8.
Mr. Ferd has had a lot of fun in his first season of the year. It has been a long time coming, after first hearing about it from one of his real-life friends back in 2021. That real life friend came together with a couple more big names in the league to continue cajoling until it all came to a head during a get together where he had seen them all in person for the first time in ten years.
The ISFL/DSFL does an excellent job of blending traditional-style RPGs with traditional sports. It’s felt like those classic NCAAF/Madden create-a-player modes where you have a chance to build and develop your own player and watch them grow and succeed throughout their career.
Pretty much everyone he has interacted with in the league has made it more fun. From Fronk, Beck, Icebear, and LordCoolCats eventually convincing him to join, and walking him through character creation, to CROney helping him familiarize himself with the forums and keeping him up to date on my point tasks. He has also had a lot of fun talking with all the GMs of the DSFL who scouted him for a late pickup, as well as all the ISFL GMs who were looking to potentially draft him.
Mr. Ferd’s early start has been an exciting one, at least for him. Though he has not been one of the highest TPE earners in the league, he feels that he has made good decisions about spending it, leading to his name being called his fair share of times during sim nights.
Draft time was a very exciting time for Mr. Ferd. Getting DMs from several of the ISFL’s GMs really made him feel like a star, or at least like someone to invest in. He may have even mistook a mock draft thread on the forums as the real deal and celebrated a bit too early. Regardless of that, he is very glad to have landed with Sarasota, and looks forward to helping that defense dominate.
If Mr. Ferd had anything to suggest to the fine folks involved in the administrative side of the ISFL/DSFL, he might suggest an organized “orientation” via Discord or the like, where some mentors could walk the rookies through the layout of the forums, including maybe a couple example posts/claims/updates.
24.
For a sim football league, I think it makes the most sense to develop a sim half-time show. Create a new side-league, like American Idol, except for all musicians, rather than just singers. Anyone with a player in the ISFL/DSFL can create their own character, select their own archetype, (Rock band frontman, Prog-metal shredder, R&B vocalist) assign some stats and start competing. Assign them to a band, or let them pick their own and sim a performance weekly. Use AI to compose the setlist, or let the players do it themselves. Best performance of the week earns points and at the end of the season, the top three artists compose a joint performance that’s played during half-time of the Ulti. Visual depictions of the musicians would be dots, obviously, with smaller dots representing their instruments. Make a large-scale point task/$ task to produce the music, or I think an even better idea would be to represent the music visually with dots, (with little flags on top).
27.
When I originally created my character, I was torn between TE and LB, as those were the two positions I played in High School. With some coaching, I was guided towards LB, and after spending some time in the league I think I better understand why now.
If I were to pick a different position, I would be looking towards something that each team has more than one of, (WR, CB, OL, DL, etc.) as I would absolutely want to try and maximize my potential playtime/desirability to teams.
Additionally, I think it would be nice to try playing offense for a change. There is nothing wrong with defense of course, and I think defense is still my first choice. However, it would be nice to touch the ball a little bit more often than I do now. With all that in mind, I think I would end up picking WR and I would do my best to get in with a team that’s already got a pocket passing QB and an offense designed around throwing the ball as many times as possible during the game.
Mr. Ferd has had a lot of fun in his first season of the year. It has been a long time coming, after first hearing about it from one of his real-life friends back in 2021. That real life friend came together with a couple more big names in the league to continue cajoling until it all came to a head during a get together where he had seen them all in person for the first time in ten years.
The ISFL/DSFL does an excellent job of blending traditional-style RPGs with traditional sports. It’s felt like those classic NCAAF/Madden create-a-player modes where you have a chance to build and develop your own player and watch them grow and succeed throughout their career.
Pretty much everyone he has interacted with in the league has made it more fun. From Fronk, Beck, Icebear, and LordCoolCats eventually convincing him to join, and walking him through character creation, to CROney helping him familiarize himself with the forums and keeping him up to date on my point tasks. He has also had a lot of fun talking with all the GMs of the DSFL who scouted him for a late pickup, as well as all the ISFL GMs who were looking to potentially draft him.
Mr. Ferd’s early start has been an exciting one, at least for him. Though he has not been one of the highest TPE earners in the league, he feels that he has made good decisions about spending it, leading to his name being called his fair share of times during sim nights.
Draft time was a very exciting time for Mr. Ferd. Getting DMs from several of the ISFL’s GMs really made him feel like a star, or at least like someone to invest in. He may have even mistook a mock draft thread on the forums as the real deal and celebrated a bit too early. Regardless of that, he is very glad to have landed with Sarasota, and looks forward to helping that defense dominate.
If Mr. Ferd had anything to suggest to the fine folks involved in the administrative side of the ISFL/DSFL, he might suggest an organized “orientation” via Discord or the like, where some mentors could walk the rookies through the layout of the forums, including maybe a couple example posts/claims/updates.
24.
For a sim football league, I think it makes the most sense to develop a sim half-time show. Create a new side-league, like American Idol, except for all musicians, rather than just singers. Anyone with a player in the ISFL/DSFL can create their own character, select their own archetype, (Rock band frontman, Prog-metal shredder, R&B vocalist) assign some stats and start competing. Assign them to a band, or let them pick their own and sim a performance weekly. Use AI to compose the setlist, or let the players do it themselves. Best performance of the week earns points and at the end of the season, the top three artists compose a joint performance that’s played during half-time of the Ulti. Visual depictions of the musicians would be dots, obviously, with smaller dots representing their instruments. Make a large-scale point task/$ task to produce the music, or I think an even better idea would be to represent the music visually with dots, (with little flags on top).
27.
When I originally created my character, I was torn between TE and LB, as those were the two positions I played in High School. With some coaching, I was guided towards LB, and after spending some time in the league I think I better understand why now.
If I were to pick a different position, I would be looking towards something that each team has more than one of, (WR, CB, OL, DL, etc.) as I would absolutely want to try and maximize my potential playtime/desirability to teams.
Additionally, I think it would be nice to try playing offense for a change. There is nothing wrong with defense of course, and I think defense is still my first choice. However, it would be nice to touch the ball a little bit more often than I do now. With all that in mind, I think I would end up picking WR and I would do my best to get in with a team that’s already got a pocket passing QB and an offense designed around throwing the ball as many times as possible during the game.