2022 NAPSTATS
2022 STANLEY NAPKIN TOURNAMENT
***WEEK 14***
Next Week Will Be…
Sorry to see you 167 boys and girl go….Hope you enjoyed it and plan to try again next year. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine, I mean, tell all your friends (A crummy commercial?). Speaking of commercials, all this stuff will be back behind the member wall after the season. But good news you can opt in to the email list and if I can I’ll send that ONE email. Otherwise, I have no plans on sending you emails…I hate getting marketing emails…I won’t be sending them…for the other 80 or so boys and girl, good luck, and…
BOW TO YOUR SENSEIS
***WEEK 13***
BOW TO YOUR SENSEIS
NEW!
SCROLL BACK UP
IF YOU DID NOT NOTICE WINS PER RB DRAFTED…OR WINS PER WR DRAFTED…
You’re Welcome
TOP 25
A TEAMS
THE BEST 50 TEAMS
DRAFT STATS
ER’RYBODY
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BOW TO YOUR SENSEIS
TOP 25s
THE A TEAM(S)
DRAFT BASED
***WEEK 11***
There are only 3 sections in this weeks update. 1. The “Hist’ry of the Stanley Napkin” 2. The first working version of the spreadsheet YOU can use (and hopefully give some feedback on the metrics) along with said metrics, and 3. The “BIG Lists” which have a new wrinkle to them.
But before we get to that, please remember to…
BOW TO YOUR SENSEIS
WHAT IS A TRADING NAPKIN?
It’s like a trading card, but longer. They are just fun images depicting our weekly leaders that I hastily put together and hopefully correspond to your user name or interests. That’s it…If NFTs are still a thing by next year, I plan to make them into NFTs that you COULD actually trade.
A HISTORY
GOYAADi.FIT was officially founded in 2017 with crappy videos of the workout routines initially created to combat Lyme Disease. You can read a long winded explanation here…
The first STANLEY NAPKIN Tournament was started later that year for my neighbor’s wife who had been diagnosed with HER-2 Breast Cancer to provide some fun and to get her mind off chemo, radiation, and possible bad outcomes. And by 2019, she had beaten cancer, which I like to think was primarily due to the Fantasy League.
No longer “needing” to run that league, I lucked into joining the BELLY UP BOWL supporting St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, which was a wicked good time. Ryan and Billy - you guys planted the seed to turn my small yet high scoring league into the STANLEY NAPKIN - so yup, it’s all your fault we’re here (jk, but thanks for joining).
Which brings us to today…The STANLEY NAPKIN Tournament…and MISSION 22. As someone with 7 years of experience working “against” suicide, I got hit by a hard dose of reality from some Marines who had recently returned from Afghanistan.
It’s one thing to find yourself in a bad situation, it’s quite another to volunteer to seek those bad situations out for the greater good. Especially when these dudes had everything in life going for them as far as I could tell. It’s difficult to explain that people who seek out help are not doing so because they are weak, but because they are STRONG. and it takes more courage to ask for help, than it does to do nothing.
I really appreciate all of you who have participated, provided words of encouragement, and offered suggestions to help make this tournament better.
And with all of your support, GOYAADi.FIT and our STANLEY NAPKIN TOURNAMENT are now an Official Sponsor of #MISSION22, which I hope to grow exponentially over the coming seasons (with your help).
Thank you all for your support. If you have any interest in helping out, bang that button above. I’m not going to ask you for money but if you want to give your money to someone other than me, go wild.
Now let’s have some fun, shall we?
THE SUPER “APP”
Allll Riiiiight…Let’s GO!
I need your help with some feedback on this beast. If you are on your phone it probably won’t look very good so I’d recommend a desktop to take it for a full spin. If you can, please provide any feedback on what should be added or if there is a better way to see the information.
Before we start, it’s big, and it takes a while to open. Plan to get your beverage of choice while it loads up…and if you’d like to try it on your other leagues….
Step 1 Go to the ‘Query Setup’ tab and change my Sleeper User ID in Column1 to your User ID, and do the same for the League Name, League ID, and Draft ID. Make sure “Include?” is set to Yes for any league you wish to get data.
Step 2 Click ‘Update League Data’ button
Step 3 That’s pretty much it, there are a few steps to make the REPORT CARD work properly which you can ping me if you want the details, but basically you are going to copy and paste all the team names into the TEAMS A-Z tab.
TOO LAZY?
Here is what’s in right now….including the “BIG LISTS” in the next section. I could use some advice on the weekly stuff and I have some plans to track your ranking through the weeks.
And yeah, I need to fix the one dude who dropped out…
THE BIG LISTS
First BIG LIST has the Season and Weekly Scores. Second BIG LIST has your Optimal Score and your Percent of Perfect. Enjoy!
BIG LIST 1
BIG LIST 2
***WEEK 10***
HAPPY VETERANS DAY
Click the T-Shirt for this week’s video. A special thanks to our vets and service folks in and out of the tournament, and happy 247th ‘birthday’ to the Marine Corps. I know we have some leathernecks here. The video has the TROPHIES if you’d like to take a peek. I haven’t started hammering THE Napkin yet, but you will all see the first few strikes on that beautiful hunk of silver we are all fighting for soon.
Bow to your Senseis
REPORT CARD
“STEELERS” EDITION
TOP 25
MAN vs MACHINES
BEST DRAFT SLOT(S)
FIRST 2 PICKS (POSITION)
LEAGUE STRENGTH
BY DRAFT TYPE
***WEEK 9***
Go Vote Turds…Bow to your Senseis
TOP 25
The top 50 teams have been assigned a grade of A…Let’s see where our A-TEAMS fall…All stats below are filtered to our top 50 by points scored (not record)
WHICH LEAGUE IS STRONGEST?
WHICH PICK WAS BEST?
WHICH STARTING COMBOS WORKED?
WHICH ROSTER CONSTRUCTIONS RULE?
REPORT CARD
“Da Bears” Edition
***WEEK 8***
STAT MASTER PROTOTYPE
Alllllright Kids! A new format coming to you soon. For this week there will be a little video because there is a decent amount to catch up on and I wanted to show off all the trophies.
Going forward I will be collaborating with another engineer on an uber-spreadsheet that you can access and view or download at your leisure. If you’d like to take the prototype for a test spin on one of your leagues, and find out how much “luck” your leaguemates are getting, give it a spin.
Essentially what we are hoping to see are a fully automated version of all of the cool little statistics you and I (just me?) have come to know and love, plus he has some pretty interesting ideas too…
FREE LEAGUE TOOL
You ever want that “Fantasy Pros” touch without that “My Playbook” price tag? I’m sure you haven’t checked my $UPPORT page but if you did the first five things are free, because I don’t really want your money (you worked hard for it).
That said, this little tool is a handy little helper if you need help analyzing your team, waiver moves, and start-sits. I meant it when I said I wanted to help you all win. Here is something (FREE) that I hope does just that.
Lest we forget, I threw a lot of my first round picks and intentionally faded CMC, and I’m pretty sure he just hit the trifecta. So good luck all…in your attempts at winning…the Inaugural…
STANLEY NAPKIN
THE FULL LIST
Thought this was my week…
***WEEK 7***
Bow to your Senseis…
REPORT CARD
“The Pack” Edition
Yes…I have been having a little “undefeated” party by muhself since Week 5…why u no undefeated?
WEEK 7 STAT UPDATES
I don’t have this ready but I saw some stuff that was interesting, so it will either be here or there will be a video below. I am going to try a “transformer” to see the data with some new flags and I just met a random dude on the internet (insert your own joke) who may want to help build this puppy out. He even has candy!
Out by EOD ish….(It’s Out)
TOP 25
JOE BURROW LINE
Teams that would have lost if their opponent ONLY played Joe Burrow
TOTAL TOURNAMENT POINTS
We have crossed the QUARTER MILLION POINT mark and are steadily on our way to HALF A MILLION. Next year’s goal…10 MILLION POINTS. I’ll need your help so tell your other leagues, invite your neighbors, and don’t tell anyone at work so you don’t get fired and can keep playing.
POINTS BY WEEK
We can see how the byes have started to impact our Peak Scoring Potential. We also have what I like to call the Week 3 “Enthusiasm Dip” followed by a nice recovery before the impending “Byepocalypse”.
GRADES!
Quick thing, I updated the Grade/Rank thing to evenly distribute A-F and got rid of the plus and minus. For all intents, it refers to which group of 50 you belong to:
A Top 50
B 51-100
C 101-150
D 151-201
F 202-252
We have 252 teams…
BY FIRST TWO PICKS
Yikes RB-RB aka RED BARS. Not the way to go in a 3 wide receiver plus flex PPR Big Play Tournament? Story checks out…
Turns out our most successful combination right now is RB-QB aka DARK BLUE BARS or as I call it “Ekeler-Allen”.
WR-RB and RB-WR, ORANGE and YELLOW BARS respectively, have both been very successful.
The key takeaway…don’t draft RB-RB next year unless you are sure it is Ekeler-Chubb.
BY DRAFT CONSTRUCTION
Blasphemers and r u ok? clearly had inside scoops on dudes…they both have an outsized number of the BLUE BARS indicating an A draft. Ideal Drafts have a nice rainbow effect which is more visually pleasing than it is fantasy pleasing.
If you need help referencing the titles peep the Draft Recap…button at the top of the page.
POINTS BY DRAFT CONSTRUCTION
I’ll either be wrong til I’m right…or wrong til I’m wronger. I don’t know if these non-standard builds will hold up for the highest score but they are killing it on the averages.
POINTS PER LEAGUE
In this view we can see LEAGUE 21 is out to a strong lead at the halfway mark, no thanks to me because I actually played Kamara twice when he was out…so they could really be pulling away if I had turned on all my robots a few weeks earlier.
Hey Guys! Look at LEAGUE 8! Can’t even get to 13THOUSAND, what a bunch of losers! Man, I’d hate to be in LEA…you know what let’s move on.
POINTS PER PICK
Pick 4 aka the “typical” first non-RB pick is pulling away along with the “Ekeler went here” smattering. Pick 1 pulling away as the WORST PICK. Pick 8 slowly improving…
MAN vs MA-CHEENS
The auto-drafters are continuing to have about a 40 point edge over us opposable thumbed drafters.
MY TURN
These aren’t just averages, they’re slightly above averages. The ideal drafts are not panning out as expected, this could possibly be due to the player ranks in the draft process from not watching football and it somehow has remained in reverse order of expectations as far as which construction should “theoretically” be ahead. I’ll look forward to stealing GPIM’s rankings in advance of next year’s AAIRR (before VORP was cool) Draft Companion.
I call this “12-3”, and it’s all robots and math. I don’t have any special sauce and while I do get some good scoops on occasion (TAYSOM MOUNTAIN!) I use expert rankings and math…I’ll look to share my math with everyone next year once we determine a winner. Math!
21 GAMES OVER
With MATH! Green line indicates .500
RANK
6 out of 21 are under the halfway mark in points scored. Some of that is my fault for not catching Alvin Kamara in my starting lineup when he was out twice, but hey, free wins if you are in League 21!
math…
***WEEK 6***
Bow to your Senseis…
I am not going to pontificate because I am still getting back from the beer flu, and I have a lot of updates half of you will never read…
FACEBOOK OFFICIAL WITH MISSION 22
It’s a saying, of course I don’t use bookface. Our lil’ tournament here is now an official sponsor of Mission 22. In fact, they gave me, this guy, a network for good link just for the STANLEY NAPKIN. Now, I told them I could raise a thousand dollars by the Super Bowl, and I meant it, because while we’ve been doing this I’ve been interviewing for jobs that pay insane money for a nerd like me with my specific array of talents. So by then I can do that myself…I’m not going to look at the total raised until “Early Xmas” so I’ll just say, I love surprises…
UPCOMING STUFF
No action for this week, but…
THE FANTASY QUIZ SHOW as soon as I can get about 8 or more. I need to do this in the next two weeks because…new job…probably start by Nov 1…flex your fantasy knowledge in the greatest fantasy football quiz show ever assembled
APE POKER is a “monthly” NL Holdem Poker Tournament on Poker Stars that takes under two hours that I run with some coin collecting enthusiasts. The winner takes home a one ounce silver coin. I do try to win…next one is “Halloween” and is Saturday the 29th pending participation (someone snuck in already - nice).
FINAL QUICK THING
Before you get stats on Waivers, and Report Cards, and the Top 25, etc.
That app that I built, the one that we are celebrating, with the big hunk of silver…well, I am being interviewed for the Caspio Customer Spotlight on November 14th to talk all about it…
Unfortunately, due to what I will refer to as ‘ducking COVID’ it’s not being used right now. Just chillin’…so, if any of you are up for doing me a solid, and throwing in 1 set of ten push ups every now and then until the 14th, that would be ‘dope’. There’s not much to it. You pick a codename like a Sleeper username, select the “3HUNDRED” workout, enter your weight…and then you would put a “1” next to push ups. Click submit and we’re in. You can go back and keep track weekly and monthly but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. A few push ups from a few of you would help me keep the volume up so I’m not limping into this interview…
WEEK 6 REPORT CARD
The “Thanos”
Man, I get it that Sleeper probably has a thousand people vying for that Product Manager role and I’m probably going to have a different higher paying job by the time the decline my application, but either way I will be disappointed if they don’t use some parts of this tournament report card. I mean, they HAVE all the data. It’s already there and they just need to slap a “Tournament ID” flag on some pretty UI on it and they could have THIS…but BETTER…
WAIVER STATS
I don’t know what to make of these, but here’s where our leagues and teams line up according to how much of their waiver budget was spent. BIG SPENDERS have less than 100 dollars left of FAAB. And our ROCK300 crew haven’t touched their pennies yet. The other two groups are also easily identifiable with the OVER100 and PLUS200 groupings. Let’s see if that matters…
TOP 3
The top three teams in each of our leagues are ‘mostly active’ with only 5 ROCKS taking the first place position and no desperate BIG SPENDERS. Although two of us are currently in second.
THE OTHER 9
We can see how the rest of the best have spent their budgets and the relative stress points that may promote such behavior, like being on the cusp of the playoffs or trying to claw back from a bad start…
FAAB BY GRADE
Yes, I am aware the A+ is in the wrong spot but I’m not changing it now…either way, we can see our top teams SPEND their FAAB…and on the other end, our F teams clearly (ahem) have no Fs to give…(thank you)
Streeeetched to show the distribution. Our C students are highlighted…not sure what to make of this but the ROCKS are holding on to their best players. And the BIG SPENDERS represent a small majority of our C students.
FAAB BY LEAGUE
This is just an interesting cross-league look at FAAB budget habits. We can see LEAGUE 4 has a ton of ROCKS who don’t spend their moneys, could this be enabling some wise spendthrifts to pick up great deals? Time will tell… Whereas we also have LEAGUE 14 who have spent roughly 25% of their budget at this point, and are clearly for sale.
LEAGUE BY FAAB
Total FAAB left for each league…and, I don’t mean to brag…but I spent more FAAB on DeAndre Hopkins ($203) than all of League 8 ($189) has spent for the season.
WEEKLY TOP 25
I thought I had a shot until the Eagles defense went from 28 to whatever…GPIM showing out for The FANTASY WIRE.
TOP 25 OVERALL
Hell, I was curious too….It’s Budoshin Warrior’s world and we are all just playing in it…
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***WEEK 5***
WELCOME ALL! To the fifth weekly installment of our regular season recaps. I’d like to apologize in advance for being less fun the last week or so, but COVID is a real “friend”. With that, if YOU get it, I highly recommend the “Blue Urine” or “Original Urine” flavors of Pedialyte. “Grape” is not what you think. It is not purple drink, it is not grape soda. It is grape medicine flavor, with the added bonus of Urine. These are the tips you won’t get anywhere else…
Also, with my absences we haven’t had a weekly video to enjoy. So, I had some time and I think I will put together a Fantasy Football Quiz Show on KAHOOT! as long as there are a handful who could join live (you could just play from your phone if you want in on the action). I used to run a bi-weekly quiz show and they are usually really fun and I’ve seen a few podcasts do it so it may end up being a popular skit that YOU could win…on Wednesdays at about 10:15pm EDT.
I’m going to try to put a little video together tomorrow since the trophy arrived and I am looking forward to showing it off. Thanks all, and without further ado…
Bow to your Senseis…
TOP 25
A lot of familiar names in our Top 25. Congrats to DaLavatory for posting our highest score of the tournament so far and tough break for the 3 others who also would have done so had it been a different week. All my scores were under 200 this time around…
REPORT CARD
This is the official scoring “app” of the STANLEY NAPKIN Tournament. Please double check that your scores imported correctly as there are a few of us I have to manually enter and as we’ve all learned humans make mistakes. Double check your win/loss as well, and I’ll try to add league rank and average score etc. as we go.
Thanks for the suggestion of tracking waiver moves, I will add that at the end of the season.
(Jerry, hit the blue YDAB, hit the dropdown, find your name it’s alphabetical…yw)
BY LEAGUE
As we can see we don’t necessarily have any leagues blowing away the competition but we do have a few that are fading...
One of these upcoming weeks I’ll compare these stats to the Top 25 to see if there any correlations.
BY DRAFT SLOT
I don’t recall who told me the 8th pick was the worst…but that guy was on to something. The Kupp-Kelce picks seem to be doing quite well.
BY FIRST TWO PICKS
Josh Freaking Allen, man…
I think it is wild that you can draft a QB or a TE and be doing phenomenal. Each of our top 4 combos have one or the other.
But. Never, under any circumstances ever…draft both. Apparently.
And wow. The talent drop off at the other positions when you go RB-RB must be stark.
THE MA-CHEENS
They are still kicking our butts. I don’t know exactly how I plan to dig into this further (open to suggestions of course!) but I really want to know whether this is due to a smaller sample, 21 auto-drafters, or whether I could be 41 points further along if I had been lazier.
***WEEK 4***
Welcome All!
Bow to your Senseis…
WEEK 4 REPORT CARD
STEP 1 | SELECT TEAM
BOOM!
WK 4 TOP 25
***WEEK 3***
Welcome All!
I’ll be honest I’m a little spent from the meme-a-palooza last week. We’ll be a little lighter on content but all interesting things I’m sure. As always…
Bow to your senseis…
Let’s all laugh “with” #LastPlacePicard
pmcready…Tough Break, Bro
WEEK 3 BEEGEST LOOSERS
These were the highest scoring teams that lost
“Hard-to-come-by-dubs”
WEEK 3 SMALLEST WEENERS
These were the lowest scoring teams that won
It is now fact that the “Grey Bush is the Smallest Weener”
WEEK 3 MEDIAN GAMES
Who hasn’t won a head to head but has two median wins?
No one has lost all 3 games head to head and beat the median all 3 times.
WEEK 3 AVERAGE SCORE BY DRAFT SLOT
The GOLD BARS indicate the average weekly points scored by teams based on their draft position. I don’t recall who claimed that the 8th pick was the worst but it is certainly bearing out.
WEEK 3 LEAGUE AVERAGES
The GOLD BARS indicate the average weekly points scored by league. The SILVER BARS indicate the average league median. The league median indicates whether you have a top heavy or bottom heavy league.
SILVER over GOLD = Top Heavy
GOLD over SILVER = Bottom Heavy
MAN v MA-CHEENS
Full Disclosure…I will be turning on all of my robots beginning in Week 4.
The DFS robot did much better Week 3.
WEEK 3 by FIRST 2 PICKS
WEEK 3 by ROSTER CONSTRUCTION
If the 2 dudes that drafted only 3 WRs in a Three Wide Receiver plus Flex Tournament win…
I’ll look forward to your contributions to the AAIRR formula for 2023…
Good luck all, in trying to win…
THE STANLEY NAPKIN
***WEEK 2***
Welcome All!
If you are tired of my prodigious scribbles, then you are in luck bc today is mostly pictures…the intro…is still long…in honor of Matthew Berry finally…mercifully…hanging it up.
Before we begin, bow to your senseis…
GPim joined for the Week 2 Whiteboard. We go through his team and some metrics, then kick back for some parking lot talk about #MASCOTGATE, how to run 22 leagues, and the question, why Mission 22?
Our last two weekly high scorers both came from this podcast, maybe you want to scope your competition for some intel…who’s to say?
The season, so far…in MEMEVISION
PRE TOURNEY
After a two year hiatus from watching football (other than a glimpse at a halloween party a year ago)…how it felt…
TOURNEY
My Goal for the Opening Salvo
The Response!
I met this guy!
A few Lloyds
and lest we forget…
DRAFT TIME
Everybody now…
Me…😐
PICK 1.1 OTC!!!
Round 1. Pick 2.
Round 4…
POST DRAFT
Metrics…
Rebuttal
Opinions…
The Secret - I’m always Patrick Star
TEMP CHECK
So…How we liking the memes?
Right…
WEEK 2 TOP 25
WEEK 2 BASEMENT DOZEN
FULL LEAGUE RANKINGS
by RECORD then POINTS
First person to @GOYAADi with #PICARD wins a mascot since you read this whole damn thing, and you did it first.
Everyone else gets in a “raffle” called my kids pick the name(s) they like at random.
Plus, inside joke for us ‘readers’ where we call last place in our leagues ‘The Picard’.
#PICARD out
WEEK 1
Bow to your sensei
Watch an interview with BossManRaiderFan following his Week 1 Top Score as I pick his brain on this tournament and get some help on my homework in my League of Record.
click button or image to watch
Check out his podcast where you can get start/sit advice and other general fantasy goodness…
LEAGUE LEADER
Way to go LEAGUE 18! Our highest scoring overall league.
We had 4 other leagues break the 2THOUSAND mark as well, and fortunately no leagues broke below 1900.
LEAGUE MEDIAN
You didn’t know we had a median game? I sent it in the thing like three times…Did you know we have a weekly contest on DraftKings? Gah, where you been man? I put other free tourneys there, too.
So yeah, we have a MEDIAN game so our high scoring teams that lose still get rewarded. Before you complain, see if you were one of the 25 lucky beneficiaries.
You’re Welcome…Me twice and you all 24 times…
LEAGUE 11 Had the highest median score of any league meaning their TOP HALF is LOADED.
A very good sign if you would like to win…
The STANLEY NAPKIN
FIRST 2 PICKS
So…you can take a QB…and you can take a TE…but never, under any circumstances ever, go TE-QB.
According to week 1…
MA-CHEENS
We are getting our butts kicked, guys (and gal). Don’t think that machines are better than you…people with machines are better than you, because machines don’t need sleep. It’s a scientific fact.
ROSTER CONSTRUCTIONS
Hey Pros…we’re losing.
The 8 teams with the wonkiest draft constructions possible are killing it.
And the Home Leaguers and Mehs? They are right behind.
Now, I don’t mean to point fingers, but either conventional wisdom is dead wrong…or most of these teams sold out for week 1, and are now trying to hold onto that sweet 2 point a week margin they just created.
To be determined…
GOYAADi
“I hate it when my heroes let me down. I hate it when they throw my aspirations on the ground. So I’ll be my own hero. I’ll be my own man..
I’m the only one I ever met who’s really worth a damn” - Gallagher
And in the interest of being my own hero…it turns out the answer is 10. The question being how many leagues can you competently draft at one time…
So next year…if you are thinking about being a hero, and getting in a bunch of drafts…maybe stick to 10 (at one time at least).
“Just show us who is winning…”
THE TOP 25
THE TEXAS MONGEESE
The Bottom 12…compared to FIRST
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