Welcome to 2023! It’s everyone’s favorite time again, time to point out how bad we are!
Through two weeks, we as a group have combined for 40 qualified coaching fuckups! That’s actually pretty much on par with recent years. Through the first two weeks of the year, we saw 37 errors in 2020, 36 in 2021, and 35 in 2022. So we were trending better lately, but this year we jumped back up.
The real anomaly though, is how many catastrophic errors we’ve already seen. To this point, we have had SIX coaching losses already! (that being a game that could have been won with just a single lineup alteration.) To give you some context for that, in all of 2021, we combined for only four of these such instances.
This chart gives us a look at the percentage of games that are decided by these kinds of coaching decisions each year…
| Coaching Losses | |||
| Year | Losses | Weeks | % |
| 2019 | 10 | 13 | 12.82% |
| 2020 | 4 | 13 | 5.13% |
| 2021 | 12 | 14 | 14.29% |
| 2022 | 15 | 14 | 17.86% |
| 2023 | 6 | 2 | 50.00% |
SO – who is responsible for all this piss-poor decision-making? Let’s take a look…
| Rank | COACH | LOSS | 50-99 | 100-199 | 200-299 | 300+ | TOTAL MISTAKES | POINTS |
| 1 | Trigger | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 2 | Dave | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| 3 | Josh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Matt | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||
| 5 | Ryan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 5 | Kyle | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 7 | Steve | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 | ||
| 8 | Kronner | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 19 | |
| 9 | Kaiser | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 20 | ||
| 9 | Chris | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 20 | ||
| 11 | Tim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 23 |
| 12 | Jones | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 27 |
Picking up right where he left off last year, Mr. Jones has a strong grip on that 12th spot, with an incredible 80% of his mistakes costing him OVER 200 points each. At 11th, Timmo is the first of us to hit for the cycle this year, and first place Trigger is unsurprisingly sitting atop the standings here.
Based on the way Week 3 has gone so far, Jon has a really good chance to lock down that 12 spot for the third time this season, a position he’s held strong since Week 2 of 2022. It’s like Brad Homles came to Detroit and hired Pete Fox instead of Dan Campbell.
Maybe listen to MCDC and get some pointers everyone…
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