(S43) PT #1 - New Season, New Suggestions?

[caravaggio]

Coming from the PBE, there are a ton of things that the ISFL does better. The updating, the weekly tracker, and the general value of league money is great here. One thing I hated as a league updater was the silly 1-2 point updates that had to be individually checked and added up every week. ISFL totally came through with the weekly claims, and it makes my life so much easier as a player and updater, I thank you for that.

The big missing piece in the ISFL for me is the live streams. Full simming every game takes a little away because there’s a ton of “blink and you miss it” plays, along with text that’s hard to read and a youtube player that always seems to fall behind. I love being in the OCO locker room during games, and if it wasn’t for this I’d ignore live streams all together. I recommend that the ISFL look into a format with live streamers, even if it’s just to call out significant plays in a game. That would make this so much better.

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[zeagle1]

The biggest new addition to the International Simulation Football League that could spice things up is creating an unweighted draft lottery of all non-playoff teams for the ISFL entry draft, as well as making it a third round reversal snake draft. A snake draft is when the draft order flips every round, so the team that picks first in the first round picks last in the second round. A third round reversal snake draft is very similar, except it also reverses the order of the third round so a team would pick first in the first, last in the second, and last in the third. This would improve parity around the league as there would be no incentive to tank and blow up your roster. The third round reversal would balance out the third round quality being very poor most rounds, giving teams finishing in the upper half of the standings a better chance to pick an active player in the third.

[aeonsjenni]

God knows I love to produce a Hot ISFL Take from time to time, so I'll try doing that now. I'll revisit my desire to see regression messed with a bit to address a couple issues that exist in the league right now. Firstly, from what I understand, TPE inflation has produced an environment wherein a max-earner will stay at a capped build for upwards of 3 seasons, which is too long in my opinion. Having a huge chunk of players playing with capped builds means fewer opportunities for a player to personalize their build and make it theirs (this is a huge limitation of the sim itself but it does not help when max earners stay capped for so long). So I would like to see regression tinkered with such that players stay capped for a bit less time, maybe a season and a half, but they also don't regress into obscurity quite so quickly. Ideally I'd like to see the 13-season limit which mathematically exists under the current regression rules formally codified, and make the front-end of regression harsher and the back-end of regression milder.

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[jj2416]

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[Raven]

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Written option: With the new season underway, there's a lot of excitement in the air. However, what potential change could make the league even more exciting? Perhaps live play-by-play during streams? Unlimited cap? List what potential suggestions that would make the league better! Can even be silly suggestions as well!

So an idea that has always floated around, especially back during the days when the league was less than healthy, was being able to have a second player and with the largely increasing economy of people just having way too much money in their bank account. It could be a large purchase, so people have something to sink their money into.

Of course a second player would come with a ton of complication and things to consider.


Do you force this second player onto the same team as the user is already in. Would make sense as otherwise you could have a conflict of interest, especially surrounding War Rooms and stuff. Then you have to think about the logistics, a user who can purchase a second player is well off and should be able to easily fund a second max earning player. Do you make rule that team must draft this second player with their earliest pick? Do you just let the second player join their main team, which would be very unbalanced.

Would you put restrains on earning, to combat a team easily having access to another max earning player?

And so much more to consider. Luckily the league is in a much better place than it was 20 seasons ago and a second player is just a fun thing to think about sometimes, rather than a nessecity.


Also, I think we should look into making it so teams have to draft users who are obviously forcing their way onto a certain team with their first available pick. Not pointing fingers, but some cunts are making an awful lot of use of this currently.

[oilmandan]

One way I think the ISFL could improve an already phenomenal product are:

One thing I’d absolutely get rid of is the position swap. For many reasons. Most new users do pick the position they want to be the first time. 99% of the draft interviews I’ve done for DSFL and ISFL have asked if I’d be willing to switch positions. At that point it becomes what user and tpe a team likes best as they most likely want you at a certain position.

Allow new users to switch once in the DSFL after a full season in case they really didn’t understand how the position is used in the sim or the amount of need for it in the league. After that, if you want to be generous, allow DSFL QBs to switch away from QB ahead of their ISFL draft. Start a thread, in which they make their intentions known and all teams have a fair shot of what they plan to do. No team can approach them about switching either. Has to be done by the users choice.

New users may feel pressured to switch positions if everyone brings it up. And speaking from experience, they may not enjoy the change and lost all interest in that player and go inactive. The league should be about user retention and fun, not trying to mold users to what best fits the team.

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[Marty the Monster]

I'm very new to the league, so this may already exist. If not, how about adding some team fight songs? Teams can make their own with GM approval. You could play them prior to games to pump up the crowd (if they're short) or maybe even let the home team's song play throughout the game itself.

Might be a terrible idea, but again I'm new here so I get at least a handful of terrible new guy idea passes, right? With that said, the league is already really fun and I appreciate you guys putting in the effort to continue tweak it. One other new guy take I'd add is that it may be helpful to have the team schedules and recent game results on the main page for easy access. I know it's only a few clicks away, but adding it to the bottom of the main page for easier access wouldn't hurt.