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1) The league has a rich and fascinating history, and our perspectives on it differ from person to person. In 800 words or more, describe any significant non-playoffs moment in ISFL or DSFL history, whether you were around for it or not. Describe the context, the significant members, and the events. What exactly made this event so famous (or infamous) and why does it deserve to be remembered?
Gather around kids, it is time to tell you all about the curious tale of tight end Carmel Gibson. Those who are just as old and grey as I am will likely remember this tale, but to those who are not or have since forgotten said events, let me walk you through the cheekiness that happened.
The story starts on July the 9th all the way back in 2017. User 'SexualEarwax' recruited from r/CFB, creates their player. A tight end with the name Carmel Gibson. Gibson is poised to enter the Season 2 draft.
As with most rookies who join the league, a common mistake is taking TPE as a whole value at all TPE levels, instead of using the update scale. This happened here and player approver at the time 'incitehysteria' calls out Gibson on having used up 80 TPE, 30 TPE over the 50 TPE you start out with.
A few hours later SexualEarwax responds and says he updated the post with updates.
About 3 hours later their player is approved by non other than our good friend 'Noble'.
Prior to being drafted to the NSFL in the season 2 draft, Gibson claims an activity check and creates a update page. This is important. He creates a page, but does not do any claiming. Instead only posting his player build.
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(MAX: 85) - Strength: 60
(MAX: 80) - Agility: 55
(MAX: 25) - Arm: 1
(MAX: 80) - Intelligence: 60
(MAX: 25) - Throwing Accuracy: 1
(MAX: 60) - Tackling: 30
(MAX: 75) - Speed: 70
(MAX: 85) - Hands: 70
(MAX: 65) - Pass Blocking: 50
(MAX: 65) - Run Blocking: 55
MAX: 100) - Endurance: 65
(MAX: 25) - Kick Power: 1
(MAX: 25) - Kick Accuracy: 1
This is the build he posted into the thread. The keen of eye and those who are familiar with a balanced TE's attribute spread can tell that this build is significantly differnt than that of what a 50 TPE build should look like.
Gibson had posted a build which would put him at 160 TPE used. Despite making no claim, user 'Bwestfield' updates Gibson, which ends up leaving Gibson at 160 TPE in the sim.
We skip forward to the season 2 draft. Baltimore has aquired expansion team Philladelphia's 8th round pick (58th overall) and uses it to draft Carmel Gibson.
Gibson ends up being the prime TE for the Hawks as they head into season 2. Coming off a 4-10 season in the prior season they are looking to turn their luck around.
Let's take a look at how Gibson at his illegal 140 TPE did for himself.
Week 1 @ Las Vegas Legion. Final Score: BAL 10 - 16 LVL
Carmel Gibson's stats: 6 receptions, 53 yards, 8.8 AVG, 1 TD, 1 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 2 Orange County Otters. Final Score: BAL 15 -7 OCO
Carmel Gibson's stats: 5 receptions, 23 yards, 4.6 AVG, 0 TD, 1 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 3 @ San Jose Sabercats. Final Score: BAL 23 - 24 SJS
Carmel Gibson's stats: 3 receptions, 32 yards, 10.7 AVG, 0 TD, 2 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 4 @ Philadelphia Liberty. Final Score: BAL 30 - 14 PHI
Carmel Gibson's stats: 6 receptions, 53 yards, 8.8 AVG, 1 TD, 2 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 5 San Jose Sabercats. Final Score: BAL 23 - 20 SJS
Carmel Gibson's stats: 1 receptions, 5 yards, 5.0 AVG, 0 TD, 1 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 6 Las Vegas Legion. Final Score: BAL 16 - 13 LVL
Carmel Gibson's stats: 2 receptions, 10 yards, 5.0 AVG, 0 TD, 2 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 7 Yellowknife Wraiths. Final Score: BAL 37 - 19 YKW
Carmel Gibson's stats: 3 receptions, 43 yards, 14.3 AVG, 1 TD, 4 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 8 Arizona Outlaws. Final Score: BAL 13 - 10 ARI
Carmel Gibson's stats: 6 receptions, 54 yards, 9.0 AVG, 0 TD , 4 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 9 Colorado Yeti. Final Score: BAL 28 - 9 COL
Carmel Gibson's stats: 6 receptions, 55 yards, 9.2 AVG, 2 TD, 1 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 10 @ Yellowknife Wraiths. Final Score: BAL 17 - 24 YKW
Carmel Gibson's stats: 7 receptions, 68 yards, 9.7 AVG, 0 TD, 1 Pancakes, 0 SA
Week 11 @ Arizona Outlaws. Final Score: BAL 9 - 27 ARI
Carmel Gibson's stats: 7 receptions, 59 yards, 8.4 AVG, 0 TD, 2 Pancakes, 0 SA
Stats throughout 11 weeks:
Carmel Gibson's stats: 52 receptions, 455 yards, 8.8 AVG, 5 TD, 21 Pancakes, 0 SA
After week 11 stuff suddenly got suspicious. User 'Player1' creates a new entry to his 'TE Performances'. In this article he goes over Gibson stats and drops a bit of information that almost goes unnoticed throughout in the mist of the entire article. He makes notice that Carmel Gibson despite never having updated is at 160 TPE.
After this discovery rumors and scandals starting to make their way around the league. User '124715' would end up creating a whole media article dedicated to the discovery.
Highlighting every bit of information that he has dug up about what has happened to Gibson's player so far. Talking about the sketchiness of his approval, the update that happened on his update page and just the overall feeling of why this was not caught sooner.
Now an absolutely crucial fact. As we know nowadays when a user makes an update it will leave behind a small message on the post 'edited by user'. This was not always the case. Back in the day those 'edited by user' messages would not appear on edited posts. Which lead to a whole differnt situation with former mentioned user 'Noble', but thats not a story for today.
This made the argument come up that foul play might have been a part of this. Did the Baltimore Hawks intentionally try and get this player into the sim with 160 TPE? Hoping it would slip through the cracks somehow and end up benefitting them.
The situation that followed was people calling for everyone's head. They wanted the updaters head for letting this slip through, they wanted Noble's head for approving the player. They wanted the Hawk's head for playing this player and they wanted Gibson's head, for it was his head to be had.
The punishment that came forth from this was as following:
Hawks receive no punishment
Gibson was reverted to a 50 TPE build, suspended for the remainder of the season and would not be elidgible for awards and would not be allowed to claim AC's or training.
The punishment was received with overall acceptance, albeit a few people asking for compensation for the teams affected by these events. No further action upon this was taken however and the punishment would stand as it was posted.
Gibson would eventually, be released by the Hawks and they moved on from this event. Until the following scandal (ooh scandalous)
As a hawk at the time I rememebr way more harrasment against the club from this event, but going through the punishment thread and the media piece which summed up the event, I don't see much of this. So probably a misremember on my part.
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