Quote:2. Tell us about your draft class. Is there anything that makes it special in comparison to other classes? Where did your fellow draftees land, how are they doing? Did anyone turn out to be an unexpected steal of that draft based on what you know today? Do you think anyone in your draft class will become a hall of famer? If you’re new to the league, how do you think your class will do? Where do you think people will get drafted to?
Season 36 draft class can truly be called special. It will go down in ISFL history as one of the biggest, the one that brought a lot of active and high earning players to the league. According to the stats I've seen (not sure how right are them) it's the third biggest class in leagues history, slightly less than season 22 and 25 drafts. To understand it's prominence DSFL capped players were still taken as low as fifth round of the draft, and you could find active players up to the seventh round.
But it's not only about high earning players. A ;lot of people that come from the draft have taken league jobs very fast. A lot of DSFL GMs are now from that draft - two in Tijuana Luchadores, one in London Royals, One in Kansas City Coyotes (this one can change though), one in Minnesota Grey Ducks, one in Dallas Birddogs and one in Bondi Beach Buccaneers. As you can see, players raised quickly to the top of their respecting teams, and I/m sure that we will see ISFL GMs from this draft class soon. And what's even more interesting, it's that this players are all new creates, not veteran ISFL players. I shouldn't also forget to mention that one new create currently holds position in the Head Office, and I won't be surprised if in several seasons we will see Xave as a league's commissioner.
Saying all that my own target is now to be remembered as a greatest linebacker of this draft, which can definitely get hard. According to tpe tracker there are five active linebackers from the draft left. But all of them are close to max earning, with Chucky leading all the players with massive 550 tpe, which are from one side, absolutely insane for two seasons of play, and on the other side are good just for sixth position in the overall draft. Next one is yesboom with 522 tpe, staying in London for his third season. Yesboom is my future teammate in Arizona, so it will be interesting to see how our careers and stats will go. Third one, is your humble servant with just 489 tpe. Yeah, I missed some point tasks, and forgot to put up predictions, shame on me. Should have roughly twenty or thirty tpe more. That's why I felled all the way to the third round the draft,
I have kind of a friendly rivalry with Chucky, who managed to snipe the last one DSFL Linebacker of the Year award from me in ours first season. We both got our unanimous all-pros though. DSFL Linebacker of the Year award was not reachable anymore, but I managed to get my due still, winning DSFL MVP and MOP in season 36. First defensive player to win DSFL MVP in the history as far as I know, so not that bad. Now as we both got call ups for our ISFL teams, maybe we will have a chance to contend for Defensive rookie of the Year award in ISFL. We will have good competition from players on other positions. Abh and Noncomplicit as a defensive ends duo in Sarasota, Arkz as defensive tackle in Yellowknife. Not only defensive line players, but also very high earning players on secondary - Zayn as a corner for his Silverbacks, and great safeties Friesen, repgnar, and Twenty6. And here i only mentioned players that have more tpe than me, with such active class, there probably will be much more competition for this award during the season.
So, with this small text I hope you got some understanding why I consider my draft class to be the special one. In future seasons I'm sure we will se a lot of more deep analysis of the class, redraft media, draft grades, and so on. And of cause some ISFL Hall of Fame media. Hopefully from me too.