Teams looking at kickers

With so many close games lately in the FWL look for many teams to keep a close eye on some of the backup kickers in the league or in the draft as they look to make changes. Take Birmingham for example, the Fire are 5-6 but out of their 11 games 10 have had a difference of 7 points or less. 4 losses have been by 4 points or less.

Frankfurt are 4-7 but in their recent 4 game losing streak theyve lost by 3,3,3 and 5 points in each game.

A good kicker can work wonders, Austrian K John Anderson rebounded from a poor first season with the team to being an All-FWL kicker who has hit many vital FG's for his team, no coincidence Austria started really winning when Anderson arrived. London were 5-9-1 last year and had a nightmare year from rookie kicker Tyler Jones, this year hes hit 29 of 34 FG's to help London win some close games.

Its been a nightmare year for Frankfurts veteran kicker Erik Kastle, 2nd all time with 1077 points, just 12 away from the all time leader GM Marco Lambert might have been too loyal to his long time kicker. Kastle is having a terrible year and is ranked last with just 47% of his kickers (10 of 21) and is just 4 of 12 from 40-49 yards. The worst 4 kickers this year, 3 of them are on teams with losing records and the other is .500.

There will be some kickers in the draft but current FWL kickers who could be traded for after the season...

NY Knights K Mark Jensen was having a bad year but he has a lot of talent and will only be in his 6th season next year, however with Silvio Diliberto entering his 13th the Knights will probably keep Jensen as insurance.

Sacramentos veteran kicking legend David Akers is still playing very good football and is ranked 3rd all time, the Surge have a great backup K in Jimmy Kibble, perhaps Sacramento might trade one.

Barcelona have the leagues leading scorer in FWL history in Jesus Angoy and have a young backup in Seth Marler. Marler will take over from Angoy for sure but if Angoy wants to play another year what will the Dragons do then ?

Austria have a raw young backup in Owen Pochman who could be FWL ready in a year or two.

Looking at the undrafted kickers Nick Novak and Ola Kimrin could turn out to be good kickers after a training camp or two.

Look for some major changes at kicker for many teams out there this offseason