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Sarasota has the potential to be a future contender, but it’s going to take at least a couple more seasons to get there. The team is very young with a large core of S22 players and S23 making up the next biggest group of players. It’s going to be tough to reach the post season with the last two Ultimus winners, Yellowknife and Colorado in the division still looking strong. There is also Baltimore and Philadelphia who are on a similar timeline as us but approximately a season older. All the games between Sarasota, Baltimore and Philadelphia next season will be extremely important as that could easily decide who makes the 3rd seed in NSFC. However, Philadelphia had the only positive point differential of these three teams, and by a decent margin. I think it will be very tough for Sarasota to crack a top three spot in the conference next season so we need to focus on growing.
My information might be a tad outdated but I did a budget projection when I got drafted last season. The reason my hopes aren’t too high is the team will be mostly the same as this season with a small change. I think we’re not re-signing a player whose contract expires and Chris Ramos will be called up to take their place. This is mostly a lateral move and small TPE downgrade. Another important note is our new quarterback, Dexter Banks has now entered regression and there’s no one to replace him. I expect we’ll be taking a QB in round 2 or 3. I can’t find a full list of the draft order so I’m not exactly sure how many picks we have. As I mentioned earlier, our team is young and we’ll get stronger this season but Baltimore and Philadelphia will improve by roughly the same. My realistic expectations would be to finish 4th or 5th again in the NSFC.
To some positivity to this I think only looking at next season is short sighted. I think here in ISFL regression comes a lot quicker and Yellowknife is starting to be hit by it, Colorado will probably be feeling it too in a couple seasons. As long as Sarasota players can keep earning and stick around we might see a few seasons in a row where the NSFC playoff teams are Sarasota, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The next offseason will be interesting for our team as a large amount of contracts are expiring. I hope that we can manage cap well and it would be nice to be a place free agents want to sign.
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I don’t generally follow drama, but this particular scandal, if you can call it that happened as I joined the league and involved two people I know fairly well. Let’s paint a picture here. There is a player who has 57 TPE and has been inactive for a long time. 57 TPE means this player has only done a single activity check and training and nothing else. 57 TPE is barely useful for a DSFL team, nevermind an ISFL team. I bet there’s a ton of unsigned IAs that could easily take the place of this player. That’s not really the point of this though. So this person’s friend managed to convince them to come back and try the league again after having been IA for a couple seasons now. I’m sure everyone’s first instinct would be that they just picked up where they left off with their previous player who is about 3 seasons old with a single activity check and training, right? I’m just kidding, of course any reasonable person would assume they recreate since they’ve missed out on about 600 or so possible TPE for their career in a league with harsh regression. HO didn’t think this way though, they supposedly thought the person should continue on with their player and it was hurting the team they’re on if they retire. This sounds pretty deluded to me. It seems very counterproductive from an activity point of view to be upset at this person recreating. They’re halfway to regression with 57 TPE, that’s absurd.
The drama that arose from this scenario is the friend of the 57 TPE player was charged with tampering. For anyone not familiar with this scenario, the culprit was jeffie43. He had been appointed CoGM of Myrtle Beach merely a couple days before this happened and was stripped of his job and the ability to GM for a few seasons. All for what? Brining an active player back into the league at the cost of his 57 TPE corpse? The ex-57 TPE player, now known as Garfield Despacito Jr. has said that HO or the appeals team never even questioned him whether or not he was actually “tampered” and pushed through the sentence on jeffie like some dirty cops in America. This was a horrible time for both parties involved and anyone who speaks to them on the regular knows there was nothing here. There were no permanent changes I can think of from this. I do mention every now and then, that with the criteria from this I was essentially tampered into creating. I truly hope something like this never happens again and wouldn’t wish a “tampering” charge on even my worst enemy.
Sarasota has the potential to be a future contender, but it’s going to take at least a couple more seasons to get there. The team is very young with a large core of S22 players and S23 making up the next biggest group of players. It’s going to be tough to reach the post season with the last two Ultimus winners, Yellowknife and Colorado in the division still looking strong. There is also Baltimore and Philadelphia who are on a similar timeline as us but approximately a season older. All the games between Sarasota, Baltimore and Philadelphia next season will be extremely important as that could easily decide who makes the 3rd seed in NSFC. However, Philadelphia had the only positive point differential of these three teams, and by a decent margin. I think it will be very tough for Sarasota to crack a top three spot in the conference next season so we need to focus on growing.
My information might be a tad outdated but I did a budget projection when I got drafted last season. The reason my hopes aren’t too high is the team will be mostly the same as this season with a small change. I think we’re not re-signing a player whose contract expires and Chris Ramos will be called up to take their place. This is mostly a lateral move and small TPE downgrade. Another important note is our new quarterback, Dexter Banks has now entered regression and there’s no one to replace him. I expect we’ll be taking a QB in round 2 or 3. I can’t find a full list of the draft order so I’m not exactly sure how many picks we have. As I mentioned earlier, our team is young and we’ll get stronger this season but Baltimore and Philadelphia will improve by roughly the same. My realistic expectations would be to finish 4th or 5th again in the NSFC.
To some positivity to this I think only looking at next season is short sighted. I think here in ISFL regression comes a lot quicker and Yellowknife is starting to be hit by it, Colorado will probably be feeling it too in a couple seasons. As long as Sarasota players can keep earning and stick around we might see a few seasons in a row where the NSFC playoff teams are Sarasota, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The next offseason will be interesting for our team as a large amount of contracts are expiring. I hope that we can manage cap well and it would be nice to be a place free agents want to sign.
11)
I don’t generally follow drama, but this particular scandal, if you can call it that happened as I joined the league and involved two people I know fairly well. Let’s paint a picture here. There is a player who has 57 TPE and has been inactive for a long time. 57 TPE means this player has only done a single activity check and training and nothing else. 57 TPE is barely useful for a DSFL team, nevermind an ISFL team. I bet there’s a ton of unsigned IAs that could easily take the place of this player. That’s not really the point of this though. So this person’s friend managed to convince them to come back and try the league again after having been IA for a couple seasons now. I’m sure everyone’s first instinct would be that they just picked up where they left off with their previous player who is about 3 seasons old with a single activity check and training, right? I’m just kidding, of course any reasonable person would assume they recreate since they’ve missed out on about 600 or so possible TPE for their career in a league with harsh regression. HO didn’t think this way though, they supposedly thought the person should continue on with their player and it was hurting the team they’re on if they retire. This sounds pretty deluded to me. It seems very counterproductive from an activity point of view to be upset at this person recreating. They’re halfway to regression with 57 TPE, that’s absurd.
The drama that arose from this scenario is the friend of the 57 TPE player was charged with tampering. For anyone not familiar with this scenario, the culprit was jeffie43. He had been appointed CoGM of Myrtle Beach merely a couple days before this happened and was stripped of his job and the ability to GM for a few seasons. All for what? Brining an active player back into the league at the cost of his 57 TPE corpse? The ex-57 TPE player, now known as Garfield Despacito Jr. has said that HO or the appeals team never even questioned him whether or not he was actually “tampered” and pushed through the sentence on jeffie like some dirty cops in America. This was a horrible time for both parties involved and anyone who speaks to them on the regular knows there was nothing here. There were no permanent changes I can think of from this. I do mention every now and then, that with the criteria from this I was essentially tampered into creating. I truly hope something like this never happens again and wouldn’t wish a “tampering” charge on even my worst enemy.