05-19-2024, 03:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-19-2024, 03:57 PM by kenvald. Edited 5 times in total.)
Quote: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?There are a couple of items on my mind that I'd attempt to push through were I to become the ISFL commissioner.
300+ words, 5 TPE
1. Try to make TPE matter for all positions
There are too many player positions available to users that simply has little to no return on the effort it takes to earn TPE. For example, myself being a cornerback max-earning from day one. Being the #1 earner in my class. And there has been no difference in my stats from my rookie season compared to my later seasons when my player was maxed out.
I know there are more positions just like cornerback, and this needs to change if we want highly-engaged users to stick around. Otherwise there's no reason to take on a league job, create media, or contribute to all point tasks. The TPE only ends up being important for the longevity of your player.
2. Replace Slot Corner archetype
In the same sense I want to task the sim balance team to replace irrelevant archetypes. All positions have several archetypes a user can choose. Most positions have at least one archetype that barely anyone picks because it's not in the meta. If the idea behind archetypes is to not have every player be the same, then we need to make sure all archetypes can be relevant to the game.
3. Open up fantasy groups
In my mind the only things closed fantasy groups do for us is push users away. Those of us who don't know or want to spend hours on researching every team and player just to field a reasonable fantasy team are hurt by this every season. The only reason I've seen any kind of success is thanks to the users who put in the work and share their rankings and reasoning. Several users in the fantasy server said that they have no clue what to do without these rankings. Imagine these rankings being a whole week late or more. At least half the fantasy teams would have poorly performing players and require full use of all waivers before season even started.
Quote:27. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why? (Written Task)I had many different ideas in my head when I was creating my player. Initially it was either cornerback or wide receiver as they're the opposite of each other on offense and defense. Also had a moment where I considered going for a quarterback but I quickly shot that down just because of the unspoken requirement to max earn. Although I did end up max-earning on my player, so it wouldn't have been a terrible choice I realize now. It likely would've been a lot of fun, playing a quarterback. It's a position that matters more than cornerback, and seemingly actually evolves and sees much more improvement as I collected TPE. Cornerback has been quite a disappointment, although still okay to play. If I knew then what I know now I definitely would've selected a different position, such as quarterback. Just because the effort I've put in would mean more and have more effect on the game.
150+ words, 2.5 TPE
Quote:36. Affiliate PT from the SHL/SSL/PBE. The weeks of the task must match with the timeframe of this Offseason Task. You may only use a max of 1.SHL Affiliate
2.5 TPE