Hey guys! With the new off season tournament, a recent controversy regarding a minor punishment and all other things NSFL related happening I figured it was a good time for an HO presser. Ask me whatever you want and I will answer to the best of my ability.
From @DeathOnReddit
"Favorite GMs and why is it me?"
Umm.............. all 16 GMs tied for first. Is my official answer as HO
"Most annoying thing HO had to deal with?"
Oy. Where to begin. The multis of ER were not fun to have to investigate and deal with. The Las Vegas Legion mass retirement was pretty brutal. But I have to say having our head simmer ghost on us, and then be active in discord and active in other leagues was brutal. Dealing with the issues Keygan caused was probably my worst time as an HO member.
"Do you love me?"
Of course
from @tbone415
"Worst player in the league and why is it Asipi?"
Its pretty close between Asipi and Terrel Brister. Tough call.
From @bovovovo
"1. How dare you?
2. Who do you think you are?
3. What gives you the right?
4. Where do you get off?
5. How do you sleep with yourself at night?"
1 - :belly: :belly:
2. pretty sure I'm iamslm22
3. for some reason dumbasses Dermott, and Asylum decided to pick me for HO and then even worse the DSFL GMs voted for me as commish. Idiots
4. It varies, but usually in my room
5. Lots and lots of whiskey.
1. What areas do you think the league can/should improve the most in?
I think there are two areas we can still improve. The first is recruiting. tbone has been incredible since he's gotten there as we got a great S7 class out of NO reddit subs, which is pretty fricken incredible. If we can get a great class in S8 that will sustain our site for a while. The other area we have to improve in is consistency in simming. We need to ensure better that our strats and DCs are up to date and nothing gets messed up. We've noticed a couple times some errors after the fact and we are always up front with teams. We just have to keep improving our safeguards (which we are doing)
2. How did the Noble appeal go?
We actually were in the process of reviewing Noble, but things got difficult to do during the season. We will evaluate his petition this upcoming off season.
3. Has there been any thought about "fixing" minimum contracts? I remember that being a hot button issue earlier but it seems to have died down.
I think something needs to be done regarding minimum contracts. The Baltimore GMs and I had a rule we proposed last off season rule summit and it failed. By a lot. No GMs voted for it. I wasn't planning on proposing something again, unless the GMs did it.
4. Who do you think wins the Ultimus this year?
You gotta beat the King to become the King. Right now the Otters have to be the favorites til someone proves they can beat them.
From @ElvinEnchant
"Do you have plans to add more features to the site, or are you more focus on fixing problems you already have?"
I think it's both. We obviously have to fix some problems. And we're working on those. But we're not trying to be stagnant either. We've added the NCT to make the offseason better. We have other additions that we are working on. Twitter was recently added. Youtube is something we're working on (as you know very well ). So I think the answer is both.
"When will the upgrade from DDSPF 2016 to DDSPF 2018 happen, if ever?"
It's very difficult to say. There are a lot of things that are tough about the transition, but it's something we have people working on to see about our ability to do it. It's tough to say exactly when though, but the move appears inevitable if we can jump through certain hurdles.
"How has being the HO been for you, overall?"
Umm... well I love this league. I love trying to make it better. Are there days where I wish I wasn't head office? Of course. I mean we are constantly shit on for trying to do our best. The Pens punishment is a perfect example. I thought it was pretty void of controversy. Someone edited 24 player titles, including the name of a player. I didn't think it would cause much controversy to give him a minor punishment. And yet I got insulted numerous times. Oh well, comes with the territory.
From @Molarpistols
There appears to be an increase in re-sims recently due to mistakes in depth charts/strategies/etc. Are there any plans in place to fix this issue, and when can we expect those plans to come to fruition?
There have been some complaints from players asking "Where are the sims?" on numerous occasions when the twitch stream is running later than the usual time. Are the official times for stream start going to be moved back?
Both of these questions are related so I'm going to answer them all at once. Right now we do NOT have a set streamer / simmer. Part of being the only league that streamed every single game means that it is extraordinarily difficult to find a simmer and streamer. When ER was our simmer he did an incredible job at making sure there were no errors and that the sims were on every day. But it was a TON of work. Having just one person do it though, makes those things easier. He was able to do the strats and DCs and then he streamed the games himself. Now the files are getting passed around. This is leading to more errors. We are trying to add in more safeguards, have an extra person look at the strats and DCs after they are done and all that. This is also related to the timing. We right now have 4 different people are the streamers for the league. Each of these people have a regular life. It is impossible to set an exact time between all of these people that they HAVE to be at their computer to start the sims right at 8EST. Again we would love to have a (non corrupt) one man simming and streaming person. But it seems to be impossible to find. The last 3 people got either burnt out or cheated. We do try to get the sims to be on time, but there's no great way for us to do it.
"Why is Gregor Clegane so much better at making HO mad than anybody else?"
My answer to question wouldn't be productive so I'm not going to answer that.
Another one from @bovovovo
"What would have to happen for HO to consider expansion? The last expansion has been largely regarded as too early. Is there a set number that HO is looking for or would it just have to be looked into at a different time?"
It's not something that is remotely on our radar right now. We would need another great set of recruits before its something we discuss. We have a good number of actives on each team right now, but the DSFL only has 4 teams and two bot teams. If we were to do expansion I think we would go from 4 back to 6 in the DSFL before we would move to 10 in the NSFL.
From @DeathOnReddit
"Favorite GMs and why is it me?"
Umm.............. all 16 GMs tied for first. Is my official answer as HO
"Most annoying thing HO had to deal with?"
Oy. Where to begin. The multis of ER were not fun to have to investigate and deal with. The Las Vegas Legion mass retirement was pretty brutal. But I have to say having our head simmer ghost on us, and then be active in discord and active in other leagues was brutal. Dealing with the issues Keygan caused was probably my worst time as an HO member.
"Do you love me?"
Of course
from @tbone415
"Worst player in the league and why is it Asipi?"
Its pretty close between Asipi and Terrel Brister. Tough call.
From @bovovovo
"1. How dare you?
2. Who do you think you are?
3. What gives you the right?
4. Where do you get off?
5. How do you sleep with yourself at night?"
1 - :belly: :belly:
2. pretty sure I'm iamslm22
3. for some reason dumbasses Dermott, and Asylum decided to pick me for HO and then even worse the DSFL GMs voted for me as commish. Idiots
4. It varies, but usually in my room
5. Lots and lots of whiskey.
1. What areas do you think the league can/should improve the most in?
I think there are two areas we can still improve. The first is recruiting. tbone has been incredible since he's gotten there as we got a great S7 class out of NO reddit subs, which is pretty fricken incredible. If we can get a great class in S8 that will sustain our site for a while. The other area we have to improve in is consistency in simming. We need to ensure better that our strats and DCs are up to date and nothing gets messed up. We've noticed a couple times some errors after the fact and we are always up front with teams. We just have to keep improving our safeguards (which we are doing)
2. How did the Noble appeal go?
We actually were in the process of reviewing Noble, but things got difficult to do during the season. We will evaluate his petition this upcoming off season.
3. Has there been any thought about "fixing" minimum contracts? I remember that being a hot button issue earlier but it seems to have died down.
I think something needs to be done regarding minimum contracts. The Baltimore GMs and I had a rule we proposed last off season rule summit and it failed. By a lot. No GMs voted for it. I wasn't planning on proposing something again, unless the GMs did it.
4. Who do you think wins the Ultimus this year?
You gotta beat the King to become the King. Right now the Otters have to be the favorites til someone proves they can beat them.
From @ElvinEnchant
"Do you have plans to add more features to the site, or are you more focus on fixing problems you already have?"
I think it's both. We obviously have to fix some problems. And we're working on those. But we're not trying to be stagnant either. We've added the NCT to make the offseason better. We have other additions that we are working on. Twitter was recently added. Youtube is something we're working on (as you know very well ). So I think the answer is both.
"When will the upgrade from DDSPF 2016 to DDSPF 2018 happen, if ever?"
It's very difficult to say. There are a lot of things that are tough about the transition, but it's something we have people working on to see about our ability to do it. It's tough to say exactly when though, but the move appears inevitable if we can jump through certain hurdles.
"How has being the HO been for you, overall?"
Umm... well I love this league. I love trying to make it better. Are there days where I wish I wasn't head office? Of course. I mean we are constantly shit on for trying to do our best. The Pens punishment is a perfect example. I thought it was pretty void of controversy. Someone edited 24 player titles, including the name of a player. I didn't think it would cause much controversy to give him a minor punishment. And yet I got insulted numerous times. Oh well, comes with the territory.
From @Molarpistols
There appears to be an increase in re-sims recently due to mistakes in depth charts/strategies/etc. Are there any plans in place to fix this issue, and when can we expect those plans to come to fruition?
There have been some complaints from players asking "Where are the sims?" on numerous occasions when the twitch stream is running later than the usual time. Are the official times for stream start going to be moved back?
Both of these questions are related so I'm going to answer them all at once. Right now we do NOT have a set streamer / simmer. Part of being the only league that streamed every single game means that it is extraordinarily difficult to find a simmer and streamer. When ER was our simmer he did an incredible job at making sure there were no errors and that the sims were on every day. But it was a TON of work. Having just one person do it though, makes those things easier. He was able to do the strats and DCs and then he streamed the games himself. Now the files are getting passed around. This is leading to more errors. We are trying to add in more safeguards, have an extra person look at the strats and DCs after they are done and all that. This is also related to the timing. We right now have 4 different people are the streamers for the league. Each of these people have a regular life. It is impossible to set an exact time between all of these people that they HAVE to be at their computer to start the sims right at 8EST. Again we would love to have a (non corrupt) one man simming and streaming person. But it seems to be impossible to find. The last 3 people got either burnt out or cheated. We do try to get the sims to be on time, but there's no great way for us to do it.
"Why is Gregor Clegane so much better at making HO mad than anybody else?"
My answer to question wouldn't be productive so I'm not going to answer that.
Another one from @bovovovo
"What would have to happen for HO to consider expansion? The last expansion has been largely regarded as too early. Is there a set number that HO is looking for or would it just have to be looked into at a different time?"
It's not something that is remotely on our radar right now. We would need another great set of recruits before its something we discuss. We have a good number of actives on each team right now, but the DSFL only has 4 teams and two bot teams. If we were to do expansion I think we would go from 4 back to 6 in the DSFL before we would move to 10 in the NSFL.