09-14-2020, 12:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2020, 01:08 PM by deadlunatic.)
12) It’s once again expansion season in the ISFL. Reflect on the additions of the New York Silverbacks and Berlin Fire Salamanders and discuss how these teams will affect the league. How do you see scheduling or playoff seeding potentially changing? How will these teams change the power balances in their respective conferences? How do you think each team should go about building their roster, whether it’s through the expansion draft, regular draft, or many seasons down the line?
Anytime you add new teams to an established group, it will change the power balance in some way. While I do believe scheduling will be effected, I do not think it will be a drastic change. There could potentially by some playoff seeding that might bump a team that would have made it out of contention, but that could happen every year. Look at the ASFC for this season, four teams with the same record of nine and seven, one team at eight and eight and the last team at seven and nine. Is adding one team to that really going to make a difference on who makes it? Nope. The potential for close seasons in record is always going to be there.
The power balance is going to shift with every season. Maybe not a big shift, but as players leave teams to sign else where, or are traded or retire, you have teams changing every season. This year the change will be even greater with each established team losing two of their players. Depending on draft strategy for the two new teams, this could go a couple of ways. Team could end up losing two of their top up and coming earners or two established veterans either at the top of their careers or on the down hill side. For me, losing two strong earning newer players would hurt a lot more than an older veteran you would be looking to replace sooner rather than later anyways. It is much harder to redevelop new players into being top earners than to keep a proven top tier earner interested.
Draft strategies for the two new teams could go a few ways. The New York Silverbacks I will address first. I believe they will focus heavily on the most important positions to help them compete within two seasons. Going for quality earners primarily from seasons twenty one through twenty five. They will be looking for proven high end earners in the defensive backs, defensive line and will most likely try to snag an offensive lineman or two. I think the expansion draft they will try and grab some defensive players mostly, as there appears to be quite a few good earners on that side that are unprotected. I know there are a couple of line backers, defensive linemen and some defensive backs up. I think in the regular draft they will try to grab an offensive lineman, running back and wide receivers to shore up that side of the ball. In the end I think they will get a team full of young guys looking to contribute right away and have them primed to compete with in the two season window for an outside playoff spot, vying for a championship with in five seasons.
On to the Berlin Fire Salamanders. I think they will take a slightly different approach in the expansion draft and go for the best available player each time, regardless of where they are in their career. It will end up a mix of wily veterans and higher TPE youngsters, forming a ready to compete team right from the get go. They already have two great wide receivers due to their GMs, so they might draft some young guys in the draft and have one or two stay down a season or three to develop. They are in the win now mode. They are primed to make some trades as well to get players who can jump on the team and win now. Good luck with that. They might sacrifice a few years later on in order to try and compete earlier.
13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?
I saw the reddit post in /nfl and decided to give it a try as I love football. This is my first sim of any kind, so definitely a little overwhelmed at the start. There is a lot of information to take in and try to figure out. Luckily everyone is super helpful and a special thanks to dewalt for having to deal with my player update page early on, it was terrible. That being said, I love the feel overall, everyone I have had any real interactions with is helpful and seems more than happy to help out.
All of the guys in the Tijuana Luchadores locker room rock. It is a pretty chill place where everyone seems to actually like other and get along really well. We got a great group of season twenty five rookies. In no particular order we got Kotasa(rookie caption), Guitarmaster116(another rookie captain), mithrandir(GM), 209tacos(eventual 1OA), tonzy(he's all right), dewalt(we randomly like to ping him), Pau(s26), Laszlo FortyTwo(s26), Pat(baller), Swankypants(baller), tylar, Tomhanks(when he wants to argue with someone), atevate xxaoptain, SDCore, corpspegrveujde and many more. This is currently my favorite locker room and the one I am most active in, but I'm sure once I get drafted to a ISFL locker room I will spend lots of time there. But I will always come back to my Luchadores LR and hang with my boys.
My favorite early experience was the prospect bowl. Actually getting to watch my guy go out there and ball was great. He led all receivers during the prospect bowl in receptions and yards, so I may have gone into the DSFL season with slightly higher than should have been expectations. I was quickly humbled being the third receiver on a team with two amazing running backs and two amazing wide outs ahead of me. But as a rookie on an offense with so many weapons I am happy with my players actual performance. He is currently seventh in yards out of all rookie receivers and tied for second highest yards per catch average. So in theory with more volume I could easily challenge those other rookie receivers ahead of me on the list. He has even caught three touchdowns putting him tied for third among rookies. Nothing ground breaking or amazing, but a good rookie campaign showing lots of potential for next season balling out.
The draft was quite an experience as well, now had I known that it had already happened before the prospect bowl, it would have changed my expectations a lot. I also didn't realize how it worked before it happened so I did not know how much of that is based on Locker Room interactions and activity as a whole. Looking back, I can see why I was drafted so low in the DSFL season twenty five draft. But, I am happy with how it went, and I think for such a late pick I have proven myself above all other round ten draftees so far.
Overall, I think some way to maybe make it slightly less intimidating to newbies who don't have a friend getting them to join who will help them would be my main and only real suggestion. I like the system overall, except for when the sim hates me and my team, then I don't like. But that comes with the territory of any RNG based sim or game for that matter.
Anytime you add new teams to an established group, it will change the power balance in some way. While I do believe scheduling will be effected, I do not think it will be a drastic change. There could potentially by some playoff seeding that might bump a team that would have made it out of contention, but that could happen every year. Look at the ASFC for this season, four teams with the same record of nine and seven, one team at eight and eight and the last team at seven and nine. Is adding one team to that really going to make a difference on who makes it? Nope. The potential for close seasons in record is always going to be there.
The power balance is going to shift with every season. Maybe not a big shift, but as players leave teams to sign else where, or are traded or retire, you have teams changing every season. This year the change will be even greater with each established team losing two of their players. Depending on draft strategy for the two new teams, this could go a couple of ways. Team could end up losing two of their top up and coming earners or two established veterans either at the top of their careers or on the down hill side. For me, losing two strong earning newer players would hurt a lot more than an older veteran you would be looking to replace sooner rather than later anyways. It is much harder to redevelop new players into being top earners than to keep a proven top tier earner interested.
Draft strategies for the two new teams could go a few ways. The New York Silverbacks I will address first. I believe they will focus heavily on the most important positions to help them compete within two seasons. Going for quality earners primarily from seasons twenty one through twenty five. They will be looking for proven high end earners in the defensive backs, defensive line and will most likely try to snag an offensive lineman or two. I think the expansion draft they will try and grab some defensive players mostly, as there appears to be quite a few good earners on that side that are unprotected. I know there are a couple of line backers, defensive linemen and some defensive backs up. I think in the regular draft they will try to grab an offensive lineman, running back and wide receivers to shore up that side of the ball. In the end I think they will get a team full of young guys looking to contribute right away and have them primed to compete with in the two season window for an outside playoff spot, vying for a championship with in five seasons.
On to the Berlin Fire Salamanders. I think they will take a slightly different approach in the expansion draft and go for the best available player each time, regardless of where they are in their career. It will end up a mix of wily veterans and higher TPE youngsters, forming a ready to compete team right from the get go. They already have two great wide receivers due to their GMs, so they might draft some young guys in the draft and have one or two stay down a season or three to develop. They are in the win now mode. They are primed to make some trades as well to get players who can jump on the team and win now. Good luck with that. They might sacrifice a few years later on in order to try and compete earlier.
13) This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?
I saw the reddit post in /nfl and decided to give it a try as I love football. This is my first sim of any kind, so definitely a little overwhelmed at the start. There is a lot of information to take in and try to figure out. Luckily everyone is super helpful and a special thanks to dewalt for having to deal with my player update page early on, it was terrible. That being said, I love the feel overall, everyone I have had any real interactions with is helpful and seems more than happy to help out.
All of the guys in the Tijuana Luchadores locker room rock. It is a pretty chill place where everyone seems to actually like other and get along really well. We got a great group of season twenty five rookies. In no particular order we got Kotasa(rookie caption), Guitarmaster116(another rookie captain), mithrandir(GM), 209tacos(eventual 1OA), tonzy(he's all right), dewalt(we randomly like to ping him), Pau(s26), Laszlo FortyTwo(s26), Pat(baller), Swankypants(baller), tylar, Tomhanks(when he wants to argue with someone), atevate xxaoptain, SDCore, corpspegrveujde and many more. This is currently my favorite locker room and the one I am most active in, but I'm sure once I get drafted to a ISFL locker room I will spend lots of time there. But I will always come back to my Luchadores LR and hang with my boys.
My favorite early experience was the prospect bowl. Actually getting to watch my guy go out there and ball was great. He led all receivers during the prospect bowl in receptions and yards, so I may have gone into the DSFL season with slightly higher than should have been expectations. I was quickly humbled being the third receiver on a team with two amazing running backs and two amazing wide outs ahead of me. But as a rookie on an offense with so many weapons I am happy with my players actual performance. He is currently seventh in yards out of all rookie receivers and tied for second highest yards per catch average. So in theory with more volume I could easily challenge those other rookie receivers ahead of me on the list. He has even caught three touchdowns putting him tied for third among rookies. Nothing ground breaking or amazing, but a good rookie campaign showing lots of potential for next season balling out.
The draft was quite an experience as well, now had I known that it had already happened before the prospect bowl, it would have changed my expectations a lot. I also didn't realize how it worked before it happened so I did not know how much of that is based on Locker Room interactions and activity as a whole. Looking back, I can see why I was drafted so low in the DSFL season twenty five draft. But, I am happy with how it went, and I think for such a late pick I have proven myself above all other round ten draftees so far.
Overall, I think some way to maybe make it slightly less intimidating to newbies who don't have a friend getting them to join who will help them would be my main and only real suggestion. I like the system overall, except for when the sim hates me and my team, then I don't like. But that comes with the territory of any RNG based sim or game for that matter.