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Originally Posted by lostcause
What is Alex Smith's stat line in L2? He appears to be a dominant force, but I think I have several theories on that.
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I have one but don't really want to divulge it...
Ah, **** it.
The guys to target in this league could end up being game managers, IMO. A season like Cassel's 2010 season would've been an absolute monster season applied to sandbox. The reason being that
we control the volume of the passes they throw.
Smith wasn't asked to do much and when he was, he was put in phenomenal positions to succeed so he had really good numbers, if not high volume ones. Well the fact that they weren't high-volume can be offset by the utilization of a high-volume offense using his 'skill-set' as laid out by his 2011 regular season results.
Essentially sandbox allows you to pro-rate the easy results that Smith got via surprise in a run-oriented offense to a completely different offense in our virtual world. It doesn't account for the fact that, had he been asked to air it out as often as Rodgers, he'd have pissed down his legs and thrown a lot more interceptions. Instead it just takes what he
actually did and allows you to do even more of it should you so choose.
There just doesn't seem to be another good explanation for the fact that Smith was easily the 2nd best QB in our league this year and has been a monster in L2 as well.
(Or maybe cdcox will tell me I'm an idiot...certainly a possibility)