While Colby Hall was celebrating his record breaking 2018 regular season scoring crown (20,588); a record that stood peacefully since 2001, Rich Calderon was out there throwing some shade.
He simply pointed out that, more than anything, Colby, like everyone else, benefitted from a season that saw record breaking scoring outputs. Rich was not wrong. Half the teams from 2018 cracked the top-25 all-time in scoring and four of those six landed among the top ten, with Colby at the very top.
Of course, another way to judge a dominant scorer is to see what percentage of the total points scored in a regular season landed in the lap of the scoring champ. Based on that kind of math, Colby’s season is a little less impressive.
Below you can find all the percentages for all the scoring champs, but here is a little breakdown…
As you can see, in the first five seasons of the league’s existence, the scoring leaders did well. The first three all scored over 11% of total points and the first five went over 10%, but now, not so much.
There are probably a handful of factors that go into this. The people in the league now are arguable better than they were back then, so the league is more balanced. Experience has also play a part. Most of the league has been doing this for 16+ years now (often in multiple leagues). On top of that, access to more and better research across the tubes of the Internet and on CBS, created more parity as well. Of course, keepers probably played a part. Since keepers started getting kept (2004), only one team has broken 10%. Speaking of…
2001’s Jason Carpenter remains the king of scoring percentage with 11.66%.
In 2008, I produced 10.09% of all regular season scoring. I’m the only person to crack 10% since 2004.
Colby Hall scored the most points ever for a regular season last year, but it only accounted for 9.24% of all scoring that season…the lowest percentage of any scoring champ.
Overall, scoring champs on average score 9.94% of all points scored in the regular season. YEARTEAMPOINTS SCOREDTOTAL POINTS (ALL)PERCENTAGE ** - Only 8-teams in the league. * - 14-game regular season 1999**Robio Murray20,812189,27311.00% 2000*Rick Mullin20,687182,38411.34% 2001*Jason Carpenter21,816187,05911.66% 2002*Justin Acerno20,161197,37310.22% 2003*Robio Murray20,389188,27310.83% 2004*Colby Hall20,182207,6069.72% 2005Griff Coomer19,349196,9039.83% 2006Molly Coomer17,631190,5019.26% 2007Don Vozzola18,474194,1019.66% 2008Robio Murray19,027188,54610.09% 2009Matt Neatock19,459198,9749.78% 2010Rich Calderon18,754193,0249.72% 2011Molly Coomer19,962209,130 9.55% 2012Eric Vozzola19,542204,9489.53% 2013Robio Murray19,489208,2709.36% 2014Bob Castrone20,169207,9829.70% 2015Bob Castrone19,594205,1999.55% 2016Rich Calderon19,921208,4589.56% 2017Matt Neatock19,618201,2549.75% 2018Colby Hall20,588222,7459.24%
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