(S7) - PT 1 - Biggest Busts

[timeconsumer]

I'm not going to go with the low-hanging fruit here and select Dermot or Shaka or any of those dudes. I'm going to go with Blaster Blade on this one. Blaster Blade looked like one hell of a prospect headed into the S2 draft and was likely to have a great career had he stuck with it. But this guy's career started out really oddly as it was. When he was created during S2 and went to waivers (pre-DSFL) he stated that if he went on waivers to a team that wasn't the Outlaws he was going to quit. Okay, so that's weird. Then he gets drafted by the Yeti and does some updating for a bit, but not a whole lot. He ends up earning a couple hundred TPE and goes inactive or something and then gets traded to the legion I think. Then something happened and I think he got traded to the Outlaws, it might have been the other way around. Yeah I think he retired with the Legion mass retirement thing with a whopping 350 TPE for the 2nd overall pick in the S2 draft. Bust city baby. Not only did he not do much as a character but as a player he added nothing either.

[Mongoose87]

I’m going to make a controversial pick for biggest bust: Tight End Steven O’Sullivan.

I know he’s put up some impressive numbers since getting drafted, but the context in which he has done it is one in which a replacement-level player could shine. Look at the Otters’ roster: probably the quarterback in the league, in Boss, Yates, a very good running back, two great starting receivers in Phelps and Westfield and a solid if not spectacular offensive line. How could he not put up great numbers? One of Phelps and Westfield is going to draw double-coverage, and linebackers are going to be focused on stopping Yates. That leaves O’Sullivan in the ideal position to catch dump-offs, hot-reads and generally put up big numbers without challenge.

Everyone knows what has been said of his work ethic – he does the bare minimum, never stays late for practice, barely works out, hasn’t shown up to minicamp his entire career. If the guy wasn’t blessed with such natural talent he wouldn’t be in the league, because he has shown no improvement since joining. As is, with the roster he has around him, he should be setting records every week, not sitting at 4 TDs and under 600 yards.

[AdamS]

The biggest management level bust in league history is the aborted attempt to move the Kansas City Coyotes to Chicago with no preparation, no warning, no infrastructure, no notice to the league and most importantly, no loyalty to the DSFL fans of Kansas City. The mvoe was entirely a bust and resulted in one of the shortest if not the shortest GM stints in the still growing DSFL. It created significant problems that according to one expert, actually lost players for the league. It cost the league significant time, effort, money, and prestige to mvoe one of its core developmental teams back to where to belonged to begin with, creating a tremendous embarrassment. It would also have further ramifications in the parent NSFL, as this move ultimately created a situation where an NSFL team was unable to relocate later. When you screw up so badly and so quickly that not only are you out of a job within a few weeks of getting it, but that you affect a different organization entirely in a separate league, piss off TWO major cities, and require multiple CEO level individuals to apologize for you, then you've hit a very high level of bust.

[Alfredo_Pasta]

Hello everyone! I'm here today talking about busts. That's right. Someone in our league right now that is in fact a bust.. I hope it's not you. The person I am talking about today is unfortunately my old and current teammate Boro Gore. He was a running back for the Portland Pythons and got drafted by the Yellowknife Wraiths. He are reasons he was a bust. He was a very active player for Portland in season five. He got taken number seventh overall by the Yellowknife Wraiths in the season six draft. He was Yellowknife’s first draft pick during the draft. Yellowknife did not need him during the season six season so he got sent back down to Portland. He was great down there and had a hell of a season. But.. now Yellowknife traded for the best RB ever in Boss Tweed. Now Boro Gore is inactive. He is at the Dsfl max tpe which is two hundred and fifty. He, in my opinion will never see the Nsfl. If he comes back it could be a game changer of course. But as for now it doesn't look good for him or the Wraiths. This is why unfortunately Boro Gore is in fact a bust for the Yellowknife Wraiths.

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[bovovovo]

Bork Bjornsson was a bust of colossal proportions. That bum didn't even last 4 seasons in the league despite being a 1st round pick. He was so much of a bum that, even though he created during the first half of S1, no teams in the NSFL signed him off of waivers. NONE. Even though he was a defensive lineman. What's up with that? Why would no team want a fresh, max active defensive lineman? The answer is simple. Because Bjornsson sucked donkey. I knew it, you knew it, everybody knew it. Which is why no GMs wanted to spend a measly 2m on signing him. Bjornsson spent his entire career with the Yellowknife Wraiths before retiring for no good reason at all and thus has been lost in the annals of NSFL history. He never led the league in sacks, he never really even did much of anything noteworthy at all. Because he was terrible. And then he retired. The only reason why he is noteworthy is because one time he had a fluke game where he recorded 6 sacks. While that's pretty awesome, it during a time when OLs in the league were jokes. If Bjornsson played in today's NSFL he'd be even worse and probably would have retired even earlier.

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[PaytonM34]

As a DSFL GM, my biggest draft bust was Ugandan Knuckles. He showed promise in the weeks before the draft getting up to about 70ish TPE, so the Tijuana Luchadores decided to take a shot at him in the second round. I was confident enough that he could bring his TPE up to about 100ish at least, and been a cornerstone for the Luchadores defense for years. He had not been overly active in the weeks leading up to the draft, but he had a great build and could have been the best pass rusher the league has ever seen. Despite not being active, Ugandan Knuckles still managed to get the DSFL's best Defensive Lineman award in a shallow talent pool of Ends and Tackles. In the Tijuana locker room one day, after weeks of not being active, left us with one message. "You underestimate my power." The ceiling on Knuckles was sky high, he was supposed to be the chosen one. Knuckles said he was going to destroy the low TPE inactives, not join them. Bring balance to the Luchadores defense, not leave it in darkness... You were my brother Knuckles.... and you did not show us da wae.

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[ExemplaryChad]

Every year there are some busts in this league (which is how it should be). Occasionally, there are high picks that don’t quite pan out, but those are pretty well covered and well known. What I’m going to talk about is something a bit different. There are always those players who tell teams one thing but then do another. These are players that teams will take flyers on in later rounds but who will end up being just as disappointing as those high round picks. I’ve seen firsthand in my locker room how hyped up GMs will get, thinking they’ve found the steal of the draft only to see a player fall into obscurity, just like the rest of them.

Last year, there were players for the Yeti who were just this type. Our GMs were so psyched because they had heard from a couple of players who had been inactive. “All I need to come back is a good, active locker room that I can have fun in. Then I’ll be back fulltime and do everything.” It’s a familiar claim, and one that stings when it doesn’t pan out. Does it mean that our locker room isn’t dynamic enough? Personally, I doubt it. I think it’s more likely that these guys have every intention of coming back, but then it doesn’t work out for them. This year sees players that are in danger of becoming exactly the same thing. (I’m looking at you, Stone Hans.) We’ll have to wait and see how it pans out.

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[Beaver]

The biggest bust in NSFL history has got to be Connor Tanner because not only did he very much not pan out personally and individually on the field for the Las Vegas Legion but he ended up forcing, cajoling, blackmailing, orchestrating, bamboozling, and otherwise tricking ~TOTALLY ACTIVE AND CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE~ into a mass retirement that shook the very foundation of the team and put it into a very bad position in terms of the league at large as they are only just now starting to overcome that terrible, tragic, no good, very bad event that Connor Tanner aka the biggest bust in National Simulation Football League history caused and the fact that Las Vegas drafted him basically nuked their team so yeah out of all of the many many NSFL busts Connor Tanner is definitely the biggest cuz usually a bust only ruins one of your draft picks and a couple seasons max of development while Connor Tanner ruined several Las Vegas draft picks and many seasons of combined development which set the team back so far they couldn't recover and they were forced to move to New Orleans or Nawlins as the locals call it and become the Second Line.

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[infinitempg]

Hello. Is it me you're looking for?

Yeah, maybe. Kickers aren't really a specimen that get drafted well, and while I'm only entering my second season as a kicker/punter for the Yeti, I have definitely not been up to par with even my stats in the DSFL. Here's some stats:
- TPE: 280
- XP%: 95.5 (4/9)
- FG%: 73.7 (9/9)
- Punt Yd: 3924 (5/9)
- Punt Avg: 44.1 (8/9)
- Inside 20: 8 (8/9)

Now let's compare that to Forfeit, the kicker taken by Yellowknife just one pick later:
- TPE: 269
- XP%: 97.9 (3/9)
- FG%: 86.4 (5/9)
- Punt Yd: 4480 (3/9)
- Punt Avg: 44.4 (6/9)
- Inside 20: 18 (3/9)

So we can clearly see that, even with fewer TPE, Forfeit has proven to be the better value at kicker and punter. This gets worse when you consider the fact that on at least 2 occasions, I have choked on game-winning field goals this season, costing the Yeti eternal humiliation as a winless team.

Even worse is the fact that I went partially inactive for an entire month of the season - how can you justify taking a kicker in the 3rd round just for him to disappear for part of the season?

It's early in my career though. I'm hoping to avoid the sophomore slump and justify the Yeti taking me over Forfeit - but that is yet to be seen.

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[Vikain]

Some picks don't work out. It's just the matter of fact. GMs will think they have the next Brett Favre only to find out years down that they picked the wrong guy. It can be injuries, bad attitude, or just never pans out but whatever the reason there will always be busts in sports and NSFL is no exception. For me the biggest bust was Logan Noble. For someone that had so much potential and upside he would be caught cheating and eventually his downfall came. From the poster child of the Yeti and putting a lot of hope and dreams on him his suspension would hit him and the Yeti extremely hard. If only we could look into the alternate universe where Logan Noble did not cheat and was still the most dominant qb in the league. Would he have been the most productive quarterback? Would he have been able to take the Yeti to the Ultimus and win it? No one knows. But what we do know is that he did cheat. He did get suspended. Yeti couldn't not recollect themselves afterwards and have struggled ever since with no help with the managements. Everyone can only imagine how this league would have bee.