This team had some 
to put a long snapper into a throne for promo shots.
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/Raises hand in back of room
I’m asking for a friend. Can you help explain to us, instead of that damn AI again, what is long snapper strike percentage? Who knew!?
Yo ho ahoy ye Silver be fine mint condition ye matey! Arrrggh.
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Think baseball.
Each week I rewatch every field goal, extra point, and punt snap from every game. I use a Strike/Ball system, just like baseball. A strike is an accurate snap, a ball is one that goes off target.
So a guy who is 10/10 on FG snaps but 5/10 on punt snaps will have a total strike percentage of 75%.
Here is the raw data;
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Aha, I like it! Thank you for the explanation.
So akin to baseball, are there severe penalties for wild pitches, or in this case loose balls that are the fault of the snapper?
Now we’ve all also learned that playing “snap the football” at an early age can truly pay off!
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This is good. We need an updated ratings chart after Week 4!
But you’ll have to ignore tonight’s ratings on the NFL Network again.
On Florio, sorry, he was very busy dealing with the matter of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel this week, but that saga is now ending as next week ramps up to the NFL Draft, which is how the NFL wanted it to play out.
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Looks like some of the numbers reported were lower than they actually were. This is showing an extra 20k watching the NFLN Easter game and around 15k extra for the Orlando tilt directly against the Final 4.
“The bad: Viewership is still highly contingent on the quality of its window and competition. Going head-to-head against the Final Four on April 4, Louisville-Orlando drew just 308,000 viewers on ESPN. The next day, Birmingham-Houston became the first ESPN game moved to NFL Network since the acquisition, and it drew just 196,000 viewers on NFLN. The following Tuesday, St. Louis-Dallas on FS1 drew 156,000.”
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Oh well we shall look for upside now, for it appears that Dogshit Sports Network found a few friends and well, there’s nothing but a shitty future for them.
Let’s find out early next week!
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“HE DONE GONE AND LEFT FOR CANADA A.J.! NOW GIT!”
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The game schedule for this league is all over the place, except for Friday nights at 8PM ET on Fox.
But now there is only one more Thursday night game in two weeks, but of course it is on Dogshit Sports Network.
Well the good news is through next Sunday in Week 5, all games except one are on free and easy TV in the US.
For this weekend in Week 4, the league has opted for a daytime slate on Saturday.
In Week 5, there is a Saturday night game on ESPN, but then for Sunday they also are going for a daytime slate.
Most of not only my viewing interest is simply going to be on Friday nights on Fox.
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I loved the early afternoon game in DC last weekend. Ended at 3, sauntered around a bit then went over to the Beer fest at the Nationals stadium from 5-8.
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I like that scene too, which works in Washington DC in the spring and in autumn. I remember it well even though it was long ago that I lived there.
That’s definitely not the case in the other UFL markets though.
They should continue to accommodate DC with that kind of scheduling of course, but they have a ton of work to do for next season, including especially to start the season earlier.
So many more of these games could be on those evenings or dark nights in February and in March when more of us are home or otherwise indoors to watch too.
There is also far less competition for the entertainment dollar in those weeks than now, plus little competition from the weather.
They can even work it out in Orlando with night games there during otherwise baseball spring training and despite the popularity of the NHL teams in Florida, but both the hockey teams are not actually popular in Orlando but screw Orlando anyway.
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Let’s continue to watch attendance closely and also if they shift games away from free TV, though the latter often does not happen due to advertising commitments.
Actual attendance going forward in all markets, except for DC and for St. Louis, should continue to be scrutinized.
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Last nights game was originally scheduled to be solely on the ESPN app. The inclusion of NFLN is technically a net positive from being an app only experience.
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They really don’t think a lot of things through in these spring football leagues.
Let’s see what they get right now and into next season.
This stealth reboot to launch the UFL 5.0 feels a lot more like another trial season, though on the media side at least they have made up some ground.
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Anyone else watch tonight’s game? Not a bad game.
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Lots of forum members
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Here’s my version of how I’m seeing this spring football thing: the UFL doesn’t need to win, it just needs to stay alive—and and not go full AAF and collapse. The TV numbers aren’t killing it, but they’re not terrible either, and that’s all that matters what I assume is a TV-first product. If we do the math on this thing - ugly as it is — You’ve got Fox Sports, ESPN/ABC, RedBird Capital Partners, and Repole all part owners. If they are losing money no one has to take the big hit on this one. I don’t se anyone at that level is pulling the plug over a few million a year when the losses are spread out between all of them. FOX alone is probably way ahead compared to what they were eating on WWE. Reportedly eating between $120 and $145 million a year on that deal. The UFL isn’t a goldmine, but it’s cheap, live inventory that fills dead spring windows, and that’s enough to keep it going. Key words are cheap.
Now you add two teams in a couple years, get to 10, and suddenly you’ve got more inventory to work with—five games a week instead of four, better matchups for the main networks, and the ability to hide “the dogs” on FS1 or NFL Network.
More games → more content → more chances to put something decent on TV → more habit. People don’t need to love the teams, they just need to know it’s on. Give it a few years and it’s just “spring football” as a thing—background at the bar, something on the TV Saturday afternoon.
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No UFL games this Sunday is some
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