(S24) - Ultimus Week

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Tier 3: PBE affiliate

Tier 3 - Task 25: Despite only being around the International Simulation Football League, I have been able to discover some changes that have occurred in the league that ended up changing the status quo. Now a way too obvious one would be expansion in the either the International Simulation Football League or the Developmental Simulation Football League. What I am going to be talking about is technically related to expansion and OG teams alike: REBRANDING. Much before I joined the International Simulation Football League, there was a team named the Palm Beach Solar Bears. Supposedly the whole team name and logo were stolen and they were either forced or politely asked to rebrand the team. They eventually landed on the Myrtle Beach Buccaneers. This change made branding new/expansion teams or rebranding older teams a little bit more of a creative process. You have to get creative of your team likeness. It's a made up league so you might as well have made up teams and names for places that don't actually have sports teams (or at least football teams). This whole situation, in my opinion, is a great example for any online league to create a whole new world of sports that doesn't relate or rehash what we already have in real life. And to be honest, the Myrtle Beach Buccaneers is a better name than the Palm Beach Solar Bears (even though it's a great play on words).

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Tier 2 - Task 13: Coming over from the Pro Baseball Experience, a league that I truly love, I had set a pretty high bar. So far, the International Simulation Football League has met that bar. I have seen a lot of familiar faces and have met some cool new users. I've had a lot of good conversations with users but especially the General Managers from the Developmental Simulation Football League. Now, granted it is scouting and General Managers need to be courteous and welcoming however it does not appear to be fake or forced. They truly appear to be genuine and care about their team and the health of the league that they help run. I really love how well documented the history of the league is and the whole wiki idea is really awesome. I hope I see other leagues, specifically the Pro Baseball Experience take a stab at this at some point. One thing that has also struck me so far, in a good way, are the brandings of the teams across the International Simulation Football League and the Developmental Simulation Football League. It's very diverse and honestly, I don't really see too many bad designs or names. While I'm not overly enthused with my player's start it is no fault to the team that picked me up - the Portland Pythons. I was a waiver pick up and they were making a playoff push. it is completely understandable and coming over here from the Pro Baseball Experience as a co general manager, I completely understand and would probably have done the same thing. So no ill will towards them, I'm just glad that decided to pick me up with their waiver pick and get me in a game once! As I previously mentioned, since I am being scouted for the Developmental Simulation Football League draft I have had a chance to talk to a lot of great people/scouts/General Managers. The ones that stick out to me, which ranges based off of a lengthy talk or helping me with something league related, are RESouthPaw of the Portland Pythons, Katarn22 of the London Royals, and r0tzbua of the Dallas Birddogs. In regards to league recommendations, I think overall the league does a really great job explaining things, the site is easy to navigate (which being in the Pro Baseball Experience has helped prepare me for this), and the site has a wonderful dark theme which is really great on the eyes!! I probably missed it but the only thing I think that would help me is a schedule that breaks down when weeks starts and end and an offseason schedule. Like I said, there's a very good chance I might not have found these things.

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