Prompt Wrote:This week is the last week of the regular season of the 30th season of the ISFL. Wooooooo! This week, tell us what you think the meaning of success in this league is? Is it winning championships? Winning awards? Destroying that one team that you hate? Or just having fun with your team? There are so many ways to define success, what would you define it as.
I presume that everyone in the league has their own set of criteria for success. Some care deeply about the social elements - getting to know people, hanging out with friends, puzzling out draft picks and team directions. Others care more about the sim results directly - winning games, producing stats. And furthermore, I think those change over time - you might start out invested in one team only to end up on another after a trade or as a cap casualty and then focus on more personal outcomes since those are less likely to get changed due to things you control.
For me personally, I consider success to be putting a sufficient effort into the league. Not quite max effort - extra money doesn't produce extra results - but enough that I've almost always max earned. I missed a few predictions and tasks in the roughly 1.5 years I've been here, but it's good enough to be on the all time peak TPE leaderboard. That's what I can control. Sure, I'd enjoy having the team win all the everything and to have gotten every award myself as well, but those are out of my control and not something I want to define myself by. Success is doing what I can do on the personal and strategic side regardless of outcome. I don't think it makes sense to look back at what you did where you made the right decisions and consider it a failure even if the outcome was poor. Sure, hindsight mught suggest that you didn't make the right decisions and therefore it's a learning experience, but so long as you're improving for the future I think that's fine too.
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