09-26-2020, 01:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-30-2020, 04:17 PM by Asked Madden.)
Well I am once again asking for your financial contribution, since I need more money to pay for equipment and position change (spoiler alert!). Too much of my money is tied up with stonks. I love stonks.
So, the draft happened last night. It was a really cool event and honestly may have been the most fun I have had with a draft in a long time. It was the first time in a long time that I was not involved, where I did not help or where I knew how it went before it was streamed. I was also in the draft myself, which was kinda fun too, although I had a fairly good idea where I would go (spoiler alert: I was right).
I had a fairly decent idea with the mock draft, thanks to Spec and Ben and tacos and a few others who helped with it. I personally disagreed with a few different choices, but overall I felt like it was a fairly decent draft overall. I know this draft had a ton of talent in it, but it was still interesting to see which players actually fell a bit and who was taken higher.
My good friend 209tacos went early on, third overall to the Philadelphia Liberty, where I think he will do very well. Tex Wrecks is going to be a monster on the D line and should be a max earner. Philadelphia also got one of the best, if not the best, graphics guy in the entire league with this pick. I think this is a great pick and I think it will be great for them. I am also happy as a Liberty stock owner.
I obviously went at number 10 in the draft, with my player Medicinal Toblerone. That was always the plan, as I am once again back in NOLA, the team I was a GM for for a long time and have very close ties with. This was one of the more obvious picks in the draft and I am happy it worked out like that.
There were a few people that fell a lot further than I thought they would.
SDCore fell a while I think and I was definitely a bit surprised, given the history of him in this league and also other leagues. he is a very obvious max earner and should have been taken higher.
Bjbren17 was the one that annoyed me most that he fell. HOW DID THIS GUY FALL TO 33?!?!?! He is literally 5th in TPE in the class, is co-GM in the PBE, has a max earner there, like what more do you want in a guy? I was shocked he fell out of the first round but the fact that he fell all the way to 33 is absolutely a joke and a disaster. Yellowknife got the biggest steal in the draft and it just fell into their lap. Absolutely shocked at this.
I was also surprised to learn about the two NOLA players we got late in the draft. Somehow AdamS fell a long long way, as a former GM that was definitely surprising to see. I know he has a few demands, but it was great to see Adam fall to us this late. He will be a great addition to the team. Same thing about Shue. I know Running Backs aren't necessarily the biggest need for a lot of teams, but he is a great guy, HO in PBE and just seems like a very obvious max earner. NOLA had a fantastic draft. I think our 2nd rounder will also be fantastic although I don't know him very well yet. I have heard very good things about him too!
So now what?
Well for my own personal journey, the New Orleans Second Line is the destination again. I made it clear to them before the draft (as well as to any other team that asked) that I was going to be position switching. I had no specific needs as to where I wanted to play, though perhaps not QB again lol. Other than that, I was open to a wide range of positions. My only demands if you can call them that was that I wanted to be called up day 1 (sorry DSFL but I just don't really care) and I wanted to stay at the same position my entire career. Both are designed to make it possible for me to compete for career records.
Before the draft it looked like I may be switching to WR but then with the addition of AdamS who also wanted to be called up early, that no longer was an option. Now the main option was between either DE or LB. I was a linebacker in my first career with hall of fame player Julian O'Sullivan and I wouldn't have minded doing that again, especially as I know that LB takes more TPE to be good at than DE so it may have seemed more natural. In the end though, for many different reasons, our choice fell to Defensive End.
So going forward, I will be one of two Defensive Ends on the New Orleans Second Line and I intend to be there for my entire career. This means I will want to especially break one record: Tackles for loss.
I know that for DEs that is typically the statistic that they are best in, so that will be the one I will fight to get most, though I also hope to get enough sacks to have a bit of fun stats there as well, maybe others as well. I may also try to do a better leaderboard lists for just DEs so that I know how I compare, but that's for the future.
For now, I will try to compete with some of the amazing DEs this league already has. It may also be fun to potentially fight for awards and such in the future with 209tacos who currently is a DE as well.
The current career leader for tackles for loss is none other than Er, with 113 with J. Tuck. Though I think Nero Alexander may just have beat it or beat it next season. 71 is currently the 10th spot, which is also more than do-able. If I really do max earn and play my entire at DE there are definitely achieavable goals to compete for this record and get high on the top ten list.
On the NOLA top ten lists, which will obviously continue as well, the career leader is Lo Rax with 82, which is enough for 5th all time in the overall leaderboard. Interestingly enough, I am on that list as Julian O'Sullivan with 23 and in 9th place. To get in the tenth spot, you only need 19. Interestingly enough, Brave Ulysses just had 18 tackles for loss for NOLA last season, in one season. So 19 seems more than reasonable haha. I will likely enter that list in two seasons then and work my way up to Lo Rax slowly.
Additionally, I just did my update and I essentially have the same build as Brave Ulysses had last season already. He basically has the same TPE than I have now, so starting from game 1, I will have a better build than the guy who just had 18 tackles for loss for NOLA last year. So that gives me a lot of hope that I will have a very good career here. And like I said, hopefully I can also get tackles and sacks and some other stats, with a long career, enough to make some lists for NOLA.
And that's it for now. Let's kick ass NOLA and I am excited to be back on the field soon and finally back on the defensive side of things, where it all began for me. Let's get after some guys and get that ball back to the offense. I can't wait to share the defensive side of the field with some amazing teammates like Tesla, pppaul, mith, JPach, Jay, Rector and the legendary Quenton Bode (hippo). So excited to be on the field with you when you break that all time tackles record, potentially even this season. That makes me especially happy. I hope to be the first one to hug you after you get it!
Doot doot
Let's go NOLA
So, the draft happened last night. It was a really cool event and honestly may have been the most fun I have had with a draft in a long time. It was the first time in a long time that I was not involved, where I did not help or where I knew how it went before it was streamed. I was also in the draft myself, which was kinda fun too, although I had a fairly good idea where I would go (spoiler alert: I was right).
I had a fairly decent idea with the mock draft, thanks to Spec and Ben and tacos and a few others who helped with it. I personally disagreed with a few different choices, but overall I felt like it was a fairly decent draft overall. I know this draft had a ton of talent in it, but it was still interesting to see which players actually fell a bit and who was taken higher.
My good friend 209tacos went early on, third overall to the Philadelphia Liberty, where I think he will do very well. Tex Wrecks is going to be a monster on the D line and should be a max earner. Philadelphia also got one of the best, if not the best, graphics guy in the entire league with this pick. I think this is a great pick and I think it will be great for them. I am also happy as a Liberty stock owner.
I obviously went at number 10 in the draft, with my player Medicinal Toblerone. That was always the plan, as I am once again back in NOLA, the team I was a GM for for a long time and have very close ties with. This was one of the more obvious picks in the draft and I am happy it worked out like that.
There were a few people that fell a lot further than I thought they would.
SDCore fell a while I think and I was definitely a bit surprised, given the history of him in this league and also other leagues. he is a very obvious max earner and should have been taken higher.
Bjbren17 was the one that annoyed me most that he fell. HOW DID THIS GUY FALL TO 33?!?!?! He is literally 5th in TPE in the class, is co-GM in the PBE, has a max earner there, like what more do you want in a guy? I was shocked he fell out of the first round but the fact that he fell all the way to 33 is absolutely a joke and a disaster. Yellowknife got the biggest steal in the draft and it just fell into their lap. Absolutely shocked at this.
I was also surprised to learn about the two NOLA players we got late in the draft. Somehow AdamS fell a long long way, as a former GM that was definitely surprising to see. I know he has a few demands, but it was great to see Adam fall to us this late. He will be a great addition to the team. Same thing about Shue. I know Running Backs aren't necessarily the biggest need for a lot of teams, but he is a great guy, HO in PBE and just seems like a very obvious max earner. NOLA had a fantastic draft. I think our 2nd rounder will also be fantastic although I don't know him very well yet. I have heard very good things about him too!
So now what?
Well for my own personal journey, the New Orleans Second Line is the destination again. I made it clear to them before the draft (as well as to any other team that asked) that I was going to be position switching. I had no specific needs as to where I wanted to play, though perhaps not QB again lol. Other than that, I was open to a wide range of positions. My only demands if you can call them that was that I wanted to be called up day 1 (sorry DSFL but I just don't really care) and I wanted to stay at the same position my entire career. Both are designed to make it possible for me to compete for career records.
Before the draft it looked like I may be switching to WR but then with the addition of AdamS who also wanted to be called up early, that no longer was an option. Now the main option was between either DE or LB. I was a linebacker in my first career with hall of fame player Julian O'Sullivan and I wouldn't have minded doing that again, especially as I know that LB takes more TPE to be good at than DE so it may have seemed more natural. In the end though, for many different reasons, our choice fell to Defensive End.
So going forward, I will be one of two Defensive Ends on the New Orleans Second Line and I intend to be there for my entire career. This means I will want to especially break one record: Tackles for loss.
I know that for DEs that is typically the statistic that they are best in, so that will be the one I will fight to get most, though I also hope to get enough sacks to have a bit of fun stats there as well, maybe others as well. I may also try to do a better leaderboard lists for just DEs so that I know how I compare, but that's for the future.
For now, I will try to compete with some of the amazing DEs this league already has. It may also be fun to potentially fight for awards and such in the future with 209tacos who currently is a DE as well.
The current career leader for tackles for loss is none other than Er, with 113 with J. Tuck. Though I think Nero Alexander may just have beat it or beat it next season. 71 is currently the 10th spot, which is also more than do-able. If I really do max earn and play my entire at DE there are definitely achieavable goals to compete for this record and get high on the top ten list.
On the NOLA top ten lists, which will obviously continue as well, the career leader is Lo Rax with 82, which is enough for 5th all time in the overall leaderboard. Interestingly enough, I am on that list as Julian O'Sullivan with 23 and in 9th place. To get in the tenth spot, you only need 19. Interestingly enough, Brave Ulysses just had 18 tackles for loss for NOLA last season, in one season. So 19 seems more than reasonable haha. I will likely enter that list in two seasons then and work my way up to Lo Rax slowly.
Additionally, I just did my update and I essentially have the same build as Brave Ulysses had last season already. He basically has the same TPE than I have now, so starting from game 1, I will have a better build than the guy who just had 18 tackles for loss for NOLA last year. So that gives me a lot of hope that I will have a very good career here. And like I said, hopefully I can also get tackles and sacks and some other stats, with a long career, enough to make some lists for NOLA.
And that's it for now. Let's kick ass NOLA and I am excited to be back on the field soon and finally back on the defensive side of things, where it all began for me. Let's get after some guys and get that ball back to the offense. I can't wait to share the defensive side of the field with some amazing teammates like Tesla, pppaul, mith, JPach, Jay, Rector and the legendary Quenton Bode (hippo). So excited to be on the field with you when you break that all time tackles record, potentially even this season. That makes me especially happy. I hope to be the first one to hug you after you get it!
Doot doot
Let's go NOLA