10-27-2021, 07:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-27-2021, 08:03 AM by Mooty99. Edited 2 times in total.)
13. Expansion is always such an exciting topic to write about and creates so much discussion in the league. I have in my previous life as a member of HO reviewed the requirements for whether we should have an expansion a few season ago so I know a fair amount about it. So for this exercise I will try and cover pros and cons, well until I get to my word limit so let’s see how this goes. Firstly the pros for expansion, firstly moving to a 16 team makes so much sense, the league can be structured like a really football league with 2 divisions each spilt into 2 groups of 4 and the top 2 teams from each can go to the playoffs, the whole thing will be so much nicer and neater and we can get rid of the of the wild card bye that the rope 2 teams get. Expansion would allow more people to lay more fun positions too, more chance for people to play QB, or WR1or OLB and really rack up those stats. Now however are the cons, well the are less cons and more issues that already exist to really stop expansion from really happening or at the very least make it much harder to pull off. The first and biggest issues is number of users. We had an explosion of users just over a year ago but that has been declining, this has been the case for all sim leagues as the world pens up more people are looking less to the online world to escape, with less users it makes keeping an additional 2 teams much harder to do. Now teams are quite large at the moment so there sizes could be reduced but doing so would almost certainly mean that an ISFL expansion would lead to a DSFL contraction, which is never fun or popular at least with some users so that is also an issue. The only way I could really see expansion happening is if a radical change was made such as allowing players to have more than one player, maybe not everyone but say maybe allow lineman to play both sides of the ball, neither are stat rich positions so making up for that with having the chance. To play on both sides is a nice little idea. You could even allow something like safety’s also play TE or FB as they are the other less fun and stat based positions. All in all I really don’t think that expansion will happen at least in the near future, there is too much risk involved and to make it work there would need to be too big a change to the league more most people to stomach I think, this is a sham but maybe it is for the best. If it were to happen I know I would love to apply to run a team, I have already had a number of people say to me independently that they would love me to put in a bid with them so if it does watch this space, maybe the Memphis Jackels or Tuscaloosa Bootleggers might become a reality.
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21. Now as the person who does the bulk of theism testing for Austin both before on the old sim and with the new one I am in a fairly good position to talk about this and how I have found it, we can probably split it into good and bad, and only have 200 words to do it so I better crack on. The good, there are no more ridiculous penalties like in 16, in 16 my player, a QB, got a penalty for tripping, on a pass play, which is of course pretty much impossible and these types of penalties happened a lot so I am glad they are gone. I like the fact that more defensive plays are actually shown such as picks, before it was just text which sucked. Another big improvement is the calming down of HFA, in 16 it was crazy strong so now it is less which again a very good thing. Now for the bad, no bulk testing sucks, it is harder and more time consuming to get and I hate that and I am sure I am not allow on that one. Next the actual screen needs to be zoomed it, it is harder to see your dot on the field which is not the best. Lastly there are still positions which get S few stats and that is no fun, think of the poor defensive linemen and safeties or really struggle in this sim I do feel bad fo them.
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27. I not 100% sure why but everyone loves to talk about and review branding and I can answer this question in a couple of sentences or in a 1000 word essay so to fit the200 words I will need to pace myself just right, because of this I will split up the branding into various parts for things I like and don’t like and see how it gos from there. Now best location for me and I am not being biased is Austin, Texas lives and breathes football so I am shocked I took till season 16 to have a team in the state and that combined with it not being a place that has an NFL team is a huge win for me. Worst location has to be Yellowknife, I will take about there actual branding later but for a location it is just dumb, I am sorry but so on had to say. Now for the logo/colours the best is Yellowknife, I know I just trashed the location but the logo is iconic for all the right reasons, for me it is the best logo in all sim leagues I love it so much. The worst logo/colours has to be Sarasota, why them, THAT IS NOT A SAILFISH IT IS A MARLIN. I don’t know why this annoys me so much but it really does, it is such a knock off of the Florida Marlins which is such a shame as it has always been an amazingly well run team.
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WC 530
21. Now as the person who does the bulk of theism testing for Austin both before on the old sim and with the new one I am in a fairly good position to talk about this and how I have found it, we can probably split it into good and bad, and only have 200 words to do it so I better crack on. The good, there are no more ridiculous penalties like in 16, in 16 my player, a QB, got a penalty for tripping, on a pass play, which is of course pretty much impossible and these types of penalties happened a lot so I am glad they are gone. I like the fact that more defensive plays are actually shown such as picks, before it was just text which sucked. Another big improvement is the calming down of HFA, in 16 it was crazy strong so now it is less which again a very good thing. Now for the bad, no bulk testing sucks, it is harder and more time consuming to get and I hate that and I am sure I am not allow on that one. Next the actual screen needs to be zoomed it, it is harder to see your dot on the field which is not the best. Lastly there are still positions which get S few stats and that is no fun, think of the poor defensive linemen and safeties or really struggle in this sim I do feel bad fo them.
WC 250
27. I not 100% sure why but everyone loves to talk about and review branding and I can answer this question in a couple of sentences or in a 1000 word essay so to fit the200 words I will need to pace myself just right, because of this I will split up the branding into various parts for things I like and don’t like and see how it gos from there. Now best location for me and I am not being biased is Austin, Texas lives and breathes football so I am shocked I took till season 16 to have a team in the state and that combined with it not being a place that has an NFL team is a huge win for me. Worst location has to be Yellowknife, I will take about there actual branding later but for a location it is just dumb, I am sorry but so on had to say. Now for the logo/colours the best is Yellowknife, I know I just trashed the location but the logo is iconic for all the right reasons, for me it is the best logo in all sim leagues I love it so much. The worst logo/colours has to be Sarasota, why them, THAT IS NOT A SAILFISH IT IS A MARLIN. I don’t know why this annoys me so much but it really does, it is such a knock off of the Florida Marlins which is such a shame as it has always been an amazingly well run team.
WC 253[url=https://simulationhockey.com/showthread.php?tid=119523&pid=3118437#pid3118437][/url]