05-26-2020, 02:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2020, 02:59 AM by ScorpXCracker.)
Yea I just lost all my money in a dumb bet I made when I bet that the New Orleans Second Line would beat the Orange County Otters in a game in the National SImulation Football League. Orange County had home field advantage, so this was probably a not very smart bet that I made. Well, I said probabaly but yea, this was a dumb bet, because we lost, which automaticlly means that it was dumb. In my opinion, I think that the sim should be resimmed, because NOLA lost. NOLA losing is not an acceptable thing, and obviously something catastrophic happened to force that to happen. I think I heard we tested at 99.9%. So I guess we just got super duper unlucky. 1 time in 1000 games we lose, and that 1 time was this one time I suppose. So I guess to make this money back I am going to just try and ramble on to get the monies. I will try and not talk about how I am unhappy with the team I am on like I did the last time.
Also the title is “My newest 10k article of spite” which does not really apply to this because I am not writing this article out of spite, I am writing this article because I am very broke and need money. My last 10k article was called “my 10k article of spite” because numbers said I would not write a 10k article so I decided fuck you, I would. And I did do it, and it was not a good article at all lol. A surprising amount of people actually read it. I did not expect anybody to read it.
I am really sorry to the grader that has to read this. This is not a good article. I apologize.
Ok the first thing that I am going to do is give my opinions on every team's branding and what they look like. This is not my opinion on the team itself, but just their branding.
New Orleans Second Line-
Now, this may be incredibly biased, but I really love the New Orleans Second Line logo. It just has a lot going for it all around. First thing that comes to mind is the color. I absolutely love purple. Easily my favorite color in the color alphabet or whatever the color version of the alphabet is. Color scheme? Wait no I think the color scheme is what kind of color a particular thing is. I am just going to go with the Color alphabet. Purple and white go together really well, and def puts it as my number 1 color scheme in the league. Second thing that I like about the New Orleans Second Line branding is that it has 4 words in it. Super useful for when writing Point Task about the New Orleans Second Line or writing media about the New Orleans Second Line. It bolsters your word count by luxe four times what it would have been if you just say something lame like Colorado. The ORange County Otters also have this great thing going for why they have good branding. Next thing that I like about the New Orleans Second Line is the Doot Doot thing. If I am being honest, I do not even get it? Do they play a lot of trumpets in New Orleans? Is it even a trumpet? I guess I have just kind of assumed that it is a trumpet but I have not asked anyone about it, and at this point, 2 seasons in with NOLA I think that it might be too late to ask. “Hey you know that thing that I have been saying for the last 3 months? What is it?” The more I think about it, the more I am pretty confident that it is a trumpet, but like, it is not that I am an instrument expert or anything. But yea, Doot Doot is 10/10. Doot Doot. Ok, another thing that I COULD HAVE liked is the stadium name. A couple months ago the GMs held a vote to rename the stadium, and one of the options was the Trombone Dome. Trombone Dome was such a great name for a stadium, and I have never been more disappointed than when it did not win the contest. Wait a second. Trombone. I think it is a Trombone making the dooting. And now I feel not very smart for not putting Trombone Dome and the dooting together. I am not a smart person. But at least I know the answer to the dooting now. But seriously, Trombone Dome is such a great name for a stadium, and if I can ever petition to rename it, I will do it. I am not even sure what the current name, I am sure it is fine, but like, can it really hold a light to the fucking Trombone Dome. I think that the answer is no. The logo of the New Orleans Second Line is also super great. I love it a lot. The people dancing in it are great, and really well done. It just has a lot going on in it, and I love it.
Colorado Yeti-
The Colorado Yeti is a mediocre branding in my opinion. Like, I just do not think that anything in it really pops. The colors are nice in it I guess. The shade of red goes with the black really well and they complement each other pretty nice. I do not like the yellow color in it. I just do not like the color yellow at all. It is just not appealing in any way. And I say this after spending my last player's entire career in a team that’s really only color is yellow. Well I guess it was not my full career because they traded me after I retired. And, I just do not like the actual yeti. I do not like that it is just a shadow of a yeti. It feels kind of lazy, you know? That felt mean, I have no room to talk. I am not good at graphics. The only time that I actually try to make something graphics wise is when I am making some shiity meme. Honestly, I am not sure what else you would put in for the yeti, because I think that maybe the yeti would look unnatural with actual color and detail in it. What I said earlier was wrong, but I am not going to delete it because that would cost me words, and we can not have that, I just need more words. Another thing, I do not like Yeti Noises. There may be some inside joke that I am missing, but it is not a good motto or # or whatever it is called. Like, it does not really seem like it fits Yeti, there is not an alliteration. I love alliteration.
Ok I have gotten bored of talking about team brands so I am going to highlight some player names that I like. I really like talking about player names so I am going to give a rank out of 5 to them. I am just choosing names that I want to point out. Also this is completely unrelated but my keyboard is being super wack right now it keeps going back like 10 spaces so it becomes all out of order and it is wack. Also my space bar needs you to press really hard so that makes it really hard for me to type which is really wack
Magnus Rikiya - I really really love this name, I find it really unique, and that is something that I really like in a name. I think it sounds like a superhero name if I am being honest, to be honest. I could imagine reading this name in a comic book. I have not read many comics lately, to be honest. That is a lot of money to spend on them. And pirating them is a whole lot of work, that I just do not have the energy to do. Maybe eventually I will get back into them. Because I really do enjoy them, just too much of a hassle for me, you know? Also, I figured out what the problem with my keyboard was. It was my track pad that was causing the problem, it was kind of like half way pushed in half wy, so it spontaneously did that a couple of times, and it would click to wherever my mouser was set, so then my words would be go over to where my clicker was, and so my typing would be all out of wack. I do not really know how to fix this, so yay me. Sorry for getting out of topic, just needed more words. I give Magnus Rikiya a really good 4/5 which is really good. I can not really think of what took the 1 point off from the score, but it is there, just can not put my finger on it.
Ahri Espeeeyeeeeseeeeeteeee- I really love this name a lot. I think I misspelled it, but I do not care enough about the quality of this article to actually look it up. The main appeal of Ahris name is that when you it out loud it spells R E S P E C T. I think that that is absolutely amazing, and one of my favorite things in the league. And also i just really like the espeeeeyeesteee even if you put aside the RESPECT part of it and just reaaaaaaally draw it out. I think that I would give this name a 5/5. I love it a lot.
Ke?oke?o K?ne-Maika?i- Fuck this name. I hate it. I hate names that have the special characters in them. Like, I do not have the time to look up the ASCII codes or whatever it is to spell it out correctly, and whenever I end up typing things not correctly, people tend to make fun of me. I think I could maybe give this name a point for the uniqueness of the name of whatever, but no, fuck this name. Imagine trying to put this name in the Depth Chart. Now that is a horrible thing to do. To be honest, I think Dwyers name was also in this way so maybe he deserves it, because he would have to put his own name in. I give this name a ?.
Ok now I am going to talk about the thing in this league that I love the most, the Norfolk Seawolves. Because the Seawolves are the best thing in the world, and this league. We have got a really great team this league and I think honestly have one of the better rosters in the league. At the top, we have the two best Quarterback in the league, In Luke Skywalker, and Sulieman Ramza to lead us. Both of our QBs combine for an absolutely amazing 9:1 touchdown to interception ratio, which is phenomenal for the DSFL. In the DSFL, quarterbacks always tend to do poorly because of how low tpe they are. So having this astounding touchdown to interception ratio in the DSFL is very impressive.
Ok I was talking about the Seawolves but now I want to talk about the DSFL quarterbacks. I think something should change in the DSFL about quarterbacks. Well, I want something to change, but I really do not know what could change without breaking the league or just messing it all together up. I think the most common thing that I have seen suggested to fix the QBs is raise the QB TPE cap. I think this is probably the best suggestion, although this has its flaws. The main one is how unfair it is to rookies. A rookie QB is no way going to be able to compete with like a 500 tpe. And that just is not good for retention if there is no way that you could compete with upper QBs, and that is just against the point of the DSFL. Another thing I have seen is to raise the starting TPE of QBs. I think hypothetically there could be a way this could work, but there would have to be some rules to put in place to keep people from abusing it. People could switch away from QB after creating at QB to give themselves a headstart over other players. The obvious way to stop this is just to make people who create at qb then switch just have them when they switch to have how ever much tpe they had the advantage on. So like if QBs started at 150, and then they switched, they could only keep 50 of that, which would make it balanced in regards to other positions. Then raise the cap for quarterbacks and quarterbacks only. This would make quarterback better. But then that would ruin regression, well not really ruin it but you would have to tamper with it a little bit and lower it for quarterbacks so their career ends a little earlier than others. Well it would not end earlier, it would end at around the same time because the extra tpe boost that they got would counter act the early regression or harder hitting regression or whatever would happen. Now that I am spelling it out, I do not think I like it. It just seems like way too much work and things to keep track of. Well, I guess HO is way more organized than I could ever dream of, so I do not think they would have a hard time keeping track of it I guess, still, it seems like too much work, and kind of a strange concept for a strange tithing like this, you know? I think that is like tenth time I have said you know? I guess it just kind of works well for wrapping up a sentence that I did not know how to wrap up, you know? Making QBs better in the DSFL would make a lot of people happier. The first, obviously being QBs, because they would not suck. Like I think a prime example of this was Cal Lidious. For those who do not know, Cal was a former Norfolk Seawolves QB who ended up going IA. I think one thing that played a factor in his going inactive was the stats. Like any other DSFL QB, Cal could barely be called a QB. He tossed ints left and right, and could barely throw the ball. IF his stats were better would he stay active? Maybe, I dont know, possibly. I guess if Cal never went ia we would not have Luke Skywalker and Sulieman Ramza, the two greatest quarterbacks to ever touch a football. It feels weird to say that a player going IA ended up working out for us, but it did. RamWalker 4 lyfe. fuck I went off topic and not sure where I left off. Oh yea players obviously want good stats, and they would not like to see that they do not have bad stats, and by the nature of the league, every player who plays QB will have bad stats, because that is just how Draft Day Sport: Pro Football be. And the worst part is it does not just affect the quarterback. Wide receivers stats also kind of suck because the person whose sole job is to get it into their hands, and they rely on that person because he is the only person on the team who is capable of getting the ball into their hands, is absolute garbage, that can be really bad for their stats. And as I established before, players like good stats and not bad stats, this is no good for the players. It is also super frustrating just for the entire team because a quarterback is supposed to be the focal point of your offense and it is kind of important that they exist. So when your quarterback sucks, which they will, because fuck wolverine, it is going to suck for your entire team when your offensive drive just gets shuts down because your quarterback threw three straight interceptions because fuck woleverine. Fuck Wolverine. I love Hugh Jackman though. How could you not? There was that video of him at like a movie premiere or some shit where he like recognized one of his students that he used to teach back when he was a teacher. That has got to be the coolest thing ever, as the student. I mean, your teacher being wolverine would be pretty fuckin cool, but then getting to meet up back with him 10 years later, and he remembers you and your name, that is pretty amazing. Logan was also pretty amazing. But like, your defense fights too hard to get you the ball, and then your quarterback throws three straight incompletions to start the drive out. I hate that. Those three straight incompletions on a three and out is so frustrating. Because you do not even get to see your offense. Because for some dumb reason Wolverine decided that you do not get to see the play if the QB throws an incomplete pass. So on these 3 straight incompletions on a three and out, you are on, and then you are not you are on no more. It sucks and it should be changed. I think it is also just bad for the defense too, not being able to see incompletions. It makes the defense feel worse than it actually is, or at least that is how it feels for me. When you see the quarterback drop back to pass, more than likely it is going to be a completion, because you know that it will not be incomplete, or an interception because you do not see those. And a complete pass, and incomplete pass are the two most likely scenarios on a pass play, and when you take the possibility of one happening altogether, like 90% of the time when a QB backs up to pass, or when you see the Qb back up to pass, it is going to be a completion, which just feels kind of sucky for the defense, and make syou feel less good than you actually are, because that is what you see, but not what is actually happening. Maybe this is just me. Something that makes defense worse than they should be, but actually is super frustrating is the dragging people along. Holy shit is that frustrating. It is 3rd and 20, should be an easy stop, but you really can not let them get the first. The QB throws it like 10 yards in front of the first yard marker, you get really hape, but Sike! This WR, along with every Wr has actually been Robert Gronkowski this entire time! You thought you could tackle him at a reasonable spot? Well you are dumb, you dummy. And they drag your defender for thirty yard, which absolutely sucks and I hate it so much and it has happened to me way too many times. I have heard some people say that what we see is not what is actually happening, it is just something to be more entertaining I guess. I do not know if this actually has any merit to it at all, or if it is just something that people say as a guess or whatever, but it would make more sense I guess. It would be kind of more comforting, actually. Because a lot of what you see on the screen makes no sense what so ever. I think the most frustrating thing to see on the screen is the first down marker ball spotting thing. On the screen, the place where the ball gets placed is the right tip of the ball. The home team goes to the right, so they have a very clear advantage, because while they only have to get just the tip over, the away team has to get the entire ball over. Which, in relation to the size of the ball, and the size of the field, is a pretty big damn difference. Like, imagine if in the NFL the home team had to go only 7 yards instead of 10. That would be ridiculous. And the thing is, it does not just impact the game when it is a first down or not. I think it is an every play thing. So like every time an away team runs they should be getting an extra yard or two, but they do not, and it is some horse baloney. That is such a game breaking thing, and it would be so easy to fix. Just make the point that the ball would get spotted at flip for every team so that it is even. Or hell, just make the point in the middle of the ball, surely that would be easy. Now, my programming experience is limited to a couple courses of beginner courses of Python, so maybe this is an incredibly hard thing to do and asking for it is unreasonable of WOlverine. Wait no it would be unreasonable of me, it would be unreasonable for Wolverine. But I doubt it, it really seems like a pretty simple thing to fix. But like, maybe that just is the visual part of it, and in reality it impacts nothing, but even then, it is soooo frustrating to watch. Like watching 95% of the ball get over the first down line, but nope fuck you, the entire thing has to be over is so horrible o be watching. I wonder if that is why HFA is so overpowered. In my tests HFA has about a 30% impact on the games. So if you are testing 30% on the road, you would be testing 60% at home, or something about that. I wonder how much the ball spotting takes into the 30%. Surely a big part of it, no? I think penalties play a huge factor in it as well. Having every single whistle go your way would really suck. Wait going your way implies that they were in favor of you, not against you. So uh, going against you. It is kind of ridiculous that home field advantage advantage that you get when you are at home. Like, home field advantage is a thing in real life, but certainly not to the extent that Draft Day Sports: Pro Football has it at. Wait now I am remembering someone did like an actual study of the amount of wins at home compared to the amount of wins on the road in NSFL and it actually kind of matched up to the NFL, so maybe it actually kind of works. I think a big problem with the league is actually being able to see the % of the wins. Like, it kind of ruins a lot for me. Upsets happen in the NFL, but in the NFL, you do not know the % and can just kind of chalk it up to “Any given sunday”, but in the NSFL you actually know the % that you have of winning and feel heartbreak for it. I think a big part of it is, when you lose in the NFL, you can just chalk it up to that you got outplayed, but in the NSFl, there is nothing that you can do but watch, it is all pretty much just random. It gives you a sense of hopelessness. I guess, there is nothing you can do in the NFL either, you can only just watch the games. But, you still know that there are players out there, who just got outplayed, and it was not random, but in the NSFL it is all random, and then there is nothing you, or anybody else could have done about it.
Remember when I started this by talking about the Seawolves? I got really off topic there. But also holy shit I forgot how many words 10k is. It is 12 30 right now and man oh man am I tired. Also, I cut my nails off today and accidentally cut my pinky a little too much so now it kind of hurts whenever I press a key with my pinky. Like, not too much, it is just a little aggravating everytime I press with it. It just kind of adds up after a while. I heard there was an old torture syste where they like poured one drop of water over you head every 10 seconds and eventually that drop of water would make you go insane. I wonder if that actually works. But also, what is the point of that? Surely there would be more efficient ways to tortue someone? I do not know, I am not an expert on torture, nor would I want to be. Also, I really underestimated how many words 10k is again. I do not get how Isa wrote like 50k words, that is way too much for me. I really regret betting that 40m cause holy dam am I tired of this. And even then this most likely will not even get me that much, only like 15 million I think. And max earning costs like 18m a season so this will not last me for a very long time, barely even a season. Well, it is not like I am a max earner lol. I forget to do weekly training a couple times every season. It is really annoying that weekly training and activity closes on saturday and point tasks and trivia close on sunday. Would it not make more sense to have them expire on the same day? I think that having a clear cut day that the league week ends on would be very helpful. Having two days just seems like a good way for confusion to arise. Like it would be so much easier to have it all end on one day, because then if anybody asks you can just say “Oh yea the new league week starts on monday'' instead of “Yea half of the league starts on sunday and half of the league starts monday.”Like I would even be fine with the PT being pushed back to saturday. YEa, it would give me one less day to do the point task, but just for the sake of being the same it would make a lot more sense. And I said I would be willing to be happy with it being pushed to Saturday like it would be a bad thing for me. But that was dumb becausee the point tasks only take like 5 minutes a week to do. So having one extra day to do it does not really matter a whole lot because it is not some huge project that I need all the time that I can get to finish it. I just like procrastinating everything I do. Procrastinating is definitely why I am not an amazing earner of tpe. Like, I spend a whole lot of time on NSFl so you think that would lead into me earning a whole lot of tpe because I think the most common reason for someone not earning a whole lot of tpe and not being a max earner is just the that they do not spend enough time on NSFL. But yea that is not the case for me. I have been getting a lot better at it though recently on Jimbo Jr. My biggest problem has been predictions and missing them. I always got tagged for the predictions and just kind of said I will do them later. But later came and I always forgot to do them before the games started and always had a sad moment as I was watching the stream realizing that I missed out on my teps. But lately I have been doing them as soon as I get tagged for the predictions in my locker room. I am so responsible now. I am almost at 400 tpe so that is fun. I think I am far behind the rest of the people in my class but oh well. A lot of them were trade deadline creates and I created after the day of Ultimus so that BAltimore could get my corpse for the next season. So they got like a 70 tpe head start over me so that kind of explains the big big difference but also I have missed a lot of shit so there is also that. I just kind of hope to be able to break 1000 tpe this time. I do not know how possible that is with where I am right now but maybe. Also I have not even 100% figured out if I am going to play Jimbo Jr out as much as I can or do what I did with Jimbo Sr and retire him slightly before regression when I get bored. I guess that would just matter on how i am feeling then.
Ok now I am going back to talk about team branding
Norfolk Seawolves-
I adore the Seawolves branding. I think that maybe Seawolves could go for a new logo because the one that we have now is stolen from a baseball team, but I am still pretty sure that the Defenders stole their logo from us. But yea maybe a new logo could do some good. Especially because the submarine part of the logo is actually a baseball bat. Although baseball bats do not have the part of them sticking out so it is clearly not a baseball, contrary to what everyone else believes. But everything else about the logo is absolutely great. I love Norfolk as a location. I like having places in sim leagues that are not super know. Big market teams are really lame. Keep those to the real life leagues where money and how many people actually go to the games matters. Only like 12 fake people go the yellowknife games in the sim league universe but that is fine, it is not like the amount of money that they make is going to matter lol. I have never actually been Norfolk or Virfinia. I also love the Norwich thing from the season 15 draft when infinite though the Seawolves were in Norwich and on all of our draft sigs it said that we came from the Norwich Seawolves. I still have my sig lying around I think.
Ok now I am talking about just my player Dorfus Jimbo Jr and shit about him. Dorfus JImbo Jr is a defensive end right now. I kind of like defensive end and being it. Like the stats are not as much as other positions like wide receivers and running backs, but they are still there. Getting a sack is exciting. It does not happen all the time so that just makes it that much more cool when you get one if that makes sense. Same with tackle for a loss. It really feels rewarding getting them. I do not think that it stacks up to running back though. I absolutely loved being a running back. I really really wanted to make a running back for Dorfus Jimbo Jr, but I also really wanted to get drafted by the New Orleans Second Line so I wanted to make a position that would make me enticing to them so that they would draft me. I hope that in the future I can play running back again. It is just so great and I loved it so much. I wanted to go to the New ORleans Second LIne in the draft because I knew a lot of people on the team and it seemed like a place that I Would really like. And yea it is what I thought it would be lol, I love NOLA. I try to do free agency as little as I can in sim leagues because I hate making decisions. Whenever I have to make hard decisions I get really stressed and filled with anxiety. Well, to be fair I am a walking ball of stress and anxiety all of the time, but it gets hella amplified when making decisions. But I would only ever do free agency if I really hated the team that I was on or if there was another team that I thought would be a lot cooler. None of that applies to me so I should be a Second Line for life assuming they do not cut me. Fuck I was hoping to get more than 300 word out of talking about my player. It is 12 right now and just trying to get this 1.5x media bonus but I am only 5k in and I am so tired. Fuck me.
The DSFL is the best league, and it is way better than the NSFl. I have enjoyed the DSFL way more than I have enjoyed the NSFL in the last 9 seasons or however long it has been since I joined the league. Yea, this is mostly because I have been a GM in the DSFl for 7/9 of those seasons, but still. The DSFL has just been so much more exciting to me. It is the thing that every new person sees when they join the league so it is incredibly important that it goes well and runs smoothly because if it does not retention would go wayyyyy down. So it is important that every GM tries their hardest to make it as enjoyable for people as possible. We just passed a rule that pretty much kills all inactives so that they can not play in the league anymore. This was a rule that was super important to me, because like what I said just then about how important the DSFL was to players because it affects like if they go IA or not. And killing inactives should make the league a lot more fun for players, because it means more playing time for them, and it means that their stats should be a lot better as they will be playing against more 50 tpe bots that teams have an unlimited supply to. The only argument that I saw against the rule was that IAs fill out teams, which was just a bogus claim. Well not really bogus but just dumb. Yea, IAs fill out teams, but so do the 50 tpe bots. Players stats will be a lot better playing against 50 tpe bots. Imagine you are a wide receiver two. One team has a 250 tpe IA CB playing, and another team has a 50 tpe bot playing. Which team do you think that you will put up better stats against? Definitely the 50 tpe bot because they have less tpe so you should get open against them more and should drag them around for more and all of that jazz. And there is absolutely no reason at all that an inactive should be depriving an active of stats. Inactives do not care, they are inactive. Every player wants to be the best player in the league. Who does not? I do not think that a lot of people sign up for the league and say “Oh boy oh boy I sure hope that I will be mediocre” nah they do not. Winning awards surely has to be such a big boost to retention. If you tell someone, “Wow! You are the best player in this league and will go down as legendary!” that person will most likely be active.
I think that the most frustrating part of the DSFL is how reliant it is on send downs. Now, there is absolutely nothing that could be done about this because like, you just can not get rid of send downs, NSFL teams obviously need those so that they do not have to play their lower tpe guys in the big leagues games. The system itself is fine. And so as I talk about this, yes, the main goal of the DSFL is not to win as many games as you can, it is about developing players and all that. But like, I still want to win games. I love Norfolk so damn much and I would absolutely murder somone to win an ultimini with them. And it can just be kind of frustrating to see as a GM that a huge part of success is on which guys get sent down to you. Which mostly depends on which team drafts your players which is completely out of your hands. And as a personal philosophy I will never ask my players to be sent down, I want them to do what is best for their players and their careers, because that is what DSFL is all about, developing players for the NSFL. But it is kind of frustrating to see some teams like the buccs who I have seen ask for their players to ask to be sent down. To be fair this was from a long time ago when I was in their discord and I have not been in there for a while so this may have changed, I do not know, this was just an example I used, but I am certain that it happens in other locker rooms, it would not surprise me.
Ok next thing on the agenda is Open Lrs. I know my take on these are not the most popular, but I am very passionate about this subject. Well, I am about as passionate as a person can be about the set up of locker rooms of fake teams of 2d dots. But yea, I think that locker rooms should be closed off to only players and alumni of the team that the locker room is for. There is no reason that players from other teams should be allowed on other teams servers. It just makes no sense. They are not in that team, why would they be in that team's locker room? You never saw TOm BRady chilling in the Jets locker room. Gucci got a lot of flack for it when he called it soft tampering, but he was honestly right. I feel like it kind of is tampering. But softly. Like, NSFl teams, you open up your locker room to the public. A whole bunch of people join and it is active and fun. Those players may be like “Wow this locker room is cool, I want to join that team next season when I am a free agent.” I am not saying that NSFL teams with an open LR have any malicious intent of tampering, but like, I think they could have the intent of trying to have players come to that realization on their own. It just seems kind of wack. I am really happy that the New Orleans Second Line drafted me because they are one of the only teams left with a closed off locker room, and I really appreciate that about them. On my last player I was drafted into the only other team with a close locker room in the Baltimore Hawks so I have been very lucky. in my NSFL career. I think that those are only teams with a closed locker room. I may be wrong. I have been wrong before. A couple times I think. I think that if you want to talk to players on other teams that you should go into general discord or that you should go in to direct messages with some other players.
Ok I am going to do the Norfolk all time team. This team would be uncapped so to all the newer Norfolk people it will not have a lot of you all in it but that is because you are newer and do not have as much TPE. Also this is only history from s14 and on because before that does not matter.
QB: Suleiman Ramza/Luke Skywalker
I put both of them in here, because I could not pick between either, and I love them both so much. Right now, they are kind of low tpe on the standard of NSFL so they would not be super amazing if we put the Norfolk all time team, but that will surely change as time goes on. I want them to go on and be successful and earn tpe so bad so that I can put the all time Norfolk team together in the sim and put them against other teams and we can win and feel good about ourselves.
RB: Marcella Toriki/Apollo Reed
Both of these are stellar running backs that come from Norfolk. I am not entirely sure who has the highest tpe right to be honest. Nylar was s15 so he is in regression and I think Bex is at like 1000 tpe now so I kind of assume Bex is higher and also Bex had a great year this year so yea. The Reed/Jimbo backfield in s14 was a whole lot of fun and was really dangerous to go up against. I think Reed won a couple championships on OCO as well, and Toriki won one on Nola last year.
WR- Ahri Espeeeeeyeeeeeseeeeteeeee, Brock Landers, Flash Panda
Ahri is retired, but at his peak he was great and was in contention for wide receiver of the year in the NSFL, so he is a great number one. Brock Landers was one of the best DSFL draft steals ever, but then a draft bust in the NSFl when he went 1st overall. He still got to around like 500 tpe I think which is solid. Flash Panda is a newer player but has been earning tpe at a good rate. And Flash Panda is a panda which gives him extra points I think. Because Pandas are adorable.
TE: James Lewandowski/ Reynaud Huagland
Both of these are both newer so their tpe is not amazing, but Lewandowksiis still earning and has been a very solid tight end, and I know for sure will keep improving and will be a stud in the future.
DLine: Bjorn Ironside/Magnus Rikiya/ Roly/Dorfus Jimbo Jr
Bjorn is retired and has recreated, but he was still very high tpe when he retired if I recall correctly. His stats were not very good but so is the life on the defensive line. Tesla was the second overall pick in the most recent draft and has been earning tpe at a very nice rate. Roly went inactive at around 500 tpe but that is still a solid piece on the line. Jimbo a bona fide scrub in my honest opinion.
Linebacker: Marquees Acho/Spike Suzuki/Jack Banks
Acho was a pretty high TPE, but then he switched to corner back I think or something like that. Acho has since retired and has created at defensive end. Spike is earning tpe and will be a stud in the future. Banks has been an absolute monster for the Seawolves this last year and has a legit shot at MVP on defense. I fully expect him to dominate in the NSFL in the future too.
Also I wanted to give an honorable mention to Ryan Scott who has not been super active but made two of the clutchest plays ever against Myrtle Beach week 14. Myrtle BEach had the ball at the 40 yard line with two minutes left, and it was a tied game It was fourth and two, and if they were able to convert it would put them in very good position for a field goal, that i they hit it, it would have put them in position to hit a very hittable field goal, which would have won them the game, which would have shot them in to the playoffs over this. Scott ended up making the tackle before the ball carrier was able to cross the first down marker, saving the field goal, and sending the game to overtime. In overtime, Scott also made a drive killing sack that also saved a field goal. Incredibly clutch player.
CB: Lucas Knight/Marquess Acho/ Thubba Bumper/Bayden Brosley
Lucas Knight is still kicking it in the NSFL at about 1000 tpe in Chicago I think and would be a great player on the Norfolk all time team. Acho was already on here as a LB but he was also a CB so he gets a spot here too. Bumper is a s22 player, but has been earning tpe very well and will be great in the future. Bayden has been crazy clutch this entire season, and has willed Norfolk to wins in the 4th quarter multiple games.
Saferty: Logan Uchiha/ Matt Cross
Uchiha sits at a very good 700 something tpe and would be a stud for the Seawolves All TIme team. Uchiha was in contention for defensive player of the year in season 14 in the DSFL, but unfortunately he did not win it. Matt Cross has been max earning like crazy and in the future will be awesome for the Liberty. He also just got announced as the GM for the Seawolve a couple hours ago so that is pretty cool
So yea that is the Norfolk all time team. Right now as it stands, it would not win many games because of our low quarterback tpe, but in the future as Sulieman Ramza and Luke Skywalker develop and earn more tpe, and all of the younger players on the team develop and earn more tpe aswell, that team will be very dangerous. In a couple seasons that team is easily the best team in the league if we were putting them into the league. I really look forward to making that team in the sim and seeing how things would turn out. Maybe I will put together every team all time into the sim and see how they stack up to each other. I think that Norfolks team would be great, but we have had less seasons in the league than most other teams, so our time might not stack up just as well. But, on the contrast to that, Norfolk is the best folk, and we would never lose a single game to any other team.
Fuck I still need 2.5 thousand more words.
Norfolk just lost to the Tijuana Luchadores. That was very sad. It was a pretty entertaining game too, from a neutral stand point. But as the biggest Norfolk biased person ever it was horrible, hated it, want it to get bleached from my memory. Sidekickieboy Bauer had the opportunity to send us to the Ultimini with a 45 yard game winning kick, but unfortunately our bot kicker was unable to seal the deal for us. Bauer Bot has kicked multiple game winning field goals for us, so it is hard to be mad at Buer Bot, but it is still definitely disappointing none the less. GEtting a trip to the Ultimini in my final game as a General Manager for the Norfolk Seawolves would have been absolutely phenomenal, but I guess that it was just not in the sims cards :/.
It was just kind of disappointing to not win the game for Norfolk because it was my final game as Norfolk GM and I was really hoping to finish my time with a trip to the Ultimini. Norfolk has not been to the Ultimini in 18 seasons which is a really long drought, and it would have been really great and special to have been able to end that. Norfolk also has not won an Ultimini ever, so it would have been nice to do that. But I have full confidence in the newest GMs to be able to end the drought and give Norfolk it’s first Ultimini. I stepped down as GM because of all the stress that comes along with being a GM. I hate having to worry every hour of every day of every week about how 2d dot games will go. GMing is great and I loved it, but it just takes a toll on you after a while.
Ok the next thing I want to talk about is tampering because I am running out of things to talk about and I still need 2 thousand words before I can hit my goal of 10k and oh boy I am tired and my fingers are starting to hurt. Fuck you steg for making me do this. Ok but yea I have seen multiple people try and say that tampering should be legal. And after spending a lot of time in the Super Casual Football Sim League where tamepring is legal over there, I can confidently say that tampering is a bad idea and should never be a thing in this league. I love the Super Casual Football SIm League, and I think that tampering has been fun over there, but man is it unbalanced. The top teams stay at the top because they can just steal players from all of the other teams, which pretty much makes the draft not super useful. There have been some teams over there that have done some moves to make their team really really good that would be killed hard if it was ever tried in the NSFL. I think if tamepring was made legal in the NSFL the teams with the charismatic people would win every season, because if they are charismatic, they will be able to get all of the free agents to leave their teams and join them. Tampering just should not be a thing.
Ok next thing is the economy. I have seen people say that there is too much money in the economy which leads to people taking minimum contracts. I kind of agree with this to an extent. It is not realistic at all for a team to have 90% of their team to only be making the absolute minimum amount of money that they are allowed to make. It kind of makes free agency pointless, because a big part of free agency is the teams outbidding other teams in the NFl, and when money is kind of pointless in this league because it is easy to get, that takes away completely the bidding part. But, on the contrary, in a player run league, you kind of have to give out money pretty generously. If you lower the amount of money given from the media, less media, which means there are less people doing things which is bad for the league. And also if a new person joins the league and they see that you have to write a crazy amount of media to be able to be the best, will they stay if they do not have the time for that? Like I said earlier, everybody wants to be the best, nobody wants to be mediocre. So that might drive more people from the league. If you lower job pay, less people will take jobs. And the league absolutely needs people in jobs, because if there are no people doing jobs, the league would crumble. If every updater just up and decided that they are not going to update the players that they were supposed to do because they are not getting enough money, that would affect the league in a very bad way. How would the league function without players getting their stats updated? On the same side of the coin, I want to play with all of my friends. If people started taking bigger contracts, there would be less people able to be on a team because due to the salary cap, you would not be able to fit as many people. Like, if half of the people on the NEw Orleans Second Line decided that they want bigger contracts, we absolutely would be losing people. Which would make me really sad because I like everyone on NOLA and it would suck to see them leave. And that is what would have to happen if more people started to want more contracts. I do sim leagues to hang out with people and meet people. I want as many people as possible to be on my teams so I can chill with this and celebrate with them and all that. So having less people would really suck and I think it would hurt a lot of people's enjoyment of the league. On the other hand though, I am going back to the Super Casual Football Sim League, where contracts actually matter. Their contracts over there are based completely on TPE. The salary cap is 210 tpe a game, and you sign a contract on the amount of tpe that your player receives a game. So this leads to players wanting as big of contracts as they could possibly get, because unlike in the NSFL, the bigger the contract you get determines how good you are. In the NSFL you can be just as good as someone on a huge contract as you would be on a min contract. But as a GM over in SCFSL it has been kind of fun having to carefully plan out your cap situation and work with it. This also makes free agency a lot more fun, because players leave their teams a lot more than they do in the NSFL. Free agency has been really boring lately in the NFL because everybody loves their teams and does not want to leave. Which I guess is a good thing for the league overall. How DARE those people be enjoying themselves and having a good time. It is good for the league overall, but it is not good for me wanting to have entertaining offseasons. I LOVE NFL and NBA free agency because it is so fun and interesting speculation on where people are going to go and reacting to that. Kawhis free agency this last offseason was so much fun. Because Kawhi was such a good player and could have changed the landscape of the NBA. Getting the alert late at night that he was signing with the Clippers was so exciting, and I am not even a Clippers fan, it was just cool seeing something so big happen like that. I think the last time something even remotely close to that was Bexs free agency a couple of seasons ago. I think like every team wanted her to sign with them. I was big sad when she turned the Hawks down and went to the Second Line. Although I am happy that she did now because I am also on the Second Line now. It was really sad cause her and both said no to me like within an hour of each other. That sucked. I really hated free agency as a GM because of how much heartbreak it led to. Also wooooooo I just broke 9k words only one thousand more to go. But yea I was saying how much I love a good free agency as a neutral person because it is really exciting, but also like, it is nice to see that people are happy on their teams. Big trades are always fun to see, for the same reason as like what I was saying about Kawhi and how it changes the whole landscape. Though player trades do not happen a whole lot in this league. Which is probably for the best because you do not want to see players who are happy on a team be traded to a different team. That would really suck. Would also reflect pretty poorly on the team as well for future free agents. Like, if I saw someone sign with a team, and then get traded from that team, I would definitely think twice about signing with that team. Because said person clearly wanted to be on that team, and when that person gets traded it takes away their choice of being on a team. But of course people requesting trades throws a wrench into that, but I think that usually gets out and future free agents would take that into account.
Ok so the Ultimus game is set now. If the Orange COunty Otters win another championship I am just going to yeet myself off a bridge. They have got like 8 already which is just wayyyyy too many Ultimuss. Yeti winning would be cool. They do not have an Ultimus so it would be cool to see them win one. Heh it is the most successful NSFL franchise versus the least successful NSFL franchise. I think most of the NSFL is rooting for the Yeti this game. It was kind of sad that Yellowkniofe lost so that it broke their streak of losing in the Ultimus. I did feel really bad for a lot of the people on yellowknife for those losses, especially the GMs. Yellokwnife has easily been the best team of like the last 7 seasons but no Ultimus to show for it really sucks. The GMs were super good putting together a team like that and it does just kind of suck to not see that get rewarded like that. I hate the sim RNG like that. Put together such good teams and all it takes is one unlucky game for all of that to mean nothing. That is why win now rarely works in this league because of that concept. Hawks tried winning now in season 17, and they traded away their first for Sunnycursed. We were such a good team after that trade and we easily should have won the Ultimus. But, of course, the sim hates happiness, so we ended up losing to the same team that we traded the first to. So like, in terms of the team, it was a very good trade, but in terms of how it ended up, not a very good trade. Just ask chicago on how win now works out for them lol. To be fair, a lot of shit gets thrown on their win now strategy but it was a lot of other shit that made them where they are now. Ok but also it did not end up winning us an Ultimus but Sunnycursed was on the Hawks the season after we traded for him too and he helped out a lot. That year was a lot of fun. Our wr core was Maddox/Sunnycursed/Espessyeete which is just an absurd core. Maddox should be a first ballot hall of famer, not sure if sunnycursed will make the hall of fame but was really good none the less, and Ahri was also really good. Also throwing to them was Corvo Havran, who also should be a hall of famer. So yea our offense was absolutely crazy that year. I think we had like Spread 70 across the board the entire season. I really enjoyed having a full yeet offense like that. It was a breath of fresh air after spending 5 seasons in the DSFL where the quarterbacks are not very good. I felt bad for Wozy that year who had just signed with us that season but ended up not getting the ball very much because of how much we threw. But he also ended up winning offensive player of the year the year after that as a Hawk so I think it evened out. Sunnycursed left us that season and we did not have another running back so he was a huge part of our offense and he really did have a great year. Offense would have improved a lot that season if we had another running back so we could do a running back by committee which works really well in the sim. I think we tried trading for one but were not able to get a price that we really liked.
Also the title is “My newest 10k article of spite” which does not really apply to this because I am not writing this article out of spite, I am writing this article because I am very broke and need money. My last 10k article was called “my 10k article of spite” because numbers said I would not write a 10k article so I decided fuck you, I would. And I did do it, and it was not a good article at all lol. A surprising amount of people actually read it. I did not expect anybody to read it.
I am really sorry to the grader that has to read this. This is not a good article. I apologize.
Ok the first thing that I am going to do is give my opinions on every team's branding and what they look like. This is not my opinion on the team itself, but just their branding.
New Orleans Second Line-
Now, this may be incredibly biased, but I really love the New Orleans Second Line logo. It just has a lot going for it all around. First thing that comes to mind is the color. I absolutely love purple. Easily my favorite color in the color alphabet or whatever the color version of the alphabet is. Color scheme? Wait no I think the color scheme is what kind of color a particular thing is. I am just going to go with the Color alphabet. Purple and white go together really well, and def puts it as my number 1 color scheme in the league. Second thing that I like about the New Orleans Second Line branding is that it has 4 words in it. Super useful for when writing Point Task about the New Orleans Second Line or writing media about the New Orleans Second Line. It bolsters your word count by luxe four times what it would have been if you just say something lame like Colorado. The ORange County Otters also have this great thing going for why they have good branding. Next thing that I like about the New Orleans Second Line is the Doot Doot thing. If I am being honest, I do not even get it? Do they play a lot of trumpets in New Orleans? Is it even a trumpet? I guess I have just kind of assumed that it is a trumpet but I have not asked anyone about it, and at this point, 2 seasons in with NOLA I think that it might be too late to ask. “Hey you know that thing that I have been saying for the last 3 months? What is it?” The more I think about it, the more I am pretty confident that it is a trumpet, but like, it is not that I am an instrument expert or anything. But yea, Doot Doot is 10/10. Doot Doot. Ok, another thing that I COULD HAVE liked is the stadium name. A couple months ago the GMs held a vote to rename the stadium, and one of the options was the Trombone Dome. Trombone Dome was such a great name for a stadium, and I have never been more disappointed than when it did not win the contest. Wait a second. Trombone. I think it is a Trombone making the dooting. And now I feel not very smart for not putting Trombone Dome and the dooting together. I am not a smart person. But at least I know the answer to the dooting now. But seriously, Trombone Dome is such a great name for a stadium, and if I can ever petition to rename it, I will do it. I am not even sure what the current name, I am sure it is fine, but like, can it really hold a light to the fucking Trombone Dome. I think that the answer is no. The logo of the New Orleans Second Line is also super great. I love it a lot. The people dancing in it are great, and really well done. It just has a lot going on in it, and I love it.
Colorado Yeti-
The Colorado Yeti is a mediocre branding in my opinion. Like, I just do not think that anything in it really pops. The colors are nice in it I guess. The shade of red goes with the black really well and they complement each other pretty nice. I do not like the yellow color in it. I just do not like the color yellow at all. It is just not appealing in any way. And I say this after spending my last player's entire career in a team that’s really only color is yellow. Well I guess it was not my full career because they traded me after I retired. And, I just do not like the actual yeti. I do not like that it is just a shadow of a yeti. It feels kind of lazy, you know? That felt mean, I have no room to talk. I am not good at graphics. The only time that I actually try to make something graphics wise is when I am making some shiity meme. Honestly, I am not sure what else you would put in for the yeti, because I think that maybe the yeti would look unnatural with actual color and detail in it. What I said earlier was wrong, but I am not going to delete it because that would cost me words, and we can not have that, I just need more words. Another thing, I do not like Yeti Noises. There may be some inside joke that I am missing, but it is not a good motto or # or whatever it is called. Like, it does not really seem like it fits Yeti, there is not an alliteration. I love alliteration.
Ok I have gotten bored of talking about team brands so I am going to highlight some player names that I like. I really like talking about player names so I am going to give a rank out of 5 to them. I am just choosing names that I want to point out. Also this is completely unrelated but my keyboard is being super wack right now it keeps going back like 10 spaces so it becomes all out of order and it is wack. Also my space bar needs you to press really hard so that makes it really hard for me to type which is really wack
Magnus Rikiya - I really really love this name, I find it really unique, and that is something that I really like in a name. I think it sounds like a superhero name if I am being honest, to be honest. I could imagine reading this name in a comic book. I have not read many comics lately, to be honest. That is a lot of money to spend on them. And pirating them is a whole lot of work, that I just do not have the energy to do. Maybe eventually I will get back into them. Because I really do enjoy them, just too much of a hassle for me, you know? Also, I figured out what the problem with my keyboard was. It was my track pad that was causing the problem, it was kind of like half way pushed in half wy, so it spontaneously did that a couple of times, and it would click to wherever my mouser was set, so then my words would be go over to where my clicker was, and so my typing would be all out of wack. I do not really know how to fix this, so yay me. Sorry for getting out of topic, just needed more words. I give Magnus Rikiya a really good 4/5 which is really good. I can not really think of what took the 1 point off from the score, but it is there, just can not put my finger on it.
Ahri Espeeeyeeeeseeeeeteeee- I really love this name a lot. I think I misspelled it, but I do not care enough about the quality of this article to actually look it up. The main appeal of Ahris name is that when you it out loud it spells R E S P E C T. I think that that is absolutely amazing, and one of my favorite things in the league. And also i just really like the espeeeeyeesteee even if you put aside the RESPECT part of it and just reaaaaaaally draw it out. I think that I would give this name a 5/5. I love it a lot.
Ke?oke?o K?ne-Maika?i- Fuck this name. I hate it. I hate names that have the special characters in them. Like, I do not have the time to look up the ASCII codes or whatever it is to spell it out correctly, and whenever I end up typing things not correctly, people tend to make fun of me. I think I could maybe give this name a point for the uniqueness of the name of whatever, but no, fuck this name. Imagine trying to put this name in the Depth Chart. Now that is a horrible thing to do. To be honest, I think Dwyers name was also in this way so maybe he deserves it, because he would have to put his own name in. I give this name a ?.
Ok now I am going to talk about the thing in this league that I love the most, the Norfolk Seawolves. Because the Seawolves are the best thing in the world, and this league. We have got a really great team this league and I think honestly have one of the better rosters in the league. At the top, we have the two best Quarterback in the league, In Luke Skywalker, and Sulieman Ramza to lead us. Both of our QBs combine for an absolutely amazing 9:1 touchdown to interception ratio, which is phenomenal for the DSFL. In the DSFL, quarterbacks always tend to do poorly because of how low tpe they are. So having this astounding touchdown to interception ratio in the DSFL is very impressive.
Ok I was talking about the Seawolves but now I want to talk about the DSFL quarterbacks. I think something should change in the DSFL about quarterbacks. Well, I want something to change, but I really do not know what could change without breaking the league or just messing it all together up. I think the most common thing that I have seen suggested to fix the QBs is raise the QB TPE cap. I think this is probably the best suggestion, although this has its flaws. The main one is how unfair it is to rookies. A rookie QB is no way going to be able to compete with like a 500 tpe. And that just is not good for retention if there is no way that you could compete with upper QBs, and that is just against the point of the DSFL. Another thing I have seen is to raise the starting TPE of QBs. I think hypothetically there could be a way this could work, but there would have to be some rules to put in place to keep people from abusing it. People could switch away from QB after creating at QB to give themselves a headstart over other players. The obvious way to stop this is just to make people who create at qb then switch just have them when they switch to have how ever much tpe they had the advantage on. So like if QBs started at 150, and then they switched, they could only keep 50 of that, which would make it balanced in regards to other positions. Then raise the cap for quarterbacks and quarterbacks only. This would make quarterback better. But then that would ruin regression, well not really ruin it but you would have to tamper with it a little bit and lower it for quarterbacks so their career ends a little earlier than others. Well it would not end earlier, it would end at around the same time because the extra tpe boost that they got would counter act the early regression or harder hitting regression or whatever would happen. Now that I am spelling it out, I do not think I like it. It just seems like way too much work and things to keep track of. Well, I guess HO is way more organized than I could ever dream of, so I do not think they would have a hard time keeping track of it I guess, still, it seems like too much work, and kind of a strange concept for a strange tithing like this, you know? I think that is like tenth time I have said you know? I guess it just kind of works well for wrapping up a sentence that I did not know how to wrap up, you know? Making QBs better in the DSFL would make a lot of people happier. The first, obviously being QBs, because they would not suck. Like I think a prime example of this was Cal Lidious. For those who do not know, Cal was a former Norfolk Seawolves QB who ended up going IA. I think one thing that played a factor in his going inactive was the stats. Like any other DSFL QB, Cal could barely be called a QB. He tossed ints left and right, and could barely throw the ball. IF his stats were better would he stay active? Maybe, I dont know, possibly. I guess if Cal never went ia we would not have Luke Skywalker and Sulieman Ramza, the two greatest quarterbacks to ever touch a football. It feels weird to say that a player going IA ended up working out for us, but it did. RamWalker 4 lyfe. fuck I went off topic and not sure where I left off. Oh yea players obviously want good stats, and they would not like to see that they do not have bad stats, and by the nature of the league, every player who plays QB will have bad stats, because that is just how Draft Day Sport: Pro Football be. And the worst part is it does not just affect the quarterback. Wide receivers stats also kind of suck because the person whose sole job is to get it into their hands, and they rely on that person because he is the only person on the team who is capable of getting the ball into their hands, is absolute garbage, that can be really bad for their stats. And as I established before, players like good stats and not bad stats, this is no good for the players. It is also super frustrating just for the entire team because a quarterback is supposed to be the focal point of your offense and it is kind of important that they exist. So when your quarterback sucks, which they will, because fuck wolverine, it is going to suck for your entire team when your offensive drive just gets shuts down because your quarterback threw three straight interceptions because fuck woleverine. Fuck Wolverine. I love Hugh Jackman though. How could you not? There was that video of him at like a movie premiere or some shit where he like recognized one of his students that he used to teach back when he was a teacher. That has got to be the coolest thing ever, as the student. I mean, your teacher being wolverine would be pretty fuckin cool, but then getting to meet up back with him 10 years later, and he remembers you and your name, that is pretty amazing. Logan was also pretty amazing. But like, your defense fights too hard to get you the ball, and then your quarterback throws three straight incompletions to start the drive out. I hate that. Those three straight incompletions on a three and out is so frustrating. Because you do not even get to see your offense. Because for some dumb reason Wolverine decided that you do not get to see the play if the QB throws an incomplete pass. So on these 3 straight incompletions on a three and out, you are on, and then you are not you are on no more. It sucks and it should be changed. I think it is also just bad for the defense too, not being able to see incompletions. It makes the defense feel worse than it actually is, or at least that is how it feels for me. When you see the quarterback drop back to pass, more than likely it is going to be a completion, because you know that it will not be incomplete, or an interception because you do not see those. And a complete pass, and incomplete pass are the two most likely scenarios on a pass play, and when you take the possibility of one happening altogether, like 90% of the time when a QB backs up to pass, or when you see the Qb back up to pass, it is going to be a completion, which just feels kind of sucky for the defense, and make syou feel less good than you actually are, because that is what you see, but not what is actually happening. Maybe this is just me. Something that makes defense worse than they should be, but actually is super frustrating is the dragging people along. Holy shit is that frustrating. It is 3rd and 20, should be an easy stop, but you really can not let them get the first. The QB throws it like 10 yards in front of the first yard marker, you get really hape, but Sike! This WR, along with every Wr has actually been Robert Gronkowski this entire time! You thought you could tackle him at a reasonable spot? Well you are dumb, you dummy. And they drag your defender for thirty yard, which absolutely sucks and I hate it so much and it has happened to me way too many times. I have heard some people say that what we see is not what is actually happening, it is just something to be more entertaining I guess. I do not know if this actually has any merit to it at all, or if it is just something that people say as a guess or whatever, but it would make more sense I guess. It would be kind of more comforting, actually. Because a lot of what you see on the screen makes no sense what so ever. I think the most frustrating thing to see on the screen is the first down marker ball spotting thing. On the screen, the place where the ball gets placed is the right tip of the ball. The home team goes to the right, so they have a very clear advantage, because while they only have to get just the tip over, the away team has to get the entire ball over. Which, in relation to the size of the ball, and the size of the field, is a pretty big damn difference. Like, imagine if in the NFL the home team had to go only 7 yards instead of 10. That would be ridiculous. And the thing is, it does not just impact the game when it is a first down or not. I think it is an every play thing. So like every time an away team runs they should be getting an extra yard or two, but they do not, and it is some horse baloney. That is such a game breaking thing, and it would be so easy to fix. Just make the point that the ball would get spotted at flip for every team so that it is even. Or hell, just make the point in the middle of the ball, surely that would be easy. Now, my programming experience is limited to a couple courses of beginner courses of Python, so maybe this is an incredibly hard thing to do and asking for it is unreasonable of WOlverine. Wait no it would be unreasonable of me, it would be unreasonable for Wolverine. But I doubt it, it really seems like a pretty simple thing to fix. But like, maybe that just is the visual part of it, and in reality it impacts nothing, but even then, it is soooo frustrating to watch. Like watching 95% of the ball get over the first down line, but nope fuck you, the entire thing has to be over is so horrible o be watching. I wonder if that is why HFA is so overpowered. In my tests HFA has about a 30% impact on the games. So if you are testing 30% on the road, you would be testing 60% at home, or something about that. I wonder how much the ball spotting takes into the 30%. Surely a big part of it, no? I think penalties play a huge factor in it as well. Having every single whistle go your way would really suck. Wait going your way implies that they were in favor of you, not against you. So uh, going against you. It is kind of ridiculous that home field advantage advantage that you get when you are at home. Like, home field advantage is a thing in real life, but certainly not to the extent that Draft Day Sports: Pro Football has it at. Wait now I am remembering someone did like an actual study of the amount of wins at home compared to the amount of wins on the road in NSFL and it actually kind of matched up to the NFL, so maybe it actually kind of works. I think a big problem with the league is actually being able to see the % of the wins. Like, it kind of ruins a lot for me. Upsets happen in the NFL, but in the NFL, you do not know the % and can just kind of chalk it up to “Any given sunday”, but in the NSFL you actually know the % that you have of winning and feel heartbreak for it. I think a big part of it is, when you lose in the NFL, you can just chalk it up to that you got outplayed, but in the NSFl, there is nothing that you can do but watch, it is all pretty much just random. It gives you a sense of hopelessness. I guess, there is nothing you can do in the NFL either, you can only just watch the games. But, you still know that there are players out there, who just got outplayed, and it was not random, but in the NSFL it is all random, and then there is nothing you, or anybody else could have done about it.
Remember when I started this by talking about the Seawolves? I got really off topic there. But also holy shit I forgot how many words 10k is. It is 12 30 right now and man oh man am I tired. Also, I cut my nails off today and accidentally cut my pinky a little too much so now it kind of hurts whenever I press a key with my pinky. Like, not too much, it is just a little aggravating everytime I press with it. It just kind of adds up after a while. I heard there was an old torture syste where they like poured one drop of water over you head every 10 seconds and eventually that drop of water would make you go insane. I wonder if that actually works. But also, what is the point of that? Surely there would be more efficient ways to tortue someone? I do not know, I am not an expert on torture, nor would I want to be. Also, I really underestimated how many words 10k is again. I do not get how Isa wrote like 50k words, that is way too much for me. I really regret betting that 40m cause holy dam am I tired of this. And even then this most likely will not even get me that much, only like 15 million I think. And max earning costs like 18m a season so this will not last me for a very long time, barely even a season. Well, it is not like I am a max earner lol. I forget to do weekly training a couple times every season. It is really annoying that weekly training and activity closes on saturday and point tasks and trivia close on sunday. Would it not make more sense to have them expire on the same day? I think that having a clear cut day that the league week ends on would be very helpful. Having two days just seems like a good way for confusion to arise. Like it would be so much easier to have it all end on one day, because then if anybody asks you can just say “Oh yea the new league week starts on monday'' instead of “Yea half of the league starts on sunday and half of the league starts monday.”Like I would even be fine with the PT being pushed back to saturday. YEa, it would give me one less day to do the point task, but just for the sake of being the same it would make a lot more sense. And I said I would be willing to be happy with it being pushed to Saturday like it would be a bad thing for me. But that was dumb becausee the point tasks only take like 5 minutes a week to do. So having one extra day to do it does not really matter a whole lot because it is not some huge project that I need all the time that I can get to finish it. I just like procrastinating everything I do. Procrastinating is definitely why I am not an amazing earner of tpe. Like, I spend a whole lot of time on NSFl so you think that would lead into me earning a whole lot of tpe because I think the most common reason for someone not earning a whole lot of tpe and not being a max earner is just the that they do not spend enough time on NSFL. But yea that is not the case for me. I have been getting a lot better at it though recently on Jimbo Jr. My biggest problem has been predictions and missing them. I always got tagged for the predictions and just kind of said I will do them later. But later came and I always forgot to do them before the games started and always had a sad moment as I was watching the stream realizing that I missed out on my teps. But lately I have been doing them as soon as I get tagged for the predictions in my locker room. I am so responsible now. I am almost at 400 tpe so that is fun. I think I am far behind the rest of the people in my class but oh well. A lot of them were trade deadline creates and I created after the day of Ultimus so that BAltimore could get my corpse for the next season. So they got like a 70 tpe head start over me so that kind of explains the big big difference but also I have missed a lot of shit so there is also that. I just kind of hope to be able to break 1000 tpe this time. I do not know how possible that is with where I am right now but maybe. Also I have not even 100% figured out if I am going to play Jimbo Jr out as much as I can or do what I did with Jimbo Sr and retire him slightly before regression when I get bored. I guess that would just matter on how i am feeling then.
Ok now I am going back to talk about team branding
Norfolk Seawolves-
I adore the Seawolves branding. I think that maybe Seawolves could go for a new logo because the one that we have now is stolen from a baseball team, but I am still pretty sure that the Defenders stole their logo from us. But yea maybe a new logo could do some good. Especially because the submarine part of the logo is actually a baseball bat. Although baseball bats do not have the part of them sticking out so it is clearly not a baseball, contrary to what everyone else believes. But everything else about the logo is absolutely great. I love Norfolk as a location. I like having places in sim leagues that are not super know. Big market teams are really lame. Keep those to the real life leagues where money and how many people actually go to the games matters. Only like 12 fake people go the yellowknife games in the sim league universe but that is fine, it is not like the amount of money that they make is going to matter lol. I have never actually been Norfolk or Virfinia. I also love the Norwich thing from the season 15 draft when infinite though the Seawolves were in Norwich and on all of our draft sigs it said that we came from the Norwich Seawolves. I still have my sig lying around I think.
Ok now I am talking about just my player Dorfus Jimbo Jr and shit about him. Dorfus JImbo Jr is a defensive end right now. I kind of like defensive end and being it. Like the stats are not as much as other positions like wide receivers and running backs, but they are still there. Getting a sack is exciting. It does not happen all the time so that just makes it that much more cool when you get one if that makes sense. Same with tackle for a loss. It really feels rewarding getting them. I do not think that it stacks up to running back though. I absolutely loved being a running back. I really really wanted to make a running back for Dorfus Jimbo Jr, but I also really wanted to get drafted by the New Orleans Second Line so I wanted to make a position that would make me enticing to them so that they would draft me. I hope that in the future I can play running back again. It is just so great and I loved it so much. I wanted to go to the New ORleans Second LIne in the draft because I knew a lot of people on the team and it seemed like a place that I Would really like. And yea it is what I thought it would be lol, I love NOLA. I try to do free agency as little as I can in sim leagues because I hate making decisions. Whenever I have to make hard decisions I get really stressed and filled with anxiety. Well, to be fair I am a walking ball of stress and anxiety all of the time, but it gets hella amplified when making decisions. But I would only ever do free agency if I really hated the team that I was on or if there was another team that I thought would be a lot cooler. None of that applies to me so I should be a Second Line for life assuming they do not cut me. Fuck I was hoping to get more than 300 word out of talking about my player. It is 12 right now and just trying to get this 1.5x media bonus but I am only 5k in and I am so tired. Fuck me.
The DSFL is the best league, and it is way better than the NSFl. I have enjoyed the DSFL way more than I have enjoyed the NSFL in the last 9 seasons or however long it has been since I joined the league. Yea, this is mostly because I have been a GM in the DSFl for 7/9 of those seasons, but still. The DSFL has just been so much more exciting to me. It is the thing that every new person sees when they join the league so it is incredibly important that it goes well and runs smoothly because if it does not retention would go wayyyyy down. So it is important that every GM tries their hardest to make it as enjoyable for people as possible. We just passed a rule that pretty much kills all inactives so that they can not play in the league anymore. This was a rule that was super important to me, because like what I said just then about how important the DSFL was to players because it affects like if they go IA or not. And killing inactives should make the league a lot more fun for players, because it means more playing time for them, and it means that their stats should be a lot better as they will be playing against more 50 tpe bots that teams have an unlimited supply to. The only argument that I saw against the rule was that IAs fill out teams, which was just a bogus claim. Well not really bogus but just dumb. Yea, IAs fill out teams, but so do the 50 tpe bots. Players stats will be a lot better playing against 50 tpe bots. Imagine you are a wide receiver two. One team has a 250 tpe IA CB playing, and another team has a 50 tpe bot playing. Which team do you think that you will put up better stats against? Definitely the 50 tpe bot because they have less tpe so you should get open against them more and should drag them around for more and all of that jazz. And there is absolutely no reason at all that an inactive should be depriving an active of stats. Inactives do not care, they are inactive. Every player wants to be the best player in the league. Who does not? I do not think that a lot of people sign up for the league and say “Oh boy oh boy I sure hope that I will be mediocre” nah they do not. Winning awards surely has to be such a big boost to retention. If you tell someone, “Wow! You are the best player in this league and will go down as legendary!” that person will most likely be active.
I think that the most frustrating part of the DSFL is how reliant it is on send downs. Now, there is absolutely nothing that could be done about this because like, you just can not get rid of send downs, NSFL teams obviously need those so that they do not have to play their lower tpe guys in the big leagues games. The system itself is fine. And so as I talk about this, yes, the main goal of the DSFL is not to win as many games as you can, it is about developing players and all that. But like, I still want to win games. I love Norfolk so damn much and I would absolutely murder somone to win an ultimini with them. And it can just be kind of frustrating to see as a GM that a huge part of success is on which guys get sent down to you. Which mostly depends on which team drafts your players which is completely out of your hands. And as a personal philosophy I will never ask my players to be sent down, I want them to do what is best for their players and their careers, because that is what DSFL is all about, developing players for the NSFL. But it is kind of frustrating to see some teams like the buccs who I have seen ask for their players to ask to be sent down. To be fair this was from a long time ago when I was in their discord and I have not been in there for a while so this may have changed, I do not know, this was just an example I used, but I am certain that it happens in other locker rooms, it would not surprise me.
Ok next thing on the agenda is Open Lrs. I know my take on these are not the most popular, but I am very passionate about this subject. Well, I am about as passionate as a person can be about the set up of locker rooms of fake teams of 2d dots. But yea, I think that locker rooms should be closed off to only players and alumni of the team that the locker room is for. There is no reason that players from other teams should be allowed on other teams servers. It just makes no sense. They are not in that team, why would they be in that team's locker room? You never saw TOm BRady chilling in the Jets locker room. Gucci got a lot of flack for it when he called it soft tampering, but he was honestly right. I feel like it kind of is tampering. But softly. Like, NSFl teams, you open up your locker room to the public. A whole bunch of people join and it is active and fun. Those players may be like “Wow this locker room is cool, I want to join that team next season when I am a free agent.” I am not saying that NSFL teams with an open LR have any malicious intent of tampering, but like, I think they could have the intent of trying to have players come to that realization on their own. It just seems kind of wack. I am really happy that the New Orleans Second Line drafted me because they are one of the only teams left with a closed off locker room, and I really appreciate that about them. On my last player I was drafted into the only other team with a close locker room in the Baltimore Hawks so I have been very lucky. in my NSFL career. I think that those are only teams with a closed locker room. I may be wrong. I have been wrong before. A couple times I think. I think that if you want to talk to players on other teams that you should go into general discord or that you should go in to direct messages with some other players.
Ok I am going to do the Norfolk all time team. This team would be uncapped so to all the newer Norfolk people it will not have a lot of you all in it but that is because you are newer and do not have as much TPE. Also this is only history from s14 and on because before that does not matter.
QB: Suleiman Ramza/Luke Skywalker
I put both of them in here, because I could not pick between either, and I love them both so much. Right now, they are kind of low tpe on the standard of NSFL so they would not be super amazing if we put the Norfolk all time team, but that will surely change as time goes on. I want them to go on and be successful and earn tpe so bad so that I can put the all time Norfolk team together in the sim and put them against other teams and we can win and feel good about ourselves.
RB: Marcella Toriki/Apollo Reed
Both of these are stellar running backs that come from Norfolk. I am not entirely sure who has the highest tpe right to be honest. Nylar was s15 so he is in regression and I think Bex is at like 1000 tpe now so I kind of assume Bex is higher and also Bex had a great year this year so yea. The Reed/Jimbo backfield in s14 was a whole lot of fun and was really dangerous to go up against. I think Reed won a couple championships on OCO as well, and Toriki won one on Nola last year.
WR- Ahri Espeeeeeyeeeeeseeeeteeeee, Brock Landers, Flash Panda
Ahri is retired, but at his peak he was great and was in contention for wide receiver of the year in the NSFL, so he is a great number one. Brock Landers was one of the best DSFL draft steals ever, but then a draft bust in the NSFl when he went 1st overall. He still got to around like 500 tpe I think which is solid. Flash Panda is a newer player but has been earning tpe at a good rate. And Flash Panda is a panda which gives him extra points I think. Because Pandas are adorable.
TE: James Lewandowski/ Reynaud Huagland
Both of these are both newer so their tpe is not amazing, but Lewandowksiis still earning and has been a very solid tight end, and I know for sure will keep improving and will be a stud in the future.
DLine: Bjorn Ironside/Magnus Rikiya/ Roly/Dorfus Jimbo Jr
Bjorn is retired and has recreated, but he was still very high tpe when he retired if I recall correctly. His stats were not very good but so is the life on the defensive line. Tesla was the second overall pick in the most recent draft and has been earning tpe at a very nice rate. Roly went inactive at around 500 tpe but that is still a solid piece on the line. Jimbo a bona fide scrub in my honest opinion.
Linebacker: Marquees Acho/Spike Suzuki/Jack Banks
Acho was a pretty high TPE, but then he switched to corner back I think or something like that. Acho has since retired and has created at defensive end. Spike is earning tpe and will be a stud in the future. Banks has been an absolute monster for the Seawolves this last year and has a legit shot at MVP on defense. I fully expect him to dominate in the NSFL in the future too.
Also I wanted to give an honorable mention to Ryan Scott who has not been super active but made two of the clutchest plays ever against Myrtle Beach week 14. Myrtle BEach had the ball at the 40 yard line with two minutes left, and it was a tied game It was fourth and two, and if they were able to convert it would put them in very good position for a field goal, that i they hit it, it would have put them in position to hit a very hittable field goal, which would have won them the game, which would have shot them in to the playoffs over this. Scott ended up making the tackle before the ball carrier was able to cross the first down marker, saving the field goal, and sending the game to overtime. In overtime, Scott also made a drive killing sack that also saved a field goal. Incredibly clutch player.
CB: Lucas Knight/Marquess Acho/ Thubba Bumper/Bayden Brosley
Lucas Knight is still kicking it in the NSFL at about 1000 tpe in Chicago I think and would be a great player on the Norfolk all time team. Acho was already on here as a LB but he was also a CB so he gets a spot here too. Bumper is a s22 player, but has been earning tpe very well and will be great in the future. Bayden has been crazy clutch this entire season, and has willed Norfolk to wins in the 4th quarter multiple games.
Saferty: Logan Uchiha/ Matt Cross
Uchiha sits at a very good 700 something tpe and would be a stud for the Seawolves All TIme team. Uchiha was in contention for defensive player of the year in season 14 in the DSFL, but unfortunately he did not win it. Matt Cross has been max earning like crazy and in the future will be awesome for the Liberty. He also just got announced as the GM for the Seawolve a couple hours ago so that is pretty cool
So yea that is the Norfolk all time team. Right now as it stands, it would not win many games because of our low quarterback tpe, but in the future as Sulieman Ramza and Luke Skywalker develop and earn more tpe, and all of the younger players on the team develop and earn more tpe aswell, that team will be very dangerous. In a couple seasons that team is easily the best team in the league if we were putting them into the league. I really look forward to making that team in the sim and seeing how things would turn out. Maybe I will put together every team all time into the sim and see how they stack up to each other. I think that Norfolks team would be great, but we have had less seasons in the league than most other teams, so our time might not stack up just as well. But, on the contrast to that, Norfolk is the best folk, and we would never lose a single game to any other team.
Fuck I still need 2.5 thousand more words.
Norfolk just lost to the Tijuana Luchadores. That was very sad. It was a pretty entertaining game too, from a neutral stand point. But as the biggest Norfolk biased person ever it was horrible, hated it, want it to get bleached from my memory. Sidekickieboy Bauer had the opportunity to send us to the Ultimini with a 45 yard game winning kick, but unfortunately our bot kicker was unable to seal the deal for us. Bauer Bot has kicked multiple game winning field goals for us, so it is hard to be mad at Buer Bot, but it is still definitely disappointing none the less. GEtting a trip to the Ultimini in my final game as a General Manager for the Norfolk Seawolves would have been absolutely phenomenal, but I guess that it was just not in the sims cards :/.
It was just kind of disappointing to not win the game for Norfolk because it was my final game as Norfolk GM and I was really hoping to finish my time with a trip to the Ultimini. Norfolk has not been to the Ultimini in 18 seasons which is a really long drought, and it would have been really great and special to have been able to end that. Norfolk also has not won an Ultimini ever, so it would have been nice to do that. But I have full confidence in the newest GMs to be able to end the drought and give Norfolk it’s first Ultimini. I stepped down as GM because of all the stress that comes along with being a GM. I hate having to worry every hour of every day of every week about how 2d dot games will go. GMing is great and I loved it, but it just takes a toll on you after a while.
Ok the next thing I want to talk about is tampering because I am running out of things to talk about and I still need 2 thousand words before I can hit my goal of 10k and oh boy I am tired and my fingers are starting to hurt. Fuck you steg for making me do this. Ok but yea I have seen multiple people try and say that tampering should be legal. And after spending a lot of time in the Super Casual Football Sim League where tamepring is legal over there, I can confidently say that tampering is a bad idea and should never be a thing in this league. I love the Super Casual Football SIm League, and I think that tampering has been fun over there, but man is it unbalanced. The top teams stay at the top because they can just steal players from all of the other teams, which pretty much makes the draft not super useful. There have been some teams over there that have done some moves to make their team really really good that would be killed hard if it was ever tried in the NSFL. I think if tamepring was made legal in the NSFL the teams with the charismatic people would win every season, because if they are charismatic, they will be able to get all of the free agents to leave their teams and join them. Tampering just should not be a thing.
Ok next thing is the economy. I have seen people say that there is too much money in the economy which leads to people taking minimum contracts. I kind of agree with this to an extent. It is not realistic at all for a team to have 90% of their team to only be making the absolute minimum amount of money that they are allowed to make. It kind of makes free agency pointless, because a big part of free agency is the teams outbidding other teams in the NFl, and when money is kind of pointless in this league because it is easy to get, that takes away completely the bidding part. But, on the contrary, in a player run league, you kind of have to give out money pretty generously. If you lower the amount of money given from the media, less media, which means there are less people doing things which is bad for the league. And also if a new person joins the league and they see that you have to write a crazy amount of media to be able to be the best, will they stay if they do not have the time for that? Like I said earlier, everybody wants to be the best, nobody wants to be mediocre. So that might drive more people from the league. If you lower job pay, less people will take jobs. And the league absolutely needs people in jobs, because if there are no people doing jobs, the league would crumble. If every updater just up and decided that they are not going to update the players that they were supposed to do because they are not getting enough money, that would affect the league in a very bad way. How would the league function without players getting their stats updated? On the same side of the coin, I want to play with all of my friends. If people started taking bigger contracts, there would be less people able to be on a team because due to the salary cap, you would not be able to fit as many people. Like, if half of the people on the NEw Orleans Second Line decided that they want bigger contracts, we absolutely would be losing people. Which would make me really sad because I like everyone on NOLA and it would suck to see them leave. And that is what would have to happen if more people started to want more contracts. I do sim leagues to hang out with people and meet people. I want as many people as possible to be on my teams so I can chill with this and celebrate with them and all that. So having less people would really suck and I think it would hurt a lot of people's enjoyment of the league. On the other hand though, I am going back to the Super Casual Football Sim League, where contracts actually matter. Their contracts over there are based completely on TPE. The salary cap is 210 tpe a game, and you sign a contract on the amount of tpe that your player receives a game. So this leads to players wanting as big of contracts as they could possibly get, because unlike in the NSFL, the bigger the contract you get determines how good you are. In the NSFL you can be just as good as someone on a huge contract as you would be on a min contract. But as a GM over in SCFSL it has been kind of fun having to carefully plan out your cap situation and work with it. This also makes free agency a lot more fun, because players leave their teams a lot more than they do in the NSFL. Free agency has been really boring lately in the NFL because everybody loves their teams and does not want to leave. Which I guess is a good thing for the league overall. How DARE those people be enjoying themselves and having a good time. It is good for the league overall, but it is not good for me wanting to have entertaining offseasons. I LOVE NFL and NBA free agency because it is so fun and interesting speculation on where people are going to go and reacting to that. Kawhis free agency this last offseason was so much fun. Because Kawhi was such a good player and could have changed the landscape of the NBA. Getting the alert late at night that he was signing with the Clippers was so exciting, and I am not even a Clippers fan, it was just cool seeing something so big happen like that. I think the last time something even remotely close to that was Bexs free agency a couple of seasons ago. I think like every team wanted her to sign with them. I was big sad when she turned the Hawks down and went to the Second Line. Although I am happy that she did now because I am also on the Second Line now. It was really sad cause her and both said no to me like within an hour of each other. That sucked. I really hated free agency as a GM because of how much heartbreak it led to. Also wooooooo I just broke 9k words only one thousand more to go. But yea I was saying how much I love a good free agency as a neutral person because it is really exciting, but also like, it is nice to see that people are happy on their teams. Big trades are always fun to see, for the same reason as like what I was saying about Kawhi and how it changes the whole landscape. Though player trades do not happen a whole lot in this league. Which is probably for the best because you do not want to see players who are happy on a team be traded to a different team. That would really suck. Would also reflect pretty poorly on the team as well for future free agents. Like, if I saw someone sign with a team, and then get traded from that team, I would definitely think twice about signing with that team. Because said person clearly wanted to be on that team, and when that person gets traded it takes away their choice of being on a team. But of course people requesting trades throws a wrench into that, but I think that usually gets out and future free agents would take that into account.
Ok so the Ultimus game is set now. If the Orange COunty Otters win another championship I am just going to yeet myself off a bridge. They have got like 8 already which is just wayyyyy too many Ultimuss. Yeti winning would be cool. They do not have an Ultimus so it would be cool to see them win one. Heh it is the most successful NSFL franchise versus the least successful NSFL franchise. I think most of the NSFL is rooting for the Yeti this game. It was kind of sad that Yellowkniofe lost so that it broke their streak of losing in the Ultimus. I did feel really bad for a lot of the people on yellowknife for those losses, especially the GMs. Yellokwnife has easily been the best team of like the last 7 seasons but no Ultimus to show for it really sucks. The GMs were super good putting together a team like that and it does just kind of suck to not see that get rewarded like that. I hate the sim RNG like that. Put together such good teams and all it takes is one unlucky game for all of that to mean nothing. That is why win now rarely works in this league because of that concept. Hawks tried winning now in season 17, and they traded away their first for Sunnycursed. We were such a good team after that trade and we easily should have won the Ultimus. But, of course, the sim hates happiness, so we ended up losing to the same team that we traded the first to. So like, in terms of the team, it was a very good trade, but in terms of how it ended up, not a very good trade. Just ask chicago on how win now works out for them lol. To be fair, a lot of shit gets thrown on their win now strategy but it was a lot of other shit that made them where they are now. Ok but also it did not end up winning us an Ultimus but Sunnycursed was on the Hawks the season after we traded for him too and he helped out a lot. That year was a lot of fun. Our wr core was Maddox/Sunnycursed/Espessyeete which is just an absurd core. Maddox should be a first ballot hall of famer, not sure if sunnycursed will make the hall of fame but was really good none the less, and Ahri was also really good. Also throwing to them was Corvo Havran, who also should be a hall of famer. So yea our offense was absolutely crazy that year. I think we had like Spread 70 across the board the entire season. I really enjoyed having a full yeet offense like that. It was a breath of fresh air after spending 5 seasons in the DSFL where the quarterbacks are not very good. I felt bad for Wozy that year who had just signed with us that season but ended up not getting the ball very much because of how much we threw. But he also ended up winning offensive player of the year the year after that as a Hawk so I think it evened out. Sunnycursed left us that season and we did not have another running back so he was a huge part of our offense and he really did have a great year. Offense would have improved a lot that season if we had another running back so we could do a running back by committee which works really well in the sim. I think we tried trading for one but were not able to get a price that we really liked.