10. Through a random lottery drawing, you have been named the league's new commissioner for a day. Congrats! What improvements would you make to the league if you had the power to do whatever you wanted? (300 Words)
The prophecy has finally come into being. Your new czar and overlord, UberBJ, is in control. Trust in your new God, for he is kind.
Improvement #1: Remove the no tamper clause allowance in contracts. I’m going to rant about it here because I can finally do away with it. Too many times have people been trying to skirt the rules any way possible. The current incarnation and allowance of this clause allows people to actually negate a LEAGUE WIDE RULE just for themselves at a whim. The concept of a user and GM having this power is a farce and in line with the second rule we will discuss in a bit. Why is this allowed? Answer: It’s not, because I just shot it into the sun with my new all consuming commissioner powers.
Improvement #2:
Users cannot choose their draft destination and are in breach of league protocol if they tell a GM/scout they will leave their drafted team ASAP just to go to the team they wanted all along. We currently have rules in place to force a GM pick in the 2nd round at the earliest team owned pick, so why are we letting users essentially choose their draft destination? There have been many instances of this in the past but this last draft we saw a top 3 prospect, and top LB prospect overall, get taken at the bottom of the first round by the reigning league winners.
So how do we fix this? We already have by electing me supreme ruler of the ISFL. I will also yeet this behavior into the sun with extreme prejudice. But seriously, I would want to institute a rule that in obvious cases like this, the team must use their top first round pick to take them. And if a team takes them beforehand, the user cannot hold out or force a move to the aforementioned preferred team. They are welcome to seek a trade and force the desired team to pay a premium for them, which they should've done in the draft anyways.
16. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season? (300 words)
Cheecago Boucher’s first season in the DSFL was pretty solid honestly. He stepped into a rather depleted London defense, and was asked to take a big role early on. Sure there was the GOAT Mad Props and stalwart Andrey Hepburn, but they are just bots anyways.
He got a ton of playtime and had top 3 in the league LB stats in both sacks and forced fumbles. While he didn’t recover many, he was making the plays. He was also a tackling machine behind fellow rookie defensive tackle, Water. This probably ate into his stats a little bit, but it was better for the team which was ideal.
London overall struggled, which we will blame HO for losing our strats for several double headers. Obviously there was foul play involved and everyone should be investigated to the fullest extent of the DSFL law. En route to the number one overall draft pick, there were quite a few notable wins and even more crushing defeats.
Opening the season with a huge win against the stalwart Kansas City Coyotes, it looked like London had something cooking. Especially with rookie S (playing cornerback no less) having two huge picks. They even followed it up with a pretty big win AWAY over the Choccy Milk Grey Ducks. However, as it usually tends to do, the milk soured shortly thereafter. London would go on to win only 2 more games against the Ducks and Buccaneers at home, and got blown out in several. Of particular concern was their dismal performances from their bot kicker. Arguably the worst kicker to ever disgrace the league. Fire him into the sun please.
While we are optimistic for the upcoming season, the London leadership failed to take a kicker or punter in the first round of the DSFL draft, which is concerning. Only time will tell, but god help us all if a bot kicker makes the queen roll in her grave again.
The prophecy has finally come into being. Your new czar and overlord, UberBJ, is in control. Trust in your new God, for he is kind.
Improvement #1: Remove the no tamper clause allowance in contracts. I’m going to rant about it here because I can finally do away with it. Too many times have people been trying to skirt the rules any way possible. The current incarnation and allowance of this clause allows people to actually negate a LEAGUE WIDE RULE just for themselves at a whim. The concept of a user and GM having this power is a farce and in line with the second rule we will discuss in a bit. Why is this allowed? Answer: It’s not, because I just shot it into the sun with my new all consuming commissioner powers.
Improvement #2:
Users cannot choose their draft destination and are in breach of league protocol if they tell a GM/scout they will leave their drafted team ASAP just to go to the team they wanted all along. We currently have rules in place to force a GM pick in the 2nd round at the earliest team owned pick, so why are we letting users essentially choose their draft destination? There have been many instances of this in the past but this last draft we saw a top 3 prospect, and top LB prospect overall, get taken at the bottom of the first round by the reigning league winners.
So how do we fix this? We already have by electing me supreme ruler of the ISFL. I will also yeet this behavior into the sun with extreme prejudice. But seriously, I would want to institute a rule that in obvious cases like this, the team must use their top first round pick to take them. And if a team takes them beforehand, the user cannot hold out or force a move to the aforementioned preferred team. They are welcome to seek a trade and force the desired team to pay a premium for them, which they should've done in the draft anyways.
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16. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season? (300 words)
Cheecago Boucher’s first season in the DSFL was pretty solid honestly. He stepped into a rather depleted London defense, and was asked to take a big role early on. Sure there was the GOAT Mad Props and stalwart Andrey Hepburn, but they are just bots anyways.
He got a ton of playtime and had top 3 in the league LB stats in both sacks and forced fumbles. While he didn’t recover many, he was making the plays. He was also a tackling machine behind fellow rookie defensive tackle, Water. This probably ate into his stats a little bit, but it was better for the team which was ideal.
London overall struggled, which we will blame HO for losing our strats for several double headers. Obviously there was foul play involved and everyone should be investigated to the fullest extent of the DSFL law. En route to the number one overall draft pick, there were quite a few notable wins and even more crushing defeats.
Opening the season with a huge win against the stalwart Kansas City Coyotes, it looked like London had something cooking. Especially with rookie S (playing cornerback no less) having two huge picks. They even followed it up with a pretty big win AWAY over the Choccy Milk Grey Ducks. However, as it usually tends to do, the milk soured shortly thereafter. London would go on to win only 2 more games against the Ducks and Buccaneers at home, and got blown out in several. Of particular concern was their dismal performances from their bot kicker. Arguably the worst kicker to ever disgrace the league. Fire him into the sun please.
While we are optimistic for the upcoming season, the London leadership failed to take a kicker or punter in the first round of the DSFL draft, which is concerning. Only time will tell, but god help us all if a bot kicker makes the queen roll in her grave again.
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