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?
I have chosen for this task to not cover one single event which was a cause of major drama or concern or excitement, but the single instance that is known as the Colorado Yeti.
A ISFL team that is a part of the original 6 teams, never have a seen a team be so incredibly inept at winning games on a sustainable click. Currently sitting all time at a record of 115-186 (good for a .382 win percentage, which is still worse than the normally tauned Chicago butchers) has me thinking that this has been a that has been manged terribly from day 1. Now I am not ISFL historian, as the reality of it all, is that it is my 3rd league for priorities sake after SHL and PBE, but from looking at the history pages lets see what we can find as to WHY the Yeti have been so bad for so long.
Before we dive into it all I think it's also important to have a look at their playoff record as they sit all time at 6-9 (.400). Why would we have a look at this first, well lets dive a bit deeper. The main thing that should be looked at here is how many championships the yeti currently have. One. Compared to the rest of the Original six teams? Well they actually aren't doing terrible, as San Jose (1) - Yellowknife (1) are in the same boat as the yeti when it comes to end of season successes. The regular season is a bit of a different story, but to have a title under their belt is at least a small bonus to their terrible regular season showings. Their title was recent so after season of sheer terrible, they look to be on the up swing, but we aren't here to talk about that. What could be fun as a comparison for the Yeti could be the Buffalo Bills of the ISFL in the Wraiths who went to 4 Finals in a row, just to lose all 4 (to 3 separate teams no less). Glass half full mentality, at least when the Yeti makes the playoffs they tend to do a little more with it than the Wraiths do.
Unfortunately for me, there isn't a nice clean list that explains all the bad that was the yeti's Regular season performances as their wiki page is only updated to season 2025, but even before I start to manually search out some answers over the last few seasons, it's pretty clear a big chunk of their record is the way it is. The combine Yeti record from 2018-2022 (5 seasons) was 6-64. They literally won 8.5% of their games in a 5 season span. Dear lord. Looking at 2026+ the yeti had a nice run of things until about Season 14 where they dipped below the winning side of things again. From S14 to S18?
4-10
2-12
1-12
5-8
5-8
17-50.
I think the answers for why the Yeti look so bad as a franchise history wise can be summed up in these two stretches. So just a total of 10 seasons yielded the Yeti a record of 23-114. Now take those 10 season and match it up against Orange county? The Otters still have another 19 games to lose to even match this 10 season spread posted by the Yeti's. What makes things worse is that the Yeti's have yet to post many seasons with more than 8 wins making the gap close on this close very slowly. The Wraiths who we took a poke at earlier? 124 losses to their names. The Yeti were beyond awful for these stretches.
Why were they so bad? Well I can't answer that question as again I am not truly up to date with the way the leagues history has played out with maybe some prima donna players wanting things, or GM's being just awful, but something kept churning out the bad. In my experience across sim leagues I am going to guess it was more than likely the GM issue, especially for the first dumpster fire we say in the early seasons.
I am always truly amazed at teams history when it comes to those 1-2 teams in sim leagues which seem to just cling to the bad and consistently churn out terrible results but the personnel are willing to allow it to keep happening. There is a particular GM who has control of teams at varying points in all the different leagues histories who continually churns out mediocre product, but he just keeps at it.
As a final thought, to give an idea how long it will take the Yeti to reach close to .500 for their all time team record. The team would at a minimum have to post at least 19 seasons with a 10-4 record just to reach as close to even as possible. Yikes. (820 words)
I have chosen for this task to not cover one single event which was a cause of major drama or concern or excitement, but the single instance that is known as the Colorado Yeti.
A ISFL team that is a part of the original 6 teams, never have a seen a team be so incredibly inept at winning games on a sustainable click. Currently sitting all time at a record of 115-186 (good for a .382 win percentage, which is still worse than the normally tauned Chicago butchers) has me thinking that this has been a that has been manged terribly from day 1. Now I am not ISFL historian, as the reality of it all, is that it is my 3rd league for priorities sake after SHL and PBE, but from looking at the history pages lets see what we can find as to WHY the Yeti have been so bad for so long.
Before we dive into it all I think it's also important to have a look at their playoff record as they sit all time at 6-9 (.400). Why would we have a look at this first, well lets dive a bit deeper. The main thing that should be looked at here is how many championships the yeti currently have. One. Compared to the rest of the Original six teams? Well they actually aren't doing terrible, as San Jose (1) - Yellowknife (1) are in the same boat as the yeti when it comes to end of season successes. The regular season is a bit of a different story, but to have a title under their belt is at least a small bonus to their terrible regular season showings. Their title was recent so after season of sheer terrible, they look to be on the up swing, but we aren't here to talk about that. What could be fun as a comparison for the Yeti could be the Buffalo Bills of the ISFL in the Wraiths who went to 4 Finals in a row, just to lose all 4 (to 3 separate teams no less). Glass half full mentality, at least when the Yeti makes the playoffs they tend to do a little more with it than the Wraiths do.
Unfortunately for me, there isn't a nice clean list that explains all the bad that was the yeti's Regular season performances as their wiki page is only updated to season 2025, but even before I start to manually search out some answers over the last few seasons, it's pretty clear a big chunk of their record is the way it is. The combine Yeti record from 2018-2022 (5 seasons) was 6-64. They literally won 8.5% of their games in a 5 season span. Dear lord. Looking at 2026+ the yeti had a nice run of things until about Season 14 where they dipped below the winning side of things again. From S14 to S18?
4-10
2-12
1-12
5-8
5-8
17-50.
I think the answers for why the Yeti look so bad as a franchise history wise can be summed up in these two stretches. So just a total of 10 seasons yielded the Yeti a record of 23-114. Now take those 10 season and match it up against Orange county? The Otters still have another 19 games to lose to even match this 10 season spread posted by the Yeti's. What makes things worse is that the Yeti's have yet to post many seasons with more than 8 wins making the gap close on this close very slowly. The Wraiths who we took a poke at earlier? 124 losses to their names. The Yeti were beyond awful for these stretches.
Why were they so bad? Well I can't answer that question as again I am not truly up to date with the way the leagues history has played out with maybe some prima donna players wanting things, or GM's being just awful, but something kept churning out the bad. In my experience across sim leagues I am going to guess it was more than likely the GM issue, especially for the first dumpster fire we say in the early seasons.
I am always truly amazed at teams history when it comes to those 1-2 teams in sim leagues which seem to just cling to the bad and consistently churn out terrible results but the personnel are willing to allow it to keep happening. There is a particular GM who has control of teams at varying points in all the different leagues histories who continually churns out mediocre product, but he just keeps at it.
As a final thought, to give an idea how long it will take the Yeti to reach close to .500 for their all time team record. The team would at a minimum have to post at least 19 seasons with a 10-4 record just to reach as close to even as possible. Yikes. (820 words)
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