While I am brand new to this league, what I see as success is a combination of a few things. These would include personal achievements, team success, and how much you enjoyed your time.
Personal achievements go a long way in defining success. MVP awards, all-star selections, and position awards can make or break a career. While I don’t think this is the end all, be all to success, you can’t have a successful career without some hardware. Team awards are another big factor in determining a successful career. When looking at a potential hall of fame candidate, the first question usually asked is “how many championships have they won?”. Even division and conference championships can help a player’s case. At the end of the day, I think someone can win all the championships and awards in the world. However, the question is did they have a fun and enjoyable time doing it? If you’re on a team that you don’t enjoy or are part of a locker room you don’t talk in, I don’t think it’s worth even being a part of. I think a balanced combination of personal achievements, team success, and how much you enjoyed it all determines how successful a career is. (206)
08-16-2021, 08:05 PM
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To me success is all about what makes you happy. I play for the Seawolves, and we are very bad, but I consider this season a personal success, because I'm on a team that has heart and cares about the rest of the team as much as winning a game. During the games we talk in the discord server and celebrate what we do well as much as we critique what we don't. WE have fun doing it and we are getting better, sure an winning games is fun, but the DSFL is all about getting better and making connections with fellow players, that carry over when you get into the ISFL. Overall on a personal level, I feel like this season has been a great success. On a team level, success is winning, but also developing for the future. and while Norfolk hasn't been doing much of the first, we have been doing loads of the second, our linebacker core with me (Nathan Claflin) and Sconnie mchits, is lethal, and our offensive game is getting good as of late as well, overall, baring a slew of early call ups, the Seawolves could be well on their way to an Ultimini in s31. Overall I feel as if this season could become a great building block for both my personal and the team as a wholes future.
Success is well... success, and while it depends on the person what that word means, it also depends on the timeframe. Success can be a weekly thing, like remembering to train your player week in and week out to make sure they have a shot to compete and be one of the best in the leagues, it can also be winning a game you were meant to lose, and winning a game you were supposed to win all along! It can also be a season long term. I've won multiple "position player of the year" awards which show I did my work to make my player someone great, and the voters and other players noticed that. I've also been a part of championship-winning teams like the Tijuana Luchadores and the Sarasota Sailfish, where I won an Ultimini and Ultimus each respectfully. Being part of "successful" teams is great for morale and even on seasons where we didn't win it all, sure it is disappointing at that moment when you get kicked out of the playoffs or miss the big dance in the last week of the season, but there are teams that aren't even close to a winning record, and sure they can be successful in their own little ways, that's why success is such a great word, it has so many different meanings to different people.
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This is a question that has been asked of me multiple times in different sim leagues. It usually comes up in the scouting process and I always have a hard time answering it. Success is dependent on the personality and values of the person you ask. On a personal level, I’m most interested in awards and records. I’m a stickler for history, I like to study and read about history so being a part of the history of a sim league is my ultimate goal as a player. Of course, what awards and records you think are more important than others is also dependent on a lot of factors. Most of the ISFL MVPs have been inducted to the ISFL hall of fame so obviously that award is highly valuable in the ISFL. It might not be nearly as valuable in the PBE or SHL or SBA.
There’s also the fact that DSFL careers are not factored into consideration when one is nominated for the ISFL hall of fame and there is no independent DSFL hall of fame yet I do think DSFL MVPs and DSFL OPOY/DPOY do have a certain profile that users who have not won those awards don’t possess. So those are my general thoughts and feelings on the matter of how I personally define success within the ISFL. It’s a bit vague but the concept of success is vague as well. Quote:235 Words
08-16-2021, 11:36 PM
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I think the definition of success in the ISFL depends on the person, the team, and the position held for each person. For example, a GM’s success can be measured by players and other non-GMS by winning percentage and championships. However, I bet you if you ask a GM how they measures their success, most of them will tell you, especially the DSFL GMs, that they measure their success on setting their current players up for future success in the ISFL. Whether that is by encouraging them to stay active, talking them off the ledge after a bad season or just being there to listen to us bitch and moan about a particularly bad game or season. That being said, Im sure some of the more successful franchises and their GM’s correlate success to wins and championship games. Sometimes its just about getting to the ship, or like OCO’s case having an ungodly claim to fame like going to what 23 consecutive post seasons in the ISFL, a record that will be nearly impossible for any team to surpass. Its just a crazy number.
Now when It comes to some players, I know winning awards is everything to them. If their team had a bad season, they can still feel good about that season if they successfully take home an award. For me, individual accomplishments are nice, but they play second fiddle to wins and playoffs. Since going 5-1 last year with the Royals to start the season, We have gone 3-15. 2-6 to finish last season, and 1-9 this season with 4 weeks to go. I personally hate to lose, but as the offensive captain of the Royals, I try not to get too high when we win or too low when we lose, which has been a lot lately. Sometimes though, I just like to shoulder to blame of these L’s. My teammates and GM’s will tell me 100% of the time its not my fault, we win as a team we lose as a team, but I still feel like that’s my job to accept that burden and congratulate my teammates on a successful game, regardless of how I play. Don’t get me wrong when I have a good game, and we get a win, those are the best times to be in the locker room. The moods different and everyone gets hype and its a good time. Unfortunately, we haven’t had that kind of success very much in my tenure. All I can tell you though, is there is no quit. We will rise up again and start winning some games. I just hope its while Im here throwing the pigskin to my boys @danieldbook, @Donkey, @nhlbeastmode_7777, @Dolphins, @SaviorHawkins,@Tension, @HuddleHussy & @TheCHEESE . These dudes deserve to go down as winners in the DSFL. I’ve made it my mission, to make sure they do. They might not consider wins as their model for success, but a lot of others do, and I want to help make sure they are looked at as winners, and champions before our time is through in London, because they are champions. Day in and Day out. Guys, next season….if you’re all still here, things will be different. Mark my words. Got love for you and all the Royals. Code: 547
For Beniri T'Chawama, success means helping his team and getting pancakes when he finally makes the switch back to an offensive liner in the big leagues. T'Chawama is not out here to trying to win any individual awards or make historic records as an offensive liner, rather just being a part of a great group of guys and working hard together through the thick and thin is all it really takes to be successful. T'Chawama could get no great stat lines for all he cares as long as he is not making a negative impact to his own team. That and a few solid playoff runs and that is good. Of course, a Ultimus Bowl would be an extra cherry on the top, but let us not hold ourselves to defining success based on winning the bowl. There are a number of teams in various leagues that get so close, but ultimately fail to reach the ultimate prize, but to me it is not a failure as long as they have good records to show. This is because things like winning the league bowl requires not only a solid team and solid tactics, but also luck to go along side of that To summarize, T'Chawama's success is the team's success. They go hand in hand.
In my view, it’s hard to define "success" in this league, because both of my players haven’t been able to get any acknowledgments, or any awards, Many because of, either poor management, or not having the right team or conditions to succeed. Success is defined by the amount of awards and the individual accolades your players receive, it’s a note to see which players had their prime’s wasted by either poor asset management from the gm, or just awful luck from the sim. I’ve honestly had more success with Videl rather than Leaf Jr, because of the awful years in Chicago, and poor management on my part. I don’t have any locker room success either as I’m naturally short-fused or just struggle to communicate because of either being perceived incorrectly, or just being too nervous to talk because of anxiety reasons. You need both to achieve some form of happiness in this league, which my time in this league is sadly about to run out. Another part of success in this league is seeing your player just dominate on the field, take Dan Miller in the early days in the league, arguably the greatest DL to play in the league, he didn’t win any Ultimus, but he was successful because he shattered untouchable records, and put his name in the hall of fame.
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