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 The 2010-2011 season had a lot more than just Mike Miles' championship at stake. Six conference champions were crowned, a Rookie of the Year was determined, a New Member of the Year was determined, five tier winners were named, and fourteen members qualified for the 2011-2012 ASASFL Champions League & Super League. Conference Champions Great Lakes: Dave Berrong (559 Points) Midwest: Doug Eden (423 Points) Northeast: Brian Secord (453 Points) Southeast: Jay Soester (705 Points) Western: Mike Miles (739 Points) International: Anders Nilsson (722 Points)
Jay Soester and Mike Miles are now the only members to win their conference in each of the league's three seasons. Brian Secord kept Kevin Whorton from adding his name to that list in the Northeast Conference. Anders Nilsson became the fourth member to win his conference more than once in the International Conference. There have now been 12 members in league history to win their conference. Historically, the Northeast Conference has been the worst conference by a sizeable margin. This season, the Midwest Conference tried to bridge that gap. Doug Eden's conference championship from 20th place overall set a new record low across all conferences. The previous low had been Kevin Whorton's 18th place while winning the Northeast Conference last season. The champions from the other four conferences have finished in the top ten in every season. Despite the record, the Midwest champion's overall rank still averages 4.33 places better than the Northeast champion's. This was the first season in league history where a conference held three of the top five places with the International conference pulling off the feat. Doug Eden (MW) and Dave Berrong (GL) each set a new record for smallest margin of victory while winning a conference at 12 points. The previous record was Kevin Whorton's winning the Northeast last season by 33 points. Aside from those three instances, a conference has been won by less than 60 points just one other time (44 by Robert Casares in the Midwest last season). A conference has been won by 70 points or less on four further occasions, however. With two of the four lowest margins of victory in league history, the Midwest Conference has a sizeable lead in smallest average margin of victory at 39.33 points, 22.34 points ahead of the Great Lakes' average margin of victory. At the other end of the spectrum, both Mike Miles (W) and Jay Soester (SE) extended their run of never winning their conference by less than triple digits (106 to be exact). Aside from those six instances, a conference has been won by more than 100 points just twice. Kevin Whorton' 131 point win in 2008-2009 and Tim Schneider's 103 point win last season. Soester set a new record for largest margin of conference victory this season at 176 points. The previous record was also his at 167 points from last season. Rookie of the Year 2009-2010: Robert Casares (570 Points) 2010-2011: Chad Gumm (597 Points) Congrats to Chad Gumm for winning Rookie of the Year. He finished 38 points ahead of Dave Berrong for the honor with Jeffery Murowsky (-50), Robert Boyce (-68) and Brad Duff (-81) rounding out the top five. They were also the only five rookies this season to top 500 points. Brian Secord managed to win his conference and finish in sixth, 144 points behind Gumm. Tim Quinley (-155), Patrick Cooley (-186), Charles Yelverton (-206) and Max Raposio (-217) finished out the top ten. In order to qualify as a rookie, a member had to have registered for the league on November 1st, 2009 or later. New Member of the Year 2009-2010: Robert Casares (570 Points) 2010-2011: Dave Berrong (559 Points) As consolation for finishing second in the rookie race, Dave Berrong did bring home the New Member of the Year title. He finished 30 points ahead of runner-up Robert Boyce and 43 ahead of third place Brad Duff. Only Dave Sandel, 196 points back in fourth place also finished within 200 points of Berrong. Matt Campbell, Mike Brekke, Mark Yothers, Katie Tropp, Dan Haak and Kevin Bernstein ounded out the top ten. To qualify as a new member, a member had to have registered for the league on January 1st, 2010 or later. Tier Winners Tier 1: Anders Nilsson (217 Points) Tier 2: Mike Miles (212 Points) Tier 3: Anders Nilsson (148 Points) Tier 4: John Wright (67 Points) Tier 5: Robert Boyce (88 Points)
This season, Mike Miles became the first member to defender a tier win and the first member to win the same tier more than once. He also became the second member with more than one tier win in their career; Anders Nilsson is the other. Nilsson remains the only member to win more than one tier in a season with this season being the second instance of him accomplishing the feat. The only tier he hasn't won in his career is Tier 2. Nine other members have won a tier in their career. Anders Nilsson set a new record for largest margin of victory in a tier at 32 points in Tier 1 this season. In doing so, he also set the new record for points scored within a tier at 217, five more than Mike Miles' 212 points in Tier 2 this season and ten more than the previous record of 207 from Mike Miles in Tier 2 last season. John Wright's late charge up the overall standings into 14th place made this the first season where the top 14 members in the standings all qualified for the Champions League the following season. Despite that fact, Wright's overall finish is still the third worst all-time by a member to have won a tier. Analyzing three years worth of data, Tier 2 is the most important for success as the winner has an average championship finish of 1.33. Mike Miles in second place last year was the only winner of Tier 2 to not win the championship. Not too far behind is the Tier 5 winner with an average rank of 4.33. Tier 1 is next, also close behind, with an average rank of 5.67. Tier 4 is the final tier with an average rank inside the top ten at 7.33. That leaves Tier 3 in last place with an average rank of 18.33, well behind the other tiers. It makes sense for Tier 2 to be the most important as its a measure member's ability in two draft games as well as an allocation game, whereas Tier 1 is only half of the draft game equation...making it reasonable to be third most important. It makes sense that Tier 5 would be second most important as its a measure of a member's ability to use the website which increases their likelihood to have earned bonus points as well. Congratulations to all of those who earned honors this season. I'll be ironing out the membership for the 2011-2012 ASASFL leagues in the coming week. The overall standings page has all members tentatively qualified while I determine who is withdrawing from their place. |
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