03-18-2021, 01:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2021, 01:20 PM by ThunderTitan82.)
4) “Sim gonna sim” is a popular expression in the league. Write about teams that have been graced by the sim gods and had amazing performances despite statistical odds, and/or about teams that were considered favorites but may have dealt with some bad sim luck that hampered their efforts. How much of an impact did it have on their season(s)?
There is one glaringly obvious “sim gonna sim” moment from this past season. One of the strangest scorigami games ever witnessed. It was a game between a top team and a team that could be or should be on the rise. I’m talking of course about the Butchers Vs Fire Salamanders week 7 matchup that saw the Salamanders victorious by score of 8-5. Yes you read that correctly. 8-5. WHAT EVEN IS THAT ARE YOU KIDDING! This game does hold a special place in my heart though because I scored half of the Butchers points. Now some context for this the Butchers defense was really damn good, or should have been, and the salamanders are a team that seems to just have bad luck. But neither team is as bad on offense to make sense of this game. Neither team scored a single TD in this game which isn’t that unheard, especially when both teams have good defenses. The weird thing is that Kaepercolin had nearly 60% completion, 318 yards but failed to score. Petrongolo had 50 rush yards but 4.7 average, not bad but he didn’t get enough carries to be much help. The Butchers run game was stuffed with Yoda getting 50 yards on 23 carries and ODonnel had 53% completions with 168 yards. The strangest thing of all this is that both teams punted nearly 10 times, and the butchers only made it to FG range once, while Berlin makes it twice. That’s insanely good defense. Well after a fantastic butchers punt pinning Berlin deep I was able to blitz and record my first ISFL safety. Then by some stroke of luck Berlin did THE SAME EXACT THING. What kind of ISFL game nearly goes to OT at 5-5. For the butchers it could be attributed to phenomenal defense as Berlin’s offense wasn’t horrible. The same could be said for Berlin but at the same time neither teams offense should have been that horrible. This was a classic case of sim gonna sim. For some reason the Sim likes to make Chicago Berlin games just insane. My first career game against Berlin was a case of sim gonna sim, only it was in my favor. That game I had 2 interceptions in the first quarter, a pick six and later in the game I had a sack. We would win at the last moment 31-30. Then we have this game where it was a 8-5 nutso game that saw a safety from both teams. You couldn’t tell me that the sim wasn’t actively trying to screw this game up because I would say, find me another isfl game that had 2 safeties and final score of 8-5. Absolutely bonkers. Fortunately in both of these cases my individual player was simmed to greatness, despite losing one of them. There are plenty of other instances I could think of as well like oh I don’t know the fact that we got dominated on our home field by the damn yeti in the first round of the playoffs Sim gonna freaking sim alright but since I’m calm right now I’m not gonna talk about that one. Instead I will mention that Chicago has three corners over 1k yet somehow have the worst pass defense in the league. That makes absolutely ZERO sense in any way and is a constant every game example of the sim simming in horrible sim ways. I think Nolas Ultimus breakdown could be one of the worst sim gonna sim moments but I guess it could be argued that they were the worse team and maybe shouldn’t have made it in the first place. Colorado losing two Ultimus back to back to a far inferior Sabercats team despite despite testing over 80% is another very very prime example. In Minnesota we have had our fair share of the sim bending us over and stickin it where the sun don’t shine but since I’m not a player there anymore I haven’t noticed it as bad. One instance I do remember from Minnesota was when we got dominated by Myrtle Beach before they changed names. It was like 54-10 or something and if I remember correctly we were supposed to win that game based on tests. But somehow we got shutout in one of the biggest blowouts ever witnessed. I was a rookie then so it wasn’t like our team was phenomenal, we were not a good team that season, but cmon 54-10. That game was almost enough to make me leave lmfao. I’m not a sim hater by any means but there are so many examples of just blatant sim fuckery that happened so often. The new sim seems to be better but has its moment s. Especially before the changes to running backs. This stuff isn’t all bad though because it happens in real life too. Upsets happen and players have crazy wild one off games where they break a record and then disappear into mediocrity so it’s not all bad.
There is one glaringly obvious “sim gonna sim” moment from this past season. One of the strangest scorigami games ever witnessed. It was a game between a top team and a team that could be or should be on the rise. I’m talking of course about the Butchers Vs Fire Salamanders week 7 matchup that saw the Salamanders victorious by score of 8-5. Yes you read that correctly. 8-5. WHAT EVEN IS THAT ARE YOU KIDDING! This game does hold a special place in my heart though because I scored half of the Butchers points. Now some context for this the Butchers defense was really damn good, or should have been, and the salamanders are a team that seems to just have bad luck. But neither team is as bad on offense to make sense of this game. Neither team scored a single TD in this game which isn’t that unheard, especially when both teams have good defenses. The weird thing is that Kaepercolin had nearly 60% completion, 318 yards but failed to score. Petrongolo had 50 rush yards but 4.7 average, not bad but he didn’t get enough carries to be much help. The Butchers run game was stuffed with Yoda getting 50 yards on 23 carries and ODonnel had 53% completions with 168 yards. The strangest thing of all this is that both teams punted nearly 10 times, and the butchers only made it to FG range once, while Berlin makes it twice. That’s insanely good defense. Well after a fantastic butchers punt pinning Berlin deep I was able to blitz and record my first ISFL safety. Then by some stroke of luck Berlin did THE SAME EXACT THING. What kind of ISFL game nearly goes to OT at 5-5. For the butchers it could be attributed to phenomenal defense as Berlin’s offense wasn’t horrible. The same could be said for Berlin but at the same time neither teams offense should have been that horrible. This was a classic case of sim gonna sim. For some reason the Sim likes to make Chicago Berlin games just insane. My first career game against Berlin was a case of sim gonna sim, only it was in my favor. That game I had 2 interceptions in the first quarter, a pick six and later in the game I had a sack. We would win at the last moment 31-30. Then we have this game where it was a 8-5 nutso game that saw a safety from both teams. You couldn’t tell me that the sim wasn’t actively trying to screw this game up because I would say, find me another isfl game that had 2 safeties and final score of 8-5. Absolutely bonkers. Fortunately in both of these cases my individual player was simmed to greatness, despite losing one of them. There are plenty of other instances I could think of as well like oh I don’t know the fact that we got dominated on our home field by the damn yeti in the first round of the playoffs Sim gonna freaking sim alright but since I’m calm right now I’m not gonna talk about that one. Instead I will mention that Chicago has three corners over 1k yet somehow have the worst pass defense in the league. That makes absolutely ZERO sense in any way and is a constant every game example of the sim simming in horrible sim ways. I think Nolas Ultimus breakdown could be one of the worst sim gonna sim moments but I guess it could be argued that they were the worse team and maybe shouldn’t have made it in the first place. Colorado losing two Ultimus back to back to a far inferior Sabercats team despite despite testing over 80% is another very very prime example. In Minnesota we have had our fair share of the sim bending us over and stickin it where the sun don’t shine but since I’m not a player there anymore I haven’t noticed it as bad. One instance I do remember from Minnesota was when we got dominated by Myrtle Beach before they changed names. It was like 54-10 or something and if I remember correctly we were supposed to win that game based on tests. But somehow we got shutout in one of the biggest blowouts ever witnessed. I was a rookie then so it wasn’t like our team was phenomenal, we were not a good team that season, but cmon 54-10. That game was almost enough to make me leave lmfao. I’m not a sim hater by any means but there are so many examples of just blatant sim fuckery that happened so often. The new sim seems to be better but has its moment s. Especially before the changes to running backs. This stuff isn’t all bad though because it happens in real life too. Upsets happen and players have crazy wild one off games where they break a record and then disappear into mediocrity so it’s not all bad.