I am a member of the incredibly great and incredibly large draft class of S22. It was the biggest draft class in the entire history of the ISFL. It was such a huge draft class because it was a reddit class, which means that the ISFL recruitment team decided to recruit from r/nfl on reddit. I obviously didn’t come from reddit though, since I’ve been around in the ISFL (or NSFL back in my day) since 2017. I just decided to recreate and join the reddit class. Luckily even with all of the tough competition from the 261 players that were drafted in the DSFL, I managed to end up with a team that chose me to be their kicker, my Chicago Butchers. So anyway, what’s special about my draft class from S22, you ask? Well, like I said, we’re the largest class of all time in the ISFL, and I don’t think that it’s even close. S25 was also a reddit class from r/nfl and it looks like they didn’t even make it to 200 players. I’m not sure why exactly the S22 class was so huge. One of the biggest theories is because that class was drafted in March, I think, so that meant that it was right when the pandemic started, and everything was shutting down and people were locking down in their homes. People were probably even more bored than they usually were, so the reddit recruitment in r/nfl was seen by more people, and more people had more free time to spend on things like a fake football league. I think that this was a good thing in general for the league. I’m sure that it was stressful and probably overwhelming for people like head office, who had to plan for the future to be able to take in this huge influx of players into the ISFL, which is why expansion was needed, and then was needed again a few seasons later. I bet that it was also hard on GMs of the teams, especially DSFL GMs, because of how much more scouting had to be done than they probably expected. And I’m also sure that it was hard on the draft presenters, who had to stream an extremely long draft, and make tons of draft graphics, way more than had ever been needed before. What else is special about my S22 classmates? Well, I know that a lot of them ended up becoming GMs, or holding other positions of power or leadership in the league. That could just be because of how big of a percentage of the league my class ended up taking up, but I think that we can just say that it’s because our class was especially talented and suited for these roles. I know that my friend and teammate on the Chicago Butchers TheCC is from the S22 class and he is the current GM of the Minnesota Grey Ducks in the DSFL. Speaking of CC, he showed me something to help me with writing this UW task, and that’s a draft steal analysis that he wrote with a couple of friends a couple of seasons ago. Another question that this task asks about is “did anyone turn out to be an unexpected steal of that draft based on what you know today”, and I know of several people who ended up being big steals. TheCC was actually the top steal among all of the active players in the league at the time of writing the article, according to his friends formula, and the formula doesn’t even take into account the fact that he became GM. Another teammate of mine, Von Hayes (Lim Jahey), was also high on the list, and again the formula doesn’t even count the fact that he has since become the head of graphics in the league. CC also told me that another teammate of mine, Daymond Brooks (forsucksfake), wasn’t a huge steal in the ISFL draft, but he was drafted at pick 208 in the DSFL draft and is now close to 1000 TPE, which is super impressive. I’m sure that when they were drafted, nobody figured that these guys would amount to much in the league, but look at how they’ve exceeded their expectations and draft position. The next question is do I think that anybody in the draft class will become a hall of famer. I don’t pay enough attention to the league to be able to tell if somebody is on track to make the hall of fame, but I would guess that there is a really good chance that there will be multiple hall of famers from the S22 class. There’s just too many people to not have some of them in there. In conclusion, I think that I would say that there are many many reasons that the S22 draft class is one for the history books.
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