11-10-2020, 07:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2020, 07:21 AM by Opera_Phantom.)
9) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
Where to start... As you should know if you had a player in this sim league for a few seasons now, since Jay Cue got promoted from the DSFL to lead the Arizona Outlaws in the ISFL, the team never made it to the playoffs until this season. This means that from season 20 until season 25, they played the regular season games and that was it, season over, let us start thinking about next season and what we can do to improve. So, this season was a big deal, as we finally made it to the post season, fighting against pretty much everything that my boy Cue could throw at the team to make it more difficult, but eventually the Outlaws managed to get the 2nd place in the conference and a home game in the playoffs. Unfortunately for them, last night we saw again Vintage Cue and they lost. Done.
This brings me to the teams future. Obviously, when you have a player on the league you want to play for titles, and when you regularly miss the playoffs (or lose straight away), the player turnover gets big. We lost a few players in the previous seasons, that wanted to play for championship contenders, and after this seasons heartbreak, we already know that at least 3 fundamental players will be leaving, making us a weaker team, while improving, who knows, even conference opponents. The Outlaws have been drafting really well for a few seasons, but they seem to never get their players together during their prime. For some reason or another, they lose them right before they start being impactful, and even when they have record breaking seasons, their offensive leader is a 1400 TE QB who likes to throw INTs and fumble the ball at the 1 yard line.
I think we will continue drafting very well, we have enough picks to address some of the teams needs, but even though we tried to get some players in free agency that would make an impact right from the start, i do not think we will be able to get any.
With Jay Cue regressing by 25% in a few days and entering his last season before being replaced by Charlemagne Cortez, i feel like the team already is past the all in mode, and will be looking a bit more into shaping the team for Cortez. Well, maybe if we stop testing and randomly select strats we will be able to finally have a run at the Ultimus.
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27) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
I think that every team on the league, while looking into the present and doing their best to get results, also needs to look into the future so that they do not reach a point on their franchise history and have no real objectives. This means that during every draft, teams look into their probable needs, maybe 2 or 3 seasons in advance. I can speak for the Arizona Outlaws regarding that, as a war room member, because we have had very good drafts, especially on defense, that supposedly were helping us to be set up for a championship run when the players got to a decent amount of TPE.
But then, right in the middle of it, expansion was announced, and as one of the youngest teams with active users, we knew that was bad news for our roster. Now, i do believe that expansion was needed and i welcome new teams as it makes the league bigger and better, but it sucks to be planning something in advance and then lose 3 very important player because we just can't protect everyone we wanted. And even looking at the personal part of things, you spend a couple of seasons building a relationship with some users, that unfortunately 1 day just have to go and play for a different team. Maybe we see each other again later.
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28) Select any player who was drafted in the back half of a DSFL or ISFL draft. Show how that player has outperformed their draft position, or how they will soon do so. You cannot write about your own player.
There is now way to answer this question without looking into Season 22 Draft. Lots of big players, fantastic users, that are now making a big impact in the league, being current HO members, award winners, current and former General Managers, both in the ISFL and the ISFL, league job holders and heads, definitely users that really helped improve the league experience for everyone and set the tone for the future. But one user of that draft class just dropped immensely during draft day, mainly because of his hard hitting attitude on discord, that set off a few users to even state that they did not want to be drafted to the same team as him, something that in my short experience, i had never seen before. He was near the top of the table TPE wise when the draft came, but no team pulled the trigger to pick him. So he started dropping, and dropping, until the Arizona Outlaws decided to use their 54th overall pick and select Zamir Kehla, cornerback, from the University of Texas. And for someone drafted in the 5th round, he has really outperformed that position, as he is/was a fundamental part of the Arizona Outlaws strategy and is nearing 1000 TPE already. Getting a 5th rounder with that amount of dedication is just something special.
(222 words)
Where to start... As you should know if you had a player in this sim league for a few seasons now, since Jay Cue got promoted from the DSFL to lead the Arizona Outlaws in the ISFL, the team never made it to the playoffs until this season. This means that from season 20 until season 25, they played the regular season games and that was it, season over, let us start thinking about next season and what we can do to improve. So, this season was a big deal, as we finally made it to the post season, fighting against pretty much everything that my boy Cue could throw at the team to make it more difficult, but eventually the Outlaws managed to get the 2nd place in the conference and a home game in the playoffs. Unfortunately for them, last night we saw again Vintage Cue and they lost. Done.
This brings me to the teams future. Obviously, when you have a player on the league you want to play for titles, and when you regularly miss the playoffs (or lose straight away), the player turnover gets big. We lost a few players in the previous seasons, that wanted to play for championship contenders, and after this seasons heartbreak, we already know that at least 3 fundamental players will be leaving, making us a weaker team, while improving, who knows, even conference opponents. The Outlaws have been drafting really well for a few seasons, but they seem to never get their players together during their prime. For some reason or another, they lose them right before they start being impactful, and even when they have record breaking seasons, their offensive leader is a 1400 TE QB who likes to throw INTs and fumble the ball at the 1 yard line.
I think we will continue drafting very well, we have enough picks to address some of the teams needs, but even though we tried to get some players in free agency that would make an impact right from the start, i do not think we will be able to get any.
With Jay Cue regressing by 25% in a few days and entering his last season before being replaced by Charlemagne Cortez, i feel like the team already is past the all in mode, and will be looking a bit more into shaping the team for Cortez. Well, maybe if we stop testing and randomly select strats we will be able to finally have a run at the Ultimus.
(421 words)
27) The league is prone to change. Reflect on a past change in either the ISFL or DSFL that significantly impacted something - be it a rules change, an expansion or contraction, or even a complete rebranding. What were the effects of this change, and how has it shaken the status quo?
I think that every team on the league, while looking into the present and doing their best to get results, also needs to look into the future so that they do not reach a point on their franchise history and have no real objectives. This means that during every draft, teams look into their probable needs, maybe 2 or 3 seasons in advance. I can speak for the Arizona Outlaws regarding that, as a war room member, because we have had very good drafts, especially on defense, that supposedly were helping us to be set up for a championship run when the players got to a decent amount of TPE.
But then, right in the middle of it, expansion was announced, and as one of the youngest teams with active users, we knew that was bad news for our roster. Now, i do believe that expansion was needed and i welcome new teams as it makes the league bigger and better, but it sucks to be planning something in advance and then lose 3 very important player because we just can't protect everyone we wanted. And even looking at the personal part of things, you spend a couple of seasons building a relationship with some users, that unfortunately 1 day just have to go and play for a different team. Maybe we see each other again later.
(227 words)
28) Select any player who was drafted in the back half of a DSFL or ISFL draft. Show how that player has outperformed their draft position, or how they will soon do so. You cannot write about your own player.
There is now way to answer this question without looking into Season 22 Draft. Lots of big players, fantastic users, that are now making a big impact in the league, being current HO members, award winners, current and former General Managers, both in the ISFL and the ISFL, league job holders and heads, definitely users that really helped improve the league experience for everyone and set the tone for the future. But one user of that draft class just dropped immensely during draft day, mainly because of his hard hitting attitude on discord, that set off a few users to even state that they did not want to be drafted to the same team as him, something that in my short experience, i had never seen before. He was near the top of the table TPE wise when the draft came, but no team pulled the trigger to pick him. So he started dropping, and dropping, until the Arizona Outlaws decided to use their 54th overall pick and select Zamir Kehla, cornerback, from the University of Texas. And for someone drafted in the 5th round, he has really outperformed that position, as he is/was a fundamental part of the Arizona Outlaws strategy and is nearing 1000 TPE already. Getting a 5th rounder with that amount of dedication is just something special.
(222 words)