“Punting is Allowed” Edition by Alana Klein One thing that arena football has always claimed is that punting is not allowed. While that is technically the rule, can we argue about semantics for a little bit? Last year, I was witness to a fair number of missed field goals — some that hit the net and some…
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Screaming Into the Void
When a 5-seed Hosts a 4-seed In case you hadn’t heard, it’s officially set that Michigan will be hosting Kentucky in the first round of the playoffs. The problem? Kentucky is 7-5 and Michigan will finish either 6-6 or 5-7, depending on if they win against Oceanside this weekend in Stealth-Arsenal 2: This Time It’s for Realsies. Michigan…
Screaming Into the Void: When a “Halo” is Not a Halo
by Alana Klein If this one doesn’t seem as topical to what we just saw this weekend, that’s because I wrote it a last week, but decided to preempt it with a breakdown of the playoff tiebreakers. During last night’s chat on Fan Zone Live!, Gary Compton gave us an answer to a big question on…
Screaming Into the Void: PLAYOFFS?! How Do You Get Into the Playoffs?
by Alana Klein With the playoffs drawing ever-closer, I figured it’d be a good time to discuss the tiebreakers. I will preface this by saying that I got this list earlier in the season from a source I trust. While I have good reason to trust this list, an important piece of it was just…
Screaming Into the Void: Underappreciated Game Changers
by Alana Klein If you’re building an arena football team from scratch with anyone from any position available, I have no doubt that you’d take a QB at #1, a WR at #2, maybe a dynamic DB and some power in the trenches on both sides of the ball to round out the top 5….
Screaming Into the Void: The Case for PPG
by Alana Klein As I state in my weekly “Recap & Standings” post, I prefer to rely on points per game (PPG) in my standings instead of using total points. While the league uses total points in their tiebreaker scenarios, I feel that referring to PPG is a more accurate snapshot in time of where…
Screaming Into the Void: 518 and Proud
by Alana Klein As it stands that a high majority of my contributions here are based in facts, statistics, standings, etc., what I post about in relation to these topics is objective. However, there will be regular posts — about once a week — in which I will express my (subjective) opinion about a relevant…