Adopt-a-Viking 2013 (LoverInTheCold may now pick again)

byuvike88 · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 4604 Location: Shelley Idaho

Worth a Shot!

vike daddy · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 82779

let's have a discussion as to the format we will have in place to discuss our cute little adoptees every week.

will there be one thread for them? one for offense and one for defense? i can't remember what we came up with.
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Krauser · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 4194

My idea was to group them by position.

SteelKing728 · Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 23402 Location: PGH

I'm cool with it. No one wants this forum to be cluttered with topics about every single player on this team. You'd never be able to get any real information from this page.

I'm all in. New threads by position make a lot of sense!
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CDub · Joined: 01 Oct 2012 Posts: 543 Location: Iowa

husker_vikes3 · Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 17881 Location: Omaha, NE

Klomp · Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 13099 Location: Marshall

Why not Offense, Defense, Special Teams? Or just one thread for each week?
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Kellerman · Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 3897

vike daddy · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 82779

does no one have Desmond Bishop as an adoptee? here's a very good interview with him, for background:

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_23754481/vikings-desmond-bishop-its-little-weird-wearing-purple?source=rss
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vike daddy · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 82779

Krauser · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 4194

My thought was that we'd have one thread per group that would get added to week by week, so we'd have longitudinal information about how players performed during the year. There's a thread about how the defense did last year (Vikings Defense under Alan Williams?) that got updated like that last season. There's already a game thread every week, no need to have a separate thread for how the players did in that game.

Grouping by O/D/ST would be fine. I guess the offense thread would be huge, once people start arguing about some of the stats (Ponder's passer rating vs YPA, etc) so that's why I suggested positional groups.

CDub · Joined: 01 Oct 2012 Posts: 543 Location: Iowa

arKnaD7 · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 3207

I adopted Defensive Coordinator Alan Williams a while back. Here is an example of what I plan on doing each week. This is from the Week 17 game vs. Green Bay.

The column on the left is just a play-by-play chart. The middle column has the personnel group, number of pass rushers, man or zone defense, and type of zone defense (if applicable) on each play. On the far right is a summation of all the data, which I will accumulate over the entire season. I plan on using Google Docs so it is easier to access each week.

I'm open to an additional ideas as well.