Dave and Jones: IDP Scoring – Part 2

Not many people bothered to vote on the poll at the end of the last IDP post, because likely only Dave and Jon actually read it. But I thought I’d take it a step further anyway, totally out of spite. So this post will look at how Dave and Jon’s season would be going if their scoring systems would implemented. I’m not so devoid of time that I will refigure every games – but I will do all of Jon and Dave’s games…

First a refresher of the proposals;

	Tk	ATk	TFL	SAK	INT	FF	FR	PD	TD	SAF	BK	XPR
2024	17	7	15	60	60	50	40	30	100	100	100	40
Jones	18	8	15	50	50	50	40	25	100	100	100	100
Dave	15	10	10	25	60	50	40	30	100	100	100	40

As things stand, despite the amount of complaining he does, Jon is again in first place, sporting a record of 7-3. Also true to brand, Dave is not in first place, currently sitting 11th at 3-7. Mirror records, all the same complaints…

I’m not going to post all the charts it required to get these numbers, but I took every defensive player from Jon, Kronner, Dave and Jim from their week one matchups. I was gonna do all 10 games for Jon and Dave, and then I decided FUCK THAT. So this is really just a snapshot of the exercise.

T. Bernard	TAK	AT	TFL	SAC	INT	FF	FR	PD	TD	PTS	DIF
Stats	2	1	1				1
Current	34	7	15	0	0	0	40	0	0	96	0
Jones	36	8	15	0	0	0	60	0	0	119	23
Dave	30	10	10	0	0	0	60	0	0	110	14

So here we see, Bernard scored 96 points that first week with our current system. Under Jon’s scoring he would have had 119, and 110 under Dave’s proposal. Of course this is a player who got no sacks, so let’s also look at Harold Landry. Playing for Jim in week one, Landry had 2.5 sacks…

H. Landry	TAK	AT	TFL	SAC	INT	FF	FR	PD	TD	PTS	DIF
Stats	4	1	3	2.5
Current	68	7	45	150	0	0	0	0	0	270	270
Jones	72	8	45	125	0	0	0	0	0	250	-20
Dave	60	10	30	62.5	0	0	0	0	0	162	-107

So with this player, we see a similar total under Jon’s system, but under Dave’s there is a significant chance, dropping all the way down to 162.

Now I completed this for all 28 IDPs in those matchups. Here’s what changed…

IDP	Jon	Dave	Kron	Jim
Current	926	582	958	1029
Jones	944	616	962	1063
Dave	860	574	876	883
Game	Jon	Dave	Kron	Jim
Current	2010	1465	1853	2265
Jones	2028	1499	1857	2272
Dave	1944	1457	1771	2118.5

So in all three scenarios Jon still beats Kronner and Jim still beats Dave. In fact no matter how you mix it up, it doesn’t change – Jim would beat Jones in all three timelines. To be honest it make this whole exercise seem like a total waste of time, so let me try to justify something. The closest game in W1 was Burrito Warrior vs New Guy. A total of 80 points separated the two. Let’s see if anything would have changed there…

IDP	Ryan	Shaun
Current	671	715
Jones	691	715
Dave	571	645
Game	Ryan	Shaun
Current	1860	1780
Jones	1880	1780
Dave	1760	1710

So here we see Ryan’s 80 point win extends to a 100 point win with Jon’s IDP scoring. The game gets closer, down to 50 points, but still results in Ryan winning under Dave’s system.

So apparently, nothing even matters. What is even the point of it all….

I was just gonna end this there, but it’s all too meaningless, so I looked for something that might give a bit more satisfaction. And I think I found it. Week 3, Dave beat Ryan 1723-1632. Let’s see how this one shakes out…

IDP	Ryan	Dave
Current	592	736
Jones	610	741
Dave	593.5	599
Game	Ryan	Dave
Current	1632	1723
Jones	1650	1729
Dave	1633.5	1586

So, in my limited research, the only game I’ve found yet where the outcome would have changed, is Dave hanging himself in W3, turning a 91-point victory into a 47-point loss.