Glossary

Blessed Cahoots

Blessed Cahoots is an award given out in The Sanderson Gazette to a team that was on the receiving end of notably good fortune. The term originated in the Blingachat after Keenan Allen was put on IR shortly after Dave traded him to Rob and subsequently used both words as hashtags in the same message.

D'Ernest D'oh

D'Ernest D'oh is an award given out in The Sanderson Gazette to a team that makes an especially baffling transaction. It is named after D'Ernest Johnson, who was Nick Chubb's backup in 2021 and had a few good games, yet was perpelexingly dropped by Richie and ignored by Babel during a week when Chubb was out.

Excitement Index

Excitement Index is a metric calculated for regular season weeks. It is determined by taking the z-score for a week's average score and subtracting the z-score for the week's average margin. (The latter is subtracted because closer margins are more exciting, but have negative z-scores.)

Expected Wins

Expected wins uses historical game scores to determine a team's odds of winning each game and sums that for all the team's games in a season. The totals are then adjusted so that the sum of expected wins for all teams in a season equals the total number of games played for the season.

Pryor Play of the Week

Pryor Play of the Week is an award given out in The Sanderson Gazette to an underperformeing player that finally has a good game. It is named after Terrelle Pryor, Sr., who was kept by Mike R. in 2017 and consistently disappointed before delivering on his potential once.

RobScore

RobScore is an unscientific measure of historic success of a franchise. For a given season, a team gets:

Slapped Heartbeat

Slapped Heartbeat is awarded to the team with the lowest score of a given week. The term was once used by a member of the Theta Xi fraternity as a threat for not cleaning up after yourself in the weight room.

Strength of Schedule

Strength of schedule looks at expected wins based on a team's opponents' scores over the course of a season. Positive values indicate a more difficult schedule. A value of +10% means your opponents' scores added up to an expected wins total of 10% above 0.500 (i.e. a expected win percentage against of 0.550).

Team Blangums

Team Blangums is awarded to the team with the highest score of a given week. The term "blangums" is the superlative form of the term "blingums", which can be used as a synonym for "excellent" and is the source of the name "Blingaleague".