After a significantly turbulent first season within the Draft league Europe, the Scimitars found themselves unlikely early leaders of the Karl Franz South Conference at the midpoint but conspired to drop 4 of their last 7 games to miss out on the play offs through a conference record tiebreaker.

Coach Kyle O'Walsh felt his rookie team hit a wall after a significant break between games and lost the sharpness they possessed early in the year. In an effort to combat that malaise, during the offseason, the team has drafted in a set of whizz kids to analyse all of the performances of last year.

The crack team of analysts have spent countless nights rewatching replay tape from all of the Scimitars inaugural season. The product of all their effort and genius was a simple looking but deviously complex formula that combines all elements of a players in game performance. This formula goes deeper that the Game Box Score, deeper than how may passes or casualties a guy puts up. It pulls in every little ounce of effort and scores a player on all of his successes or fails and how important they may be.

Burn 3 rerolls but still get that casualty? You'll be punished for that compared to someone who gets it without the reroll help. Sack the ball carrier and force a fumble? That will get you bonus points over someone who successfully blocks any old player. Force a turnover by a failed dodge? Great tackle young man, have some more points on your performance....

You get the idea here, no stone left unturned and no expense spared in putting together all of this info and finding a way to streamline it down to just one number....

Let me introduce you to the Wolfsbach Scimitar's Larsson Rating!

So named because it takes into account all possible factors a player can fail or achieve at to give them a game by game performance rating.... out of 10.0!

So, without further ado, here is the statistical breakdown of the Scimitars' players who have shone as highlighted by the Larsson Rating:

Team MVP: Brandon Thompson - Brandon was the steady Eddie of the team throughout the year and the first round pick came to play on a regular basis. He ended up leading the team on average Larsson Rating and contributed so much to the blocking game of the Scimitars. His stalwart nature showed up on tape again and again as the first year player nearly broke 100 Assists to blocks in the year. With one game forfeited by Scimitars opponents, it is clear that Brandon would have smashed that mark had he played one more game, 95 over 13 games is a serious achievement and led the team by a wide margin. Brandon was also super efficient, averaging out at a 70% successful blocking ratio and even managed to force 2 fumbles from sacks that he produced. On top of this he was a thorn in any offense by contributing 7 successful tackles, causing opposition to turn over. Brandon averaged a 7.9 on the Larsson Rating and was the highest Scimitar and rightful winner of the Team MVP.

Fans MVP: Chad Pennington - The fans have not yet learned about the Larsson rating but they voted in their droves to elect Chad Pennington as their MVP for the Scimitars inaugural year. The Larsson rating does back up their feelings on this one, as did the other coaches around the league. Chad has just played in his first Pro Bowl and saw action, contributing the pass that set up the KFC's only score. Unfortunately, Chad will now miss the first game of next season but he continued where he left off in the Pro Bowl, by simply creating touchdowns. His 130+ rushing yards, 4 rushing scores, 150+ passing yards and 6 passing touchdowns cemented his place as QB1 for the Scimitars, even though the team's GM has moved to draft a back up in Matt Scott. Chad was efficient with the ball and despite picking up or receiving a hand off on 34 occasions, he never failed one of these attempts. For all of the time he spent around the ball, he only caused a turnover 3 times in 13 games. The impeccable game manager will look to push the ball down the field more in the coming year as the coaches hope to open up the passing game. Chad ended the season with a Larsson rating of 7.65, befitting of his exceptional handling of the offence.

Sports Writers MVP: Jason Taylor - JT was the flashy blood covered risk taking Blitzer that the tabloids love to cover. His all out approach to maiming and injuring folks took a while to get rolling, however. In fact, it took until Game 4 until Jason got his first collar, taking down a player in a game where he eventually broke armour 7 times. From there, he exploded in terms of damage caused, finishing with 45 armour breaks over 13 games and 16 casualties. Where he on a Broekwater team, the world would have heard of him and his 74% Blitzing success rate. This type of performance comes at a price though, and Jason burned 16 rerolls all year, more than one a game, in search of knock downs and opportunities to hurt his opponents. He never even touched the ball this year and usually when called upon to be agile he was below average. His massive contribution in the blocking game (almost double of anyone else) more than covered up these gaps in his game and saw him finish with a Larsson Score of 7.41.

Dunce Award: Zach Thomas - Its normally not okay to speak ill of the dead but this is Blood Bowl and Zach Thomas deserves all of the hate he gets posthumously. The fragile Blitzer didn’t even last past the mid point of the Scimitars season but still managed to post the most disappointing score on the team. His ability to get hurt (7 armour breaks out of 8 times he was knocked down) and penchant for poor blocking (total of 20 unsuccessful blocks and blitzes and one failed block) meant that while he had all the potential that JT does, he never gave the fans anything to cheer about. He's been replaced already for the upcoming year and the team would like to keep the records of his lowly 5.68 Larsson Score a secret, never to be repeated.

So there you have it DLE fans, a quick rundown of the highs and lows on the Scimitars' players from DLE Season 2. What will we see from each of them when they face off against the Akendorf Griffins tonight at 21:00 BBT? All welcome to come and find out!