(S48) Offseason Task

[Reedy0rNot]

18. This task is exclusive to recreate/non-recreate rookies of the S48 class and later. The season is over and the draft is coming up. What do you bring to a team, and why should a team choose to take a chance on you next season? (Written Task)

What do I bring to the team. A Physical force that will be able to hold off almost any defensive player. Think of me as an unmovable wall that is a lot more violent. I am also a businessman, quite capable of using my brain to outsmart most players on and off the field. I think I could be a great addition on any team. Not to mention I believe that there is always a need for good offensive lineman. In a world where most offensive lineman look like any old robot. I can bring that live energy back. And to the teams that passed on me. Good luck getting by me now I am not want one to hold a grudge, but I will not make it easy on you guys this season or any of my other seasons. Your only hopes for dealing with me when I get called up to the big leagues. (WC - 156)

26. If your player wasn't a professional in the ISFL/DSFL, what would they be doing instead? (Written Task or Graphic Task)

I have always loved card game and math. So if I was unable to play football at the professional level I’d probably be a blackjack player. 

31. Make up an award for your player (or even someone else) to win for something not on the football field. (Written or Graphic Task)

[CementHands]

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My draft class of s46 is special in my own mind because it wasn't a very large one, but also because you have a small group of pretty excellent users from it - Kale, Sloth, dom, Russ, lcc and flex to name a few others. Some of us are about to enter our rookie seasons, and some others just came off their first (I bullied my way to starting as a pure rookie because I just didn't want to hang around the dsfl for any longer than i needed to - sorry Portland (Although they just won, so they wouldn't be too mad)). The group is also earning at a pretty good clip. I view myself as an absolute medium earner on this player - doing the tasks like this horrible, silly writeup for the TPE crack which we all crave and I am currently number 20 out of 29 still surviving in the class. There is a pretty big jump in tpe to the player above me as well, so the class overall is staying going and soon is going to be clicking hardcore and among the best in their positions before you know it.
Looking at the top of the class you have some very well known names - and a lot of GMs as well, so you have some guaranteed high preforming players who will likely break 1.4k TPE in their career and also go on to fight regression for a few seasons to boot - some long tenured high ceiling players who is basically every GMs dream to be able to draft. 
From the class the players who I think have a very strong shot at hall of fame include Purdy Mediocre who despite his name is a max earning running back for Arizona, so assuming he plays most of his career with them, he's going to factor in heavily on the stat board and he will get a lot of playoff games as well - and probably a few more championships on top of the 1 he already has up on me. It's a good position to be in.
Another one who I think is primed to be a shoe in is Jack Sloth. Kickers are a bit of an oddity position, but he's max earning and I believe will continue to do so. He's going to be a top tier kicker for a long time in the league, and New Orleans is not a basement team, on paper they are actually looking pretty solid, so Sloth should get some really good seasons and as long as the longevity is there he should be a force to be reckoned with, putting up really good numbers over a long career which should be a really good knod to hall in the distant future.
After that I'll throw in Dulio's Beard as well. Another high end user with a track record and a massive bank account. I don't think he's a GM so I don't see any real reason why he might be position swap happy, or choose to end the career early which I think is a very important metric in anything Hall of Fame. If you position swap late, it's not going to be easy to make a case for you stats wise, and then longevity being another factor, you want to have a long career so you have a lot of time to chase those all time high scores, which if you are able to get a career stat under your belt I think you are pretty much a lock in.

I'm electing to leave out the users who I recognize to be GM's because my experience is many of them are very team first. That makes a good gm and good team leadership to be flexible, but also it doesn't line up with some of the wants from a hall of fame player. They are additionally tied to their team, so there isn't the ability to hop around if the need arises.

Anyways thanks for reading my ted talk, I'll be back next season.

[kenvald]

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?
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There are a couple of items on my mind that I'd attempt to push through were I to become the ISFL commissioner.

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.

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)
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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.

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.
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SHL Affiliate

[Bazooka_Joe]

36. PBE affiliate https://probaseballexperience.jcink.net/...t&p=721212
2.5 TPE

29. What team do you think has the best branding in the league? Why?
Best branding in the league by far I would say my two favorites, one would have to be the Yellow Knife Wraiths and the other is probably the New York Silverbacks. These two just pop out top me, maybe can be different colors but the reason why I like Yellow Knife is the rare name and the place they are from. It's just really different and the name "Wraiths" is a solid team name that doesn't include an animal like most teams do nowadays. Silverbacks is all about their logo, it's a solid logo and color scheme. It doesn't even have to be from New York to work but the fact that it is brings me King Kong vibes and I find that pretty solid. The logo which I have never seen before coming into this league you can tell took some time and some thought behind it. One of the best logos and mascots in this league. Some close seconds are the Colorado Yeti and Bondi Beach Buccaneers. 
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16. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
Disappointment for not only Bazooka but in Baltimore all together is the one word that we can use for this past season. To rally off two quick wins and get smashed by Yellow Knife in week three hurt but to rally off another six straight wins was great. We were sitting at 8-1 in the midway point of the season, and it seemed nothing was going to slow us down. The next seven weeks we would finish the season at 2-5 and barely limp into the playoffs where we would eventually get beat by Cape Town. It felt like the Eagles season in the NFL. Just rallying off a streak of wins and looking like one of the best football teams in the league to finally being figured out and quickly disposed of. 
For Bazooka it wasn't all bad for the most part. With 88 tackles he didn't come close to his previous season of 101 but his sack total was crazy good. Coming from one the season before Joe smashed that number and had 11 for the whole season and really proved himself to be one of the better young Linebackers in the league. This coming season is going to be huge as he was voted as the defensive captain this season as well. If there is one thing Joe wants to work on for the next season it's to clean up his solo tackles and to be in the backfield more often for some tackles for loss. In order to help Baltimore be a winner Joe and the Baltimore defense has to be one of the best in the league. Super exciting stuff for not only Joe but for Baltimore as we try and silence a lot of haters out there in the ISFL. Cannot wait for the Hawks to hopefully finish out this coming season on a strong note. Last season left a bitter taste in our mouths. 
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[Gordon Bombay]

Pbe affiliate

[deadlunatic]

Boy, would this be a poor decision to put me in charge, but if it were so, my first order of business would be to ban all postings in the forums by Darkness. Mostly just for my amusement, he would be allowed to view all posts but not respond to them. The second order of business would be to revamp the money economy and how each team is constructed. How exactly I would accomplish this, I am not sure yet. But I would definitely be looking at swapping to the new NCAA football game. I assume it can't be worse at simming games than the current one. (I know  we like to poke fun at the sim, I also know it does a decent job at what it is supposed to do. But play calling and gettting simmed are real things.) Then of course bring back the stock market, because who does not love making money at the expense of the man. I know I love free money. Speaking of money I would like more money please, which means I would be adding a money for lazy people function where we steal from the rich and give to the poor! Which would benefit me greatly, not so much the uber rich, but then again I am pretty sure they cheated to get that much money anyways. This ties in to why I want to ban Darkness just in case there were any questions as to why. More awards for positions I played and awards I could have and should have won, like best wide receiver who spent most of his career as the number two on the team and was still a wildy successful. In the end this game is about winning, er I mean having fun and meeting people and making myself feel better about how well my dot does with almost no actual control from me.



Talk about a back story, this is the reincarnation of Mark Walker, or at least that is how we have to word it so no one realizes it is actually Mark Walker come back out of retirement, but by doing it this way he can regain all that pesky TPE theft the league has committed. But we can not tell any one the truth, as some would call that an unfair advantage with all the experience he already has. But if he can manage to even come close to his first career he would be the only player in history to have two seperate seasons of that caliber. While he may be out of football shape at the moment, he has not really lost any real world speed. Mostly it is just getting back up to speed in how quick the game moves. And of course learning new quarter backs and team mates and play calling. But for an old veteran that stuff comes quick. He may be old, but he is still sharp in the head. But, again this is all hush hush at the moment, I am still working on a rules work around that does not involve hush money and bribery. Apparently that sort of thing is frowned upon in these here parts. But again, this is not really illegal so much as out of the box thinking, hopefully the others do not get wind of this and try to copy my technique. Makes you wonder if this article is even a good idea, but then again, I do not think many people talked about Walker for his smarts, no it was his football running and catching that mattered to those who ball. But for now, we shall start at the bottom again and see just how high Walker the second can fly. If you feel the need to snitch after reading this, do not.

[Nathan]

Task 27: 
To preface I didn't pick safety for my current position; someone else did as I decided to give it away in the most recent charity drive auctions.  If I had my pick for position, it would be offensive line again.  The biggest reason was my experience in Berlin with very little offensive line skill, some points where we had no human offensive lineman at all.  The offenses were terrible, I had like three seasons where we gave up nearly 70 sacks, and the running game was even worse with a 1000 TPE Armor Queen than a 350 TPE IA Rab TheCrab.  The other reason is that I really don't prioritize the moments where my player is shown doing something like a sack or an interception.  That lack of emphasis doesn't make the biggest bottleneck to offensive linemen apply to me.  I care much more about the team's success as a whole and I know that me being there as a high TPE lineman helps as it did in the past.

Task 28:
Most of my gripes with football's rules is with the officials and their inaccuracy.  Demanding perfection is obviously unreasonable, and I understand that, but the problem is that said officials refuse to utilize tools to help mitigate the imperfect human element.  We saw this in 2019 with the addition of reviewable pass interference in the NFL.  Only one challenge was successful in 2019 out of several dozen challenges, even in cases where pass interference was blatant.  In terms of actual rule changes, the first that comes to mind is kickoffs, or the abolition of them.  The NFL did radically change them in the 2024 offseason; adopting the XFL's version of a punter, kick returner, and the rest of the players standing stationary until the ball is received, but I think that's wholly unnecessary, as well as completely neutering any ability at an onside conversion.  The much simpler answer in my opinion was to adopt the defunct AAF's solution albeit modified.  After a score, the scoring team gets the ball on their own 30 with it being 4th and 10.  They can punt the ball away or attempt the 4th down conversion.  My own proposal would have no restriction on when a team could attempt on 4th down, unlike the AAFs.

[Gage2]

Task 7
The ISFL, A league home to many, But just how many fans does each team have. I will be evaluating them to see who I think has the bandwagons.I think Arizona is a bandwagon team for sure, it's not the team's fault but when you win big, The bandwagon will form. I'm sure some guy claims he's been down since S1 but we all know he's full of it. The otters at one point most likely had similar fans and they are now the outlaw fans. Everyone loves the winner, and then moves on to the next winner. Teams like Berlin and Yellowknife i consider to be hardcore fans The Luchadores are also in this mix.They're niche teams to support but are big in their native regions.Berlin even more so as the high highs and low lows can be experienced similar to a team like Cape Town who is unique. CTC struggled big as the Liberty but have since gone to the ultimus twice under a new name. I'm sure this attracted a bandwagon but must have pissed off the old fans who sat through the struggle. I can also see most DSFL teams having a dedicated fanbase. It makes you wonder if fans of the Grey Ducks would root for Chicago since they are a close by team to like.The same can be said about Austin and Dallas. Speaking of the butchers I see them more as a casual fan base as of right now compared to other teams. Another big fan base I suspect is New York. This is just speaking purely from the region that this teams fans would be from, They maintain most of the north eastern fans in the league. Teams like the Sabercats are stuck as they are in an interstate rivalry, It is most likely a norcal and socal thing between these fanbases.Historic teams are more bound to have more fans in my opinion, The Baltimore Hawks are one of these teams that despite relocation rumors to Toronto back in the day, Have been a staple and stuck around and i can imagine the fans did as well. The Norfolk Seawolves are the DSFL equivalent of a team like this as well.But what about the places without a team in the league. Well I would say places like Atlanta would be either NOLA or Sarasota fans. Boston most likely would refuse to root for a New York team and are probably just fans of college sports in this universe. Europe may love the sallies but would probably switch to a local team if a place like Barcelona or even within Germany got a team, Berlin would lose fans, Same with Yellowknife as they are the smallest market team in the ISFL, Toronto would have a good amount of fans but Yellowknife with their success and history would still have a majority hold I believe in the ISFL. Who does Asia root for? Some parts would be Bucs fans but places like Japan and China would probably love to be home to a team in the league eventually, Africa is the latest tapped into market but what if another team showed up somewhere in the continent to give CTC a run. Its interesting to think about the international markets in the ISFL as they usually only host a team at most, While most of the league sits in North America. I would love to see a team in Seoul or Osaka as the next market to tackle. Its one of the parts of the world that needs it, India and Pakistan as well could be in the mix as these countries probably root for players with the heritage of the country more so than an actual team. What about another UK fanbase like Northern Ireland or Scotland? This could be a dsfl team that has a derby to show whos the best between them and the royals.

[homercrates]

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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.


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[Keyg_an]

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16. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?

Despite making it further than ever expected considering it was an incredible post season run for the Cape Town Crash, but unfortunately all good things come to an end. After back to back upsets to get themselves a place in the Ultimus, the horseshoe fell out of Dru Freduci’s pocket, resulting in a devastating loss for the Crash. Despite this result, it was a promising showing for the incredibly young Crash, who relied on their mobile quarterback and glut of running backs to get them to the dance in the first place. The Crash relied on their incredibly strong defence in order to help them arrive in the Ultimus, as a team they recorded multiple pick sixes and the offense head their own as well leading them to multiple tightly contested wins. However ultimately they fell short. This became the ultimate lowlight for Dru Freduci.

In terms of highlights Dru Freduci had a better season than he expected, 609 yards and 3 touchdowns as the third receiver on a not pass heavy offense was more than expected, but still less than he desired, he aspires to move up the depth chart this season to replace the recently departed Malik Brooks in the passing portion of the offense.

Ultimately for next season the expectation is just to be better than he was the season before, Dru is a relatively simple man in regards to personal accolades and ultimately desires for the team to succeed more than anything else in the world. He does not much care for whether or not he eclipses one thousand receiving yards or whether he catches 10 touchdowns, all he cares about is what team is hoisting the ultimus at the end of the season and he will do whatever it takes to be the final team next season, because the taste of defeat in the finals is still fresh in his mouth.

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24. You’re in charge of entertainment for the Ultimus or Ultimini half-time show. What would you do? (Written Task)

With Dru in charge of the Ultimus half time show he has decided the best course of action would be to bring in infamous former head coach of the Independence Community College Pirates Jason Brown in to record a live episode of his podcast. This would be entertaining primarily because Jason Brown knows football, but took far too many sacks while at quarterback and now struggles to tell the difference between colours, let alone carry an intelligent conversation. This would bring money back to Independence after millions of tax payer dollars went in to building a brand new facility prior to coach Browns departure. Dru has requested that former players Bobby Bruce and Malik Henry attend as well as they were focal points on the team that carried Brown to the finals back in his final season. If everything else fails, Dru Freduci personally knows the actor that played left shark and could request they come in to do a 30 minute performance to backing vocals from Katy Perry.

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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)

If Dru's current and former positions were no longer available as choices to play as positions in the international simulation football league, then he would have no other option but to choose to be a defensive linemen, more specifically a defensive end. I as the operator of Dru have always loved players like Aaron Donald and how their sheer presence is enough to completely overhaul every aspect of the opponents game playing. It is insane to me that in a sport where the rosters are up to 53 players deep, that a single player like Aaron Donald can be so impactful that they can single handedly impact the game to the point of changing how many offensive linemen are on the line, or how many times a quarterback is forced to scramble. Aaron Donald changed the landscape of football, and I would aspire for Dru to do the same but in the confines of the international simulation football league.