03-21-2020, 11:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2020, 11:42 PM by Memento Mori.)
A few things I want to say here:
1) I’d never heard of Yellowknife or Myrtle Beach prior to joining the league. I just looked up both locations to see their populations. Yellowknife is a city of less than 20,000 people in a relatively remote part of Canada. Myrtle Beach has a population of ~32,000. Neither team would get a professional football franchise if we only used realistic locations - especially Yellowknife. For what it’s worth, the Bavaria team would presumably be playing in Munich - a city with about 1.5m inhabitants with a prospering local economy that supports internationally successful sports teams like Bayern Munich.
2) London probably doesn’t get a team for similar reasons to why it hasn’t got a team in the NFL, but the way the league is structured makes a London-based DSFL team even less realistic. As they’re a developmental league franchise, they have fewer resources, their games wouldn’t be as widely televised, etc. so they’d have huge operating costs that their income would struggle to cover.
3) These unrealistic locations haven’t put people off the league. The S22 class has a lot more European users than the average class, and a lot of them, especially the ones from the UK, expressed how excited they were at the possibility of being drafted by London.
4) The Shanghai expansion bid is a joke, not a serious suggestion.
5) Shortly after I joined the league, when people were talking about expansion, I asked why people hadn’t pushed for a team in cities like New York given the teams that already exist. I’m not for or against a NY team but part of the reason why there isn’t a NY team (yet) is that a lot of people replied saying they didn’t want a NY team, there’s NY teams already, it’s been done before.
6) We play two weeks of DSFL football one after the other. Somehow the London team is flying across the globe in a few minutes in order to play their next game.
7) I don’t think it’s realism that makes sim leagues and sim games overall fun - it’s the delicate balance between realism and fantasy, which is something that’s hard to pin down. Let’s say I’m playing CSGO, and someone shoots me in the head with a pistol. I lose about 90% of my HP. I’ve got a serious head wound. If this happened in reality, there’s no way that in the state I’m in I can turn around and fire back at the guy who’s shooting me. I probably collapse on the ground and suffer a serious brain injury instead. But incorporating that into the game wouldn’t be fun. There’s good realism and there’s bad realism. I agree that it’d be weird if loads of teams were from unrealistic locations - seeing a team on every continent, or a team in places even more unsuitable than Yellowknife does sound too fantasist - but it’s ultimately an intuitive and personal thing.
1) I’d never heard of Yellowknife or Myrtle Beach prior to joining the league. I just looked up both locations to see their populations. Yellowknife is a city of less than 20,000 people in a relatively remote part of Canada. Myrtle Beach has a population of ~32,000. Neither team would get a professional football franchise if we only used realistic locations - especially Yellowknife. For what it’s worth, the Bavaria team would presumably be playing in Munich - a city with about 1.5m inhabitants with a prospering local economy that supports internationally successful sports teams like Bayern Munich.
2) London probably doesn’t get a team for similar reasons to why it hasn’t got a team in the NFL, but the way the league is structured makes a London-based DSFL team even less realistic. As they’re a developmental league franchise, they have fewer resources, their games wouldn’t be as widely televised, etc. so they’d have huge operating costs that their income would struggle to cover.
3) These unrealistic locations haven’t put people off the league. The S22 class has a lot more European users than the average class, and a lot of them, especially the ones from the UK, expressed how excited they were at the possibility of being drafted by London.
4) The Shanghai expansion bid is a joke, not a serious suggestion.
5) Shortly after I joined the league, when people were talking about expansion, I asked why people hadn’t pushed for a team in cities like New York given the teams that already exist. I’m not for or against a NY team but part of the reason why there isn’t a NY team (yet) is that a lot of people replied saying they didn’t want a NY team, there’s NY teams already, it’s been done before.
6) We play two weeks of DSFL football one after the other. Somehow the London team is flying across the globe in a few minutes in order to play their next game.
7) I don’t think it’s realism that makes sim leagues and sim games overall fun - it’s the delicate balance between realism and fantasy, which is something that’s hard to pin down. Let’s say I’m playing CSGO, and someone shoots me in the head with a pistol. I lose about 90% of my HP. I’ve got a serious head wound. If this happened in reality, there’s no way that in the state I’m in I can turn around and fire back at the guy who’s shooting me. I probably collapse on the ground and suffer a serious brain injury instead. But incorporating that into the game wouldn’t be fun. There’s good realism and there’s bad realism. I agree that it’d be weird if loads of teams were from unrealistic locations - seeing a team on every continent, or a team in places even more unsuitable than Yellowknife does sound too fantasist - but it’s ultimately an intuitive and personal thing.
[OPTION]S24 (PHI): 16 GP, 73 tackles, 1 TFL, 2 FF, 3 sacks, 5 INTs, 10 PDs, 2 TDs
[OPTION]S25 (PHI): 16 GP, 67 tackles, 4 INTs, 13 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S26 (OCO): 16 GP, 68 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sack, 2 INTs, 10 PDs
[OPTION]S27 (OCO): 16 GP, 116 tackles, 4 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S28 (OCO): 16 GP, 84 tackles, 1 FF, 1 FR, 3 INTs, 20 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S29 (OCO): 16 GP, 99 tackles, 3 FF, 1 FR, 5 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
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[OPTION]ISFL Playoff Stats:
[OPTION]S23 (PHI): 1 GP, 2 tackles
[OPTION]S26 (OCO): 1 GP, 5 tackles, 2 PDs
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[OPTION]Trophies and Achievements:
[OPTION]Drafted 35th Overall by Myrtle Beach in the S21 DSFL Draft
[OPTION]S21 Ultimini Champion
[OPTION]S21 DSFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S21 DSFL Defensive Back of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]Drafted 4th Overall by Philadelphia in the S22 ISFL Draft
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Defensive Performance of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S25 (PHI): 16 GP, 67 tackles, 4 INTs, 13 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S26 (OCO): 16 GP, 68 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sack, 2 INTs, 10 PDs
[OPTION]S27 (OCO): 16 GP, 116 tackles, 4 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S28 (OCO): 16 GP, 84 tackles, 1 FF, 1 FR, 3 INTs, 20 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S29 (OCO): 16 GP, 99 tackles, 3 FF, 1 FR, 5 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
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[OPTION]ISFL Playoff Stats:
[OPTION]S23 (PHI): 1 GP, 2 tackles
[OPTION]S26 (OCO): 1 GP, 5 tackles, 2 PDs
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[OPTION]Trophies and Achievements:
[OPTION]Drafted 35th Overall by Myrtle Beach in the S21 DSFL Draft
[OPTION]S21 Ultimini Champion
[OPTION]S21 DSFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S21 DSFL Defensive Back of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]Drafted 4th Overall by Philadelphia in the S22 ISFL Draft
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Defensive Performance of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S26 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S26 ISFL Returner of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
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[OPTION]S26 ISFL Returner of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
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