(S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements

[ValorX77]

PBE Affiliate PT

[Faelax]

SHL PT Affiliate Claim

[dogwoodmaple]

There should be compensatory selections in each DSFL Draft based on the number of call-ups each team has. In the NFL, if a team is decimated by free agency, they will receive compensatory picks based on the quantity and quality of players they lost to make up for the empty roster spots they have as a result. We should institute something similar in DSFL to both maintain consistent balance in the league as well as providing a somewhat consistent roster size. If a team gets wrecked by call-ups, they have no way of "catching up", as it were, on the rest of the league outside of waivers or trades, which would likely result in a disadvantageous outcome. Take Norfolk this season, for example. We had 14 call-ups this season which, even after the most recent Draft, has left us with 15 total players on the roster and the lowest total TPE (1965) and lowest average TPE (131) by far. Because we were only able to acquire the same number of players in the Draft as teams with much fewer/no call-ups, we are trying to make up an exponential loss with a linear gain. It's simply not sustainable and has likely set the Seawolves back for multiple seasons. My fix would be a TPE-based scale that decays for every additional player you lose to callups and/or eligibility loss. If competitive balance, fun, and overall fairness are all goals, this is something we should institute.

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[nunccoepi]

PT Pass #1: https://forums.sim-football.com/showthre...#pid357624

[Kotasa]

“The DSFL is wide open.” “The ultimini is up for grabs.” “I couldn’t tell you who is winning it all in the DSFL this year if my life depended on it.” These three statements all share one thing in common. They are all wrong, there is only one serious contender for the ultimini in season twenty-five and that is the Tijuana Luchadores. Due to expansion the DSFL has had many more callups than usual, teams like the Norfolk Seawolves and Portland Pythons lost their franchise quarterbacks and are working with rookies. While the defending champs in the London Royals lost many of the rookies that put them in the spot to win it all last year, such as Tayshawn Crunk and Albert Ruschmann. The Tijuana Luchadores did lose some key players to callups, all three of their wideouts are gone as well as three members of the defense. The Tijuana Luchadores had the second least number of players called up behind Minnesota. Minnesota while having the players lacks the TPE with the lowest average TPE per player, while Tijuana has the highest average TPE per player. Tijuana features a nearly capped secondary at every position besides one safety spot, three corners and one safety are all capped on the team. They also were able to get one of their linebackers to return from IA to qualify for a spot on the depth chart. On the line Tijuana has two capped defensive tackles that will both be on the field quite often. They drafted 3 WRs and at least one shall be capped by the end of the year, along with a capped offensive lineman, a nearly capped running back, and a capped quarterback. Tijuana is also coming off the best regular season from last season and had a heart-breaking overtime defeat to the Norfolk last season. I think Tijuana is primed to finish their run this season and ensure Mith and Swanky not only take home their GM of the year awards but also ensure they get their blue names in the Tijuana discord.

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[IsaStarcrossed]

This PT will actually come pretty easy to me because I'd already discussed it earlier today. New York got the short end of the stick for expansion just by virtue of being stuck in the ASFC. Even if Berlin and New York came in on perfectly even ground, there is a good chance that New York would have a worse season than Berlin purely from their conference. The fact is every single team in the ASFC is built better than either expansion team. At least in the NSFC team you have teams that have been marginally struggling like the Hawks, the Wraiths, and the Liberty. These are teams that Berlin might be able to pull wins off of. They might even be able to compete with Chicago, though Chicago looks terrifying this season. New York though is in last place in both total TPE and average TPE for their conference. The Silverbacks are 500 TPE behind the next closest ASFC team, Honolulu. They 1200 total TPE behind the ASFC team after that who also happens to be the Ultimus winning Sabercats. They are lead by a rookie QB with less than 600 TPE and in the second most important position for win rates, their best player at CB has 435 TPE. Meanwhile the ASFC had a 4 way tie for playoffs last season and going into the last week could have had a 5 way tie with Honolulu in the mix. This is all with Austin massively underachieving as most believed them to be a top three team and they are even better now. New York was stuck in a conference with six teams ready for playoffs right now. I think they go 0-2 against at least 4 of those teams and split with the other two, so optimistically they end up with six total wins. That is assuming they win all four of their out of conference games. For that reason I think New York will have a worse record than Berlin this season despite putting together what initially looks like a better overall team.

[LancedJack]

SHL PT

[NicholasTheGreat]

Bruce Buckley is one of the most likely Season Twenty-Two players to make the Hall of Fame. Let’s dive into this and show you why that is the case.

- 3 Pro Bowl Appearances: Bruce Buckley has made 3 Pro Bowl Appearances in Seasons 22, 23 and 24. This gives Buckley a 100% success rate at making the pro bowl, meaning he has yet to miss it during his career in the International Simulation Football League. The 3 Pro Bowl Appearances also give Bruce Buckley the record for Most Pro Bowls by an Offensive Lineman in the history of the ISFL. That is a record he shares with Hall of Famer Angus Winchester as well as Givussafarre Rubbe, Byron Dolls, Jogn Floggity and Lazslo Forty-Two.

- 1 Offensive Lineman of the Year Award: Bruce Buckley won the Award for Offensive Lineman of the Year in the ISFL in Season 23. Winning positional awards is crucial for Hall of Fame chances and winning one really early in his career, boosts his chances increasingly. Buckley was also nominated for the award in the 2 other seasons, he played in during his ISFL career so far.

- Pancake Statistics: Bruce Buckley is already 6th all time in Pancakes and will rapidly rise up the board in upcoming seasons with it being a close race with Guvvusafarre Rubbe and Byron Dolls as to who will hold the overall record by the end of Bruce Buckley’s career.

[Swanty]

Contract Incentives

As a member of the budget team, one thing I sympathise with GMs on is the fact that any bonus incentives offered count against the cap at all times, even before they've been achieved and no matter how unlikely. For example, if I promise a player a $1M bonus if he records 100 sacks in a season, I can no longer use that money all the way up until the point where 100 sacks is no longer possible, so after the end of the season, at which point there's no other applicable use for the money any more.

This makes planning other uses of the salary cap like trades, salary extensions, position changes and OL bots quite tricky to navigate when you're not sure how much you have to play with. As such, a GM might be reluctant to offer their players incentives so that the money doesn't get locked up for a season, and eventually wasted. This might be why some teams, COL for example, don't seem to offer any contract incentives.

A change I will be proposing at next year's rule summit to try and tackle this is that all incentive bonuses count against the following year's cap instead. So for example, if a team has $10M of potential incentives to pay and only $5M ends up being achieved at the end of the season, they simply start the next season with $5M less on the salary cap. Alternatively, maybe the team could have the option at the end of the season to either use what's left of this year's cap to pay them, or to apply it to next year's cap. This way, there's never any ambiguity around how much cap you have left to play with, and no worrying about offering out unrealistic contract incentives.

And this wouldn't just be beneficial for the GMs. This would also mean that teams don't shy away from offering incentives, and end up locking up a load of money that ends up getting wasted at the end of the season. More incentives = more fun for players!

[Opera_Phantom]

If we look into last seasons standings on the index, we can clearly see that the Arizona Outlaws managed to snag 3rd place in the ASFC. Do you need evidence? Just go into the index, go to season 24, and it is there. Nobody can deny it, 9 - 7 record, ahead of the New Orleans Second Line, and behind the San Jose Sabercats and the Orange County Otters, all with the same record. But then, if you decide to check out playoff results, what do you see (or do not see)? Exactly, Arizona was left out of the playoffs due to some shitty sim tie breaker rule, that got the Second Line into the playoffs.
With all this evidence presented, i am 100% sure that the Outlaws are going to win the Ultimus this season. After getting shafted as we saw, it is only fair that they get a 16 - 0 season and an unbeaten run to a ring. That being said, after Jay Cue's last season, where he had probably the worst season ever by a 1400+ TPE player, he is definitely winning the Ultimus and the MVP award. Expect big throws, lots of TD passes and very few interceptions. It is only fair, after all we have been through in season 24.


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