(S43) PT #1 - New Season, New Suggestions?

[musha6570]

I am fresh back to the league from a long term absence. I have always found the league to be fun but lacking that something special. I think the need for live commentary during games is very apparent. I quite frankly feel it is a long overdue concept. I understand the logistics of implementing such a thing would be difficult but overall I feel it would be for the betterment and enjoyability of the league. I also think continuously exploring sim options is a solid plan as well. I do understand that currently we utilize the best available sim engine on the market. In the future however, trying out new sims to see if they may improve the overall experience would be a great idea. This again would pose a logistical nightmare but I firmly believe given the talent this league has that it could overcome. All and all I would like to see continuous improvements and get the league to new heights.

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[bigbluex02]

PBE PT

[shadyshoelace]

The state of the ISFL is in a good place, but there's always room to improve the product. One obvious, but important, change that the league could make is to amp up the streams and encourage people to interact with them in real time, as there are rarely large numbers of viewers tuning in when they occur. Obviously the global userbase will make it tough for everyone to participate, but the visuals are simply not exciting enough for people to spend time watching when they could do something more interesting and then check the box score; however, commentated events like the draft are a great time for the community. Finding people to provide play-by-play or color commentary on the sim has been a challenge in the past, but it seems like the league has a robust podcast environment now and plenty of people who enjoy spending time talking about the league, so perhaps there's a way to tap into members of that community (or beyond) on a rotating basis. Hopefully this mitigates the usual issues of folks being unavailable for a recurring time that has caused issues in the past.

[Lumosityfan]

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[Ultimatedestroye]

I think that revamping how regression works would be nice, as right now we have a slow and gradual decline at quite an earlier time in someones career. I feel that we should have a later but harsher drop-off for someone TPE, as people barely make it to their 10th season, which feels to unreal. I think it would be funny to turn on injuries for 1 or 2 seasons, as so many teams can become increadlbly messed up if the wrong player gets injured. Seeing a teams ultimus hopes become dashed when their Star QB becomes injured for the rest of the season without a reasonable backup. Also every year, we should have a relegation/promotion matchup between the worst ISFL team via record and the Ultimini winner. The match should allow the players on the DSFL team to be uncapped for that match. If the DSFL team wins, then the DSFL team gets promoted to the ISFL and the ISFL team gets demoted to the DSFL. The DSFL team that won will also get a expansion draft, and be eligible to draft 1 player from each ISFL team.

[Gordon Bombay]

FROM FRENCH


J’aimerais faire un changement principalement. Mais je sais que ce n’est pas facile.  Je voudrais pouvoir changer le moteur du simulateur. Je crois que la ligue soufre à cause de son moteur. Ce n’est pas plaisant de regarder des cercles et le jeu nous pousse vers une meta.  J’aimerais pouvoir regarder Louis Blondin jouer en 3d dans un jeu comme axis football ou bien madden. Je crois que ça attirerait d’avantage de personne.  Une autre suggestion que j’ai est de livestreamé les parties sur twitch avec des commentaires. La PBE fait ainsi et ils réussisent à avoir un auditoire fidèle. En somme je crois que des changements doivent être fait afin de rendre l’expérience de spectateur plus amusant. Je me connecte seulememnt pour regarder les streams lorsque mon équipe est en série élimatoires et je crois qu’on devrait avoir un produit suffisamment bon afin de rendre la saison régulière intéressante. En résumé, il faut se débarrasse des points et les remplacer par des vraies joueurs !

[Duilio05]

The thing that could make this league even better would be live play by play for every game. it is one of things that helped get me excited to be in the league and stay active was having some one do live commentary and interacting with the live comments during the games. hearing some one get excited about big plays and crazy upsets and wild game ending events is really empowering to appreciate how much fun other users get. that the rest of the league enjoys watcing the games as much as i do. it makes the games even more fun being able to interact with someone who talks to the viewers and the commenters. the loss of live commentary during games is a big reason i stop watching the games myself. It is the same reason other live sports have commentary, it draws the casual viewers into the game to keep watching even when your team isn't currently playing.

[Greenbaynathan]

You know what this league needs, no more TPE caps on the DSFL level, also lets just make this a baseball style league with a true minors, send downs, call ups, mid season deals involving high earning dsfl players, we can even have crappy owners who refuse to spend and therfore kill any chance lf sucess, actually, maybe we shouldnt have that one 
1.  Removing TPE caps and establishing a bunch of new DSFL teams so that every team has an affiliate, there will now be one draft for the ISFL teams to select players, and then assign them to their respective DSFL teams.  
2. The ability to send down and call up players mid season.
These two changes would revoliutionize the league and make things a lot more interesting at times, even if it in practice would kill alot of jobs and make certain others jobs absolute hell, but at least it would be fun, and thats all that matters right.

[Bubba]

Hmmm changes to the league that could help it out. Personally I think most of the things the league has right now is set and working well. But live play by play during streams sounds like an idea that could work and be fun. The sim speed we have right now is pretty fast and sometimes it is hard to keep track of where your players are or who made the tackle especially for the defensive players DTs and LBS. So having a slower sim speed with some commentary maybe could be a change for the good. Of course this would add another job to the league and I wouldn't advise that you do every game play by play, I would say maybe choose 1 or 2 games like the game of the week that gets choose to be the live stream each week. Could defintealy make a schedule though just so every team would have the shot at being on stream and watching their team play by play

[DL14]

Written option: With the new season underway, there's a lot of excitement in the air. However, what potential change could make the league even more exciting? Perhaps live play-by-play during streams? Unlimited cap? List what potential suggestions that would make the league better! Can even be silly suggestions as well!
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I think the most important thing right now is to find a solution to the value of money in the league through an in-universe store or something along those lines. Money is definitely something that is worth it until you start getting a lot of it, when it becomes basically worthless unless you want to gamble it all away. I think that Play-by-Play is a half-decent idea. It has some merit as the folks hosting ISFL gameday basically do that anyway, but maybe the play speed would need to be lowered slightly for them to be a bit more coherent, and the streams are long enough. It would add some life to an otherwise monotonous stream. But I’d prefer for a revised cap rather than an unlimited cap to be implemented. Definitely not in the DSFL because it’s meant to be developmental and more for fun but the ISFL could maybe benefit. Giving away too much money would just incentivize GMs to flood the economy with big contracts and basically make earning money pointless. But at the same time, the league isn’t exactly in a position where a cap makes a lot of sense, especially with players likely to take cheaper contracts and with so much variation in positions and the like. At the very least, bots should be factored in more heavily, with a cap that allows for the signing of lots of bots in a “win now” scenario but that comes with a heavy luxury tax for future seasons. It’s probably a terrible idea, but hey, could be fun.