For me, team success has to be all about winning rings. It's the same as in any sport or any other sim league, there's no greater measure for how good your team is besides the ability to beat out your rivals when it's all on the line. I think that there are definitely smaller measures of success, such as those mentioned in the prompt, like beating a team that's better than yours or managing to come out victorious against a rival. These things are undoubtedly great and things that teams can absolutely be proud of, but in my mind there's a lot of difference between doing that and having what's required to go out and win a championship against the very best team in the league. Individual success is a lot more difficult to quantify. People could see it as individual success if they were able to contribute to a winning team while others might require winning an award or getting picked for a Pro Bowl game to see their season as successful. It's tough to say what's important for me, but I guess the Hall of Fame is there to truly measure who was or was not individually successful, and all I can hope is that my player's going to find his way there one day.
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