2018-2019 NFA Season Recap

Wow, so we just concluded the 10th season of the National Foul Association! Can't believe it's been that long. From our humble beginnings of just 6 foul clubs with only 3 of them playing attention for the first few seasons (though the league was 8 teams then 7 teams in the 2nd and 3rd season) to having 9 Foul Clubs all make it to the draft this year in one of our most competitive seasons ever! It's been a long journey to get here so let's see how the final season finished out.

I am going to update the NFA All-Time Standings here now. First introduced in last year's NFA Season recap.

5 of the 9 teams are averaging over 10,000 points per season. Though it should be noted that GG Foulin' has only competed in 2 seasons but is averaging over 12,000 points. Only time will tell if he can keep that pace up.

Let's get to the recap of this final, short, 3-day week of the NFA Season.

Stat Corrections:
- Mitchell Robinson had a techy taken away from him retroactive to March 28th. GG Foulin' did not have him active that week so he does not lose 40 points.
- Russell Westbrook had a techy taken away from him retroactive to March 31st. Gamblor had him active that week so he loses 40 points.
- Brook Lopez had a techy taken away from him retroactive to April 1st. F'N FLOPPERS had him active that week so he loses 40 points.


Final 2018-2019 NFA Standings:

1. Pgastan FC - 12455 (+75)
2. GG Foulin' - 12070 (+170)
3. Oww Ming's Flagrants -11245 (+95)
4. Rodman'sWeddingDress - 10760 (+195)
5. Gamblor - 10060 (+135)
6. F'N FLOPPERS - 9635 (+65)
7  Arlington Assaulters - 9130 (+105)
8. Baltimore Hitsquad - 9080 (+20)
9. Ohsnappers!!! - 8000 (+25)

Ohsnappers!!! finished the season at exactly 8000 points, a nice round number, after scoring 25 points in the last 2 game days. Baltimore Hitsquad only managed 20 points and thus falls to 8th place as Arlington Assaulters passes him up with 105 points this final week. F'N FLOPPERS managed 65 points and stays in 6th place. Gamblor was able to crack 10,000 points after scoring 135 points.

Rodman'sWeddingDress put up 195 points and stays in 4th place. Oww Ming's Flagrants scored 95 points to remain in 3rd place. GG Foulin's late charge continued putting up 170 points in the final short week but it proved too little too late as Pgastan FC holds on for his 3rd title after scoring 75 points this week. 

This is only the 2nd season in which 5 teams finished over 10,000 points. The other being 2012-2013 which was also won by Pgastan FC, his last title before this one.

Team Foul Stats
Let's take a look at which foul club accumulated the most stats of each of the 5 stat categories as well as totals for the NFA this season.


Personal Fouls 
Total: 12,551
Leader: GG Foulin' with 1,642 fouls (13% of the league's fouls)
Low: Ohsnappers!!! with 1,160 fouls (9.2% share)

Foul Outs
Total: 131
Leader: Oww Ming's Flagrants with 27 (20.6% share)
Low: F'N FLOPPERS with 8 (6.1% share)

Technical Fouls
Total: 390
Leader: Pgastan FC with 65 (16.6% share)
Low: Oww Ming's Flagrants with 33 (8.4% share)

Flagrant Fouls
Total: 34
Leader: Gamblor with 9 (26.4% share)
Low: Ohsnappers!!! with 1 (2.9% share)

Ejections 
Total: 35
Leader: Baltimore Hitsquad with 7 (20% share)
Low: Ohsnappers!!! and Oww Ming's Flagrants each with 2 (each with a 2.8% share)

We have a new record for foul outs in a season with 27 as Oww Ming's Flagrants breaks the old record of 25 held by Pgastan FC (2009-2010) and Rodman'sWeddingDress (2010-2011). Here is an updated recap of current season records:

Personal Fouls
Pgastan FC: 1,766 (2009-2010) 

Foul Outs
Oww Ming's Flagrants 27 (2018-2019)

Technical Fouls
Oww Ming's Flagrants: 70 (2016-2017)

Flagrant Fouls
Pgastan FC: 12 (2016-2017)

Ejections
Pgastan FC: 8 (2012-2013)

It's interesting to note that Oww Ming's Flagrants finished in 3rd place despite finishing last in techies and last in Ejections. He finished 3rd in personal fouls, 1st in foul outs (mentioned above), and tied for 2nd in flagrants. This just shows you that there can be multiple ways to build a successful foul club. Both Pgastan FC and Oww Ming's Flagrants are known to use Foulerball (analytics) when building a foul squad so this just proves there is a place for it in the NFA.

Also interesting to note that GG Foulin' played the most games at 574 and finished 2nd while Champion Pgastan FC had 2nd most games at 553.Oww Ming's Flagrants had 549 games this season which ranks 3rd and he finished 3rd in the standings.  

Average Points Per Game: The order is the final standings.

1. Pgastan FC (553 Games) - 22.52
2. GG Foulin' (574 Games) - 21.03
3. Oww Ming's Flagrants (549 Games) - 20.48
4. Rodman'sWeddingDress (512 Games) - 21.02
5. Gamblor (514 Games) - 19.57
6. F'N FLOPPERS (529 Games) - 18.21
7  Arlington Assaulters (481 Games) - 18.98
8. Baltimore Hitsquad (477 Games) - 19.04
9. Ohsnappers!!! (471 Games)- 16.99

You would think that the average points per game would directly correlate with the final standings but as you can see that's not the case. Let's see who was presumably lucky and who was unlucky. Ohsnappers!!! finsihed last and had the lost average so that fits. However, Baltimore Hitsquad average 19.04 points per game which would rank 6th out of 9 but he finished in 8th place.If he had more games played he could have finished higher up. Arlington Assaulters seems t have played to his team potential. F'N FLOPPERS looks to have gotten lucky with only 18.21 points per game, which is 8th but he finished 6th. 

Gamblor played to potential but it appears that Rodman'sWeddingDress should have finished in 3rd place after averaging 21.02 points (just behind GG Foulin') but he only had 512 games played whereas 3rd place Oww Ming's Flagrants had 549 which is 37 more games than Rodman'sWeddingDress.  

So what does this tell us? It tells us that both quality and quantity matter in the NFA.


NFA Titles:
Pgastan FC (formerly Donkey Engine and Steam Donkey FC) 3 -  2009-2010, 2012-2013. 2018-2019
Rodman'sWeddingDress 3 - 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2014-2015
Arlington Assaulters 2- 2013-2014 and 2015-2016
GG Foulin' 1- 2016-2017 
Oww Ming's Flagrants 1- 2017-2018 

Final Points Graph:
 
Well that's it for now. Check back for a few more season wrap-up posts to come. In addition to the End of the Season Donkies, I am told we will have an interview with league champion Pgastan FC. We interviewed Arlington Assaulters a few years ago after he won so trying to resurrect that feature so the league champion can reflect on their past season success. 

Keep Foulin' Y'all!

FM