10. Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league. (400 + words)
Mario Messi set his eyes on the professional football league in his sophomore year in high school. During that time, he was already rated as a five-star player and broke many records. He played both American football and soccer using his fantastic speed and ball skills. He hesitated between the two career trajectories: on the one side, American football is way more popular in the US, on the other side, Messi has a nice family name to support his pursuit of soccer. Unfortunately, he got seriously injured in the final soccer game during his second year. He tore his ACL, and it took him about half a year to get to a full recovery. The severe injury damaged his dream of becoming an elite athlete. But lucky enough, Mario Messi still got a nice football scholarship from the University of Miami. For the sake of money, Mario Messi decided to play football rather than soccer.
In college, Mario started with a very frugal lifestyle, trying to mimic monks by living for bare subsistence. After riding the bench for about half a season in Miami Hurricanes, he was thrust into the first starting position as a wide receiver when the incumbent WR got injured and ruled out for the season. Mario delivered a spectacular play with 10 rec and 2 TDs in the first game. His performance stunned the head coach, so he held his position even after the initial WR came back after the recovery. After becoming the core player of the football team, Mario Messi started to adopt a dissolute and tumultuous lifestyle, led astray by his bad friends. He became a nocturnal animal, frequenting nightclubs, made forgery dollars, and pampered himself with a lot of alcohol. He coveted the plush and luxurious limousines used by the real pro athletes, so he started to invest in speedboats and slept behind the hull of the boats during even training time. He wore colorful earpieces, squandered the money to gild his teeth, married to himself, and dyed his hair into rainbows to show homage to Dennis Rodman. He partied so much that the proprietor of the apartment called the police to frisk Mario so that everyone can sleep. One day he told the head coach that he cannot play since he sprained the collarbone when having sex with the whores wearing faked lashes. Mario’s hideous demeanors and waste of talent disheartened the friends, provoked the coaches, and sowed doubts into everyone’s mind. He was kicked out of the team after his degeneration.
It was a long story for Messi to recover and enter the professional league. I will have to stop here and present his story next time. : ) (451 words)
14. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season? (400 + words)
What a journey for Mario Messi in this season! Messi started this season with Hawks for the first ten games, and then switched to Fish for the remaining six. The journal was very hard, and Messi thought that he might have some curse because the team did not play well whenever he was there. Maybe it is just the stupid SIM randomness?
The first journey with Hawks was very tough. Hawks lost all ten games to the opponents. The question of each game was not whether Hawks could lose, but by how much. Some games were pretty shocking. Hawks lost to Liberty by 49-10 and to Outlaws by 52-23. Hawks did not even have many chances to hold the ball to organize effective offense. Hawks' defense was not very impressive either, and as a result, Messi can only watch the losing battles along the sideline without much time to play on the pitch. In spite of the difficulties, Messi still caught some balls and contributed to the team. Messi got about 100 yards per game and about 3 TDs in total. Messi really cannot blame the team since Hawks was really young. When many teams have around eight players with more than 1000 TPEs, Hawks has zero player that is more than 1000 TPEs. Even the lead QB (~900 TPEs) was not actively updating his TPEs. I know that Hawks changed the manager at the beginning of the season, but winning games was really difficult for a team with mainly S26-S28 players and a limited number of TPEs. But overall, Messi did not perform as good as he expected. Messi questioned whether he should be more patient to wait for the growth of the team, or just jump to another team with better potentials to win the championship. Messi's contract was approaching the end of the first three years, so the team in the next contract is really critical for Messi's career development.
Messi decided to move to Sailfish because two great friends are there and Sailfish is a great team with the potentials to win a championship. Messi really wants to thank slate and Mojojojo to make this transaction happen, and Sailfish traded away a first-round pick to get Messi. Messi also switched his position from WR to TE for the team. Sailfish already got three decent and active WRs, but the leading TE (James Angler) is from S22 and plans to retire soon. Currently, Messi has about 704 TPEs, so he could be a good second TE and continue to grow into the primary TE for the fish team. However, after Messi joined the Fish team, Fish lost 3 out of the last 6 games, while Fish lost 3 out of the first 10 games before Messi joined the team. Messi believes it is purely because of randomness and hopes that Fish can win a lot of games in the next season. (484 words)
Mario Messi set his eyes on the professional football league in his sophomore year in high school. During that time, he was already rated as a five-star player and broke many records. He played both American football and soccer using his fantastic speed and ball skills. He hesitated between the two career trajectories: on the one side, American football is way more popular in the US, on the other side, Messi has a nice family name to support his pursuit of soccer. Unfortunately, he got seriously injured in the final soccer game during his second year. He tore his ACL, and it took him about half a year to get to a full recovery. The severe injury damaged his dream of becoming an elite athlete. But lucky enough, Mario Messi still got a nice football scholarship from the University of Miami. For the sake of money, Mario Messi decided to play football rather than soccer.
In college, Mario started with a very frugal lifestyle, trying to mimic monks by living for bare subsistence. After riding the bench for about half a season in Miami Hurricanes, he was thrust into the first starting position as a wide receiver when the incumbent WR got injured and ruled out for the season. Mario delivered a spectacular play with 10 rec and 2 TDs in the first game. His performance stunned the head coach, so he held his position even after the initial WR came back after the recovery. After becoming the core player of the football team, Mario Messi started to adopt a dissolute and tumultuous lifestyle, led astray by his bad friends. He became a nocturnal animal, frequenting nightclubs, made forgery dollars, and pampered himself with a lot of alcohol. He coveted the plush and luxurious limousines used by the real pro athletes, so he started to invest in speedboats and slept behind the hull of the boats during even training time. He wore colorful earpieces, squandered the money to gild his teeth, married to himself, and dyed his hair into rainbows to show homage to Dennis Rodman. He partied so much that the proprietor of the apartment called the police to frisk Mario so that everyone can sleep. One day he told the head coach that he cannot play since he sprained the collarbone when having sex with the whores wearing faked lashes. Mario’s hideous demeanors and waste of talent disheartened the friends, provoked the coaches, and sowed doubts into everyone’s mind. He was kicked out of the team after his degeneration.
It was a long story for Messi to recover and enter the professional league. I will have to stop here and present his story next time. : ) (451 words)
14. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season? (400 + words)
What a journey for Mario Messi in this season! Messi started this season with Hawks for the first ten games, and then switched to Fish for the remaining six. The journal was very hard, and Messi thought that he might have some curse because the team did not play well whenever he was there. Maybe it is just the stupid SIM randomness?
The first journey with Hawks was very tough. Hawks lost all ten games to the opponents. The question of each game was not whether Hawks could lose, but by how much. Some games were pretty shocking. Hawks lost to Liberty by 49-10 and to Outlaws by 52-23. Hawks did not even have many chances to hold the ball to organize effective offense. Hawks' defense was not very impressive either, and as a result, Messi can only watch the losing battles along the sideline without much time to play on the pitch. In spite of the difficulties, Messi still caught some balls and contributed to the team. Messi got about 100 yards per game and about 3 TDs in total. Messi really cannot blame the team since Hawks was really young. When many teams have around eight players with more than 1000 TPEs, Hawks has zero player that is more than 1000 TPEs. Even the lead QB (~900 TPEs) was not actively updating his TPEs. I know that Hawks changed the manager at the beginning of the season, but winning games was really difficult for a team with mainly S26-S28 players and a limited number of TPEs. But overall, Messi did not perform as good as he expected. Messi questioned whether he should be more patient to wait for the growth of the team, or just jump to another team with better potentials to win the championship. Messi's contract was approaching the end of the first three years, so the team in the next contract is really critical for Messi's career development.
Messi decided to move to Sailfish because two great friends are there and Sailfish is a great team with the potentials to win a championship. Messi really wants to thank slate and Mojojojo to make this transaction happen, and Sailfish traded away a first-round pick to get Messi. Messi also switched his position from WR to TE for the team. Sailfish already got three decent and active WRs, but the leading TE (James Angler) is from S22 and plans to retire soon. Currently, Messi has about 704 TPEs, so he could be a good second TE and continue to grow into the primary TE for the fish team. However, after Messi joined the Fish team, Fish lost 3 out of the last 6 games, while Fish lost 3 out of the first 10 games before Messi joined the team. Messi believes it is purely because of randomness and hopes that Fish can win a lot of games in the next season. (484 words)