Suffice to say that this entire league has given me Hope. I only joined a few months ago, as part of the massive S25 class, but 2020 took a massive dump on my life, as it did with a lot of other people, and the ISFL provided an escape. I could put the troubles of this world behind me, watch dots on screen do things that would hopefully make my team and player do well. I’ve been able to make some great friends in my locker room, and when I go up to the ISFL I hope those things will continue, hopefully with less of the world burning down around me both figuratively and literally.
This league has also helped push me back into writing again. I have lots of thoughts that I think are important, but it’s always been a struggle for me to put them down on the page, whether by typing or by physically putting pen to paper. In this league I created a bit of a series talking about all the prospects in the league as they join, albeit one that might end because I’m getting back from vacation in a few days and I’m not sure I’ll have time to write up on the new prospects, but I also was able to talk about my player’s journey to the pros and about some fun things that happened with the sim. (Unfortunately, the vacation prevented me from making a timely media post that was just me laughing at the Yeti for getting upset by the Sabercats 2 years in a row) Finally, what I see in 25 seasons is something that’s been a long time coming: a changing of the sim. I’m actually expecting it to happen before season 30. Either a new game will come out, or people are going to change the archetypes, or someone’s going to figure out how to code their strategy so that they can actually kick from inside their kicker’s range in situations other than the end of the half. All I can say is, it'll be long past time that a change is made, considering the sim has gotten on my nerves within a couple months, so I can't imagine how it feels to people who have had to deal with it for a couple years. Or even for the Yeti who just lost back to back to a supposedly far inferior team.
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This league has also helped push me back into writing again. I have lots of thoughts that I think are important, but it’s always been a struggle for me to put them down on the page, whether by typing or by physically putting pen to paper. In this league I created a bit of a series talking about all the prospects in the league as they join, albeit one that might end because I’m getting back from vacation in a few days and I’m not sure I’ll have time to write up on the new prospects, but I also was able to talk about my player’s journey to the pros and about some fun things that happened with the sim. (Unfortunately, the vacation prevented me from making a timely media post that was just me laughing at the Yeti for getting upset by the Sabercats 2 years in a row) Finally, what I see in 25 seasons is something that’s been a long time coming: a changing of the sim. I’m actually expecting it to happen before season 30. Either a new game will come out, or people are going to change the archetypes, or someone’s going to figure out how to code their strategy so that they can actually kick from inside their kicker’s range in situations other than the end of the half. All I can say is, it'll be long past time that a change is made, considering the sim has gotten on my nerves within a couple months, so I can't imagine how it feels to people who have had to deal with it for a couple years. Or even for the Yeti who just lost back to back to a supposedly far inferior team.
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