IFL Trivia Bytes

[MrBigglesworth]

:arrow: #1, Murfreesboro has the distinction of making LDT Andrew "Zoomie" Monroe as the highest paid player in the league. "Zoomie", another 1st rounder in the dispersal draft, has a long term contract with Cringer Trucking in order to make his weekly deposits at the bank that will total $13,790,000 this season.

He also tore his rotator cuff and is out for the season. Ouch!

[Kobeck]

Not on IR yet though. Still holding out hope - lol

[sovstar]

Not on IR yet though. Still holding out hope - lol

Holding out for what? He wouldn't even be able to return for the Imperial Bowl.

[MrBigglesworth]

If your starting DT's all of a sudden were Mel Andrews and Justin Burns, you'd hold out hope for a doubtful Zoomie too!

[Warhammer]

Trivia Byte #19

:!: There are five players in the IFL who have salary cap payrolls of $10,000,0000 or more this season.

:arrow: #4, Hartford loves their 1st pick in the dispersal round of 2003, and is happily forking over $11,450, 000 to LT Wesley Flemming.

$11.45 million for the best performing LT in IFL history? Damn right we're glad to pay it. Damn right we're pissed about him being out 7 more weeks too! :P

[Kobeck]

If your starting DT's all of a sudden were Mel Andrews and Justin Burns, you'd hold out hope for a doubtful Zoomie too!

exactly. Lets face it the most probably situation is Mules are mathematically eliminated and Monroe is still out. Then he will be IR'd

Until then there is still hope he could be available, although dinged up, for a decisive late season game

[Trivia Bytes]

Trivia Byte # 20

:!: STADIUM TRIVIA

:arrow: OLDEST HISTORIC STADIUM - Dakota, built 1956
:arrow: NEWEST DEDICATED STADIUM - Oakland, built 2006

:arrow: LARGEST STADIUM - Lawrence (80,100)
:arrow: SMALLEST STADIUM - Houston (60,300)

:arrow: OUTDOOR with GRASS - 20 teams
:arrow: DOME with ARTIFICIAL GRASS - 6 teams
:arrow: OUTDOOR with ARTIFICIAL GRASS - 3 teams
:arrow: RETRACTABLE ROOF with GRASS - 3 teams

:arrow: WORST TURF - Columbia & Pittsburgh

:arrow: CHANGES ON THE HORIZON
:!: Norfolk - stadium renovation in 2007
:!: Newark & Pittsburgh - stadium renovation in 2008
:!: Salt Lake City - new stadium in 2008

[Trivia Bytes]

Trivia Byte #21

TRIVIA BYTES HAS BEGUN A CRUSADE IN ITS QUEST TO FIND THE FORMULA FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, the IMPERIAL BOWL.

:?: Proposition: The MARGIN between a teams "scoring ave per game less the ave points the team gives up per game " may be a good predictor of Imperial Bowl talent?

The MARGINs of the eight teams that have played in the past four Imperial Bowls have averaged 4.4 points per game.

The winner of three of the four bowls was the team with the greater MARGIN!

No team has been in the Imperial Bowl with less than a 2.0 MARGIN.

2002
Orlando ... 4.0
Cleveland ... 2.9

2003
Madison ... 3.9
Anchorage ... 2.1

2004
Louisiana ... 2.5
Little Rock ... 7.9

2005
Norfolk ... 9.1
Oakland ... 2.6

There are 15 teams with positive MARGINs at the end of Week 9. All others had negative MARGINs. They are listed below by conference.

AFC
Iowa ... 12.9
Norfolk ... 9.1
Albuqureque ... 8.7
Cleveland ... 6.3
Ancorage ... 5.5
Hartford ... 2.8
Portland ... 1.1

NFC
Lawrence ... 9.4
Vermont ... 7.9
Oakland ... 4.5
Reno ... 4.3
Madison ... 3.8
Texas ... 3.7
Orlando ... 1.9
Pittsburgh ... 0.8

:!: TRIVIA BYTES proposes that a MARGIN of 2.5 or better is one factor for predicting Imperial Bowl caliber teams. TRIVIA BYTES will continue to refine its research by adding further criteria as ongoing findings become evident.

This study may seem like a no brainer since it is only logical that winning teams score more than they give up. But surprise, :scratchhead: this criteria would currently eliminate 5-3 Little Rock which now has a negative margin. Not too worry Little Rock ... there are seven weeks left to improve that MARGIN.

[MrBigglesworth]

2004
Louisiana ... 2.5
Little Rock ... 7.9

Erroneous!

[sovstar]

margin.. not quite as fun as saying blooooooooooooooooooog

[Warhammer]

I just want to point out that Hartford has a stadium renovation plan in place, but that is just renovating the turf and the parking lot.

[Trivia Bytes]

Trivia Byte #24

:!: Workhorse = an all-purpose back ... runner, receiver, special teams. One player is rapidly approaching 10,000 all purpose yards.

:arrow: James Tart, Salt Lake City, has burned opponents for 9,426 yards that have resulted in 31 TD's on the ground, and 18 by reception and another 3 from returns, for a total of 52 scores.

:arrow: #2 Paul Brown, Texas, 8,984 yards and 37 scores
:arrow: #3 Aubrey Beamer, Iowa, 7,715 yards and 39 scores
:arrow: #4 Jacques Crosby, Reno, 7,536 and 62 scores
:arrow: #5 Spider Webb, Lansing, 7,508 and 52 scores

[Trivia Bytes]

Trivia Byte #21

TRIVIA BYTES HAS BEGUN A CRUSADE IN ITS QUEST TO FIND THE FORMULA FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, the IMPERIAL BOWL.

:?: Proposition: The MARGIN between a teams "scoring ave per game less the ave points the team gives up per game " may be a good predictor of Imperial Bowl talent?

The MARGINs of the eight teams that have played in the past four Imperial Bowls have averaged 4.4 points per game.

The winner of three of the four bowls was the team with the greater MARGIN!

No team has been in the Imperial Bowl with less than a 2.0 MARGIN.

We will put this theory to the test:

The twelve playoff teams stack up like this:

AFC:

9.4 - Norfolk
9.2 - Cleveland
8.2 - Anchorage
4.9 - Iowa City
4.6 - Albuquerque
-.7 - St. Louis

NFC

3.9 - Oakland
3.8 - Little Rock
3.6 - Columbia
1.9 - Pittsburgh
1.8 - Orlando
1.5 - Madison

Looking at the data, the AFC would be a heavy favorite to take home the Imperial Bowl trophy as five of the six teams have margins that exceed any NFC hopeful & if the theory played out true, the same teams, Norfolk and Oakland would battle again in that title game, with Norfolk winning.

But this is wild card weekend, and the Trivia Bytes predictions are:

Iowa, a slight favorite over Alburquerque

Cleveland, a heavy favorite over St. Louis

Columbia, a favorite over Newark

Oakland, a favorite over Pittsburgh