(S30) PT 5 - What is the Meaning of...

[Birdman]

Success in a sim league is about longevity and activity on an individual level. I think it’s fair to say that someone has a successful career if they stick with it and keep updating their player, maintain a spot on a team, and make it to regression and beyond. Football is too much of a team sport to assess your individual performance based on team championships. Great players go their whole careers without having team success in the playoffs and those players cannot be said to have had an unsuccessful career because they never won a championship. The same can be said for individual awards. In most cases, for a player to have an award winning season they need their team to be helping them achieve the individual statistical success necessary to win an award. The only thing a player can control is their TPE earning and their build, beyond that team building and strategy is out of their hands. For a GM, the argument is entirely different. For a GM to be successful, they need to close to winning or outright winning a championship to be able to say they were successful. That being said, maintaining an active locker room where people are enjoying themselves is a success in and of itself, especially on a down or rebuilding team.