Tier 2: Short Form Tasks (Each must be 300+ words)
10. Through a random lottery drawing, you have been named the league's new commissioner for a day. Congrats! What improvements would you make to the league if you had the power to do whatever you wanted?
As commissioner for the day, I would institute the following changes:
- A ban on trading cap space
- A rework to Offseason Tasks
A salary cap in theory imposes a limit on how much can be spent. Given the contract minimums given the respective TPE tiers, there's a distributive element to limit and prevent the stacking of high TPE earners on a single team. While good drafting and general managers creating attractive destinations should be rewarded, it's also important for talent to be distributed among teams and not just a select few. Ultimately, I consider trading cap as circumventing the salary cap and its purpose to restrict super teams. Teams in a rebuild giving up cap to competitive teams in my mind is just operating as a feeder team rather than as a competitor. It can be difficult to part with players, but ultimately it's the role of general managers to make those tough decisions.
The league has a mix of higher earners and casual earners. While you are at the mercy of the sim so TPE doesn't always reflect performance in the sim, I think tweaking the Offseason Tasks to add a cash component to help casual earner earn a bit of money to go towards equipment or training might be something worth considering. Not everyone has the time to pick up a league job, produce media or graphics so in the sort of break we have in the offseason it might be nice for the tasks to also provide some money in addition to TPE. I would keep the TPE for the Offseason Tasks at a maximum of 10 with 500k paid for every 1 TPE earned for completing the task(s). It's not going to be something that allows casual earner to purchase Tier 6 equipment but it will be a nice bump towards being able to purchase training each week.
Tier 3: Written/Graphics Tasks (Each must be either 150+ words or a graphic)
27. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why? (Written Task)
Having picked up wide receiver this go around and having some time to reflect, I suppose if wideout wasn't available I'd go with running back. With running back I'd probably opt with the receiving back archetype purely for flexibility. I don't think much would change since I'd would gear towards being a pass catcher and angle towards being lined up on the outside rather than in the backfield. The overall flexibility of being able to be a viable pass option while also being able to take some runs in relief of the lead back would be nice.
While going offensive this go around was my goal, I suppose part of me now would consider going back to defense if I had an opportunity to go back in time. It's not that I don't enjoy wideout, more so that defense it what I started with and cornerback was the other option I had in mind the first time around.
33. When looking at the teams we have in the ISFL and DSFL, is there any team you believe is in need of a major rebrand or update to their current branding? Why or why not? (Written Task)
I don't think things should change for the sake of change, so with that I guess I'd leave things be. That's not to say that I'd be opposed to rebranding, but it my mind it's more or less something that should be considered by those within the team than somebody who is on the outside looking in. If changes were to be made I suppose colour rush weeks would be a nice time to float some ideas out but really for those weeks if I had a say I'd probably like to see some throwbacks.
Take for instance Minnesota Grey Ducks and the New Orleans Second Line. I think colour rush week might be a nice time for a throwback to the San Antonio Marshalls and the Las Vegas Legion. Bondi Beach Buccaneers could go with Palm Beach Solar Bears throwback or possibly the Chicago Blues. I suppose the Butchers could also go with the Blues also since it would be an homage to the city's DSFL team. We're 43 seasons in and lots of people who are unaware of the origins of teams, so throwbacks might be nice to get some league history out there.
10. Through a random lottery drawing, you have been named the league's new commissioner for a day. Congrats! What improvements would you make to the league if you had the power to do whatever you wanted?
As commissioner for the day, I would institute the following changes:
- A ban on trading cap space
- A rework to Offseason Tasks
A salary cap in theory imposes a limit on how much can be spent. Given the contract minimums given the respective TPE tiers, there's a distributive element to limit and prevent the stacking of high TPE earners on a single team. While good drafting and general managers creating attractive destinations should be rewarded, it's also important for talent to be distributed among teams and not just a select few. Ultimately, I consider trading cap as circumventing the salary cap and its purpose to restrict super teams. Teams in a rebuild giving up cap to competitive teams in my mind is just operating as a feeder team rather than as a competitor. It can be difficult to part with players, but ultimately it's the role of general managers to make those tough decisions.
The league has a mix of higher earners and casual earners. While you are at the mercy of the sim so TPE doesn't always reflect performance in the sim, I think tweaking the Offseason Tasks to add a cash component to help casual earner earn a bit of money to go towards equipment or training might be something worth considering. Not everyone has the time to pick up a league job, produce media or graphics so in the sort of break we have in the offseason it might be nice for the tasks to also provide some money in addition to TPE. I would keep the TPE for the Offseason Tasks at a maximum of 10 with 500k paid for every 1 TPE earned for completing the task(s). It's not going to be something that allows casual earner to purchase Tier 6 equipment but it will be a nice bump towards being able to purchase training each week.
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Tier 3: Written/Graphics Tasks (Each must be either 150+ words or a graphic)
27. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why? (Written Task)
Having picked up wide receiver this go around and having some time to reflect, I suppose if wideout wasn't available I'd go with running back. With running back I'd probably opt with the receiving back archetype purely for flexibility. I don't think much would change since I'd would gear towards being a pass catcher and angle towards being lined up on the outside rather than in the backfield. The overall flexibility of being able to be a viable pass option while also being able to take some runs in relief of the lead back would be nice.
While going offensive this go around was my goal, I suppose part of me now would consider going back to defense if I had an opportunity to go back in time. It's not that I don't enjoy wideout, more so that defense it what I started with and cornerback was the other option I had in mind the first time around.
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33. When looking at the teams we have in the ISFL and DSFL, is there any team you believe is in need of a major rebrand or update to their current branding? Why or why not? (Written Task)
I don't think things should change for the sake of change, so with that I guess I'd leave things be. That's not to say that I'd be opposed to rebranding, but it my mind it's more or less something that should be considered by those within the team than somebody who is on the outside looking in. If changes were to be made I suppose colour rush weeks would be a nice time to float some ideas out but really for those weeks if I had a say I'd probably like to see some throwbacks.
Take for instance Minnesota Grey Ducks and the New Orleans Second Line. I think colour rush week might be a nice time for a throwback to the San Antonio Marshalls and the Las Vegas Legion. Bondi Beach Buccaneers could go with Palm Beach Solar Bears throwback or possibly the Chicago Blues. I suppose the Butchers could also go with the Blues also since it would be an homage to the city's DSFL team. We're 43 seasons in and lots of people who are unaware of the origins of teams, so throwbacks might be nice to get some league history out there.
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