07-25-2023, 05:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2023, 09:10 AM by Reno. Edited 1 time in total.)
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Task 10 - 332
My first job as commissioner would be overhauling the salary cap and contracts so that they actually matter for a change. It sucks that in the nature of sim leagues if you take more than the minimum you’re actually hurting your team in the long term because of how tight the salary cap is, so players seldom make any money off of contracts necessitating the need for one or more league jobs depending on pay so that you can afford training and equipment each year. When a contract for the season is like 3,000,000 and Tier 6 is 13,500,000 to go alongside with 1,000,000 WTs each week, it adds up to rapidly put people into the negative and force things like media and graphics to tread water. If you need to force things like that to keep player survivability high, something is clearly not right with the league structure as a whole. By raising the cap and being able to double player salaries or offer larger bonuses to the players and similar, players don’t need to feel pressured to create content to financially survive and rather can just create content because they want to and have fun with it. The other thing that I would do that would be a lot harder to do or implement would be change up the sim engine to something that’s just less bullshit. Plain and simple the sim engine is horrible and actively ruins the experience, its hard to get invested when you’re just sitting there wondering how its going to ruin your game through some awful AI logic decision. Like when in the Ultimini with Kansas City, instead of kicking a field goal to win we spiked the ball to stop then clock, punted, and then gave up the field goal to lose the title because why not. I know that finding a replacement sim is easier said than done, but its something I would seriously devote time and effort into trying to make work.
Task 32 - 169
The podcast that Aleksandar would start is the “Kovic and Gelbman Slashcast” which is run by him and his co-host Tree Gelbman, former Butchers alumni. Combined the two of them have perfect personalities to run a podcast because they’re both insane in their own ways. Kovic is a meathead who just only wants to run over people on the football field while Tree is an alleged axe murder who is still dealing with pending legal action. The main thing they would talk about is their stories playing football and all the crazy shenanigans that they got onto and off the field. Both of them are party animals who got up to no good, Kovic usually clubbing in his native Serbia and getting into bar fights while Tree would tell stories of eating cereal till 4am at bars and dancing until 9am before a 10am practice the next day. This podcast would run on Spotify until the lack of sponsors drives them to stop doing it for legal reasons.
Task 10 - 332
My first job as commissioner would be overhauling the salary cap and contracts so that they actually matter for a change. It sucks that in the nature of sim leagues if you take more than the minimum you’re actually hurting your team in the long term because of how tight the salary cap is, so players seldom make any money off of contracts necessitating the need for one or more league jobs depending on pay so that you can afford training and equipment each year. When a contract for the season is like 3,000,000 and Tier 6 is 13,500,000 to go alongside with 1,000,000 WTs each week, it adds up to rapidly put people into the negative and force things like media and graphics to tread water. If you need to force things like that to keep player survivability high, something is clearly not right with the league structure as a whole. By raising the cap and being able to double player salaries or offer larger bonuses to the players and similar, players don’t need to feel pressured to create content to financially survive and rather can just create content because they want to and have fun with it. The other thing that I would do that would be a lot harder to do or implement would be change up the sim engine to something that’s just less bullshit. Plain and simple the sim engine is horrible and actively ruins the experience, its hard to get invested when you’re just sitting there wondering how its going to ruin your game through some awful AI logic decision. Like when in the Ultimini with Kansas City, instead of kicking a field goal to win we spiked the ball to stop then clock, punted, and then gave up the field goal to lose the title because why not. I know that finding a replacement sim is easier said than done, but its something I would seriously devote time and effort into trying to make work.
Task 32 - 169
The podcast that Aleksandar would start is the “Kovic and Gelbman Slashcast” which is run by him and his co-host Tree Gelbman, former Butchers alumni. Combined the two of them have perfect personalities to run a podcast because they’re both insane in their own ways. Kovic is a meathead who just only wants to run over people on the football field while Tree is an alleged axe murder who is still dealing with pending legal action. The main thing they would talk about is their stories playing football and all the crazy shenanigans that they got onto and off the field. Both of them are party animals who got up to no good, Kovic usually clubbing in his native Serbia and getting into bar fights while Tree would tell stories of eating cereal till 4am at bars and dancing until 9am before a 10am practice the next day. This podcast would run on Spotify until the lack of sponsors drives them to stop doing it for legal reasons.
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