2019 Week #3 Discussion

[Vic Carucci]

GAME OF THE WEEKMurfreesboro (2-0-0, PR 91) at Norfolk (2-0-0, PR 92)Norfolk is favored by 3.5 points.70 degrees, 9mph, Fair.

MARQUEE MATCHUPPortland (2-0-0, PR 86) at Cleveland (2-0-0, PR 82)Cleveland is favored by 1 points.63 degrees, 6mph, Fair.

MARQUEE MATCHUPTulsa (2-0-0, PR 84) at Lawrence (1-1-0, PR 80)Lawrence is favored by 1 points.65 degrees, 11mph, Rain.

MARQUEE MATCHUPWest Virginia (2-0-0, PR 87) at Fresno (1-1-0, PR 85)Fresno is favored by 1.5 points.95 degrees, 1mph, Fair.

MARQUEE MATCHUPOakland (2-0-0, PR 80) at Pennsylvania (1-1-0, PR 75)Pennsylvania is favored by 0.5 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

WORTH WATCHINGOrlando (1-1-0, PR 70) at Vancouver (1-1-0, PR 76)Vancouver is favored by 6 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

WORTH WATCHINGVermont (1-1-0, PR 79) at Reno (1-1-0, PR 76)Reno is favored by 1.5 points.59 degrees, 1mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDLos Angeles (1-1-0, PR 78) at Iowa City (1-1-0, PR 72)PUSH.48 degrees, 5mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDLansing (1-1-0, PR 69) at Texas (1-1-0, PR 73)Texas is favored by 5 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDHartford (0-2-0, PR 68) at Anchorage (2-0-0, PR 85)Anchorage is favored by 11 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERSalt Lake City (1-1-0, PR 75) at Dakota (0-2-0, PR 66)Salt Lake City is favored by 2 points.39 degrees, 1mph, Rain.

DON'T BOTHERMontreal (0-2-0, PR 78) at Houston (0-2-0, PR 66)Montreal is favored by 3 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERWichita (0-2-0, PR 69) at St. Louis (1-1-0, PR 70)St. Louis is favored by 3.5 points.74 degrees, 10mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERMadison (0-2-0, PR 61) at Georgia (1-1-0, PR 85)Georgia is favored by 12.5 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERLouisiana (1-1-0, PR 69) at Chicago (0-2-0, PR 51)Louisiana is favored by 6.5 points.75 degrees, 4mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERLittle Rock (0-2-0, PR 57) at Newark (1-1-0, PR 86)Newark is favored by 14 points.68 degrees, 6mph, Fair.

[Vic Carucci]

TEAM	ROSTER	OFF	DEF	REC	WINPCT	OPPREC	OPPPCT	PWR RTG	LAST RNK	RTG CHG
Norfolk Vipers	81.2	108.0	94.5	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	92.07	1	-15.61
Murfreesboro Mules	87.2	98.3	77.5	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	91.09	3	-1.48
West Virginia Beasts	80.5	91.1	84.4	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	87.24	5	+1.12
Newark Bulldogs	88.1	120.9	59.6	1-1-0	0.500	1-3-0	0.250	86.21	6	+0.12
Portland Seals	85.7	85.6	62.9	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	86.07	9	+4.14
Georgia Generals	81.9	80.0	81.7	1-1-0	0.500	3-1-0	0.750	84.90	15	+6.61
Fresno Warthogs	88.0	78.6	81.5	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	84.59	7	-1.45
Anchorage Lynx	80.5	72.7	65.5	2-0-0	1.000	2-2-0	0.500	84.53	14	+6.00
Tulsa TigerHawks	77.6	88.9	76.6	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	84.29	17	+7.17
Cleveland Clawz	75.8	71.3	90.0	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	81.93	21	+8.39
Lawrence Phantoms	77.2	90.2	49.3	1-1-0	0.500	3-1-0	0.750	79.92	10	-1.90
Oakland Assassins	71.5	76.4	84.3	2-0-0	1.000	1-3-0	0.250	79.87	11	-0.36
Vermont Mountaineers	75.8	86.7	96.8	1-1-0	0.500	1-3-0	0.250	78.60	19	+4.55
Los Angeles Matadors	75.5	53.1	92.9	1-1-0	0.500	3-1-0	0.750	78.20	18	+3.94
Montreal Firebirds	87.7	67.7	76.9	0-2-0	0.000	3-1-0	0.750	77.92	8	-6.12
Vancouver Killer Whales	81.2	63.2	65.3	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	76.03	22	+3.05
Reno Wolfpack	73.3	68.8	60.7	1-1-0	0.500	3-1-0	0.750	75.58	16	-2.39
Salt Lake City Stallions	67.6	106.2	54.4	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	75.38	26	+5.95
Pennsylvania Lions	72.4	69.0	84.5	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	75.16	12	-4.72
Texas Trojans	70.5	68.0	79.7	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	73.32	2	-21.43
Iowa City Snipe Hunters	79.3	75.9	51.5	1-1-0	0.500	1-3-0	0.250	72.30	13	-6.93
St. Louis Cardinals	69.3	54.6	101.8	1-1-0	0.500	1-3-0	0.250	70.03	27	+1.84
Orlando Pirates	63.7	70.4	53.9	1-1-0	0.500	3-1-0	0.750	69.97	25	+0.09
Louisiana Voodoo	66.7	57.0	80.7	1-1-0	0.500	2-2-0	0.500	69.48	4	-21.32
Lansing Ogres	68.0	70.3	79.1	1-1-0	0.500	1-3-0	0.250	69.15	20	-4.46
Wichita Outlaws	73.1	60.9	76.7	0-2-0	0.000	3-1-0	0.750	69.05	23	-3.28
Hartford Whalers	80.5	54.4	46.8	0-2-0	0.000	3-1-0	0.750	67.73	24	-3.86
Houston Renegades	67.9	64.2	45.7	0-2-0	0.000	4-0-0	1.000	66.00	30	-0.09
Dakota Spirit	64.3	87.9	50.4	0-2-0	0.000	3-1-0	0.750	65.87	28	-2.25
Madison Demons	70.8	47.2	68.8	0-2-0	0.000	2-2-0	0.500	61.13	29	-6.07
Little Rock Toads	62.8	47.0	71.9	0-2-0	0.000	2-2-0	0.500	57.33	31	-4.73
Chicago Crusaders	54.2	35.5	49.5	0-2-0	0.000	3-1-0	0.750	50.97	32	-2.34

[Matt]

Game against the Toads on easter sunday. Looking forward to beating those guys as payback from last year's loss. Newark 14pt favorites? not sure about that.

Though this game boasts the current PPG leaders (newark - 43PPG) against the lowest scoring team (Little Rock 6.5PPG). I'm not falling for those stats though. I think this one will be close. i'm hoping not too close tho

[Suicane]

If I win this week I better level up from Don't Bother.

[tarcone]

An early season must win game for us. Our road in the playoffs has been short lately due to losing reg season games like this.

[DDT]

Game against the Toads on easter sunday. Looking forward to beating those guys as payback from last year's loss. Newark 14pt favorites? not sure about that.

Though this game boasts the current PPG leaders (newark - 43PPG) against the lowest scoring team (Little Rock 6.5PPG). I'm not falling for those stats though. I think this one will be close. i'm hoping not too close tho

I haven't felt like we were out classed in either of our losses. It's turnovers. We've been decent when we can hang on to the ball. The defense is fine other than not creating many turnovers.

At first glance I felt good about returning from this road stand at 1-2. Seems unlikely now.

[Mike17]

Wow, that was as close as it gets. Portland tries a game winning, chip shot field goal with 40 seconds left and it gets blocked!

Hell of a game Jeffrey

[Matt]

We poured the defensive heat up against the Toads. Sacks, INTs, Blocked punts......I think we had 3 or 4 defensive players up for DPOTW. Pretty nice performance

[Vic Carucci]

IFL GAMEDAY: 2019 Week 3

GAME RESULTS
BOX		Hartford Whalers	21-24	Anchorage Lynx		LOG
BOX		Lansing Ogres	27-21	Texas Trojans		LOG
BOX		Little Rock Toads	6-44	Newark Bulldogs		LOG
BOX		Los Angeles Matadors	23-26	Iowa City Snipe Hunters		LOG
BOX		Louisiana Voodoo	3-6	Chicago Crusaders		LOG
BOX		Madison Demons	26-23	Georgia Generals		LOG
BOX		Montreal Firebirds	20-23	Houston Renegades		LOG
BOX		Murfreesboro Mules	19-27	Norfolk Vipers		LOG
BOX		Oakland Assassins	13-34	Pennsylvania Lions		LOG
BOX		Orlando Pirates	21-24	Vancouver Killer Whales		LOG
BOX		Portland Seals	23-24	Cleveland Clawz		LOG
BOX		Salt Lake City Stallions	9-6	Dakota Spirit		LOG
BOX		Tulsa TigerHawks	14-28	Lawrence Phantoms		LOG
BOX		Vermont Mountaineers	10-22	Reno Wolfpack		LOG
BOX		West Virginia Beasts	30-3	Fresno Warthogs		LOG
BOX		Wichita Outlaws	27-20	St. Louis Cardinals		LOG

TOP PERFORMERS
OFF POTW		QB Devin Freeman (PEN)	32/45, 434yds, 3TD, 0INT
DEF POTW		FS Craig Hampton (NWK)	2int, 1pd, 1 ctc, 23 psply, 131.0 pdpct, 2tk, 1a.
ST POTW		FL Hugh LaBrosse (GEO)	0-0-0TD pr. 2-110-1TD kr, 2tk.

INJURIES OF NOTE
	G Louis Gardner (HOU)	69/69	Torn Knee Cartilage	6 wks

[Vic Carucci]

Rookie stats did not update this week for some reason. I hope this is rectified for next week.

I used extender to extract the data

Offensive Rookie of the Week Candidates
	FL Rondell Lee	Los Angeles	7-79 yds catch (11.29 ypc, 22 yac, 8 tgt, 9.88 ypt), 1 TD, 0 drp ( 72.318 )
	SE Frankie Shields	Los Angeles	6-69 yds catch (11.50 ypc, 24 yac, 9 tgt, 7.67 ypt), 1 TD, 0 drp ( 60.945 )
	FL Phillip Diedrich	Wichita	5-88 yds catch (17.60 ypc, 51 yac, 11 tgt, 8.00 ypt), 0 TD, 0 drp ( 59.383 )
	FL Alfred Garrison	Iowa City	5-68 yds catch (13.60 ypc, 4 yac, 9 tgt, 7.56 ypt), 0 TD, 0 drp ( 52.343 )
	SE Rufus Schroeder	Los Angeles	3-80 yds catch (26.67 ypc, 25 yac, 4 tgt, 20.00 ypt), 0 TD, 0 drp ( 49.939 )

Defensive Rookie of the Week Candidates
	LDT Zach Reed	Newark	5 tkl, 1.5 sacks, 1 caught, 1 hurries, 2 QBKnock ( 88.112 )
	LCB Corwin Lehr	Lawrence	2 tkl, 1 INT (20 yds, 0 TD), 2 caught ( 81.396 )
	SILB Deion Dobler	Hartford	11 tkl, 7 caught ( 67.047 )
	RDE Antoine Freese	Chicago	4 tkl, 1 sacks, 2 hurries ( 66.39 )
	WLB J.C. Tennyson	Oakland	3 tkl, 1 sacks, 1 passblk, 1 caught, 2 hurries ( 65.6995 )

[SteveBsFan]

Man, close game. I was able to finally get some key turnovers, yet still only won by 3. A win is a win, but if you want to win it all in this league, you can't only win by 3 when you get 5 turnovers in your favor.

GG Montreal, one of us had to win lol

[JesterBlaze]

Didn't expect to shut down Tulsa at all, let alone as easy as it was. Willie Bohannan was superman on defense today: 2 sacks, 2 blocks, 4 hurries, 2 knockdowns.

Just one of those days all the dice rolls went my way, tarc. Maybe you'll get a rematch in about 15 games.

[VitoStallion]

Didn't expect to shut down Tulsa at all, let alone as easy as it was. Willie Bohannan was superman on defense today: 2 sacks, 2 blocks, 4 hurries, 2 knockdowns.

Just one of those days all the dice rolls went my way, tarc. Maybe you'll get a rematch in about 15 games.

Got Tulsa next and I'm very interested in what you did there...I've never beat them

gg Dakota, "Try and Stop Me" just got a taste of the SLC "Dusty-2" and he got 'stopped'

[dthompso8]

GG Norfolk..

Not much in this one..
Norfolk got 14 points early on turnovers (an interception by ex Mule Preston and a fumbled punt return).
Mules missed a couple of chances to score during the game, fumbling at Norfolk 14 and turning it over on downs at the 13..
We got a punt return fumble back but could only turn it into 3 points... so the game was always close but felt like Norfolk were always in control from early on...

[Jave]

Just another example of, WTF? How does a 41 rated QB throw for almost 450 yards and 3 scores with ZERO picks.
FOF=/random roll....

Just another example of, there are those who are "in the know", and then theres the rest of us. GG Penn.......