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12-15-2021, 12:55 AM
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Code: 30. Affliate PT from either SHL/PBE/WSBL. The Weeks must match with the timeframe of this UW. And you may only use a max of 1. PBE Affiliate Code: 32. What is your team doing this holiday season to help out the community? A good chunk of the players in Austin have one love in common - animals. Show us pictures of a dog or cat and we're all just a bunch of bleeding hearts that want to ogle and love everything about them. So, this year the team is going to get together and spread a little cheer with the Austin Humane Society by taking Santa pictures and helping sweet puppers and kitties find their forever homes. Montain is going to dress up like Santa, May is going to stand ready with a camera, and Cowabunga will catch the attention of the pets and get them to look at the camera to snap a holiday photo. Jim will be responsible for costuming and dress the puppers up where applicable in dapper bowties or whatever else makes them look even more adorable, and the remainder of the team will help set up adoptions and meet and greets... or just play with and give the animals all the love. (164 words) Code: 31. Make a holiday-themed card for one of the players in the league. Code: 33. Your team is running Secret Santa, and your player is in charge of getting someone a present. Tell us who you have to get a present for, along with what you get them, and why.
12-15-2021, 01:21 AM
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10. Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league.
One player making their first post-season appearance in the Ultimus Playoffs is Gronku Muerto, who plays Tight End for the Berlin Fire Salamanders. He is playing in just his second season in the big leagues, after spending 3 seasons as a feature player for the Tijuana Luchadores of the DSFL. It is a huge change for the young player, as in the DSFL by his second season, Gronku was capped out and was at the top level of players in that league. He was able to win Tight End of the Year twice as he out up some nice stats on the field, even though Tijuana was not able to bring home the Ultimini during his stay there. In the ISFL though, Gronku's level of training lags behind the star players in the league quite a bit. As such, for Berlin, he is quite far down the depth list as far as available receivers goes. In his first 2 seasons, Gronku has been used primarily as a short-yardage option in second- and third-down situations. He rarely gets more than 3 or 4 targets per game, and has yet to have a game with more than 5 catches, nor has he had more than 50 yards in a single game. In both of his seasons so far he has been in the bottom 3 of total yards in receiving at his position for the entire league. This has led to him being the 5th or 6th receiver on any play, and also means he doesn't even start every game. However, he does still have an important role to play for the team. One aspect of his game which was much improved from his rookie to sophomore season was his blocking. He went from 39 pancakes and 2 sacks allowed, to 54 pancakes and 0 sacks allowed. This improvement does allow for the running backs to have more holes to hit, and the quarterback more time to find an open receiver. So despite his own lack of big plays, his improved play in the trenches has only helped Berlin make their way back to the playoffs. He needs to step up big as Berlin has a big challenge in the semifinals. Often it is the unheralded player who has a big play to make a difference (looking at you, David Tyree!). So he needs to be ready and play at his best, not drop any throws that come his way, and give his quarterback the confidence to know he can be relied upon to do his job! +5 SHL Affiliate Championship Week 3 tasks for +5 (username: Muerto) 2x DSFL TEotY with Tijuana Luchadores.
12-15-2021, 03:26 AM
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SHL Affiliate: https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3147668
SHL Championship week: https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3150458 S30 DSFL Pro Bowl - S33 ISFL Pro Bowl - S39 ISFL All-Pro 2nd Team
Peak TPE: 1354
10.The only rivalry Zephyr cares about is the one with fellow animal player Pasta the Turtle. Like in seasons past Zephyr and Pasta have a competition going. Unlike last year where it was a raw tackles and sacks game, we had to change it up this year. Pasta is now a safety focusing on interceptions. We did some rough math and came up with a new point system. Based on the performance of last seasons players we award 1 point per interception made by either player. This works as both safeties and linebackers can get interceptions. On the other side Sacks will be worth .25 points each. Again safeties and linebackers both get sacks. Naturally each of us will be going after our own point metric with the off chance we get some points on the side. Now lets see how this broke down over the season.
Pasta started his first game of the season with an interception. Bringing his point total to 1. He got another interception in game 3 bringing his points up to 2 Meanwhile Zephyr was having a much harder start to the season. With 0 sacks or interceptions by game 3. Zephyrs first sack came in game 4 brining him up to .25 points. Game 6 brought another sack to Zephyr bringing his total to .5 points. Pasta got another interception in game 6 bringing his total to 3. Pasta kept going with interceptions in games 8 and 9. Bringing his total to 5 Well Zephyr answered back with a sack in game 9 and 10. Zephyr brough his total up to 1 point. Zephyr finished out the season with 1 sack in game 12 and 2 sacks and 1 interception in game 16. Bringing his final total to 2.75 points Pasta cooled off a bit only getting 1 more interception in game 16. Bringing his total to 6 points. The season did not go well for Zephyr GreyWolf. In our original research the highest interceptions from a safety last season was 5. Pasta the Turtle had 6 interceptions this season. Impressive play but next season is another chance to best my rival on the field. 19.A show staring Zephyr GreyWolf. Instant classic. It would be a cross between Batman and Scooby Doo. First there would be a group of mystery solvers. The standard jock, nerd, prep, stoner, and their pet dog and turtle. Now you see where I am going with this. Yep the pet dog is in fact Zephyr GreyWolf the legendary mystery solver. With his trusty sidekick Pasta the Turtle. So during a mystery while the group splits up to find clues Zephyr and Pasta change into their true forms (I assume they just put those masquerade style eye covers on. So its clearly still them but our mystery solvers can’t see through this disguise for the shows sake.) once they are in disguise the dynamic duo get to work solving the case. Usually with a lot more biting and shin breaking than traditional Scooby Doo. Once the bad guys are delt with Zephyr and Pasta lead the mystery solvers to the bad guys and the gang busts them. Despite them already being mostly unconscious or severely injured. Tune in next week for another episode of Zephyr and Pasta. Coming to a network near you. 30. SHL Affiliate
12-15-2021, 05:33 AM
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31. Make a holiday-themed card for one of the players in the league.
32. What is your team doing this holiday season to help out the community? Something that I am proud of is how the Arizona Outlaws help the community during the holiday season. We adopt families. What does that mean? Firstly, we all donate food items throughout October to December. All us players, coaches, grounds staff, admin. We are all involved. We then spend a night, towards the end of December at the stadium packaging food hampers for those in need. We get a list of things to put together for different families (from our local St Vinnies). We start collecting the food before the lists come out so they normally end up getting a bit more. Once we have the families, we go out and purchase gifts for the members of that family. We might gets crafts and friendship bracelet kits for a girl, remote controlled dinosaur for a boy, a variety of toys for a baby. Mum and Dads are a little bit harder to buy for but candles, funky socks, journals. As a team we also like to chuck in a board game for each family to be able to play together during the holidays. It's only my second season here but its a great time and gives warm feelings knowing that 200 words 33. Your team is running Secret Santa, and your player is in charge of getting someone a present. Tell us who you have to get a present for, along with what you get them, and why. @Kotasa is our Faith Giver on the Faith Train 30. Affliate PT from either SHL/PBE/WSBL. The Weeks must match with the timeframe of this UW. And you may only use a max of 1. PBE Championship Week Tasks (pick one)
5. Not sure if I was that active by that time, but I certainly had a player then. I vaguely remember that moment, but that thread actually remains the most replied retirement thread in NSFL/ISFL history. So here it is: Las Vegas Legion mass exodus...or so we thought.
So full three years plus a week ago a guy named Keygan who was prolly GM...or co-gm, not sure tbh. He posted in the retirement thread that almost the whole Legion team will retire. This obviously came as a shock to many members, but even more of them were having a hard time to understand why this even was the case. The toxicity of the league was named as one of main reasons by some of more vocal members of the Legion. The most vocal members from the retrirement crew were Incite, Enigmatic (kinda) and Keygan himself. Also a non Legion member Beaver was trying to defend them kinda. Obviously this kind of move would ignite the shitstorm and the league didn't escape from that for sure. I'd say the most active anti-retirement guy was by then prominent member 77hawk. Pretty much sure most of arguments against that controversial move came from him. Also I remember Asipi was giving them a hard time as well. The obvious main argument against it was why fuck over the team and the co-gm Ben by retiring. While they just could go inactive if they didn't like the league so this team wouldn't be screwed at least. The talks went back n forth with no progress whatsoever. Another issue from the anti retirement faction was that it was Keygan that orchesteated that retirement and he told the players to follow his lead. It was proven to be wrong kinda. Keygan was just another member who was thinking about the retirement, but apparently multiple Legion players were not pleased by this league already. I think even a discord screen was provided to back down this claim. It was brewing for weeks long and then they decided to ''have fun'' by making this thread. Since Keygan was the man who started this thread most of smoke came to him. Even after it was found out it was collective idea, 77hawk was still placing the most blame on the thread author. However, not all players decided to stick with this decision. First, Waters decided to unretire shortly after this thread began. This info flew over the members heads. But then another popular member, Evok did the same and that was way more of a big deal. Some members were even jokingly named this as the ''top anime betrayal'' (aka from another meme heh). Though if I understood correctly, she was one of members who started these talks about the toxic league etc. When the dust cleared it was apparent that despite of backing down from some members; couple of Legion guys still stuck to their decision and decied to cut ties with this league. Like JR95 - he only showed in that thread once to confirm that the toxicity of the league is the main reason why he will be gone. But how about the other members? Keygan - I see he was coming back with another player, but right now he is inactive; Incite - the same as Keygan. He managed to hit 600 TPE with his latest player, but he is also inactive; Enigmatic - I never saw her unretire Carter, but iirc he was still unretired. I remember her being in Philly in S11 or so as I was drafted there with my recreate. Just finished her third player which appears to be last. Interesting fact - she isn't considering to recreate cause I assume of the league itself. again I guess?; Gooney - not even sure if he ever unretired or not. Anyways as of now, he is inactive too; I assume there were another members who weren't even mentioned in that thread and I don't even remember now were they unretired or they also decided to leave. Anyways, this was one of the first huge NSFL scandals alongside with Noble and Er multis.
6. Write 600 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 600 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
For many in the league, my reputation proceeds me. Or maybe my work proceeds me? Regardless I am very involved in a lot of these sim league's graphics. I'm going to talk mainly about graphics grading in particular. TO start I should speak of how graphics grading was done when I first joined the league. Graphics grading was headed by the illustrious Eco, who was a huge part of the league when I joined. Grading was done via a committee in the graphics grading channel and the standards were fairly low. Feedback was also given as your post was graded to a 1-5 scale, and there was no arbitration in a traditional sense. It was mainly people messaging Eco themselves over their various issues. I was hired shortly thereafter as I was one of the few people interested in a graphics grading position. The job was simple and I mainly resolved myself to taking cues from Eco and doing long write-ups on how a person could improve if needed. At the time, there weren't a lot of resources for the community to improve on a technical level so I spent a lot of time doing write-ups. Not long into the job, Eco approached me about potentially taking over for him. I was hesitant as, again, I was fairly new, but it became clear to me that Eco was leaving regardless. Rather than someone else doing it, I decided to take the mantle from Eco. My tenure as Graphics Grading Head is probably one of controversy. We were harsher than previous "eras" and we expected more from the graders. For me, the biggest thing was improving the graphics of the site as a whole. So I encouraged the tougher grading, but I also encouraged more engaging feedback. My ultimate goal was to make tutorials that could allow someone to improve. This would not come to fruition, however. I can not tell you how long I was graphics grading head. I can tell you I only made one "tutorial" video during my time there. I did implement some new changes. One thread per week was made to combat the new influx of users we were getting in our Reddit draft classes, along with more categories of submissions. I attempted to get new pay scales implemented but Head Office was hesitant towards me on that issue; which is sad. For most of the things I added, I was taking from the SImulation Hockey League, as I enjoyed a lot of how they graded. Nevertheless, I was flooded with messages from users who were unhappy with their overall grades and an ever-increasing backlog from user submissions. This issue was mainly in part to me not revamping how things were graded. While the group grading works, I was not a good enough taskmaster on it. I also expected too much from graders when it came to explaining how a person could improve. This could easily become the grader writing 200 words to a person that may not even care what was said. It just wasn't feasible anymore. With the backlog and the near-constant messaging of some, I retired as I recommended the newly hired Caltriotflames to take over. Cal would go on to expand the grading scale to 1-7 and increase the pay of the scale. he would also go on to change how submissions were graded. He moved to a single grader system with the gfx head approving all grades on the submission. This proved to be better for the site as most of the time any backlog can be brought down fairly fast with just a few graders grading. Caltriot would step down later on and begin focusing on other projects like Dotts. LimJahey would take over from him, and Lim has ultimately steered the ship that Clatriot has built. He hires good graders and doesn't micromanage his staff. The grading itself is ultimately unchanged in how it was under Cal, which I think is for the best.
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Welcome to the Ultimus Week Season Recap! I'm sure we have an exciting postseason slate ahead of us, but before we get too far let's take a look at the playoff teams and how they earned their shot at the title. Meet the Contenders Arizona Outlaws Arizona enters the postseason as the clear favorites. What else can you say about the team that leads the league in both offensive and defensive scoring? In fact, the Outlaws' scoring differential of +190 was the 2nd largest margin of the last 10 seasons, only next to the S30 Arizona Outlaws. The offense was able to consistently chew up yards and turn them into points thanks to their powerful 1-2 punch out of the backfield, running backs Deadly Memes and future HoFer Tatsu Nakamura. The duo combined for an outrageous 30 rushing touchdowns and 4 receiving touchdowns. The defense, for its part, sports elite talent at almost every level, which makes it difficult for opponents to keep up with Arizona's beastly rushing attack. It's no surprise that the Outlaws literally ran their way to the best record in the ISFL this season. Austin Copperheads Austin entered the season with a bit of a conundrum. Running back Jim the Vampire was really hitting his prime and earning more touches, but they still had the legendary Zoe Watts on the roster. Did they go the Arizona route and trot out a powerful 1-2 punch out of the backfield? Nope! Taking advantage of their elite quarterback Jackie Daytona, Vampire shifted over to wide receiver for the season, ceding control of the backfield to Watts. The result was a display of offensive fireworks. Despite being one of the oldest running backs in the league, Watts posted the third most rush attempts in the league while pacing all backs with at least 150 carries in yards per carry. Vampire joined star receiver Bayley Cowabunga to lead the Copperheads to the distinction of being the only team to produce two 100-catch receivers. New York Silverbacks It is a little surprising to see New York enter as the third playoff team from the ASFC. Their defense was remarkably pedestrian, and the offense almost exclusively lived and died by the Sam Howitzer to Tugg Speedman passing connection. On paper, Honolulu sports a comparable offense with a much stronger defense. However, the old adage "any given Sunday" rings true in the ISFL as well as anywhere else. New York was able to overcome the fairly one-dimensional approach on offense thanks to a Herculean effort by Speedman, who ranked second in the league in catches and touchdowns while easily pacing all receivers in yardage. Philadelphia Liberty On the other side of the bracket, the Liberty were perhaps the most well rounded team in the league coming into the season. Outside of stud quarterback Ryan Negs, Philly doesn't really boast elite talent at any position so much as reliably solid talent everywhere. Very much a "greater than the sum of its parts" situation. However, with gunslinger Negs elevating the offense around him, deep threat receiver Jake Fencik was able to pace the entire league with an astounding 17.2 yards per catch en route to placing third in total receiving yards. Meanwhile, the defense was able to capitalize on being able to bring pressure from anywhere as linebackers Gary Goodman and Xavier Walls tied for 3rd in the league in sacks. Berlin Fire Salamanders Unsurprisingly, Philly's main competition for the NSFC title came from Berlin. Built very similar to Arizona, the Fire Salamanders boast a strong, run-focused offense along with a defense that sports elite talent at almost every position. That being said, Berlin took the term "run-oriented" to a whole new level as both Goat Tank and Jay Cue Jr. reached the 300 carry mark. Playing off this punishing ground attack, quarterback Dexter Zaylren led the league in passer rating with an astounding 35:5 TD:INT ratio. Complementing this powerful offense is a star-studded defense that can be found all over the league leaderboards for most defensive stats, highlighted by linebacker BamBam McMullet's league-leading 20 sacks. Sarasota Sailfish Just like in the ASFC, the 3 seed in the NSFC was a bit of a surprise. While the Sailfish and Yeti have comparable defenses on paper, Colorado boasts far more talent on offense than Sarasota, particularly in the passing game. However, while Colorado's defense shrank in the face of competition, Sarasota's came alive. The Sailfish finished the season as the 4th ranked defense, and only 7 points away from the number three spot. The offense was more middle of the road, but was able to succeed without star power thanks to a good, balanced gameplan that saw meaningful contributions from across the board. Looking Ahead So what's in store for us as the postseason progresses? It's notable that the Fire Salamanders and Outlaws have found success this year using essentially the same strategy; ride an elite running game, take advantage of it with an opportunistic passing game, and stifle opponents with a smothering defense. Berlin was able to ride this strategy all the way to an Ultimus appearance, but Arizona fell to a rough upset at the hands of the uppity Silverbacks. Can Tugg Speedman torch the stout Berlin defense en route to a likely Ultimus MVP award? Or will the powerful backfield duo of Goat Tank and Jay Cue Jr. run roughshod over an overmatched New York defense? Find out in the S32 Ultimus Championship game! |
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