09-07-2024, 10:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2024, 10:59 PM by Seven Arrows. Edited 2 times in total.)
Two Tier 2 items generating 5 points TPE each
Tier 2 #10
Hey, I'm a commissioner through a lottery. It's like being president for a day. What changes would I make? I think quite a few. Most importantly, dot football has to come to an end. It's boring to watch on YouTube. Terrible, in fact. How so? Well, first, they're dots, not even early Tecmo Bowl-like depictions. Second, the speed at which the game moves is so fast that it's very difficult to keep up with the play. We have to do better. The fact of the matter is that a great percentage of the players here rarely watch the live game. Most just look for the recaps that others provide. You can't tell me that there is not a better product out there to sim our league's games. With me, as commish, I guarantee that a sim engine would be provided as quickly as possible. It has to happen. It can't wait. I'm surprised the league has lasted as long as it has with the current product. It has, mostly, because of the camaraderie of the players who make up this league and not because of the sim engine. When compared to almost any other sim-related game, this is by far and away the worst. It would be my number one priority.
I would also address the forum and all its peculiarities. Though I like the way the required activities are easily found on one's home page, and that is a blessing, other navigational issues persist. These include but are not limited to user profile updates, alerts that don't always work, and others too numerous to mention here. I would put resources to this problem to update and make the forum simpler and more efficient to use.
Lastly, I would abolish the idea that forum discourse be an avenue for bank money. It's stupid. People aren't always going to be able to live on this forum to get money. There are and there will be under my guidance other more strategically proven methods to generate activity and still get money with the necessary burden of constant discourse.
Tier 2 #11
Golden Ericksen has just completed his first season in the DSFL. He was drafted by the Bondi Beach Bucs in the first round and was the #4 pick OA. Ericksen was a possession receiver and was immediately put into the starting lineup. As his experience developed, Golden made immediate contributions to the team effort. He had a great QB with whom he established a good relationship and the two connected quite well. A complimentary running game also helped. Though Bondi Beach did not have a particularly successful season, Ericksen finished with the fourth highest receiving yards, the third most TDs, and it resulted in his being picked as a DSFL All Pro at his position. Ericksen was thrilled when he was selected by the San Jose Sabercats as the tenth pick in the first round of the ISFL draft. He was sent down to play a second season in Bondi where he currently sits with 367 TPE and counting. He is looking forward to another season with BBB as will all of his drafted teammates. Those BBB draftees are all capped in their positions so they will start out with a lot of experience and strength. The team is a little weak at some spots on defense and those will need to be overcome if the team expects to win the Ultimini championship. The optimism runs high however as the vets have dedicated themselves to hard work in the offseason. This effort was immediate following the season. And, hey, it's not tough hanging at the beach here in Australia. We even tangled with a few sharks while swimming in the ocean. They were no match for these Bucs. Oh, and we did do a little pillaging and plundering along the way. The beer tastes pretty good here too.
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Tier 2 #10
Hey, I'm a commissioner through a lottery. It's like being president for a day. What changes would I make? I think quite a few. Most importantly, dot football has to come to an end. It's boring to watch on YouTube. Terrible, in fact. How so? Well, first, they're dots, not even early Tecmo Bowl-like depictions. Second, the speed at which the game moves is so fast that it's very difficult to keep up with the play. We have to do better. The fact of the matter is that a great percentage of the players here rarely watch the live game. Most just look for the recaps that others provide. You can't tell me that there is not a better product out there to sim our league's games. With me, as commish, I guarantee that a sim engine would be provided as quickly as possible. It has to happen. It can't wait. I'm surprised the league has lasted as long as it has with the current product. It has, mostly, because of the camaraderie of the players who make up this league and not because of the sim engine. When compared to almost any other sim-related game, this is by far and away the worst. It would be my number one priority.
I would also address the forum and all its peculiarities. Though I like the way the required activities are easily found on one's home page, and that is a blessing, other navigational issues persist. These include but are not limited to user profile updates, alerts that don't always work, and others too numerous to mention here. I would put resources to this problem to update and make the forum simpler and more efficient to use.
Lastly, I would abolish the idea that forum discourse be an avenue for bank money. It's stupid. People aren't always going to be able to live on this forum to get money. There are and there will be under my guidance other more strategically proven methods to generate activity and still get money with the necessary burden of constant discourse.
Tier 2 #11
Golden Ericksen has just completed his first season in the DSFL. He was drafted by the Bondi Beach Bucs in the first round and was the #4 pick OA. Ericksen was a possession receiver and was immediately put into the starting lineup. As his experience developed, Golden made immediate contributions to the team effort. He had a great QB with whom he established a good relationship and the two connected quite well. A complimentary running game also helped. Though Bondi Beach did not have a particularly successful season, Ericksen finished with the fourth highest receiving yards, the third most TDs, and it resulted in his being picked as a DSFL All Pro at his position. Ericksen was thrilled when he was selected by the San Jose Sabercats as the tenth pick in the first round of the ISFL draft. He was sent down to play a second season in Bondi where he currently sits with 367 TPE and counting. He is looking forward to another season with BBB as will all of his drafted teammates. Those BBB draftees are all capped in their positions so they will start out with a lot of experience and strength. The team is a little weak at some spots on defense and those will need to be overcome if the team expects to win the Ultimini championship. The optimism runs high however as the vets have dedicated themselves to hard work in the offseason. This effort was immediate following the season. And, hey, it's not tough hanging at the beach here in Australia. We even tangled with a few sharks while swimming in the ocean. They were no match for these Bucs. Oh, and we did do a little pillaging and plundering along the way. The beer tastes pretty good here too.
650 words