(S51) Offseason Task

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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?

Oh boy, commissioner for the day! The first thing i would do is communicate with the commissioners of the Simulation Hockey League and the Pro Baseball Experience and setup a universal bank account with a transfer tax between leagues of 50%. One of the biggest deterrents for sim leagues for users can be earning money and I think as commissioner approving this initiative would help improve recruitment and activity for the International Simulation Football League. So with that initiative it leads into my second one, improving tight ends in the sim that we use. Right now, the league is in a situation where tight end is not in a healthy place despite the league's best efforts. Since so many teams use positions outside of tight end to play tight end, I would immediately ban any position from playing the tight end position unless the player is an actual tight end. We need to allow the position to matter and for it to thrive it needs to become more exclusive and meaningful. I am selfishly doing this because I wanted to make a tight end and found was told it is not worth it since teams don't need an actual tight end playing there which I find to be ridiculous. The third thing I would do to help improve the league, is add two more teams and create divisions. Now, I am not saying this is necessarily a good idea but it would definitely cause chaos and make the playoffs longer and more dramatic as well as make the the regular season even more intense. I think this would make the playoffs overall better with more teams means more chaos and possible upsets plus only three teams making the playoffs right now is unfortunate. These would be the big three changes I would make as commissioner for the day because I feel like the league already operates well and these would be an overall net positive.

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14. Expansion Expansion Expansion! Tell us why you think the league should expand / not expand or include any ideas (in words) for team branding ideas you have or team locations.

The International Simulation Football League should definitely expand for a couple reasons. The first of which would be expanded playoffs. It has always felt like the ISFL playoffs were too quick and should have more teams involved. Additionally, expansion also means moving to divisions within the two existing conferences and possible realignment to give the league a fresh outlook and who plays who. This could reinforce rivalries and make them more meaningful within divisions. The trickle down effect of this would be the Developmental Simulation Football League would have to contract but allow players to come up sooner and help speed up rebuilds. Now when it comes to branding idea, there is such an untapped market in sim leagues that I want to be addressed with this expansion. The first of which a team in Ohio is a must have. No sim league utilizes this powerful midwest state and it is a true travesty. So the first team will be the Cleveland River Rats. With the history of the Cuyahoga River and the pollution it suffered many years ago having the River Rats is an elite name. The second location is in Pennsylvania. We must bring a team back to Philadelphia!! I think we should straight up bring back the original branding of the Philadelphia Liberty. Some alternative brandings as security nets are: Mexico City Diablos. Bringing the league to Mexico City would be huge for fan interest, especially with a DSFL team not too far away bringing a ISFL team would be absolutely electric and help grow the support in the Americas. Another possible team is the Ireland Football Club. Keep it simple yet effective. Getting a team to Ireland would be absolutely huge for the league and expanding the global reach of the ISFL. Ultimately, I am in favor of expansion and I think any of these teams would be awesome locations and brandings to make the league reach more people. There are so many places you can come up with to expand and I think having at least one team internationally and one team in midwest United States would be amazing.

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