Dump of the Decade?

So this week Dave dropped (pending stat corrections) 996 points. It’s the first sub-1000 score we’ve seen since 2009. However, scoring has changed over the years, so let’s take a look at the adjusted totals for every DUMP OF THE YEAR going back to 2001, and see how it stacks up.

RANK	YEAR	MANAGER	ORG. SCORE	ADJ. SCORE
1	2003	Burns	526	720.6
2	2002	Freddy	542	742.5
3	2001	Trigger	342	748.9
4	2005	Pauly	682	852.5
5	2009	Chris	844	987.4
6	2011	Dave	1121	1015.6
7	2012	Toepel	1094	1029.4
8	2018	Kaiser	1038	1038
9	2014	Ryan	1153	1060.7
10	2022	Dave	996	1061.7
11	2016	Toepel	1103	1103
12	2006	Dave	896	1120
13	2004	Hicks	828	1134.3
14	2010	Kaiser	1258	1139.7
15	2007	Josh	975	1140.7
16	2015	Ryan	1170	1170
17	2017	Dave	1206	1206
18	2019	Timmo	1225	1225
19	2021	Dave	1269	1269
20	2020	Kaiser	1283	1283
21	2008	Dave	1110	1298.7
22	2013	Chris	1470	1352.4

So in what is either good, or bad news for Dave, depending on what outcome he was hoping for, he checks in at tenth on the list. If he’s looking for that title, good news is he’s got plenty of time to do better still this year!

Observations…

• The last team to finish with a sub-1000 score was Chris back in 2009 when he scored 844. With an adjusted score of 987, that makes his, in my opinion, the worst dump of all time. If you look at who was lower, it’s Freddy, Burns, Pauly and Hicks, none of whom regularly updated their teams, and Trigger way back in 2001, when he went 0-14.
• Chris appears on this list twice, the aforementioned 2009 game, and again in 2013, which is the least embarrassing game on the chart.
• Dave has the most Dump of the Year appearances with 6 (as of now).
• Dave’s Week 5 Dump is the worst we’ve seen since 2018.