2019 Week#4 Discussion

[Vic Carucci]

GAME OF THE WEEKMurfreesboro (2-1-0, PR 87) at Anchorage (3-0-0, PR 85)Anchorage is favored by 2 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

MARQUEE MATCHUPSalt Lake City (2-1-0, PR 76) at Tulsa (2-1-0, PR 79)Tulsa is favored by 4.5 points.68 degrees, 7mph, Rain.

WORTH WATCHINGLansing (2-1-0, PR 72) at Newark (2-1-0, PR 89)Newark is favored by 11 points.56 degrees, 2mph, Fair.

WORTH WATCHINGNorfolk (3-0-0, PR 95) at Wichita (1-2-0, PR 71)Norfolk is favored by 8.5 points.46 degrees, 2mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDPennsylvania (2-1-0, PR 83) at Vermont (1-2-0, PR 72)Pennsylvania is favored by 2.5 points.41 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDReno (2-1-0, PR 82) at Texas (1-2-0, PR 68)Reno is favored by 4 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDVancouver (2-1-0, PR 77) at Georgia (1-2-0, PR 75)Georgia is favored by 2 points.68 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDHartford (0-3-0, PR 70) at Cleveland (3-0-0, PR 84)Cleveland is favored by 10 points.71 degrees, 19mph, Stormy.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDIowa City (2-1-0, PR 80) at Chicago (1-2-0, PR 55)Iowa City is favored by 9 points.65 degrees, 12mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDWest Virginia (3-0-0, PR 91) at Montreal (0-3-0, PR 73)West Virginia is favored by 6 points.39 degrees, 0mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDHouston (1-2-0, PR 65) at Fresno (1-2-0, PR 82)Fresno is favored by 11 points.79 degrees, 6mph, Fair.

REGIONALLY TELEVISEDDakota (0-3-0, PR 62) at Lawrence (2-1-0, PR 85)Lawrence is favored by 12.5 points.70 degrees, 5mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHERLos Angeles (1-2-0, PR 72) at St. Louis (1-2-0, PR 64)Los Angeles is favored by 0.5 points.59 degrees, 1mph, Fair.

DON'T BOTHEROakland (2-1-0, PR 77) at Little Rock (0-3-0, PR 52)Oakland is favored by 9.5 points.86 degrees, 9mph, Fair.

[Vic Carucci]

TEAM	ROSTER	OFF	DEF	REC	WINPCT	OPPREC	OPPPCT	PWR RTG	LAST RNK	RTG CHG
Norfolk Vipers	81.2	100.9	83.8	3-0-0	1.000	4-5-0	0.444	93.56	1	+1.49
West Virginia Beasts	80.5	89.3	94.9	3-0-0	1.000	3-6-0	0.333	90.71	3	+3.47
Newark Bulldogs	88.1	118.2	75.1	2-1-0	0.667	2-7-0	0.222	88.63	4	+2.42
Murfreesboro Mules	87.2	89.3	68.2	2-1-0	0.667	5-4-0	0.556	87.68	2	-3.41
Lawrence Phantoms	77.2	93.9	57.9	2-1-0	0.667	7-2-0	0.778	86.32	11	+6.40
Cleveland Clawz	75.8	74.5	74.4	3-0-0	1.000	4-5-0	0.444	84.98	10	+3.05
Anchorage Lynx	80.5	78.1	63.4	3-0-0	1.000	3-6-0	0.333	84.40	8	-0.13
Pennsylvania Lions	72.4	84.2	84.1	2-1-0	0.667	6-3-0	0.667	84.02	19	+8.86
Portland Seals	85.7	86.7	62.2	2-1-0	0.667	4-5-0	0.444	83.83	5	-2.24
Fresno Warthogs	88.0	65.3	73.7	1-2-0	0.333	7-2-0	0.778	81.93	7	-2.66
Reno Wolfpack	73.3	71.0	71.2	2-1-0	0.667	6-3-0	0.667	80.30	17	+4.72
Tulsa TigerHawks	77.6	77.3	64.3	2-1-0	0.667	4-5-0	0.444	78.67	9	-5.62
Iowa City Snipe Hunters	79.3	80.2	52.7	2-1-0	0.667	4-5-0	0.444	78.38	21	+6.08
Vancouver Killer Whales	81.2	72.4	64.3	2-1-0	0.667	3-6-0	0.333	77.52	16	+1.49
Oakland Assassins	71.5	71.6	63.7	2-1-0	0.667	5-4-0	0.556	76.63	12	-3.24
Salt Lake City Stallions	67.6	85.4	64.3	2-1-0	0.667	4-5-0	0.444	75.55	18	+0.17
Georgia Generals	81.9	79.5	70.3	1-2-0	0.333	4-5-0	0.444	75.53	6	-9.37
Los Angeles Matadors	75.5	64.8	73.9	1-2-0	0.333	6-3-0	0.667	74.23	14	-3.97
Montreal Firebirds	87.7	68.2	72.5	0-3-0	0.000	6-3-0	0.667	73.95	15	-3.97
Vermont Mountaineers	75.8	73.4	83.3	1-2-0	0.333	4-5-0	0.444	73.40	13	-5.20
Lansing Ogres	68.0	77.0	74.6	2-1-0	0.667	2-7-0	0.222	71.78	25	+2.63
Wichita Outlaws	73.1	68.1	70.6	1-2-0	0.333	5-4-0	0.556	71.36	26	+2.31
Hartford Whalers	80.5	63.9	48.7	0-3-0	0.000	8-1-0	0.889	70.46	27	+2.73
Texas Trojans	70.5	69.8	68.5	1-2-0	0.333	4-5-0	0.444	68.30	20	-5.02
Orlando Pirates	63.7	73.3	53.9	1-2-0	0.333	6-3-0	0.667	67.67	23	-2.30
Madison Demons	70.8	61.6	66.5	1-2-0	0.333	4-5-0	0.444	66.67	30	+5.54
Houston Renegades	67.9	68.4	51.7	1-2-0	0.333	4-5-0	0.444	64.57	28	-1.43
Louisiana Voodoo	66.7	47.6	95.3	1-2-0	0.333	3-6-0	0.333	64.24	24	-5.24
St. Louis Cardinals	69.3	63.5	77.8	1-2-0	0.333	2-7-0	0.222	64.05	22	-5.98
Dakota Spirit	64.3	74.7	61.7	0-3-0	0.000	6-3-0	0.667	62.92	29	-2.95
Chicago Crusaders	54.2	36.9	63.4	1-2-0	0.333	5-4-0	0.556	56.04	32	+5.07
Little Rock Toads	62.8	40.9	61.3	0-3-0	0.000	4-5-0	0.444	52.19	31	-5.14

[Matt]

Got the ogres this week. After such a down year last year looks like the new kid is turning them around a little

[Hoosier]

So, we're 1-2, and two losses were close games, and we're a don't bother. It's gotta be Suicane that's diminishing our luster....

[tarcone]

Salt Lake and their 2nd year QB, Elvis, pay a visit. We have been waiting for a week to wash that nasty Lawrence loss out of our mouths. We plan to take it out on Salt Lake.

Lets kick the tires and light the fires, boys.

[VitoStallion]

Salt Lake and their 2nd year QB, Elvis, pay a visit. We have been waiting for a week to wash that nasty Lawrence loss out of our mouths. We plan to take it out on Salt Lake.

Lets kick the tires and light the fires, boys.

You ain't taking shit out here...headbussin' is back in SLC and we don't take kindly to weak-ass FINESSE teams writing ass-whipping checks they can't cash.


SLC for the win...might even be by 14 points.

[tarcone]

You will see finesse when the Designated Hitter punches you in the mouth all day.

[DakotaGeorge]

Lost 3 games by 3 points all in the final 2 minutes so far this season. I think if we start out 0-5 Which is a good possibility I will be giving Hamilton to the highest bidder so he can finish somewhere where he might make a playoff run.

[Matt]

FYI

games may be delayed. SUicane needs to upload the commish file for me to run the games.

[Matt]

games are a go!

[jley618]

Got the ogres this week. After such a down year last year looks like the new kid is turning them around a little

We are dogs by 11, and just hoping to keep it close.

Rebuild year one, is going fairly well thus far, hopefully the progress will continue.

[VitoStallion]

And MITCHELL starts URrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh

I must have missed something setting my depth chart

gg Tarcone

[Vic Carucci]

IFL GAMEDAY: 2019 Week 4

GAME RESULTS
BOX		Dakota Spirit	24-38	Lawrence Phantoms		LOG
BOX		Hartford Whalers	13-24	Cleveland Clawz		LOG
BOX		Houston Renegades	17-23	Fresno Warthogs		LOG
BOX		Iowa City Snipe Hunters	38-26	Chicago Crusaders		LOG
BOX		Lansing Ogres	10-30	Newark Bulldogs		LOG
BOX		Los Angeles Matadors	17-23	St. Louis Cardinals		LOG
BOX		Murfreesboro Mules	13-7	Anchorage Lynx		LOG
BOX		Norfolk Vipers	27-24	Wichita Outlaws		LOG
BOX		Oakland Assassins	23-21	Little Rock Toads		LOG
BOX		Pennsylvania Lions	24-37	Vermont Mountaineers		LOG
BOX		Reno Wolfpack	23-17	Texas Trojans		LOG
BOX		Salt Lake City Stallions	9-34	Tulsa TigerHawks		LOG
BOX		Vancouver Killer Whales	20-10	Georgia Generals		LOG
BOX		West Virginia Beasts	20-17	Montreal Firebirds		LOG

TOP PERFORMERS
OFF POTW		QB Matt Sanford (TUL)	25/36, 301yds, 4TD, 0INT
DEF POTW		LDE Rickey "The Hitman" Doyle (OAK)	2.5sk, 2h, 3tkl, 1ast, 4kd.
OFF ROTW		RB Edgar Haller (CHI)	12-52, 2TD. 0/0/0 rec.
DEF ROTW		RCB Lamont Floyd (VER)	1int, 1pd, 0 ctc, 15 psply, 132.2 pdpct, 0tk, 1a.
ST POTW		SE Kent Mulligan (OAK)	1-88-1TD pr. 1-28-0TD kr, 0tk.

INJURIES OF NOTE
	DE Edwin Beauchamp (FRE)	76/76	Sprained Neck	4 wks

[SteveBsFan]

Glad to see my coach was playing for the tie instead of the win at the end of regulation.

Gotta love FOF logic.

3 timeouts remaining...

1st and 10 at Fresno's 13 yard line with 53 seconds to go: Run for 0 yards
2nd and 10 with 31 to go: Run for 4 yards
Call timeout with 6 seconds to go
Kick field goal

That was some of the biggest horseshit I've seen in this game so far. It makes me wonder why we even bother putting an ounce of thought into anything in the game. May as well just let the random number generator do it's thing. I mean Albert Schwartz is rated 97/97 yet has a career 81.6 rating and a 59.5% pass completion, worse than my really shitty backup QB rated 39/39.

Maybe I should trade Atkins for Schwartz so Fresno can get an upgrade of a QB?

Obviously sarcasm here, but when I see shit like that, and see like the coaching logic displayed today, FOF is really a retarded simulation.

Oh and let's not forget my linebacker JT Kleinecke who has been disgruntled since last season. I guess that makes since because it sucks being put in the starting WLB role every single game last year, and then moved to MLB for a test today... but because the first formation of the game may have been nickle or dime, he's only counted as starting 5 out of 16 games.. sweet!

Sorry for the rant, this game is wearing on me. I think it may be time to rex the rest of the season and come back after my team loses again and pretend I'm actually making a difference during the off-season (spoiler alert: I'm not). I mean rex can't be worse than my gameplans, and maybe they'll give me some extra weight when it does it's rolls to see whether or not my QB can hit a receiver... or he can beat the dreaded "The defense looks very familiar with the play" message which usually signals the end of your offense for the day.

I don't mean to rant and spoil Fresno's win, honestly with Schwartz and that offensive line, it shouldn't have even been close. You'd expect a QB like that to just dominate, but perhaps he has some hidden ratings working against him, or this is bizzaro land and 100 accuracy is actually horrible.

Nothing like a good bitch session on a Sunday morning, now it's time to decide if I want to blow up my team yet again or just give up and call it a season.

[r00k]

Mr. UK ... a hell of a game and one which an ex-Viper almost put the whammy to us.

Yes, Ralph Donavan's 22 yard TD reception hurt us but the 102 yard kick-off return for a TD seemed to be a "finger" salute to his old team which originally drafted him, but let him go, then reclaimed him and again let him go. Well he is a 12 year vet, so this effort is probably his parting shot to the Viper organization. Bye-bye Mr. Donavan - we are not sorry to see you go!

His effort was the main reason for the game going into overtime. Both QBs had their moments and also had their problems as they launched 5 interceptions between them. Sacks were just as plentiful. Penalties hurt both teams on too many occasions.

There truly was not much to write to mom about with these exceptions ... Donavan for Wichita and the running tandem of Tatum/Fleming for Norfolk. But the emotion of trying to win such an abysmal contest was in itself pretty exciting ... and one that I thought we had lost on multiple occasions.

Good game ... it could have easily been an Outlaw win.