 46 30 281 9.37 6.11 3 3
83 R. Conway WR 41 29 274 9.45 6.68 3 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
95 J. Newsome ILB 103 38 0.0 1 2 12 76.6
40 C. Wallin CB 101 21 0.0 0 3 15 76.5
23 I. Sanaee S 89 34 0.0 0 1 5 78.5
55 E. Brennan OLB 77 21 0.0 0 0 8 74.2
48 D. McGuire S 69 21 0.0 0 1 7 77.0
41 M. Meyer CB 49 19 0.0 0 1 3 76.1
57 M. Deaton DT 39 16 3.0 2 0 0 82.2
53 T. Mattis OLB 32 18 1.5 11 1 9 83.0
46 R. Hartmann CB 28 9 0.0 0 0 4 78.9
91 B. Mascorella DE 27 15 2.5 16 0 0 81.5
93 E. Toll DT 27 10 3.5 12 0 2 82.6
72 E. Sanderson DT 26 4 6.5 9 0 0 81.8
35 D. Jordan CB 25 4 0.0 0 0 1 69.1
56 D. Wesley ILB 24 4 0.0 0 0 1 68.2
79 A. Grayek DE 22 8 2.5 18 0 0 81.6
98 B. Schroeder ILB 19 5 0.0 0 0 0 73.2 

We're hosting a playoff game. Woot. The defense regressed. So much for infusing fresh blood. (Note to self, ride the cohesion train all the way off the cliff.) I mean honestly the defense was flat weird. A lot of bad there, and the turnover stuff is almost silly.

We turned it over a fair amount, but that differential is pretty heavily skewed by a lack of takeaways. We had a bunch of fumbles... but I had to go digging to find them. QB Samuels was pretty good. And the rookie we slotted into our primary rusher spot was great. Our cool new returners fumbled 10 times. Another big win for my "addressing offseason objectives" resume. We got much better from a return yardage standpoint... Seriously though, the rookie CB punt returner we signed (who does nothing else) was top 5 in average yardage but fumbled 6 times on 30 returns. Is that even possible?

The defensive regression is doubly frustrating because I feel like I've delicately constructed some kind of legitimate offense that hinges on a refreshing communist spirit in the receiving corps. And I'm just not sure how viable the whole house of cards is.

Ah well, maybe we can win a playoff game.

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No such luck, we get bounced 23-6 by Frederick. Couple stalled red zone drives, couldn't really stop the pass. My working theory is that competent offense leads to more leads/more passing from your opponents leads to exposing our lack of talent on the D side. We also may have fallen in love with a couple of "good" DL guys who are almost 60 rated overall. They're solid but they're not the pure situational specialists we were rolling with when having a bit more success. Might have to roll that back. Good players will kill you man.

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I'm also extremely fascinated by how terribly this offense just performed in a separate test I just ran with what appeared to be a rich man's version of this roster. We only have a 67 in the passing cohesion category but this gimp collection appears to have some other magic working.

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K Desmond Chapman is 1st Team All Pro. Probably means we're stalling out too many damn drives.

CB Carter Wallin is a 2nd Teamer. It's his 3rd time on the 1st/2nd team through 6 seasons. I think it'd be cool if we got a HOF CB over the line in a misfit dynasty. He might not end up in the rotation program next year.