SHL PT
9) If you could create a team using any active players in the league, what would that team look like? Would you build a group of all-stars to contend in the next Ultimus, or a team full of jokesters for the fun of it? Describe the roster and why you chose the players you did.
Buckle up folks cause we're about to go off the deep end with this one. To truly take fair rubs to another level, I'm making a team of entirely offensive linemen. The actual O-Line will be made up of the best maulers around the league as those guys are too slow to be useful anywhere else. We're talking Ananda Adyan, Marlon Alexander, Taylor Cooper, Connor Quigley, and that bum Icebox Riposte. Our running back duo would be the athletic pairing of Bruce Buckley and Greedy Sly, who would take turns blocking for each other and just plowing up the middle with a bit of speed and a ton of power. Primarily handing the ball off or just throwing the ball up in the air and letting the tallest players on the field try to grab it would ironically be Julio Jones. The best pass catching options with an astounding 70 hands plus the speed of being athletic linemen would put Simon Tremblay and Calvin Golladay spread out wide. They would of course be great blockers on all running plays. Mo Magic would round out our offense as a TE with primarily blocking duties as well but sneaky good hands in the flats. The heart of the defense would be longtime great Jay Cue playing middle linebacker. Flanking him at outside LB would be a couple of balanced linemen in Givussafare Rubbe and Adam Mellott. We need our remaining athletic options at cornerback (Byron Dolls and Felix Archstone) and safety (Marc Hamel and Dick Thruster) to have any chance of not getting beat for 80 yard touchdowns on a regular basis. That leaves a couple more balanced options to suit up at defensive end - Lord Beerus and Dorfus Jimbo Jr. Rounding out the defense would be maulers Carl Wheezer and Ne Mo playing defensive tackle as well as they can. Last but certainly not least, Jaja Ding Dong and Thad Pennington Jr. would make the roster as the most flexible of all our options, splitting kicking/punting duties, returning kicks and punts, and serving as supersubs when the rest of us inevitably get tired from playing out of position. It would be really interesting to see how this squad would perform against any others created from just one position of players - I feel like we might have the most depth available which certainly helps for an experiment like this. Plus we would crush the puny QB's and K/P's right off the field. This was a fun thought experiment though unlikely to be the optimal configuration of o-linemen across the field.
16) The bank now accepts ISFL currency in exchange for real money – every ISFL dollar counts as $0.50 in the real world. How much money would you exchange, and what would you spend it on?
I'm pretty poor by ISFL standards, but turning 2M of fake money into 1M dollars would quickly make me feel pretty rich in real life. Honestly the biggest thing I would immediately buy would just be an upgraded computer, as my current one is just barely chugging along after I build it myself 7-8 years ago with no real upgrades or other probably needed maintenance since then. After that, the hardest thing would be not letting my wife immediately go on a huge shopping spree - maybe a smaller scale one would be acceptable to both of us. The rest of the money I would like to go ahead and put into secure and safe investments with a strong guaranteed rate of return over time and just live off of the payouts for a long time. Maybe keep 100k or so available to jump in the next time something like the whole Gamestop stock thing happens and really mess with some people. It would just be nice to have that kind of flexibility without having to worry about wasting money for no real benefit. I would admittedly probably blow some on my recent phone game addictions like Baseball Superstars or on getting some new games to go with the upgraded computer as well.
9) If you could create a team using any active players in the league, what would that team look like? Would you build a group of all-stars to contend in the next Ultimus, or a team full of jokesters for the fun of it? Describe the roster and why you chose the players you did.
Buckle up folks cause we're about to go off the deep end with this one. To truly take fair rubs to another level, I'm making a team of entirely offensive linemen. The actual O-Line will be made up of the best maulers around the league as those guys are too slow to be useful anywhere else. We're talking Ananda Adyan, Marlon Alexander, Taylor Cooper, Connor Quigley, and that bum Icebox Riposte. Our running back duo would be the athletic pairing of Bruce Buckley and Greedy Sly, who would take turns blocking for each other and just plowing up the middle with a bit of speed and a ton of power. Primarily handing the ball off or just throwing the ball up in the air and letting the tallest players on the field try to grab it would ironically be Julio Jones. The best pass catching options with an astounding 70 hands plus the speed of being athletic linemen would put Simon Tremblay and Calvin Golladay spread out wide. They would of course be great blockers on all running plays. Mo Magic would round out our offense as a TE with primarily blocking duties as well but sneaky good hands in the flats. The heart of the defense would be longtime great Jay Cue playing middle linebacker. Flanking him at outside LB would be a couple of balanced linemen in Givussafare Rubbe and Adam Mellott. We need our remaining athletic options at cornerback (Byron Dolls and Felix Archstone) and safety (Marc Hamel and Dick Thruster) to have any chance of not getting beat for 80 yard touchdowns on a regular basis. That leaves a couple more balanced options to suit up at defensive end - Lord Beerus and Dorfus Jimbo Jr. Rounding out the defense would be maulers Carl Wheezer and Ne Mo playing defensive tackle as well as they can. Last but certainly not least, Jaja Ding Dong and Thad Pennington Jr. would make the roster as the most flexible of all our options, splitting kicking/punting duties, returning kicks and punts, and serving as supersubs when the rest of us inevitably get tired from playing out of position. It would be really interesting to see how this squad would perform against any others created from just one position of players - I feel like we might have the most depth available which certainly helps for an experiment like this. Plus we would crush the puny QB's and K/P's right off the field. This was a fun thought experiment though unlikely to be the optimal configuration of o-linemen across the field.
16) The bank now accepts ISFL currency in exchange for real money – every ISFL dollar counts as $0.50 in the real world. How much money would you exchange, and what would you spend it on?
I'm pretty poor by ISFL standards, but turning 2M of fake money into 1M dollars would quickly make me feel pretty rich in real life. Honestly the biggest thing I would immediately buy would just be an upgraded computer, as my current one is just barely chugging along after I build it myself 7-8 years ago with no real upgrades or other probably needed maintenance since then. After that, the hardest thing would be not letting my wife immediately go on a huge shopping spree - maybe a smaller scale one would be acceptable to both of us. The rest of the money I would like to go ahead and put into secure and safe investments with a strong guaranteed rate of return over time and just live off of the payouts for a long time. Maybe keep 100k or so available to jump in the next time something like the whole Gamestop stock thing happens and really mess with some people. It would just be nice to have that kind of flexibility without having to worry about wasting money for no real benefit. I would admittedly probably blow some on my recent phone game addictions like Baseball Superstars or on getting some new games to go with the upgraded computer as well.