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The Austin Copperheads will win the Ultimus this season. Now for this to happen, there does have to be a couple lucky things happen in favour of Austin, particularly in the playoffs. Firstly, I think at this point it is almost a lock that the Orange County Otters will finish top in the division giving them homefield advantage in the playoffs. But I fully believe Austin will make it to the playoffs ahead of team like San Jose, Honolulu and New York. The other playoff team will belong to either the New Orleans Second line or Arizona Outlaws. While I expect the Nola defence to pick it up, lately they’ve been just worse than crap so perhaps Arizona will edge them out at the end, but in my opinion it’s still NOLAs to lose. Now why I think Austin has what it takes to come out on top by season end. For one, our defence is loaded on every part of the field. In particular our Defensive Line is the unquestioned best defensive line in the league, and already have racked up 20 sacks in 4 games. This is on top of a stacked secondary and strong LB. Offensively Easton Cole is still more than capable of making big plays and chucking the ball deep down the field to his plethora of WR talent. Our RB duo is less experienced than some teams in the league, however, Rookie Zoe Watts who was Austins S24 1st rounder is absolutely soaring at the position and has it in her to lead the entire league. This is how Austin will be winning the Ultimus in S25.
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In this marvelous edition of Point Task Predicaments, I'm going to explain to you why Jeffie's safety Prince Vegeta has already locked up Defensive Performance of the Year, and additionally, talk about his candidacy for Safety of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year at this point in the season.
In week 4 of the 25th ISFL season, the 3-0 Otters faced off against a 1-2 Arizona Outlaws squad. Just in the first quarter of that game, Prince Vegeta scored 14 points. AS A SAFETY. Vegeta's two pick-6's tied an ISFL record for defensive touchdowns that has stood since season 3. In addition to his two touchdowns in the first quarter of the game, Prince Vegeta went on to catch yet another interception at the Outlaws' 28 yard line. Vegeta returned the interception 28 yards, which by my count, is a touchdown, but I guess math has changed a lot since I was in school. The sim gods decided to make Vegeta trip on his shoelaces at the one yard line or something like that. We've seen players suddenly get tackled at the 1 yard line time and time again in our sim; it's one of the risks that comes with using a non-Roblox sim, but this time, it really hurt to watch. Though Prince Vegeta was robbed of what should have been his record shattering third defensive touchdown of the game, it is still my belief that he is a shoe-in for Defensive Performance of the Year, and he is making an incredibly strong case for Defensive Player of the Year as well. (253 words)
The ISFL Expansion Committee all needs to be fired and the entire process needs to be re-evaluated. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why some cities can be expansion cities and others are not. There are no rules on how stupid a team name can be. These things are detrimental to the league because it makes what we’re doing here look like a Mickey Mouse operation. Let’s look at the past couple expansion teams. Hawaii and Berlin. This is stupid and takes away any suspension of disbelief for this league. Is this league North America only? Nope because now there’s one team from Europe just sitting there for no reason. It’s bad enough they thought Berlin was a good place to put a team, and it’s unforgiveable they allowed them to be named the Fire Salamanders. Not even a minor league baseball team would want to be called something as childish and unintimidating as a goddamn FIRE SALAMANDER. Young kids seek out salamanders to play with. There is nothing scary about them, and the idea that this professional football league would expand to include ONE team from Europe is absurd. California has 2 teams plus Arizona and Colorado all bunched in the same geographical area. Austin, New Orleans, and Sarasota again, a cluster in one part of the USA. New York, Philly, Baltimore, and Chicago, all great choices. Then you have Yellowknife. Another example of a completely unrealistic team being added to this league to remind everyone what they’re doing is fake. There would never be a football league that has a team in Yellowknife face a team in Sarasota. You would never have a team from Berlin play a team from Honolulu. While some people might see this as cute and endearing, it isn’t. It’s embarrassing. [301]
MR 8X ULTIMUS CHAMPION
QB Mike Boss - HOF TE Johnny Blaze - HOF QB Mike Boss Jr WR Johnny Blaze Jr
The concept of regression in the league needs to be given another look. Currently, the rulebook has regression listed on a percentage scale up to a player’s fifteenth season in the league. I haven’t personally done the math on this, but the math has been done before to find that actually making it to the your fifteenth season as a player is virtually impossible. Actually, according to this great breakdown by user BigKicks, even playing a fourteenth season is almost 100% unattainable for users https://forums.sim-football.com/showthre...?tid=21157. I think that regression could be reworked in one of two ways. The simpler way would be to just update the rulebook to remove references to a 14th and 15th season as a possibility to avoid confusing new users. The second and much more difficult way would be to rework the entire concept of regression. While I think that the second option would take a lot of league input and would definitely rustle some feathers, there could be some interesting changes as a result of reworking regression. One option would be to reconsider just how much TPE is regressed from players. Currently a max-earning player and a player around 700 TPE are both able to play a career for the same max length of time. This is fine, but the max-earning player seems to be punished more than the low-earning player given that they have much more TPE regressed from their player over their regression years. Maybe one possibility could be to lower the TPE lost from a player who has earned more, but still keep the career length cap? I’m sure I’m missing something here, but I think the league could come up with some other ideas around reworking regression..
The Baltimore Hawks have had their share of struggles for the past few seasons. Having not made the playoffs since S22, and after having lost two of their top players and their top two wide receivers in Asher Quinn and Nick Kaepercolin, who left to GM for the expansion Berlin Fire Salamanders, it looked like it would be a long road ahead for the Baltimore Hawks to contend again. However just a few games into the S25 season, and the Baltimore Hawks have plenty of reason for optimism. With three rookie wide receivers leading the way, the Hawks have a great chance to be the top passing attack in the league as soon as next season. Doug Howlett, Joshua Campbell, and Korbin Brown were all drafted in S23 or later, and all three have been great TPE earners. Just four games into their young ISFL careers, and the three receivers are all looking like stars in the making. The 3 receivers are averaging a combined 240 yards per game, and Doug Howlett is actually leading the league in receiving yards by over 100 yards! Of course it would be crazy to talk about the Hawks passing attack without mentioning their quarterback Chika Fujiwara. Chika has taken some big steps these past couple seasons, and is just slinging it right now. Already the 3rd highest TPE quarterback in the league, Chika is still multiple seasons away from regression, and should only get better over the next few seasons. On top of this, the Hawks of one of the best pure tight ends in the league, in James Lewandowski. There's no reason to think these players won't continue earning steadily, and improving. And if they do, the league had better watch out because the Baltimore aerial attack will not be easy to stop.
Owen Holloway is already better than Garfield Despacito Jr. How can we say this factually? Well, honestly, all you need to do is watch the two of them play and it will be pretty obvious. But let's make the case with FACTS. In week one, neither player was really a factor. The offense scored zero touchdowns. We each had two receptions, me for 16 yards, him for 48. In reality, we might as well have both had zero, so it's a wash. 0-0-1. Next game came at New York. The offense was much better. I had 5 catches for 37 yards, Despacito had 4 for 35. I was better in both senses. Advantage Holloway, 1-0-1. Against Austin, we only actually needed 7 points to win the game. There's no way around this one, Despacito was the better player. He scored our first touchdown of the game, therefore a game-winner. Advantage Despacito Jr., 1-1-1. Finally we have the most recent game at the Arizona Outlaws. It was a tightly contested one that we won with a late score set up by... you guessed it, a long Owen Holloway reception. I also had a touchdown catch in that one. Despacito? A non-factor. So the final tally is 2-1-1 in Holloway's favor, proving definitively he is the better receiver.
This season the Honolulu Hahalua are a moderate 2-2. The offense has been okay and the defense has been abysmal through the first four games. There is no mistaking that Honolulu are in a re-tooling phase and while they will be competitive in the right matchup, they won't be competitive overall. A big thing they are lacking on offense is explosive plays. One reason this may be? They are holding back the big play shots from speed demon rookie wide receiver Tre'Darius J'Vathon. On the season Tre'Darius J'Vathon has only recorded five receptions for 108 yards and two touchdowns. This is what you call explosiveness as he is averaging a robust 21.6 yards per catch which is second in the entire ISFL. Yes, he is a rookie, and has a lot of growing to do but the Hahalua really need to make an effort to get him more involved and more opportunities to strike with his big play ability. The Hahalua have been fine in games where they can get the run game established but if that doesn't happen they lack the juice, the threat, and the consistency of hitting on big plays to soften the defense. J'Vathon is the best deep ball threat on this team and he needs to be utilized more and given more opportunities if this offense wants to take the next step this season.
229 words S25 Sarasota: 26 rec, 437 yds, 16.8 ypc, 4 TD
S26 Sarasota: 45 rec, 724 yds, 16.1 ypc, 7 TD
S27 Sarasota: 81 rec, 1,122 yds, 13.9 ypc, 8 TD **Ultimus Champs** S28 Sarasota: 84 rec, 1,182 yds, 14.1 ypc, 3 TD
S29 Sarasota: 105 rec, 1,470 yds, 14.0 ypc, 14 TD **PRO BOWL**
S30 Sarasota: 80 rec, 1,174 yds, 14.7 ypc, 9 TD **Ultimus Champs**
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(This post was last modified: 10-11-2020, 08:47 PM by GoonerBear.)
The time has come to toot my own horn.
Kolby Deringer, linebacker for the San Jose SaberCats from Seasons 10 through 20, has been in limbo on the Hall of Fame ballot for the past two elections. Since he first became eligible, in each election, he received 3 votes, barely enough to remain in consideration for next time. Across a career spanning 11 seasons, he was named to the Pro Bowl 5 times, was named Defensive Rookie of the Year in S10, won an Ultimus, was named Defensive Player of the Game in a losing effort in the following Ultimus, was DPotG 19 times (including 6 times in S18) and set high franchise marks across the board. At the time of writing, he is 9th in ISFL history in career tackles and 7th in single-season pass deflections (29 in S13). In SJS franchise history, he is the only player to record 1000 tackles in the green and gold, is 3rd in sacks with 66, 2nd in pass deflections with 114, and famously recorded a safety in his first defensive series on an ISFL field. He was a key part of the defensive monolith from the early- to mid-10s, and even in decline, one could say he was snubbed for awards in S18 despite leading the league in tackles with 120 and notching 5 sacks, 2 picks, a defensive touchdown, and forcing a fumble. Registered well across defensive categories, and the best he got was a Pro Bowl nod. This is not to discount great contemporaries of his day. Austin Roenick, Mason Brown, and Brian Mills had stellar careers. It's more than a bit frustrating that a key part of the SJS 10s teams, a player great out of the gate and for several seasons after, still hasn't gotten the call. (300) [OPTION]S27: 16 GP | 164 Att, 675 Yds, 8 TD | 35 Rec, 234 Yds, | 22 PC, 3 SA
[OPTION]S28: 16 GP | 176 Att, 743 Yds, 6 TD | 38 Rec, 311 Yds, 1 TD | 34 PC, 1 SA
[OPTION]======================================= [OPTION]ISFL Postseason Stats [OPTION]S24: 2 GP | 28 Att, 103 Yds, 1 TD | 4 Rec, 16 Yds, 1 TD | 3 PC [OPTION]S25: 3 GP | 56 Att, 225 Yds, 1 TD | 3 Rec, 39 Yds | 3 PC
[OPTION]S28: 3 GP | 44 Att, 222 Yds, 3 TD | 9 Rec, 72 Yds | 6 PC
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[OPTION]DSFL Regular Season Stats [OPTION]S20: 14 GP | 241 Att, 1176 Yds, 14 TD | 9 Rec, 62 Yds | 10 PC, 3 SA [OPTION]======================================= [OPTION]DSFL Postseason Stats [OPTION]S20: 1 GP | 14 Att, 74 Yds, 1 TD [OPTION]======================================= [OPTION]Awards and Honors: [OPTION]Ultimus Champion: S24, S25, S28 [OPTION]ASFC Champion: S24, S25 [OPTION]Ultimus Offensive Player of the Game: S28
[OPTION]NSFC Champion: S28 [OPTION]DSFL Offensive Rookie of the Year: S20 [OPTION]DSFL Pro Bowl: S20 [OPTION]======================================= [OPTION]Career Events [OPTION]S20: Selected 38th overall by the Kansas City Coyotes [OPTION]S21: Selected 32nd overall by the San Jose SaberCats [OPTION]S28: Announced retirement, traded to Yellowknife Wraiths
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