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Sim gonna sim, it's interesting how far reaching the sim simming has and does. It not only affects people's days and temporary hopes and dreams of winning this or that, it has bearings on outcomes. Not just outcomes but it can retroactively have an effect on hind sight of the season. What I would like to explore is how the sim simming affected the perception of a trade and the ramifications here after.
Allow me to set the stage. It is season 46 and the season sim simmeried its way into allowing the Yellow Knife Wraiths to inexplicably win overtime after overtime to fight their way to the Ultimus. The Wraiths were not a favorite at all to even make the playoffs let alone win through them. The previous season the Wraiths were picking #1 in the draft for having the worst season in the ISFL. The sim was fickle that year, were the Wraiths the worst team in the ISFL, no. All the sim luck had been stored up and then bestowed upon the Wraiths in season 46 as they won two separate overtimes in order to find themselves in the Ultimus against the juggernaut team the evil empire of Arizona. Eight points and the inability to get things done in the air and the Wraiths Cinderella story of winning the Ultimus was over. 6-14 the final score, the Wraiths had trouble airing it out in a defensive battle. Now some would say, in fact most did, the wraiths had no business being there. However they had as much business as anybody else seeing as it's ‘any given simday’. The Wraiths were one good receiver from winning that. They had a chance. So what did the Yellow Knife Wraiths do? They made an aggressive trade for a wide receiver who would be at the top of their career.
The Wraiths approached Berlin, who had in the previous season offered a trade for one of their top receivers for a 1st and 2nd pick in the draft. The Wraiths knew last season asking and knowing the receiver was one more season older they didn’t play any games and approached with the exact offer. This is because Yellowknife doesn’t haggle, they calculate and then drop an offer and it's very rare if there's any wiggle room from that. Fair trade for a fair trade. Yellow Knife was aware it was considered and over pay. However they knew if they had Nick Williams in the Ultimus the season before in that same game and same outcome they could have won it all. So the Wraiths made an aggressive trade that the entire war room was aware and accepting of.
The Wraiths now start season 47 with high hopes. Now returning from the Ultimus the Wraiths have a Maxed Widereceiver. Then the sim, sim simmeried sim sim sabood us. That season was insane. We were beating the best teams out there and then losing to the worst teams out there who were falling over themselves trying to lose.
We did abysmally and that cast big doubts upon our trade. Had our season gone great the trade would have been an aggressive but necessary trade to have sealed and opened the Wraiths Ultimus window. Instead we did worse than expected, with what we felt was a better team. We lost to Honalulu and Colorado on their road to the bottom two teams that season. It was as if the Sim Gods had forsaken us. Once again we were on the heads side of the coin as tails never fail. Rumblings and whispers were that YellowKnife overpaid in that trade and therefore were suckers. If you wanted to fleece a team, then the Wraiths were the team you wanted to fleece because those suckers obviously over pay for old players. As if Yellow Knife was the new Florida where old people went to retire. Trades were coming in with older and older players, and we had to explain over and over that we were not a retirement home for the ISFL.
The sim simmed, and simmed its light on a new team that season. The Sim God kept her face from us, and sprinkled all that magic sim dust on another team who nobody thought would do it. Chicago managed to grab 1st place in the division as Baltimore just started to slide into losses. It was not what anybody expected for the outcome of that season and yes, the sim is gonna sim. When that sim, sims, watch out for you do not know the future ramifications of the past hind sight goggles the sim will hand out.
774 words
600+
Sim gonna sim, it's interesting how far reaching the sim simming has and does. It not only affects people's days and temporary hopes and dreams of winning this or that, it has bearings on outcomes. Not just outcomes but it can retroactively have an effect on hind sight of the season. What I would like to explore is how the sim simming affected the perception of a trade and the ramifications here after.
Allow me to set the stage. It is season 46 and the season sim simmeried its way into allowing the Yellow Knife Wraiths to inexplicably win overtime after overtime to fight their way to the Ultimus. The Wraiths were not a favorite at all to even make the playoffs let alone win through them. The previous season the Wraiths were picking #1 in the draft for having the worst season in the ISFL. The sim was fickle that year, were the Wraiths the worst team in the ISFL, no. All the sim luck had been stored up and then bestowed upon the Wraiths in season 46 as they won two separate overtimes in order to find themselves in the Ultimus against the juggernaut team the evil empire of Arizona. Eight points and the inability to get things done in the air and the Wraiths Cinderella story of winning the Ultimus was over. 6-14 the final score, the Wraiths had trouble airing it out in a defensive battle. Now some would say, in fact most did, the wraiths had no business being there. However they had as much business as anybody else seeing as it's ‘any given simday’. The Wraiths were one good receiver from winning that. They had a chance. So what did the Yellow Knife Wraiths do? They made an aggressive trade for a wide receiver who would be at the top of their career.
The Wraiths approached Berlin, who had in the previous season offered a trade for one of their top receivers for a 1st and 2nd pick in the draft. The Wraiths knew last season asking and knowing the receiver was one more season older they didn’t play any games and approached with the exact offer. This is because Yellowknife doesn’t haggle, they calculate and then drop an offer and it's very rare if there's any wiggle room from that. Fair trade for a fair trade. Yellow Knife was aware it was considered and over pay. However they knew if they had Nick Williams in the Ultimus the season before in that same game and same outcome they could have won it all. So the Wraiths made an aggressive trade that the entire war room was aware and accepting of.
The Wraiths now start season 47 with high hopes. Now returning from the Ultimus the Wraiths have a Maxed Widereceiver. Then the sim, sim simmeried sim sim sabood us. That season was insane. We were beating the best teams out there and then losing to the worst teams out there who were falling over themselves trying to lose.
We did abysmally and that cast big doubts upon our trade. Had our season gone great the trade would have been an aggressive but necessary trade to have sealed and opened the Wraiths Ultimus window. Instead we did worse than expected, with what we felt was a better team. We lost to Honalulu and Colorado on their road to the bottom two teams that season. It was as if the Sim Gods had forsaken us. Once again we were on the heads side of the coin as tails never fail. Rumblings and whispers were that YellowKnife overpaid in that trade and therefore were suckers. If you wanted to fleece a team, then the Wraiths were the team you wanted to fleece because those suckers obviously over pay for old players. As if Yellow Knife was the new Florida where old people went to retire. Trades were coming in with older and older players, and we had to explain over and over that we were not a retirement home for the ISFL.
The sim simmed, and simmed its light on a new team that season. The Sim God kept her face from us, and sprinkled all that magic sim dust on another team who nobody thought would do it. Chicago managed to grab 1st place in the division as Baltimore just started to slide into losses. It was not what anybody expected for the outcome of that season and yes, the sim is gonna sim. When that sim, sims, watch out for you do not know the future ramifications of the past hind sight goggles the sim will hand out.
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