(S30) PT 5 - What is the Meaning of...

[fever95]

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[Pib]

I would define success as winning a championship. While it’s still fairly early on in my career within the ISFL and I’m yet to reach the elite status within the league that would really see me competing for awards, I have won an individual accolade at the DSFL level, where I was the Defensive End of the Year — an award I probably would have won back to back, had it not been for the cheat code that is Bean Beanman. While it’s great to see your efforts pay off on the field and when your player is delivering on the field, it does make the games a little more interesting to watch, it really doesn’t compare to winning something as a group.

London’s DSFL win in S28 has been, to this point, my favourite moment in the league. The group of players we had there were phenomenal people. From the Twin Towers of Willie Miller and CJ Sonjack to our rushing stud, Manhattan Project. We also had a few great rookies that season, such as Lucid Dreams. While the team won plenty of awards with that crop of players,  the group as a whole deserved to win something and I’m glad we got to do exactly that before I moved onto the ISFL. #bangbangliongang

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[TomHanks]

You can measure success on the field much easier than off of it, but I think that the off-field success is what really makes a team. Building a roster is one thing, building a locker room is another. The two often go hand in hand, you’re far less likely to lose draftees and more likely to gain free agents if your locker room is a great place to be, but that doesn’t mean it’s always true. You can build a great roster of people who earn well but speak very little or don’t create a positive locker room atmosphere. And, at the end of the day, the locker room is really the heart and soul of a team. The best part about this league isn’t the simulation football, it’s the community that surrounds the simulation football. And a positive locker room goes a long way in getting people to engage with the community, as well as just making the community a more positive place to be in general. That’s why I think the true measure of a team is how the team is off the field. Like anyone, I do like to win, but give me a locker room I like hanging out in over an Ultimus any day.

[ComebackZak]

PBE Affiliate

[JBLAZE_THE_BOSS]

Success usually means something different to everyone. For me, being a success in this league means winning championships. Not only just winning the championships, but being a major factor in the championship is the real icing on the cake. Anyone can hop around from team to team and chase a ring, that’s fine. It goes to the next level when people are following you and your moves to increase their chances of winning a ring. The ultimate success and the ultimate goal for my career is the Hall of Fame. I’ve seen two of my guys go in before, and I’m really pulling for my third to come through. What will be the difference maker? The number of championships and the overall scope of my personal stats will make or break Mike Boss Jr’s chances of making it to football immortality. Individual awards are always really nice to get, but there’s only so many of those spots to go around and sometimes you find yourself in a more competitive era than anyone could’ve ever anticipated. The idea of being successful really is a broad one. The terms of being a failure are simple- not performing to expectations, disappearing on your team, cheating to try and get an advantage. There’s a fine line that needs to be walked, and on one side is failure where the other has your dreams.

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[Painted]

I’m going to be honest here, I am not sure how I can stretch this into 200 words because the meaning of success in sports is to win the championship. Full stop. In this league, there is 1 winner at the end of the year and 13 losers. And as soon as the game is over, it’s onto next season.

Now that being said, not every team can perform expecting a championship every season. Take Chicago as an example. We knew going into the season, that this year was a wash. While we knew we would not go winless, we wouldn’t be contenders or at least not real ones. So for us our goals changed. Not to win the championship, but to become a spoiler. My own personal goal was to get to 5 wins, and that we DID achieve!

Five wins was the Over bet, and I did my hardest to make sure we got at least that for my own personal reasons. Goals, as they say, should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. This betting line was set up by the Casino who has a much better grasp at each team’s season performances will be so we knew that this goal met all those criteria. It made it all the sweeter to then beat Berlin for our last and extra 6th victory!

So in the end, we weren't 100% successful in the grand scheme of things, but we did reach our own successes. 


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[FootballIsCool]

There are plenty of potential different avenues that one could consider  success in the international simulation football league. For many it is winning it all for some it is personal success whether it be through having stats that draw attention to themself or awards and fame. For some people it is money, a nice looking partner and plenty of toys to play with. For Stumpy Jones, success is none of these things, success for stumpy is awareness of those who can not speak for themself. Stumpy is trying to make sure nature is taken care of and nurtured for. 100 

Most recently stumpy sees success as making sure the fish are fed a steady diet of pancakes and make sure the nice boss man is well protected. Stumpy did not do very well at protecting the boss man in his first season. He was packed up in a sack many times. But this past season stumpy did a good job in the regular season. There were no bad men that packed up the boss man that stumpy had the chance to stop. So that was a great success. Stumpy also fed the fish a lot of pancakes this past season. Stumpy was a top 5 chef in the league which meets stumpy's goal and expectations.

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[bex]

Sucess in the ISFL is something that I've worked to understand and frame for myself over the many many seasons in the league. I think the easiest definition would be winning an Ultimus or an Ultimini. But that's only really achievable for two teams each season.  You could define success by playoff appearance, but still, are you going to say that the rest of the league is completely removed for this "success" tier? There's the possibility of having it be success as a winning record. That's about half of the league this past season. Of course, you also have the option of leaning on more personal successes, awards or stats of your individual player. Heck, you can even classify success in terms of personal earning if you take pride in max earning. All of these framings of success are viable. But I can't say that they work all the time in trying to feel successful. Ultimately, I define success very broadly. A season is successful if it brought you one moment that you will take forward with you. If you have something that's memorable, it's been a win. Sometimes, that's an amazing last-second win that had you jumping out of your seat. Sometimes it's the most ridiculous surrender punt you've ever seen. Sometimes it's a great statline, and sometimes it's just enjoying your team or your locker room. Really success is making memories.

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[TubaMasterFlex]

Success has a nuanced definition. It can easily differ from season to season, player to player, and team to team. Even for my own player, there is a great deal of nuance with the term success. My main definition for personal success lays in being a positive presence in the team locker room while earning and updating regularly. This means grinding out the weekly point tasks, doing predictions, and tweeting regularly to afford the weekly trainings. It also means never using the graphics option for the weekly point tasks because of how little I know how to use Photoshop. For team success, I believe it comes down to the team coming together no matter the circumstances of the season. If the team is able to stay positive and resilient during an extensive rebuild or an unexpected downturn, that team will be primed to win when the time is right. As much fun as it is to win a bunch of games, the sim and regression dictates that winning comes in cycles reliant on luck as much as a strong team composition. But a strong team culture that comes from the top down will instill a longer lasting success that can weather the sim and regression.

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[ReverendOReily]

After more than a year of sim leaguing, I think I can finally safely consider myself something of a veteran, so I like to think I’ve got some fairly insightful thoughts on this topic. To put it succinctly, the most important part of the ISFL in my eyes, and the thing that most defines whether or not you’re having a “successful” time in the league, is the amount of fun you have in both your team and other team’s locker rooms and, more importantly, the friends you make across the league. “Maybe the real ultimus was the friends we made along the way” is a great and funny league meme, but it’s also the gosh darn truth. I’ve met countless wonderful people in this league, many of whom I see myself keeping in touch with long after the thrill of watching dots tackle each other on YouTube has run out. The community that supports this league and keeps it thriving is nothing short of impressive, and if you enjoy yourself in this league and you make friends and have a good time, then damnit, you’re just as successful as anyone else. If the glorious PPTeam demands less of a cop out answer, I will say, winning championships and having your player do things on the field is probably pretty cool, but it (and the inverse) also opens up doors for lots of salt and sim complaining and other BS that can ultimately have a negative impact on the aforementioned very important community aspect of the league. TLDR - enjoy yourself and meet some new pals and you too might be just as successful as Franklin Armstrong