All About the Solo: Week Five
One of the more frustrating things in IDP leagues is seeing your stud linebacker fly all over the field on game days only to see the home score keeper dilute his performance by divvying up his tackles as an assist. Not everybody knows this, but the NFL does not recognize a tackle as an official statistic. Tackles are scored by the home team’s official score keeper and those are the stats you see on news and stats sites. The league made an effort to standardize what is and isn’t a solo tackle back in 2007 when they sent a video to all NFL teams, but it still the discretion of the score keeper and there is a large disparity from team to team and week-to-week. I will be tracking this throughout the season to give you a better idea of what to expect when choosing your IDPs each week. The chart below shows the results through week five:
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This week produced fewer assisted tackles than normal and the home score keepers’ trends maintained their courses, with the exception of Carolina. They’ve been all over the map through their first three home games. For the first time this season, they awarded less than 50% of total tackles as assists to the Panthers with only 18 of 64 total tackles, or 28%. On the flip side, the visiting Bears were given an assist on 40 of 69 total tackles, or 58%. We’ve now seen the visiting team given assists on 43%, 25% and 58% of total tackles at Carolina. I can confidently say the low assist games for both the Panthers and the visiting teams are the anomaly. Higher assist days are ahead. Philadelphia, Jacksonville and Denver continued their stingy ways by giving out only a handful of assists.
Last week I predicted we’d see the Bears @ Panthers (43.6%), Bengals @ Patriots (45.2%) and Seahawks @ Redskins (46.6%) produce the most assists and it proved true. I also warned the Jets @ Chargers game would produce lower assist numbers than usual for the usually assist-heavy Jets defenders. The weekly leaders in assists was littered with new names this week but also featured some repeat offenders.
I missed on Bobby Wagner and Kam Chancellor making the list this week but was able to predict a high assist volume from Brandon Meriweather, Luke Kuechly and Keenan Robinson. Shockingly, three of the top four spots were Atlanta Falcons and it was awesome to see 14 total tackles from Prince Shembo who is seeing more and more snaps each week.
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- Dynasty IDP Waiver Wire: Week Seven - October 24, 2018
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- Dynasty IDP Waiver Wire: Week Five - October 10, 2018
