With the National Simulation Football League draft on the horizon, shortly followed by the Developmental Simulation Football League draft mere days later, it is interesting to see where the DSFL teams will come out of this with the exiting of one class and the entering of another. Whilst it is fun and intriguing to see the speculations of many about how the draft order may look or which prospects are boom or bust, an element of this draft i don’t see much coverage on is the effect that will be felt by each Developmental Simulation Football league team after the biggest draft class in the football league’s history, consisting of over two hundred and seventy rookies, leave the DSFL in hopes of making the NSFL. It is clear that with this number of prospects entering the big leagues, some will receive no game time, may be dropped down to the DSFL and steals will be aplenty in the draft, but what about the impact on the next class of DSFL rookies?
With some quick and easy math, we can see that most if all the current rookies played in the NSFL, they would occupy just over half of all available rosters spots on a team, with twenty two players per team who have a max roster size of forty. The NSFL teams are going to either need to make way for such a large batch of rookies and fresh blood in their locker rooms or keep a good portion of their draftees down in the DSFL until they have a spot to call their own on the major leagues of our sport. Whilst players across all years are put into this situation, with teams deciding who gets to play in the NSFL and who will spend a few more years developing in the DSFL, it has never been on this scale. The impact this will cause over the next few years is unknown and immeasurable.
Whilst it is already noted the sheer size of the class will majorly shakeup the current NSFL team’s rosters, the impact left by the mammoth draft class size is going to be reflected in the new NSFL roosters and line-ups. With so many players moving on to the National Simulation Football League, and a lager than ever number being put down to play developmental, that is some serious game time and number of spots being filled by players who are just higher calibre than the rookies. They have has an extra season to earn TPE and will push rookies who aren’t as active to achieve every bit of TPE they can, or write media articles to purchase high tier equipment for an extra boost of TPE, down the depth chart in every position. What this means for the Developmental Simulation Football League is even more unpredictable than the impact of the NSFL draft on the NSFL league.
What we are going to see next year is developmental league teams having an abundance of talent, coming from their draft picks who they hope will be active players and participants in the sim league, as well as players who are being sent back down. As a result of this mix of the two, again, whilst this occurs every season, it has never happened to this extent and the numbers that we will see next season probably may never be beaten, the Developmental League is an absolutely crapshoot as to how teams may place in the upcoming season. Solid draft prospects may lose game time for players of the season just past to help carry the team forward. Teams that prioritise letting their rookies play over other talent, may suffer and slip down the leader board. Developmental teams that produced many good, highly active and talented players last season, will potentially lose more than other teams who’s talent didn’t reach the same heights and as result be send back to play another year in the Developmental Simulation League with more acquired TPE predictably than the average rookie.
Furthermore, the sheer amount of players from last season make particular positions extremely contested when they are dropped back down to developmental. Wide Receivers in the new rookie class already have ten prospects and are shaping to be one of the larger positions in this season’s draft. When you include that last season, wide receivers again were on the larger side of depth, it is going to create a situation that all other positions are going to face, where each player receives less game time or no time at all. Following through with this impact, next years National Simulation Football League’s draft, when the DSFL have drafted, played their season and finished, might be quite difficult for the General Managers of teams to select the best quality candidates. DSFL teams will have had too many players to have given every player ample opportunity to shine, meaning it is quite likely that rookies towards the middle and back of the back will not have the same type of stat lines to back up their TPE or activeness on the forums as to why they should be drafted. This results in a second year, where after clear stars and solid prospects are taken, what is left is anyone’s guess as to who will be the best player for the seasons to come and who may stop being active and become a bust.
There is the chance for so many steals and so many busts come this NSFL draft just a matter of days and hours away, yet the effect of this class, the effect of this draft, is going to stick around for a couple of seasons after they leave the Developmental league. Their class size will create a bottleneck of decently talented players occupying spots and game time from rookies for what I can see at least two, maybe three seasons in the future. General Managers of the NSFL teams already have their hands fill with scouting and choosing who to draft already, but the headache this draft has caused will not end this year, it will continue to be felt for a few more seasons yet and I don’t think many people have realised what still lays in front of them.
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P.S I wrote this under it being eligible for the 1.5x payment, since it relates content from both the NSFL and DSFL draft this season, to the t impact it will have on the future but I am not really sure if it will be taken that way so I will just leave that little note hear. Feel free to PM me if I need to clear some stuff up about this in order to get the 1.5x payment. Cheers!
With some quick and easy math, we can see that most if all the current rookies played in the NSFL, they would occupy just over half of all available rosters spots on a team, with twenty two players per team who have a max roster size of forty. The NSFL teams are going to either need to make way for such a large batch of rookies and fresh blood in their locker rooms or keep a good portion of their draftees down in the DSFL until they have a spot to call their own on the major leagues of our sport. Whilst players across all years are put into this situation, with teams deciding who gets to play in the NSFL and who will spend a few more years developing in the DSFL, it has never been on this scale. The impact this will cause over the next few years is unknown and immeasurable.
Whilst it is already noted the sheer size of the class will majorly shakeup the current NSFL team’s rosters, the impact left by the mammoth draft class size is going to be reflected in the new NSFL roosters and line-ups. With so many players moving on to the National Simulation Football League, and a lager than ever number being put down to play developmental, that is some serious game time and number of spots being filled by players who are just higher calibre than the rookies. They have has an extra season to earn TPE and will push rookies who aren’t as active to achieve every bit of TPE they can, or write media articles to purchase high tier equipment for an extra boost of TPE, down the depth chart in every position. What this means for the Developmental Simulation Football League is even more unpredictable than the impact of the NSFL draft on the NSFL league.
What we are going to see next year is developmental league teams having an abundance of talent, coming from their draft picks who they hope will be active players and participants in the sim league, as well as players who are being sent back down. As a result of this mix of the two, again, whilst this occurs every season, it has never happened to this extent and the numbers that we will see next season probably may never be beaten, the Developmental League is an absolutely crapshoot as to how teams may place in the upcoming season. Solid draft prospects may lose game time for players of the season just past to help carry the team forward. Teams that prioritise letting their rookies play over other talent, may suffer and slip down the leader board. Developmental teams that produced many good, highly active and talented players last season, will potentially lose more than other teams who’s talent didn’t reach the same heights and as result be send back to play another year in the Developmental Simulation League with more acquired TPE predictably than the average rookie.
Furthermore, the sheer amount of players from last season make particular positions extremely contested when they are dropped back down to developmental. Wide Receivers in the new rookie class already have ten prospects and are shaping to be one of the larger positions in this season’s draft. When you include that last season, wide receivers again were on the larger side of depth, it is going to create a situation that all other positions are going to face, where each player receives less game time or no time at all. Following through with this impact, next years National Simulation Football League’s draft, when the DSFL have drafted, played their season and finished, might be quite difficult for the General Managers of teams to select the best quality candidates. DSFL teams will have had too many players to have given every player ample opportunity to shine, meaning it is quite likely that rookies towards the middle and back of the back will not have the same type of stat lines to back up their TPE or activeness on the forums as to why they should be drafted. This results in a second year, where after clear stars and solid prospects are taken, what is left is anyone’s guess as to who will be the best player for the seasons to come and who may stop being active and become a bust.
There is the chance for so many steals and so many busts come this NSFL draft just a matter of days and hours away, yet the effect of this class, the effect of this draft, is going to stick around for a couple of seasons after they leave the Developmental league. Their class size will create a bottleneck of decently talented players occupying spots and game time from rookies for what I can see at least two, maybe three seasons in the future. General Managers of the NSFL teams already have their hands fill with scouting and choosing who to draft already, but the headache this draft has caused will not end this year, it will continue to be felt for a few more seasons yet and I don’t think many people have realised what still lays in front of them.
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P.S I wrote this under it being eligible for the 1.5x payment, since it relates content from both the NSFL and DSFL draft this season, to the t impact it will have on the future but I am not really sure if it will be taken that way so I will just leave that little note hear. Feel free to PM me if I need to clear some stuff up about this in order to get the 1.5x payment. Cheers!