06-03-2023, 12:49 AM
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13. Choose a team or player to write about that isn’t your own. What did they do well in the last season? Have they shown any drastic improvements from previous years? What could they do better?
I really would like to talk about the Arizona Outlaws and how insane their sustained stretch of success has been. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that people were joking about how Arizona was cursed because they always seemed to be a top tier team, but could never really wrap things together and finish everything up with a championship. They seemed to never finish despite being dominant and it was easy then to really ignore what they had been doing. Now that they've managed to piece together a few championships recently, you can no longer ignore what they've done over the past 20 or so seasons. To find the last season that Arizona didn't finish at the top of the ASFC, you have to go back five seasons to S36. In that season they still made playoffs even and won a playoff game, so it wasn't even a huge drop. You would have to go all the way back to S26, a full 15 seasons back to find the last time Arizona missed the playoffs and even that was on a technicality as there was a five way tie for first place in the ASFC and Arizona got the short end of the sim's decision of who got in despite them having the largest point differential of the group! In the 15 consecutive seasons of playoff visits, Arizona was the number one seed in the ASFC 11 times and were the number one seed in the entire league 7 times. Yes, you're reading that right. Arizona has been the top team in the league for half of the last 15 seasons. It doesn't matter who has come to the team or who has left, no matter what changes have happened. GMs, rule changes, big draft classes, small draft classes, retirements. No matter the change, Arizona has mastered it and stayed on top. It has been a spectacle to watch and though they've not brought home as many trophies, their dominance resembled the Otter teams of old that always seemed to be in the mix to win it all.
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)
This one is a fairly easy task as RAINN has already swapped! Starting as a quarterback, RAINN had only really been created at a position of need to help out friends in the league. The reality was, quarterback was never originally in mind for this create and something like WR seemed far more up my alley. I've never been the type of user to want the big stats or be center of attention, so I've always elected to play positions that get less attention and while WR is a flashier position, I could easily see RAINN spending their entire career at WR2 or even WR3. I would rather see other users shine, especially if it helps keep them active! I'm just not very interested in stats or the sim overall and am here for the community, so swapping into something less central and attention grabbing is absolutely perfect for my preferences overall. I'm pretty happy with where RAINN is at now and while it wasn't something I chose myself, it is something I'm satisfied with.
36. Affiliate
SHL Affiliate WithTheMoose
I really would like to talk about the Arizona Outlaws and how insane their sustained stretch of success has been. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that people were joking about how Arizona was cursed because they always seemed to be a top tier team, but could never really wrap things together and finish everything up with a championship. They seemed to never finish despite being dominant and it was easy then to really ignore what they had been doing. Now that they've managed to piece together a few championships recently, you can no longer ignore what they've done over the past 20 or so seasons. To find the last season that Arizona didn't finish at the top of the ASFC, you have to go back five seasons to S36. In that season they still made playoffs even and won a playoff game, so it wasn't even a huge drop. You would have to go all the way back to S26, a full 15 seasons back to find the last time Arizona missed the playoffs and even that was on a technicality as there was a five way tie for first place in the ASFC and Arizona got the short end of the sim's decision of who got in despite them having the largest point differential of the group! In the 15 consecutive seasons of playoff visits, Arizona was the number one seed in the ASFC 11 times and were the number one seed in the entire league 7 times. Yes, you're reading that right. Arizona has been the top team in the league for half of the last 15 seasons. It doesn't matter who has come to the team or who has left, no matter what changes have happened. GMs, rule changes, big draft classes, small draft classes, retirements. No matter the change, Arizona has mastered it and stayed on top. It has been a spectacle to watch and though they've not brought home as many trophies, their dominance resembled the Otter teams of old that always seemed to be in the mix to win it all.
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)
This one is a fairly easy task as RAINN has already swapped! Starting as a quarterback, RAINN had only really been created at a position of need to help out friends in the league. The reality was, quarterback was never originally in mind for this create and something like WR seemed far more up my alley. I've never been the type of user to want the big stats or be center of attention, so I've always elected to play positions that get less attention and while WR is a flashier position, I could easily see RAINN spending their entire career at WR2 or even WR3. I would rather see other users shine, especially if it helps keep them active! I'm just not very interested in stats or the sim overall and am here for the community, so swapping into something less central and attention grabbing is absolutely perfect for my preferences overall. I'm pretty happy with where RAINN is at now and while it wasn't something I chose myself, it is something I'm satisfied with.
36. Affiliate
SHL Affiliate WithTheMoose