2008 Regular Season Stats Recap

Let's take a look at the stats from the regular season: The full PDF is available here. (Right click to download)
Yahoo! has some interesting stats as well.

Here are some of the things I found most interesting about the 2008 Regular Season:

The Lawyers definitely had the toughest go at it, even though Yahoo shows the Grafdawgs and Sheik with the Hardest Strength of schedule (both averaging 82.06 points against). But take a look at the PDF's second page and Week 11. The Lawyers briefly had the highest Domination Pct. that week, but were second to last in Actual Win Pct. Very interesting how that could happen. Perhaps it explains how the Lawyers had the highest average margin of victory (35.67)

The best drafter this year appears to be the Animal, averaging 61.13 points from drafted players each week, while the Dynamite definitely found the short end of the stick on draft day, garnering a pitiful 28.93 points per week from his draftees (in Week 8, he only got 1 point from drafted players!). On the flip side, the Dynamite made up for it with the most weekly points from acquired players with 43.64 pts/week.

The Baxterminators dominated the league with the most, and best average, yardage per week from all position players (QB, RB & WR!) and the most average points from his kickers as well. The Animal made up ground in the area of TDs, leading the league with an average of 7.33 per week. Perhaps that's why both will be meeting in the SCFFCG this week.

The Baxterminators were also the most steady team in scoring, with a standard scoring deviation of 9.79—under 10 points!—and a scoring range of just 42 points. The Animal were the most erratic with a scoring range of 86 points and a standard deviation of 19.56! Which team will show up next week?

The Dynamite almost pulled off a miracle last week… coming from the cellar to the second place, and holding that position for most of the last day, until the Animal regained the 2nd spot in the late Sunday game. A valiant comeback effort.

The Grafdwags don't have much to celebrate this year. With two losing streaks of 4 games or more, there wasn't much hope to escape the Toilet Bowl. Having the least total points in the league and the worst domination pct. doesn't help either. It doesn't look good for the Grafpuppies in the Toilet Bowl either, as they are up against a Sheik team with a domination pct. over .500 (.513 to be exact) and a season scoring average that is nearly 10 points higher (77.67 to 68).

The Sheik lost their Oreo Bowl bid, narrowly to the Lawyers, as the Lawyers held the advantage in the first tie-breaker: domination pct. (.567 to .513) and the second tie-breaker: total points (1227 to 1165). But the Sheik would have won the third tie-breaker: head-to-head match-ups, by a two to one margin.

The Oreo Bowl has an interesting matchup as the Dynamite and Lawyer's records are almost perfect inverses in both the actual and domination records. Actual records: 8-6-1 and 6-8-1, respectively. Domination records: 32-41-2 and 41-31-3, respectively. Weird, right?

Other interesting thoughts:
No records, individual or team, were broken this year… unless someone can correct me.
This would be the Baxterminators first SCFF championship since the league's inception in 1999. They are 1-2 in Championship game history, while the Animal is 2-2 in championships.

Any other interesting notes from the regular season?