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TOK History

Sydney Great White (14-20) Sydney felt stronger in Year II, but they won less. There’s a lot wrong here. Year II Award Winners All-League: George Blanda, Demaryius ThomasAll-Pro’s: Shannon Sharpe, Rod SmithOffensive Player of the Week: George Blanda Year I Award Winners All-League: Karl Mecklenburg,…
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02 – This Week in Whirled Football: The Playoffs Begin

{Originally posted at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/actionpcsports/whirled-ball-year-ii-the-way-football-never-was-co-t23780-s10.html#p239958 but I think it belongs here as well.} AND THAT WRAPS IT UP! Another regular season come and gone. It seems like previewing the opening round of the playoffs is the only thing to do here,…
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02.15 – This Week in Whirled Football

And we turn towards the home stretch … Remember that from here on out, if they are available, roster spots are filled from the pool of previously released players. #BEI Playing better of late, the Red Stars have some challenges…
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Year II 10 Week Review: Tokyo Swallows

Tokyo Swallows (7-3) The defending champions are in the mix again, and again it is somewhat confounding: Tokyo has the league’s best offense–by far–but it is massively imbalanced, as they have the 2nd weakest running game in the league, and then…
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02.04 This Week in Whirled Football

It’s the end of Week 4, and you know what that means! Depth chart changes and the first important in-season draft, where each team gets an impact player at a position of need. As such, it’s a pretty long TWIWFL…
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02.01 This Week in Whirled Football

Annnnnnnnnnd … we’re off! Week 1 saw several All-Pro players go down with impactful injuries and a flurry of roster activity as teams settled into the season. We focus this week on the longer term injuries, but there is plenty…
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Year II Preview: Tokyo Swallows

{Numbers in braces are Approximate Value, other stats are labeled as appropriate.} It is certainly true that Tokyo got very, very lucky in Year I with regards to injuries. But the Swallows did not flatter to deceive: this is a great…
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WFL Year One: The All-Pros

  AV = Approximate Value. Much more to come on this, but essentially it’s a modified version of the metric developed at pro-football-reference.com, customized to fit the data generated by the DKSports simulation. I hope to open source this in…
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Whirled Bowl I – TOK @ DUB

WHIRLED BOWL I Tokyo Swallows @ Dublin Damhas Ydnekachew Tesema 50°, 0 – 10 mph wind, rain. Full Report: WB-I-TOK-DUB 1 2 3 4 Tot 2014 Tokyo (3-0) 7 17 7 14 45 2014 Dublin (2-1) 14 7 7 14 42…
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01.22 This Week in Whirled Football

For this special Whirled Bowl edition, we’ll take a look at the season to date for both Tokyo and Dublin, as well as a position by position comparison of the 2 teams. #DUB Dublin struggled mightily at the start of the season,…
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