07-21-2020, 04:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-21-2020, 04:26 PM by Opera_Phantom.)
8) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
The Arizona Outlaws have been, as it is probably well known by everyone who has spent some time on this league, rebuilding for a while. It has been a tough time for sure, missing the playoffs for some seasons now, with some awful 3 win ones, but also missing a couple by 1 win or on the tie-breaker. While the plan was to go all in next season, it is very demoralizing for a locker room to miss on the postseason in such a manner. For example, we lost to Chicago this season, credit to them obviously, but they were the team that ended the season with the worst record, with only 3 wins. We know we have a better team than them, and yet we lost. Had we won, we would have played in the wildcard round last night against the New Orleans Secondline.
But the team is definitely growing. The roster is filled with active players, that update every week. My player Jay Cue is going to be the best player in the league next season, the last one before regression, so it is prime time to go up the table in search of the Ultimus we last won in season 16.
We might lose a couple of players to free agency, but if i am being honest, i think we got that covered. I would rather keep everyone in the team, now that we are competitive, but no hard feelings if players want to leave. But, like i already told some of my teammates, if you leave now, do not come begging for the Ultimus ring we are going to get.
Our defense is stacked with young promising players, not even maxed out yet, and we have a lot of draft capital again this off-season, that we will use to address the few needs the team still has. We might even start to look for the distant future, as we are going to have 2 players, only 2, starting regression.
The future has been bright for the Outlaws for a while now, but this next season is really do or die time. Best QB in the league, great offensive weapons (even if Baby Yoda decides to leave in free agency), great and active Offensive Line to protect the QB, very good secondary as well... Other teams are also improving, but if we look into the details, i really feel our time is coming next season. Let us hope the sim cooperates.
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24) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
While some rule changes/introductions might shake up the league, i think that nothing creates shockwaves as big as the ones created by expansion teams. If we look at the process, even before they are created, the GM/Co-GM applications for new teams are incredible. I have been fortunate enough to be on HO when the Sarasota Sailfish and the Honolulu Hahalua were selected, and i have to say that it was a fascinating process. The amount of great users that wanted to be a part of that, shows how much this league has grown. Then, to add to that, the expansion draft. Every single team needs to select the players they want to protect, possibly leaving some great locker room presences out of those slots because they want to protect younger players that can guarantee they remain competitive for longer, because they will be at the top of their ability right on the team's Ultimus push.
Players get upset if not protected, others want to leave because they want to experience the start of an expansion team and General Managers pull their hair and have sleepless nights trying to decide who to protect.
And while i know that the Arizona Outlaws are going to be the biggest losers when the next expansion comes, i can't wait for it.
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25) Select any player who was drafted in the back half of a DSFL or ISFL draft. Show how that player has outperformed their draft position, or how they will soon do so. You cannot write about your own player.
Through the years we have seen some players rise in the league after being drafted way below their ability. Just look at David Rector, that was drafted in the 3rd round and is now one of the best corners in the game. But Rector was not the most active player on discord, so that probably made him fly under the radar... But what if there is a player that was probably the most active, earned neck and neck with the best and still managed to fall to the 54th pick in the draft? Arizona's own Zamir Kehla @retrospace111, the infamous cornerback, scared every single General Manager in the league, fearing he could destroy their locker room mojo with his trash talk, this all around home wrecker is having incredible seasons, disrupting not only plays on the field, but fans hearts.
Touted and probably the favorite for the Defensive Player of the Year Award, Zamir has shown he is also a fantastic teammate, becoming a big part of the locker romm and the war room of the team. Highly active, after a couple of days on the team he was already the steal of the draft, but after seeing him on the field, there is no doubt that he should have been picked in the first round. And even with that, he would have been an incredible steal in the draft.
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The Arizona Outlaws have been, as it is probably well known by everyone who has spent some time on this league, rebuilding for a while. It has been a tough time for sure, missing the playoffs for some seasons now, with some awful 3 win ones, but also missing a couple by 1 win or on the tie-breaker. While the plan was to go all in next season, it is very demoralizing for a locker room to miss on the postseason in such a manner. For example, we lost to Chicago this season, credit to them obviously, but they were the team that ended the season with the worst record, with only 3 wins. We know we have a better team than them, and yet we lost. Had we won, we would have played in the wildcard round last night against the New Orleans Secondline.
But the team is definitely growing. The roster is filled with active players, that update every week. My player Jay Cue is going to be the best player in the league next season, the last one before regression, so it is prime time to go up the table in search of the Ultimus we last won in season 16.
We might lose a couple of players to free agency, but if i am being honest, i think we got that covered. I would rather keep everyone in the team, now that we are competitive, but no hard feelings if players want to leave. But, like i already told some of my teammates, if you leave now, do not come begging for the Ultimus ring we are going to get.
Our defense is stacked with young promising players, not even maxed out yet, and we have a lot of draft capital again this off-season, that we will use to address the few needs the team still has. We might even start to look for the distant future, as we are going to have 2 players, only 2, starting regression.
The future has been bright for the Outlaws for a while now, but this next season is really do or die time. Best QB in the league, great offensive weapons (even if Baby Yoda decides to leave in free agency), great and active Offensive Line to protect the QB, very good secondary as well... Other teams are also improving, but if we look into the details, i really feel our time is coming next season. Let us hope the sim cooperates.
(413 words)
24) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
While some rule changes/introductions might shake up the league, i think that nothing creates shockwaves as big as the ones created by expansion teams. If we look at the process, even before they are created, the GM/Co-GM applications for new teams are incredible. I have been fortunate enough to be on HO when the Sarasota Sailfish and the Honolulu Hahalua were selected, and i have to say that it was a fascinating process. The amount of great users that wanted to be a part of that, shows how much this league has grown. Then, to add to that, the expansion draft. Every single team needs to select the players they want to protect, possibly leaving some great locker room presences out of those slots because they want to protect younger players that can guarantee they remain competitive for longer, because they will be at the top of their ability right on the team's Ultimus push.
Players get upset if not protected, others want to leave because they want to experience the start of an expansion team and General Managers pull their hair and have sleepless nights trying to decide who to protect.
And while i know that the Arizona Outlaws are going to be the biggest losers when the next expansion comes, i can't wait for it.
(219 words)
25) Select any player who was drafted in the back half of a DSFL or ISFL draft. Show how that player has outperformed their draft position, or how they will soon do so. You cannot write about your own player.
Through the years we have seen some players rise in the league after being drafted way below their ability. Just look at David Rector, that was drafted in the 3rd round and is now one of the best corners in the game. But Rector was not the most active player on discord, so that probably made him fly under the radar... But what if there is a player that was probably the most active, earned neck and neck with the best and still managed to fall to the 54th pick in the draft? Arizona's own Zamir Kehla @
Touted and probably the favorite for the Defensive Player of the Year Award, Zamir has shown he is also a fantastic teammate, becoming a big part of the locker romm and the war room of the team. Highly active, after a couple of days on the team he was already the steal of the draft, but after seeing him on the field, there is no doubt that he should have been picked in the first round. And even with that, he would have been an incredible steal in the draft.
(229 words)