28. Personal bias aside, I genuinely believe that the best location for an ISFL expansion team would be Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham has been the home of multiple sports teams across a plethora of major and minor leagues. While only a few of these teams have stuck it out for more than a few seasons, there is definitely a reason that so many teams try to make it work. There is an untapped potential in the sports market in Birmingham. All it would take is a few "star" players that are University of Alabama or Auburn University alumni to set the Birmingham fanbase on fire with passion. The South has primarily been dominated by college sports, but that can quickly change in just a few short seasons of the exciting ISFL football. Besides, if Yellowknife can support a professional club consistently, then why can't Birmingham, who has a much higher population and thriving economy. +2.5
26. Often times, the minor leagues for professional football is meme'd and rarely are they taken seriously. But, they have also often adopted helpful rule changes that are beneficial for the game of football and should be introduced into the ISFL. One of these such rules is the current USFL rule for the extra point after a touchdown. There are three options for a team to choose from after they score a touchdown: 1. a one point kick from the 15-yard line; 2. a two point score by crossing the goal line in one play from the 2-yard line; 3. a three point score by crossing the goal line in one play from the 10-yard line. While it may seem rather insignificant by the scarcity teams will likely take the chance for a three point extra point play, it gives more hope to teams on the comeback and allows teams that are down late to make as many significant efforts as possible to catch up. The current scoring system is too one-dimensional and predictable. +2.5
14. The Minnesota Grey Ducks season was...underwhelming, to say the least. The sim gods did not find favor in our sacrifices this past offseason. I mean, Minnesota wasn't a perfect team on paper, but we certainly weren't as bad as our record portrayed us to be. For all of our rigorous sim testing and tweaking our gameplay to make the best matchup possible, we would still lose the games that should have been cakewalks for us. Our front office and captains would meet every week and test more than 1,000 games, but we would consistently lose the "easy" games that our testing predicted we should have won. As head-scratching as all of that might be, something that made our testing and seasonal outlook even more of a headache was that we also continued to win the games that we absolutely should not have. Dear reader, you've likely heard the phrase "sim's gonna sim." Well, let me tell you that you do not truly know the meaning of those words until you take a closer look upon the stats of Minnesota's s35 season. In order to make sure that we put ourselves in as positive a situation as possible heading into s36, we have hit the ground running on scouting to make sure we fill the holes on the defensive side of the ball. We had a lot of defensive rookies this past year who are now close to hitting the cap. We might have been hit with some bad sims this year, but we've saved up all that sim karma to unleash on the sim full force during s36. Assuming we have no active call-ups, we will have a completely capped QB, RB, WR, DE, CB, and S. The future is bright in Minnesota. Keep the Grey Ducks on your mind when creating your betting slips for this season. +5
26. Often times, the minor leagues for professional football is meme'd and rarely are they taken seriously. But, they have also often adopted helpful rule changes that are beneficial for the game of football and should be introduced into the ISFL. One of these such rules is the current USFL rule for the extra point after a touchdown. There are three options for a team to choose from after they score a touchdown: 1. a one point kick from the 15-yard line; 2. a two point score by crossing the goal line in one play from the 2-yard line; 3. a three point score by crossing the goal line in one play from the 10-yard line. While it may seem rather insignificant by the scarcity teams will likely take the chance for a three point extra point play, it gives more hope to teams on the comeback and allows teams that are down late to make as many significant efforts as possible to catch up. The current scoring system is too one-dimensional and predictable. +2.5
14. The Minnesota Grey Ducks season was...underwhelming, to say the least. The sim gods did not find favor in our sacrifices this past offseason. I mean, Minnesota wasn't a perfect team on paper, but we certainly weren't as bad as our record portrayed us to be. For all of our rigorous sim testing and tweaking our gameplay to make the best matchup possible, we would still lose the games that should have been cakewalks for us. Our front office and captains would meet every week and test more than 1,000 games, but we would consistently lose the "easy" games that our testing predicted we should have won. As head-scratching as all of that might be, something that made our testing and seasonal outlook even more of a headache was that we also continued to win the games that we absolutely should not have. Dear reader, you've likely heard the phrase "sim's gonna sim." Well, let me tell you that you do not truly know the meaning of those words until you take a closer look upon the stats of Minnesota's s35 season. In order to make sure that we put ourselves in as positive a situation as possible heading into s36, we have hit the ground running on scouting to make sure we fill the holes on the defensive side of the ball. We had a lot of defensive rookies this past year who are now close to hitting the cap. We might have been hit with some bad sims this year, but we've saved up all that sim karma to unleash on the sim full force during s36. Assuming we have no active call-ups, we will have a completely capped QB, RB, WR, DE, CB, and S. The future is bright in Minnesota. Keep the Grey Ducks on your mind when creating your betting slips for this season. +5