(S46) PT #3 - Season for Affection

[caravaggio]

Valentine’s Day is the unofficial day of love, and it’s a great Segway towards looking at the love of football. Especially with the Super Bowl ending the traditional season in the real world, the affection (and maybe the obsession) lives within the sim league.

What do I love about the league in general? I think my favorite activity is hanging out in the team locker room during simulation day. The roar of the players, the hilarious slowpoke responses from people not caught up on the live stream, the ridiculous swings throughout the fourth quarter of every single game. It honestly feels like the sim engine is just teasing all of us by keeping a team up and giving them some devastating combination of plays in the last 8 minutes to get destroyed. Or maybe that’s just my experience the last 2 or 3 seasons with the Otters.

In the end the team cheering together makes this league great, and a place I want to hang out in multiple times a week.

[DangWookie]

I know this is probably a hot take but I love the sim. Sure, sometimes I wish it was 3D but hey, there's a certain charm to the dots that is hard to resist. Honestly, despite it's frustrating decisions and odd play calls, the general chaos that the sim can bring to each game leaves me coming back for more and more each and every week. It's also crazy that we have somehow built an entire online community all across the world dedicated to something like it. From hundreds and hundreds of games over the course of the league's existence to thousands of articles on the wiki, the ISFL is truly something special. I am so thankful that I found this wonderful community and the different people that I've met and had the chance to get to know along the way. It truly is one of my favorite things that I am a part of and I plan to be for many years to come.

[captainsb]

The great thing about the ISFL is just the overall members in the community. You have a wide variety of users. Some are those that are very prominent in various sim leagues. Others are long time ISFL users and have a deep knowledge of history in the league. There are those that just love football and everything to do football and will do their best to engage in fun banter and betting.

The other aspect of the league is that there are so many different fun events to do in the league itself. You have the actual Youtube games that is simmed. You have the draft, host city voting and then of course you have the fun casino. Why stop there? You also have fantasy leagues, community events of various games, and of course you have the various locker rooms and chats to get you all hyped up about something. This is a great league and hope others enjoy it as much as I do.

[papalinator]

Love is a strong word.  I believe it is overused in modern English.  I appreciate this league because I cannot control how my player does. I can only control how well he is set up. In a big picture sense, I believe this is an allegory for life. Similar to life, I can take steps to better myself, but at the end of the day, I don't control my results.  I can only control my effort and my setup.  This is almost therapeutic for someone like me who tends to min-max and powergame in every video game that he plays.

Besides the gameplay loop, the people are all (so far) very welcoming and good natured.  This feels like a patch of internet only focused on positivity, which differs from pretty much everywhere else. Most users share a love of football, and many interests are shared as well.  I appreciate that most of my memes are understood and appreciated by Tijuana, and they are all supportive of the TE who can't score a fake TD.

[18situaseans]

I sure do love the ISFL. So many great users that I have met over the past year that I’ve been in the league. Started out in the Prospect Bowl where I met Jolly Jiggs. He was my teammate after I got drafted to Norfolk alongside him. I met TheRake and Toofpete, and saw the beginnings of that legendary podcast. During the Norfolk season, we really had a great squad full of Ultimini hungry players. Sticky Hands/Quazo, Jolly Jiggs, TheRake, and other guys that I can’t remember that I should be remembering. Such a fun team to be a part of, it’s too bad we couldn’t go all the way in the playoffs. I got drafted to the Silverbacks and met so many new faces. Rusfan, my receiver mentor and a NYS legend. Wizard, my S41 gang GM. Repgnar, my other GM who has too many bananas on his name. I could name so many people, but the point is, you have all made my ISFL time very special and I’m grateful for it.

[Will3]

SHL Affiliate PT

[Muford]

There are so many things I could say I love about the league. But I will say, I think my most loved thing of all though, is the friends you make along the way. I’ve made friends with folks I otherwise would never have known or spoken to outside of this league. While most of the people I had originally become really close to are no longer in the league there still are many more that I have. @ckroyal92@Keyg_an@Bayley are some of the oldest members I’ve been friends with for a long time. Newer ones like @TheCC @Dewalt27 @UberBJand @Painted have also been nothing but amazing as well. All in all it’s crazy how much you can become attached to a league and how many folks become your friends just from daily interaction with them and how much they’ve impacted you and how much you can hope you’ve been able to help and impact them as well. Here’s to another year.

[CementHands]

SHL PT

[jj2416]

PBE Affilate - https://probaseballexperience.jcink.net/...t&p=686097

[TheNC206]

As a player, my sweet-sweet love for ranch and the delicious pepperoni has never died. I bathe in ranch, I dress in pepperoni (probably why I get dirty looks in the Norfolk Locker Room), and I weirdly eat pizza in my free time, especially on my cheat days. But as a user, I would have to say the person that I love and cherish most in the league would have to be @LtHudz , that amazing human being has made me rediscover what I love about this league as a whole. He has been such an amazing addition to the locker room of Minnesota, and I'm grateful for being able to be in the war room that drafted that amazing human being and user. Although I didn't have the opportunity to go play for him, I've gotten an even better chance to be someone looking in on what he does from the outside. He's gonna be an amazing GM in the ISFL, and will one day go into the ISFL Hall of Fame.