(S36) Offseason Task

[mithrandir]

Task 5
I will be describing a significant moment in ISFL history. We are talking about the ASFC playoff race in season twenty six. With two weeks to go in the season, the Austin Copperheads and the Orange County Otters led the way in the ASFC with 9-5 records. The New Orleans Second Line and the New York Silverbacks both sat a game back at 8-6. Finally, the San Jose Sabercats and the Arizona Outlaws were tied for 5th with a 7-7 record. With two games to go in the season, six of the seven teams in the conference (Honolulu sat at 2-12) were within two games with the possibility of making the playoffs. Austin lost to Arizona and San Jose in the final two weeks, helping those two teams close the gap. Orange County also lost their final two games to division rivals, getting blown out by New Orleans in week 15 and losing to New York in week 16. New York lost their week 15 out of conference game against Chicago. Arizona won a pair of conference games to close out the season, beating New Orleans Austin. The result was total chaos. Five teams finished the season at 9-7 in the ASFC, and it could have been six if San Jose had not suffered a stunning overtime loss to the woeful Hahalua in week 15.
The week 16 game between New York and Orange County ended up having huge ramifications. The winner of that game would take the 1 seed. This game had so much drama. OCO led four different times, but New York kept coming back to tie the game at 7, 14, 17, and 24. Orange County scored the go ahead touchdown with under three minutes to play in regulation. New York got the ball back and their quarterback, Sam Howitzer was excellent on their final drive. He has a 20 yard pass to Harkey Fank and a 43 yard bomb to Sean Snyder to put the Silverbacks in striking range. With 5 seconds to play, Howitzer delivered to Jackson Kingston for the game tying touchdown to force overtime. After an incomplete pass and two rushes for five yards for Otters QB Sulemain Ramza, OCO punted back to NY. New York had not led all game, but put together an efficient eight play drive capped by a Buster Bawlls rushing touchdown. Bawlls was an incredibly unlikely hero. He had only four carries on the entire season, but two came in overtime of the final game. One was a 2 yard on a 3rd and 2 to keep the drive going, and the second was a four yard touchdown run to win the game, and was his longest run of the season.
There was a lot of confusion at the conclusion of the week 16 stream. Everyone seemed to think that a five way conference tie would be broken with conference record, which would result in New York, New Orleans, and Austin making the playoffs, as shown here https://index.sim-football.com/ISFLS26/Index.html. However, the real sim method for breaking these ties puts head to head record first. So, the head to head record was determined for all games played between these five teams. New York had an impressive 6-2 record in those games, NOLA was at 5-3, Austin at 4-4, OCO at 3-5, and Arizona at 2-6. However, there was another twist. After determining New York would be the number one seed, their games were removed from consideration and head to head was enacted again, this time with NOLA at 4-2, OCO and Austin at 3-3, and Arizona at 2-4. NOLA had the two seed. This process was repeated yet again, and OCO emerged victorious with a 3-1 record vs Arizona and Austin, compared to 2-2 for Austin and 1-3 for Zona. So, OCO, despite having a 3-5 record in the initial tie break, ended up with the three seed since they got swept by NOLA and NYS while having a 3-1 record vs Austin and Zona. Here is the announcement that had to be made to clear up confusion: https://forums.sim-football.com/showthre...#pid408096
There was one more bizarre piece of the puzzle, though. Even though NY had the number 1 seed, when NOLA beat OCO in the first round of the playoffs, the Second Line ended up hosting the ASFC championship. The assumption made was that NOLA had better point differential in their split matchups, but I do not recall if anyone ever found out why NOLA had home field advantage despite being the lower seed. NOLA capitalized on that home field advantage to win the conference championship, and went on to get blown out by the Yellowknife Wraiths in the Ultimus.

[Chrundle]

22. You’re in charge of entertainment for the Ultimus or Ultimini half-time show. What would you do? (Written Task) (150+; 2.5 TPE)

The lights are dim, the crowd quiet. Nothing can be seen or heard, except for the murmurs of the audience members. Then, a very faint ring is heard. It is E note. The note slowly grows louder, as other instruments are joining. Soon, a full orchestra joins in with the steady E note, most harmonizing in other notes (look i don't know how all of that works, but let's just say it all sounds beautiful). Suddenly, everything stops. A light shines down on a single person. This person is wearing a loud wedding dress, made out of diamonds. She is standing in front of keyboard. She plays one note; another E. The crowd goes wild as they know exactly who this is: North West, daughter of the late and great Kanye West. She begins the half-time show with Runaway, one of his most iconic songs. She always covers other artists from his time, and the crowd eats it up. Soon, she is joined by Adonis Graham, the son of very old Drake (this is assuming S36 of ISFL, around year 2051). 

28. Written Option: You've been given the opportunity to create a new team in the ISFL! Describe what you'll be calling this team, why you picked the location you did, the colors you'll use for the uniforms, and anything else about the branding you'd like to add. Graphic Option: Create a graphic showcasing the logo, name, location, and colors of your team. (150+; 2.5 TPE)

The team I'd create for the ISFL would be the Fayetteville Ferals. This team would be based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Although a smaller market with a metro population of 350,000, Fayetteville (and Northwest Arkansas as a whole) has a very dedicated football fanbase. This is primarily due to the Arkansas Razorbacks, the premiere football team of the University of Arkansas, and is the heart of Fayetteville and surrounding areas. As a nod to the Razorbacks, I chose the name Ferals due to the feral hogs that south central Arkansas has become to be known for. However, the mascot for the Ferals would probably be Tarzan-esque character, with his silhouette as the primary logo. I chose this because other popular feral animals exist in the ISFL (to an extent), like the coyote and wildcat (too similar to the sabercats). For the primary color, I'd choose a chestnut/coffee bean brown, to represent the mountainous regions, like the Ozarks, of Northwest Arkansas. I would choose a purple hue as my secondary color, mainly because it's my favorite color.

[Chucky]

First of all, S36 is the best draft class ever to exist. We bicker in the rookie chat mainly just Nor vs KCC, but you see what happens when you call one of us out? JK, I'm happy to have joined when I did because I honestly don't know if I would still be this active if it wasn't for my fellow rookies. We have some really high TPE earners in this class. To put it into comparasion, majority of the rookie mentors I asked and other individuals said S25 was probably one of the better classes. So this was as of 6/5 rankings when we were getting near draft time:

s25 class
>250 - 6
>200 - 56
>150 - 71

S36 class
>250 - 22
>200 - 42
>150 - 61

This shows that while S25 was def deeper than us, we had more players at the top that all could have been round 1 material. Granted, I think when the draft started behind close door on 6/10, we had more players claim their equipment and stuff that might have made our numbers better but we will just leave it at that. Regardless, S36 was really top heavy as seen by the 22 capped players that all could have been taken in the 1st rounder. Heck we had players such as Akaki Akayre who were taken in the third round and he was a capped player. Moreso, Arizona Outlaws traded a first next year to move back into 3rd round to grab him. They basically traded a 1st next year for a 3rd year, if that doesn't tell you how deep and amazing this class is I don't know what else will. 

I was suprised at the haul that berlin got, and that is without bias. In the first round they took Kevin McThumper aka me, in the second they took Tae Dawson, in the third they took Fred Edison. They ended up the draft also grabbing Nathan Meagher, and LFT. Overall thats 4 users who were capped and another user close to being capped. 3 out of those 4 players were constantly mocked to go in the first, and one could make a case that Tae Dawson had a shot of being taken in the first. This is the draft that Berlin needed to restock their aging team and they couldn't have picked a better time to nail the draft.


Talking about Nathan, it was a surprise to see him falling that low. I mean we had DTs that earnt less TPE than him going higher than him. Who knows what deterred other teams from taking him but his former GM, Rapids was willing to roll the dice on him. I have shared a locker room with Nathan and can attest his fiery attitude takes some warming up to but his presence in the locker room is uplifting and motivating. Grabbing him that late in the draft, is truly a steal for berlin and an icing on the cake for the amazing draft that berlin just had.

In terms of what players I think will make it to the Hall Of Fame, for starters, I think player Jean-Ralphio rna by user FordHammer will be my front runner to make it to the Hall of Fame out of this class. I mean his work in the DSFL with the 250 cap was outstanding and he was making left tackles look like kids with his uncanny combination of speed and strength. I think Jean should have won the Most Valuable Player after the amazing season he had, but regardless I think he will be an easy choice if he keeps this work up!

[legion of slugs]

31. PBE Affiliate - https://probaseballexperience.jcink.net/...t&p=469967

[MobiausGrander]

Task 1
Another year, another season that has passed us by in both the DSFL and the ISFL. Respectively, the Norfolk Seawolves and the Honolulu Hahalua both won each league. Let us look at how both teams arrived to their wins in their respective championships shall we? 

For the Seawolves, they had a dominant season in the DSFL as they went 10-4 and very nearly had the best record in the league. In terms of offense, they had the 4th best scoring offense at 26.4 ppg, 5th best passing offense at 361.9 ypg, the best rushing offense at 184.6 rushing yards per game, and the worst passing attack at 177.3 yards per game. On defense, Norfolk was the third best defense by points allowed, 2nd in yards allowed at 330.2 yards per game, allowed the least rushing yards per game at 85 rushing yards per game, and allowed 245.3 passing yards per game which was 3rd worst in the league. In the playoffs, they first faced off against the Tijuana Luchadores who they had split against in the regular season. For how close this game was, it can be considered the true Ultimini as it was a close game down to the wire. The Seawolves managed to kick a field goal at the end of the game and managed to get a game sealing interception to close the game out. In the Ultimini, they faced off against the Coyotes. The game was somewhat close at half, but the Seawolves managed to play keepaway and score 10 unanswered points and grinded the clock out to win the Ultimini with the score being 23-14 in their favor. What a great and defensively dominant way to end the season for the Wolves!


Now as we approach the ISFL, let us analyze the Hahalua's season, shall we? For the Hahalua, they had a resplendently dominant season in the ISFL as they went 13-3 and very easily had the best record in the league and were both top 3 in points scored and points allowed, showing off their dominant season. In terms of offense, they had the 5th best scoring offense at 27.2 ppg, 11th best passing offense at 343.1 ypg, the 12th best rushing offense at 84.9 rushing yards per game, and the 9th best passing attack at 258.1 yards per game. On defense, the Halalua was the best defense by points allowed at 17.1 ppg, 2nd in yards allowed at 340.1 yards per game, allowed the least rushing yards per game at 81.8 rushing yards per game, and allowed 258.4 passing yards per game which was 8th best in the league. In the playoffs, they first faced off against the Arizona Outlaws who they had split against in the regular season. For how close this game was, it can be considered the true Ultimini as it was a close game down to the wire. The Hahalua managed to kick a field goal at the end of the game and managed to get a game sealing interception to close the game out as the Outlaws were trying to mount a go-ahead victory but were denied their chance at victory, leading for the Hahalua into the Ultimus for their 2nd Ultimus in 5 seasons and cementing another collapse for the Outlaws. In the Ultimus, they faced off against the Hawks. The game was somewhat close at half, but the Hahalua managed to play keepaway and score 10 unanswered points and grinded the clock out to win the Ultimus with the score being 24-13 in their favor. What a great and defensively dominant way to end the season for the Hahalua, similar to how the Seawolves achieved victory in the DSFL!