08-16-2021, 08:50 AM
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Time always flies man, it's fleeting. I've been in sim leagues for a while and have enjoyed various periods of success. Not much of it has been individual success, as in personal awards, but I've had some of those and they're certainly satisfying. The tier above that is winning team awards, such as being the best team in a regular season, or winning a championship. The ones you can share with your peers are much more valuable, in my opinion. Lastly, I think the most important tier of success is team success of a team you manage. Those are always the most satisfying, as it takes a lot of effort, planning and adaptability to pull off success for a group you have to manage. There are so many moving pieces, as you're dealing with people. But to see all the efforts come to fruition is fantastic, and what I'd consider to be the biggest denominator in what I think is success.
This is a tough question to answer because as listed there are so many different theories of what a successful player is and to whom you are presenting this success to. So to break it down I'll create my tier list of inward and outward success.
S-Tier Outward: Perennial Championship/ Playoff Contender- This is more towards a GM role but I think of the greatest players/GMs as the ones that have all the right strats, roster construction, team cohesion and are always a threat to win it all, even if they are rebuilding you fear what's next to come. Inward: Has to be the LR experience and community, that is what drives me and so many others to max earn. If I wasn't having fun I wouldn't be here and the more fun I have the more inspired I am to write media, talk in discord, watch streams ETC. If you have a great teams culture that is S-tier success. A-Tier Outward/Inward: Awards Winning- I think this goes both ways- it feels good to have your player be recognized for your build that hopefully you had most of the control of and seeing yourself in the history books. It makes you want to go back and do it again and it shows the league you are a force to be reckoned with. C-Tier Outward: Recreating- I think being able to recreate really shows your dedication to the league and hopefully your desire to be here, I would rank this higher but the ability to retire and recreate really dampens the success tier as you can retire quickly and recreate. Code: 271 words The Riddler New York Sliverbacks Dallas Birddongs Former Players Dominos Pizzaman S30-S40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
08-16-2021, 09:13 AM
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Code: Written option: This week is the last week of the regular season of the 30th season of the ISFL. Wooooooo! This week, tell us what you think the meaning of success in this league is? Is it winning championships? Winning awards? Destroying that one team that you hate? Or just having fun with your team? There are so many ways to define success, what would you define it as. I think it's easy to point at Cups and Wins to determine success in this league and ultimately in the game sence of it all yeah that is success. On the flip side, this website is so much more than our little dotts doing football things. It is meeting and getting to know new people. Make friends and be parts of a locker room. It is about enjoying each others company and I think the dotts are just a side thing at the end of it all. So for me success can be described as feeling like you have found the perfect locker room for you and are having a great time being a part of this community. All the winning games, getting awards and winning cups at that point are just a side thing that might happen or it might not. It is all rng number generation and one player who is maxed out might not play as well as a player with half the attributes. That is all just random mumbo jumbo. Chilling and have great talks with community members will always beat out that stuff. So as someone who hasn't won any cups in atleast 2,5 years or so now. Just have fun with it all and you are already winning. [214 words]
Thinking about success in this league, the obvious answer is wins and championships. However, despite all planning that you can do, the sim is still a random number generator, and therefore it can choose to make you win, or lose, just by chance. Therefore, for me, the more important metric of success is the fun that my players and team have outside of the sim and the field. In Colorado, we pride ourselves on all of the pieces that we do that are outside of the sims and the league itself. I define league success as having a team that has become as close as a family, sharing in weddings, engagements, babies and more together. Our success is found in the fact that we play games together, support one another in our sim lives and real lives at times, and that we want to spend time together. Frequently you'll hear the ping of League? Or that time we were all obsessed with Cyberpunk (and then disappointed with it), and CK3. The success that we feel as a team is felt in book recommendations, geeking out over musicals, and music, and tv shows or movies together (or being absolutely critical of them). It's found in our food wars and civil wars where the team is utterly divided, only to realize that someone wanted to catch some pokemon. We name them after one another, we are there for one another, and that friendship and the relationships that are created in Colorado are how I define success. Success is knowing that the locker room is family, and Colorado is home.
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Success in the ISFL can, and does, mean many things to me. First off, the most important measure of success in my opinion is finding a team that you fit into and like the culture of their locker room. It feels good to win, but I find what I’ve enjoyed the most in the ISFL is making new friends from all around the world and having a good time hanging out with them, even if it's only in a virtual world. You see players in this league move on quickly from teams they don’t feel at home in. I feel very lucky that I’ve found those things in the Birddogs and Wraiths locker rooms. Of course, winning on the field is also awesome, and I think can also be part of what makes a player feel successful. Championships and awards make you feel like your virtual player is actually doing something and contributing to your team. Even if it's only a nomination, it's satisfying to know that your peers are recognizing that you’ve made an impact as a player or user. One thing I don’t find important to me as a measure of success is beating a specific team. Honestly, I’ve made friends of some kind on almost every team in the league and so I don’t get any further satisfaction for winning over a rival than I would otherwise.
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Yes. I would say success in this league to me is a combination of all of the above. The primary objective of this league though is to have fun. If you enjoy spending a little time building up your fake football person and see how they perform on the field, wins, losses, and/or awards don’t really matter. If you are in an active locker room with other good league citizens I know that really adds to the league experience. Even a bad team could be successful if the locker room is positive. For each player I create, I would like to win at least one championship with the team that drafted me. If you are an active user and help a team win the Ultimus, I think that is a successful player. For max earners individual awards become more of a focus, but they are the hardest things to win. For example, 1 out of the 14 teams will win a championship, but only 1 LB out of the ~40 LBs in the league will win LB of the Year. The epitome of success to me in this league would be a max earner in a fun locker room who helps their team win a championship and picks up some individual hardware during the journey. (216 words)
For me, success in this league is defined not by the number of championships I help my team earn, nor in doing these silly little PTs or making money. For me, it's the amount of people day in and day out that make this league what it is. Everything from the way Bex expertly runs the entire league, to HO and how they implement the rules and such, to even the lowly little peons that are us players, that seem to forget we have a life beyond updating in our multitude of sim leagues and cheering on fictional players like they're actual sports players, it's a well-oiled machine. If the cogs aren't working, then the machine stops working. Just like in real life, it takes a lot to make someone out of nothing, but the way everyone comes together in not only this league, but the PBE and all our other sim leagues is truly inspiring. That to me is what success in this league is defined by. But since we're here....Baltimore is coming for that Ultimus trophy soon! And we ain't gonna stop until we win it. No one can tell me otherwise, nuh uh. That is all for now.
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Well you see, growing up in Texas your idea of success is measured by a state championship. Every year it’s either state championship or bust. My and my longhorn teammates were never able to accomplish this goal, although we came very close one year. We made it all the way to the finals, and we would’ve won the state championship too had it not been for my best friend Hank snapping his ankle near the end zone. Ever since high school I’ve left the game of football with a gigantic chip on my shoulder. This new football league has given me the opportunity for me to win the prestigious championship trophy I was never able to win in high school. Although I have grown to love so many aspects of this league, especially the camaraderie I’ve built with my teammates, my only measure of success in this league will be if I won a championship or not. Once I do that, I feel I will have accomplished my goal of being a champion on the gridiron. Maybe then my sweet, sweet Lenore will finally come back to me. And of course I will finally have something to brag to my friends about. They won’t even believe it unless I show them a trophy so watch out league, because the Billdozer is here to stay and he’s not leaving without one of those big shiny trophies!
“My name is Dauterive comma Bill, I am also insane.”
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