7. Write 600 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 600 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
Radical ISFL reformatting.
Right, it's expansion time. Now should we expand? That’s a very very good Q. Given that a few seasons ago, it was looking like the DSFL was going to have to hit a contraction, with Bondi Beach and Portland the two unlucky teams that unfortunately were chosen to go. However since then there have been some great draft classes:
Clearly the reddit classes have the best uptake in new players / users. So anyway my idea, now this is radical, is to remove the DSFL from the league and create a ISFL league. The league would consist of 2 conferences made up of 2 divisions with 5 teams per division. Unfortunately two DSFL would be culled to make this work.
So for me the divisions would be something like this.
Central:
East:
West:
See below image for example standing after the season.
The two new conferences would be made up of Western Conference (West & South) & Eastern Conference (Central & East). A season would be made up of the same 18 games a season, two more than are currently used. This would break down as 2 x 4, home & away games versus the division. 2 home and away games against the team from the other conference in your division. With four more games to be played against the a division in the other conference, again 2 home and away games.
This would then lead to the playoffs which the top 3 teams in each division would make, the top team of each division would get a playoff bye, with Team 2 Vs Team 3 playing each other. Then this would lead into the Ultimus. Homefeild advantage would be given to the highest seed in the playoff match. See below for how the playoffs bracket might work based upon the results in the previous image.
The season would take 5 real life weeks to finish, 4 games to be played each week. Monday, Wednesday & Friday. The Friday showing will be a double header, with one round of games being called the “International Series” which will be shown at a more reasonable time for the non-Americans among us.
The next part of this shake-up to sort out will be the “Expansion draft”. So as of the start of S43, we have 325 players in the ISFL, 84 in the DSFL & 80 prospects in the draft, giving a total of 489.
Each ISFL team will be required to put up 5 players they have on their roster in the expansion draft. They must include two players above 1000 TPE, with one being active & one being pre-regression [They can be the same player] Of the remaining three players, at least one must be active above 450 TPE. This should ensure that the old DSFL teams have a decent backbone to build their team upon but also not gutting current ISFL teams. This will create a draft of 70 ISFL players with the old DSFL team will pick 10 players from in a snake draft. The 10 players not selected go back to their original teams.
For the main draft, this will go based upon last season's finishing positions with all the DSFL teams picking before any ISFL teams. The DSFL teams will get a second first round pick to be taken after the ISFL first round pick. With 80 prospects this will mean that the draft will end after the 4th round after the 14th pick, meaning that the best 6 ISFL from the previous seasons won’t get a fourth pick.
Therefore by the end of the draft each DSFL should have 10 ISFL teams on their roster, plus 5 picks from the draft. Hopefully this is a good idea that people can look at and talk about, I will probably fill this out in more detail for a media piece down the line.
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Radical ISFL reformatting.
Right, it's expansion time. Now should we expand? That’s a very very good Q. Given that a few seasons ago, it was looking like the DSFL was going to have to hit a contraction, with Bondi Beach and Portland the two unlucky teams that unfortunately were chosen to go. However since then there have been some great draft classes:
- S38: 62 (Reddit)
- S39: 29
- S40: 43
- S41: 63 (Reddit)
- S42: 44
- S43: 58
- S44: 80+ (Reddit)
Clearly the reddit classes have the best uptake in new players / users. So anyway my idea, now this is radical, is to remove the DSFL from the league and create a ISFL league. The league would consist of 2 conferences made up of 2 divisions with 5 teams per division. Unfortunately two DSFL would be culled to make this work.
So for me the divisions would be something like this.
Central:
- Arizona Outlaws
- Minnesota Grey Ducks
- Yellowknife Wraiths
- Kansas City Coyotes
- Colorado Yeti
- Austin Copperheads
- New Orleans Second Line
- Cape Town Crash
- Dallas Birddogs
- Sarasota Sailfish
East:
- New York Silverbacks
- Baltimore Hawks
- Berlin Fire Salamanders
- Chicago Butchers
- Norfolk Seawolves
West:
- San Jose Sabercats
- Orange County Otters
- Honolulu Hallah
- Tijuanna Luchadores
- Portland Pythons
See below image for example standing after the season.
The two new conferences would be made up of Western Conference (West & South) & Eastern Conference (Central & East). A season would be made up of the same 18 games a season, two more than are currently used. This would break down as 2 x 4, home & away games versus the division. 2 home and away games against the team from the other conference in your division. With four more games to be played against the a division in the other conference, again 2 home and away games.
This would then lead to the playoffs which the top 3 teams in each division would make, the top team of each division would get a playoff bye, with Team 2 Vs Team 3 playing each other. Then this would lead into the Ultimus. Homefeild advantage would be given to the highest seed in the playoff match. See below for how the playoffs bracket might work based upon the results in the previous image.
The season would take 5 real life weeks to finish, 4 games to be played each week. Monday, Wednesday & Friday. The Friday showing will be a double header, with one round of games being called the “International Series” which will be shown at a more reasonable time for the non-Americans among us.
The next part of this shake-up to sort out will be the “Expansion draft”. So as of the start of S43, we have 325 players in the ISFL, 84 in the DSFL & 80 prospects in the draft, giving a total of 489.
Each ISFL team will be required to put up 5 players they have on their roster in the expansion draft. They must include two players above 1000 TPE, with one being active & one being pre-regression [They can be the same player] Of the remaining three players, at least one must be active above 450 TPE. This should ensure that the old DSFL teams have a decent backbone to build their team upon but also not gutting current ISFL teams. This will create a draft of 70 ISFL players with the old DSFL team will pick 10 players from in a snake draft. The 10 players not selected go back to their original teams.
For the main draft, this will go based upon last season's finishing positions with all the DSFL teams picking before any ISFL teams. The DSFL teams will get a second first round pick to be taken after the ISFL first round pick. With 80 prospects this will mean that the draft will end after the 4th round after the 14th pick, meaning that the best 6 ISFL from the previous seasons won’t get a fourth pick.
Therefore by the end of the draft each DSFL should have 10 ISFL teams on their roster, plus 5 picks from the draft. Hopefully this is a good idea that people can look at and talk about, I will probably fill this out in more detail for a media piece down the line.
(683 Words)