11) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, your locker room, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
This league has been a lot of fun to be a part of for the past 8 months (holy cow, it’s been 8 months). While I first joined as a way to just spend time in the boredom of quarantine and my job having ended for the year … I grew to really love the people that I had started to spend time with. I used this league as an outlet for creativity, which was just enjoyable and fun, but as I spent more and more time in the league and in the locker rooms, I realized that was the big reason why I stayed. A few of my favorite pieces are the rookie mentor team, and the Yeti all together. Over the past few seasons the Rookie Mentor team has flourished and become a tight knit group. We’re able to help one another out, we take care of each other, and we work hard to make sure that rookie chat is the place that users want to be. We’ve added pieces there to make it more enjoyable and to just engage with the community.
The Yeti, on the other hand, are truly my favorite people and is my favorite place in this league. From the minute I joined their locker room as a prospect ages ago, I had wondered about this team. They were quite the team filled with big personalities, lots of caring individuals, and a great sense of humor to be had. I wanted nothing more than to be a part of the team, and after the draft, I was. Since then, I’ve worked to try and love and build with my Yeti family every day. We play games together, minecraft, Valheim, league of legends and more. We chill in voice chat regularly, whether we’re gaming or just talking and watching the sims together. The Yeti are truly my family now, and I would do anything for them. Game days come with me wearing my Yeti Jersey. Draft talks and scouting notes are filled with users we just love for who they are. Every one of us came to the Yeti with goals for our players, but so many of us love the team that we will just shuffle around to make it fit. We want to get people that we love, and we’re willing to make personal sacrifices to make it happen.
Locker rooms in this league are incredibly special, and being able to find the one that I found home has held such a special place in my life. I didn’t expect to wind up as the GM, I didn’t expect to fall in love with the team the way I did, but I couldn’t be more thankful to continue building the locker room which Infinite, Woelkers, Frick, Syl, and TVC developed into one where people want to be.
15) Write about another sim league you are in and which parts of it you enjoy. If you are only in the ISFL, write about your ideas for a sim league with another sport.
The only other simulation league which I am a part of is the Super Casual Simulation Football League. This simulation league is run off of Axis Football, and while the streams are really nice in terms of the sim quality (it’s much more like watching football verses our adorable dots), it is an interesting league. The first big difference from the ISFL and this league is the fact that there’s really nothing else you need to do except log in for 5 minutes once a week. You don’t have to do any point tasks, you don’t need to earn any money, you sign on, do an activity check through a Google Form, and that’s it. There is no claiming of the TPE that needs to happen, it is all automated through Google Sheets. The second thing that makes this league so interesting is that your contract pay is not money, but instead, straight TPE. This means that a greedy player can make himself incredibly good, but can hamper the rest of the team by a lot because of his gaining lots of TPE. There is still a cap, after all, and since the cap directly relates to the ability of teams to have TPE for their players, it matters. The second piece that is interesting is there are no caps for stats, every stat for every archetype starts at 55, and you use the TPE scale to upgrade them. There are stats more relevant than others, but you’re able to get to 99 and max out the stats for your player. This means that players with lots of TPE can definitely have an edge on other players. If you have a bad team who is offering horrible contracts, it can totally hamper the team, especially if that high earning player - the one who has so much TPE now that they’re ahead of the pack, then leaves your team in Free Agency. They’ve suddenly become a monster after only one season, but are able to turn and use all of that TPE to help teams who may not have a lot of cap space. They don’t need a ton of TPE to improve at this point, and so they are willing to take a minimum contract, which means that they’re able to pay some of the rookies higher TPE. Everyone comes up to speed at the same time and the team is almost always able to be competitive. While the league is a lot of fun, there are definitely some clear biases against the good teams in the league, and as such, rules have been made (and attempted to be implemented literally during playoffs) to hamper one team in particular. It’s a weird league. I don’t know that I would stay if it wasn’t for Scorp.
This league has been a lot of fun to be a part of for the past 8 months (holy cow, it’s been 8 months). While I first joined as a way to just spend time in the boredom of quarantine and my job having ended for the year … I grew to really love the people that I had started to spend time with. I used this league as an outlet for creativity, which was just enjoyable and fun, but as I spent more and more time in the league and in the locker rooms, I realized that was the big reason why I stayed. A few of my favorite pieces are the rookie mentor team, and the Yeti all together. Over the past few seasons the Rookie Mentor team has flourished and become a tight knit group. We’re able to help one another out, we take care of each other, and we work hard to make sure that rookie chat is the place that users want to be. We’ve added pieces there to make it more enjoyable and to just engage with the community.
The Yeti, on the other hand, are truly my favorite people and is my favorite place in this league. From the minute I joined their locker room as a prospect ages ago, I had wondered about this team. They were quite the team filled with big personalities, lots of caring individuals, and a great sense of humor to be had. I wanted nothing more than to be a part of the team, and after the draft, I was. Since then, I’ve worked to try and love and build with my Yeti family every day. We play games together, minecraft, Valheim, league of legends and more. We chill in voice chat regularly, whether we’re gaming or just talking and watching the sims together. The Yeti are truly my family now, and I would do anything for them. Game days come with me wearing my Yeti Jersey. Draft talks and scouting notes are filled with users we just love for who they are. Every one of us came to the Yeti with goals for our players, but so many of us love the team that we will just shuffle around to make it fit. We want to get people that we love, and we’re willing to make personal sacrifices to make it happen.
Locker rooms in this league are incredibly special, and being able to find the one that I found home has held such a special place in my life. I didn’t expect to wind up as the GM, I didn’t expect to fall in love with the team the way I did, but I couldn’t be more thankful to continue building the locker room which Infinite, Woelkers, Frick, Syl, and TVC developed into one where people want to be.
15) Write about another sim league you are in and which parts of it you enjoy. If you are only in the ISFL, write about your ideas for a sim league with another sport.
The only other simulation league which I am a part of is the Super Casual Simulation Football League. This simulation league is run off of Axis Football, and while the streams are really nice in terms of the sim quality (it’s much more like watching football verses our adorable dots), it is an interesting league. The first big difference from the ISFL and this league is the fact that there’s really nothing else you need to do except log in for 5 minutes once a week. You don’t have to do any point tasks, you don’t need to earn any money, you sign on, do an activity check through a Google Form, and that’s it. There is no claiming of the TPE that needs to happen, it is all automated through Google Sheets. The second thing that makes this league so interesting is that your contract pay is not money, but instead, straight TPE. This means that a greedy player can make himself incredibly good, but can hamper the rest of the team by a lot because of his gaining lots of TPE. There is still a cap, after all, and since the cap directly relates to the ability of teams to have TPE for their players, it matters. The second piece that is interesting is there are no caps for stats, every stat for every archetype starts at 55, and you use the TPE scale to upgrade them. There are stats more relevant than others, but you’re able to get to 99 and max out the stats for your player. This means that players with lots of TPE can definitely have an edge on other players. If you have a bad team who is offering horrible contracts, it can totally hamper the team, especially if that high earning player - the one who has so much TPE now that they’re ahead of the pack, then leaves your team in Free Agency. They’ve suddenly become a monster after only one season, but are able to turn and use all of that TPE to help teams who may not have a lot of cap space. They don’t need a ton of TPE to improve at this point, and so they are willing to take a minimum contract, which means that they’re able to pay some of the rookies higher TPE. Everyone comes up to speed at the same time and the team is almost always able to be competitive. While the league is a lot of fun, there are definitely some clear biases against the good teams in the league, and as such, rules have been made (and attempted to be implemented literally during playoffs) to hamper one team in particular. It’s a weird league. I don’t know that I would stay if it wasn’t for Scorp.