(S44) Offseason Task

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Eliot Bukowski was a rookie kicker this season for the Orange County Otters who exceeded expectations placed on him. Drafted with the final pick of the second round in the Season 42 ISFL Draft, many initial reactions were calling this decision a reach. However, with an extra year under his belt in the DSFL, Eliot proved this year that he has what it takes to kick professionally in the league. Eliot went 40/41 for extra points, and 24/27 for field goals, 97.6% and 88.9% respectively. Eliot’s accuracy in field goals is tied for fourth among kickers, which is quite impressive considering he was the only rookie kicker this season. Simultaneously, his only 3 misses were from 50+ yards out. Eliot nailed anything closer than that with perfect accuracy. While Makmur, Baker, and Doug all had better accuracy than Eliot overall, they all missed field goals within 40-49 yards. Dos Santos, who had the same accuracy as Bukoski, missed two field goals within 30-49 yards. It’s also worth noting, that among the three kickers with higher FG accuracy, only Baker kicked more field goals than Bukoski.

I think overall, Bukoski had a tremendous first year in the ISFL, and I’ll go so far as to say that he should have made the pro-bowl over Jayme Jayne Jay-Jaymison. To recount J’s stats, he was 45/45 in XP’s, and 29 for 37 in FG’s, for a 78.4% accuracy. JJJJ was a sporadic kicker, missing once between 20-29, twice between 30-39, four times between 40-49, and to top it off he missed his only attempted kick over 50 yards. His longest kick was just 49 yards! Meanwhile Bukoski nailed a 56 yarder! While yes I understand that the AZ offense was just so good that JJJJ didn’t get much of a chance to kick long FG’s, but still he was unreliable in crunchtime. Most of J’s misses came in close games. For example, when AZ beat OCO 54-14, J had a perfect game, 6/6 XP, 4/4 FG’s. When AZ beat OCO 24-17, J went 1/3 for FG’s, missing two between 30-49 yards. This was a close game for AZ where they only won by one score. Those missed field goals are a big deal in that game. The last example I’ll give and then I’m going back to talk about Bukowski, in AZ’s 17-20 loss against the Sarasota Sailfish, J missed a kick between 40-49 yards. Had this kick been made, the game would have gone to OT and AZ could have had a shot at winning. This is your S43 ISFL pro bowl kicker.

Lastly, I’d like to take a look at one of Bukoski’s key performances during the year. In an important division matchup against the Copperheads, OCO won 29-27. Bukoski did not have a perfect game here. He went 2/2 with XP’s, and 5/6 with FG’s, with his only miss coming from 50+. In such a close game, this miss is very important. However, if you take a look at the order of events here, in the fourth quarter, with 5 minutes left in the game, OCO was up by only 6 points (26-20). While running out the clock, the OCO offense stalls and they have to call upon their kicker to put them up by 2 scores, and make this game way harder for Austin to come back from. It’s a classic scenario that’s very common in the NFL too. Eliot Bukowski takes the field and drives a 52 yard field goal right down the middle. This kick put the Otters up by 9 points, and when Austin drove down the field to score a touchdown with a minute left in the game, it didn’t matter. OCO won 29-27, but would have lost this game without the leg of the deserved pro bowl kicker, Eliot Bukowski.

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[FireworkFuse]

10. Finally my time has come to take control and turn this league around once and for all! No, but in all seriousness I do have a couple of things about the league that I would like to fix, some more possible than others. For starters, I would like to do the impossible and get the ISFL onto the app store. I feel like an app not only makes the league more accessible to existing members, but would open the door to more potential users finding us and giving the league a chance. The forum format can feel overwhelming to people who are less familiar to them and possibly scare away new members of the community. I joined this league with a friend of mine and while he also was very busy IRL during his introduction to the league, the forum format made the league seem more complicated than it actually is. To him, it seemed difficult to get all of your weekly tasks done in a timely manner, while a seasoned vet might get their weekly tasks and update done in less than ten minuets. Any way we can simplify the user experience, like how we combined roster and update pages, makes the league more accessible for new members. Another policy I would enact is that graders should be paid more per item they grade. Currently the system is such that even grading over 100 items during the season is not enough to pay for T6 equipment and weekly training. While I'm not asking for graders to make enough money in one season to be able to not have to work again in the league, I certainly feel like grading 100+ items should be enough to pay for my upcoming season necessities. Let's bridge the gap slightly between the graders and the graphics themselves.

13. I'd like to talk about a player on the Cape Town Crash for a moment and how they made some big improvements from two seasons ago to last season and how their hard work both on and off the field is getting us ready to win our next Ultimus. The Negs stat I want to draw attention to is interceptions, this is something I've previously written about but now we get to see the final results of season 43. In season 41 when the Crash won the Ultimus, Negs had only 6 interceptions. Season 42, Negs tripled the number of interceptions with 18, which along with other factors, led to the Crash not being able to seal the deal on back to back Ultimus wins. Negs ended season 43 at 12 interceptions on the season, a third less than last season but double the amount he had in season 41 when we won the Ultimus. I've been tracking the interceptions because it feels like an easy litmus test for the Crash offense to see if we are back on the path to the Ultimus again but it's not the only Negs stat worth taking a look at. Let's take a look at touchdowns for a moment. In season 41, Negs had 25 touchdowns to go alongside those 6 INTS, a fantastic TD/INT ratio. In season 42, Negs had a whopping 34 TDs to go alongside the much increased 18 INTs. This is leading me to believe that it's possible that less is more when it comes to Negs' performance on the field. You would think that throwing an additional 9 TDs would outweigh the negatives of throwing three times as many INTs, however it seems the turnovers themselves just gave our opponents too many opportunities to put points of their own on the board. Last season we saw more of a happy medium between the TDs and INTs with 29 TDs and 12 INTs. Next season my target for Negs is 30 TDs and 10 INTs. I believe a stat line somewhere around here will give us the opportunity to be Ultimus champs once again.

[CementHands]

16. Well this was a dose of reality season for the Turtles - Raphael especially really feeling the strong pull from lady time. For the first time since joining Arizona he's out of the spotlight, not viewed as one of the top Defensive Tackles in the league anymore.The team also struggled, where it was unsure if they could even make the playoffs this season until right at the end, the last game of the season to clinch. And then losing out right away, the Outlaws did not make it to the finals, what a sad day for the league!
As far as production, more continued sliding in the stats, probably less of an emphasis on Raph in that position over others and the time is coming near. This will be Raphael's last season as an Outlaw. Still to be determined if that strictly means retirement, or if it is the beginning to another stage of his football journey. Maybe another team, or even an old familiar team has the space and would be willing to pay for a very old former star. It seems to work well for reunion tours of bands where the members are in their 60s, so why not here?
Looking purely at stats, the important thing to remember here is going to be that even in his waning days in Arizona, his numbers are trouncing what was put up before. It would not be going out on top, but the idea to move and put up maybe 1 sack makes any kind of career goals tough. Obviously it would be amazing to be able to contribute a career total of 100 + sacks, but there looks to simply just not be enough time for that to happen. This season he is going to be very happy if he can clip the 5 sack marker, and stay healthy, win the Ultimus one more time to go out on top.

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23. My thoughts on the engine are that it is honestly pretty good. The little dots moving around although are quite simplistic, and at times do some very strange looking things, I like to compare to the other "big 3", and SHL for example has been doing a lot of upgrades and "better" graphics - and their player icons still act very oddly, and sometimes it's more pronounced because they have tried to carve out a full sim for it. PBE is still probably the best, but I don't watch it except for the occasional playoff series that I make it into. As far as excitement goes, it seems like game-breaking plays - massive throw field clearing plays, or runs that go for 90 yards don't exist - the defence seems to be faster and able to catch up, but this also seems not as prevalent as it used to be either. Finally I'd turn injuries on. Maybe tweak them so they don't exist forever, but it would be another stat people could pump tpe into (prevent injury), and it mixes things up. Think of playing a fierce rival and their star RB is out for 2 games with a sore pinky toe. The backups would get reps!

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The Ultimus of Season 43 ended with the two top teams, who had been dominant all year facing off in a highly anticipated matchup. The Baltimore Hawks and the New York Silverbacks were very clearly 2 of the top 3 teams that separated themselves from the middle brawl this season, along with the Cape Town Crash, so it surprised absolutely no one to see them face off in the finals. Perhaps what was surprising was the 16-10 final score and the fact that after a first playoff round featuring shootouts and blowouts that defense dominated for the Semifinals and the Ultimus. These were the two most high flying offenses and the second and third best defenses. In fact this game was 10-0 going into the fourth where they both finally seemed to have had enough and broke out for 16 points in that last half. Both teams only combined for 30 first downs and under 550 yards of total offense. The Hawks didn't convert on a single third down all game in 10 tries and held the ball for 11 minutes less than the Silverbacks. The Silverbacks turned the ball over twice, missed two field goals that would have tied the game and sent it to OT and had their QB sacked 7 times.

The Baltimore path to the championship game was definitely a more daunting task than the Silverbacks as they had the other team that truly separated themselves from the pack in the CTC in their conference as well as having to face a sneaky Berlin team that had sent home Cape Town and Baltimore the year before to reach the Ultimus themselves. The Baltimore offense is incredibly dangerous and centered around the most dangerous running back in the sport arguably with over 2000 yards from scrimmage and leading the Hawks in both Rushing and Recieving, Kumquat Archipelago. On the whole they are more of a run centered team, but their passing offense is deadly as well as Preston Beatz had the highest QB, most Touchdowns, and second fewest interceptions in the league despite only taking the 7th most attempts. That offense saw them blow the doors off of a Berlin team they lost to the year before, in the first round, 51-20. They threw it early and often and Beatz was incredible in this game throwing for close to 350 yards and throwing 4 TDs without a pick. The semifinals game was much closer as CTC went into the half with a 17-13 lead and Baltimores struggles on 3rd down that would appear again in the Ultimus reared their ugly head as they were only 1/14 on third downs in this game. CTC managed to completely remove the rushing part of the game from their game plan and prevent the big plays that sunk Berlin. They managed to get a game winning field goal in the waning seconds of the game to win 19-17, as their defense held steady in the second half.

Much like the Baltimore Hawks the star of the Silverbacks season was their Running Back, Michaelangelo McTurtle, who went for over 1900 yards and scored 18 touchdowns. Unlike Baltimore though they doubled down on the running back position relying on a second 1000 yard rusher in the backfield in Frank Dux who also went for just under 1700 yards with 14 touchdowns of his own. New York is a team that wants to run the ball down your throat and then punish you on defense with devastating hits. While it's fair to say Baltimores defense was led by their secondary  and superstar linebacker Bruce Buckley Jr., the star of the show here for New York is Fat Jack who had a monstrous breakout season in his 8th year in the league and second with the Silverbacks. With 14 Sacks and 5 Forced Fumbles, he is about the last guy you want to be hit by in the league. In the first round the Silverbacks got the Copperheads in the first round. The Copperheads were a pretty average team in the regular season, and although some uncharacteristic mistakes by Falco let them stay in the game until halftime, they stuck to their plan on route to a comfortable 11 point win in the end where they controlled time of possession and were unstoppable on the ground, while racking up over 550 yards of total offense. The semis matched them up against last years champion, the Outlaws who looked to be closing out the Silverbacks before a furious fourth-quarter comeback in the last five minutes of the game. They were down 13-3 with 12 minutes left before a long drive for their first touchdown and then a pick-six on the very next play very quickly changed the atmosphere for the home crowd and they walked away into the Ultimus just barely in a tough tough loss for Arizona.

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[Brucitalis]

Task 11)

Bruce Talis grew up in a small town in Iowa. He knew of football's existence, but he really found much interest in it at first. His father is a football enjoyer but not so much that Bruce felt he was a hardcore fan. And because of the region Iowa is in for the TV market, most of the state were Chicago Butchers watchers. For a strong portion of Bruce's youth, the Butchers were a relatively bad team. There would often be times Bruce's dad would have the Butchers game on, and at random points, Bruce would pop into the room and ask (in an obviously joking manner) "are the Butchers losing yet?" It never upset Bruce's dad since he was a realist and knew the Butchers were a bad team at the time, and he would often play into the joke as well coming up with quips on how bad the team is performing.
It wasn't until Bruce reached high school that he would develop and grow in his love of football. Bruce heard about how football had X's and O's, but he didn't quite understand it. But being a smart guy, somewhere along the line, it clicked in for him. The X's and O's finally made sense, and without any coaching/teaching, Bruce was able to see play concepts from both sides of the ball between how receiver routes and run concepts worked and the differences in Cover 1 and Cover 2 defenses. The only problem was that Bruce didn't know the lingo of the game. So he ended up asking the football coach for help. Amazed with Bruce's firm knowledge of the sport, the coach asked Bruce if he would like to play for the team. Bruce never played football before, but he was already a burly guy, and Bruce knew games were decided in the trenches, so Bruce accepted the offer to join the team. Very quickly, Bruce was able to gain respect from his teammates and commanded the offensive line into becoming an unstoppable force.

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I suppose waiting until the last minute wasn't a good idea in regard to writing about my draft class.... But I will gloss over the gritty details and try and talk about what makes this draft class so special. As part of the season 44 and most recent draft class I was one of many, many draftees. This, in large part due to the advertising on reddit lead to me making immediate connections (and sworn enemies) across the league within minutes of first arriving on the rookie server. But I quickly found that there were some users, some players that were even more outgoing and talkative than even I was and I knew that I would have my fair share of competition.

With the recent ISFL draft I think it showed just how deep the class was as the presentation was ongoing. People shocked certain players were still around in the 3rd, 4th, and even 5th rounds that they thought for sure would have been taken earlier demonstrates the all-around strength of the season 44 class. As for myself, I went in the second round which was unsurprising considering I was adamant I wanted to stay a kicker. But what I was surprised about was Golden Foote, a fellow kicker, going just one spot ahead of me. AS a far more active user I was quite shocked by this pick but nonetheless he is a hard earner and a great addition to any team. 

I would be remiss not to mention how the draft class is doing at this stage in the game so here goes nothing. Having all just gone from the DSFL to being drafted in the ISFL I think we have all found our footing quite nicely given the circumstances and are quite comfortable amongst each other and the rest of the veterans in the league. Some of us picking up GM roles and mentors while others picking up various league jobs and overall making ourselves known throughout the league. However, I think this comfortableness we have all come to know has led to some complacency that has resulted in some unfortunate actions by a few high-ranking members of the season 44 class. Now I don't think anyone in the season 44 class is necessarily malicious in their intent but it is an important topic to bring up if we are to talk about the season 44 class properly just because of how prominent these figures are. With that being said the rest of us are staying strong with our normal behavior, I have no doubt Triceracop will be a great offensive lineman, or Bamford a top tier wide receiver in the near future, or even the users that slide by not talking much in discord but play a vital role earning TPE for their team. This is one of the biggest classes ever so you are bound to have the ups and downs and overall the players in this class are going to make a huge impact on the league.

I would assume the majority of us are staying down in the DSFL for another season to continue to earn and wait our turn for a chance at the big leagues but I can happily say that when this class is at it's height in a few seasons it will be the most entertaining seasons this league has ever seen. As for myself, well I'm so good that I'm heading up to the ISFL right away. So for the rest of the league, you're on notice. Watch out for the future hall of fame kicker Zenzeroni Xystarch II because I will not be making it easy for you.

[Trennik]

Task 8:
Well, I learned about this league from a post on Reddit. I play a lot of tabletop roleplaying games, and I really like professional football. Other than the NFL, in recent years I've really enjoyed the XFL 2.0, AAF, XFL 3.0 and USFL. I've enjoyed all the varied logos and uniforms, while watching teams full of players I'm not very familiar with rise and fall throughout victory and defeat.

I feel like I've gotten to experience a lot of that with the DSFL/ISFL, and it's been enjoyable in a similar fashion. So that hooked me right in like DiCaprio in Django Unchained. Then, something I didn't expect at all happened. Remember, until this point I'm here for logos and football plays - but I started meeting some awesome people on Discord! These guys were scouting me, so they didn't necessarily have to be awesome, but a lot of them were. I wouldn't have been able to stick around and understand the nuances of being in the league without them. JDC, Lt.Hudz, Tylertokesome, Orange Julius, Zodiac, TubaDeus - in fact there's so many awesome people in the league I can't name them all and I'm already over word count. I didn't see that coming at all, it wasn't part of what I was joining in my head but to be honest - It's the best part!

So, that's become a big part of the league for me, and it continues still, meeting these awesome people. For the simulation, that gets more and more comfortable as time goes on. I'm still not 100% sure what to make of it while it's going on but I enjoy seeing the results.  Also more and more, I've been noticing players on other teams, and how other teams are gaining their own identity. The more I participate, the more familiar the bigger picture outside my own team becomes!

Task 11:
As an infant, Redd Mistt was abandoned at a truck stop on Interstate 90 near the Montana and Idaho border. With nowhere else to go, he was sent to be raised on an Indigenous American reservation. There, he was known as "Mohkokin" or "NECK". Out on the plain Mohkokin was adopted by the herds of buffalo. He learned perfect tackling form by playing with young bison. It was during high school football that he was banned from any football activities due to his unrelenting desire to tackle, even during flag football and non-contact practices.

Mohkokin returned to the reservation. There, the medicine men and tribal elders trained him in inner strength and discipline through sweat lodge after sweat lodge, and with long hours of meditation. The tribal warriors trained him in endurance and patience through hunt after hunt, and long weeks camping out in the wild. The tribal grandmothers taught him to nurture, and provide for the tribe.

When he returned to football he was known as "Redd Mistt" and would be a walk-on starter at the University of Montana in Missoula for the Grizzlies. Through four seasons starting on the Grizzly Defense wearing maroon and silver Mistt racked up historic numbers of tackles and sacks, while majoring in sustainable agriculture. He was later drafted into the DSFL by the London Royals.

During college, throughout the DSFL drafting process, and through his first season Mistt has shunned modern comforts. During college, he rented a lot and set up his teepee there, where he would live and workout. Briefly while playing in San Diego, he would camp on the beach by the ocean. The town-homes and penthouses of London have been the biggest shock and change of Mohkokin's life. He yearns to be under the open sky, and will post up on a balcony when it is possible. If not, it's quite common for him to sleep on the floor with a single blanket.

[IHateBobNutting]

Task 7: There is a big lie in the ISFL. A lie that very few people know about. A lie that I've only seen being addressed by one person. That one person is TheRake. You see, the lie is the name Defensive Rookie of the Year in the award given at the end of the season. A rookie is someone who is in their first season of football after being drafted. If you don't get called up immediately, then too bad you shouldn't get a chance at rookie of the year. I was good enough to be called up my first year after being drafted. First year players should be the only players in consideration for rookie of the year. I was the rightful Defensive Rookie of the Year as I was the best player who had been drafted the year prior. Now this is only the beginning. Not only did I deserve to win Defensive Rookie of the Year but if there was an overall rookie of the year, I deserved to win that too. There were 0 offensive rookies so that is more by default than anything else but it is worth mentioning. Now if we're being honest, I don't just deserve the rookie of the year awards. A special award should be made for me. I am the greatest rookie in ISFL history. No the first 5 seasons don't count because basically everyone was a rookie at that point. Also, any season where it looks like someone statistically had a better season they didn't. If they're offensive then there's not a great way to compare and nothing they do could be enough to claim that they are definitely better. Whenever there is doubt I will give myself the advantage. When it comes to defensive players, unless they have more tackles, sacks, forced fumbles, fumble recoveries, interceptions, pass deflections, and touchdowns, then there is once again doubt and I will assume I am better. That leaves rookies that have more of every stat than me. I don't know if any rookies like that exist, but if they do, they didn't have to play on a 1-15 team. We're going to get better but I carried the team last season. Any rookie that played for a team that won more than 1 game is also worse than me. I don't think there are any rookies who have more in all of the stats I have and played for a team that lost 0 or 1 games and wasn't in the first 5 seasons but if there is, let me know and I will come up with an excuse for why my rookie season was better. I was going to stop there but then I realized that I could apply the stats argument to defensive player of the year. Not only did I have the best rookie defensive season but I had the best defensive season. While the odds of a player having more stats in every category than me while playing for a team with 1 or 0 wins is more likely than if they had to be a rookie, it's still not likely. I have come to the conclusion that my rookie season was the greatest defensive season of all time. Not only that, but because it's hard to compare offensive and defensive, my rookie season was the greatest season in the history of the league. Therefore I am on track to be the GOAT. Now many people will say that there is no way that it is possible that I believe what I have written here. They are correct I just wanted to do my offseason task and this is what I thought of.

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11. 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.

My football player got his start in the sport by playing in the peewee leagues of his local town. He started playing all of the sports, and he was a star in the soccer leagues. He played soccer for his middle school and high school. While in high school, the football coach approached him about playing for the football team. My player wasn’t sure whether he should have ventured into the world of American football, but after some pleading from the high school football coach, my player gave in and suited up. My player was put into the kicker position based on his soccer excellence. He thrived in his rookie season on the rookie team, which was against pretty new players. As a new player himself, he was taking in all that he could about American football. He eventually graduated to junior varsity. He was kicking field goals, kicking off, and kicking punts. In his sophomore year, he went from junior varsity to varsity. This was a big jump for someone so new to the sport of American football. After high school, my player was drafted to Wake Forrest university. This school put him in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the power five football conference. This meant my player was going up against eh best of the best in college football. The competition really drove my player to push himself. In his rookie season, my player put up some big surprising wins against Atlantic Coast Conference rivals. In his rookie season, he went to an important bowl game where he impressed many DSFL scouts. His ability in the bowl games led to him getting drafted by the Bondi beach Buccaneers. This was an important step in his journey to the ISFL. Following his DSFL stint with the Bondi Beach Buccaneers, my player went on to being drafted by the New Orleans Second Line. Once he was with the Second Line, he found his home. And he’s been with the Second Line since then. There’s still some time left in his career to finish his story.
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17. Going to Disney World! Who was the Ultimus or Ultimini Game MVP? Give us a rundown of their celebratory trip to Disney World. (Written Task)

We are going to Disney World to celebrate? That is the dream. Winning the ultimus is the ultimate goal of a professional football player. Getting to celebrate that however you want is what we strive for. The ideal way to celebrate is by visiting Disney World. We are going to go on all the ride, eat all the foods, and drink all the drinks. We will visit every park. We will do all of this as a team too. So when we go on a rollercoaster, it’s going to be full of our players. This is a great celebration of a championship team. It rewards all the players, from the highest earning to the lowest. When we go to Disney, it’s on the owner’s dime, and we are all equal. This is what we work hard for in the off-season. Fans will want to check out the parades at Disney so they can see their championship team strut down main street with the championship gold and title trophy.
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