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.
| YEAR | TEAM | POINTS SCORED | TOTAL POINTS (ALL) | PERCENTAGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** - Only 8-teams in the league. * - 14-game regular season | ||||
| 1999** | Robio Murray | 20,812 | 189,273 | 11.00% |
| 2000* | Rick Mullin | 20,687 | 182,384 | 11.34% |
| 2001* | Jason Carpenter | 21,816 | 187,059 | 11.66% |
| 2002* | Justin Acerno | 20,161 | 197,373 | 10.22% |
| 2003* | Robio Murray | 20,389 | 188,273 | 10.83% |
| 2004* | Colby Hall | 20,182 | 207,606 | 9.72% |
| 2005 | Griff Coomer | 19,349 | 196,903 | 9.83% |
| 2006 | Molly Coomer | 17,631 | 190,501 | 9.26% |
| 2007 | Don Vozzola | 18,474 | 194,101 | 9.66% |
| 2008 | Robio Murray | 19,027 | 188,546 | 10.09% |
| 2009 | Matt Neatock | 19,459 | 198,974 | 9.78% |
| 2010 | Rich Calderon | 18,754 | 193,024 | 9.72% |
| 2011 | Molly Coomer | 19,962 | 209,130 | 9.55% |
| 2012 | Eric Vozzola | 19,542 | 204,948 | 9.53% |
| 2013 | Robio Murray | 19,489 | 208,270 | 9.36% |
| 2014 | Bob Castrone | 20,169 | 207,982 | 9.70% |
| 2015 | Bob Castrone | 19,594 | 205,199 | 9.55% |
| 2016 | Rich Calderon | 19,921 | 208,458 | 9.56% |
| 2017 | Matt Neatock | 19,618 | 201,254 | 9.75% |
| 2018 | Colby Hall | 20,588 | 222,745 | 9.24% |