(S24) - Ultimus Week

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13 - This task is exclusive to non-recreate rookies of the S24 class and later. In 400 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?

My experience in the league is like none I would have ever expected to have. I was insanely lucky to happen to be checking r/NFL on the day recruitment threads were being posted for the class of S25, and while it was all very intimidating at first, this whole experience has been an absolute dream so far. Just as a user alone, I got to brand my very own prospect team - the Tiburon Landsharks, I was a 2nd round pick and the 1st offensive linemen drafted by a team, I was made a war room member for the Kansas City Coyotes after my first week with the team, and I was made the head GM of the team after only half a season. I've also already gotten to do commentary for an awards stream, and have made an insane amount of friends within the community. Shoutouts should go to Butters and Matty first, as they're the ones who drafted me and had the faith to allow some new guy to takeover for them. They've been insanely friendly and helpful each step of the way, and I couldn't have made it this far without them. I truly do owe my ISFL experience to them wholly. Simo's another guy I want to give a ton of credit to, as he is an absolutely amazing Co-GM and I could not imagine this going as smooth as it has without the effort he puts in. The same can be said about my friend Slate, who while he isn't GM, he might as well be the 3rd GM of KCC. He's one of my favorite users here, and I'm so glad to be on this team with him. The entirety of KCC's actives for that matter, have all been a wonderful group. Every day I'm thankful for the fact that I'm on this team. Special shoutouts to Jeffie of OCO and Frost of Sarasota, who are absolutely amazing guys as well. They're constantly interacting with me in some of the most genuinely funniest and kindest ways, and I'm glad to be able to call both of them my friend. There's a lot of people I wish I could talk about here, but for the sake of the grader, I'll stop it here.

I didn't expect to have such an incredible path in the ISFL, but seeing myself drafted in the 2nd round to KCC was an absolute dream. I wanted to be a Coyote, and I felt myself worrying more and more that maybe I hadn't done enough to be worth their pick. So to be taken as high as I was by them was more elating than I can describe. Now sadly, my player, Felix Archstone, is not exactly the greatest linemen on the Coyotes. He has 34 pancakes and 2 sacks allowed on the season, which is pretty average. But I'm confident that I can keep building him up into something great over time. After all, I'm max earning on OL, so I can't imagine the sim will punish me too hard!

All in all, I'm looking forward to the ISFL draft tomorrow, and pushing towards doing more in the league. This whole experience has been insanely wonderful, so I can't wait to continue experiencing more and more!

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26 - Select any player who was drafted in the back half of a DSFL or ISFL draft. Show how that player has outperformed their draft position, or how they will soon do so. You cannot write about your own player.

One person/player I think has COMPLETELY out performed where he was drafted, is my man Crodyman/Wasrabi Gleel, who is an LB that was drafted at the 58th spot by MIN. Crody is an absolutely amazing user, and I wish every day I was able to share a team with this man. The energy he brings as a user is something you'd be hard pressed to find by many others. You can tell he is absolutely loving every moment of the ISFL experience, and wants nothing but the best for everyone. He's constantly earning TPE, making multiple pieces of media weekly, and runs one of my favorite twitters in all of the league. But even besides the user, his player, Gleel, is a BEAST of a player that is surely going to make an ISFL team really happy as he continues improving. This is shown with his statline of 105 tackles, 4 TFLs, 5 sacks, an int, 4 PDs, and a touchdown! For a rookie especially, this is really good results. Only two other LB rookies did better than Gleel, making him one heck of a steal for the Ducks, as he completely played better than his drafting position. I genuinely feel as if the S25 class was redrafted in the DSFL, he would go way higher than he did.

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27 - Some positions are still under appreciated. Talk about the offensive linemen and/or special teamers on your squad. Show how they have contributed to the team, both on and off the field, and why they deserve recognition.

Two guys I want to give huge props to are graVTx (Clay Stallworth) and WhatAmUs (Connor Quigley), who play OL for the Kansas City Coyotes. On the field, the stats really do speak for themselves. Grav's player, Stallworth, broke the DSFL single season pancake record at 71 total with only 2 sacks allowed all season. He also broke a single game record against London with 13 pancakes in a game! And then WhatAmUs' player, Quigley, had the most pancakes out of any center in the league at 47, with 4 sacks allowed on the season. Both players showed an insane amount of efficiency that not many teams can say they had the pleasure of having. And then off the field, Grav is a war room member for Kansas who is an absolutely great influence in the locker room. He's always here on game day, getting excited and hyped with the team, and always making people feel welcomed and appreciated. WhatAmUs is very similar in this regard, and he is absolutely one of the chillest guys you can meet in the ISFL. He's also pretty talented with music, and is working on a KCC theme song, which I'm sure will turn out great! What makes the story of WhatAmUs all the more impressive though, is that he came back from being IA at the beginning of the season, to really making an effort to do what he could to figure out how to get to updating and earning properly, so that he could really contribute to the team. He's been a max earner since, and has shown no signs of stopping. I consider myself very lucky to not only share the OLine with these guys, but the locker room as well!

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[MobiausGrander]

Tier 2 #7: In this league, there is a high abundance of quality, capable talent spread out across both the DSFL. As such, for the end of the year awards, there is a high level of competition for the prestigious awards, most notably that of the Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of The Year awards. For the award that is more applicable to me in the DSFL, the DPOY, I believe that my teammate, Rashad Hillard, overwhelmingly deserves the award! To begin with, looking at his stats for Season 24 in the DSFL, Chainbreaker had a godlike sophomore season recording 74 tackles, 1 tackle-for-loss, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries, 0 sacks but contributed to multiple coverage sacks, and 16 pass deflections all as a cornerback! What makes his sophomore season more impressive is that he not only had to share the defensive side of the field with his fellow playermakers, Brooks, myself, Gleel, and Chainbeaker who all also had great and impressive seasons under each of their own rights, but he single-handedly can cover both sides of the field as a lockdown corner! The biggest reason I believe that Hillard should receive the DSFL DPOY is that practically every time he took the field, he had a high chance of directly causing a turnover or helping to create one by helping our DLine and LBs cause one through his coverage abilities; in essence, Hillard’s presence elevated our whole defense, leading for me to also go as far as to call him our whole team’s MVP for this season! Thus, I believe that Hillard should be awarded the DSFL DPOY!

For the other award, arguably the most distinguished award a player can win, the MVP, I believe that Suleiman Ramza, QB of the Dallas Birddogs, deserves this award. For starters, looking at his stats for Season 24 in the DSFL, Ramza’s stats may not be eye-popping for some, yet when you look deeper into them, there is another story to be told. For instance, out of all the starting QBs in the DSFL, Ramza had the one highest QB completion percentage at 64.2% and the highest QB rating with a 86.2 rating, both indicators of a stable, highly efficient QB. The most important stat, however, is the TD to Int ratio. In this regard, Ramza is clearly the best at this stat. He had 14 TDs compared to 8 Ints, giving him a ratio of 1.75. The aforementioned stats are reflective of why Ramza clearly deserves the MVP as he was able to lead the Dallas Birddogs to the second best record in the DSFL and helped to become a playoff team when no one expected them to be one.


Tier 2 # 8: In this league, as there is an abundance of talent with only a few teams to claim such talent, it stands that in a given year, a few of those teams can be championship contenders while the rest of the teams may struggle or even fail to reach the playoffs. As a member of the Minnesota Grey Ducks, we had some hopes to make the playoffs; unfortunately, we were unable to make the playoffs as we just missed out on them by a full game. With this in mind, we head into Season 25 with a few questions and needs to address.
The two major questions at this offseason draft are: how to improve the offense to not be stagnant moving the ball and to replace a few key playmakers on defense that led a solid, turnover producing unit! On the offensive side of the ball, we have starting QB, a great RB, and very good wide receivers. However, we struggled to move the ball at times during the season. The main reason is that we only have one actual player OL while the rest of the OL are just bots. This would lead to many situations in games where we would have incompletions and stalled drives as our OL would not allow our QB time to throw or let our RB get easily tackled on run plays. I believe that we should draft human OL so as to immediately help our offense produce and to help take pressure of our defense as it was left too many times to dry last season, leading us to blow a few key games down the stretch. On the other side of the ball, we need to replenish the defense as great playmakers like Chainbreaker, Hillard, and myself are going to be drafted into the ISFL, leaving behind a younger core. I believe to counter this we must draft at least a couple players for the DL, LB corps, and DB corps to keep the defense from running out of playmakers and to help keep building this team towards playoff contention. In addition,  With regards for the future and next couple of seasons, I think we may have to start from scratch as many of the team’s current playmakers and impact players will be in the ISFL. To mitigate this, I believe that our front office should stock up on picks for the next couple of drafts and to draft a couple of players for each position with those potential picks.

[Beebob]

PBE CW +2.5 TPE

TASK 8 - +5 TPE

The Seawolves are an interesting place heading into next season, after making the Ultimini two seasons in a row they're looking to repeat once again. So let's just take a look at who will likely be playing where before the upcoming DSFL and ISFL drafts. At QB the Seawolves actually find themselves with a major hole, their QB for previous seasons, Suleiman Ramza, announced their plans to take the reins for the Orange County Otters after Franklin Armstrong announced his future retirement. So while the Seawolves will definitely strive to pick up a QB in the upcoming draft, let's look at their other positions. At running back, Norfolk will definitely look to keep their running duo of Quanter Skrills and Captain Rogers for the upcoming season, it's possible though very unlikely that Norfolk could be looking to add to this position in the upcoming draft. For Wide Receiver, Norfolk will unfortunately be seeing Dre Matthews being called up to the Berlin Fire Salamanders for the upcoming season. In his place, the Seawolves will be seeing wide receiver Harley Fank steping up for the No. 1 role. Behind him Alexander Johnson and Logan Hex fill up the next two roster spots. At tight end, Ragnar Krashwagen will likely be returning to play another season with the squad and anchor the position. The two Seawolves that aren't bots on the offensive line, Ananda Adyan, and Thad Pennington, Jr. are also likely returning for another season. In the previous season, the defense played a pretty crucial and decisive role of why the Seawolves reached the Ultimini again, and of course their looking to repeat and even improve their performance in the upcoming season. At linebacker, Shepherd Marshall, Jimi DeSoto, Ryan Scott, and Rusty Rucker will all look to repeat their dominating performance in the past season. At cornerback, Dukburg QuakStak, and Rickie Vaughne already have put the league on notice by their presence in the league, the cornerback duo will certainly look to make another huge step in the upcoming season. For the safety position, the rookie Xmus Flaxon Jaxon-Waxon has already made huge strides in his first season in the league, and will prepare repeat again. At defensive end, the Seawolves rosters bolster a single active in Sam Roes who is certainly no one to ignore. The Seawolves have a surplus at defensive tackle, with bug names like Chad "The Rig" Simpson, Sigismund Sternenstaub, and Braxton Sinclair.

TASK 24 - +2.5 TPE

My choice for the MVP of the DSFL playoffs would likely be London Royals rookie running back Terry Yaki. The rookie ended up making a huge impact throughout the playoffs, starting by tearing up the field with his first matchup against one of the worst rushing defenses in the league, the Portland Pythons. Yaki started the first quarter relatively quiet, rushing for 11 yards on 3 carries, before stretching out an 11 and 7 yard gain in his next two carries. His first run in the second quarter would be another large chunk of 12 yards. Though for the rest of the quarter he would only gain 11 yards on 4 carries, until on the final play, with 57 seconds left on the clock and the Royal being 52 yards from the endzone, they were content with just running out the clock. Though Yaki was not so content, on his next run, he suddenly bursted out from behind his offensive line and had nothing but endzone in front of him. Taunting the Pythons all the way to the endzone and even stopping at the goaline to run down the clock and further taunt them. And while in the Championship he wasn't as flashy up against the fairly average run defense of the Seawolves, he still led his team with 99 yards.

[2Burkeulosis]

#5

For Ultimus Week I want to examine the career of one of the ISFL’s newest stars, quarterback Colby Jack. Played by the current GM of the Yellowknife Wraiths flyeaglefly29 the 25 year old signal caller has to date played three years in the DSFL and one in the ISFL where he had a very promising start. We will look back on his career prior to joining the league along with his career in the DSFL.

Early Life
Prior to joining the league Colby Jack grew up in Kyle, Oregon with his twin brother who is also an ISFL quarterback Monterey “Monty” Jack. In an interview I conducted with Colby back in March he described his relationship to his brother as fiercely competitive but friendly even going so far as to call Monty “his best friend.” After graduating from Oregon Colby declared for the DSFL draft. At the S21 prospect Bowl he wowed audiences throwing for 180 yards and 2 touchdowns in his debut with the Miami Grenadiers. Scouts were near unanimous with their praise with several mock drafts having Colby as the first overall pick.

DSFL Career 1st Season
On Draft night in a crowded draft class with well over 200 participants Colby Jack was selected with the second overall pick by the NFC North’s newest expansion London Royals. His brother Monty was the first overall pick and he was acquired by the SFC South expansion team the Dallas Birddogs. The two brothers were soon reunited as the two expansion teams faced off in the first game of the season. The Royals defense absolutely decimated the Dallas Birddogs beating them 34-7. Colby’s stat line for that game was 14/22 passing attempts, 123 yards, 1 TD, a qbr of 93.6, and a single rushing attempt for 8 yards. His first touchdown came towards the end of the 2nd quarter with a one yard pass to his tight end Donatello Arrabiata. Unfortunately for the young Royals squad their first win would be their only win for a while as they lost their next four games in a row and finished the season with a 5-9 record. Placing them dead last in their division. Colby Jack’s stats for the season: 168/343 passing attempts, 1661 yards, 6 TDs, 12 INTs, 54.3 QBR.

2nd Season
In the ISFL (formerly the NSFL) S22 draft Colby Jack was drafted towards the end of the second round with the 23rd overall pick by the Yellowknife Wraiths. This pick was met with much derision as several of the commentators loudly booed the pick with one calling him “another reach.” His brother Monty was immediately drafted after him with the 24th overall pick by the San Jose SaberCats and also faced much of the same criticisms as his brother.

The Wraiths decided that Colby would need more time to develop so he was sent back to the DSFL to play with the London Royals for two more seasons. Colby benefited from the extra time immensely. His stats were greatly improved  from his rookie year. His stat line from this season: 232/394 passing attempts, 2392 yards, 16 TDs, 9 INTs, and a 80.5 QBR. Unfortunately all these improvements did not translate into more wins as the Royals finished the season with an only marginally improved record of 6-8, however this was good enough to secure the 2nd seed in the playoffs. In his first ever playoff game against the Minnesota Grey Ducks Colby Jack threw for 278 yards on 24 successful attempts and a single touchdown. His heroics helped set up a 29 yard game winning field goal in overtime by Royals kicker Datsum PhastBawl. Advancing to the finals against the Tijuana Luchadores the game was a defensive struggle. Jack was held to a measly 143 yards and 0 touchdowns losing the game 10-6. One final event to cap off the season occurred. Monty Jack was promoted to the ISFL at the season's end. The brothers faced off four times in their DSFL career splitting games each season for a final record of 2-2.

3rd season
By this point Colby had already established himself as a playmaker and as a leader but in his final season in the DSFL he added one more role to the list. The role of mentor. The London Royals sensing that Colby’s time with them was coming to an end drafted his replacement in Charlemagne Cortez with the 43rd overall pick of the S23 DSFL draft. In a 2 QB system Jack’s numbers were much lower than last years: 173/332 attempts, 1921 yards, 8 TDs, 13 INTs, 61.3 QBR. Despite this Colby never once complained. If anything he seemed to relish the opportunity to guide the next generation of athletes. As for the season the Royals were only marginally improved from last year talent wise. They finished the season 7-7 which was good enough for a return trip to the playoffs. In the NFC North Division Finals match against the Kansas City Coyotes. Colby Jack scanned the locker room for what would be the last time. Of the inaugural Royals roster he was one of only four players still with the team. Everyone else had either advanced to the ISFL or had retired. Colby and the rest of the team wanted so desperately to leave London with it’s first championship but it was not to be. The Coyotes staged a last second comeback and won 14-13. Jack’s final statline 54 yards on 6 completions and no TDs. Even though he never won an Ultimini with the Royals Colby Jack’s legacy has been secured. In the next season Jack’s apprentice Cortez led the Royals to their first winning season and their first Ultimini win. Meanwhile with the Wraiths Jack won the hearts of his Canadian fans with his statline of 285/538 attempts, 3524 yards, 25 TDs, 16 INTs, and a QBR of 76.6. While no one can predict the future I say that betting on Colby Jack is about as safe a bet as you can make.

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[DoIHaveTheSause]

Task 13: 

Being a player just entering the Development Football Simulation League Week Twelve in Season 26, I am still getting used to alot of what the league has to offer. But from what I’ve experienced, I feel like I am entering a whole new world of fun. Although I am fairly new, I was able to get some playing time, even on a team that had some of the best receivers in the league, the Tijuana Luchadores, while in the middle of a playoff run. My first  moment of action was a reception for 23 yards! I didn’t think I had it in me, but I guess I did.  My comrades later congratulated me in the locker room after the game. This would ignite a fire under me to drive me into working towards becoming the best receiver in the league. If I had the ability to have a play like that, who knows what else I had the potential to accomplish. Later into the year I was able to see some more playing time, but our playoff hopes were cut short in a heart breaking overtime loss. I was picked up as But now that I’ve had time to get adjusted to the league, I’ve gained more information on the structure of earning TPE and getting to know more of the teams in the Development Football Simulation League, I am looking forward to the upcoming draft on which team decides to take a chance on me, and I’ll make sure they never regret it. As a red Zone Threat, no endzone is safe.

Over time , I have taken notice on how the entire league is run, and honestly I am very impressed. The amount of structure that goes into everything is astounding.  The people who have built this league have really developed a culture that brings everyone together, no matter their background or what team they end up on. And the fact that everyone you meet is willing to reach out to see if you need help with anything makes the process of getting used to things easier. But if I were to suggest something that I wouldn't change the way things are done, but merely add on / incentivize better work, would be to pay people (league money) for the amount of interactions their articles get. I think this would significantly raise the quality of content media players put out, and give readers a reason to check out other people’s work but bring people into the website more. Nothing that there is anything wrong with the current system, I feel that this bonus would greatly elevate not only the quality of work, but the quantity of traffic towards the site.


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Task 9: 

Looking around the landscape of the league, there are a lot of great players in all of the skill positions. But If there was someone I would have to nominate to be the greatest of all time, not only now, but leading into the future, it would have to be Goat Tank, from the Myrtle Beach Buccaneers. Now I know he’s a Defensive Tackle, but this guy is an animal. He damn near counts as two guys on the line!! I would consider him the greatest of all time further than just his stats. Looking at his athletic breakdown, he currently has an eighty speed. This is as a defensive tackle, that's pretty fast. If he gets a good angle on one of these development football simulation league running backs, Goat Tank is making the tackle. Another important athletic ability that Goat Tank possesses is his strength, with seventy three of it. As a player who is a ROOKIE still, he has the potential to become one of the strongest players in the league.  I fully believe that whatever team decides to take Goat Tank into their team should make him a keystone of their defense. The importance of having such a great Defensive Linemen like Goat Tank could help solidify any defense’s run defense and pass defense. I believe with the type of style that Goat Tank plays with force’s any offensive line to make it a priority to stop him. While they make it a priority to stop him, this allows his team around him to have a better chance against a one on one matchup, and this is a type of stat that the statsheet should show more in my opinion. I personally would call them, “Assisted Secondary Stats” or A.S.S., for short. If I had to compare the type of player in real life that Goat Tank reminds me of, it would have to be Aaron Donald. Just a complete dominant force up the middle will likely wreak havoc to any offensive gameplan. That is one of the biggest factors that I think Goat Tank creates, is that he completely disrupts the thought of running the ball up the middle. This will further help any team that drafts him; he will be the solution for stopping the running game. And I believe the reputation that Goat Tank has speaks volumes as well. He is known to be a beast, and this will strike fear to any running back or quarterback. Last season he caused three forced fumbles and recovered all three of them. This is a determined man. If he gets the chance to crack anyone who even ATTEMPTS to come through the middle, Goat Tank will make them pay.

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