If the ISFL played all of its games with realistic weather, there are some teams that would fare better than others based on their locations. These would most likely be teams with extreme weather variations that they will be accustomed to but their opponents will not be - I'd expect these to include Yellowknife on the cold end and Arizona, Honolulu, and possibly Orange County on the warmer side. There are probably also other teams that have inordinately hot or cold weather, but I can't think of them at the moment. One would think that these teams would fare better over the course of the league's history. This is a terrifying proposition if you include OCO, but the outcome that I prefer to imagine is that Yellowknife would have dominated even more during it's heyday in the late S-teens and early S-twenties. As one can imagine, the Wraiths would have a good number of opportunities to practice in blazing heat with the number of crossover games that they play against warm weather ASFC teams, but almost none of the other NSFC teams will be as cold and snowy as Yellowknife. So, for example, there's almost no way that Orange County would have managed to win either the S18 or S19 Ultimus games by one score each in the frozen tundra of Yellowknife. They also had home field advantage in S20 against Austin, so it's conceivable that they could have three-peated instead of losing four in a row.
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