Saturday, December 30, 2017

IX: A Retrospective

Before breaking down the season team by team, lets take a broad look at how teams performed comparatively, starting with their drafts, then their roster moves, and finally their results.

2017 LARKSPUR BOWL DRAFT RESULTS

The following is a very colorful chart analyzing positional value via the draft. It's hard to glean much from the array, as displayed. But it looks damn cool.

Below we see that Yahoo!'s projections are somewhat worthless, as four of their six projectedwinners struggled to the bottom of the standings. Phoenix, Savannah, and Pawnee were the only three teams to finish in line with their projections, finishing 1st, 3rd, and 8th respectively.

Exhaustive analysis of each team's roster churning produces this enormous and colorful depth chart, showcasing each team's definitive roster. Each team's chart was filled to reach a minimum threshold via scaled parameters that weighed final team, volume of play, and type of transaction.

This graph shows power rankings- a pure ranking through the first thirteen weeks, one segmented by brackets and byes in the final three turns. There are some glaring observations to be made, such as Deputy and HCM being very good all season, and Phoenix joining them up top after a couple of weeks, while Binghamton was nearly always in the top half of the league. New York and Savannah really turned it on in the second half, while Pawnee and Oakwood fell precipitously. Manitoba never really had a chance, while Toronto bottomed out entirely down the stretch. South Park and Hill Valley were very consistently mediocre. In seven of the regular season's thirteen weeks, a playoff team was at the top- whereas, after Savannah and Phoenix in the first couple weeks, New York's two midseason appearances in the bottom rung were the only times a playoff team sunk so low. Deputy went to 12th once, and HCM and Binghamton both went down to 11 for one week apiece. We'll examine each team's stock during a specific examination, while comparing it to their schedule, interpreting variance against results.

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