08-29-2021, 04:00 AM
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13. Expansion Expansion Expansion! The league seems to love talking about it, but it has still not happened. Tell us why it should happen / should not happen soon?
Reasons to expand? To get more international teams maybe or maybe 16 teams works better without the forced first seed win that we currently have in the playoffs. Other than that there really isn't much of a reason in my opinion since they aren't really good reasons to expand. There are a couple of reasons why I have that opinion. First off, expansion would pretty much guarantee that the DSFL would contact, having potentially 2 teams needing players as well as 14 existing teams needing to fill out their rosters with losses accrued via the expansion draft. While some may see the DSFL as kind of a waiting period, it does serve a couple of important purposes. One is to integrate new users into the league and the second is providing an opportunity to users looking to take on a general manager role a hands on experience in the DSFL.
The league was many active users, but the continued/sustained health of the league is dependant on recruitment and existing users recreating. Season 22 and 23 brought in a lot of users, some of which have take a prominent role in the league and while that's great that there's more users, we're at the point of regression for those players, some of whom will not create or have gone inactive over the past few seasons. In my view, the uncertainty of how the user base will look as a chunk of the players move into retirement poses a difficult question as to how many will stick around in the future and recreate. While we could see a bunch return, we could also see only a few make their way back into the league, and if an expansion were to occur, there's that possibility that there may not be enough players to sustain 16 teams in the ISFL.
Something else to consider is the impact of expansion drafts to the existing teams. In previous expansion drafts, each team could lose up to two players to expansion. Expansion drafts in my view hurt bottom teams more than top teams. This might sound weird but here's how I see it. Top teams have well rounded rosters, starting caliber players in terms of TPE and some even have depth. Losing two players while would hurt, has less of an impact than that of a rebuilding team or bottom of the ladder team that has holes who would then have additional holes to fill after losing players to expansion. While protection lists exist, they don't always mitigate that issue and this isn't touching on unprotected players on success wanting to remain on their teams.
Expansion shouldn't happen, if anything it should be a wait and see type deal. I think holding off to see how the player base looks after several of the bigger draft classes such as S22, S23 and S24 look might be a good idea and probably something that's already being looked at by the expansion committee.
20. Make a scouting report for any of the ISFL or DSFL draftees. Show their stats, abilities, TPE, or highlights. Written or graphic option available.
31. The World Football Association was established last season and is currently playing out for the first time. What do you think about the WFC as a whole and how it has been shaping out. Do you think it will end up a success?
World Football Championship is a nice idea. Pretty much builds on the Team USA vs Team World event that was done previously. I think it's a nice event, although it is somewhat gone under the radar as far as the coverage of results goes. I think the event is great and perhaps will lead to more users creating players that are born outside North America since there's more of an incentive to pick a birthplace outside of that region.
I didn't really get to be part of Team World back then the Team USA vs Team World event was a things since my player was behind some great safeties, so this event is a chance to get to play and be part of the Asia Pacific region which is really nice. Naturally one of the concerns would be the regions and the players. With the majority of the players being concentrated in the United States it would be a question over how well other regions would compare to one another given some areas may have a greater depth of talent to draw from. The addition of the free transfer was a nice idea and help bridge the gap for some regions who perhaps lacked the talent in certain positions or even for players who may not have been in line for a starting gig in their original region. Overall, it's a pretty cool thing that's been set up, I guess the one thing that I would've changed would be to have it done a few seasons earlier so I'd selfishly would get some prime years in with the APAC rather than the twilight years. I think it will be successful and it's a nice touch to recognise the international player base in the league while also giving some people a hands on experience with managing a roster and strategy.
Reasons to expand? To get more international teams maybe or maybe 16 teams works better without the forced first seed win that we currently have in the playoffs. Other than that there really isn't much of a reason in my opinion since they aren't really good reasons to expand. There are a couple of reasons why I have that opinion. First off, expansion would pretty much guarantee that the DSFL would contact, having potentially 2 teams needing players as well as 14 existing teams needing to fill out their rosters with losses accrued via the expansion draft. While some may see the DSFL as kind of a waiting period, it does serve a couple of important purposes. One is to integrate new users into the league and the second is providing an opportunity to users looking to take on a general manager role a hands on experience in the DSFL.
The league was many active users, but the continued/sustained health of the league is dependant on recruitment and existing users recreating. Season 22 and 23 brought in a lot of users, some of which have take a prominent role in the league and while that's great that there's more users, we're at the point of regression for those players, some of whom will not create or have gone inactive over the past few seasons. In my view, the uncertainty of how the user base will look as a chunk of the players move into retirement poses a difficult question as to how many will stick around in the future and recreate. While we could see a bunch return, we could also see only a few make their way back into the league, and if an expansion were to occur, there's that possibility that there may not be enough players to sustain 16 teams in the ISFL.
Something else to consider is the impact of expansion drafts to the existing teams. In previous expansion drafts, each team could lose up to two players to expansion. Expansion drafts in my view hurt bottom teams more than top teams. This might sound weird but here's how I see it. Top teams have well rounded rosters, starting caliber players in terms of TPE and some even have depth. Losing two players while would hurt, has less of an impact than that of a rebuilding team or bottom of the ladder team that has holes who would then have additional holes to fill after losing players to expansion. While protection lists exist, they don't always mitigate that issue and this isn't touching on unprotected players on success wanting to remain on their teams.
Expansion shouldn't happen, if anything it should be a wait and see type deal. I think holding off to see how the player base looks after several of the bigger draft classes such as S22, S23 and S24 look might be a good idea and probably something that's already being looked at by the expansion committee.
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20. Make a scouting report for any of the ISFL or DSFL draftees. Show their stats, abilities, TPE, or highlights. Written or graphic option available.
31. The World Football Association was established last season and is currently playing out for the first time. What do you think about the WFC as a whole and how it has been shaping out. Do you think it will end up a success?
World Football Championship is a nice idea. Pretty much builds on the Team USA vs Team World event that was done previously. I think it's a nice event, although it is somewhat gone under the radar as far as the coverage of results goes. I think the event is great and perhaps will lead to more users creating players that are born outside North America since there's more of an incentive to pick a birthplace outside of that region.
I didn't really get to be part of Team World back then the Team USA vs Team World event was a things since my player was behind some great safeties, so this event is a chance to get to play and be part of the Asia Pacific region which is really nice. Naturally one of the concerns would be the regions and the players. With the majority of the players being concentrated in the United States it would be a question over how well other regions would compare to one another given some areas may have a greater depth of talent to draw from. The addition of the free transfer was a nice idea and help bridge the gap for some regions who perhaps lacked the talent in certain positions or even for players who may not have been in line for a starting gig in their original region. Overall, it's a pretty cool thing that's been set up, I guess the one thing that I would've changed would be to have it done a few seasons earlier so I'd selfishly would get some prime years in with the APAC rather than the twilight years. I think it will be successful and it's a nice touch to recognise the international player base in the league while also giving some people a hands on experience with managing a roster and strategy.
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